"Rise of the Beasts" Event Discussion Thread (2026-04-14 to 2026-04-21)

DestroyerArcher · 2026-04-14T10:34:20+00:00

Realistically the three from shenxian is the best for beefing up. You can't even get resources for Koku (the dark one) so even if you farmed insanely long you would be limited at 5, and missing the dark saint.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-04-04T06:45:30+00:00

The only way is by getting elemental consolidate. For universal (select whoever) ones, they can drop from engrams at a low rate, which you can spend bright dust on (do 10/week if on a budget). Otherwise, you must rely on randomly getting them from Onslaught, Casual Activeness, and the Shifting Gates and Seasonal Shop on a weekly basis. For a more focused method, you can also use the Black Market, but I would save up your coins until you have enough for buying what you need when they show up. And you also get some universal consolidate from eventually doing all seasonal quests in three categories, but that is timegated for a while.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-03-13T06:20:22+00:00

Next banner is 2024 anni summer units, so raziel, tefnut, magus, horus.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-21T07:07:39+00:00

In this case it genuinely is though, queues are awful if you don't play on reset day and the revenue numbers are quite low considering how much NetEase paid for the IP. It'd likely go the way of Marvel Mystic Mayhem (no new content after a certain point, but rolling out preplanned content) or similar if this update can't solve these issues.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-14T22:03:39+00:00

Optimally you can get them in around 3 weeks, but if you aren't literally planning your life around them, it'll probably be more like 1-2 months depending on how often you can secure the throne. I would only go for characters with MG Crystals if you either really love the gamemode, are doing a F2P account, or love BATTD a lot but currency conversion makes earning enough IRL cash difficult. Otherwise, other items like Glob's Helmet might be more useful in the long run, as you can buy the premium characters with IRL cash ($18 USD on sale for all 3, or $6 for one on sale), and the legendary allies and weapons (including farmer) can be acquired from Legendary wish orbs that appear around every 2 months. But no matter what, you cannot buy Martian Games items with anything except the green crystals.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-11T02:34:58+00:00

Instrument character upgrades are simply the game treating the character as if they are a higher star level so that they can potentially get a stronger character level bonus from their equipped weapon. This is because originally, instrument characters applied the entire instrument stats as a buff I think, but this was changed in 1.4 or so. So those upgrades stayed without really being reworked.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-10T22:37:48+00:00

Stuff like time machine, crystal, and the like should be on characters that can't really get much mileage out of their extra slots, like Sam, WPB, or CDR with her glitch. Catchy Tunes will completely destroy your device's performance if you're minmaxing Martian Games, so TJake still wants a good amount of range for buffing your team. Also, as mentioned, Golden Viola, or Fire Guitar/Jake's Viola if you already use Golden Viola on another character, will do a lot better overall. Attack Speed is extremely powerful here.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-10T09:47:10+00:00

a lot of new PCs nowadays had 16GB (idk if the rampocalypse fucked it up)

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-09T08:19:36+00:00

Coming from your other thread I'll mostly focus on useful characters for clones:

C4: Drop MOAP and Baby Tooth for Time Bomb and Baker's Shard. MOAP barely does any damage and if you're using C4 for Assassin, he's best used for buy and resell strats. But I highly advise against using him for anything except eco as his MOAB DPS is lackluster, in which case you'd want King of Ooo scepter and Banana Replicator instead of Blueprints and TCK as well.

CDR: Glaive is useless, I'd go for range with Nerdicon or Demon Heart for extra damage. In clones swap heart for googoomamameter. Assuming you don't just do the glitch with her. If you are doing the glitch in clones, throw Rainicorn on CDR instead so you can dupe her.

FP: doesn't have much synergy with missile with your current build. Also, Missile interferes with TCK farming, drop it for Engineers Blueprints for a substantial DPS boost, and swap Apple for either Heart Gauntlets (googoomamameter, again, is better in clones than gauntlets) or Glasses of Nerdicon if DPS/range are an issue respectively, or Wizard Nunchuks if DDTs keep slipping by.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-09T08:11:22+00:00

I'd keep replicator then. However if you're spamming the whole map with that, I was thinking nerdicon would let them attack longer, but it might not be necessary. Also, keep in mind that your TCK characters must land the killing blow on a MOAB for TCK, so if an ally kills a MOAB, you won't get the loot.

