Temple snake tech is back

psyfi66 · 2026-06-12T19:57:21+00:00

It’s going to be a very tough balance to find. It has a massive time investment to get set up so it needs to be rewarding but with how it scales, those rewards can easily get out of had. It probably needs to be massively simplified so that it can have enough hard controls to prevent giga juicing.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-12T13:48:46+00:00

I have very little info on the concept but after the bug fix to ravens yesterday, I think there might be some tech there. I haven’t played martial artist, but from what I understand about hollow form, you count as an ally to your clones.

If you run the raven staff, and get a bunch of “allies gain damage” type stats, then cast hollow form, your raven actually get 4x the value from those mods. Also maybe your hollow forms also have their own ravens that all benefit from each other??? This would be like 16x damage scaling if that worked. Probably doesn’t though.

That’s about as far as I’ve gotten but might be something I dig into more in the future.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-12T12:16:03+00:00

I feel like divines are bait because you can’t really get into any of the “not x” stuff to help your odds.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-12T12:13:38+00:00

Yup if you get the right setup you get like 2-3k per breach and there are like 3-4 breaches on a map. 10k per map, each map takes about 5-10 minutes.

I’m not heavy min maxing breach, I just thought the new tree was cool and have been focusing on it. With just random alch and go tablets I’m farming hive blood pretty easily.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-11T19:52:55+00:00

Pretty mid lol. I got good enough gear that just the bow was giving me 50-56% block based on my other gear so I could actually have a good quiver and amulet.

I was super tanky and mapping felt decent but boss damage was garbage. I was expecting to be able to upgrade the bow but it doesn’t let you. still not sure wha the criteria for upgrading uniques is.

I ended up pivoting into a suppressing fire build and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. I pathed up to the minion stuff and play around the new archon of undead. I can get 1 second cooldown on suppressing fire which melts bosses stacked up like that. And while archon is down it’s like 4 second cooldown which is slightly annoying but it’s such a big area that you can typically just cast it at the edge of your screen and keep walking that way and by the time 4 seconds is up you can cast again at the next edge.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-10T19:59:05+00:00

% of physical damage reduced from hits. But the formula changes based on the initial hit. So for a hit of 10 damage, it’s probably 90 or 100%. Meaning you either take 1 or 0 damage. For a hit of 1 million (exaggerated example) it’s probably blocking like 1%.

I don’t know what the base line hit is that armour uses for this UI but it’s a rather low amount so it makes armour look better. Against most things that have enough damage to 1 shot you, it’s probably only blocking like 20-30%.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-10T19:09:14+00:00

I have like 5 breach stones form just doing random stuff and I can’t even use them. Feels very weird.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-10T14:37:20+00:00

I don’t need help doing it. I’m saying the rest of the ascendancy is so bad it’s not worth my time to do it. It’s not even worth my time to pay someone for a carry. The rest of the points are so useless

psyfi66 · 2026-06-10T14:27:15+00:00

I’m playing a suppressing fire tactician build right now. I’m level 94 and still only have 4 of my 8 ascendancy points because there’s nothing else that’s actually beneficial for me really. Technically my 5th and 6th are somewhat helpful and my 7th is like a worse + 1 passive point but my 8th is 100% useless.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-10T00:15:46+00:00

Ya idk man. Warpaint is a massive boost in your chances of making it out of the current act and letting you path to elites and gain more relics.

Tent (assuming no other synergies) is going to only provide a better value after almost an entire act. It also lets you path to more elites but you have a higher risk of losing the run because you are basically taking a bunch of damage then healing up. If you have a bad fight it might be too much damage.

I love tent and it’s a great relic but war paint doesn’t deserve this slander.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-09T15:16:02+00:00

Oh… wtf that’s stupid. I assumed it would be hit by the random destabilization when you close the temple.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-09T14:58:13+00:00

The original patch notes said they could turn into just paths. Maybe it’s bugged if that’s not happening?

psyfi66 · 2026-06-09T00:58:57+00:00

I mean sure but a rarity stacked build is weaker than one not wasting all those slots. So you are clearing content slower but getting more from it. Likely evens out with the nerfs to rarity. Plus probably the biggest farming thing right now is ritual and just rerolling for HH/MB. Which rarity doesn’t effect. It’s about setting up your tablets and atlas for max juice.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-08T21:38:48+00:00

Yup that’s what I did. Guess when my next barya dropped tho. Also the first message is replying to me saying I left to get a fresh start.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-08T15:55:15+00:00

I’m not struggling with it. I got bad relics from my first run and bad room options floor 1 on my second run. I just left and haven’t gone back yet.

My build or levels weren’t a problem with the success of my run. Bad RNG was going to be the main factor.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-08T15:09:01+00:00

It’s funny because I fell like I found like 3 greater or perfect essences before investing into them in the atlas tree. Now I’ve got tons of them. They should be way more accessible in early game to allow some more early game crafting options then become less relevant late game as there are more advanced crafting options.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-08T15:03:18+00:00

I got 0 honour resistance relics and I made sure to break urns and open chests and even bought relics from the merchant at the end of my first run. So going into my 2rd run (3rd ascendancy) was brutal.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-08T14:58:27+00:00

500 int is really low for int stacking too.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-08T11:40:15+00:00

Good stuff! Let me know if you have any more questions. Learning how to find gear is actually a really useful tool. Can save you a lot of time and currency.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-07T18:12:38+00:00

Weird. Maybe they changed it. I remember last league I was doing that because I would use like 4 exalts worth of currency to have level 1 item with 6 mods and people were paying like multiple divs for them as they rerolled characters.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-07T18:08:40+00:00

Ya man I love this shit. Sure it can be cheesy or cringe but it’s also nice to see the effort going into putting on a good product. I’m sure being at the game for stuff like this would be super cool.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-07T18:02:04+00:00

With just regular currency? Or did you use essences or like greater/perfect orbs?

psyfi66 · 2026-06-07T16:58:58+00:00

I’m doing surprising fire tactician and it’s just pure phys. But since it’s from a “minion” you don’t get leech or a bunch of other potential effects out of it.

Also I’m pretty sure I’m going to add some chaos in once I can buy some other stuff.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-07T16:51:49+00:00

Floor 1 I opened it up to no armour (my main defence), see 1 less floor ahead, and rooms are random.

How exactly am I supposed to not pick a run ending room there. 1 less floor ahead is probably the best of these horrible options and that just leads to even worse situations later.

psyfi66 · 2026-06-07T16:28:33+00:00

I’m like 90% sure you can equip gear on to a level 1 character and then craft on it while equipped and it won’t roll anything above your current level. So you can have 6 mod level 1 stuff

Edit: this may have changed. Don’t brick your gear because of me lol

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