Path of Exile 1 3.27 Legacy of Phrecia League brings new chances to earn divines and other valuable currencies. Here are recommended top 5 PoE Phrecia currency farming strategies with the best idols and scarabs, but remember: patch notes may change some details. 

Best PoE 3.27 Legacy of Phrecia Gold & Currency Farming Strategies

In Path of Exile 1 3.27 Legacy of Phrecia, idols and scarabs are key—they boost map rewards, add monsters, and unlock special mechanics. You don’t need expensive maps: many strategies work with white (unmodified) maps to save time and resources. Also, focus on mechanics that scale with pack size, monster quantity, or unique item drops—these are the fastest ways to print currency. Always check the in-game wiki or community tools to stay updated on item values.

1. Harbinger Farming (Difficulty: Easy, Cost: Cheap)

Farm harbingers in any T16 map, with Strand being the ideal pick for its long, linear layout that’s easy to clear. Equip 4x Harbinger Scarabs, each adding 3 additional harbingers, plus 1x Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards that duplicates all currency shards dropped by harbingers. Enable the “Harbinger” map modifier on the Atlas Device to add 2 more harbingers per map. Use a total of 10 idols (2 Totemic, 2 Unique, 2 Minor, 2 Conqueror, 1 Burial, 1 Noble) with stacked game-changing mods: 100% chance for an extra harbinger (x2), 60% increased cooldown recovery rate for harbingers to speed up monster spawns (x2), three separate mods for an additional harbinger each, three mods of 75% chance for powerful harbinger bosses (totaling a 100% boss spawn chance), 80% chance for another extra harbinger, 60% chance for harbingers to drop an additional stack of currency shards, and a key mod that lets currency shards drop as full currency items directly—like fracturing shards turning into fracturing orbs. The setup also includes three mods for 6 additional shrines each, boosting your map clear speed significantly.

Harbingers completely ignore player quantity and rarity stats, so you can skip expensive map rolling and focus solely on clearing fast. This setup nets around 2 Divines per map on average, and you’ll be swarmed by harbingers that a fast build can clear in no time. Harbinger bosses are slightly tougher but drop massive amounts of currency, and the stacked mods ensure consistent drops of Chaos orbs, Fracturing orbs and other high-value currency. It’s a low-effort strategy that delivers insane XP and steady profits throughout the entire league with almost no upfront cost.

2. Alva Temple Hunting (Difficulty: Easy, Cost: Cheap)

Hunt for high-value temple rooms—Locus of Corruption for double corrupt gear and Doriani’s Institute for double corrupt gems—in any T16 map, with Jungle Valley and Strand as top picks for their fast clear speed. Use just 1x Incursion Scarab of Timelines: slaying the final architect in a map will make it drop an itemized temple, with room tiers randomized but your setup heavily boosting the chance of high-tier corrupt rooms. The idol setup uses 4 total idols (1 Minor, 1 Conqueror, 1 Kamasan, 1 Burial) that guarantee Alva spawns with +100% chance to contain Alva (x4) and +180% chance to contain Alva (x4) mods. It also includes a 100% chance for all incursion monsters to be at least magic (x4), which gives you significantly more time to complete each incursion, a 100% chance to add an extra upgrade tier to surviving rooms when killing non-resident architects (x2), a mod that adds the full upgrade tier of resident architects to surviving rooms, and a mod that forces every map with incursions to have exactly 4 incursions. You can select The Eater of Worlds for map influence as an optional add-on for extra modifiers.

Alva farming is an extremely reliable strategy because double corrupt gear and gems are always in high demand, especially in short leagues like Legacy of Phrecia. Plain white maps work perfectly with no need to roll any mods, and the idol setup makes tier 2+ corrupt rooms far more common—each of these high-tier rooms sells for 2+ Divines on the trade market. The process is simple: jump into the map, rush through all 4 incursions, kill every architect (every single kill upgrades your temple rooms), and collect the itemized temple drop. You’ll also earn solid XP alongside your currency gains.

3. Bestiary Farming (Difficulty: Medium, Cost: Cheap)

Focus on capturing high-value Red Beasts like Black Mórrigan in Strand maps for its fast beast spawns and clear speed—using plain white maps with no rolling required. The scarab setup uses 5 total scarabs: 2x Bestiary Scarab of the Herd, each adding 5 additional red beasts to the map if Einhar is present, 1x Bestiary Scarab of Duplicating that creates a copy of every beast you capture, and 2x Domination Scarabs to fill the remaining slots, each adding 2 extra shrines to boost your map clear speed. Stick with default map modifiers on the Atlas Device, with the basic 1 to 8% increased quantity of items found being more than enough. Use 4 total idols (1 Conqueror, 1 Burial, 1 Minor, 1 Totemic) stacked entirely for beast spawn quantity and quality: +100% chance to contain Einhar (x4), 40% chance to copy captured beasts (x4), a massive 240% increased chance for red beasts to be from The Wilds—the habitat of rare beasts like Black Mórrigan (x4), 16 additional yellow beasts per map (x4), 96% chance for red beasts to spawn in pairs (x4), increased chance for beasts to be less common, more valuable varieties (x4), and a 72% chance for yellow beasts in the map to be replaced with red beasts (x4).

