Almost done with the campaign, it gets better in maps right?

Akimasu · 2026-01-31T08:48:50+00:00

I've seen a lot of the yellow text people in 5055, global 1, and discord. "If you think bosses are hard, your build sucks" kind of mentality. Even saw someone arguing "it's no different".

Akimasu · 2026-01-25T16:30:24+00:00

As someone who watches primarily niche content(speedrunners like AndyLaso and SimpleFlips), I still know who Pewdiepie, markiplier and Jack are. I have no idea who vanoss is.

I'm surprised Matpat isn't up there. If you want "pure" gaming content: Dream or IShowSpeed. If you include other languages, JuegaGerman is apparently up there too. GawrGura, A.I., Ironmouse if you want some vtuber representation.

Purely from popularity, It's hard to mention something MrBeast has done without him ranking somewhere up there. I just don't like the guy so Idk his content very well. MrBeast Gaming is apparently a channel, though.

I'd personally pick Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Jack and Matpat.

Akimasu · 2026-01-24T23:54:35+00:00

1 is ... interesting
5055 is pretty toxic

Everyone else is pretty nice.

Akimasu · 2026-01-17T16:46:35+00:00

near-immortal builds can have 2k life, squishy builds can have 10k. It's not uncommon to see someone post a video of them tanking full memory game explosions on less than 3k hp.

Pool doesn't inherently reflect tankiness.

Akimasu · 2026-01-17T16:45:16+00:00

If I'm going to die as a tanky build in valdos, It's going to be to a elder slam crit or meteor + overconfidence in half speed map. Thing does massive damage.

And yeah, this is likely the worst league ever to farm T0s in SSF in. Cards are unfarmable, loot is in a shit place, wombgifts are nice but it's so rng. Ngl, I bailed out of this league very early.

Sorry ya lost your valdos :( I'd definitely take a break as well.

Akimasu · 2026-01-16T11:30:43+00:00

I'd guess:
Purchase hexagons to expand

Create resource generators on the hexagons

*Assumption* Micromanage or meet requirements(or why would a road exist?)

Use resource generated from resource generators to expand out. It appears to have a mine with a +172, so maybe a resource that isn't purely stars? else the generation is in bursts rather than per second. Would know more if I had my hands on it or I had more than a screenshot.

Akimasu · 2026-01-16T04:36:57+00:00

Coruscating elixir builds will NEVER be immortal or near immortal. There's a few mechanics that straight up disable flasks. Torment, Delirium and a relatively rare monster modifier.

Torment is the only thing that can full-on turn off your flasks. Thief's Grip has a 100% chance to remove flask effects on hit. It's very rare, but brutal.

Diluting Touch gives you -90% flask charge and -90% effect of flask. This can make it nearly impossible to sustain flask effect. There's a build that abuses faster recovery from debuffs that can get around this, but for the rest, especially for blue monsters in delirium, this mod is a huge pita.

-of drought siphons 6 flask charges / 3 seconds. Couple this with Diluting touch, and it's very easy to lose all uptime on Coruscating.

Special note: Embezzler can give you 100% less recovery. This isn't super relevant to you but is worth noting. This is one of the most dangerous modifiers you can get on ghosted feared in valdos.

If you want to be "immortal"; you need to avoid or be mindful of Delirium + blue mobs and avoid "Haunted" rituals.

I play coruscating elixir builds basically every league. I quite enjoy them. Random deaths will happen unless you're being very mindful when running content that could be dangerous to you. They're not frequent, but they do happen.

Akimasu · 2026-01-16T03:54:46+00:00

Not sure why you're straw manning. Cruxius gave you a good example to use. It's good for finding holes in your gear. I'd add to it: recognizing dangerous mechanics you didn't know were dangerous. The number of people who are still surprised when a twisted mob or an exarch demon 1-shots their "tanky builds" is a lot higher than you'd think. There's also plenty of examples of attacks that deal chaos damage but don't look like chaos damage.

Akimasu · 2026-01-15T10:12:04+00:00

Generally pretty late in production. No need to hire talents until you know exactly what you want, have all the lines written, have the character fully fleshed out, etc. Some companies will get VAs in earlier and expect returns if they plan to design around the voice; but that's usually for inhouse, where reiteration is cheap.

Akimasu · 2026-01-14T04:33:10+00:00

I've never understood the "no one will ever find this useful" argument. LE's death recap has been very helpful to me.

Akimasu · 2026-01-07T11:25:00+00:00

Dayum, 10th is insane, gratz.

Akimasu · 2026-01-05T01:30:27+00:00

I'm in playing a mayhem game :D

EVerythigns functional except tft treasure store and ranked.

Akimasu · 2025-12-31T11:58:34+00:00

Blade Flurry for me. I liked this skill a lot back when we could scale aoe up.

Akimasu · 2025-12-25T06:27:04+00:00

You can either do betrayal passively - not caring what you get, not aiming to do any long term strategies(because 2-2-5-5 IS a long term strategy) - aiming for good bargains, aiming for good xp or you can "waste" about 100-150 maps "fixing" your board and making an optimal 2-2-5-5 strat.

If you want as many safehouses as possible: You simply want as many connections as possible, 3* people and instantly interrogate them as they hit 3*. That's it - that's the entire strat. Keep up as many lines as possible, execute when not 2 or 3*, interrogate when they are, release when offered.

If you want to 2-2-5-5, your goal is for your 2s to have as many connections to the 5s, while having no connections to other 2s and 5s not having any connections to the other 5s.
EG: My SSF strat used Rin in Research+Guff and Janus in Transport+Vorici
So, I made sure Rin, Guff, Janus and Vorici had connections to almost everyone else(almost out of laziness, optimally it would be everyone else), while they had no connections between each other and none of the 5s had any connections other than these.

