Path Of Exile: 8 Best Scarabs For Farming (2024)

Path of Exile's Necropolis season introduced a big rework to Scarabs by adding hundreds of unique Scarabs and completely removing Sextants from the game. With all these selections of Scarabs, there will always be comparisons as to which are the best ones for currency farming.

This topic is highly subjective because several factors can change everything in one day, whether through a price change or a new popular build. Regardless, the best Scarabs will always have a game-changing effect by maximizing your farming strategies, giving them more than what you paid for.

Reliquary Scarab Of Vision

The Reliquary Scarab of Vision forces the Nameless Seer to spawn on your map, which gives you a chance to find some of the best unique items in the game. While the drop rate of these uniques is still low, it is a lot better than most methods at finding tier zero uniques.

The Reliquary Scarab of Vision is great because you don't need any combinations of Scarabs or passive atlas builds to use it efficiently. You just place the Scarab in your map device and look for the Nameless Seer.

While the Scarab is great on its own, the problem lies in its price. Items involving some randomness, where you can directly get the best items in the game, will always be costly after the first month of a league.

Divination Scarabs

Divination Scarabs are always involved in one of the most lucrative farming methods in any given season or league. There are several high-value Divination cards like the Apothecary and the Doctor. Buffing the drop rates of these cards will always be worth it, assuming you pair the Divination Scarabs with the proper atlas passive tree and other Scarabs.

The Divination Scarab and the Divination Scarab of Completion paired with some Ambush Scarabs and a passive atlas tree that buffs Strongboxes is a highly lucrative farming strategy. However, the price for running this strategy is extremely high.

Essence Scarab Of Calcification

The Essence Scarab of Calcification imprisons all the rare monsters in the map, putting random Essences for you to farm. You are roughly looking at around 15-20 Essences per map with just this Scarab alone, along with the appropriate atlas passive tree dedicated to Essences.

The number of Essence goes even higher if you can pair a Scarab of Adversaries to your map runs. However, these runs will be extremely dangerous, and the strategy should favor builds that have strong single-target DPS. The more Essences a rare monster has, the stronger they are. Each of these Essences is essentially a buff for them.

Horned Scarab Of Bloodlines

The Horned Scarab of Bloodlines turns all Monster Packs in the area to be at least magic packs. This means that there will be no normal or "white" monsters, but there could still be rare or "yellow" monsters in the map.

By increasing the rarity of the monsters, you are indirectly boosting the drop rates of everything that could possibly drop in your specific map. The Scarab is very versatile, and you can use it with any farming strategy.

Ambush Scarab Of Discernment

Ambush Scarabs of Discernment increases the chances of Strongboxes being of the higher or rare variety. In short, a regular Strongbox has a chance of turning into a Diviner's Strongbox or other rare types.

If you use at least four types of Ambush Scarab on your runs, you should expect to open roughly 40-50 Strongboxes in a single map. The number is extremely high because you also have the chance of opening a single Strongbox multiple times because of the Ambush Scarab of Hidden Compartments and the Secret Compartments notable atlas passive skill.

You can even use the Ambush crafting option in your map device to add even more Strongboxes. While these Strongboxes might be your best way of attaining loot with the strategy, you can still add more league mechanics to your atlas because there are only a few Strongbox nodes available.

Since these Strongbox atlas skill nodes are conveniently located in the middle, you can branch out to whichever mechanic you want to add, such as Legion, Harbinger, Abyss, and a lot more.

Harbinger Scarab Of Warhoards

Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards has a chance of duplicating currency shards dropped by monsters created by a Harbinger. The Harbinger farming strategy is the best way to get the coveted Mirror of Kalandra through Mirror Shard drops.

Since there is a chance to drop a Mirror Shard for each defeated Harbinger, duplicating that currency with the Harbinger Scarab of Warhourds is your main goal. You can also add the Unspeakable Offensive atlas passive skill to add another chance of turning a hypothetical Mirror Shard drop into a Mirror of Kalandra.

The Harbingers are considered a supporting type of farm method because you don't need that much investment in the atlas tree. You can pair this with other farming strategies because you only need a few atlas points to take all the Harbinger nodes.

Cartography Scarab Of Corruption

Cartography Scarabs of Corruption turns non-unique map drops into a corrupted version with eight modifiers. While it might be easy to make corrupted maps with eight modifiers using Orb of Alchemy, Orb of Scouring, and Vaal Orbs, it gives players the quality of life they need.

By getting "rolled" maps outright from your farm strategy, you can immediately go to the next map after finishing one. The best part about the Scarab is you can use it in any farming strategy. If you add more atlas passive nodes that increase your chances of finding more maps, you can capitalize more on the Scarab's buff, but it isn't mandatory.

Influencing Scarab Of Conversion

Influencing Scarab of Conversion turns tier 14+ map drops to have a chance to drop as an influenced (Shaper, Elder, or Conqueror) or synthesized maps. While these influenced maps might have fallen in value because of the Necropolis changes, they are still quite lucrative.

The Scarab is used mostly on atlas builds that boost the drop of maps and Boss-rushing strategies, capitalizing on the Destructive Play notable atlas passive. Once you gain enough influenced maps, you can purely run influenced maps for your runs.

You'll start gaining Maven's Invitations while doing a completely separate farming strategy.

For example, you can run a Searing, Beyond, and Delirium atlas build on influenced maps that give you the currency or items you are looking for with your current strategy. Since you are using influenced maps, every time you successfully finish one of Maven's Invitations, you can talk to Kirac and open up Maven's Crucible for some added loot.