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Path of Exile’sNecropolis season introduced one of their best quality-of-life updates in a long time. They also brought in another tier of endgame content while adding the season’s league mechanic to top it all off. The community has a lot of content to uncover, but the biggest challenge is always getting the seasonal league mechanics right.
The Necropolis season shows a game-changing method to craft gear and farm items. But, is it good enough to out perform the core mechanics of Path of Exile? Would crafting gear from Necropolis be any better compared to Delve, Harvest, and Essences? Is it more profitable to farm items by specializing in Necropolis atlas passive nodes compared to Delirium or Legion? Let’s find out.
Updated June 26, 2025 by Enzo Zalamea:We’ve updated this article to bring in all the changes and updates from the latest patch and hotfixes revolving around the Necropolis league mechanic, such as getting coffins for free, Allflame mechanics, and more.
What Is The Necropolis League Mechanic?
There are three ways to look into Path of Exile’s Necropolis season.
Lantern of Arimor
Every time you enter a map,you’ll see a pop-up window that shows random monster packs with random monster modifiers(Lantern of Arimor). The modifiers on these monster packs add either difficulty or loot to your runs.
However,the monster packs become significantly more dangerous through added monster modifiers. If the wrong modifiers hit the strongest pack of monsters, and you aren’t aware enough to rearrange them, you’ll encounter big problems when you start clearing the map.
It is so dangerous that even hardcore players will always look at the modifiers before thinking if they should either rearrange the modifiers to specific packs or skip the map or instance in its entirety.
Overall,The Lantern of Arimor gives players a pseudo-buff to their drop rates when eliminating mobs.Applying various Allflame Embers can turn those bad modifiers into manageable ones while having the possibility of increasing loot drops too.
You are always looking formodifiers that increase your quantity or rarity of itemsfor a specific monster pack.
Undertaker Arimor’s Necropolis
When you start finishing content like maps or the campaign, you’ll come across random corpses you may collect.These corpses have some crafting modifiers, which is a bit confusing because thousands of crafting combinations are available in the game.
Thesecorpses are ingredients for crafting high-quality gearin Undertaker Arimor’s Necropolis. Once you have collected enough corpses, you can talk to Undertaker Arimor, and he’ll take you to the Necropolis.
While in the Necropolis, you’ll see several graves around. If you interact with them, you’ll have the option to put some of the corpses you have collected.Choose the right combination of corpses and then click Craft.The Tome of Arimor will show up, and you’ll have the choice of what base item to use in your crafting method.
Once you have chosen one,it’ll exorcise all the corpses from the graves and craft an item with slightly skewed statsbased on the crafting modifiers used from the corpses.
The Nameless Seer
The Nameless Seer is only here because of how, sometimes, it could give you that huge dopamine hit everyone is looking for in Path of Exile. He isan NPC that randomly shows up in your maps to offer you one free item from a selection of uniques.
It is a bit reminiscent of how the rituals could sometimes show a list of unique items to purchase with favors. However,the Nameless Seer has a slight bias towards offering rarer items. You can get one of the strongest and most expensive uniques from him, such as a Mageblood or a Headhunter.
The only problem isits abysmal spawn rate, but there are ways to increase this:
How To Use Allflame Embers
Using Allflame Emberss to buff your maps willgive players a lot of currency. However, if you don’t know how to use them, it could either hurt your chances of finishing the map or even end up wasting a huge chance of a loot explosion.
The key to using Allflame Embers is tolook for combinations and synergies among the monster pack size, Allflame Ember buff, and the monster modifier. Let’s look at the monster modifiers first. Monster modifiers add a certain mechanic to the aligned monster pack. These are either highlighted in yellow or blue.
Yellow modifiers mean that the modifier is a positive boost or outcome, which is usually in the form of giving you a buff for raw currency every time you clear the monster pack.Blue modifiers make the monsters stronger, similar to the modifiers you see on your map when you roll them.
