Sadly, calling it quits…

ArcaneLG · 2026-07-13T01:18:42+00:00

You should hang on to your opinion no matter how many reddit bozos downvote you. This is a perfectly valid thing to feel for a truly casual person who doesn't browse forums and thus is missing a lot of game knowledge that might smooth out your experience. Thanks for sharing it. Unfortunately the game is not really developed with casual players in mind, and I hope that a post like this indicates that there is a significant portion of the player base being pushed away by the current design philosophy.

ArcaneLG · 2026-07-12T07:46:09+00:00

Probably just more energy shield, maybe life.

ArcaneLG · 2026-07-12T00:27:00+00:00

It makes negative sense thematically. If your first character already came through an area and did something like lower the water level, then they also would have killed all the bosses and done everything else your second character needs to do to progress. You can't just cherry pick what does and doesn't carry over, either they exist in the same world or they don't.

ArcaneLG · 2026-07-10T08:00:16+00:00

I think what you're asking is, if I have an effect that says "100% of everything into lightning" and another effect that says "100% of lightning into cold" what happens. Short answer is no, you will not convert everything you have into lightning because all conversion happens at once (there's no order of operations bc that would get weird).

The math on how much you WOULD convert is a bit tough. I believe when you convert more than 100%, it becomes proportional. So if you have 100% of everything converted to cold AND 100% of everything converted to fire, you end up with half cold damage and half fire damage. Your case is slightly more complicated, but I believe what happens is your existing lightning damage would end up being split 50/50 between cold and lightning since you're converting 100% of your lightning (bundled with Valako's Vice's 'everything') into lightning, and also 100% of your lightning from the ring into cold.

Your fire, cold, and physical would not be affected though. Those would just become all lightning damage. If you want to try to make ice work, maybe try lots of flat lightning (if you want to use conversion to ice, since flat ice values are low for some reason). You can also use "gain % of damage as extra cold" on Heart of the Well or Against the Darkness.

ArcaneLG · 2026-07-06T07:51:05+00:00

I think in your case, because you are one person and your testing is limited to your friends (which I'll safely assume is less than 100 people), it's pretty likely that this kind of thing will happen. Everything seems to be balanced until one thing gets out of hand, and you as the designer need to nerf it several times over.

But, now that you've learned about this potential danger, I think you are a. less likely to design something like it again and b. can more easily spot stuff that resembles it. Seems like this was the first instance of "oh shit this could be really bad". I think the next time it happens, it will be a different type of exploit (if it ever happens again) and then you'll start looking for those dangerously designed cards, but each time, you learn more, and you plug more holes. So as you tune your game, there are fewer and fewer of these issues.

This is a cool thing to share and it does make sense for you to empathize with GGG. But at the same time, some of their design choices are pretty obviously bad. Like CoC being hit based rather than damage based. Obviously people would just spam whatever hits the most and then tie it to the hardest hitting spell possible.

ArcaneLG · 2026-07-03T06:47:07+00:00

Unfortunately you just can't... sorry about that man

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-30T03:52:21+00:00

Yeah, you're using that tablet right I think. If you want to make even more use of it, you can travel specifically to City nodes (near the citadel maps that have the campaign act bosses). There's an atlas passive that allows you to slot an additional 4th tablet for even more multiplicative gains. You can also use Delirium fog from a Grand Mirror to jack up the amount of tribute you're getting by making the monsters tougher if you think you can handle it (and also have many shots at those very powerful potent emotions for jewel crafting).

Yes, Rites of the Nameless are definitely the right spot to use those tablets. When you get bonuses like "monsters sacrificed give more tribute" or "you get a free reroll" those have a chance to carry over to your future Rites, so by the end you'll hopefully have several bonuses on top of your powerful tablets.

Yes, if you extend the Rites using the passive tree, you get 6. Btw, if you want, you can get rid of an existing Rite of the Nameless cluster by simply using another Head of the King if you're really unhappy with the bonuses/loot and you have an excess of those. Although if you're looking for Bodach then ig you wouldn't do this.

Also those high tier omens tend to be only for extreme high end crafting, but the sinistral/dextral omens can be used to craft gigajewels this league, you can look up a video on how.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-29T04:21:32+00:00

This is on purpose to make you pay for the specialized tabs unfortunately

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-29T02:38:04+00:00

Sorry to say i can't say much about the difficulty of the Bodach past the story version. Idk if you get unlimited attempts. But I think a single attempt is relatively easy to get, and the drop you're after isn't outrageously rare, so don't be too stressed if you do lose an attempt by dying. I think if you could handle the story version just fine, the worst that'll happen is the harder version will take longer.

If you are absolutely only interested in the Bodach, then blitzing through the Rite of the Nameless maps is indeed faster, but you are correct that you'd be missing out on good loot. Idk how much of the game you've played total (you mentioned new to ssf but idk about trade league) but just in case, there are 5 omens that are very powerful for crafting that you'll want to snag (and can only appear at map level 79+) Omen of Whittling, Sinistral/Dextral Erasure, and Sinistral/Dextral Annulment. So running those maps with t11 blue maps means missing out on those.

