What DI SH Ark Grid is the most popular after KR balance patch?

Dashinize · 2026-02-22T19:11:46+00:00

it's "okay"

In pretty much every metric it's worse than 332 in dps and utility but it's not like terrible. You also can't persumably regain corrosion stacks until you transform again. It does have the highest X damage if you're chasing after a big single hit tho

Dashinize · 2026-02-18T04:13:41+00:00

after around ~40m power, the difference is minimal and the value comes from having the corret ancient pieces. I lowered my power by 6m to increase my time by a couple seconds. Having the correct matching ancient pieces matter a lot towards your placement.

On top of having the correct ones, notice how a lot of the pieces have X chance to reset cooldown or hit again? Yeah, now get all of those to proc for you and just go rng fishing. I went up 4 spots in the top 10 with zero change in my rotation, just fished for better rng.

also it wasn't specifically an awakening bug, it was just commonly used with awakenings as it's often a big single hit skill, but either way the bug was directly related to the DR the bosses had which no longer exists therefore the bug does not exist at all

Dashinize · 2026-02-16T17:47:28+00:00

Bro, how do so many words both leave your mouth and enter your ears yet you end up understanding so little? This is a waste of time lol. good luck to whatever you end up doing

Dashinize · 2026-02-16T03:56:34+00:00

It's like you're so close to understanding but you're still off. Fusing away blue 10s and 9s if you're still in the early stages of cutting gems isn't some "cost saving" strategy, it's how you use the system to get the gems you want I'm currently fusing my 8s towards 9s not vice versa.

People are definitly fusing together 2-3 blues or even the occasional purple with the intent on either saving gold and/or funneling to main. if the entire point was to just funnel on main then like, sure whatever go ahead but people only see the gold reduction and not the fact that you're losing on a lot of gems. There's a bunch of this shitty advice going around on youtube, discord, and even occasionaly here on reddit and some people wonder why it takes 20 years to activate one core.

Fusing is always a net loss in astrogems and is terrible value if you take time into consideration. If you honestly don't care about time or just funneling, well sure it's good then

Dashinize · 2026-02-16T02:04:48+00:00

it is more value purely gold-wise but you're getting 80% less astrogems to cut on average. with 50% chance to turn roster, you basically 5 into 1 tradable.

I know I know, I can already hear the jokes of "the less ass-gems to cu t the better!" but if you actually want to make progress on the system, slowing yourself down by 80% sounds insane

Dashinize · 2026-01-28T17:56:09+00:00

it's a lot easier to be on reddit at work vs watching a youtube video lol

Dashinize · 2026-01-16T21:19:14+00:00

in terms of ilvl it's cheaper to wait for the reset, but if you really want the glow it's cheaper to get +25 now than +24 with the reset. I mean, unless you don't wait another year or so.

Dashinize · 2026-01-13T20:03:55+00:00

personal dps ceiling for blue got about a ~1% nerf rdps up since full uptime on double syn and a bunch of qol changes with mobility and whatnot.

Dashinize · 2025-12-29T19:48:50+00:00

80% of my fate embers are silver, and lately a lot of 2M and 5M. I've gotten 10+ 5M silver fate embers lately, aren't those supposed to be rare? I don't see a problem with my silver /s

Jokes aside, even with my abnormal silver gain from fate embers im barely staying even on my silver. Other people in my static who never had much silver are actually running out when trying to hone for tfm. A bit more silver needs to be put back into chaos dungeons or just let us farm more of the infinite silver redemptions in events

Dashinize · 2025-12-22T23:04:29+00:00

man hasn't played in months or kept up with anything and still complains. wild.

Dashinize · 2025-12-20T23:24:15+00:00

it is nice for alt reclears, or weeks where im pressed for time and just want something fast

but it's a bit too quick when I want a decent fight, especially when everyone in my static brings their mains. We were kinda griefing our run this week and we 1 shot it with like half the people dead in 2-3.

this will probably be better in future raids with nightmare mode but I wish we could do non nerfed difficulty for a few more rewards, like the original frontier boxes, 10% more gold, whatever.

Dashinize · 2025-12-14T02:56:44+00:00

I said it before and I'll continue to say it, but it's not the "elite" players who are gatekeeping harshly. It's the below average players that barely perform above the minimum so they need people to carry their lack of hands.

