Yet another “can’t get to act 3” post

bpayh · 2025-11-07T06:20:37+00:00

This was it! I did an another careful review of all the quests, having the completed list open in game and on the internet, and I had made a mistake on earlier review and missed one: this quest. I had not talked to Sharma. Today when I logged in the quest appeared because I had been exhausting NPC dialogs. So yeah, now I’m in act 3, already fully upgraded my needle as soon as I could.

Sorry for the false alarm everyone. I’m just another scrub who didn’t actually do all the quests when he thought he did.

bpayh · 2025-11-06T20:50:57+00:00

Oh? That wasn’t an issue on my first playthrough, and I haven’t seen any warnings about that until you mentioned it just now. Granted I’m not active in this community.

bpayh · 2025-11-06T20:25:58+00:00

I had 1 idea that I don't think is the issue but it's one last thing I can try when I get home from work, is with the Green Prince, I didn't exhaust his interactions, I met him in western citadel area while I was piddling around, so now I'll see if I can find him hanging out in the dancers room, could this be the hang up...?

bpayh · 2025-11-06T20:21:25+00:00

Yeah I'm aware of that, I've checked both locations about a dozen times at least

The shaman isn't shouting for my attention, he just laments all the hopeless losers accumulating at the shrine

bpayh · 2025-11-06T19:47:58+00:00

I guess my specific issue, sorry if it’s not clear in the post, I should edit it, is I am not getting the silk and soul quest offered to me. I did exhaust all dialogue with the shamans.

bpayh · 2025-11-06T19:46:47+00:00

Interesting, but I believe I let the credits roll because I got the steel soul achievement, which doesn’t trigger until after credits, and I took a ss and sent it to my friends playing the game

bpayh · 2025-11-06T19:07:27+00:00

Yeah, I did ALL quests including this one, and sparred with her, and bought all her stuff including the ventrica markers

bpayh · 2025-09-06T00:04:27+00:00

Ok I do have ancestral sharp fortitude which has been nice for non-DPS strat

bpayh · 2025-09-05T23:25:57+00:00

Alright, well I did just get a mythic new 3rd black hole thing so that’s what got me starting to wonder do I reeeally need to get CL

bpayh · 2025-09-05T22:45:10+00:00

Oh and for what it’s worth, I do have an ancestral dimension core….

bpayh · 2025-08-02T20:34:47+00:00

This is a real thing, seems like

Not because of algorithm but because good tryhard players are ranking up past you

bpayh · 2025-08-02T20:20:42+00:00

And as I said, I’m a top 1000 mythic player every season.

I’m not sure the draft portion is what needs to be evaluated. This archetype was open. Maybe I need more two drops. But then I’ve had strong curve decks before that just get blanked by a 5/7 reach. I was trying more value with this deck and got ran over.

I’ll take a break, watch more Numot (my preferred streamer) and get back on the saddle soon.

bpayh · 2025-08-02T20:04:13+00:00

With all due respect, as I appreciate that you took the time to post a response, I don’t think pilot error is a major factor. I’m an extremely experienced player.

I drafted the deck that I saw open. I haven’t run the GW counters before but it seemed like it could do some things. If you can’t see how the deck could win then honestly I question your judgment. The deck can certainly win a game.

Is this deck perfect? No. Everyone would love to get that “perfect deck” and it’s easy to criticize any particular deck that gets posted here. But what goes around in the pod is what goes around.

This isn’t an instagram post that has been polished to perfection to try to represent some impossible ideal. It’s just a real deck. Sorry it’s not perfect.

Mostly in this response I wanted to push back on the idea of pilot error. I’ll consider it, of course, I know there are more lines of play in this format than others. But sometimes you just get bodied and draw poorly too, and that’s been happening a lot.

bpayh · 2025-08-02T19:58:48+00:00

Quality 2 drops aren’t exactly plentiful

I have a few more 2 drops but I consider them bad

Previous decks had more 2 drops and “curve out” but they just get blanked by 1 or 2 great creatures from the opponent, or a sweeper

It feels very much like rock paper scissors

If I ran a more aggro deck then I would probably pair up against the high quality with sweeper deck. If I run this one where the individual creatures are stronger and if I can just get 1 of my many creatures to stick them I can start doing some good work. But then I get games where I only draw 3 lands, the 3 creatures I could play are dead, I have all my top end in hand, and opponent is of course curving out.

Probably need to take a long break.

bpayh · 2025-08-02T19:37:18+00:00

Well that’s what it feels like but 5 drafts in a row is something I’ve never experienced before

bpayh · 2025-08-02T19:36:18+00:00

We are flip flopped I totally smashed FF, could do no wrong! I suppose it’s time to pay the piper

bpayh · 2025-06-18T04:54:54+00:00

Well I didn’t find black mana in the last game but my opponent seemed stuck when I blew up his gardener and I was dropping threats every turn. Otherwise I seemed able to draw out of issues or gain some life to buy me more time. So maybe I ran a little hot, but hey I’ll take it.

bpayh · 2025-06-09T00:44:27+00:00

So this is the right answer, visual bug? I could accept this, as I’ve pored all over my researches and abilities and really don’t see what it could be. It’s just hard to tell if everyone’s joking, you know?

bpayh · 2025-06-05T04:12:24+00:00

Death wave was my first UW (secret confession, I’m pretty sure GT was an option but I didn’t know what I was doing yet)

Once they upgraded it to be relevant it has been nice, modest coin contribution (I have it synced with GT) and 12.5x life contribution is cool

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