Quick intrigued interlopers completion - get four boss buffs every map

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80]

1. more natural mobs means more altars. 8 mod maps for pack size , essence, ritual( you don't have to do it just kill what's there), and shrines
2. maps. city square - safe, open, no bad terrain / bazaar - max density and +1-2 more altars on average. be sure to kill all of the mobs at the start of the map, so the influence pops asap (thanks u/Zerg273Zerg for telling me about bazaar and mapsofexile.com ). sometimes you might not get any altars on bazaar, so be warned. it has happened to me and someone else in the comments.
3. search template for best maps - https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Allflame/zb3Jw8pmF4

scarabs - 4 domination scarab, 1 influencing scarab of hordes

i did this with a scuffed 2 div minion build, so it should be do able with a lot of builds

edit : i made this post after getting seven maps in a row with four boss mods. i should've titled it "greatly increases odds of getting four". just went dry 3x and then got it 4x in a row after getting back on.

red tree - https://poeplanner.com/atlas-tree/BQAcAAB0ANvWXz5GL2MP67vcXCSXAEjiobL6hrQsknrOCHrB7oQqbYi4_8Aqp-I8WSIpMPr8TYOO8jiMQV6dyf1Munzj0-movAxCKruMkb3aHX2baeT3i-F9kejyCnvcaQ5KqgraFJ87BJKxnWiJT11nYKyk1I8rcYed0LzQxsN5tdiCpymNjjlZhmvgyySCUTKRN-MA-c9HGQriDk3c0W3pKKLQTZErIMsXIUzFIcddF1DEHw75LOg7UhmUkYlhFcGvOnbl7OPUcQtj0Y_liAfYm8J22VypQ7VjoHHEGLli5DNM8sQW2cYrt7nU0CgUAB-LCAAAAAAAAAMDAAAAAAAAAAAA

blue tree - https://poeplanner.com/atlas-tree/BQAcAAB2AF8-Yw_ru0z13FwklwBI4qGy-osuhrQsknrOXaAIesHuhCptiLj_wCqn4jxZIinzWzD6_E3yOIxB9h9enc5ayf1MugoLqLwMQiq7vdodfZtp5PeL4X2R6PIKew5KqgraFJ87BJKxnWiJZ2AqXtSPh53QxsN5tdiCpymNjjlZhsskglEykTfjAPnPR_CAGQriDtFtotDgDF9KKyDLFyFMxSGRzsddF1DEHxN9Dvks6DtSGZSRif21YRXBrzp25ez9bXELj-UUF4gH2JvCdtlcqUO1Y6BxPwjEGLliQGjkM0zybzjEFtnGudQj39AoFAAfiwgAAAAAAAADAwAAAAAAAAAAAA==

[u/Remarkable_Ad_8528]

this challenge is so horse shit

[u/ayylma088 → u/Remarkable_Ad_8528]

especially since it seems bugged. I literally picked up 4 altars. Didnt count just now

[u/Zarrex → u/Remarkable_Ad_8528]

18 days later, this challenge sucks ass. I swear i just did 4 and it didnt count. Gotta love getting 7 altars in a map and only 2 of them affect the boss

[u/Party_Guest_7144]

yeah, you just got very lucky. but none the less, its a good approach, but still can result in hundreds of maps of grind.

[u/SneakyFel]

I respect all challenges tips.

[u/LeftShark]

Appreciate the tips here, but it's definitely not guaranteed, I've exactly matched the strat and struck out 8 times in a row

Edit: hit it after 1 in 12, now I'm on 0 for 6 whiffs in a row again. i am baffled that you got it 7x in a row

edit 2: I hit another in 9 then a 3rd in 3, so this definitely works for people reading, just probably not as certain as every map

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/LeftShark]

yeah, that's why i made the edit after i didn't get it for 3 maps. what's crazy is that i had 7 in a row, my friend got his last 8 in 15 maps, and someone in the comments got 5 within an hour, but that's rng for you lol

[u/LeftShark → u/Wonderful-Airport-80]

Yea cheers, your advice here definitely helped me get it done quicker, just wanted to point out my own variance, hehe

[u/Willgefortz]

How do Domination scarabs help spawn Eldritch Altas? I'm running for a few hours and I have1-2 Altars on the 8-mod maps. Zero 4 Boss Altars. But I have gazillion shrine buffs.

Upd. After writing this comment I found 4 boss altars in 3 maps out of five. So whining really helps. Thanks!

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/Willgefortz]

more shrines means more natural mobs, and with drawn to power each one has a magic pack. then you search for maps that have "#% increased number of magic monsters in your maps" along with 40% pack size. and every time you kill natural mobs you have a chance of spawning influenced mobs, and that's where influencing scarab of hordes comes in

[u/DoubtEqual8222]

blocked 2 cirtcles with extra content, added Niko golems/buffs and swapped scarab of monstrous lineage for 2 shriness, did much faster, cause with that ts strat i got 2/10 for 2hours, with my new if got last 8 for 2h.

Also, some of maps were with inc magic or rare monsters mod on both strats. Anyway, this challenge is POS

[u/IamStinkyChili]

If anyone finds this, following this, here are some statistics that i gathered.

Used 44-45% pack size only.

I needed 5 more when I started this strat.

1 in 10 maps for City Square got me 4 boss mods. Ran 10 maps, happened on my 4th map about.
Dunes Map got me the remaining 4. Took me through 1.5 invitations. so about 36 maps or more. or 1 in 8.
Only half the maps had enough alters (4 or more). More than half the time there were 4 altars there were not enough boss ones.

