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How often do you see players on Reddit showing off the massive amounts of Fracturing Shards and Mirror Shards they drop when farming Harbingers? Here I want to explain to you the reality of what actually happened.

On the one hand, this is a series of degenerate exploits in the Necropolis league mechanics, but on the other hand, it’s more of a smart currency farming strategy. Additionally, here are some more tips on devoted mods to use with Allflame Ember. Featuring Rogue Exiles and Necropolis, making profits for the endgame elemental bow.

Harbinger Strategy

To get started with this new Harbinger strategy, you’ll need Harbinger Scarab of Discernment, which has a moderate drop rate. What it basically does is that Harbingers in the map will drop rarer currency shards, and each group will drop a single type of currency shard, rather than a mixture of them.

So if RNG chooses a Fracturing Shard, then all drops will be Fracturing Shards. The higher the map tier you run, the greater your chances of receiving higher tier rewards.

How To Scale The Quantity Of Harbingers And Loot?

So you need to pay attention to two things: one is the number of Harbingers, and the other is the quantity of loot they drop.

There are multiple ways to scale the number of Harbingers. The free way is to set “Ominous Arrival” node from Atlas Tree along with all the small nodes to get extra Harbingers spawned. The second is to spend 6 Chaos Orbs on the map device to get additional Harbingers. Third, use these 2 cheap Harbinger Scarabs. This will make your time running these maps more worthwhile.

To scale the quantity of loot dropped, you need to scroll the quantity factor on the map. Since Magic Find gear has no effect on Harbinger drop rates. So besides chiselling, alching and vaaling you have to grab all these little nodes with a 20% chance of dropping extra stacks of currency shards, and all the nodes on top to increase the effect of the modifier on the map.

Why Adopt This Strategy?

But are Harbinger bosses worth this strategy? Yes, it does, and they are more likely to increase the quality of the loot.

Even though most of the time, your loot will be junk, when you do hit the jackpot, it will be more valuable than any other strategy that takes hours to hone. When you notice an increase in the prices of Fracturing and Mirror Shards, you should do so.

Currency Conversion Devoted Mod

There’s another important tip to note when you get the devoted mod that converts dropped jewels into Divine Orbs and Exalted Orbs.

Basically, when you get this, make sure to throw them to the top and use Allflame Ember of Anarchy before entering the map. This is because, of all the monsters in POE, Rogue Exiles are sure to drop jewelry and various items that players typically use. And Allflame Ember of Anarchy basically replaces the monster packs in the map with 2-4 Rogue Exiles packs.

And the amount of loot they drop even scales based on the nodes on Atlas Tree. For example, Rogue Trader gives you a 50% chance of dropping extra rewards. If tormented spirits possess these Rogue Exiles, their loot drops will be doubled, producing more jewelry items.

So that’s why Exiled Will plus Unrelenting Torment is a brilliant combination for this strategy.

Now, since these are specific to converted monsters, having extra Rogue Exiles on the map may or may not gain lantern benefit. This is something I’ll have to test and see.

Now, if you are running this strategy, after Patch 3.24.0b, you can switch Atlas Tree to accommodate lantern modifiers when opening the map. This will allow you to reduce spam and find more flexible ways to use devoted modifiers.

How To Make An Endgame Elemental Bow?

I have to mention that in Patch 3.24.0b, league crafting finally became a great tool to exploit.

Here I’ll show you the mods you need to make an endgame elemental bow. So basically it’s like Fossil Crafting. You need to first specify the mods you don’t want, then specify the mods you do want on the item. It is very important to have at least 1 explicit modifier, otherwise you will end up with an item with 4 affixes.

Finally, you need to add as many tier ratings as possible to force the highest tier for the selected mod. Since some tier 1 mods require higher levels, I recommend checking out Craft of Exile for the level requirements.

If your goal is to profit from these crafts, you can throw away the remaining 3 mods to get 6 linked copies of that crafted item. These items can be sold for several Divine Orbs, especially bows, as they are one of the most popular items in Path of Exile.

It is impossible for morgues to accommodate so many corpses now for crafting. That’s why you have to itemize most of the best ones before you can stack them in a dedicated craft like this. You need quite a bit of space in your stash tabs to occupy them.

Regardless, this is definitely the most profitable crafting and farming strategy you can find early in the league! So, hurry up and try it out!

