Ambush Scarab of Containment
Understand the exact Path of Exile 1 map rule added by Ambush Scarab of Containment: the area contains many additional Strongboxes, and its inhabitants are lying in ambush.
What happens if you use it?
The area contains many additional Strongboxes, and its inhabitants are lying in ambush.
Unrelated map rules and random outcomes remain unchanged.
Use it when the build and map plan can handle repeated Strongbox ambushes and benefit from high Strongbox density.
More Strongboxes also mean more ambush combat; quantity does not guarantee favourable box varieties or contents.
Area contains many additional Strongboxes Area's inhabitants are lying in ambush
Can be used in a personal Map Device to add modifiers to a Map.
- Game
- Path of Exile 1
- Item class
- Map Fragment
- Drop level
- 78
- Stack size
- 20
Read the guaranteed map change first.
Used through a personal Map Device, Ambush Scarab of Containment applies this explicit rule to the area: The area contains many additional Strongboxes, and its inhabitants are lying in ambush. It does not guarantee any reward or encounter outcome that the rule does not name.
Build the rest of the map around that rule.
Use it when the build and map plan can handle repeated Strongbox ambushes and benefit from high Strongbox density.
More Strongboxes also mean more ambush combat; quantity does not guarantee favourable box varieties or contents.
Its value follows the strategy that can exploit the rule.
Exchange activity reflects current demand for this exact Scarab effect. It cannot guarantee that the added encounter, monsters, or rewards repay Ambush Scarab of Containment in an individual map.
1 Divine Orb≈2.5 Ambush Scarab of Containment
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