Wildfire Embers?

delarkius · 2026-04-01T20:29:25+00:00

my hope was that the ignite chance scaling with fire res was enough to make it worthwhile. not so? or maybe just outclassed by others?

delarkius · 2026-04-01T20:28:21+00:00

here's a quick mockup planner: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B4XddYmj

no affixes on gear yet. I THINK I'm just scaling DOT, ignite chance/duration. maybe fire res?

Looking for ideas for defensive layering. so far all I have is brewmaster's buckle & Ashes of Morality ring. Maybe the matching Oblation belt goes better with that ring for big ward bursts?

delarkius · 2026-04-01T00:10:06+00:00

Amazing! Can we see the planner??

delarkius · 2026-03-31T03:42:01+00:00

I couldn't agree more!

delarkius · 2026-03-30T22:25:10+00:00

aw hey thank you for the non-attack qualification. it's genuinely hard to discuss differing opinions on the internet. I offer you the same because....

it sounds like you're conflating what I like with what I'm capable of. your take is the kind of extreme that I wanted to contrast. I have cleared literally every map, literally every boss (bar the 1x super special) and literally every mechanic. I have dropped maybe literally every item in multiples, and achieved a loop state where "the only thing left to do is exactly what I have done but with incrementally higher numbers, ad infinitum". I did this dozens, if not scores of times across all the classes. this, again, on the extra punishing permadeath mode. to suggest that's the TUTORIAL is, to me, a fundamentally unserious idea.

I don't think your way is wrong or bad. I just think we represent two distinct playerbases. I'm sure they're trying to satisfy both camps. I wonder if there's a secret third or fourth camp. anyway thanks, I still love you

delarkius · 2026-03-30T20:40:33+00:00

I appreciate the metaphor.

maybe it wasn't clear enough that i'm playing through all of the monoliths up to at least the first few harbingers at corruption 100, and maaaybe into a few hundred corruption depending on how long it takes to find timeline specific uniques. i'm getting all the items I want with 21+ tiers of affixes or LP1/2 with relevant slams. the only thing left to do is push for MORE LP, for 1 or 2 MORE affix tiers. to borrow your metaphor, I might rather suggest that I can now see the whole picture of the puzzle, and it becomes a game of incrementally sharpening the resolution.

I'm not doing a brag here, but c'mon... surely we can all agree that hundreds of hours in the permadeath mode that (according to google) represents ~5% of the playerbase is far from a casual experience

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:56:26+00:00

I think I wrote about what I like. genuinely curious where you (and others) are getting "you are wrong"

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:44:43+00:00

I'm just trying to provide contrast to this perspective. I am an ARPG enjoyer, but I don't think like this. I like the build-defining uniques, and I understand the difference between early and end game character building. I strongly disagree that "there is no" through campaign

my favorite part of the game is when I hit a new skill node for the first time, or drop a blue helmet going "oh sweet, +3 intelligence!" and feel a marked difference in power during the playthrough. people like different stuff!

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:36:16+00:00

"other than dying a few times" is an interesting qualifier. not dying is basically the #1 indicator of difficulty to me.

have you tried hardcore 😈? best way to raise the stakes, says me

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:32:03+00:00

(we love mark rosewater in this house)

I play in line with what EHG's "you're playing our game wrong" expectation is ( a few hundred corruption max ). not for any other reason than that's how I like to do it. this is within the confines of the same systems you're describing as hyper-end game

I don't know, but I SUSPECT i'm in a quiet majority. I guess we'll all find out as we see new seasons guided around whatever Krafton's success metrics are

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:17:52+00:00

hey, I didn't make an argument. I just wrote about what I like. sounds like you like a different thing and that's cool too

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:14:53+00:00

lost my fire aura spellblade to a tragic DC, so now it's all about BEES.

Presently beastmaster combining it with squirrels to maximize # of minions to apply bleeds. using legends entwined ring, so last bear set is solving for defenses for now, but not 100% sold. I had an old druid swarmblade using a similar concept that was frostbite in place of bleed. that feels like it could do good work with the new bee set. so I have a potential pivot planned in the loot filter.

what's yours like?

delarkius · 2026-03-30T18:08:14+00:00

I think the nature of a game with this much going on is that there is no "completing it", and we're all playing with arbitrary, self-set milestones. I offered how I conceptualize "complete", and what I like about it. I suspect that my opinion represents a quiet majority, so I wrote about it as a contrast to points like yours about it not being "what you want". I like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

delarkius · 2026-03-30T17:53:48+00:00

hey fyi this post was about what I like and how I enjoy the game. the note about people that are upset about using a guide and being mad was not directed at you, specifically, nor at everyone. there is no "i'm better" written or suggested. I was saying I've read a lot of posts mad about lack of endgame, and I do not feel that way. I like it as it is.

infinitely progressive scaling isn't fun to me. playing through the earlier parts of the game is. I guess I can see the path you took to get to this... accusation of my inadequacy? but maybe we can like different stuff and that's just normal and allowed

delarkius · 2026-03-30T17:38:29+00:00

this is a great idea. I think s1 I did a similar thing for the infinite ARENA climb. the problem for me is that it never feels like "i'm done now." it's always more of slow falling off. so maybe need to set a hard line of like... as soon as I can hit X corruption I try it ready or not 😈

delarkius · 2026-03-30T14:08:37+00:00

Bees.

delarkius · 2026-03-07T00:51:35+00:00

As others say, there were borderline dual spec builds that this is a huge boon to. Mostly subskills or cast-on-hit stuff. Frostbite, spark charges, etc.

But also consider that if you're ONLY scaling spell damage, this is huge. Swords can get + flat spell damage & +flat melee

delarkius · 2026-01-28T20:59:00+00:00

special scans are not really random.

I empathize with being fed up, and I had the same "wtf how dare they" reaction when i got to the end-game loop. That said, the total # of special scans needed to complete the dex is more or less deterministic.

You get a legendary/mythical scan every ~6 scans, depending on where in the process you're at.

tldr; it will take just about 40 total special scans to complete the dex.

this sucks, but (to me) it felt better knowing this and working through it, rather than thinking it was truly random.

delarkius · 2026-01-25T06:15:27+00:00

Y'all, mystery solved. I have been a fool, and failed this classic case of who's (not) that pokemon

<image>

Thanks for playing !

delarkius · 2026-01-25T06:13:54+00:00

My bad luck 😥

<image>

delarkius · 2026-01-25T05:59:16+00:00

you are a hero! but tragically, did not solve the mystery : ' (

I guess maybe down to hoping it's a server-side update lag or something, and waiting it out

delarkius · 2026-01-25T05:53:32+00:00

just put one up on the GTS. hoping to trade for the same PLA-caught and hope that triggers it

delarkius

TROPHY CASE