Today, we’re going to talk about the best strategies for farming Kirac’s Memory of Survivor’s Guilt in Harbinger.

How Does It Work?

Harbinger and how it works is very simple, just open your Atlas, right click on Atlas Memory and left click on the map to launch Kirac’s Memory. If you want to do this, it will create a chain between the maps, allowing up to four maps to be created for Kirac’s Memory.

In fact, Kirac’s Memory always has four maps. A cool modifier about Survivor’s Guilt is that when you kill an enemy, it has a chance to spawn a portal like a Harbinger Portal, and more enemies will spawn through Harbinger Portal.

Currency Shards

Now, when you kill an enemy, it has a chance to drop Currency Shards. Since all drops in this memory have been converted or converted into Currency Shards. Currency Shards can now range from Alteration Shards all the way to Mirror Shards. You’ll see things like Orb of Element Shards, Ancient Orb Shard, Exalted Orb Shard.

And then you also get other things like Harbinger Shards and stuff like that. But anything below that value may not appear in your project filter. If you have one, then it’s profitable. Because each Memory actually only has 50 options, and each Memory tends to be reduced by an average of 1-3 Fracturing Shards.

Farming Strategy

So let’s assume you put a Fracturing Shard in memory, which is already a monetary value of 140 Chaos Orbs. This means you have made a profit of 90 Chaos Orbs.

Then if we take 90 Chaos Orbs profit and then add 6 Orbs of Annulments you got, that’s about 100 Chaos Orbs. In this way, each memory has a value of 190 Chaos Orbs so far.

Then we have Ancient Orb, which costs about the same as Orb of Element. We also got about 6, so we got another 100 Chaos Orbs, ending up with 290 Chaos Orbs, to get more than 1 Divine Orb worth of Chaos out of your memory.

Then you’ll get about 25 Chaos Orbs by picking up Chaos Shard, and then you’ll probably get 0.5-1 Exalted Orb Shard. So we’ll only get another 20 Chaos Orbs. There, you’ll get approximately 0.5 Divine Orb worth for each memory you run.

Now, if you can run Memory quickly, you can see consistent results even if you only get 1.5 Divine Orbs per Memory. This is like your minimum requirement. To reach the threshold of 10 Divine Orbs per hour, we need to run 6 Memory per hour. This is obviously very difficult to do.

That’s why you know the range for Fracturing Shard is actually at least 1, and 2-3 is your average. I even got seven Fracturing Shards in one run. But if you get Mirror Shards, your value will skyrocket.

This Method Is More Suitable For The End Of The League

So I would say this competitive currency farming strategy is very interesting. You know where all the currencies are going. You can easily take what you get from these memories and resell what you looted, and they’ll drop a lot of useful currency.

These POE currency appreciate and increase in value over time within the league. Therefore, in the later stages of the league, they are more suitable for farming than before, because the value of memory itself will not change.

But as the league starts to die off, the value of the currency you get from memory increase. That’s why I find these Harbinger Memories actually very useful and easy to run.

Modify Map

What I want to say now is that Kirac’s Memory is another kind of Harbinger Memory, which has a unique value than Survivor’s Guilt.

When you boot into a map, you want to make sure you are chiseling and modifying your map and giving it 20% Delirium to increase the pack size as much as possible. This will give you more monster kills and Harbinger Portals, which will give you more Currency Shards.

Then you obviously need to look for league mechanics in those maps and make sure you completely clear the map of the league mechanics you find. It dropped currency Shards in these maps, some of which have very interesting exchange rates.

Final Thoughts

I have collected multiple Fracturing Orbs so far. This strategy is very self-explanatory and straightforward. As the value of Ancient Orb, Exalted Orb, and Orb of Annulments continues to rise toward the end of Trial of the Ancestors League, so does the value of running Kirac’s Memory of Survivor’s Guilt.

But we seriously underestimated the drop rate of Fracturing Shards in these Memory. Because you can usually find 1-3 Shards in each memory. I even managed to find 7 Shards in a single Memory and also got a Mirror Shard after running about 30 such Memory.

Hopefully, this will give you another fun way to farm when leagues seem to be drying up and trade starts to die. These Memories drop items that are guaranteed to sell forever, making them valuable as an end-of-league farming strategy!