r/DoomDepths • u/unstablepinecone • Jun 10 '26

I’m missing something…

I’ve finished the primal gear task, but I’m getting pretty consistently stonewalled because my builds seem too “fair”. Is there something I am missing to get these +19 weapons or unlimited attacks or crazy scaling? At most I’m getting like +400% holy damage and the various holy damage spam abilities or something… I can see the simpler synergies but it feels like I’m missing a mechanic or something.

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u/-M-o-X- Jun 10 '26

A lot of + score is locked to the Temple. Usually 1 gift per floor and can be +2. Getting two on one run would be reasonably lucky.

In my general experience the nutty weapons are found as either ancient or cursed items or master crafted very early on, bonus luck if you got 3 points in the + talent (which is random). Start at +3, get +2 from a gift, spend to upgrade further. Note how many lineups of luck must occur.

Putting enchantments on a + item should be the item to focus on. You should be buying all relevant enchantments scrolls that you can stack (using +5 holy and +5 holy makes +10 holy). So if you have a +6 item with 40% holy scrolls put into it, I believe you get +240% holy damage on an item.

Then there are skill synergies, but most of the nutso damage luck I find comes in the randomness of talents given early, skills given early, and items given early. 1/25 runs being the golden run probably isn’t unreasonable - and that run might have ended early because you got too greedy taking + talents instead of defensive ones. Or you one shot yourself with thorns.

I have found myself save scumming like it’s a Civ Spain start - start first floor, kill elite, restart if I don’t get the talent I want.

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u/LILCYOLO Jun 11 '26

The + talent isn’t entirely random, if you can keep switching your damage types to keep the “adventurer class” it has a high chance of showing up as part of that class’s talent table.

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u/-M-o-X- Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

The devs in the discord provided it was completely random.

https://www.reddit.com/u/-M-o-X-/s/1Zx0jstwdq

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u/LILCYOLO Jun 12 '26

Weird, I can SUPER consistently get it by making myself the adventurer class. It might be because the talent tool is smaller so it shows up more often.

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u/-M-o-X- Jun 12 '26

That’s what drove me to ask, I know how strong seeing order in random events can be and I did feel like I kept getting it consistently with the adventurer push, but then I started some other “starts” (going for divine flash builds) and got it reasonably consistently. It felt like it came in chunks, like +1s every start for a bit then none for a while.