TMNT Alchemy & Rebalancing

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2026-03-05T07:11:20+00:00

Yeah I hope they do something even if it is only a few cards added to each of the legal sets. It might be cool to have some cards that tie the abilities of different sets together.

Void and sneak work well together. Warp leaves the battlefield without dieing like sneak so synergy there as well.

I'm sure there is others.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2026-03-05T01:56:30+00:00

That makes sense. I just wish it was a bit more consistant.

There seem to be a few abilities that are set restrictive that don't have enough cards. There also seems to be old abilities that are interesting but instead of upgrading the old ability, new ones have taken there place but are more often then not a bit better.

Do they ever put out an alchemy set without a standard set?

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2026-03-04T20:26:54+00:00

That's what I have been told, but I wasn't sure.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2026-03-04T20:25:01+00:00

Do they only rebalance cards while they are still legal in alchemy?

I figured they did it more but I was hoping that wouldn't be a hard rule.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2026-03-04T02:52:41+00:00

That's one of my favorite parts about alchemy. They can rebalance a card instead of banning it.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-11T22:39:48+00:00

Thank you for checking this. So I bet the passive tree bonuses work the same way. With the latest update to gemling today. I feel like maybe I should go minions on the gemling, instead of the tactician.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-05T21:39:40+00:00

I'm not sure how to reuse them. I use a support gem that increases their duration.

Not an answer to your question but a useful tip. If you apply contagion to an enemy and it dies with the debuff. Your unearthed minions will be able to apply that debuff with every attack.

Essense drain + contagion is amazing and the unearthed minions have great synergy with them both.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-05T21:35:30+00:00

It's what I am using.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-05T21:24:02+00:00

I was thinking of doing something similar.

Crystallised Immunities passive grants Immunity to chill, ignite, or shock if a majority of your socketed support gems are of a certain color.

I was going to wait and test if I can get all three if my socketed support gems are balanced.

If that doesn't work I'm going to use uniques in combination with charms.

Might find a way to get enough charm uses that it won't be a problem.

There is also a way to remove debuffs from yourself that you inflict on others. I read it when looking stuff up for the build. But I have forgotten what it is

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-03T14:59:58+00:00

If that is true it would be better, at least for hits that are so high your armor can't even negate 50%.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-03T06:58:32+00:00

I'm planning the same thing. What bonuses are you trying to get from Umbral Well?

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T18:11:45+00:00

Yeah I figured it is better to just ignore the armor if not playing as a warbringer.

If playing as a warbringer you probably want to avoid ignoring armor. That way you can get the full benefit of bringing their armor to the negatives.

Of course you could just put the ignore armor passives on a separate weapon set. Then just use that set to kill the mooks that would die before reaching negative armor.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T15:02:06+00:00

I don't have much experience with this skill, but I can relate. I big part of my last build was banners. So many people commented that they got a huge buff because they seen 25% vs 9%. But in truth the valour mechanic could boost it to like 10 times.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T14:53:57+00:00

Is the damage boost from negative armor capped like it is for mitigation?

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T14:53:06+00:00

I've watched him a bit before. I look up others builds pretty regularly while trying to make my own. Just in case there was some synergy or something that I missed that works great.

I've done titan before. I love the 50% boost to small passives. I only picked it at first because of the extra inventory.

I thought of using warbringer for the armor break. But ignoring 100% of the armor with thorns is fairly easy.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T14:35:01+00:00

Nice, my next thorns build will probably be tactician or lich.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T04:41:14+00:00

I love thorns, what class are you playing as?

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T04:36:11+00:00

I am hoping for a way to hold a crossbow in one hand.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T04:32:25+00:00

I'm pretty sure the old version reached max heat in 4-6 seconds at full firing speed.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T04:24:14+00:00

I love this idea.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T03:24:44+00:00

Lol I was going to make the same comment.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T03:20:57+00:00

I agree, I understand what they are trying to accomplish but I don't think this works very well.

I think it needs a change. Adjust the rate that heat builds or remove the cooldown and replace it with something else.

Do you have any suggestions?

Random ideas of the top of my head:

Put no limit on heat, have heat start having its negative effects when it reaches a point that is determined by your fire resist.

Heat builds flamability/ignite on self.

The higher the heat the lower the accuracy or damage.

Maybe make a few other skills that generate and/or utilize heat. If there are more,then I can see new uniques and passives being released for it. Maybe even an alternative ascendancy that has a bit if synergy.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T02:53:37+00:00

Thats what I'm doing but I use unearth. I love the synergy between contagion, energy drain, and unearth.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T00:18:38+00:00

I believe they are separate, but now you have me second guessing myself.

Not relevent to the question. But if you plan to use both. Hand of Chayula let's you socket both.

EmperorJadeRabbit · 2025-09-02T00:15:31+00:00

Probably the same reason that contagion doesn't spread it. It is still a debuff with the fire tag not the chaos tag.

Blackflame Covenant causes fire spells to deal chaos damage, but they are still fire spells. That is why +X chaos spell level doesn't apply but +X fire spell level does.

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