You can cruise through a lot of Interlude 3 on autopilot, then suddenly Ytzara and Maztli show up and punish every lazy habit you've got. I've watched strong builds crumble here because the fight doesn't care about your tooltip DPS. It cares if you can keep moving, keep reading the room, and keep your cooldowns for the right moment. If you're farming PoE 2 Currency, this duo is one of those "earn it" checkpoints where clean play matters more than bravado.

Tracking Down Estazunti's Vault

The good news is you won't spend all night just trying to get in. On the Atlas, you're looking for Estazunti's Vault, usually tucked around colder, mountainous tiles. The node has that corrupted, bleeding look that stands out once you've seen it once. Patch 0.4 also made the whole loop feel less random. Instead of praying for an Idol of Estazunti drop, you can now expect the Idol pillar to appear after a map boss, which turns the encounter from "maybe later" into something you can actually plan into a farming session.

How To Not Get Deleted

This fight doesn't hand out polite breaks. Both bosses stay active, and the worst thing you can do is tunnel vision one of them to zero. When one dies, the other gets empowered, and that's where runs fall apart fast. Keep their health close. It feels slower at first, but it prevents that ugly endgame scenario where you're dodging a boosted kit with no margin. Think of it as pacing: chip, swap, reposition, repeat, and only commit when both are low enough that the finish is basically simultaneous.

Reading Their Big Threats

Ytzara is the one that drags the fight out if you let her. Her claw leech is brutal against anyone trying to face-tank, because she'll heal off your "I can stand still" confidence. So don't. Hit, step out, reset. Maztli is cleaner to read: his Corrupted Beam has a noticeable wind-up, so it's more about discipline than reflexes. The real panic button is his Goliath slam. Save Dash, Leap Slam, or whatever movement you rely on for that moment, because the area is wide enough to catch you even when you swear you were out.

Loot, Pace, And Doing It For Profit

Once you've got the rhythm, the encounter stops feeling random and starts feeling like a repeatable check you can farm without bleeding portals. The drops are the hook: Atalui's Bloodletting and Paquate's Pact can move for solid value, and the run itself tends to pay off if you stay consistent. If you're short on time or just want to smooth out your gearing between attempts, it's also common to top up currency or grab specific items through U4GM so you can spend more time actually mapping and less time stuck in rebuild mode after a bad slam.