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 an encounter found in both the campaign and endgame. 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.

Mechanics

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

Certain mechanics may allow a strongbox to be openable again. To do so, the player must hold the left click button down on the strongbox.

The loot from strongboxes is not affected by rarity modifiers from your gear, though they are affected by strongbox-specific modifiers. Strongboxes innately gain 50% more item quantity and rarity in Cruel difficulty, and 100% more in endgame.

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
Cartographer's Strongbox	Precursor tablet, Maps
Large Strongbox	a mix of items with a higher quantity than a normal strongbox
Ornate Strongbox
Researcher's Strongbox	Currency items
Jeweller's Strongbox	Rings, Amulets, Jewels

Affixes

Name	Type	Effect
Arctic	Prefix	Freezes you when activated
Chaotic	Prefix	Casts Chaos Barrages
Crowded	Prefix	Guarded by 4-8 Packs of Monsters
Frosted	Prefix	Casts Ice Spikes
Intimidating	Prefix	Guarded by 3 packs of Rare Monsters
Menacing	Prefix	Guarded by a pack/2 packs of Rare Monsters
Scorched	Prefix	Summons Volatile Crags
Vibrating	Prefix	Casts Lightning Storms
of Ascendance	Suffix	+1 Chest level
of Bounty	Suffix	25-80% Increased Quantity of Contained Items
of the Barya	Suffix	Contains 1 additional Barya
of Treasures	Suffix	105-200% more Rarity of Contained Items
of Runic Power	Suffix	Contains 2 additional Runes
of Singularity	Suffix	Contains 1 unique item
of Wisdom	Suffix	Contains Identified Items

Unique strongboxes

Name	Modifiers	Flavour text	Image	Notes
Ixchel's Torment Blacksmith's Strongbox	Guarded by 31 packs of Monsters Guarded by abberations of Chaos Contains an additional Unique Item, Corrupted with <random corruption outcome> Corrupted	His Trials will end when Time does... and then, they wil begin again.		Contains monsters from Trial of Chaos. The random mod can be one of the following corruption outcomes: ...with an Enchantment ...with unpredictable mod ranges ...with an additional Socket
Ogham's Legacy Large Strongbox	Revives the fallen monster (3-6) times Fallen monster gains an additional modifier each time it revives Contains no other Items	The cycle of vengeance never ends... even in death.		The monster corpse found on the strongbox will revive multiple times. Proccing chance for strongbox to be reopenable allows the monster to gain even more modifiers. Rare monster with 14 mods from reproccing Ogham's Legacy
The Rain Festival Beetle Jeweller's Strongbox	Drops (3-5) additional Jewels (100-150)% 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.		Clicking the strongbox will turn it into a monster called The Rain Festival Beetle that runs away from the player. Defeating it will drop items that would be contained in the strongbox, including 3-5 basic jewels.
Ventor's Contraption Researcher's Strongbox	Can be reopened 4 times Gold cost increased by 950% to 1050% each time opened Costs 200 Gold to open Drops items from Ventor's Trove	Prospero smiles upon you, fair traveller. Step close, take a chance, and try fortune's fare!		Clicking the strongbox spends your current Gold to roll a random currency reward which can range from Scroll of Wisdom to stacks of currency to high level uncut gems and Perfect Jeweller's Orbs, or certain unique items with #% increased Rarity of Items found. The rewards appear to be fully random and do not improve with each roll.

Version history

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Version	Changes
0.2.0h	Added quick-use Currency buttons to Strongboxes and monsters imprisoned in Essences. These buttons will only be visible if you have the currency items in your inventory.
0.2.0g	Strongboxes have increased Item Quantity and Item Rarity, guarantee a Rare item as well as getting a further +50% more Item Quantity and Item Rarity in Cruel, and +100% more in Endgame. Researcher's Strongboxes will now have a much higher chance to drop Rare currency instead of Magic currency. Reduced the variance in the number of items Strongboxes dropped. They should more consistently drop a good number of items. Fixed a bug where Strongboxes with the "of Singularity" modifier would sometimes fail to drop an Unique item.
0.2.0e	Strongboxes now pause Delirium fog when they are opened, in addition to the pause they already had on completion.
0.2.0d	The Rain Festival Beetle now has Drops 3-5 additional Jewels (from 5-7) and 100-150% more Rarity of Contained Items (from 50-100%).[Undocumented]
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. (Hotfix 4) Monsters spawned from Strongboxes can no longer be Spectred.
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.