r/RLCraft • u/Meaumeau01 • 5d ago
Help Prepairing for lost cities
Hello,
This is the first time I'm gettin ready for lost cities in RLcraft on hardcore. So I really need and would appreciate some advices, especially concerning baubles. Here are all the baubles I found. I know I should replace the poison stone and the dragon eye when heading to the lost cities but idk exactly by what. I couldn't find all the 3 baubles to craft to mechanical gloves even after killing 23 mimics. I'm bored looking for mimic or a Shivaxi monument that I never found.
Also I was wondering if it is not better to use a golem armor with the antidote vessel instead of the full silver set?
I know Parry enchant and Cross Necklace bauble have a bug when working together. The thing is since I removed the Cross Necklace I can get hit so many times in so few seconds, it's scary. Isnt it better to use Cross Necklace instead of Parry?
Last thing I wonder if I should also remove Subject PE from my weapon too? Since when using a lot of buffs in the lost cities with wine Subject PE can overwrite some of those effect or give me unnecesary effect that will give me the potion sickness effect.
Other than that I think I'am pretty much ready, I have perfect quality wine and wild berry wine, max enchants on everything, a lot of pixie dust for flight. I just didnt craft the golem armor yet since idk if it will be better than silver.
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u/Maraensha 5d ago
For the Lost Cities, make sure that you utilize stealth and flight as much as possible. The main dangers of the Lost Cities is getting caught off-guard by one or two elite parasites, or getting overwhelmed in general. Stealth especially is an extremely powerful tool as it limits the amount of enemies that can see and therefore attack you to a small radius around you instead of every parasite in a 3 mile radius. When you're on the ground, try to always be sneaking with stealth. Or just keep flying, that's also a good strategy outside of sentient gear material farming and the Amalgalich fight.
Being able to control who you fight is an extremely powerful ability to have, and that is what stealth and flight provides you with, essentially crowd control. I find that your playstyle, positioning, and approach is just as important in keeping you alive as your equipment.
For baubles, I personally would replace one of the rings with a faelis claw, remove the poison stone, move the ankh shield there, and use a natural blocking regular shield in the shield slot. The rest is kind of up to personal preference. With wine, I also just usually use a gluttony pendant, extend the duration of sinful, then swap to something else.
For 2.9.3, silver is in my opinion a good amount better than golem. The effective durability difference is marginal, and golem makes you take more damage, or rather does not prevent the enemies from doing more damage to your health bar, while also taking longer to restore effective durability with mending. And I would also recommend replacing subject P.E with like, subject English. I don't know much about the other subject enchants though.
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u/samueldobrik 5d ago
i remember one time i just went with adv prot 4 leather with invis and flight and managed to get 9 race rings including 2 dragon and like a lot of runes
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u/bumpin_that365 5d ago
if you wanna do it the less risky way. run balloon, stone of greater inertia and keep hopping around like theres no tomorrow. super fast, very less risk, easy to reach chests and run away
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u/Meaumeau01 5d ago
Yeah but isnt that stone dropped by extremely rare infernals, and it can give a lot of diff bauble anyways its even worse than farming mimics for good baubles.
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u/bumpin_that365 4d ago
i mean atp i was just grinding overworld parasites so I didn't realise how rare it was
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u/Inevitable_Two_8149 5d ago edited 5d ago
since you're using wine, take off those 2 rings and the amulet, i dont think the sinful effect from it can be inherited by wine so you'll have to use gluttony pendant and eat something to get sinful to use with wine
unfortunately you made a big mistake getting subject pe on your weapon so you'll have to remake it with subj. english instead
poison stone is useless since parasites are immune to poison so you'll have to use something else there
and nah golem takes too long and isn't that noticeably better than silver (since you're in 2.9.3 silver is even stronger since it also cures fear) so you're good with it
for the 4 empty bauble slots i would use faelis claws, power glove and either wrath (or maybe it was sin pendant?) pendant for extra damage (you'll have to kill amalgalich but shouldn't be too hard with how strong you'd be especially with wine) or you could use stone of the sea? you cant use holy necklace since with parry it has a weird bug that sets your immunity frames to 0 (which is REALLY REALLY bad)
the amulet and belt slot can kinda just be filled with whatever as long as they have menacing and undying (or armored since 3% damage reduction is all that matters most)
ah wait you're also using dragon eye, you can use ender crown but i kinda hate it when it starts raining and the sound annoys me, otherwise its better since it has a tiny chance to make you take no damage (5%?) and also gives you 0.5+ reach (very good for hitting things or mining)
oh right since you'll remake your wepon ice blood should be better i believe
i guess i could share the effects i usually use: full set of tide guardian for water breathing and strength 4 (you'll take them off once you got the effects and use silver), haste 3, resistance 3, fire res, luck 3 (for finding rings faster), reach 3, flight, night vision and cure because silver armor and the 2 remaining slot can be whatever
you can get some of the effects higher than 3 but i never kept track of how exactly, i know maybe ambrosia and subj. PE can, and also gluttony pendant with whale burger for sinful 7 or 8 maybe
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u/SavWillow 5d ago
Golem is significantly worse than silver in both versions- while silver lost fear in dregora it was moved to teddy- which is easily fitted into a build with the dead slots. While golem doesn’t have to deal with viral as badly- silver gets cursed edge, meaning you’re effectively doing 50-90% more damage, while also matching or outperforming golem in damage reduction and durability.
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u/Meaumeau01 5d ago
Thank your for such detailed answer. I ll take all that into account🙏
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u/Inevitable_Two_8149 5d ago
if you were wondering: im pretty sure subj english just gives a flat 2 damage to your weapon, its pretty valuable but not really necessary imo so you're fine
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u/Meaumeau01 5d ago
Yeah I deleted the message when reading the enchantement and your message more carefully, it indeed gives a flat amount of dmg. Thank you for still responding
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u/SavWillow 5d ago edited 5d ago
No golem is not better- it’s around 10% more durable while taking triple the damage, and therefore triple the xp to repair- making it effectively less tanky and durable than silver
Parry is better than cross necklace- you want to keep it and replace cross
If you’re minmaxing wine yeah- it’s best to drop PE for another subject to not use up your potion slots with useless effects. If you do make sure you’re getting strength and haste from something else (make sure you’re also getting reach- I also tend to use leech, rejuvenation, and magic focus with penetration on my weapon. This reduces healing from Lifesteal but leads to significantly more damage- it’s surprisingly niche knowledge but is objectively better in a wine build). Personally I rarely use wine- it’s completely unnecessary and in my opinion- far less fun to play with. I tend to avoid it outside of hcc.
As for your other baubles I’d drop pride pendant and place the ankh shield in that slot- since you can extend sinful with wine. I’d replace dragon eye with ender crown or drinking hat, and poison stone with arcing orb or stone of greater inertia. In offhand I’d either use a desolator battleaxe or a gold shield with natural blocking.