Oni-Goroshi in Current League - are You gonna farm it or drop it?

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FCK42 wrote:

I'm pretty sure that's NOT why Charan left, but ok.

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Also, the whole thing about the sword wasn't really "figured out" by someone, Charan outright told us in the "Goddess Ssords discussion thread". Not even sure if that still exists. And yeah, it was his idea to have it in drop only in Twilight strand or from div cards.

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de99ial wrote:

Will You farm OG? I will probably two of them.

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TheGoodBadWeird wrote:

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de99ial wrote:

Will You farm OG? I will probably two of them.

Yeah, for me it is decided to be another Oni-Farming league in 3.9! Nothing brings me to pick a bow-character this time. Melee all the way!

Did already farm it 2 times - 1 around Abyss. Then again Synthesis because I hated the league mechanic and was bored.

I wish every TSB-runner a good hunt for the Goddess!

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Arrowneous wrote:

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de99ial wrote:

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Arrowneous wrote:

Too bad we can't get this in the endgame (god damn power/speed creep).

The whole point of that sword was to redirect attention and gameplay to first location. And it worked.

Yes, placing the farming for a 6L item right at the start was pure genious by GGG (or did Charan suggest that?). Either way it was brilliant. Even more amazing was the first player to discover this. I'd never ever have thought "what would happen if I didn't go into Lioneye's Watch but just logged out, waited for the TSB zone to reset, and run it again, and again, and again? Would I get something different eventually?" When I first read that thread in Dec. 2017 I was like "your shitting me! Really? How the hell did someone figure that out?" Now with the socket mechanics being turned upside down for PoE 2 there won't be any need to farm for 1 anymore other than the desire to continue to honer Charan and his great creation. Only other reason to do it in PoE 1 when PoE 2 comes out is to get the extra voice dialogues (I should think GGG will keep that in for PoE 1).

Now we all mostly know why Charan quit this game. Losing the 6L on gear (looks like we'll get 4 unlinked sockets max) destroys the value of all 6L weapons and chests. I do see the convenience that the "sockets on skills" allows (just swap 1 skill gem and viola, you're good to go) and that it opens up the game to play skill combos instead of just spamming 1 or 2 skills forever on a build, but it puts an emotional damper on all the time spent acquiring/crafting 6L gear so it's a bitter sweat change.