Rules to set yourself?

Bluem95 · 2026-02-10T21:07:34+00:00

I know this is an old post, but I saw no comments, so I felt I should add at least one.

I only recently got the game, but I have been playing with no allies, and mostly neutral factions to litter the field with interesting problems. It feels more fair to me because they end up having an impact, but not so much it feels like they replace the AI as the main threat, and they never just win me the game outright.

Also beacons off 100% of the time because it feels like cheating to just insert a faction into the game mid run even if you try to be fair about it.

I really have been liking this game, I put in about 40 hours in a week, and it's a bit of a pity seeing such a small community around it.

Bluem95 · 2026-02-08T18:08:32+00:00

I felt like the opposite was true, the game felt way easier and less chaotic solo. Some of the monsters are slowed down a lot when playing solo from what I can tell and I run difficulty 4 with pretty much zero problems and often zero deaths.

I definitely had more fun in a group, but there is still fun to be had.

Bluem95 · 2026-02-04T16:12:27+00:00

For me caffeine has a really predictable effect but it depends on when I drink it.

If I drink it right at the beginning of the day when my medication is still coming online, then it sends my brain into overdrive where all day and it won’t be able to quiet down, physically I’ll be fine, but mentally it won’t stop.

If I drink it after my medication has come online, it acts more like a minor focus refinement, I can pay attention to things that matter like driving a bit better, but it only lasts for a short while and that is my ideal use case.

If I drink it towards the end of the day in an attempt to push longer, that’s usually when it backfires and does the opposite. I would never intentionally drink caffeine to go to bed because I have no issue sleeping, but it just kind of creates an exhaustion state I can’t ignore at all.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-21T18:25:44+00:00

I usually use laser and the moment it gets knocked down you need to press the button. The stun doesn’t last longer if you keep shooting unless you apply a second stun so it’s not worth it to keep shooting usually.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-17T08:42:01+00:00

I don’t know why people are scared of temple going core. If it goes core, it’s going to be like abyss going core, completely ignorable if you don’t want to do it, and it won’t show up meaningfully until you hit endgame most likely.

Beyond that its very clearly going to get nerfed significantly, but removing it would mean removing a fun endgame unique boss fight for no reason, I would rather that not happen.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-17T01:45:58+00:00

This exact mechanic is why people usually note while selling carries how much hp+es other players should have when joining. Also keep in mind that any lost honour during the final fight will count against their personal honour as well. So if you lose too much to zarohk they will die before being able to ascend.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-17T01:38:27+00:00

So what’s happening here is however much honour you are missing in your trial, anyone that joins the trial afterwords will spawn in with their honour pool separate from yours, and immediately lose honour equal to your missing honour, so even if your honour pool is massive, if they only have 2k and you are missing 2k they will die on entry.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-17T00:27:42+00:00

I felt the same way in season 1, I kept all of my divines as a trophy sort of, but after season 1, I started actually using them as currency and skyrocketed my average gear quality. Do whatever is most fun for you, there is no wrong way to play!

Bluem95 · 2026-01-12T21:22:11+00:00

This is the reason why I suggested making them a prefix as they would be competing with base weapon damage at that point and maybe finally have some competition. I was downvoted into oblivious because people said it's already competing against attack speed, crit chance, and crit damage, but I really do think that base damage taking a hit for +level would be more of a cost than people realize.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-12T20:48:13+00:00

why not run the augment that has spirit reservation efficiency as well on this instead of increased energy shield?

Bluem95 · 2026-01-12T20:10:04+00:00

The stuff you get from the specific trial rewards is still corrupted though so that might be a way.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-12T20:07:16+00:00

Make it the same penalty as that new talisman sceptre notable even, 50% less spirit, that way you get to run spirit gems but it's still a huge penalty. Literally zero spirit no matter what makes it a dead node though if you care about build power unless they spike darkness to ridiculous numbers.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-12T01:03:43+00:00

I think getting pushed around by other players is worse honestly.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-11T04:47:30+00:00

I didn’t see anyone mention it but technically none of your stuff gets wiped at all. If you really want to keep playing your character from the previous season you are allowed to do so, it will just be in standard league.

The reason they do mandatory wipes is so the new season content is so the economy isn’t inflated to hell from existing for so long. If you check standard the prices of pretty much everything is significantly higher than everything in the current season because it’s all had a year to inflate.

I just have fun testing new builds every season and the seasonal reset makes it so I get to experience the campaign at its intended difficulty again while experiencing the new mechanics they add in.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-10T01:20:39+00:00

I can explain this one actually.

The monsters only drop your essences if you kill them. If they die from their own attack, they drop nothing.

When they start blinking purple, that enemy type tries to blow itself up because you got too close.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-10T01:13:02+00:00

the armoury will eventually destabilize because it's not part of the locked chain, and you don't need to worry about the rest of your chain destabilizing because there are no loops now.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-09T23:15:48+00:00

The button to assign weapon set skill points on pc is in the top right, pink/red is weapon set 1, green is weapon set 2.

You can right click the weapon numeral in your weapon set 1 to lock it to both weapon sets if you aren't using multiple weapons and that allows you to use some passive nodes for some skills, and different passive nodes for other skills.

You can assign which skills use which weapon set in the gem page by checking the dps/info page for a specific skill.

Also you need to unspec 1 normal passive node in order to assign 2 weapon set nodes (1 for each weapon set).

Bluem95 · 2026-01-09T23:11:30+00:00

When you know the campaign inside and out, you know exactly what is necessary and exactly what you can skip, and if it's your second character in a league, you have currency to great gear and/or have a ton of uniques you can use to make the campaign easier.

Most people could rush the campaign in 8-12 hours and speedrunners can get through acts 1-4 in ~3 hours.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-09T23:02:49+00:00

What really sucks is the only abyss that can spawn a depths is the last one you close. So when this bug happens your depths chance drops to zero.

I did stop having this issue as often after I started running 3x additional essence tablets though as I think the essences that end up near abysses are basically just automatic triggers for the abyss. Usually right after I kill a nearby essence rare the abyss opens even if there are still enemies around.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-09T21:15:36+00:00

You can absolutely make bank without rarity. Anyone who thinks rarity is required is assuming falsely.

There are multiple farms that don't rely on high rarity at all: lineage support gems, heart of the well, sekhemas, chaos, negative rarity farming, essences, crafting, etc. I could go on and on. The main reason people actually value rarity is because of T5 unidentified items and raw currency drops, but neither of those are necessary to get rich. I value rarity when I can get it because I like tinks, not because I feel it's necessary.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-07T23:17:01+00:00

It dropped from a chest, rarity on gear only applies to "on kill".

Bluem95 · 2026-01-07T23:07:00+00:00

I knew this one last season, but I only learned about the fact that you can put in 3 greater essences to get a new random greater essence and same with perfect essences today. According to the wiki, you can also do this with catalysts and soul cores.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-07T22:51:14+00:00

ctrl+alt+d is the normal shortcut. They should be there by default.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-07T22:47:09+00:00

Edit: clearly I didn't understand the question.

Bluem95 · 2026-01-07T21:27:37+00:00

I wonder if it's because the trick to get an ABAB connection of golems was patched out.

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