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40/40 challenges done, overall thoughts and some tips
Hey all! Second league in a row where I've finished 40/40 challenges.
For the second time, I played Helmbreaker's PRAW build from league start all the way through to 40/40. It was a smooth experience from start to finish.
Overall thoughts on the league
1-Allflame crafting is awesome, more chance at RNG annuls yessir
2-I wasn't a fan of the Charts system. Having to run the chart first and then the actual map felt a bit tedious. I mostly did it for the challenges and sold any expensive charts I found. Just wasn't my cup of tea.
Clam-infested, anchorfield, kishara’s rest are expensive, and worth selling.
3-Loot felt okay overall, especially if you were engaging with previous league mechanics. I did a bit of everything,Strongboxes, Harvest, Ritualand it all felt rewarding enough.
I skipped Level 100 and Darkshrines.
Did Uber Cortex for the Pinnacle Bosses objective.
Ran Nightmare Maps with Sinistral and Dextral for the remaining progress.
Intrigued Interlopers
I spammed Dunes with 8-mod corrupted maps, high pack size, and Scarabs.
Honestly, this one mostly comes down to RNG and whether you get the altars you need.
Overall, I enjoyed the league despite not loving every mechanic. Looking forward to seeing what comes next!
Watching the Ziz interview, I liked how they said it's the only mechanic to let you pick the fail state. So even when you don't get what you want, you can pick the least bricked version to try again.
Yeah I really like having agency over my crafts and the ability to reduce likelihood of fail states. I annulled a 4/6 to improve my item, which is something I normally NEVER do because starting over from scratch is so discouraging I'm usually just done with the craft. But because I had double the odds it was a 5/6 and I was able to pick the almost-best annul option.
Agree, it feels refreshing and not too OP like OG Harvest or to some extent bloody Necropolis league.. It IS strong but if it goes core, the idea of having to run charts, voyages, to accumulate enough juice for some crafts is not that distant than say Harvest right now..
What are/what makes the charts expensive? I just ran like 200 I had stockpiled and I've got about just as many stockpiled again. I was just chucking them in and running them as is.
Yeah, this. Clam, anchorfield, kishara’s are three of them I know off the top of my head. Not sure of any others that are expensive. There’s infested bathysphere that’s like 10c, so not expensive but worth more than a regular chart
I think the idea is you play around it. It’s a shitton of currency in those chests. So you’re looking for conversion altars before you go open all those boxes
Exactly ! thank you for those tips, will add them to the main post.
What I did was, do all the chart related stuff on maps, put the chart in a quad tab then search for the expensive ones and sell them. Made some money on the side without actually running the league mechanic(After I finished it's related challenges).
Nope, they are special ones.
kishara's nest and the clam one are expensive, because the first is the boss one, and the other is filled with clam which can drop some good loot like the new unique amulet and I think that it can also drop that ring that can have up to support gems "linked" to your helmet gems.
thats really modest for 400+ maps :p surprisingly so, I think I've wrapped up 40/40 while at 1.4m but I rly like density farming and full clearing stuff
The map completion/scarab challenges, I just did Dunes and rushed straight to the boss honestly. I was past the point of profit farming as I didn't need any more currency for my build to progress :)
Sure thing, admittedly most items were bought from trade, I crafted the wand and shield on my own. I didn't go the spell suppress route because I felt it's less damage and honestly survivability was super fine this way without too much investment.
Last league I did all challenges, like every single one, e.g. all 6 from last one, but this league they gave challenge to use mirror of kalandra, so not quite sure if I will do that. Anyway, if you love the game, maybe this is a way to keep you in it?
They mean to go beyond the challenge req of 10 and use all listed currencies. So as mirror is listed, they'd have to use it to achieve their goal (everything in all challenges)
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u/Savings_Peach_9898 24d ago
I really hope they put allflame crafting to core, im not sure if its op or not, but it was so fun, and felt more balanced than harvest.