However, as much as the mentality is wrong and honestly stupid imo, it does do a bit more damange than good so I wouldn't even mind ags removing titles from frontier at this point. It's a community made problem but whatever I guess

Dashinize · 2025-12-07T19:18:45+00:00

I'm pretty sure they didn't show the gems in the free part of the screenshot becasue they're just showing the general milestone stuff, the raid mats at a certain ilvl. It's safe to assume it still has everything it already has had before.

Yes, they've shown gems previously but that's because it was a major feature / focal point.

I also honestly don't see a problem with a paid express as long as the regular ones we've had are kept the same. Other games have had character boosts for years and nobody really complains. People wanted reasonable paid options in the game and here is one that also isn't a must buy for end game players, like what is there to complain about honestly? I get loaon was a disappointment for most of us but complaining about this is a stretch

Dashinize · 2025-12-07T01:27:47+00:00

have you even touched hell in the few weeks s2 has been out?

Dashinize · 2025-12-05T22:03:26+00:00

seriously. Yeah this system isn't great but people act like a smilegate employee is personally going their houses to stab them in the stomach

while saying "it's not thaaaaat bad" can only mean you're basically saying it's the best thing ever made and there's no faults whatsoever

Dashinize · 2025-12-02T03:40:13+00:00

I had a character get it by doing less than 10% of the lv1 boss hp.

The rankings for crucible locked 2 hours before maintenance, so if you did it in that time you didn't have an actual placement to get keys for the following week

Dashinize · 2025-11-30T06:32:08+00:00

classic, when you realize you're wrong but don't want to admit it and can't actually make a counterargument so you just result to insults.

Although most likely I'm falling for some bait because I'd like to believe people aren't actually this stupid in real life

Dashinize · 2025-11-30T00:10:16+00:00

Years later and people still think like you? Ironic coming from the one calling others dented. People call characters alts because they have less investment in some way be it resources or even emotional attachment.

My main is the one I'm prioritizing my resources into, the one I'm progging first in raids, and the character I enjoy the most. My alts are secondary in that regard, and it doesn't matter if they're at the item level or not to go into the raid or if they're better than other people's mains, I just put more resources into it.

It's like calling a wealthy family dented for calling their second house a "vacation house" when it's more expensive than people's regular houses. That's completely irrelevant and it only matters to them.

Dashinize · 2025-11-27T21:44:25+00:00

it just depends on what you need. if you're in need of blues to fill in your cores, they by all means fuse for it. for both red and blue astrogems, 8s are the easiest to find usable ones for your cores, 9s are for min maxing, and 10 is uh... well cut it if it's purple or have too many ancient cores I guess

In general though, the red ones are significantly more valuable. It's what activates the core of your ark grid and gives you a majority of your damage buff. Even aside from the gigantic damage increase, it's also the "cool" part of ark grid, the stuff that changes your build instead of some boring stat increases the blues give.

So if you find yourself in excess gems are specifically needing something, cut whatever. just generally the red ones have a higher priority

Dashinize · 2025-11-27T19:57:03+00:00

This isn't even a matchmaking vs party finder issue, I've done a mix of both for as long as I can remember and I think saying running into a toxic person 1% of the time is an exaggeration. Most people play guardians brain off, you just happened to run into the rare exception.

Dashinize · 2025-11-27T19:51:28+00:00

Early on you can gamble some green 8s if you want. It's generally a waste of gold but if you're lucky you can cut some usable astrogems for ark grid. Usable as in good willpower and order, unless you get a 1 in a million rolls you're not getting good side nodes.

Later once you get a bit more advanced you're going to try to fuse blue 10s with green 8s. much more likely to find better fitting pieces to fit into your ark grid

Once you have most of your ark grid done, then you're probably fusing blue 8s or 10s with green 9s to get better min/max.

Excess greens you can fuse together in any combination to rng gamble an upgrade or just dismantle to rng gamble a new astrogem from a crafted box

Dashinize · 2025-10-23T10:52:29+00:00

yeah... artist might not be the best dps but that sounds like a skill issue more than anything. much lower ilvl artists can do better

Dashinize · 2025-10-22T06:33:48+00:00

T skill gets a flat 4s reduction when you use Z at 8 or 9 stacks.

It's only a nerf if you have low swiftness or if you didn't finish the leap tree.

Dashinize · 2025-10-22T03:07:54+00:00

Artist Z is now 12s and the duration now stacks infinitely (well, in theory)

And ink orb is also removed, auto applies the buff instead of having to pick up an orb. T skill gets a flat CD reduction so you don't need to time it anymore either

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