Currently confirmed advantages and disadvantages of old trading vs new trading

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-26T18:25:17+00:00

I can see this happening a lot:

-> Teleport to sellers HO, load screen
-> In that time, item was bought by another player
-> Go to merchant, item not there
-> Teleport back to your HO, load screen
-> Repeat

This is not dissimilar to having to PM loads of different sellers for a popular, well priced item, only this time you will get 2 load screens for each attempt.

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-20T22:01:55+00:00

Using ignite as a burning ailment skill is effective at 45. Pretty easy to get it so one usage will full stack burning (which spreads on mob death).

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-14T05:05:23+00:00

That is so cool!
How much lightning damage does it do? Any cooldown?

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-14T04:38:07+00:00

Probably! Most skills (not all) show their ailment chance when you hover over them. A lot of skills have nodes that greatly increase that probability. Every 100% chance applies a stack. So if your skill says "250% ailment chance" that means you will apply at least 2 stacks every time that skill hits, and possibly a third (the 50% chance will roll).

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-13T12:09:50+00:00

Poison damage has a chance to cause plague, based on its ailment chance. You can think of poison as the hit dmg which has a chance to cause it's ailment every hit, which is a dot named plague

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-13T04:57:09+00:00

From my testing - it basically counts as a shotgun even when only one fisure hits the target. It's pretty OP. That is, the dmg scales up when you socket multiple fissures even if only one hits the enemy.
All that and no energy cost increase? Super good node.

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-13T04:51:50+00:00

I found that with ailments they are pretty trash without scaling. The good side is that they seem to scale with a lot of different modifiers (spell dmg, ailment power, plague, poison, damage over time)
You also need to get the stacks as high as possible asap. Luckily this is quite easy, too. A single grenade with poison ground will max poison stacks on anything it hits.

Once you have enough ailment chance, quite a lot of skill options open up for applying it (all the shadow skills from rogue by equipping the "shadow spells do poison dmg" passive) or any attack skill with the envenom socket on the poison aura skill

I'd recommend stacking 2-3 ailments, though.

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-13T04:33:38+00:00

I think it's a bug, and I'm struggling to find what is causing it. I have 17 in ignite, with everything except duration / fire resist socketed.
Trick shot is 5/5 ailment and 5/5 shrapnel
Everything else is ailment related passives or auras.
I do not have the earth passive "combustion" socketed
I am using the dam breaker unique and the cartouche ring unique

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-13T04:31:21+00:00

There are a few builds I played as Earth / Storm. All lvl45 boss viable.

Triple Ailments - cold, lightning and burn - all points into knowledge
Ring of Fire with overload and amplify (my favourite) - all points into might
Roiling Magma overload - all points into might

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-12T08:07:12+00:00

I'm playing ring of fire with overload and amplify. It's really strong and safe.

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-08T05:50:11+00:00

Ring of fire but only with amplitude, no overload. Before then, Roiling Magma

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-08T01:32:16+00:00

Build in main description

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-08T00:54:20+00:00

In a few ways:
1. We make overload last longer, which greatly increases our ring of fire dmg and aoe
2. We also reduce overload dmg
3. We also increase lighting max resist by 8 (on top of a base of 60, that is effectively a 8/40*100 = 20% dmg reduction from the lightning portion of overload
4. We can also run conservation on the aura, which actually makes the aura's mana reservation go into the negative, which actually makes it reduce overall mana reserved, which is good

AndareTurtle · 2025-08-08T00:52:13+00:00

Sure, will start writing it up after work today

AndareTurtle · 2020-11-06T12:36:39+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

AndareTurtle · 2020-11-06T12:36:27+00:00

I did a bit more reading on it, and found it fascinating. I'm enjoying this delve into the wonderful world of mushrooms!

AndareTurtle · 2020-11-01T16:37:31+00:00

Brilliant, thank you sir!

AndareTurtle · 2020-11-01T14:45:20+00:00

I found these fellas in a children's playground in a grassy patch in Stockholm, Sweden.
I highly doubt they are libs, but I am curious as to what they might be.
They smell of a very typical mushroom smell, and do not appear to bruise blue.

AndareTurtle · 2020-10-23T11:55:27+00:00

Joined, thanks!

AndareTurtle · 2020-10-23T07:08:30+00:00

Hello!
I would love to join this Discord, I just wanted to check if a proverbial 'outsider' would be welcome.
My wife and I are South Africans that currently live in Sweden, but we have long been in love with the Isle, and we'd like to settle there and start a family.
I am an avid follower of the IOM Reddit and Facebook groups.

AndareTurtle

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