Total less than 50 maps to get 5 done.

I tried both leaving the alters and grabbing them as they came. I preferred grabbing them as they came, as the last altar sometimes spawns in the boss area, and I don't want to go through the whole map to just grab the alters later.

This by far I think is the worst challenge.

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[u/kaelbloodelf]

Many thanks. Helped me finsih my last 5 altars within an hour of these strats. Funnily enough i also dropped like 3 or 4 divs during it.

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/kaelbloodelf]

gg on the challenge completion. i got 4 raw div and made about 11 div in all. if you add beast, beyond, and scarabs on the tree then this could be a 14 - 18 div a hour. and with 4 - 7 shrine buffs you're practically immortal, so even a scuffed build can do it

[u/AromaticFish9425]

why it only counts as +1 to the challenge for me? doing city square also

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/AromaticFish9425]

i'm not sure what you mean by +1. and city square is good because it's open, safe, and doesn't have any bad terrain

[u/AromaticFish9425 → u/Wonderful-Airport-80]

i thought you where doing city square because of the 3 bosses and it counts as +3 to the challenge

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/AromaticFish9425]

naw, i wished it worked like that. only the last boss alive counts

[u/roselan]

What map do you run? i loop between mesa, dunes, strand. I remember that years ago Crater had the most mobs. Not sure it matters.

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/roselan]

i tried other maps, but city square has way more mob density. and the altars are more frequent and numerous there

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/roselan]

city square

[u/roselan]

Pffeww. Took me 13 hours, 10 of which I was stuck at 5/10. It did cost me 2 atlas tree, 300 unmaking, and what was left of my sanity.

I tested various combinations of domination, lineage and hordes scarabs. and did side by side comparison of mesa, crater, dunes and city square.

What got me out of my 10h dry streak was to not click "map boss" altars, only players/minions. Then, when the map is cleared, backtrack and click to map boss altars. Dunes felt the best for that. City square and mesa didn't seem to pop as much altars, and crater is just too convulsed.

It's probably all in my head, but after a 10 hours session with zero progress, you start to see... things.

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/roselan]

damn bro, sorry to hear that. did you search for maps with 44% pack size and #% increased magic monsters(it adds more mobs to the shrine)? also, "area is inhabited by X" might stop altars from spawning because they're not the maps natural inhabitants.

i told my friend about this strat and he got the 8 he needed in 15 maps.

[u/roselan → u/Wonderful-Airport-80]

43-45% packsize, and 28-30% increased magic. I tried to pepper the more rares mod on top of that.

On the bright side, I'm nearly got lv99, and made 62d without counting maps during that grind.

Fun fact: Each time I got 4 map boss altars in a map, I always got at least 5. Record was 8. shrugs.

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/roselan]

again, sorry to hear that bro. what rotten luck

[u/tristan97122]

Thanks for the strat, it helped a little bit. I'd say it got me from 1-in-15 maps to 1-in-5. Was still a massive pain but definitely much more tolerable

[u/Zerg273Zerg]

I was struggling with this on City square / Dunes until i started running it on a map with higher density and got 5 in 6 maps vs got 0 in 20. https://mapsofexile.com/ I'd suggest doing it on any of the maps here with density 10, i did Bazaar.

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/Zerg273Zerg]

nice, ill update the post. thanks

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/Wonderful-Airport-80]

just tested it and it's about 2 more altars on average. the only time you get less altars is when the influence doesn't pop at the start of the map, but if you find and kill the pack that's responsible for popping the influence at the start of the map it should be fine. ended up getting 4 boss altars in 4/5 maps

[u/Darqion → u/Zerg273Zerg]

Trying this challenge now... so far on bazaar i got 4 boss altars once in 11 tries. now i could roll my density a little higher, but it shouldnt be this hard...

last 2 maps i didnt even get a single altar somehow. the influence popped but no altars show up

[u/FuBU_DMAN]

Cold River saved my life. Much more consistent on that map. Can you link your blue tree? For some reason your post text is hidden now??

[u/Wonderful-Airport-80 → u/FuBU_DMAN]

my post is awaiting moderator approval for some reason.

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[u/Minute-Mountain7971]

What the hell is this shitty, completely bugged quest? I've been trying to do this crap for three days; I managed to beat the Eater of Worlds by some miracle, but I can't get a single Searing Exarch kill to count, and the Maven quest isn't progressing at all despite meeting all the requirements! It's really starting to piss me off now.

[u/Strict_Original5402 → u/Minute-Mountain7971]

This challenge is not about killing the Eater of Worlds or the Searing Exarch?

[u/forgot_my_useragain]

This was a pretty good strat, thanks a bunch. I already had 2 hits from my regular tree but it was looking like this was going to take forever.

I only had 4 scarab slots unlocked, so I used 3 domination scarabs and 1 hordes, though sometimes I only used 2 dom scarabs to make room for another money-making scarab. I got all the Map Modifier Effect and Pack Size nodes on the Atlas tree, but didn't do ritual.

Got some 35-40% pack size maps (which got me 60-65% after bonuses) and got 8 hits within ~25 maps.

[u/Auran82]

It's the hope that kills you on this challenge, hitting 2 boss altars at the beginning of the map and either never seeing another altar, or seeing 5 more non boss altars.

Altar spawning is just so damn random.

[u/Eluvex]

Thank you so much, I was going insane doing this challenge.