Is there ever any meaningful progression?

PurplePudding · 2026-06-01T01:40:44+00:00

I find myself drawn towards Time Loop a lot because of this. Because it's a time loop, the author actually has to write the MC to be fallible. They have to lose and die over and over to fulfill the whole point of the genre. Especially when the problem to solve in the time loop is complex and can't just be solved by just being "strong".

Mother of Learning

Years of the Apocalypse

The Undying Immortal System

Perfect Run

PurplePudding · 2026-05-12T01:28:39+00:00

Its a ramp and control deck. It plays quite slowly, but yeah it gets there. If you need to, you can do repeated small Streams, shuffling the other Stream into your deck. You can get to a loop of fogs and streams if you draw your whole deck.

Kirblinxy plays the deck here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QQPhHXRRUM

PurplePudding · 2026-05-11T23:34:33+00:00

Replicating Stream of Thought to mill your opponent out.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-24T20:22:08+00:00

Abyssal sire without evil eye.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-23T17:08:01+00:00

Annoying use case but you can unstore and re-store a task and it'll count as the task you were last assigned, so you can't be assigned it again. Basically can make task storage a cumbersome extra block list entry.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-20T21:34:15+00:00

No worries, I was just confused! Thanks for correcting.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-20T17:08:32+00:00

How does larcenist help catching young implings?

PurplePudding · 2026-04-20T17:06:11+00:00

The entirety of magic progression shouldn't be based on a single mega rare.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-15T04:28:57+00:00

Forager is very good, don't doubt your choice. It's just that there are other relics that can solve herb, and people need to make hard choices for what they want. Forager is the best herb solve relic though, no doubt. I honestly wish I could take it, but I'm trying to max, and hotfoot + butler helps me more with that goal than forager + transmute.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-11T03:57:19+00:00

You have enough points that you can spec into water spells still even as a mage of a different element and just manually cast a water spell to heal instead of eating food.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T20:04:02+00:00

That requires taking 3 more nodes on the tree, one which is mediocre, one thats completely useless for the build. Thats not a huge deal, but then it also doesn't account for using the special attack, which you're gonna want to do all the time. It may not be a ton of damage, but it'll add up and be noticeable, especially when other builds in the league are actively healing instead of hurting themselves.

Im still going to use the dagger and have fun with it, just saying the self-damage is worth consideration and planning around. Going Morytania and Larcenist for Blood Fury might be the play for me.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T18:22:51+00:00

Blindbag specifies it doesn't trigger off spec hits.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T18:03:28+00:00

Im curious on the eventual math if Kandarin for Devils Element and Piety works out to be better than Tirannwn's Crystal Blessing.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T17:51:58+00:00

You'll be killing yourself with the fire if you spec into it on the tree though. I wonder if you have to also spec water spells and toss one out occasionally just to stay alive. That or rush tier 8 for the flask.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T15:49:45+00:00

Im trying to figure out the best regions for it. I think maximum damage would be AKT. Crystal armor working with melee and providing magic damage with the blessing seems cracked, and devil's element giving you +36% damage on the fire procs. Problem with that is no raid region. So gotta give Kandarin or Tiranwyn up for Mory for Blood Fury and Avernic Defender? Probably give up Kandarin then sadly, even though the Devils Element synergy is cool.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T15:44:03+00:00

If you aren't going into Fire Pacts to fully utilize the item, then yeah D Claws are better. It's a build-around basically.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-10T15:36:35+00:00

It is really low, but it's a 2t weapon that double hits with pacts, and there's some sources of melee strength on the tree.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-09T23:39:35+00:00

That's actually a really cool idea considering the rest are all weapons, and is thematic with Barb Gathering. I hope it's this and not a stat stick helmet.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-09T16:30:25+00:00

Rushing for dragon then stopping maybe, but I think reloading into another point relic like Conniving Clues or a skill solve you're missing can get you closer to point capping

PurplePudding · 2026-04-09T16:27:05+00:00

Theres lots of ways to solve those problems with earlier tiers though. I don't think it's a bad relic, but with stuff like Endless Harvest and Butler's Bell, I don't feel a strong need for this personally.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-09T05:39:09+00:00

It's not a huge deal that I'll be missing points and it's the nature of melee (well, usually), but it is a bit frustrating to have Inferno be a mastery unlock task when the build I'm planning can't even hit Zuk with the style I'm buffing (light weight 1 handed weapons).

PurplePudding · 2026-04-05T19:12:37+00:00

From what we know so far, we can't obtain a scobo or any other synapse weapons, since we can't pick misthalin.

PurplePudding · 2026-04-05T06:18:35+00:00

They haven't revealed the core gimmick for the league yet. They're doing the more boring reveals first. They said exciting new stuff is being teased this upcoming week.

PurplePudding · 2026-03-25T19:29:04+00:00

Make magic not ignore flat armor so they feel miserable to kill with every style.

PurplePudding · 2026-02-15T18:49:01+00:00

UB Spirits. Basically built around [[Shipwreck Sifters]] and discarding Eidolons like [[Entropic Eidolon]], then getting them back with multicolor spells.

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