POE 3.25 Budget Scarabs To Use - T16, T17 or in lower tiers - Path of Exile Settlers of Kalguur

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The POE subreddit has been giving awful advice - to regard all scarabs as expensive consumables for T17 play only. If you listen to this, your currency income will suffer. A lot.

Here's some of my favorite cheaper scarabs, including why they are worth using. Other than the briefly mentioned Cartography Scarab of Corruption (which is just mentioned for comparison purposes), these are all well under 5c in large bulk.

0:00 Intro, the price explosion on Horned Scarab of Bloodlines
1:07 Domination Scarab of Apparitions
2:16 T16 use vs T17 use of the Apparitions scarab
3:19 Domination Scarab of Evolution
5:29 T17 use of Evolution? Probably a no, but feel free to try it.
5:53 Cartography Scarab of Corruption's Budget Version - Delirium Scarab of Delusions
8:31 Endless Time, and the Beyond Scarab of the Invasion
10:59 Basically All Scarabs Have Their Uses
12:15 The Biggest Mistake You Can Make - Using No Scarabs At All

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[keithsimon]

sweet, about to watch all the scarabs ive been using skyrocket in price just because sirgog made a video.

[CouchOwner]

i tested the Evolving Shrine a bit. it can't evolve blight monsters, but it can evolve Harvest monsters. unfortunately, the newly evolved monsters seem to forget their origin and won't drop rewards like harvest juice. the rate of evolution is probably like, 5%. it's enough that magic packs often give you a rare, but not always. if you're fast, this means it's worth about the same as the scarab that gives you 4 packs of mirrored rares, although those rares will be more valuable as they're "natural" while the evolved ones don't seem to be... but the evolved rares are something you get along with a shrine buff (from the atlas), along with the shrine guards (which are natural), and the additional evolved magic monsters. all in all, it's definitely underrated, but not by loads. it can also screw you over by spawning at the end of the map... same with the apparitions. definitely scarabs best used on maps where you can scout them out without wasting much time.

it also bugs out if it evolves mobs spawned from things like the Pit map's "cage match" monsters. the new mobs are visibly present but there's no AI, hitbox, or loot associated to them.

[satibel]

me, a delver: ah, yes sulphite scarabs.

[KTGaming_]

Harbinger with titanic scarab that gives additional rewards to rare and unique monsters...for some reason the immune monsters and others in harbinger count as unique...theyll have symbols over their head-insinuating itll drop additional rewards. I can say it definitely works as ive seen them drop essences and other types of currency. I wouldnt say its op-but its an interesting interaction and no other monsters in the atlas work with it in this fashion like harbinger does.

[petermueller]

This just in, reddit is wrong about stuff

[daniellolp]

Just deli mirror scarab alone is like 1-2c and it definitely gives it's value back. No atlas passives needed. Just pop him in there.

[michaelsullivan]

Goated sir gog again. Love your content my guy.

[veritaseru]

Ran 80+ maps with domination scarab of evolution. Noticed near ZERO effect on drops, xp, gold. Nothing. Decided much better with any other scarab

[TheKruxed]

I'm glad the scarabs I wasn't using are big in value and the ones I am using are low in value, thanks for increasing those metrics Sirgog and reddit :-D

[tinecchi]

What i did is combine domination scarab of apparations, with the domination scarab spawning map bosses at each shrine.
So you get very consistently item level 85 influenced bases.

[MrVvulf]

I used the Apparitions scarab in a T16 LIghthouse and also hit a Covetous Shrine at the same time.
I had so many Hunter influenced items drop it filled up my dump tab.
Granted, I think there are only a few Hunter bases that anyone wants at item level 85, but it was still fun.
In hindsight I should have included the Abyss Scarab that gives "Spires" to try and score a Hunter Stygian Vise.

[kalas]

thanks for the explanation of the domination scarabs, i had no clue what they did so i never bothered with them

[fleckens]

I pretty much used all these from the start, they are indeed really strong, especially apparitions made me a lot of currency early on, sometimes several div worth of jewelry per map. I bought 600 of beyond of the invasion and domination of evolution in the first few days when they were only 1c. Other good scarabs are just elder/shaper, hunted traitors, incursion scarab of invasion or scarab of advesaries.

Another thing you can do is use scarabs to force league mechanics and then save those points on the tree for other things.

[satibel]

abyss of multitudesx2 + abyss x2 + beyond of the invasion is a ton of monsters if you don't have a specific strategy (if you don't have a way to proc beyond you can cut one of the abyss for a beyond scarab)
blight+beyond also works well

note that you need high damage, otherwise you will get wrecked by soul eaters

[JohnThems]

Thanks for telling us what Domination Scarab of Evolution does. I haven't found anyone else talking about it.

[Mudar]

I want to make a case for Incursion scrabs. If you want to do something quick, 15 Points in Alva (Resource Realllocation, Contested Development, TIme Dialation, Artefact of the Vaal) and 3x 0.75c Incursion Scrab will almost always give you a sellable temple between 75c, 95c and 120c for a Doryanis Institut Corruption or Locust of Corruption or both. It can be combined with a map mod effect and scarab atlas tree for quick runs. Ignore the other Incursion scrabs, magic packs are only worth it if you have the dmg and you want exp. FInal Architect random temple has a massive variance and for ~30c per scarab, it doesn't seem worth it to me.

[Kris-deok]

I combine Influence Scarab of Conversion with Delirious Scarab of Delusions and run this with a Delirium+Bossing atlas.

Those delirious guardian can be very rippy especially after the maven upes the stakes but I enjoy the chaos.

[gamefuler]

Titanic scarab of legendsx2+blightheart+one other unique monster scarabs+blocking league mechanic scarabs(not blight)+unique monsters drop 200% increased scarabs+more chance at essence/ambush scarabs+scarab chisels+t17 is increased scarab modifier= containment and or calcification every map on top of a bunch of 4-20c scarabs. Very cool very fun very challenging. The scarab cost is only 10c and rolling the map and chisels is about a div. Have to farm on sanctuary, the other maps are too likely to only have 1-3 lanes and more lanes is generally more loot if you can handle star pattern.

[choochzor]

Grabbed all the atlas nodes for Alva. Grabbed the deli nodes that make the mirror last longer cuz my build is sort of slow(but NOT the keystone), the nodes that make you get more cluster jewels and deli orbs, and most.importantly grabbed the increased simulacrum splinter stacks. No deli chance because...

1x deli scarab (less than 1c)
2x incursion scarab of champions (1c a piece)
1x monstrous lineage scarab (I've seen this listed 1-3c each. I admittedly don't always get these in bulk)
1x whatever you want

I'm not sure if the vaal flesh merchant is having an interesting interaction with then splinter generation but I just transmute my maps and run them. Deli incursions with that many magic monsters and pack size are extremely rippy but if you can do itz you will be rewarded big time in splinters. I've gotten 230+ from one map before, and a simulacrum sells for 25-30c.

I essentially feed simulacrums to stronger builds in bulk for 3-5c a map investment and that doesn't include cluster jewels drops and Alva temples that rolled gem/item double corrupt rooms.

There is plenty of cheap and well synergized strategies for T16

[MMstupid]

Honestly been thinking of doing an adjacent Blighted map strategy . While Blighted Maps don’t respect the Atlas tree Blighted Map drops do. There is a node on the tree that if you complete a blight all maps turn to blighted maps. I could use a Breach & Beyond tree with that one node from blight, Singular Focus and force blight through scarabs. Should drop a lot of blighted maps to run and sell any blight-ravaged maps. Need to test and see if it works.