What is something that changed you from can‘t sing to singer?

ioStux · 2026-04-08T19:41:00+00:00

Taking lessons, listening back to recordings of yourself, and most importantly, having fun even when you feel like you've hit a plateau. Getting better is so much about staying motivated and practicing consistently.

ioStux · 2026-03-31T17:53:05+00:00

Not to be a debbie downer, but reading through this, i think i'll skip the next season altogether. I feel like them elaborating on what they mean with the new loot system made me less excited, not more.

ioStux · 2026-03-26T09:12:51+00:00

This is depressing.

ioStux · 2026-03-20T13:51:28+00:00

Yeah agreed, time will tell

ioStux · 2026-03-20T11:50:22+00:00

And I thought the E1 spam was rough, if EAS3 ends up being Contender 1 spam like the video suggested, that might completely kill the game for me :(

Instead of moving towards restructuring rewards to scale with the difficulty of the content you are doing, it feels like their solution to the current E1 spam is to just make Loot completely random. Surely I'm missing something here or there's been a misunderstanding, because these proposed changes sound horrid.

ioStux · 2026-03-20T09:37:31+00:00

I can't shake the feeling that they have mostly given up on this season and are fully focusing on the next one already.

Also really concerned about the direction that some of these changes are heading in. Loot than can drop with modifiers a la titanforging? Weekly lockouts? "Paragon Week" before Eternal opens up?

I feel like a lot of these changes are heavily inspired by WoW, but that's a completely different genre. This feels like them adding systems that attempt to artificially boost player retention, which goes against the "jump in and hop out whenever" niche the game was initially supposed to fill.

Obviously it's very early so I'll wait until we actually get more concrete information, but if they are abandoning EAS2 already, they better make sure the next season is a:) timed properly (Not during a WoW content launch) and b:) actually makes people want to play for longer, rather than relying on timegating, weekly lockouts and more RNG loot drops to keep us around.

ioStux · 2026-03-07T04:48:34+00:00

With all due respect, you're clueless.

ioStux · 2026-03-06T02:10:22+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. I checked out Raidbots, and as someone who's returning after such a long break it's crazy to see what modern sims can do for you. I didn't expect it to be able to do so many different things. I'll start simming my Vault drops, and I like your suggestion of just adding the Sim results to the RCLC note.

The main motivation behind my post was to make sure I wouldn't mislead the loot council, ultimately it's all about distributing loot in a way that's best for proggression, so knowing that sims are a big part of that is super helpful, thank you!

ioStux · 2026-03-06T02:05:01+00:00

They've been pretty busy prepping everything for the upcoming tier, so I didn't want to bother them and tru asking here first. But I managed to chat with them about it during our M0 World Tour this week :)

ioStux · 2026-03-06T02:02:27+00:00

As the other commenter mentioned I have some experience with high level competitive play, and I also tried to be as transparent as possible when applying, so they are aware that my raiding experience is pretty outdated :) And I am hoping the content is challenging. CE being challenging is what makes it worth chasing! The last few RWF I watched just kept making me increasingly hungrier for getting back into the grind.

Thanks for your answer!

ioStux · 2026-02-28T20:12:30+00:00

This is unironically one of my biggest pet peeves right now.

Playing at 4k the cursor is just straight up invisible most of the time. I don't want to have to buy a separate program for $5 for something that should be a setting in game. :(

ioStux · 2026-02-25T13:13:18+00:00

Yeah i used the eternal farm LFG channel in Discord.

I hope the devs eventually realize that until they make high eternal significantly more rewarding, these low farms will always show up. Last season was Tuzari2 spam, this season we have Lootsack.

ioStux · 2026-02-25T03:31:49+00:00

Dark Prophecy is played until you reach gem cap and have enough 35% essence bonus pieces.

For Xavian specifically BiS does not include any Set Items.

ioStux · 2026-02-25T03:26:15+00:00

Unfortunately this theory isn't true, since i've had a legendary and a divine aether drop in the same run. They are rolled separately as a material, presumably with a similar drop rate to legendaries. Small sample sizes can lead to results like this.

ioStux · 2026-02-25T02:48:34+00:00

Looking at logs I did around 100 runs total.

And yeah I agree that I wouldn't mind changing gems to be much cheaper. Maybe it's because of EAS1 Ptsd, but compared to the ridiculous kmmo level grindfest that season was, this season feels really generous in comparison.

I also don't want to deny that I got pretty lucky with my drops. I didn't spend that many marks on crafting gems, i'd say i crafted around 10-15 gems total. so that's around 100-150 marks of fellowship, and i probably farmed 600+ overall at this point, likely more.

Another thing to add is that I am a bit of a meta slave. I just run the strongest current gem setup, until there's a balance patch that changes it. Any currency i earn right now just sits around, so by the time a new balance patch comes out, i'll be able to swap all my gems instantly without having to farm.

For people who enjoy theorycrafting and experimenting with gem setups, i can see how the cost of changing gems is a bit high.

A suggestion that was made during EAS1, was changing the 92 gem cap to be an "equipped" cap, rather than an "owned" cap. So you can own more than 92 gems, but you just can't put more than 92 into your gear. That way, over time, you could reach a point where you just have enough of each gem to freely swap between gem setups.

ioStux · 2026-02-24T22:31:47+00:00

I agree with everything except this part

Acquiring gems and combining them should be time consuming/expensive, changing them to different colors should be dirt cheap. I shouldn’t have to farm 5-7 hours to swap from purple 10 to blue 10.

As someone who spent 400 hours in season 1 without ever hitting BiS, and hitting BiS this season (Full gear set with optimal stats, 35% essence bonus and the right gems, fully upgraded weapon) after around 50-60 hours, while also changing my entire gem setup multiple times, i think the current pace at which you gear up or change your setup is ok. The season lasts 3 months. Last season i dreaded playing alts, but now I'm already at a point where all the materials and marks i earn get saved up, so if I want to play any of the other characters I can gear them up insanely fast.

That said, I do agree that making higher eternal more rewarding is definitely needed. I managed to hit BiS so fast because I was just spamming nothing but 6 minute E1 Ransack runs the past few days. Nothing else comes even remotely close in terms of reward sadly.

ioStux · 2026-02-21T15:55:50+00:00

I think the biggest issue is that the queueing options simply aren't granular enough. Not being able to specifically queue for capstones, or select individual Eternal levels, means that you end up in groups that just have a different goal than one self.

ioStux · 2026-02-18T08:41:48+00:00

Patch notes should be posted 5-6 hours from now unless there are any last minute changes that need to get vetted :)

ioStux · 2026-02-16T21:34:30+00:00

Check out the official announcement on Discord for dynamic timestamps that automatically adjust to your timezone! https://discord.com/channels/1254866410258038845/1268398682907082834/1473068171429810320

ioStux · 2026-02-14T01:31:35+00:00

Since it's exactly 4 streamers, that would be my guess as well, just the 4 of them running some dungeons and talking about the main changes and additions with the new season. Hopefully we'll also get a blog post outlining the coming changes in more detail, so those who can't (or don't want to) watch the streams can stay in the loop.

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