[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)
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This leage i had not so much time to play as usually. I played first a ca ranger but was extremly unsucessful with breaches. Then i changed to a double scourge bf assasin and the game was first time good. Breaches are now no problem and most challenges are really easy with that. The only problem was that es gear is extremly expensive and so my gear isnt that good and i die a lot in case of stun or freeze. but its the first leage i only buy the claws the rest is selffound or selfmade. so the breach leage is for me a big fail. you cant play what you prefere, because you need extrem clear speed to come throught the chayula breach. And the lab was a pain. Not itzaro but the traps. i played first time es and died >80 in lab. and only 3 times at itzaro because of lazyness. so i have no idea what to do next leage? I read all the comments but dont understund the area thing (only see many people dont like it). in case of drop chance of leage stones next leage would it be better to play a mf build or is it still better to play a build what can handle all bosses and has no mf. (I tried the shaper guardians and had only one down with the mf ca build and with the bf scourge build i can do all of them, mostly not deathless but doable) thanks for answering |
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" Welcome back Ichi. Long time since I've seen you on the forums. RE MF or not next league - I think that MF will be pretty much as it always has been next league - a good build for making currency and clearing up to T13 or so with no problems and higher of course if you want to take more time or swap out MF gear. Breaches won't be as common so trouble handling them won't be a big issue. If you're going to play enough to afford 2 characters you might start with MF and save up for whatever build you pick as your 2nd. With regard to AOE - it looks as if the developer intent is simply to increase build diversity by encouraging players not to take every single AOE node when making builds. Probably AOE will be about the same as before provided you didn't go hog wild on AOE nodes/gear. |
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2.6 Challenges
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The Endgame Grinds challenge is intriguing. In particular: * 400 Pale Council Member kills * 100 Rigwald The Woven King Kills These two challenges look much more difficult than the others. Realistically you'd need to buy the map fragments for council and you'd want to group. Ditto for Rigwald - you'd want to purchase sets of tier 5 talisman and you'd want to group. Assuming full group parties, you'll need to come up with 17 full sets of council fragments/talismen to complete these grinds; and of course, you'd need to find 5 other players to party with. Probably players will complete the other grinds instead. =============== The mix of different past leagues in the challenges is interesting. This will necessitate running multiple leagues instead of just focusing on one or two. =============== Some of the Complete These Encounters II challenges look pretty difficult. But the first two can be bought and the last one seems doable. =============== Overall, the challenges seem to require about the same time commitment as last league's - however, the 4th end game grind requirement is a pain especially if you don't like running uber lab. This of course assumes that league stones drop often enough that the 1000 map 3-league challenge isn't partially gated by stone availability. Last edited by hankinsohl#1231 on Feb 28, 2017, 12:30:59 AM
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50 Rigwald kills.
Somewhere it was mentioned by the devs that Rare Talismans will be more common, and they're looking into changing Rigwald access. " Source on Reddit I'll be going Breachlord, Atziri, Shaper Guardians and probably Pale Council. Shaper / Uber Atziri once again challenges, so likely I'll be rolling HoWA as build #2 and probably Ngahamu Cycloner as build #1 to farm up the requisite currency. Depending on patchnotes, of course. The fact that Breachlords are 100 leads me to believe Breaches will be fairly common. Same value as Breach league itself. There's apparently also a recipe for league stones. If you can deterministicly craft Breach Leaguestones in some way, should be fairly easy. Pale Council isn't as bad as it seems, btw, as the end of each Prophecy chain should count as a kill. In other words, for every Pale Council set you complete, THEN run, you'll get 8/400. Meaning you only have to farm up 50 runs. Prophecy League Stones will also enable you to farm a lot more silver coins, meaning sealing Prophecies won't be as painful and thus you can force the Pale Council prophecies more frequently. Farming Reach of the Council is profitable early as well so you could just buy 100 sets and make bank. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018. Last edited by Serleth#4392 on Feb 28, 2017, 1:06:12 AM
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@Serleth
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Good call on prophecy sealing - I didn't think about that. Interesting too about Rigwald access. |
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@hank
thanks for the nice welcome. I read frequently the thread but sice i played another build i dont post. As i wrote some times in the thread i hate lvl. So i will only do one build. Your chaos golem build sounds funny if it has a decent clear speed. And with the challenges. I hate so many challenges with luck. Normaly i dont buy challenges (bought only shaper kill from the 32 this leage). And need only 2 cards for the 33 with the card sets. But never see a unique strongbox or a chayula lord or chayula unique) buying challenges is like cheating for me. So if you want to make this new challenges there is no way to come past 30 with no buyin them i think. Did you have a plan for the golem build or was it only a nice idea without background? @ serlet What build this leage. You have a idea or plan or are you waiting for patch notes till you decide? |
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" Waiting until patch notes, but I'm probably going to start with Ngamahu Cyclone Raider. If HoWA doesn't get nerfed, that will be my second build for Shaper/Uber Atziri. I MIGHT roll CA MF to start though, I think taking one league off from it has fixed the burnout. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
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" >> Did you have a plan for the golem build or was it only a nice idea without background? No plan - just something I was thinking about. I actually looked a bit more into the BoC golem build - though it might work, I don't think I'd recommend it. You'd probably have to invest too many passives for high golem life and then you'd probably need another 6-link for the golem itself. Which means that your CA damage will take a hit and with the extra 6-link you'll be gem-slot starved and will need to forego utility gem setups. |
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" Interesting, is it because Ngamahu is easier to start a new league with, as opposed to HoWAs, which will be more readily available only later in the league (assuming to significant nerf)? I found leveling with Hand of Thought and Motion rather fun and fast. Shavronne wrapped Kaom's waist,
with her gilded purple boots. "You want my sockets?" |
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" You literally can't start with HoTM. The only way for you to get it is going to be to buy it (no sense farming it yourself to level with as your first build... because you'd already be level 80 :P), and it won't be available until late Day 1 or sometime Day 2. Even if you intentionally delay your start time, you'll have no currency to grab it by the time you can use it. Also, you can expect all Breach items to be about 17x more expensive than during Breach league itself, unless there's another way to proc Breaches outside of League Stones. I guess if you had a friend willing to buy them for you, then... yeah. But a huge portion of currency generation is done in the first week of a league. That means you want to get to maps, asap. It's a build that requires preparation, one way or the other. The access-restriction on the claws themselves at the start of a league leaves you with two options. Farm up and then A) Reroll B) Respec. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018. Last edited by Serleth#4392 on Feb 28, 2017, 5:35:06 AM
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