Strongbox

Strongboxes

Tooltip

Strongboxes are locked chests that contain various items.

Attempting to unlock a Strongbox will unleash packs of monsters that must be defeated in order to get the items within.

Strongboxes can be modified to increase the difficulty and reward of the monsters and rewards within respectively.

Strongboxes are a map mechanic. The exile may encounter chests with varying rarity, including unique. These chests may be crafted upon with currency items. When the chest is opened, a dark mist will surround the character, and monsters will approach. After they are slain, the chest will open and drop its rewards.

This mechanic is extremely similar to a Path of Exile 1 mechanic of the same name.

Corrupting a strongbox with a Vaal Orb results in all items being Corrupted.

Types of Strongboxes

Type	Items contained
Strongbox	a mix of items
Arcane Strongbox	Foci, Sceptres, Staves, Wands
Armourer's Strongbox	Armour (equipment)
Blacksmith's Strongbox	Martial weapons
Large Strongbox	a mix of items with higher quantity than a normal Strongbox
Ornate Strongbox
Researcher's Strongbox	Currency items
Jeweller's Strongbox	Rings and Amulets

Affixes

Name	Type	Effect
Chaotic	Prefix	Casts Chaos Barrages
Menacing	Prefix	Guarded by a pack/2 packs of Rare Monsters
Scorched	Prefix	Summons Volatile Crags
of Treasures	Suffix	105-200% more Rarity of Contained Items
		Casts Lightning Storms
Arctic	Prefix	Freezes you when activated
Crowded	Prefix	Guarded by 4-8 Packs of Monsters
of Wisdom	Suffix	Contains Identified Items
of Bounty	Suffx	30-80% Incresed Quantity of Contained Items

Unique strongboxes

Name	Strongbox type	Modifiers	Flavour text
Ogham's Legacy	Large Strongbox	Revives the fallen monster 5 times Fallen monster gains an additional modifier each time it revives Contains no other Items	The cycle of vengeance never ends... even in death.
Ixchel's Torment	Blacksmith's Strongbox	Guarded by abberations of Chaos Contains an additional Unique Item, Corrupted with an Enchantment	His Trials will end when Time does... and then, they wil begin again.
The Rain Festival	Jeweller's Strongbox	Drops (7) additional Jewels (86)% more Rarity of Contained Items	During the first rain of each year, rich and poor alike chased the Beetle through the flooding streets of Keth, and its bounty was shared equally by all.

Version history

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Version	Changes
0.2.0	Introduced 4 Unique Strongboxes - special chests with unique encounters. Strongboxes now spawn slightly more packs of Monsters in Maps. Strongboxes can now appear in certain Act 1 areas.
0.1.1c	Added Minimap Icons for Strongboxes.
0.1.1	A number of Maps now have 50% more chance to contain Strongboxes. Maps that are only exclusively found in Biomes containing Citadels now have 50% more chance to contain Essences, Strongboxes and Shrines. Strongboxes have been adjusted to spawn waves of enemies over a much shorter period of time. The Strongbox fog effect now fades away once all the waves of enemies have been spawned. Significantly increased the chance to encounter Research Strongboxes. Added a visual effect to distinguish which Monsters have been spawned by a Strongbox. The Volcanic Crag, Lightning Storms, Ice Spikes and Chaos Barrage Strongbox modifiers have all been adjusted to activate after a delay. Fixed a bug where strongboxes could fail to generate any monsters.
0.1.0f	Fixed a bug where Rare monsters could pause Delirium mist for an extended period of time, even before touching the Mirror of Delirium. This could result in opening a mirror and having no monsters spawn, or the mist not expanding fully. In addition, Delirium mist is now paused for 10 seconds when opening a Strongbox (previously 5). Note that unrelated to Delirium Mist, further changes to Strongboxes will be made in an upcoming patch to make them less terrible.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.