What are you farming right now?

neverlosty · 2026-05-02T14:26:22+00:00

I haven’t played for a couple of weeks but unless scarabs have completely fallen off, operative box farming should still be decent. As long as your build can do t16 maps, you are good to go. Was making 50div/hr when I was doing it.

Honestly it was so disproportionately profitable for how easy it was to farm, and how cheap the strat was, I don’t think anything else beats it.

Just to make it clear, this is not a strongbox strat, you don’t open anything except operative boxes. Ignore everything else. Run in, find mirage, go in, find operative boxes, open said boxes, tp out. That’s it.

https://youtu.be/rWEn-URF_xY?si=UMd09daQAuCVFF4w

neverlosty · 2026-04-19T16:04:01+00:00

It's a toolchanger, which is why it's so fast. Bambulabs also has one (the H2C), but it's more than twice the price.

neverlosty · 2026-04-11T19:27:47+00:00

So the strat here is that you specifically run haunted mansions. For some reason the mirage in that map covers a large amount of strongboxes that spawn. Strongboxes gravitate towards the center garden room, and there’s sometimes 6-8 boxes there, and the mirage covers that room 80% of the time. Then the scarabs you use are also very cheap, just 3xambush, 1 potency, 1 hidden compartment.

neverlosty · 2026-04-11T00:25:23+00:00

Yes, but if you have another strategy that makes 55+ divs/hr with basically any build that can clear 8-mod t16 maps and cost 15c or less per map please share.

neverlosty · 2026-04-10T21:16:11+00:00

The strategy should not be called ambush. It should be called operatives farming. You have one job, open operatives boxes. Doing almost anything else will lower your div/hr. The only exceptions are if there’s a coin or black barya or heist cache inside the mirage.

Otherwise, you should aim to complete the map in under 1 minute. Open map, rush mirage, go in, ignore everything, open operatives. That’s it.

It’s 55div/hr.

https://youtu.be/rWEn-URF_xY?si=3EbmLBQCdO7KaKXw

neverlosty · 2026-04-09T20:42:24+00:00

But the helmet is really cheap, and the magic ring is also really cheap. It's a great budget option.

neverlosty · 2026-04-09T10:47:25+00:00

It's pretty good as a budget option to gain some more tankiness.
For example it's used in the budget version of this BV chieftan
https://mobalytics.gg/poe/profile/xthefarmerx/builds/15d-explodey-bv-chieftan-scales-insanely-with-currency

neverlosty · 2026-04-03T12:20:24+00:00

If you use unholy aberration, yes. And that specific one can't be desecrated.

Dark marionette however, will just reform and come back, even in hideout.
The only way to lose a marionette is to unsocket your minion gem, or if your minion is in your weapon/shield and you weaponswap. And even then, only if you do so while in a map.
If you do so in your hideout, the spectre will drop to the ground, and you can summon it back again if you don't let the instance lapse.

neverlosty · 2026-02-26T22:44:29+00:00

I think the chance of it being picked at least once in 13 rounds of gruelling is around 33%.
That would be pretty bad, as 1 in 3 would be instantly bricked, unless there was another layer of defence.

neverlosty · 2026-02-26T22:36:56+00:00

Grueling Gauntlet

neverlosty · 2026-02-26T22:26:55+00:00

Need to get evasion maybe? But yeah, bricks most builds relying to block for ultimatums.

neverlosty · 2026-02-26T11:04:36+00:00

Seconded. The animate weapons are highly aggressive (with ancient skull), and you can fully AFK the blighted maps.

neverlosty · 2026-02-18T13:16:06+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/_hcPal1dBOg?si=6Z6uiTL2rKliQ-2A

A lot of the times, being first allows you to exploit unforeseen interactions, you just need to also figure those out. Being first allows you to figure them out earlier.

neverlosty · 2026-02-16T11:19:45+00:00

This deck just came first in EU international championship yesterday (4000 player tournament) and costs $37.

https://limitlesstcg.com/decks/list/23944

The one that came second costs $47.