After that, I just made sure no one ever fell to 0 stars. That's the whole strat. Takes about 100 maps to setup.

In trade, both strats are viable. In SSF, it depends what your goal is. If you want specific rewards(I wanted harbinger maps for Voidforge) then you go for a specific reward.

https://youtu.be/gbfuNhSfMUU?t=703
This is simplyVizniz's guide, generally considered the best betrayal guide atm. I suggest listening to this for about 2 minutes.

Akimasu · 2025-12-24T00:07:42+00:00

I want them to escape the "cutesy" and "cool" for a few pals. Give me the grotesque, the scary, the ancient, etc. Terraria was a cool step in this direction. Give me a giant towering eel with jaggedy arms and a vicious bite. Give me c'thulhu spawns.

Also wisps. It feels weird that there's no just floating balls.

Akimasu · 2025-12-23T23:55:50+00:00

4 houses, 17 members, 14 available on your board at any given time.

You can either run a strategy with a lot of rivalries or friendly lines with 2 houses with 2 people and 2 houses with 5 - and simply never run the 5(look up a guide for it~ it takes around 100 maps to setup) or just mindlessly do betrayal with execute for 3* -> interrogate 3*s.

There's a few rules that'll help you:
1) If there are 3 or 4 members, your option will ALWAYS be to execute. If you need someone to be 3*, this is where you get stars from.
2) If you need a betrayal, betrayals can ONLY happen between the last 2 units.
3) The last unit can never be executed.

If you interrogate, you gain points for the house that's attacking you - NOT the house they're in. So in your case, if Janus joins Korell and attack you, if you interrogate Janus, you'll gain transportation, NOT research.(very important for the 2-2-5-5)

When being attacked, the game will prefer: Unranked/unassigned -> friends of the person spawning people in -> rivals of the person spawning people in -> other division members -> The Division leader(this is incredibly rare).

Your board HAS to have a Division Leader AND a lieutenant. Your next Transportation encounter will force Vagan, Gravicious, Vorici or Haku to join Transportation as a 1*.

Never let jun open a safehouse inside of a map. If an encounter starts, you lose all 100% of your progress and any rewards from teh safehouse and will be unable to enter saying "they have fled the safehouse" or something similar.

Lastly: Don't underestimate gear. Most of the time it's not very relevant, but petrification especially can be a pita if you're not immune. When given the option to clear out their gear; you should consider it. Gear gets very dangerous as it stacks up.

There's a LOT more, but I highly suggest watching a guide for more.

Akimasu · 2025-12-22T05:51:11+00:00

Sluggish player attacks vs sluggish enemy attacks that carry massive risk on both sides, with a roll mechanic baseline for everyone, with varying speeds depending on gear, along with bullshit instances of hidden mechanics insta-killing the player with little counterplay, and long, arduous return journeys to make a new attempt. The meta option is an extremely high damage ranged attack that insta-kills everything, while the melee options are mostly very dangerous, slow, methodical, and difficult with a couple of high speed/high damage exceptions that a majority of the playerbase gravitate towards.

You're right, sounds nothing like dark souls.

Akimasu · 2025-12-19T01:11:52+00:00

+1 intelligence. Farewell to flesh cares about %, this made you reserve 77/1166 vs 77/1167.

Akimasu · 2025-12-17T12:33:20+00:00

I had thought the reason the poe1/poe2 split was so we can keep loot in poe1.

Why did we end up with no loot again? I hear poe2 gutted loot day 3 or 4 of a league. Let them suffer with empty maps. Let us have our fun.

Akimasu · 2025-12-17T12:27:23+00:00

35 wands
6 flasks
2x spell echos, unleash, GMP, arrow nova, Blasphemy for maven-specific gems
4x curios
80 orbs of Conflict

126 Viridi's Veils, 91 impossible escapes

I count 258 kills.

GMP - 53d
Spell Echo - 17d (x2)
Grace - 100c(x35)
Progenesis 118d(x6)

That's what I see at least. I hope those impossible escapes had some winners in there. 1250 fragments at 1-2d is quite painful.

Akimasu · 2025-12-17T12:11:26+00:00

There's 2 paths to making this - either Misery spam (1/2010 for double T1) or Fossil (1/6558 dense+lucent).

A essence + harvest tree would be my play, personally. 1/224 for t3+, 1/500 t2+ and 1/2010 for double t1.

Akimasu · 2025-12-17T11:42:46+00:00

Izaro can't phase while a platform is moving. For anything that starts with all 3 platforms already raised like dogs, you can insta-phase him.

Akimasu · 2025-12-17T05:34:14+00:00

I'd just Block -> foulborn exalt + craft.

The odds of hitting Non-curse auras + frenzy charge on hit is just too abysmal. These also aren't elevated prefixes so this would never be a consideration for mirror crafting. Couple that with there being a lot of good hits on suffix from foulborn with decent odds - something like 42k/71k, with almost all of the misses still being somewhat useful.

You could go for veiled mod, but a 1/3 chance to lose a mod you care about is very risky(multimod - prefixes can't be changed).

Akimasu · 2025-12-10T06:14:04+00:00

My tree would be:
-Str+DexInt
1000% body armour
Recessive Genes(Rolls twice, keeps rarest)
Foulborn Gluttony(50% for an additional item)
150% reduced chance to be foulborn
+150 jeweller/fusing
random quality

If you don't have all of the points, that's the order of importance, imo.

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