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

Most times I forget about this thing, but the other day I was running around a fairly abandoned corner of Guild Wars 2 (deep desert) with the GF as my black-cloaked katana-slingin' thief 'Charan Jaydemyr' (old habits die hard) and some random running by was like, 'Are you the PoE guy!?'

The GF burst out laughing downstairs, and I froze. Like, seriously froze.

I think my response was something like 'uh. yep. Fuck. Okay. Bye' and started to run away. Because while I was flattered, I was also immediately thrown into defensive mode. You never know what an exile is going to say about you out of the blue when/if they recognise you. Thankfully they just went on to say 'Love your swords! They're awesome. Didn't know you played GW2!' and I completely ungracefully responded with a thanks, a yep since launch, and a take care and promptly ported to town to restabilise the universe.

As I said, the weird thing was we were in the middle of nowhere, game-wise. I'd like to say 'it's a small world' but Tyria/Maguuma/Elona is fucking massive.

This isn't even a humblebrag. It's an outright brag. But it's not like I can share it with my real people (there's a reason I write my shitty, self-indulgent fantasy stuff under a pseudonym) so...you, who for whatever reason like the PoE version of Oni, get to suffer my brief encounter with 'fame'. ^_^

Think I'll go for it in Ultimatum. Been a year or more since I did this last. Be nice to me game... I'm not getting any younger.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Think I'll go for it in Ultimatum. Been a year or more since I did this last. Be nice to me game... I'm not getting any younger.

what build shaggy?

Simple vaal reave, or vaal double strike. I'll decide when I get there. Want to try out Petrified Blood on an otherwise blank slate. Wonder why Vall Double Strike didn't get the boost that the similar Vaal skills did.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Simple vaal reave, or vaal double strike. I'll decide when I get there. Want to try out Petrified Blood on an otherwise blank slate.

report back, im curious <3

I mean, I didn't make it specifically to frustrate sexta/septuagenarian pedantgogues who honestly should know better but eh, I'll take it.

VR for mook clear, VDS for bosses not a thing anymore?

Probably 16hrs in no Uber Hillock. I've farmed it 3 times before but this time it feels weird because I'm barely getting any uniques unlike last time.

4 strand runners, 35 runs each. All are level 7 now, let the dropping of the Oni's begin!

I'm farming for it. Have 5 characters at 7,6,7,6,6 (I'm farming for more than one this league, thus the 5 characters).

The Hillock fight is certainly worth hours of farming. Just ill equipped you, Uber Hillock and hordes of walking dead. No effects or visual noise to get in the way of the struggle. Boss battles as they should be.