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As is well known, Divine Orb, one of the universal currencies in Path of Exile 1, is crucial for players aiming to maximize their gear stats. It resets the original variable values of your gear if they are too low. However, this only applies to gear within the same level and affix range.

Moreover, its most cost-effective feature is its ability to be used on magical, rare, or legendary gear. If the reset isn't satisfactory, a second reset is necessary, making Divine Orb a consumable item in a sense.

There are generally three ways to obtain it in-game: random drops from defeated monsters; opening chests; or selling a six-linked item to any merchant.

Here, I will detail how I managed to earn 45 Divine Orb per hour. After mastering this strategy, all you need to do is run around the map.

Required Items

Scarab

Scarab is the core consumable of this strategy, used to significantly enhance the map and increase farming efficiency.

You can obtain Scarabs by defeating monsters, opening chests, or completing Jun's Syndicate quest. First, place an Atlas map in Golden Cartographer's Oven in your personal hideout, then place Scarab inside.

Using Scarab in the map will increase the drop rate of Maven's Chisels. It can selectively add a specific buff to the map, such as increasing the drop rate of Divine Orb. If you want to obtain it yourself from the shop, it costs 50 Chaos Orb, equivalent to 0.185 PoE Divine Orb.

Note that most Scarabs have a limited usage limit in a single map, which will be clearly indicated on Cartographer's Oven. Therefore, you will also need an Astrolabe.

Templar Astrolabes

Templar Astrolabes are a high-level Atlas currency introduced in Patch 3.28, with a strict drop mechanism. First, you need to complete the relevant questline and socket Originator Voidstone into Atlas of Worlds. Afterward, you can obtain them randomly by defeating map bosses within Atlas of Worlds.

It can activate a small section of the map, increasing its difficulty but also meaning richer rewards, ultimately leading you to a highly rewarding Memory Vault. More importantly, it grants an additional powerful buff to the remaining areas in that region. This means you can carry more Scarabs, increasing Divine Orb drop rate.

HeadHunter

HeadHunter provides a 50-72 bonus to health. Its most unique feature is that when you kill a rare or unique monster, you permanently gain that monster's affix. Equipping it also increases damage against rare monsters by 20-30%, and after killing a rare monster, you'll receive the monster's buff, which lasts for 60 seconds.

HeadHunter also has a skill that marks rare and unique enemies within a 120-meter radius on the minimap,making it easier to find rare monsters and saving time searching for Divine Orb farms.

All the items mentioned above will cost approximately 8.1 Divine Orbs, but that's negligible compared to the rewards we'll get later.

Mirage

In the current version, Mirage is the core gameplay of this League.

Find the altar on the map and activate it. Activating it will mirror a small area of the current map, creating a separate instance called Mirage Area.

In this area, you need to destroy Temporal Chains. Defeating the monsters around the chains will grant you additional rewards: more currency, such as Divine Orbs; cards, maps, and even temporary buffs.

If the map has purple essence or expensive Chisels detected by the filter, you can also throw Mirage into it. This way,sometimes monsters have a chance to drop two very expensive Chisels, increasing your chances of getting Divine Orbs.

Filter

In addition to these in-game items, you can also choose to use filters. Filters are a set of custom rules that can help you filter out low-level items, highlight high-level and rare items, and even have unique sound effects.

You can create your own filters or use those shared by experienced players in the community. Currently,the most popular are NeverSink and SimpleFilter filters.

Because high-level Deafening essences may randomly spawn on the map, timely detection with filters allows you to obtain them faster. Remember, you're not the only player on the map. Detecting high-level essences faster means farming Divine Orbs faster.

Furthermore, you'll need to equip weapons capable of defeating the 16-tier starting boss. The natural inhabitants of this area are imprisoned by essences, meaning all naturally spawned rare monsters are imprisoned. Defeating these monsters will yield a large amount of essence and rewards, including Divine Orbs.

The essence of this strategy lies in its speed and efficiency. Filters allow you to quickly determine if a map will drop Divine Orbs. If not, kill the monster to obtain the essence and quickly move on to the next map.

In general, you can complete a map in about five minutes, so farming around 40 Divine Orbs per hour is quite possible, as long as you follow my strategy.

In PoE 3.28 Mirage League, the three complementary elements of purple shimmers, chains in the center, and gear and flasks, if used properly, can allow players to obtain more legendary items and currency.

