Fubgun's Ethereal Allflame Scarab Farming

Overview

This strategy farms scarabs using Ember of the Ethereal allflames. Ethereal monsters cannot drop equipment, flasks or tinctures, which strips roughly 80% of the normal loot table and leaves only maps, currency and scarabs. With scarab prices high this league, that concentrated drop pool is where all the value comes from.

The creator of the strategy notes that allflames are more available this patch than in previous leagues, since their drop pool moved from Catarina over to the Mercenaries mechanic. They are still expensive, and this remains a high-investment strategy.

Setup

Per map:

• 3x Ember of the Ethereal
• 1x Bloodlines allflame
• 1x scarab allflame (to increase the value returned by the ethereal embers)
• 1x scarab chisel
• 3-5 Delirium Orbs, depending on what your character can handle
• An Ashes of the Stars (Templar or Delirium variant; the creator uses Templar, and any Ashes works since the benefit is the added juice effect)

The map wants to be rolled to at least 80% increased scarabs before the chisel is applied. Quantity and pack size matter, but increased scarabs is by far the dominant modifier. Self-rolling is meaningfully cheaper than buying pre-rolled maps at 60-80 chaos each, though buying is a valid time-for-profit trade.

Why Crater

Allflames replace a map's native monsters, so base monster density directly determines how many ethereal packs spawn. Crater has one of the highest base densities in the game, which makes it the ideal host. It also sits in the bottom left of the atlas for good anomaly and vault rewards, and its layout is simple: clear the outer ring, then the inner, then loot.

Because the allflame packs are mostly magic monsters, modifiers that boost rare or normal monsters contribute little. Blanket pack size and increased scarabs are what scale the strategy.

Delirium at 80% is manageable for most builds. Some tankiness helps, since rare monsters roll the volatile core scarab modifier frequently at high scarab multipliers.

Selling: always 3-to-1

The creator strongly recommends vendoring scarabs 3-to-1 before selling. A community tool (ScarabEV) generates a search string that highlights exactly which scarabs are worth converting; paste it into the scarab tab and vendor everything that lights up. In the creator's own test this returned around 8 divines in 11 minutes, roughly 47 divines an hour of pure conversion value.

It also cuts the number of listings dramatically, turning around 80 scarabs into around 30. Do it in one batch after 8-10 hours of play rather than every hour, and bulk sell yourself rather than through a third party.

Downsides

• Liquidation overhead means this only works if you plan to run 50 or more maps. Converting after five maps is not time-efficient.
• Very click-intensive. Expect three to four inventories of loot per map.
• High capital requirement at roughly 7-8 divines per map, so a couple of hundred divines of buffer is needed to run it properly.