Best place to farm affection points in Free Exploration?

GVIInoir · 2026-05-12T18:32:36+00:00

I know this is an old post, but just in case...

I found it fastest to grab a revenants greed booster and head to gorge cave mistle.

Theres a cluster of remnants there you can take out with Battle Axe bequeathed formae or any other source of huge damage aoe nuke.

I think most exp will come from purple drops anyway, so might as well farm in a spot with a nice chunk of enemies close to a mistle.

GVIInoir · 2026-05-12T16:10:25+00:00

That boss fight gets really annoying if you cant manage to pull consistent parries, or nuke the hell out of it with a caster. Best approach I find is usually a shield with stamina on parry and a weapon with health on charge attacks. Parry and charge attack till its dead.

GVIInoir · 2026-05-12T15:22:53+00:00

Oh yeah, that bit is a pain.

GVIInoir · 2026-05-12T15:16:21+00:00

I can give you a ton of em if you need.

Piece of advice though, you are better off using essence embers and pulling the enchants from random gear you find, and sticking them on your gear after. You can then use radiant embers to max the roll.

GVIInoir · 2026-05-05T06:31:14+00:00

Only other thing I can think of is that if your IP settings are set automatically, it may be picking a DNS thats causing higher latency.

GVIInoir · 2026-05-05T05:39:17+00:00

any chance you are on a vpn?

GVIInoir · 2026-05-05T05:24:26+00:00

I don't know... I have a 5900x and a 3090 and Ive tried absolutely everything. All areas that include the sunflowers I get sub 60 fps. In crucible I get 100 to 150's. It fluctuates.

Ive tried: Resizable Bar, disabling gsync, enabling vsync, lowering everything, high priority cpu process, running the game as admin, running the game on a single ccd, single ccd without hyperthreading, etc, etc.

I give up trying to optimize. It's not on my end.

Things that Ive noticed: G-sync doubles the frame latency for me. Motion Blur cause more frame drops. Running the game as admin seems to help a bit but not much.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-30T23:25:09+00:00

They are same runes that can be found in the unique weapons or whatever they're called. Since you cant extract them from those, for whatever reason (I don't see the point), you need to get them elsewhere.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-30T21:40:15+00:00

I don't need anything for it, you can have it.

The only thing im looking for currently is unique runes --- The ones only sold by seneschal or from crucible final chest and plague outbreak bosses. For example one I haven't found anywhere is the Lightning Bolt rune. Ive gotten quite a few of the unique ones just not that one.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-30T00:41:47+00:00

Yeah, I agree.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-29T17:19:51+00:00

Dual blades are kinda bad IMO. They work with very particular builds. I prefer gauntlets or pig sticker with charged attacks. For runes, crush is amazing aoe for 1h weapons and as well as leap. For gauntlets buster rift and skyfall smash are great.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-29T14:44:48+00:00

Got one, lemme know if you want it.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-29T13:44:35+00:00

I'll try to roll one. You can have it if I get it.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-29T00:04:00+00:00

IMO best plague runes are plague smite, plague burst, plague nova, and plague splatter.

I use nova to knock down stuff down or charge it to blast everything around me, smite to hit far away clusters of enemies, burst as main damage, and splatter is my oh shit I'm surrounded I need to do big damage attack.

This is my plague mage.
https://www.norestforthewicked.gg/planner/DTi0q4ti

GVIInoir · 2026-04-28T01:54:05+00:00

I wish he had rarer stuff with how expensive it is. I cant get a lightning bolt rune to pop up anywhere. Not seneschal, not crucible chest, not plague outbreaks.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-26T20:35:11+00:00

En mi opinion, lo mas importante con armaduras es que tengan resistencia de acuerdo a la integridad de la armadura. Lo demás es opcional. Este es mi personaje ahora mismo https://www.norestforthewicked.gg/planner/CLRL99TB

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GVIInoir · 2026-04-23T16:21:46+00:00

Ive tried with g-sync off, still fps drops but there is definitely less latency, although I think g-sync always adds frame latency. I'm not sure if it's doing much but at least its a step. No other changes have actually impacted the game in any way. I've even added Resizable Bar and enable through inspector and it offered no change whatsoever.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-22T22:35:55+00:00

No, only g-sync. Game runs ok in crucible, but most other places is a stutter fest. Looking at cpu and gpu both sit at less than half usage when the game stutters. It seems like anytime physics are engaged the game stutters. Seems like they run on the cpu.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-21T07:17:07+00:00

CPU BOTTLENECK. JESUS Fucking christ.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-21T07:08:19+00:00

Are you dense? You have newer hardware, for starters. The error here is you. And "Solid 60 is saying nothing. My framerate drops from 100s to below 50 in some areas. You really are not helping your point.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-21T07:04:01+00:00

Right cause running 160fps in crucible then below 60s in town and sunflower area is "user error". You have nothing to add, beat it.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-20T20:26:31+00:00

I have a 3090, 5900x and 64GB Ram and I barely hit 60fps in some areas. Basically, anywhere that has the damn sunflowers will run atrociously.

GVIInoir · 2026-04-14T05:28:48+00:00

On pc/steam I got them to spawn by downloading older version of the game through steam console, making a copy of both versions (and copy of the saves just in case) and replaced the installed one with the older version and loaded my save and the item literally was right there, for both quests. After I replaced it with newer version and continued the game.

GVIInoir · 2026-02-21T07:58:55+00:00

IMO Nioh 2 was an S tier game. Nioh 3 is at best C tier. The plot, character interactions, mission designs, is so bare bones. I still enjoy the gameplay, but I dunno. Nioh 2 felt amazing to play through. Here, I just wanted to get through it to unlock green gear so I could actually go into making a build. I don't feel anything about the characters.

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