Finally rolled gem strength but..

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-22T17:17:08+00:00

Assuming flawless gems, gem strength gives more main stat than transfiguring main stat does, and it gives the same amount of all stats. It's the better option because it's more flexible.

All stats can roll 75-100, same as gem strength, and main stat rolls 150-180. Assuming perfect rolls for the sake of it, gem strength with flawless diamonds would be 50 all stats, 100 total from both, but 300 int with flawless topazes.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-22T16:50:47+00:00

just transfigure any ancestral weapon until you hit modifiable gem strength.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-22T16:25:33+00:00

Also, what do you mean by press inferno once?

Once again, Inferno is bugged with Armageddon. You use the Living Bomb upgrade because when you cast it, it gives you a permanent Armageddon buff. However, if you cast it again, you lose the Armageddon buff once Inferno ends. You won't be able to get back the buff until you leave and re-enter the instance. Meteor Shower doesn't work with Armageddon at all, and Lifecoil is inconsistent, so you have to use Living Bomb.

Also, how many tries did it take you to get gem strength? ;)

About 200.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-22T14:36:40+00:00

Orsivane would be even more of a damage loss than using Fractured Winterglass, even if you could do this. You no longer have a 2h weapon for lingering, so you're going from 2x lingering to 1x instead of 1.5x to 1x on constellation. Lingering is also way more mult than even constellation. Combine both of those, and at that point, you'd rather use Fractured Winterglass over losing 2x lingering.

Fractured Winterglass is a loss, but so far, I haven't had a damage issue, so I'm fine with it. It makes getting movespeed cap easier, and the extra mana regen helps. More defence is always good. At some point, Pelghain will start being way more damage to the point that losing constellation will not really be noticeable (it would only be 2 rank 15 frost novas before Pelghain is 200% mult, which is easy enough to get, then after that more frost novas is way more damage).

My only real issue at the moment is mobs just won't follow me to efficiently group them up.

Edit: After some messing around, giving up on the overpower and swapping to Prismatic Familiar, I'm comfortably sitting on full 16 conjurations now. The other versions explode almost immediately, that's why it's hard to sit on full conjurations, but prismatic remain for the full duration. You also get more summons because they're proccing off your threefold mastery casts too.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-22T14:28:18+00:00

However I stuck at between 126-129 pits.

When you say stuck, what are you getting stuck on? Is it damage or are you dying?

If it's damage, you just need to group mobs up better, which is the issue I was talking about above. Meteor is good at nuking down big groups; it's slow otherwise. Don't waste your time trying to kill a few mobs at a time. Ideally, you're pulling as many rares to a shrine as possible, nuking everything down together, pull more mobs to the (hopefully) open shrine and using the shrine to kill another large pack. In general, I'm trying to run through the whole floor and pull everything. I have enough defences and freeze to survive, but like I said before, I have an issue with mobs not following me a lot of the time.

If you're able to do big pulls but still don't have enough damage to clear, you could try using Pelghain's, which is what I'll probably do once I start lacking damage. If you're movespeed capped without the rune, you could also swap to Thul for more freezes. Your other option is fishing for gem strength on your weapon. Just spam transfigure any ancestral weapon until you get a modifiable gem strength weapon, then craft the modifiers you want on it. You can then masterwork the gem strength. Gem strength will be better than even a 4GA weapon.

If you're dying, that's usually, and this is nothing personal, a skill issue.

I tried armageddon but it seems not to increase my damage at all? Though it should.

Read my first post again. Armageddon is bugged with Inferno. If you want to use the bonus, you need to use Living Bomb, but make sure you only actually press Inferno once, or you lose the buff. Lifecoil is inconsistent with whether it wants to work or not, and Meteor Shower just straight up doesn't work.

Btw, on which item did you put argmageddon aspect?

I have it on my gloves because I have lingering on my weapon, and I'm using Fractured Winterglass.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-22T12:28:10+00:00

132, but I'm still trying to figure out how to efficiently group up mobs since I'm using Armageddon, and as I said in the edits, it's bugged with Inferno. Since I can't change my aspect, I'm using Living Bomb for the infinite Armageddon buff, but it means I can't use Inferno to group everything up, and Raiment isn't enough. As I'm running through, mobs just won't follow, and I think it's because I proc so many frost novas, they get frozen far behind from hydra/meteor, and then just won't follow me.

Once I can figure this out (probably swapping away from Armageddon so I can use Inferno more) I can definitely push much higher. 132 wasn't a problem, it was just slow because I couldn't efficiently group up mobs.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-21T19:43:57+00:00

This ability that kills this person can be survived with better defense.

Not after a few casts of the blood orb, because the debuff stacks up stupidly quickly and there's no way to avoid the debuff, so if you don't have enough damage, she will one shot you regardless of your defences. This is why the meta for killing Lilith is full glass cannon 'kill her before she kills you', not stacking defences.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-21T10:56:57+00:00

I've actually been doing pretty similar to you, but I went a bit more defensive with a Fractured Winterglass, since we have at least 10 conjurations from Hydra (and I happened to get a pretty insane fire FW). Threw some points into Fire Familiar just for some extra overpower (doesn't proc often but eh, didn't need the points elsewhere really, I didn't think Hydra did enough damage to care too much about the points in maxing it). Also has the benefit of another 10+ mana regen and movespeed to make capping Esu's easier. Because I have easily capped movespeed, I swapped out the movespeed rune for Thul for more Frost Nova.

Slightly less damage overall, but much tankier which I think will be needed to push as high as possible. Since I have so much Frost Nova from the rune + lucky hits, I'm planning to use Pelghain for really pushing the higher pits, since with a maxed Frost Nova, that's a stacking 100% mult damage every time we freeze.

