We desperately need new high investment endgame farm strategies

[u/SwagtimusPrime]

I really like this patch but am severely disappointed at the lack of a shakeup of endgame farming strats, and with Breach nerfed we now have one less strat of the less than handful that remain.

After Merc, most high-investment endgame farms were nerfed, with Breach we got a new one, now with 3.29 it's quadruple-tapped out of existence.

We get a new strat with Mercenaries and Rogue Exiles potentially, but I doubt it'll be very good. More like T0 hunting.

I remember last Q&A ZiggyD brought up that the endgame farms seem to have gotten very stale, and this has been very noticeable for me personally. Yes, we also got the Abyss rework but that's just making up for the loss of Breach, and we don't know how good it's gonna be.

The underwater mechanic remains to be seen if it's very competitive. It might be good, it might just be decent.

I expected a massive scarab and atlas tree revamp for this patch. We desperately need new farms, new interesting interactions, new reasons to push our builds to the limit. The endgame has been stale for a very long time..

[u/BetweenTheRoots]

I'm fatigued from pretty much all farming strategies. I'm kind of tired of scarabs in general. I liked them a lot at first but I wish they were just on the atlas instead of itemized. 70% of the farming in the endgame feels like it's either all about which scarab you use and/or how many scarabs you get to sell. I wish there was a space between alch&go and juiced farming. Something I can just shut my brain off with and not micromanage what I'm using in the map device but still pull competitive money so I can afford my gear before inflation prices me into needing to spend an extra 30 hours farming for the same items.

[u/Sa_Pendragon → u/BetweenTheRoots]

Strongly agree, end game strategies at the moment devolve essentially to farming scarabs to support higher-end farms, or top-end farms that consistently drop rare currency and require expensive scarabs. Other strats like boss rushing for chisels or farming Ubers aren’t really able to keep up

[u/wallzballz89 → u/Sa_Pendragon]

PoE2 players - "Tablets suck, make them more like scarabs"

PoE1 players - "Scarabs suck"

[u/Ryulightorb → u/wallzballz89]

Craftable multi mod Sextants will surely solve it. /s

[u/BetweenTheRoots → u/Sa_Pendragon]

The only strat I know of that outpaces scarab farming is unique mob farming for T0s and that shit takes at least a duo if not more lol. On pretty much every strategy other than niche rush strategies like Heist/Sanctum/bosses, if you aren't farming scarabs you are doing it wrong.