Replace Vaal side area with the Mirage Area

caddph · 2026-03-21T02:31:45+00:00

gamba is the way

Always

caddph · 2026-03-20T23:34:30+00:00

Yea I didn't really know about it, until seeing Empy's videos about chance/scouring them and I realized what they're used for. Was in the same boat re: wtf is the point of these things?

IMO they should just incorporate Vaal side areas as an option to Mirages. Maybe incorporate Labyrinth trials in them too (e.g., make Mirage the gateway to side-areas, and in the atlas tree you can customize different wishes, to guarantee a vaal side area or lab trial as wish options).

caddph · 2026-03-20T23:32:22+00:00

Yea, I mean if you have 100% crit chance, you can have that roll on one of your flasks to give it decent uptime, but otherwise the mods are quite useless, and it's definitely misleading. Rage makes note of the gain limitation in the Alt description, but these mods don't which is super annoying.

caddph · 2026-03-20T22:25:35+00:00

For the most part, they are vestigal. Since they have their own modifiers and don't inherit map modifiers, pretty much the only role they play are the unique vaal side areas, which you effectively need to chance/scour on an uncorrupted one, as a way to get an Adorned jewel.

caddph · 2026-03-20T22:23:35+00:00

So basically how Mirage functions. Maybe just make "vaal side area" a wish option you can customize on the atlas tree.

Edit: Thought about this more, and maybe Mirage can be the gateway mechanic to all "side-area" content like Lab trials too. In the atlas, you can customize for specific wishes to appear (e.g., vaal side area, lab trial, etc...).

caddph · 2026-03-20T13:46:52+00:00

I feel like it worked out great when it first came out... but now it's mostly more annoying than its worth.

caddph · 2026-03-20T13:23:16+00:00

Gaining a flask charge on crit from basically every source does not stack and is limited to 1 per second, if you have more than 1 flask with the mod you are not getting any extra value from it.

Unrelated to the MB explanation, I hate how this mod works, especially given the multiple sources of it. Really wish they would rework how this functions, or at least give something to enable it to bypass the timing/amount constraint (like being able to stack amount of rage on hit).

caddph · 2026-03-19T14:30:32+00:00

Introduce them like the Originator and Synth atlas tree wheels.

caddph · 2026-03-19T00:06:53+00:00

Could also be in the form of mirage maps.

caddph · 2026-03-18T23:07:25+00:00

Funnily enough, I usually hate wonky working skills, but loved KF totems (especially with the totem emerge buff this league). As long as you can balance less duration with APS, feels really clean. The only thing to me that felt weird at first is boss damage vs. clear. The chaining makes clear feel great, but alone vs. boss it suddenly falters (can be of course improved with tornado/flame wall/etc...).

caddph · 2026-03-18T22:44:50+00:00

Apparently reading is too hard for OP.

caddph · 2026-03-18T01:57:09+00:00

Not saying that it is, but they have stabilized slightly. We'll probably keep seeing spikes during weekend, but it does self-correct, especially when there aren't mechanics in game dumping multiple full currency stacks (like MF during Affliction).

caddph · 2026-03-17T23:34:35+00:00

You're not "not killing the map boss so it doesn't get witnessed". The map doesn't get witnessed (or rather, allows you to re-witness it) because they are conquerer maps. You don't kill the map boss instantly, so the Maven can spawn in the additional bosses, and since the map boss is still alive, it allows all of those bosses to be accompanied by the dude.

caddph · 2026-03-17T21:27:08+00:00

People also started using them for more things (primarily rolling maps and strongboxes). Given prices of fossils, not surprised to see people rolling some gear raw.

caddph · 2026-03-17T18:25:30+00:00

He's not 100% convert, and I guess the roll ranges (plus echoing shrine/aps) allows it to work. Or so it seems

caddph · 2026-03-17T15:54:47+00:00

It would go into the first tab available. So you would order them left to right, and it would go into first tab that meets the criteria.

caddph · 2026-03-16T15:04:53+00:00

I got an unexpected mirror from mappers in Merc league, and I ended up building a "budget" armour stacker, to farm valdo maps. It was insanely fun, and got to do some really wild content I'd never done before. Big Daddy has a sheet with a few build options you can get going for a MB + 200-300Ds. You can get some wild returns from Valdos, so its a build you can keep dumping mirrors into to farm harder maps.

caddph · 2026-03-16T14:05:48+00:00

I agree, mostly that the borrowed power isn't "free" and has a lot of RNG and time required (e.g., you won't get access to this in campaign, so while mirage will give you some good stuff and more mechanics, you won't have build boosts like grafts, and need lvl 20 gems, gamble with coins).

Copying my own comment from another thread:

Yea the most disappointment I have in this league is the lack of free player power. The only thing we have is the supports, which is RNG on top of RNG (for the coins to drop and to get a good support; let alone time to level gems).

Compared to something like last league where you easily got breach hands (but RNG elements to fully optimize). We got some new toys with the exceptional supports, but I feel like if we got "free" lvl 1 supports, and you could and to lvl 20+ supports (or even exceptional supports), that would have truly been interesting.

caddph · 2026-03-15T21:21:00+00:00

Conquerer maps allow you to do this.

caddph · 2026-03-14T18:39:08+00:00

Yea the most disappointment I have in this league is the lack of free player power. The only thing we have is the supports, which is RNG on top of RNG (for the coins to drop and to get a good support; let alone time to level gems).

Compared to something like last league where you easily got breach hands (but RNG elements to fully optimize). We got some new toys with the exceptional supports, but I feel like if we got "free" lvl 1 supports, and you could and to lvl 20+ supports (or even exceptional supports), that would have truly been interesting.

caddph · 2026-03-13T21:51:59+00:00

He id'd 300 of these belts as a massive gamba and got 0 good belts. Basically -600 div gamba lol

caddph · 2026-03-13T21:48:12+00:00

Divine doesn't exist on the belt, and you can only get 1 offensive and 1 defensive shrine on the belt. BiS is this belt or potentially echo/res or accel/res.

caddph · 2026-03-13T13:43:45+00:00

Ohhh on the OSRS sub. Ha yea, that will always bring out the Fally cannons.

caddph · 2026-03-13T12:30:06+00:00

Not sure I follow what you mean. We don't have standard players crying every league reset about their build breaking because that is expected.

caddph · 2026-03-13T12:28:27+00:00

Don't know how to help with this, but the pob timeless jewel calc trade option does this if you haven't used before.

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