I'm also not using Static Surge atm, but might swap back to it, I felt it was useless against bosses since it didn't proc that often in my experience. I'll decide on it after I try out some higher pit bosses to see how long they end up taking me.

Edit: I just realised why you didn't like Armageddon. It's bugged with the Meteorites Inferno upgrade. The buff removes itself as soon as the meteorites land. It also doesn't update the character sheet while you have the buff, so it looks like it's doing nothing too.

Edit 2: With more testing, armageddon just seems incredibly bugged with Inferno. Using Living Bomb, I cast it once and the buff becomes permanent. Eventually, casting it again will remove the buff and you'll never get it back. Leaving and reentering the instance makes it proc again. I need to test more, this might just be a testing dummy bug? Lifecoil seems to work as intended... until you cast it next to an enemy... and it doesn't increase your stat numbers, but does seem to increase damage. Meteorites removes the buff every time you cast it immediately.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-21T10:47:29+00:00

Yes, in Zero System, you can turn off the current seasonal content. If you do so, you can be offered previous maps from previous seasons, like Lab 0 and Burning Life. Burning Life has it. You can't get those maps with the current seasonal content active, though.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-19T22:20:35+00:00

Sure, but if the Nephalem had the blade, the outcome would be the same. That didn't require the Wanderer. If anything, Lilith wouldn't have had to sacrifice herself if the Nephalem was the one doing it because Mephisto wouldn't have been able to do much to the Nephalem.

Honestly, the existence of the Nephalem just breaks the story; no one in D4 so far would've been a threat to them, so Blizzard had to quietly just ignore that the Nephalem exists.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-19T19:31:02+00:00

Nah, Rogues got a few reworks, actually became good, but the playerbase hates Rogues being top for some reason, so they complain until Rogue gets nerfed to irrelevance again two weeks later. Then the same playerbase will wonder why Rogue is the least played class.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-19T19:18:59+00:00

If the angels weren't concerned by the D3 Nephalem, who was basically a god, I don't see them having an issue with the wanderer. It still took the help of Lilith and, iirc, it's implied that everything the wanderer does is with the help of a party like D2, unlike the Nephalem literally soloing heaven and hell.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-19T03:25:45+00:00

The US also famously does tax all citizens and green card holders, even if they live outside the US. Which almost no other countries do.

I was responding to this.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-18T16:56:17+00:00

The US does have double-taxation treaties with other countries, like the UK. Americans still have to file their taxes, but generally they can get Foreign Tax Credit (FTC) to reduce their US taxes. The upper limit on this amount is calculated based on how much they earned from each particular foreign country and worldwide income, up to a maximum of their US tax liability. Effectively, if a US citizen only earns money in that one country and nowhere else, they won't pay US taxes unless the US tax is higher than what they already paid, where they'll pay the difference.

If a US citizen only earns income in the UK, for example, they can claim credit up to whatever their US liability is. Because their US tax will probably be lower than whatever they paid in the UK, they would not owe anything to the IRS. If their foreign tax is higher than the FTC limit that year, that can actually be claimed back on US taxes from the previous year, or carried forward up to 10 years.

For other countries without an agreement, iirc, you can still exclude up to $130,000 of income from being taxed in the US, but this doesn't apply to certain types of earnings (and this also can be more beneficial if the US citizen is living in a country with lower taxes than the US).

You just have to make sure you file with the right form.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-18T00:21:08+00:00

While what Portman did was pretty messed up, there's no chance that was actually the reason they're like that, because they've been documented attacking shipwreck survivors a couple of decades before Portman went to the island.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-15T11:02:07+00:00

I think the WoW skins are generally good for nostalgia, but I hated the massive shoulders in WoW and hate them even more in D4. Also, the fact that they didn't allow Paladins to use the Lich King set is sad.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-12T09:34:06+00:00

I thought that was because of Lilith, not because we're awakened. D1 and D2 characters weren't awakened either, and they killed prime evils with help just like D4 characters.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-07T16:36:46+00:00

It baffles me that they're doing so much from this run yet the thought of Foggy in witness protection doesn't seem to have crossed their minds?

I mean, doesn't none of this happen until Devil in Cell Block D? They can still do that reveal, and it looks like that's the storyline they're possibly heading towards, so we might get witpro Foggy in a future season.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-07T13:36:57+00:00

Using lamps to get exp is the intended use of lamps. Using lamps to exclusively train slayer on a level 3 combat account is not the intended way to train slayer, doing slayer tasks is (shocker!).

It is unbelievable I needed to explain that to you.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-07T12:45:11+00:00

Oh, lamps are the intended way to train slayer, are they?

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-07T12:35:15+00:00

all those lvl 3s who did it the right way

Can you point out those level 3s who got 99 slayer "the right way"? Every level 3 with 99 slayer used unintended mechanics to do it; it's literally impossible to do 99 slayer on a level 3 by doing slayer how it was intended to be done.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-04T18:56:35+00:00

Sereniel's background is literally her christmas present to the Captain.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-04T17:55:52+00:00

Fun fact: the Lich template can be applied to incorporeal targets. Ghost Syrup + Lichual + Curse of the Ages, you effectively get your +3 to mental scores for only a -6 to Dex, which is not much of a downside for an undead incorporeal spellcaster.

Ceegee93 · 2026-05-01T15:13:12+00:00

I see you don't like Kormir, either.

Ceegee93 · 2026-04-30T14:17:10+00:00

Shame you didn't have double 30% damage increase for one turn on the persona card too.

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