Strategy
This guide covers the Azmeri spirit strongbox farm in detail. The key piece is the sacred spirit, the orange Hare or Fox. It’s the only spirit that can create new spirit types. Two atlas notables make the farm scale: Quickened Flow gives possessed monsters a 25% chance to release a spirit when they die, and Sacred Sap Commingled makes anything a sacred spirit possesses also get a random extra spirit. You lead a sacred spirit into a strongbox and open it with a key. Each time you open the box, the spirit multiplies, so one mob can end up carrying a huge stack of spirits and loot.
Atlas Tree & Setup
- Tablets: Use the mods “area with powerful map bosses contains additional strongboxes or Azmeri spirits” (up to 2) and “map contains an additional strongbox or Azmeri spirit” (up to 1). The creator calls the combinations 2-0, 2-1 and 2-2 tablets. Pair them with increased number of rare monsters, which works better than monster rarity. A good minimum is two 2-0 strongbox tablets and two 2-0 spirit tablets, all with rare-monster mods.
- Maps: city maps, especially Ezomite City. Its grass biome gives a 50% higher chance of finding a sacred spirit.
- Atlas: Overseer tablets together with Overlord’s Influence and Hilda’s Claimed Territories double the extra content. Take the notables that give strongboxes more mods. Avoid Worthy Hunter. It turns sacred spirits into the Fox, which eats other spirits and stops them from multiplying.
- Ancient modifiers: With Spirit Migration, run 2-1 strongbox tablets, and use Vision of Paradise to get two guaranteed sacred-spirit maps. With A Monster’s Treasure, run 2-1 spirit tablets.
- Juicing: Sacred Bloom is the easy option. Delirium gives more loot but is harder to set up. The two don’t stack.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: high. 2-2 tablets are especially expensive, so start with 2-0 or 2-1 tablets.
- Returns: high, but only when you find a sacred spirit. Maps without one give ordinary strongbox loot.
- Scaling: more strongboxes plus rare-monster mods lead to more spirit duplication
Step-by-step
- Clear the whole map and scout for a sacred spirit, but don’t activate it. Walking into its range activates it.
- If you activate it by accident, turn on Omen of the Hunt, clear the area around it, then turn the omen off
- Kill the boss and every rare monster in the map; check the minimap and the rare counter
- Lead the sacred spirit into a strongbox
- Roll the boxes with chaos orbs: remove magic-pack mods, and aim for +2 rare packs or +6 to +8 monster packs
- Turn on Omen of the Hunt and open the sacred box with a key, which lets you open it one extra time
- Clear everything that comes out, open the same box again, and repeat until you run out of boxes
Risks
- Heavy RNG: a map can have 12 spirits and still no sacred one
- Atlas passives can’t currently be refunded, so a Worthy Hunter tree is effectively stuck
- The first box opening is the riskiest step; skipping the key or leaving a magic-pack mod can ruin the chain
- Large spirit stacks can cause severe server lag
Credits & Source
Method credited to Phalanx. See the source video: COMPREHENSIVE AZMERIAN SPIRIT STRONGBOX GUIDE.