Misconceptions About Path of Exile Scarabs

The majority of Scarabs are not priced for tier 17s; T16s are not dead content, and loot is not dead.

### Debunking Misconceptions: Reddit's Misleading Narrative on Path of Exile's Endgame
* 🔄  The majority of Scarabs are not exclusively priced for **tier 17 maps**, contrary to popular Reddit claims.
* 💰  T16 maps are not "dead content," with players still able to make **significant currency** from them and compete with **T17 strategies**.
* 🎁  While loot from some mechanics may be lacking, it is not universally "**dead**" as portrayed on Reddit.
* 🚫  The narrative that T7 maps are "**ruining the fun**" is challenged, with the video creator emphasizing a **defeated mindset** among some players.
* 🗣  The video creator shares their own gameplay experience, demonstrating how they made currency and upgraded gear using **"the broke boy method"** of farming Essences in yellow maps.
* 🧠  The video creator calls for a more **balanced and constructive discussion** on Reddit, highlighting the danger of **spreading misinformation** and creating a **negative community atmosphere**.
* 💼  The introduction of the in-game auction house is praised for **empowering players to trade more efficiently** and **improve their gear independently**.
* 🌐  The video concludes with a plea for the Path of Exile community to focus on **constructive feedback and self-improvement**, rather than perpetuating a **negative narrative**.

Reddit has been lying to you. And if me saying that pisses you off, you need to listen to why I think that. One, the majority of Scarabs are not priced for tier 17s only. Only a very small minority of them. Two, T16s are not dead content. You can still make a ton of currency from them and even compete with some T17 strats. Three, loot is not dead. Loot from some mechanics is dead. And four, T7s are not ruining the fun for you, Reddit, and a defeated mindset is. Now, this gameplay is from day two of the league when I tried farming Essences in red maps, and they were way too brutal and impossible, even with Crystal Residence. I'm flattered that some commenters in the last video think I'm some elite that can't possibly relate to a normal player farming, but none of the farms I did on League start required some crazy knowledge or early adoption. I grabbed whatever random yellow maps that I had at the time, paid for essences on.

the map device and sold them on the auction house. Just like you still can to still make currency right now. This is how I got my early upgrades. This is how I got currency enough to buy more mapping supplies. And what I did was I upgraded my gear. I further invested into farming Essences and yellow maps by buying some rusted Essence scabs. Even though they look scary, right? They were scary, they're expensive, and I making my currency back. Well, here's what I did. I did it. And then I mathed it out. And I was like, oh yeah, I did okay. And then what I did was I further invested. I bought a scense scarabs to make them all a tier higher, which made them a lot harder in the boss in even yellow Maps, a lot more difficult as well with Crystal residence. But I went from there. And I've grinded out all my currency. Now I'm able to, you know, have fun and do whatever. And I didn't do like some crazy gimmick.

Strat, I literally did like the broke boy method, the one I would recommend every broke boy to do, which is just do Essences on a yellow map. I've got a comment here from my king nanam 24 in the last video that perfectly summarizes my feelings and is a great tldr for the rest of the video. Thanks for posting this. This is what Reddit always ends up doing starting from a week after the league launches. Some people bring up valid complaints and they keep circlejerking and escalating until a lot of people just make insane and patently false statements with nobody to go against the tide anymore. T16s are worthless now is especially insane to me. If you can't make currency doing T16s, that's fully a skill issue. T7s are harder than Ubers is another one I've read a ton that can only come from someone that has done neither. I hope at least GGG is able to filter out the awful takes and focus on the valid ones. Right now, we have a ton of valid

complaints with 3.25 right. We have the state of t7s in trade League. We have mechanics that don't have built-in loot rewards, which feel very unfun and have very little rewards to them. How much Farm fing power is locked behind scarabs shipments, feeling a little bit stale with you only sending small little shipments frequently to get good results. I'm sure I could keep going on, but that's not the point of this video. There are a ton of valid complaints to post about and to advocate for, but when Reddit comes out with multiple – and I say Reddit, it's the community, right, this is our community too – comes out with multiple thousand upvote threads, right, 1K upvotes, quote attempting to use the major majority of scarabs in t16 maps is Flushing currency down the drain. The only explanation is that they provide value in t7s. 1.4k upvote thread, quote scarabs are priced around t7s and only really worth using in t-17s, the worst.