In Path Of Exile 3.28, those gleaming legendary items and currency are never randomly bestowed upon random players. They are rewards for mastery.

Mirage system rewards players who can precisely control the monster spawn rate in the bizarre, mirrored space, dancing a perfect dance on the edge of a knife. They act like conductors, managing and orchestrating every encounter, remaining active and making the right, wise choices.

Many seasoned players even understand how to use PoE currency to quickly arm themselves, trading money for time, directly acquiring high-rarity gear or maps, thus securing victory from the start.

Decoding Mirage League Encounters

Mirage League Encounters are like a massive machine, driven by three intricately meshed gears: purple shimmers, chains in the center, and gear and flasks.

These shimmers roaming the ground are like sparks of life, the source of monsters. When you pass through them, the slumbering Champions and Packs are instantly awakened. Chains in the center are the only forest of wealth.

Only by defeating monsters here will the dropped items be imbued with the soul of high rarity. Your gear and flasks determine the quality of the loot.

These three elements work together: more shimmers bring denser rare enemies, higher rarity bonuses amplify each drop, and precise positioning pushes all benefits to the peak. Don't forget, PoE Currency also increases drop rates with rarity; every optimization fills your inventory and wallet.

Make Enough Rare Packs Explode

Don't stand still and wait. Purple shimmers are your best friends; they generate a new wave of packs when touched and respawn after a short cooldown.

Your task is to establish a high-speed movement route. Utilize movement skills like Dash or Blink Arrow to quickly activate point after point, like threading a needle. Achieve mastery of rhythm through this high-frequency movement, maximizing drop rates.

Dancing Near Chains

A major mistake many players make in PoE 3.28 is chasing after enemies, which is penny-wise and pound-foolish. The central chain area has extremely high rarity bonuses, so we must control the battlefield within the central chain zone.

Summon builds reign supreme here, kiting enemies into this golden zone. Direct damage builds should draw enemy aggro, lure them into the chain area, and then finish them off.

Remember, it's better to kill one less enemy than to run out of the aura to finish off a low-health one. Once you leave the chain's aura, your efforts are greatly diminished.

Dual Effect of Gear and Flasks

Rarity in PoE 3.28 isn't a simple addition, but a fascinating multiplication game. Don't just focus on that legendary Gear. Those seemingly insignificant affixes can have a surprising impact on the final calculation. Gold Flasks are the king of cost-effectiveness in increasing rarity.

Because the calculation is multiplicative, evenly stacking rarity across Gear and Flasks is far more effective than putting all your eggs in one basket. A stable setup ensures you reap the full benefits in every battle.

Fill the Screen with Enemies

The higher the enemy density, the greater the probability of high-level drops. Choose skills with wide-area damage or utilize swarm tactics with summoned creatures to quickly clear enemies, ensuring they spawn faster than you can eliminate them.

In such dense hordes of monsters, survival is key to dealing damage. Utilize buffs and auras to enhance survivability, allowing you to stay in the center of the chain longer and thus accommodating more enemies to die. When high enemy density meets powerful rarity bonuses, every battle will yield substantial rewards.

Achieve Perfect Cycle

Remember the order of enemy elimination. Awaken enemies at Purple Shimmers, lure them into the central chain trap, and control everything like a kite, finally finishing them off with your most powerful skill. If you have sufficient resources and can maintain this high-intensity cycle, you can achieve consistently high productivity.

Pay Attention to Detail

To avoid getting bogged down by distance, don't stray too far from the center of the chain. To avoid gaps in enemy elimination, pay close attention to the timer's rhythm.

Don't falter at crucial moments; always be mindful of Flask's cooldown and ensure you receive healing items. Avoid favoritism; maintain a balanced approach between speed, enemy density, and location.

Achieving this triangular balance is far more important than maximizing any single attribute.

Small Mistakes, Vast Consequences

Make the most of every second. If possible, carry two rare Flasks; don't strive for perfect gear, a set of medium-rarity equipment often yields higher returns.

Post-battle analysis: review your progress and record the results of each attempt. Fine-tune your movement routes and optimize the timing of triggering Purple Shimmers. Sometimes, simply drinking Flask 0.5 seconds earlier or changing a corner when pulling mobs can lead to a qualitative leap in item quality and gold.

In PoE 3.28, only keen intuition and meticulous execution can transform the void into tangible treasure, yielding more legendary gear and currency.

