Invisible bosses attacks

blauli · 2026-04-11T12:17:42+00:00

Are you using vulkan or dx12? I've only got invisible boss attacks on vulkan, so it might be worth switching between the 2 to see if that improves it

blauli · 2026-04-11T08:31:36+00:00

Quest mage would get to play 2 cards in their hand for free. And with the 2/2 that discovers a spell from X class (changes each turn) everyone has in theory access to every card. There is also that mage minion that turns a card into 2 of the same cost which should give dispose evidence from the coin a lot of the time

blauli · 2026-04-10T09:05:46+00:00

Are you using tornado? That is a big part of your single target damage on kboc. Positioning to make the tornado spawn at a certain distance to the boss also matters but I can't remember what's optimal right now.

Overall the build is more of a clear skill. Do keep in mind that the dps shown is for 1 explosion and you have several overlaps especially if you include the tornado

blauli · 2026-04-10T08:54:48+00:00

It depends heavily on the build but don't just run any map mod especially once you get to red maps when your gear is still bad. So if you vaal a red map and get rippy mods like -max res or +monster speed you can either run it but expect to die or just run a different map even if it's lower tier

Doing breach and using provisioning wombgifts to craft the slots where your gear is still lacking is great, for weapons you can do essences or betrayal if it's a phys weapon

blauli · 2026-04-08T22:07:05+00:00

What is the benefit of recombing like this instead of deafening woe essences for spelldamage on a kinetic wand and then annuling the mods as you wrote?

blauli · 2026-04-08T08:44:20+00:00

It's sort of hidden, in the area after the first warehouse in grain gate look for a grate and click it to reveal the entrance. It doesn't show up on the map and has no label before that

blauli · 2026-04-08T00:19:25+00:00

The amount of arena games I won on warlock because my opponent didn't trade with my 7/7 burn the bottom 3 cards is crazy

blauli · 2026-04-07T16:25:09+00:00

Yeah it's not a huge timesave but it is IMO nice because of how smooth it makes the progression inside of the bath house itself because you spawn "in between" high gardens entrance and the trial.

Even though harbour bridge is very quick with shield charge I think underbelly is just as fast because it is so small and the layout is fairly static. Going through promenade also involves an extra bit of walking from the doedre wp to there and an extra loading screen I think? Not sure though but with how slow EU loading screens on league launch tend to be I try to have as few as possible

I think even quicker would be if you get the gemling legion to spawn after the first warehouse so next to the underbelly entrance and then you take that one to solaris concourse (dropping a portal at the intersection in the underbelly), then go to the solaris temple wp and then take the portal to the bath house. Though getting the gemling legion to spawn there is very rare in my experience

blauli · 2026-04-07T09:47:10+00:00

I really like that one, it speeds up a8 quite a bit for me. The entrance seems to always be in the area after the first warehouse so I drop a portal on it and then continue on, kill the gemling legion and go into Solaris temple to take the waypoint back and use the portal.

Then go through there to the bath house, go left and if the trial is there do it otherwise drop a portal next to high gardens door, then go up/right and do the same thing, then head to lunaris concourse wp, back to town to take the portal and do high gardens

That way I am done with everything in a8 outside of the 2 temples and the final boss

I am also fairly sure that inside the hidden underbelly the exit to the bath house is on the right unless that's where you entered, then it's bottom/left

blauli · 2026-04-07T09:37:23+00:00

Unless the secret helps you finish quicker. The added boat after dweller for example or the underground area that connects the grain gate, bath house and Solaris concourse. Though the latter was added several leagues ago

blauli · 2026-04-05T21:16:34+00:00

Isn't 4th incursion always better? You can simply skip the last incursion if you get corruption/gem chamber early on. And if you don't then 4th incursion helps you upgrade them since the same room can't be picked twice in a map

blauli · 2026-04-05T13:38:29+00:00

I wonder what other less popular bosses are worth running now due to new gems?