part is, if you want to buy fun, it's priced at t17 levels. If you want to be an irrational actor in the market and play the game for fun, you can't afford to. You won't sustain your scarabs in t1s or t6s. You won't, and you won't have enough income to make up the difference or random comments in Threads that get zero push back from anyone. This is a comment in a thread talking about blight and the new Scarab printing blight Maps. Why is that a good thing? I've been running blight Maps the past week and don't even pick up blight Maps. They're completely worthless. I have an entire tab of t16 flight maps that are unsellable. Nobody wants these. They're priced at 5 chos and they never sell. This is so laughably a lie. I don't understand how things like these, right, these the posts or the comments don't receive any push back at all from the community. It is boggling my

mind even the blight maps to prove it. I listed a BL man for five chos. I got two PMS instantly. Okay, because of course they're going for 9 NC right now. T16 blight Maps like it's just so insane that this guy is trying to pretend that you cannot sell tier 16 blight Maps. Posts and comments like this are creating this Aura of Doom and Gloom in the community, turning every post into a complaint, finding every reason for your lack of fun except a little bit of effort into your gearing and your farming and your learning of the game. Everything becomes ruined, not just a few mechanics or a couple scarabs loot everywhere blight and tuen don't make currency somehow red altars aren't giving much loot. Essences aren't even worth at anymore and tier 16s are dead. You ruin all Goodwill and credibility towards grinding gear as much as you little memers might think. The devs are not idiots. They know the majority of

scarabs can be used profitably. They and that they aren't exclusively priced for t7s. They know you can still make a ton of currency in t16s, and they understand that the loot is dead meme is not an accurate view of the game. They know their game, and reading multiple thousand upvote Reddit threads with zero pushback in the comments will cause them to handwave any potential valid critiques as more unfounded complaining by players who are still learning how to map. These comments are so holy out of reality it boggles my mind. We have thousands of people brainlessly upvoting threads and comments which take so little time to provably refute even just logically thinking. There simply aren't enough people running tier 17 maps to be purchasing and consuming all of these scarabs. Many wouldn't even make sense to use in t7s, and we can prove this by just buying some scarabs and making currency with them, which is what everybody in my community has been doing and a lot of others as well. Essence, Beastiary, Harvest.

breach, belli, Beyond Expedition, stack deck farming, Harbinger Legion, blight, Anarchy, with Titanic farming, ultimatum, and ritual, to name just a few. These are all provably profitable with scarabs, some more than others of course, but none in a t16 map with scarabs will flush currency down the drain like Reddit would have you believe. There is one farm that I did in t16s that's now been priced to tier 17s, and that's Ambush. That sucks. I don't think it's good to have these like normal Farms, right? Like opening boxes, normal Farms be priced only for t7s, especially with the Rusted scarabs, but that should be the messaging. Comments and threads should talk about that specific situation and how it sucks to have the Rusted Ambush Scarab be priced and because is exclusive right towards these t17 Farms rust. The Rusted Ambush scarabs, right? But instead of that, we have things like scarabs will lose you currency, scarabs are priced around t7s, and only really worth in t-17s loot.

is dead in t16 maps. T16s might as well be white Maps. The loot is all in t7s and sanctum. It's absolutely disturbing. And then we have a bunch of people posting screenshots of the one map you did with Alters that didn't give you that much and the Expedition you had that gave you only one exotic coinage. I implore you community, you have to do better. You have to be better letting the community develop this brain rot of self-pity and sorrow and unwillingness to even try to do better. To try and buy a couple scarabs, to try and make some currency, to wash your hands of your weakness and poverty is not what I want from my community. If you're poor, do me one favor, destructive play boss rushing on Silo right, kill the extra bosses, leave before you kill The Silo boss and he comes back down again or do yellow map Essences with kirak on the map device like I did on leag start for as many Maps as you can afford or for as

many Maps as you have. Sell them on the auction house. Buy some gear upgrades or spam some Essences on fractured bases. Farm and sell again. Invest with some scarabs. Farm and sell again. Buy some upgrades and repeat. Stay off of Reddit. Stay in maps. Solve your problems instead of shifting the blame and have some damn fun because it is a video game. I do want to quickly highlight one nice little post. This is a screenshot of one of the very silly examples. Loot's fine, nothing wrong here. Now if this was a post talking specifically about Wildwood, totally valid. Wildwood's an issue. Wildwood is one of the things that needs to be addressed. It makes the monster so much tankier and it feels even after their buff like they still don't give any loot. Now unfortunately, this post is nearly implying that doing eight mod maps with red altars and Expedition will provide you with no loot, right? That's the implication here. This isn't about just the Wildwood. This is about all of this. And that is just absolutely silly.

every SSF player will gear their characters out. They'll just blast altars with Expedition Alters with a mechanic, and this is how they get enough gear to do T7s, to do their Ubers, to have like these insane builds, right? Like, even the hardcore people do this. How do the hardcore people gear their character? They can't do the T7s, they can't buy scarabs. They're running maps and they're doing mechanics. Do not pretend like Lud is dead, okay? Now, thankfully, some of the comments on the new patch, people are experiencing a little push back now, right? Zero changes to loot when D4 comes out, 12 hours, we're lying, but still the season compared to the ass Fest we have is tempting. This post is a great example of things I would like to see more often, things that are helpful, things that are constructive, right? If you write maybe some feedback posts talking about the Wildwood, and how, you know, we get some sample sizes, right? Like, we get some testing, we get whatever.