Path of Exile 3.28 Mirage has been released, and many players have already started experiencing it. This latest version does have many changes, but the most astonishing is that your minion can always maintain 100% health, and even keep your Animate Guardian at full health. Furthermore, your character can continuously regenerate health. This is an incredibly powerful ability, arguably a game-breaking feature.

Many players speculate that this ability to keep a player's health at 100% will soon be fixed. A similar situation of invincibility due to continuous health regeneration has occurred before and was fixed within days.

You probably already find this incredible. Let's explore how this technique works and what you can do with it.

The Selfish Shepherd

In PoE version 3.28, you first need Selfish Shepherd, a unique nameless ring. It grants level 20 Affliction. Affliction is a minion skill that affects friendly minions in a target area. This Affliction is permanent; the skill remains active even if you remove the ring.

Minions will continuously take physical damage, and this damage increases in rate. The amount of damage taken will affect the player's health, as this skill converts 20% of the damage taken by minions into health. When a minion's health drops to one-fifth of its maximum health, it will explode.

Players can recover health in this way. However, since minions can die from damage, the amount of health recovered is limited.

The Selfish Shepherd, first released in patch 3.23 and used in conjunction with Yriel's Fostering in patch 3.25, provided continuous health regeneration to the player because the summoned minions were immune to damage and could not die. When damage reached the 35 million cap, the player could recover 7 million health, which was outrageous and was quickly fixed by GGG.

This effect can still be achieved in patch 3.28, thanks to Transfusion Support.

Transfusion Support

Transfusion Support is an excellent support gem. It generates Soul Eaters by consuming health. This means that support spells must consume health even if they should consume mana. You gain one soul for every 200 health consumed when supporting a spell. You can use Automation and Corrupting Fever to automate the soul generation of Transfusion Support.

A Soul Eater consumes a soul upon killing an enemy, and each stack of souls grants buffs to the character and summoned creatures. The player character's attack speed and casting speed are increased by 5%, and their size increases by 1%. Summoned creatures retain their original attack speed and casting speed, but each stack of soul reduces the damage they take by 2%.

Players can acquire a maximum of 45 soul stacks. Souls also disappear; if no soul is acquired in the last 4 seconds, it will disappear at a rate of 0.5 seconds. However, it's obvious that you can easily gain souls by casting spells and consuming health.

Through Soul Eater generated by Transfusion Support, the damage taken by summoned creatures can be reduced by up to 90%, which greatly delays their death and significantly increases the player's health, but it doesn't make the summoned creature invincible. Therefore, we still need to utilize Soul Ascension.

Soul Ascension

Soul Ascension is a special Carnal Mitts that can also devour souls upon defeating enemies. The number of souls devoured can increase by a maximum of 10 stacks, but in reality, we only need to devour 5 more stacks to reduce the damage taken by the summoned creature to 100%, meaning your summoned creature will never die. When used in conjunction with Selfish Shepherd, over time, as soul stacks accumulate to 50, the player's health will reach its maximum of 7 million.

How does it work?

This logic applies not only to the minions summoned by Yriel's Fostering but also to those summoned by Animate Guardian. Equip Soul Ascension on it; whenever spells cost more than 200 health, it will consume one stack of souls. Of course, you'll need gem slots to automate this process. Initially, simply wait a while; once soul stacks reach 50, it will reduce damage by 100%, preventing Animate Guardian from dying.

At this point, using The Selfish Shepherd to apply negative skill effects will cause the player's health to continuously increase until it reaches the 7 million limit. Even if you remove the Shepherd during this process, as long as the debuff has been applied to Animate Guardian, it will continue to take effect, and the health will keep stacking until the limit is reached.

Unlike other summons, Animate Guardian persists even after you log out. You can equip it with numerous buffing items to make it even more powerful; it is essentially immortal.

Once you've mastered this technique of making your summon immortal and constantly regenerating health, you can do many things. For example, you can use Righteous Fire to inflict continuous fire damage on yourself and enemies, but since you continuously regenerate health, you don't need to worry about this damage affecting you.

You can also use Vaal Temptation Support to maintain a rapid-fire barrage of Vaal skills while clearing maps. Although you will still take physical damage from Vaal Temptation, you can ignore it.

With this technique, you don't need to use a large amount of Path of Exile currency to improve your combat ability and survivability. With just the gems and equipment mentioned above, you can deal unlimited damage in the game, unaffected by damage, and even challenge powerful bosses for greater rewards.