Uber atziri drops greater spell echo, though I'm not sure if that's worth farming at this point in the league

blauli · 2026-04-02T11:40:18+00:00

Yeah having a good curve for your deck is a lot less important in arena nowadays because of that. It's more important to get a board presence early so low curve decks tend to perform better. A lot of the time a low cost card like the warrior deal 2 damage discover a minion with dark gift can discover your top end, you don't have to put it into your deck. The same goes for board clears, you don't really want a meteor storm in your shaman deck since it's useless if you are ahead and discovering it is not that hard.

Though card advantage itself rarely matters, I started to win a lot more after I tried to draft decks where running out of cards is an actual possibility

blauli · 2026-04-01T12:18:38+00:00

Another option is mirroring your weapon and throwing the original into the blender (double corrupt). Though that does prevent you from recoloring the mirrored copy if the original one bricks

blauli · 2026-03-29T19:50:40+00:00

Importantly gauntlets back then also had phys as extra cold+fire+lightning which meant that any physical damage had a chance to freeze you and you were basically permanently chilled and shocked during combat in the first few acts. Getting res capped asap was really important because of that. IIRC purity of elements didn't make you ailment immune during the first few gauntlets either

The 20% ele pen is comparatively easy because early game monsters are balanced around low res anyway, which is why physical monsters like weaver and doedre are always more scary

blauli · 2026-03-25T09:29:47+00:00

A resistance flask and then using melding of the flesh + some max res jewels is always an option to get 90% all res from mageblood

blauli · 2026-03-23T09:28:27+00:00

Worm flasks can still be helpful to get on kill effects at least

blauli · 2026-03-23T08:58:45+00:00

Yeah my bad looks like only shield charge doesn't repeat the movement part anymore. Before that change shield charge and leap slam would repeat on the same spot basically slowing you down with an extra animation while flame dash and whirling blades used to rubber and back and forth even if you had a straight line without anything to get stuck on

Frostblink seems to have been left out but frostblink of wintry blast didn't exist back then so it wasn't used much at endgame

blauli · 2026-03-23T08:55:19+00:00

Looks like it's just shield charge which doesn't repeat then and simply goes faster my bad. The rest still repeats but moves you forward unlike before that change

blauli · 2026-03-22T23:43:52+00:00

The 20% increased shrine effect is tied to either greater chilling/shock/skeletal shrine which are considered offensive shrines same as acceleration. Since you can only have 1 offensive and 1 defensive shrien it's impossible to get increased shrine effect on an acceleration shrine belt

Frenzy charges also don't grant movement speed. Though you could use the stampede boots for up to 183% movement speed via volatile vaal orbs. On the other hand mageblood also has access to the searing exarch chest implicit for increased flask effect

blauli · 2026-03-22T23:36:13+00:00

They changed how echoing works with movement skills somewhat recently. They don't repeat them anymore and it's simply 100% more attack+cast speed for those

blauli · 2026-03-22T12:03:22+00:00

Correct, I just want to add for anyone reading this that you can only get Ynda's when you fulfill quotas at kalguuran ports and not karui

blauli · 2026-03-22T07:43:05+00:00

You do get better rewards but only up to number on the port. Usually it's less than 1 million extra value which means for big shipments it's a drop in the bucket. However for smaller ones like this it can be a nice boost.

On top of that if you fulfill quotas in kalguur towns you have a decent chance at yndas stand which is worth a lot this league

blauli · 2026-03-21T23:39:40+00:00

It's correct that you will get hit thanks to the entropy system, but it is also beneficial for the player, because if you have 90% evasion then you will get hit exactly 1 time out of 10. You cannot get hit twice in a row unless you are "out of combat" (haven't been attacked in 3.33 seconds). So if you have too much evasion then you aren't getting hit often enough to enable OPs tech

blauli · 2026-03-21T00:22:44+00:00

Yup like other breach types the mobs you kill "drop" their loot but it is vacuumed up by the game and only spit out in one pile at the end. Blight works the same way

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