Back to Basics Barrel Blasting - A Quick Guide to Profit Without Thinking
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Want to relive the old speedclear meta instead of having to click on special mechanics and then price their loot?
The item quantity from map mods works for barrels. And Back to Basics with 8-mod maps gives lots of quantity! A low investment, solo, completely braindead strategy. The loot is literally just the stuff that can drop everywhere, with a heavy focus on Scarabs. Scarabs: 3x Mysterious Scarab for barrels, 1x Cartography Scarab of Corruption for more map mods. Atlas Tree You can adjust the "Scarabs are 100% more likely to be..." nodes and block scarab types based on the economy if you want. Slight variations:
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The Hunted Traitors scarab is an option as well, but more expensive. You can take Wellspring of Creation instead of Dance of Destruction, based on what your build prefers. Sulphite on map completion if you want to delve a bit. Intelligence Gathering is possible, just run Jun maps often enough to advance the turns when you're interrogating leaders. Aside from that, because all extra mechanics are off there really isn't much to do differently. If you want to try anything, there's plenty of scarab chance travel nodes that can be specced out of. Singular focus is heavily recommended as you only want layouts your build can speed-clear. Builds: Any fast mapper that also destroys inanimate objects. The less map mods you need to avoid, the better, as map mods are scaled about as high as they can get. Being tanky is more important than single-target DPS. Not having to worry about taking exploding barrels to the face allows for more speed and less brain. Magic find stats help a little but aren't important, as they only do anything on the barrel types that spawn monsters. Hope this strategy helps someone find new (old) fun. Last bumped on Apr 6, 2024, 10:34:25 AM
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Thanks for sharing this guide :)
I tried it, run around ~7 maps, corrupted 100+ quantity at start, scaling to 200+ in map. Do it fun, yep, especially with the last scarab - hunted traitors. Does it profitable? - i have some doubts :) Yes, you get ~15 scarab per map and around 5 chaos. But that's really it. And i think you can easily have 12+ scarabs if you go full scarab + any mechanic, which adds rare mobs. I tried harbingers and breach, abyss should work too. |
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Well it's a lot faster because you only do the map this way, no extra mechanic. I did maybe 50-70 maps with this and got a good amount of raw divines, div cards, valuable uniques etc as well. Again, for how short the time spent in each map is.
But yeah if this was the most profitable mapping strategy, that would be bad balance of course. It's using a keystone that makes gameplay a lot simpler after all. |
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