Conclusion

While this maneuver was incredibly overpowered, it's regrettable that only a portion of players experienced its benefits. Those who did were amazed. However, just as the previously mentioned bug where monsters wouldn't die was quickly fixed, the situation where damage was reduced by 100% and health was continuously restored up to a limit of 7 million was also fixed a few days later. It's understandable that such a game-breaking technique was quickly corrected.

In Path of Exile 3.27, players often need to collect various in-game items and currencies to have a good gaming experience. Different types of scarabs are particularly important, as they can be used in conjunction with maps to provide different attribute bonuses; the rarer the scarab, the more powerful the effect.

Sometimes, while farming, players will randomly obtain scarabs of varying quantities and levels from certain monsters. However, these scarabs are generally of low quality and not very useful. With good luck, one or two rare scarabs might occasionally drop.

At this point, players might wonder, are those ordinary scarabs useless? Of course not! We can convert scarabs at a specific ratio and then resell them to exchange for other more valuable items.

The most common method is to utilize the in-game Vendor Recipe system. Players can sell any item to a merchant NPC to obtain Path of Exile currency, items, or equipment.

Selling three common-quality scarabs to the merchant NPC will randomly exchange them for other types of scarabs. The scarabs obtained after these exchanges will be of relatively higher quality, but this is not guaranteed; the conversion result depends on luck.

Then, these exchanged scarabs can be sold on trading platforms for substantial profits.

Next, I will teach you the specific steps for converting and selling scarabs. You can use this method to make a profit.

Trade Testing

First, to ensure the feasibility of this method, we conducted an experiment. Within 42 minutes, at a 3:1 ratio, 300 common scarabs were exchanged for 32 Divination Scarabs. It's clearly worthwhile, even significantly better than other acquisition methods in the game.

Furthermore, theoretically, if we can obtain Scarabs at a lower price, for example, by getting them elsewhere at a 15% discount, then what would have been 300 Scarabs could become 301, resulting in a higher final profit.

Adding all the Scarabs together yielded a considerable number. Using these Scarabs, we earned 32 Divination Scarabs through reselling in a short period. Furthermore, when I sold them all to others in exchange for Divine Orb, the final transaction price was 5 POE Divine Orbs higher than the asking price, which was another extra profit.

In total, we earned 37 Divine Orbs in 42 minutes, achieving a substantial profit. After all, Divine Orb, a Path of Exile currency, is a valuable asset in the game.

Pay Attention To Price Fluctuations When Exchanging

First, you need to find an exchange tool to help you with price references. These websites will show you the prices of different Scarabs.

However, note that these prices are not real-time, as scarab prices are easily affected by the game environment and may fluctuate weekly. Therefore, it's recommended to check the actual price online before exchanging.

Generally, the exchange tool will only display the scarabs you should sell among all your scarabs, making them very prominent. In general, scarabs priced around 1 Chaos Orb can be sold to merchants.

Use 3 of these scarabs to exchange for a random scarab at the merchant. However, this has a degree of randomness, as you cannot guarantee that the exchanged scarab will be of high quality. Therefore, you need to ensure your sample size is large enough. From a probabilistic perspective, with a sufficient number, the result is generally not too bad.

Accumulate More Scarabs To Maximize Profits

If you don't have many scarabs, it's not recommended to exchange them, as your sample size is insufficient, and you may not be able to exchange for a high-quality scarab. In that case, your scarabs would be wasted.

Therefore, we can acquire scarabs at low prices through various channels, accumulate a certain number, and then convert and sell them. Specifically, we can exchange 1 Chaos Orb for 3 ordinary scarabs, then convert these 3 scarabs into one at the merchant NPC. If the converted scarab is a rare one, we can sell it.

Over time, the profit can be quite high. And sometimes, if we're lucky, the scarabs we buy at a low price from others might even yield a high-quality scarab, which is like an extra bonus.

However, I personally don't usually do this intentionally; I only convert the scarabs I already own. For example, during this period of time, I accumulated a lot of scarabs in the game. The most profitable way is to exchange them and then sell them.

Of course, if you find this troublesome, you can list these scarabs directly on a trading platform, but this might result in the loss of some potential profits.

The above are the specific methods and some precautions for reselling scarabs to obtain higher profits. If you're lucky enough to obtain a rare scarab during a merchant exchange, you can choose to keep it for yourself; the choice is yours.

If you currently have a large number of Scarab Beetles and don't know what to do with them, ten try this method!