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POE 3.20: How Can I Farm Apothecary Card In Crimson Temple? - Harbinger Strongbox Strategy

Feb 15, 2023

I've been away preparing my Magic Find character. This is a Tornado Shot. And we're gonna do some magic finding. There are two strategies that I think is really good this league for magic finding.

First is the Harbinger and Strongbox strategy with the Mirror of Delirium. There's also the strategy using Wandering Path. Today, we're going to talk about the Harbinger Strongbox strategy.

Basically, I'm running eight modded Corrupted Crimson Temple Maps that I farmed myself. We're gonna use four Sextants, one is the three additional strongboxes. This one you can use elevated for three additional or you can use normal one for two additional strongboxes. And then there's the Sextant that gives us a Mirror of Delirium, another Sextant that gives us additional Harbinger and finally, the fourth Sextant we're gonna use is the Enraged Strongboxes

For the Scarabs, we're gonna use four Winged Scarab. First is the Winged Divination Scarab because we're going for Apothecaries. Then, we're going to use the Winged Reliquary Scarabs for the uniques and then we have the Winged Strongboxes and Winged Harbinger because we are focusing on the Harbinger and strongboxes.

POE Apothecaries

MF Gear

Overall, that's pretty much all the things you need for this strategy. I will quickly go over my gear. I have 77 Quantity and I don't know how much exactly Rarity I have, but I think it is not too important for this league since the nerfed the effect of the Rarity on the rare conversion mobs. 

Other than that, I think it is very important to have a Headhunter because this will help you clear the map faster and overall gives you a better experience when you're mapping.

How To Run The Map

Once in the map, the first thing we're gonna do is to pop the Mirror of Delirium and then rush to the boss at the end of the map this way. We will have a higher chance to get Altars that grant us Quantity and Rarity. This will help us get more loot and we will try to clear the map as fast as possible and then get as many Altars as possible and then finally, we're going to loot and open the strongboxes. 

We leave the strongboxes at the end because we're trying to get as much Quantity and Rarity as possible before opening them. And the stacks are stacks with the Sextant we're going to use. That increases the strongboxes monsters by monsters Quantity by 500 percent.

If you are able to clear the map super fast, the goal and the most optimal way is to open the strongboxes in the Ddelirium F. This will have additional Quantity, multiplier on this on the strongboxes. 

One small thing I forgot to mention is that you use the king Harbinger and some of the other leak mechanics in order to freeze the Delirium Fog, which will give you more time to clear the map. I will be running two sets of 32 maps. This is because I don't have that many quad tabs, so I have to clear up a quad tab after 32 maps. 

Results Of 1st 32 Maps

So, I just finished the first set of 32 maps and nothing really happened. There's no highlight because it's really nothing exciting dropped. I got three Divine Orbs and around 10 Exalted Orbs. I didn't get any Apothecary and it took me around four hours to complete these maps.

POE Voidborn Reliquary Keys

Let's have a quick check on Excellence. We got 34.42 Divine of profit. So, I would say we pretty much broke even without the Apothecary drops. I think overall it was pretty unlucky.

There were no The Enlightened and power cards. All we got is two Voidborn Reliquary Keys. Despite the drops, we still broke even and made some profit. We were still able to make around 3.85 Divine profit, which is around one Divine per hour. For the four hours, we did this result is pretty much expected since we didn't get any good Divination Card at all. But we still have 32 more maps to go. The face that stays back in the mirror is a stranger.

Highlights

That's a Divine Orb Altar. It's my first of the league and it's at the start of the of the map and l got 15 divines. It's not bad but it's not the best. I've seen, but I'll take it wait holy. It's another Divine Orb Altar. I just got like two Altars in three maps. That's insane although this one is pretty late in the map. How many Divine Orbs did we get? We got seven divines. It's not bad. So, there are 23 divines in three maps.

Results Of 2nd 32 Maps

I just finished the second set of the 32 maps. I got two Divine Orb Altars almost back within three maps and we have two Apothecary drops. I think it's pretty lucky that I got two on average. I would say it's one for every 60 maps, so I was expecting one Apothecary for the thick 64 maps that I ran.

Other than that, we got some good uniques. I got a perfectly rolled five percent max res Brass Dome. That is worth five Divine Orbs. Let's see what Excellence says, 150 and 59 Divine Orbs. That's pretty good. Most of the value obviously comes from the two Apothecaries. Some other notable drops are the two Seven Years Bad Luck and the Voidborn Key for Enlightened. 

I definitely got lucky on the Apothecaries. Here are some of the most valuable Definition Card we got Dragonheart and we have almost 300 Gambler Cards and Enlightened Seven Years Bad Luck

For this farm, we invested in total 61.14 divine, however, we made massive profit. We made a total of 120 Divine profit, which is a 30 Divine per hour. If I count two Apothecaries and 15 Divine per hour or if I only count one Apothecaries, the profits are both very good.

I noticed that also Excellence does not account the Fracturing Shards. I got 11 Fracturing Shards and I also got a perfectly rolled Brass Dome that the Excellence does not take into consideration. That in total is about 10 Divine could give or take and some other things like the Guardian Maps

The Excellence do not count, so overall I would estimate that the average profit for this farm is around eight Divine to 20 Divine depending on the luck. The estimated drop rate for the Apothecary for this strategy is around 1 in 60 maps, so the key is really to clear the map as fast as possible. I did 7.5 minutes per map, which is actually considered very slow. This can definitely improve by having a very strict filter.

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