Darkshrine Farming in the Labyrinth?

If what we saw on the Alpha streams is any indication, the Labyrinth will have Darkshrines in it. Probably at a fairly low spawn rate, maybe 1-2 per run, but they'll be there. And Darkshrines have some pretty cool effects.

For anyone who doesn't know Darkshrines are these things you sacrifice a Rare to. The shrine will randomly pick one of the rare item's affixes and something will happen based on that. These could be anything from a permanent Shrine effect (Diamond Shrine, Acceleration Shrine, Divine Shrine, etc.) to spawning Strongboxes (even Uniques), to Spawning a Tormented Spirit, a Warband, Map portals (again, even uniques), or Abaxoth. Yeah, not all the effects are good. But they are cool.

Oh, and there's even one for giving a random item a free MTX skin.

There are lots more, here's a list of them all and what mods/properties are associated with them:
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Darkshrine

So if this makes it into the release and Darkshrines really are in the Labyrinth, does anyone else think it might be worth to run it each day on each difficulty just for the shrines? (the enchants at the end will hopefully be pretty sweet too, but these shrines can do a LOT for you those enchantments can't).

Anyone who has seen an alpha streamer find a Darkshrine in the Labyrinth will know that it functions differently.

Unlike those streaming folk, I'm bound to and honour the NDA so all I can is if you're fearing Darkshrine manipulation, you've nothing to worry about.

I recall seeing a darkshrine in one video, might've been one of those announcements from a gaming site.

If memory serves correctly, you can't put an item in the shrine before activating.
It's just a (semi?) random effect.

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crystalwitch wrote:

I recall seeing a darkshrine in one video, might've been one of those announcements from a gaming site.

If memory serves correctly, you can't put an item in the shrine before activating.
It's just a (semi?) random effect.

From what I've seen its just a random effect chosen from ALL the option available. We ofcourse do not know if GGG excluded some options that were available in the darkshrine league...

I find it nice that they added them to the game, its makes it a but more worth running the lab imo that you have a chance to spawn a darkshrine.

IIRC from what i have seen, darkshrines give you a random map mod for the apropiate iir/iiq modifier. (and i didnt really watch any streamer for more than 10 minutes)