Introduction
Since Launch, there have been many things added to New World that have changed the way we craft armor and weapons.
How to Find Golden Scarabs
To Find Golden Scarabs in New World, you will need to loot Elite Ancient Chests in the open world in the Brimstone Sands Zone. Some of these have a higher chance to drop Golden Scarabs then others: Glyph Chests, Grave Offering in the “Castrum Principium”, and Grave Offerings in the Brimstone/Sulfer pool Areas.
Glyph Chests
Glyph Chests are tied to the Brimstone sands Glyphs system and require you to Activate the appropriate glyph to loot them. Our Ancient Glyph Guide shows us more about the Glyph System in Brimstone.
Castrum Principium
You can also find Golden Scarab in Grave Offerings in the Elite POI – The Castrum Principium. There are several Chests that can be looted in the Castrum Principium but will most likely require a group.
Brimstone/Sulfer Pools
The Final place that these scarabs can be found is in the Grave Offerings in the Brimstone/Sulfer Pool areas. There are 4 of these areas. You can find these areas on our interactive map by searching for Brimstone ore. We have it selected for you here. You can also look for the areas that have the color and pattern of the zone below on your in-game map.
It’s important to note that you can only loot up to 10 Golden Scarabs a day. Golden Scarabs are not bound to you, so you can buy or sell them to other players on the Trading Post or Trade Chat.
How to use a Golden Scarab in New World
Once you obtain a Golden Scarab, you can use it to craft one of the following items:
- Armor
- Weapon
- Jewelry
- Bags
- Tools
Below well break down what you need to use them on each item.
Armor, Weapons, and Jewelry
you will also need the following items to use it to craft an item:
- Appropriate Material
- Asmodeum, Runic Leather, Phoenixweave, Glittering Ebony
- 25 Single Stat Craft Mods
- Strength – Iron Battle Medal
- Dexterity – Rough Leather Beaded Strap
- Intellect – Linen Arcane Embroidery
- Focus- Softwood Prayer Beads
- Constitution – Iron Guardsman Insignia
- 3 Timeless Shards for that Item
- For a Fire Staff you’ll need 3 Timeless Fire Staff Shards etc
- 2 Perk Specific Craft Mods
- Squirmy Vines, Starmetal Weaponsmithing Charm, ETC
- 150 Azoth
The item you craft with the Golden Scarab will be Bind on Equip. At this time, Golden Scarabs can not be used with Runestone Stopwatches so the max gear score you can craft with a Golden Scarab is 595-600.
Bags and Tools
Since the release of Season 1: Fellowship and Fire, you can now use Golden Scarabs on Bags and Tools. There are some slight differences in the way Golden Scarabs work on these items since there are no timeless shards for these items. Here are the following additional items that you will need for the Golden Scarab version of Bags and Tools.
- Bags – 3 Grand Rune of Holding, 2 Craft Mod Perks, Golden Scarab
- Tools – 250 Repair Parts, 2 Craft Mod Perks, Golden Scarab
Golden Scarab Strategies
When using Golden Scarabs, it’s important to choose the two perks you want on your piece of gear that have the largest perk pools. For the sake of this guide, we’ll use crafting a Chest Piece as an Example.
On this Chest Piece, we are looking for Insatiable Gravity Well, Shirking Fortification, and Resilient on our Chest Piece. Since we want to use the two perk craft mods with the largest perk pools, we should roll the Golden Scarab Chest piece with Shirking Fortification (Squirmy Vine) and Insatiable Gravity Well.
Here is a breakdown of the perk pools size of each perk we want on our chest piece:
- Shirking Fortification – Damage Absorption Perk Pool – 8 total perks
- Insatiable Gravity Well – Skill perk Pool – 78 total perks
- Resilient – Crit Defense Perk Pool – 1 total perk
Since resilient has its own perk pool, the Crit Defense perk pool, we have a greater chance to get the Chest Piece we want by eliminating the other two perk pools.
For a quick reference of the size of each perk pool and what perks are in them, check out our perk and perk label guide.
New World Golden Scarab Guide Conclusion
That does it for our New World Golden Scarab Guide! For a complete map of the Brimstone Sands zone and the locations of all the Elite chests, check out our map!
