Path of Exile's Necropolis season introduced a big rework to Scarabs by adding hundreds of unique Scarabs and completely removing Sextants from the game. With all these selections of Scarabs, there will always be comparisons as to which are the best ones for currency farming.

This topic is highly subjective because several factors can change everything in one day, whether through a price change or a new popular build. Regardless, the best Scarabs will always have a game-changing effect by maximizing your farming strategies, giving them more than what you paid for.

Reliquary Scarab Of Vision

Reliquary Scarab of Vision inside the Scarab tab in Path of Exile

The Reliquary Scarab of Vision forces the Nameless Seer to spawn on your map, which gives you a chance to find some of the best unique items in the game. While the drop rate of these uniques is still low, it is a lot better than most methods at finding tier zero unique.

The Reliquary Scarab of Vision is great because you don't need any combinations of Scarabs or passive atlas builds to use it efficiently. You just place the Scarab in your map device and look for the Nameless Seer.

While the Scarab is great on its own, the problem lies in its price. Items involving some randomness, where you can directly get the best items in the game, will always be costly after the first month of a league.

Divination Scarabs

Divination Scarabs are always involved in one of the most lucrative farming methods in any given season or league. There are several high-value Divination cards like the Apothecary and the Doctor. Buffing the drop rates of these cards will always be worth it, assuming you pair the Divination Scarabs with the proper atlas passive tree and other Scarabs.

The Divination Scarab and the Divination Scarab of Completion paired with some Ambush Scarabs and a passive atlas tree that buffs Strongboxes is a highly lucrative farming strategy. However, the price for running this strategy is extremely high.

Essence Scarab Of Calcification

Essence Scarab of Calcification inside the Scarab tab in Path of Exile

The Essence Scarab of Calcification imprisons all the rare monsters in the map, putting random Essences for you to farm. You are roughly looking at around 15-20 Essences per map with just this Scarab alone, along with the appropriate atlas passive tree dedicated to Essences.

The number of Essence goes even higher if you can pair a Scarab of Adversaries to your map runs. However, these runs will be extremely dangerous, and the strategy should favor builds that have strong single-target DPS. The more Essence a rare monster has, the stronger they are. Each of these Essences is essentially a buff for them.

Horned Scarab Of Bloodlines

Horned Scarab of Bloodlines inside the Scarab tab in Path of Exile

The Horned Scarab of Bloodlines turns all Monster Packs in the area to be at least magic packs. This means that there will be no normal or "white" monsters, but there could still be rare or "yellow" monsters on the map.

By increasing the rarity of the monsters, you are indirectly boosting the drop rates of everything that could possibly drop in your specific map. The Scarab is very versatile, and you can use it with any farming strategy.

Ambush Scarab Of Discernment

Ambush Scarab of Discernment inside the Scarab tab in Path of Exile

Ambush Scarabs of Discernment increases the chances of Strongboxes being of the higher or rare variety. In short, a regular Strongbox has a chance of turning into a Diviner's Strongbox or other rare types.

If you use at least four types of Ambush Scarab on your runs, you should expect to open roughly 40-50 Strongboxes in a single map. The number is extremely high because you also have the chance of opening a single Strongbox multiple times because of the Ambush Scarab of Hidden Compartments and the Secret Compartments notable atlas passive skill.

You can even use the Ambush crafting option in your map device to add even more Strongboxes. While these Strongboxes might be your best way of attaining loot with the strategy, you can still add more league mechanics to your atlas because there are only a few Strongbox nodes available.

Since these Strongbox atlas skill nodes are conveniently located in the middle, you can branch out to whichever mechanic you want to add, such as Legion, Harbinger, Abyss, and a lot more.

Harbinger Scarab Of Warhoards

Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards inside the Scarab tab in Path of Exile

Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards has a chance of duplicating currency shards dropped by monsters created by a Harbinger. The Harbinger farming strategy is the best way to get the coveted Mirror of Kalandra through Mirror Shard drops.