Data about how Beastcrafting is being used

I look forward to the ability to get talismans again, mainly because one of them has a socket in it. Ever since the addition of unset rings, I've been hoping we'll get unset belts (upto 2-sockets) and unset amulets (1 socket, obviously) as well. Talismans add that for amulets, albeit they're always corrupted. We're not quite there with belts yet - the Stygian Vise and Darkness Enthroned only allow you to socket Abyssal Jewels in them, not skill gems - but I'm hoping one day it'll be added in too. :)

nice, thanks for tearing the market apart! more 6 links just what we need =D

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Jegro wrote:

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Aziraphale wrote:

Farrul's Den: 1,415

Seriously? And people are expected to find this shit on their own for the challenge? Insane.

i agree; i'm finding that each league challenges are becoming more and more...challenging. but based on RNG, not skill

I would not call it challenging, i would call it insanly grindy. I don't get why we can't have a league just for the purpose of having fun instead of grind grind grind.

Curse you GGG people have a life.

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aelazing wrote:

Isn't it super ridiculous that we're 2 weeks into the league and a fair amount of players haven't even opened a portal to a beast?

40k, while we had more than that on day one, like a lot more.

i'm still level 77, bestiary slows down the game alot if you don't nolife the league.

my deadeye still dies to abysses, oly has one five link, no currency left, can't kill red beasts in early maps if they have life regen.

i wouldn't dare entering a boss arena even if i had the beast for it.

and yes, i could play more efficiently, but just see me as the average gamer with a real life job.

A lot of numbers, which doesn't tell much. Except that the rarest beast boss is like 15x more rare than the most common beast boss. As per usual artificial-extension, bait & swicth design.

I'd much more like to know how much are players "engaged in beastcrafting", compared to how are they engaged in essence crafting, for example.

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Gain Prophecies: 200,668 (that's up to a million Prophecies!)

This for example, is an extremely low number. I myself have done this craft about four or five times, and I'm not even playing Bestiary seriously (a lvl 87 and two low levels in BHC). Have spent most of my gaming time playing Standard.

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Odai wrote:

I would not call it challenging, i would call it insanly grindy. I don't get why we can't have a league just for the purpose of having fun instead of grind grind grind.
Curse you GGG people have a life.

their choice, instead of having breach followed by breachX, breachY and breachZ (the last one raining exalts) they decided that a league of dumping massive currency has to be followed by a slower going league.

imho the game wouldn't have lasted for 7 years now if every league were more rewarding the last one.

Still enjoying the league :P , thanks for the info !

Hmm it looks like the exciting craft options (imprint and white sockets) are pretty hard to attain based on the numbers in the OP. The rare crafting (and there are way too many options to choose from) is fairly redundant with all the other crafting options in the game. Even the 86 6L armour can be easily achieved with dapper prodigy cards. I don't know.. was hoping we'd see some more dramatic improvements.

And I don't understand the big deal of the unique item crafting. So easy to get random uniques in the game anyway, typically one per map without even using MF gear.


For people new to the game who don't understand essences/bench crafting/spamming/div cards/trade, I can see this league still being really fun. So, my comments are just from the perspective of a more experienced player.

i learned how to not give a shtt about this league, nets dropping like snow, yellow beast that do nothing, red beast very rare (and by now all they appear me as catched before and the only interesting recipe i can do right now is 5 proph), stupid implementation (its a mess you can know when you look a beast, if is important to do something or its garbage)...


But please.. please! i want to progress through maps.. its a pain with the current drop rates of maps and alch (to give one example). Not to mention The Encroaching Darkness!!
I dont want to do ulab over and over all day, not my way to have fun

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We're very pleased with the high engagement with Beastcrafting. It was a risky system because of the difficulty pricing stuff, so was sure to disrupt the economy. So far, people are using it pretty heavily and we expect this to continue throughout the league as we add more recipes over time.

I appreciate GGG for making a great game that I've played for 3 leagues now, but them patting themselves on the back this time seems a bit delusional. Bestiary League is about as convoluted as they come and has had more than its fair share of problems.

I feel like they should be trying to consolidate everything and remove the fluff recipes instead of trying to add more. I wonder how many people actually appreciate the Levelling recipes and not vendor the item they get on sight.

Meanwhile, I'm still worried if I'm ever going to encounter the 4 portal beasts before the league ends. I never found a 2 socket Abyss unique last league despite playing from start to finish and had to buy one for 40/40.