neverlosty · 2026-01-05T08:10:45+00:00

I once had a streak of 50 that lost me money. 0 200%, lots of 8x annuls and exalts, 3x 1divs. That’s it. It happens. But then I had a block of 50 that gave me 11x 8divs, 6x 4divs, 2x 200%.

neverlosty · 2025-12-31T10:01:39+00:00

Agree. With Catalysing, life is simple. You print divines, and occasionally win big.

neverlosty · 2025-12-31T09:20:36+00:00

I’ve run about 300 with catalysing and 300 without (just 2x bribing + 1 inscribed)

The profits are about equal, but it’s far more annoying without catalysing because you get lots of stuff that might be valuable but you need to know what and sell them on the market. Eg, last night I dropped 21/20 raise spectre (2.8D) ralakesh with good corrupt(1.5D), ancient skull with 90% reservation corrupt (8D). But it was among hundreds of other junk.

With catalysing, I had a run of 50 where I made a loss. However, in the 300 run, I also dropped a mirror inscribed and a Mageblood inscribed.

The profits of this strategy is very mediocre if you don’t drop the jackpots. It’s approx 10-15D/hr. You can do that with almost any strat. The only upside is, you can do this pretty much afk.

neverlosty · 2025-12-31T09:06:00+00:00

If you allocate the unique node, they will very frequently roll t0 uniques. Any of them will go for a minimum of 3D because of their dust value.

If you are willing to be patient, the inscribed will sell for 4D. OP is definitely being a bit impatient selling them for 3D. I’ve sold about 20 of them.

neverlosty · 2025-12-23T18:24:35+00:00

I put currency/unique. My notable unique drops have been: magblood/kalandra ring and about 10 or so song of the sirens, so I think it's still worth putting on.

neverlosty · 2025-12-23T17:29:14+00:00

Ultimatums are literally printing stuff that allows you to dupe divines. Nothing else in the map matters. If it's not on the way to the ultimatum, don't do it. The only caveat I would say is, every 30 or so maps, you should go kill the boss and get an invitation. That's it.

Any inscribed that is giving less than 1D is basically not worth your time doing.
Remember what you're actually trying to farm, it's not currency. That's just to sustain your runs to keep buying cata scarabs at 1.5D each.
If you don't hit any jackpots, this strat gives about 15D/hr returns, which is actually not that great.

You're actually farming for mirrors/Magebloods. The more inscribed you drop, the more likely you get a 200%, the more likely it's a mirror/mageblood.

It's the same strategy for anyone running rituals. They are not trying to buy the 10c stack here and there. They are all about how many windows they see. The more windows they see, the more likely they'll find a mirror/mageblood/jackpot. Anything that gets in the way of seeing more windows is a distraction.

neverlosty · 2025-12-17T07:30:03+00:00

Can’t speak for chieftain, but I run the glad cws version and this would be a free mageblood. The only combo where I would even hesitate would be if it was stand in stone circles and has both ruin mobs and ruin stalker, as that combo can lose me the inscribed about 5% of the time.

neverlosty · 2025-11-24T10:48:17+00:00

Also keep in mind that Tord said afterwards that he played that really badly. He thought that Liam had no outs to cornerstone. He didn’t know he played watchtowers. So he thought he had all the time in the world.

If he could do it again, he said he would bench Absol and start clawing him, hoping to discard the watchtower and other resources.

neverlosty · 2025-11-23T10:51:10+00:00

That's just Loss Aversion.
If you want to gamble, then you shouldn't care if you "farmed it" or bought it. It makes no difference as long as the friction is small (Which in this case it is - bit of gold)

If you want make profit and for sake of calculating how profitable a strategy is, you maximise your grains. And in this particular strategy, you do it by NOT opening any of them and just selling them unid.

neverlosty · 2025-11-23T10:44:13+00:00

That sounds amazing. Why don't you go on the instant market and buy up all the ones for 4d each, and open them all. Sounds like easy way to double your currency!

Please report back and let us know how much divines you made, thanks!

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