Use the tool to filter out low-value beasts efficiently: paste a pre-made regular expression into your Menagerie to only show expensive red beasts, then use control-click to release all useless yellow and low-tier red beasts to save inventory space. This strategy is insanely profitable early in the league thanks to the high demand for rare red beasts—simply blast through the Strand map, capture all red beasts (they spawn in pairs nearly 100% of the time thanks to the idol mods), and sell them for Chaos or Divines on the trade site. The only risk to this strategy is potential nerfs to beast crafting via the Keeper’s crafting tree, but when it works, it’s a low-cost, high-reward method with straightforward execution that’s perfect for building up an early currency stack.

4. Ritual Farming (Difficulty: Medium, Cost: Medium)

Run City Square maps—explicitly chosen for their 3 unique bosses per map—with a setup focused entirely on free reward rerolls and massive tribute gains from unique monsters. Equip 5 scarabs for this build: 2x Ritual Scarab of Selectiveness, which lets you reroll favour with no cost for the first 2 times and adds 1 extra reroll per ritual altar, 1x Ritual Scarab of Wisps that spawns a Wildwood Wisp near ritual altars, granting 70% increased tribute to all nearby players, and 2x Ritual Scarab of Abundance that gives 100% increased favours per ritual. Enable the “Anarchy” map modifier on the Atlas Device to add 3 extra Rogue Exiles (unique monsters) to each map, and select The Eater of Worlds for map influence. The idol setup uses 5 total idols (2 Conqueror, 1 Kamasan, 1 Noble, 1 Minor) with game-changing ritual mods: 120% reduced tribute cost for rerolling favours (x10), which makes rerolls effectively free, 600% more tribute from unique monsters slain at ritual altars (x10), 75% plus 150% (x2) increased chance for ritual altars with special high-value rewards, 25% plus 50% (x2) increased number of monsters spawned at once to speed up ritual clears, 76% (x2) plus 70% increased chance to contain ritual altars in the map, a mod that guarantees 4 ritual altars per map, 4 separate mods for an additional reroll at ritual altars, and a 60% (x3) chance to drop a blood-filled vessel (which captures unique monsters) after completing the final ritual altar in a map.

Ritual farming plays like a high-reward slot machine: use bottled uniques from blood-filled vessels to guarantee massive tribute gains, reroll rewards for free as many times as you want, and prioritize high-value drops like divines, rare divination cards, or even mirrors of kalandra. While Rogue Exile nerfs from previous leagues mean this strategy isn’t as broken as it once was, the stacked idol and scarab mods still make it consistently profitable. Focus on killing all unique monsters—including map bosses and Rogue Exiles—inside ritual altars to maximize your tribute gains. This is a great mid-league strategy with low map investment (white maps work perfectly) but a medium upfront cost for the scarabs.

5. Ultimatum Farming (Difficulty: Easy, Cost: Cheap)

Run plain white Dunes maps for their fast clear speed—with a scarab and idol setup tailored for doubled rewards. Equip 5 total scarabs: 1x base Ultimatum Scarab to guarantee an Ultimatum encounter in every map, 1x Ultimatum Scarab of Catalysing that makes Ultimatum encounters only offer catalysts as rewards, 1x Ultimatum Scarab of Inscription that converts all catalyst rewards from Ultimatums into inscribed ultimatums (for better drops), and 2x Ultimatum Scarab of Bribing that grants 150% increased XP from Ultimatum monsters and makes Ultimatum encounters grant rewards as though you completed 2 additional rounds. Use a total of 5 idols (1 Conqueror, 1 Totemic, 1 Noble, 1 Minor, 1 Unique) with stacked Ultimatum mods: 90% increased chance for Ultimatum rewards to be currency items (x3), 180% increased chance for Ultimatum encounters to only require the “Survive” challenge (x3—perfect for cast-and-stun builds), 240% increased chance for inscribed ultimatums to reward currency items (x4), 240% increased chance for inscribed ultimatums to reward divination cards (x4), 280% increased chance to contain an Ultimatum encounter (x4), 4 separate mods for Ultimatum encounters to grant rewards as though you completed an additional round, a 100% chance to duplicate all Ultimatum rewards (x4), and a mod that lets Ultimatum encounters last up to 13 rounds (with no boss in the final round and no choice of modifiers each round).

This strategy is incredibly easy if you play a cast-and-stun build—simply choose the “Survive” Ultimatum challenges every time, where you just stand still and survive waves of monsters, and blast through the maps with no extra effort. The stacked idol mods double all your Ultimatum rewards, and inscribed ultimatums prioritize high-value currency and divination card drops. Early in the league, you can swap the Catalysing and Inscription scarabs for cheap base Ultimatum Scarabs to lower your upfront costs significantly. You’ll earn massive XP thanks to the Bribing scarabs alongside doubled currency drops, making this the perfect strategy for players who want to level up their character and earn Divines at the same time.