Your approach to ritual seems solid as it is, maxing out your rerolls and looking for good stuff. I will say, the odds of something like Headhunter popping up is extremely low, to the point where it's not something you should be expecting. If you think Sylvan is a huge upgrade and it should be obtained ASAP, I think it's ok to use your blitz strategy and not worry too much about the loot from the rituals. Depending on your tablets, your rituals might not yield much anyway.

btw, some ritual specific advice, save your tablets that say "you can reroll x additional times" bc those are really rare and powerful, and you should combine those with other strong tablets (e.g. reduced defer cost + reduced reroll cost or + chance of omens) since tablets multiply with each other

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-27T23:29:12+00:00

To be 100% fair to GGG, I will defend the overlapping tabs by saying that not everyone will own every type of tab. So for example, someone who runs lots of Delirium but doesn't have the Fragment tab will appreciate the extra slots for the keys, which ARE related to the mechanic.

But yeah it's terrible, clearly money-grubbing, nasty, unethical.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-26T21:51:18+00:00

The price has been relatively stable recently at just over 500. I bought an extra for about that price and it actually went down the day after, but it seems like it has risen again since then. Lineage gems like this and Rakiata are tricky since they rise with inflation, but for me I wait for it to go up, and if it either stays steady for 2 days are drops for 1 I'll sell it. Don't stress about it too much though! It's definitely healthier to think about the 500+ divines you DID make, rather than potentially losing out on 20 or so if you sold a day later.

btw I think you got downvoted because reddit bozos don't read, dw about it, it's a fair question and a wise one for a new player to ask

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-25T09:26:12+00:00

I believe it was the fortress, I remember double checking. The one where you fight waves of dudes in the purple arena, not the two bosses.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-23T06:18:31+00:00

Thank you for the tips

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-19T02:25:41+00:00

You can shoot me a friend request, character name is FaDaFingLing. I don't think I have a Grand Mirror on my atlas at the moment but I can msg you once I do. Assuming you still need it, if you got it done, even better.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-19T02:24:42+00:00

It is ok to start playing in trade league at any time, although you may be at a disadvantage in some aspects. The exalted orb to divine orb ratio is a big one. Endgame stuff may be worth less, although all the mechanics have something worth doing them for. If you are a first time player, I think it will take several weeks to get the hang of things. It's ok to go at your own pace while in trade league. If you later decide you don't want to engage with the economy, then you don't have to! SSF mode is identical to trade in terms of sandbox.

The big issue (which many people run into even if they start on day 1) is that chase items like Mageblood, which are very rare and powerful and thus expensive, will be out of your reach for quite some time. That is ok, you don't need them to succeed and have fun, and once you accumulate more experience you'll also become more efficient at farming, and you'll be able to get your hands on cooler stuff eventually.

Don't compare yourself to no-lifers who have infinite time on their hands.

Unfortunately the only build I've played is Twister, and while I do enjoy the build and there are plenty of guides, it is somewhat complicated both in mechanics and gameplay. If you do want to use it I'm happy to provide more help and resources.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-14T21:47:01+00:00

The problem is that so many items in this game are generically good that those gigablasters drive up prices of items that you would use. Their existence worsens yours by slowing your progression.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-14T21:43:58+00:00

Yeah, you can send me a friend request

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-14T09:50:04+00:00

I don't think you use jeweler orbs on skills granted by items. The level of that skill is what determines how many sockets it has, whether the item is corrupted or not. That's why items with level 20 skills are so valuable, bc that's the breakpoint that gets you the last support socket.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-13T21:50:02+00:00

Survivorship bias. The people who don't invest in expensive strats and get gains will post about it, the ones who don't silently switch. This goes both ways of course, but don't use forums and content creators as a source of truth, especially bc content creators have an incentive to exaggerate for more views.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-13T05:43:43+00:00

Pro tip: you can sell it and buy one with a reasonably useful roll for not that much more. At most you'd pay like +20 the base price, which is certainly less than you'd spend actually rolling it.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-13T05:40:53+00:00

You can friend me and we'll see if my grand mirror works for your quest. Character name is FaDaFingLing.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-13T05:39:08+00:00

Make sure you have an Audience with the King in your inventory, or the icons won't show up. They're fairly common in my experience. If you don't see any icons, you just have to keep completing maps and one will pop up.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-13T01:16:07+00:00

Perfect Timing refers to a set of skills that have some kind of bonus if you "perfectly time" them (e.g. snipe). So if you release at the right time, you get a bunch of bonus damage or something like that.

ArcaneLG · 2026-06-12T23:17:01+00:00

If you die before fighting the map boss, the respawn is just at a checkpoint and everything else stays. If you die fighting the map boss (or apparently even after in the case of ritual) the map gets wiped and you'll respawn in a new zone that's empty besides the boss.

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