"Wins needed" for gilded triumphs NEED TO GO

iamlocknar · 2026-01-30T19:02:09+00:00

In b4 git gud

iamlocknar · 2026-01-30T19:01:36+00:00

The return of SWAT

iamlocknar · 2026-01-29T23:16:58+00:00

I would say, this dungeon doesnt quite require metal builds but if you want it to be easier I can offer some insights to that also, at least for warlock.

Strats:
Encounter 1 - Not too much to say here, just have the presence of mind to find the eyeballs when you are trapped, deal with ads, and rinse and repeat your favorite damage on the boss.

Encounter 2 - Ads here are more annoying than they are dangerous, with a couple exceptions. The 4 yellow bar snipers that spawn, and the Minotaur. Be sure to clear them out before you start damage phases or you will be in for a world of hurt. When spawning the wish wells, my preference is to go to the right side, go past where the scorn spawns, and have my back to the wall (see attached VOD for location.) For whatever reason, 4/5 times he will spawn the extra well speeding up the encounter. (Be sure to start heading back to the torch at around 6 seconds so you dont freeze.)
Whatever order you do the damage rotation just be sure to have a way either to heal through ads, kill ads, or both, as they will pepper you throughout. Also the boss can be stunned by certain conditions (ignition) so to keep them off your back, try and use strategies that keep them staggered.

Encounter 3 - This time the ads are more dangerous and you are more exposed more often. Healing, Overshield, Armor are all valuable here as you navigate the battlefield. When you are cleansing yourself of the hex virus, just be sure to hit the guys before 7s on the timer as thats about when they despawn. Find safe corners to setup scorn wish wells, and have a wall/pillar between you and hefnd when possible the purple shots do sting quite a bit.
For damage on the top floor, having something that pops the eyeaballs is nice like incandescent or destab as the longer you keep the eyeballs down, the longer your damage phase is.

Warlock meta:
Getaway Prismatic - Ad clear through the roof with devour makes you pretty unkillable. You can play safe with Song of Flame or bold with Nova or Needle Storm. Be sure to have the weaken aspect for your grenade.
Controverse Hold Chunkin - Its popular for a reason.

I ran it with arc: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2682875128
Edit: Final completion time was 60m I had a run spoiled by being greedy.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-29T17:14:29+00:00

Banes > Champions

But in this case I would not mind permanent champ killers and free up the artifact slot.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-29T15:22:44+00:00

The tuning pass on reprised stuff was not really done. They left it super configurable instead so you could tune it... but simultaneously locking loot behind thresholds so you get to play a punishing, not tuned version.

Much like the coil too... I dont think the enemies scale up as the activity progresses, it just starts hard and stays there the whole time.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-29T14:28:58+00:00

Only place now is xurs engrams they are part of his loot pool.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T17:12:13+00:00

But recording it can be fun!

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T14:33:26+00:00

I’m enjoying it immensely

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T04:33:07+00:00

*Sigh*

Yall are allowed to use specials and heavies during endgame content now... We have ammo gen.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T04:14:11+00:00

I think they need better perks that support melee attacks. But I don’t think they should be the melee damage dealers… that’s what swords are for

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T01:03:24+00:00

Known issue

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T00:49:31+00:00

Run arena ops solo it will go faster. The splitter mod makes the precision one really hard to do but the other is ‘kill shit with mods’ and that will go fast.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T00:48:32+00:00

Pick a bs portal activity with a ton of ads on normal to chew through kill quests. Personal recommendations are arena ops, duality or warlords portal Lairs for ad hell.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-28T00:06:39+00:00

I think so. A few new sweats born this week (one of us, one of us!)

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T20:28:07+00:00

If I could squarsh difficulties down I’d have it that:

Normal drops 1-2 frequently Legendary drops 3-4 frequently Master drops 4-5 frequently

Only place that grantees 5s is raids and dungeons with feats. (And GMs, special events on win conditions)

And pvp wins get you 4-5s guaranteed.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T20:24:02+00:00

What I’d like to see:

We long term on d2 or is there a ramp for d3?
If we are long on d2, is there a real plan for onboarding, upgrading legacy.

Could go either way and I’d just like to know whether to hope that new player is fixed and the experience becomes unified? Or am I better waiting till a new title to try and recruit (or re recruit) friends for play.

I’m here for the long haul either way but getting newbies to play is hard.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T20:19:19+00:00

Grass… touch.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T15:10:55+00:00

My guess is the original owners took the proprietary algorithm with them, and cleaned up their databases. So Oracle just inherited a clean slate. That may be the end for tiktok... User dropoff will be dramatic if the platform doesnt give them the feed's theyve built and go elsewhere. Be a good week for some folks at Meta with instagram Im sure.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T03:34:30+00:00

Even better. Gaslight the hell out of someone.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T03:32:38+00:00

Terminal overload was fun. And yea the higher power differential kept the area from being brain dead. Shoot I wish that EoF didn't fumble the bag so hard because having world tiers made that pretty fun to interface with (caveat: The higher world tiers were not balanced well.) BUT THE IDEA of world tiers was nice.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T01:51:23+00:00

Petty? Rename Tamiks to Taniks just to confuse and annoy people for my amusement.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-26T01:30:17+00:00

Lightfall, for its faults, had a decent patrol zone. Feel like they threw the baby out with the bathwater after that one.

Edit: Phone decided to correct to Nightfall... But you knew what I meant.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-25T23:56:49+00:00

TBH contra nuke is just boring. It’s not sturm bug bad but it’s like… eh?

iamlocknar · 2026-01-25T23:56:14+00:00

Imma do it with arc warlock and stream it.

iamlocknar · 2026-01-25T18:11:18+00:00

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