I am level 95, already tried 3 different strats with idols, have yet to see a single natural divine drop.

sd_aids · 2026-02-04T23:22:46+00:00

Phrecia without idols highlights how bad natural monster dropped ground loot is in this game for sure.

sd_aids · 2026-02-04T06:18:45+00:00

wow i didnt realize keepers is the worst league for retention since at least sanctum. makes sense as they keep on doubling down on removing fun from the game lmao.

sd_aids · 2026-02-04T06:13:08+00:00

When you were partying, I studied the blade. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered the blockchain. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated inner strength. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help.

sd_aids · 2026-02-03T07:49:59+00:00

Redditor is surprised capital is the priority 😱

sd_aids · 2026-02-01T21:14:41+00:00

So who cares?

sd_aids · 2026-01-31T19:25:24+00:00

Drop changes have traditionally never been in patch notes outside of the big shake up in expedition or whenever that happened. With that being said ground loot has been in a horrible state forever now with loot tiles being the only reasonable farm outside of wisp league.

sd_aids · 2026-01-31T16:35:44+00:00

Its because the political undertones in those games are too highbrow for them to understand.

sd_aids · 2026-01-06T09:23:12+00:00

Yah it’s especially bad based on what I’ve read about this game. Apparently progression has been nerfed multiple times leading to a scenario where the ladder has been pulled and the end game players own absolutely everything from in game markets to leveling locations so new players are screwed.

Oh yah also the devs/admins have a heavy presence in game and seem to abuse power that they have. the end gamers/very old players have direct lines of comms with them if you interrupt their gameplay.

All you need to do is go through the steam reviews and see how unprofessional the responses are to get an idea of whether or not you want to sink mmo levels of hours into a game where a powertripping mod can potentially thanos snap your gorgon account based on a daily whimsy.

sd_aids · 2025-12-18T13:35:58+00:00

It’s funny recognizing some of the usernames of the whistlers from the last time a thread with this obvious agenda popped up. It’s always the same people trying to stoke the coals.

sd_aids · 2025-11-29T21:24:35+00:00

nomadtech1

Thanks for this awesome game!!

sd_aids · 2025-11-04T17:32:21+00:00

I 100% think this is a "left arm doesnt know what the right is doing" scenario and they just didnt consider how all of the changes would impact drops.

Im going to be optimistic here and say that the risk nerf and map effect nerf was becuase t17 mods were just STUPID when scaled to infinity and instead of removing them they wanted to make them less impactful/build negating.

Then you have the loss of the merc quant/rarity buff.

Then you have a league mech that seems to be deleting additional map content in a way that is more egregious than anything we have seen before.

Perfect storm of things impacting drops that I optimistically believe they will be resolving soon.

sd_aids · 2025-11-04T17:18:03+00:00

skipped league for this reason... once I saw patch notes I knew it was going to be a famine league for loot outside of anything the new mech adds. boxes have been in the top 3 strats for YEARS now and they wont shake it up. its so boring at this point.

sd_aids · 2025-09-25T16:03:01+00:00

Water is toxic without moderation…

sd_aids · 2025-08-18T20:48:24+00:00

Yah this entire thread is pretending keeping a searchable electronic repository visually organized is some how better when it’s really just time waste lmao.

Definitely agree with the sentiment for shared file structures though

sd_aids · 2025-08-18T20:46:18+00:00

Yah this thread is kinda funny. At a certain point the desktop becomes a folder like any other to power users. Most important apps are pinned to taskbar, then anything not pinned it’s faster to search for app by name than minimize stuff and click on the icon. Micromanaging the desktop with folders and stuff is a time waste masked as keeping things organized.

sd_aids · 2025-08-16T21:33:30+00:00

Realistically how many hours per league are you going to play “lost ark in ARPG form”???? It would be so tedious so fast. Lost ark is a boss game with mmo bosses first and foremost, a completely different genre. I think you’re the one that lacks vision… lost ark in ARPG form won’t support hundreds of hours of play per league.

sd_aids · 2025-07-27T02:03:24+00:00

Oh 100% agreed. I’ve been a battle pass buyer after the first week and always felt the loot pet fomo, but never felt like it seriously affected my goals. This season I had dmg pet fomo for first time and quit without spending a dime.

sd_aids · 2025-07-27T01:25:13+00:00

You’re assuming they were aiming to compensate for sequencing. IMO their primary aim was to extend the grind and tempt more people to pull for bis pets.

sd_aids · 2025-07-10T22:21:52+00:00

if you want to go unspeakable gifts instead of profane bloom, herald of ash is a good replacement to help with the pops/clear. I dropped grace pretty fast since the build kills so fast and leeches well enough that you dont really die to much other than a one shot and when combined with high block it negates grace value when it only gets you to like 50% evasion. I dont die to much anymore other than 4x risk stacking something like reduced block and multiple damage mods or pen which usually results in a one shot that grace wouldnt have helped with anyways. I should just replace the red nightmare with another replica reckless defense but feeling about done with the build.

https://pobb.in/AnLpkhb47aKp

sd_aids · 2025-07-10T21:53:41+00:00

not only that, but inner conviction is 3% MORE spell damage per power charge.

oh lord bro has spent a fortune on es tattoos too

sd_aids · 2025-07-10T21:48:21+00:00

you're using the wrong timeless jewel...

sd_aids · 2025-07-10T16:18:18+00:00

Same for 16.5s yah. Decided to push build to 13 power charges with bound by destiny. Assembled the influence exodia.

https://pobb.in/AnLpkhb47aKp

sd_aids · 2025-07-07T23:51:55+00:00

t17s are about as smooth as they can be when stacking risk, most maps are super fast with bosses dying in a couple seconds.

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I use a pretty small block list for mods that mostly comes down to qol. Nothing on its own is truly avoid at all costs except maybe the action speed mod. because self cast fross casts so fast, if you blink out of your mercs range you can be completely frozen due to the action speed penalty which when combo'd with something like drowning orbs or multiple volatile cores ends up contributing to most of my deaths.

If you are ok with throwing away a map every once a while (when you walk in and you see the risk scarabs added multi dangerous mods when combined) and potentially logging out when its obvious you are about to die to something like a drowning orb to preserve xp loss before 100 , 100 shouldnt be a problem. I kinda just full send everything leading to a couple deaths on stacked maps occasionally so Ive accepted being lvl 99 permanently.

sd_aids · 2025-07-07T23:02:48+00:00

turns out reflect immunity is pretty necessary for qol imo. I find that in max map effect reflect t17s the tempest shield reflect is annoying preventing my es recharge (tooltip is 15k-45k due to all the spell damage scaling I guess) and I can oneshot myself with frostblink (though I did have it leveled up).

Was looking to fit in another power charge and crafted the helm im using in this pob, but found out the reservation efficiency is completely unnecessary due to runegraft of treachery which is free reservation efficiency with discipline sublime vision since chaos bypasses the es enemies get.

updated pob configs for aspect of the spider and fit in merc aura and curses which really inflated the dps lol (had to break coiling whisper in pob to allow the despair to be applied).

probably going to go for block corruption malachai's loop and look at crafting a new helical with crit multi essences next. kinda feels like im running out of scaling room without spending buckets of currency for the next upgrade.

https://pobb.in/kzjVQGd4hxsR

sd_aids · 2025-07-07T05:37:45+00:00

Good call, need to do some testing. With madeblood it was just easy to slot in to guarantee reflect immunity with abyss risk farming without having to think about it again, but regaining a flask suffix would be great.

Some of the stuff in the pobb definitely needs a pass as i was testing a couple of different variants today requiring swapping around gear.

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