okay, and more posts like this. The auction house made me realize I am a bad player. I'm not a new player. I'm not a very good player either. I've been playing since Betrayal League, on and off, playing maybe every other league. I was never really good at generating currency. My friends tried to help me all the time with Atlas strats and pricing things, but I never felt like I was making good currency like they were. They kept saying that making about 5 div an hour is very achievable, which was beyond crazy to me. The auction house changed everything. Now I can just sell all my scarabs, Essences, oils, and currency in a few clicks in-game and fast. I don't even care if I'm lowballing myself because I can get what I want quick and keep playing. Suddenly looking at attentive metacraft for my weapon while still expensive looks achievable and makes me excited to craft it. I'm slowly improving my gear on my own, and I don't need any help or hand-me-downs.

from my friends, for clarity, I was always aware of the trade site and third-party tools like TFT and Wealthy Exile. I wasn't using them because each had its own problems, and it forced me to step outside the game. So thank you, GG, for the auction house that made me realize I am a bad player but helped me improve so much. I wish this was the community right now on Reddit. I wish these were the majority of posts talking about how you can help yourself, how somebody can get currency, how you can easily get your upgrades with the auction house, how big a buff that is to new players. But instead, over the last week, it's just been this Doom and Gloom, these snippy little screenshots of the one map you did with red Alters that didn't give much, as if pretending that expedition and red Alters don't make currency, pretending that using rusted scarabs for every mechanic is priced for t7s, that we can't use any Scarab at all, right, pretending that if you want to

have fun that you can't because t7s are the only place that fun happens right to pretend you can't buy a deli. Beyond breach scarabs, a bunch of these rusted scarabs add a ton of monsters to your map, get a bunch of XP, have some fun BL right right to pretend we can't do this still. It's just so silly and uh gosh I just I had to have a little video. I know got a little uh let the dog out a little bit but I hope you listen. I hope you maybe learned a little bit and gez I hope that we can do a lot better as a community leasing some of the largest threads that we have the public facing part of our community our Reddit having po like this is just such an absolute embarrassment for real. Anyways, that's it peace.

Don't Believe Reddit's Loot Lies...

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Misconceptions About Path of Exile Gameplay

Reddit's claims about Path of Exile's gameplay are misleading, as Scarabs are not only priced for tier 17s, T16s are still profitable, and loot is not entirely dead.

The player shares their experience of farming Essences in yellow maps from the league's start, using a simple method to make currency and upgrade gear.

The video addresses the escalating false statements on Reddit, highlighting the valid complaints about the game's mechanics.

Complaints About Game Mechanics and Loot Rewards in Trade League

Players are expressing dissatisfaction with the lack of built-in loot rewards in certain game mechanics, particularly with the low rewards from scarab shipments.

There are complaints about the imbalance in the value of scarabs, with the community feeling that they are only worth using in high-tier maps.

Posts and comments about the inability to sell tier 16 blight maps are causing frustration and creating a negative atmosphere in the community.

The Profitability of Scarabs in Path of Exile

Scarabs can be profitable in T16 maps, not just exclusive to T7s, despite common misconceptions on Reddit.

Many different types of scarabs, including Essence, Breach, and Harbinger, are proven to be profitable, with Ambush being the only one now priced for T17.

The prevailing notion that scarabs are only worth it in T17 maps is inaccurate, and the focus should shift to the specific situation of Ambush scarabs being exclusively priced for T17 farms.

Incentivizing Better Gameplay in T16 Maps

T16 maps are currently lacking in loot, pushing players to lower-tier maps for better rewards.

The community is urged to take control of their in-game wealth by engaging in more profitable activities like boss rushing, using map devices with Kirak, and investing in scarabs, rather than blaming the game for poor loot.

Instead of focusing on self-pity, players are encouraged to have fun, solve their problems, and address specific in-game issues constructively.

The Impact of the Auction House on SSF Players in Path of Exile

The introduction of the auction house has transformed the gaming experience for a Path of Exile player since they can now easily sell various items in-game.

This has made it possible for the player to improve their gear independently and feel excited about crafting.

The auction house has eliminated the need for external assistance in generating currency and has changed the player's perspective on achieving better gear.

The Impact of Auction Houses on Gameplay in the Reddit Community

The speaker appreciates the auction house for helping them improve as a player and wishes the Reddit community would focus more on helping players improve and succeed.

They criticize the current negative focus on the game and urge for a more positive and supportive community attitude.

The speaker emphasizes the benefits of using different in-game mechanics, such as red Alters and scarabs, to have fun and make currency, expressing frustration with the current pessimistic mindset.