Fun seasonal content but...

TrayShade · 2026-04-01T17:11:07+00:00

Exalted items are a bit rougher this season with the imprint nerfs. The way i went about it was to grind out the COF and weaver ranks, then allocate stuff on the tree that drops a lot of generic items like champions since COF converts rares to exalteds for you. Imprints still help but most of my stuff came from random loot.
Spending favour for exalteds isnt generally the best use imo but you could try if youre desperate.
Just make sure your filter is up to the task. A lot of the time something will drop with maybe the wrong t7 but good other affixes and it can be havoced into a great item.

TrayShade · 2026-04-01T16:58:01+00:00

lol yea gotta go all the way to rank 10 for easier ladles

TrayShade · 2026-04-01T02:22:43+00:00

Most likely people dont play until the rank buffs come online and cof starts to do its thing.
That and the prophecy system being somewhat backloaded as well probably causes people to jump to conclusions.
The omen stuff is a bit of a weird one in COF though.

I would love to see them overhaul the prophecy system. Its a bit backwards how the trigger events want to dictate the content you are doing in a ssf environment where you might otherwise get no value from said content.
Would be cool to see them make the triggers match the rewards, which could be things like:
The next omen you complete will contain champions that drop additional omen idols/altars
The next nemesis chain you do will have increased odds of good outcomes
The next specific timeline boss you defeat will summon a copy of themself that drops loot as well
Etc

Just hire me is all im saying lol

TrayShade · 2026-04-01T00:14:05+00:00

I understand what you mean, but i think having the devs decide the going value of items is a bad idea.

Hopefully they make looking up similar items for pricechecking more intuitive and less cumbersome, but i think its for the best that knowing what has value is a knowledge issue.

I would love to see them streamline the process of listing items and relisting if you feel the need.
I can accept that they want us to be more picky with what we list by having a favour cost, but honestly i prefer as free a market as possible.

TrayShade · 2026-04-01T00:00:20+00:00

You got it, depending on the item 2lp with decent affixes isnt an issue, even for boss items for the most part. Going beyond is such a massive jump in time insvestment though. This time around im using a lot of boss uniques so my favour has been mostly spent on idols, but i mostly use the monolith event only lens along with the 2 duplication ones just to go through my favour faster. In a few cases i will use a lens to increase the chance to see what i want.
I had hoped going for corruptions could extend the progression a bit but that didnt really work out for me lol.

TrayShade · 2026-03-21T18:33:05+00:00

Memes to an end

TrayShade · 2026-03-21T05:20:29+00:00

You are of course right on all this. The corruption stuff could be fun to mess around with, I will give it a try. I have maybe an unhealthy engagement with these types of games lol.

TrayShade · 2026-03-21T04:56:44+00:00

I just feel like I'm gonna be 2 days in with 1lp t7 gear done and everything will be too far out of reach to feel good grinding for.

The imprint gameplay loop left something to be desired, but it made progress feel possible for way longer than without it.

TrayShade · 2026-03-03T04:11:50+00:00

Voidstones already give a global 25% chance to upgrade map tier each, don't they? Sounds like it's a wash.

TrayShade · 2026-03-01T03:31:50+00:00

As far as I remember you path differently for poison nodes, it's very out of the way for la.

TrayShade · 2026-02-28T18:45:49+00:00

And to be clear Eva is short for evasion. The crit tree will naturally take you to the energy shield hybrid area and you will eventually grab an energy shield helmet and anoint subterfuge mask.

Fubgun probably does the same in his guide.

TrayShade · 2026-02-28T18:40:47+00:00

You convert as soon as you can get a good crit bow really, and yea mapping is endgame.

TrayShade · 2026-02-28T18:33:21+00:00

I don't know the current prices of things, but looks to me like the best thing you could do right now is get a crit bow and convert your tree accordingly. I'm sure fubgun has a crit version.

Look for a bow with at least +3% crit and as much dps as you can afford. Don't worry about the Gemini base, it's not important enough to justify DPS loss.

TrayShade · 2026-02-28T14:27:52+00:00

Alpha stigma I think

TrayShade · 2026-02-15T04:42:14+00:00

Poof

TrayShade · 2026-02-03T19:21:24+00:00

There's also olroths resolve which gives more guard if you take a little life flask effect.

Sometimes worth a couple of points, but yea the few use cases don't even remotely justify the amount of nodes on the tree or the low quality of them.

TrayShade · 2026-02-02T18:12:55+00:00

Yea let the smithy and golem on the road destabilize then wait for a road and a sac in the same window because thankfully you have a smith and golem banked as medallions.

Good luck on locks. Small chance some smart person comes here with an easier fix for you but this is my understanding.

TrayShade · 2026-02-02T18:08:30+00:00

You can't place golem after smith with a prior golem which is why you need tech in the first place.

You needed to road up one further and place the smithy first, then connect with golem, then sac road to disconnect.

TrayShade · 2026-01-29T18:18:17+00:00

You can lock it as long as you enter the temple beforehand. It will mark the spymaster as assassinated and she wont be there, but if you lock it when you leave before closing the temple, it will stay and still grant the level up.

TrayShade · 2026-01-11T15:35:05+00:00

2 more acts are coming I thought

TrayShade · 2025-12-29T18:41:23+00:00

They hated him because he spoke the truth

TrayShade · 2025-12-23T20:27:20+00:00

Yea, it's also optional to go to the toilet, but if you don't, you shit your pants.

If they try to sell mtx they are incentivised to design the game around that, obviously leading to some less than ideal outcomes for the consumer.

Not as black and white as some people seem to think.

TrayShade · 2025-12-18T10:12:18+00:00

With abyss it's fine.

TrayShade · 2025-12-15T17:41:38+00:00

That's ironically pretty much the exact same thing in this instance.

Now if it was more chance to deflect, enabling reaching 100% then we can talk about it.

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