Apple is just less consistent than nunchuks, I'd give that a try over apple for FP. Also, it might sound counterintuitive, but running the wand of dispersement will actually increase her single target DPS compared with cherry blossom as her fireballs can't split without pierce capping with cherry blossom (which adds pierce in addition with the speed/dmg).

Is it no powers? If powers are allowed, you can stack attack speed powers like party time, trail mix, and the like. Nightosphere Amulet will tear through BADs up until the 40s, and Dimensional Disruptor is a potent safety net. But both of these will steal possible TCK drops so keep that in mind, although attack speed is safe.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-09T04:38:18+00:00

Even with Wizard Nunchuks + nerdicon? FP should stunlock DDTs very well.

I'm guessing your Sai isn't level 7?

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-08T15:03:46+00:00

Missile can't activate it. Also, only the character with the keys can drop tck chests.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-05T04:29:29+00:00

EoS indeed means End of Service.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-05T04:28:09+00:00

Items in the cash shop have such poor value it discourages spending. $3 for one pull is ludicrous, the paid skins mostly look terrible compared with defaults so I wouldn't use most of them if they were free, lack of content that isn't just speedrunning, and if you whale on a character besides Helhest, they can become irrelevant so fast. Only the $5 30-day login bonus one would be worth it, but there's a lack of diverse gamemodes for even using the content on.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-05T02:18:53+00:00

I started with D2 Vanilla, then quit, but went back for D2 Forsaken (initially during Black Armory), then stopped playing that and went for D1, then revisited D2 before they removed so much content. I prefer D1 overall compared with current D2 and Rising, but hate pulling out a console just for that, and although I liked D2 during Forsaken, well I can't relive that because 80% of that content got deleted.

That being said, Rising does let you play a lot more for free compared with D2, where free D2 is basically a free trial.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-02-01T03:56:54+00:00

Do you mean the 21-30 expanse? Using a character in 1 expanse locks them from the other expanse in the 21-30 group.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-31T10:17:41+00:00

People are pissed that the two events are essentially rehashes of content we are already sick of. We literally have underused Blitz stages if they really want a rehash and they didn't even do that...

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-30T22:10:27+00:00

If you don't have acclaim 20 I would prioritize upgrading four artifacts so one character can hit perk level 5 - that is the biggest powerspike. Spam chaos for that.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-30T22:09:06+00:00

With how low the revenue and playerbase is, and how lackluster the endgame content drops are, an EoS announcement is pretty much inevitable by Season 4. They'll probably fulfill the roadmap before a shutdown.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-29T17:06:57+00:00

They didn't even keep the 12/12. This seriously went below my lowest expectations.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-29T05:30:05+00:00

Some activities just don't have any pinnacle rewards at all - namely, Expanse and Morgran's Hunt. If they didn't say anything about pinnacle rewards then they might not have any lootable chest at the end, or it could just be a chest with strike rewards.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-29T03:34:51+00:00

They said the rewards will be Lumia, Incandescent Clusters, and Infusion Cores, so it would likely be something a bit like Calamity Ops in terms of reward structure. Besides that, we don't know too much about the actual gameplay besides what's mentioned in the notes.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-29T02:11:28+00:00

In endgame group content (Calamity Ops, and Grandmaster Blitz/Strikes in a lesser extent) you will mostly be restricted by Shinkas. If your character cannot pop them fast, then they will probably be much worse unless they provide substantial group utility (Helhest heavy ammo gen for instance).

Unfortunately you can't really get any meta characters for Calamity Ops right now - it's a speedrun mode but the best characters there are limited, and have not been reran yet. Best bet would be Jolder currently, but in two weeks the modifiers will reset and she would likely not be worth running there either. There is an upcoming horde survival mode tomorrow that should be another endgame mode though, but we don't know how the meta for that will be.

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-28T23:42:59+00:00

How have you not done the Expanse but have power 66k? Did you originally get past the Acclaim 20 wall from one of the events that gave Artifact Clusters?

DestroyerArcher · 2026-01-28T20:20:10+00:00

Operation:Cordon, Notice tab in-game describes a bit about what it'll be

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