By looking at these yellow modifiers, you can now look at the monster pack size. You’ll see a variation in the number of monsters that spawn per pack. Usually,you want the yellow modifiers on the highest number of monstersbecause you want that positive modifier to buff more monsters.
There are only some occasions when buffing the maximum number of monsters with the yellow modifier isn’t mandatory, such as having a yellow modifier that only buffs the strongest monster in the pack to increase their quantity of items drops by 1,200 percent. Since it only buffs a singular monster, the pack size doesn’t matter.
Now, that you know how these buffs work, you’re able to try to manipulate the loot even more by using Allflame Embers. To use an Allflame Ember, you need todrag the item to the monster pack you want to replacein the Lantern of Arimor.
The Allflame Ember does not replace the modifiers and it only replaces the monster type. The buff from the Allflame Ember goes hand in hand with the modifier, giving youa chance to improve the loot of certain mobs.
Here are some of the best Allflame Ember combinations you need to look out for:
While these specific Allflame Embers are quite hard to find, you can eitherbuff your atlas passives to get more Allflame Embers in maps or buy them in the market in bulk.
Necropolis Grave Crafting Guide
Here’s a simple rule you need to know when crafting gear –a gear can only have three prefixes and three suffix mods (uncorrupted).This is the baseline for all gear crafting and Necropolis aims to manipulate the “randomness” of rolling stats into a gear.
However,it isn’t as deterministic as you might think.There are more than 180 corpse modifiersthat can show up. Some have simple modifiers such as +1 explicit modifier or +5% quality, up to 30 percent. You canuse as many corpse modifiers for as many graves as there are availableto make the outcome more deterministic and less risky.
Theplacement of the corpses also matters, since some modifiers have the phrase “adjacent corpses,” which means that it’ll buff the other adjacent corpses next to it.
Now, it is up to what you want to craft for your build. You canuse multiple corpses to have a chance at better crafts, but you have the problem of risking more corpses as an investment. The best way to capitalize on the league crafting mechanics is right after finishing the campaign.
Everyone’s goal is to get that six-linked body armor or even a weapon. If you are lucky enough toget some corpses that can reroll links, you don’t have to farm Tabula Rasas, Humility cards, or Orb of Fusings to get your first six-linked piece.
For crafting endgame gear,Necropolis crafting highly depends on the economy.There needs to be a lot of corpses being sold on the market for a reasonable price. Otherwise, you are drawing dead until you get the corpse you need by yourself.
If you do decide on crafting your gear through Necropolis,you must take the notable atlas passivessuch as Prospero’s Wager, Condensed Souls, Decisive Souls, and Royal Souls.
Remember, you may always remove the corpses from the grave if you make a mistake. However, corpses get deleted when you remove them, but it is up to you to decide if it is worth it.
Selling Corpses
Every time you loot a corpse, it immediately gets transferred to your Necropolis Morgue. You can access this by talking to Undertaker Arimor from the hideout or in the Necropolis. Once you have a specific corpse you want to sell, you can click the “Itemize Corpse” button as seen in the image above.
The modifier or corpse turns into a two-slot coffin in your inventory. Now, you can sell this coffin through your premium stash tabs whenever you want. It is agreat way to earn some easy currencysince corpses drop like flies when you are playing hundreds or even thousands of maps.
Now, themarket is heavily dictated by demand, so it is hard to foresee what will be expensive. But, to give a rough idea of how to make money from selling corpses, here’s what you should look out for.
For example, players who use the Archmage support gem will want some mana-stacking gear. You canstart looking for a +100 to Mana Modifier Tier Rating or 500 percent increased chance of Mana Modifiers corpsesand check the price.
If they are low, you canuse the corpses to craft some gear with Maximum Mana and Chance to Suppress Spell Damageand sell them on the market.
This whole process is nothing new to Path of Exile veterans becausethat’s how most traders make their currency in the game. They use other crafting mechanics like Delve, Essence, and Harvest to create gear for popular builds and make a quick buck.
Crafting is one of the most complex aspects of Path of Exile. If you want to make currency from crafting, Necropolis is the best way to start because everyone starts from scratch.
