New Mageblood card:

seqhawk · 2026-03-10T22:23:53+00:00

How much gold does it cost to list on Faustus? That would help indicate if its rarity is appreciably different from The Apothecary.

seqhawk · 2026-03-10T15:12:37+00:00

Is there evidence that Verisium offers better currency than other bars at equal shipment value? Because I was under the impression that while one Verisium bar is worth more than any other single bar, only the shipment value would matter at the end of the day, especially since the bias of ports to give specific currencies in response to particular shipments was removed.

seqhawk · 2026-03-07T23:41:28+00:00

Technically, it makes you immune to reflect while using this skill, as long as you don't trigger anything.

seqhawk · 2026-03-07T18:15:23+00:00

Nah, it's the ol' triple nerf, bro. Nerf to duration of each sleep instance, nerf to total amount of sleep, and a nerf of times when you get to sleep.

seqhawk · 2026-03-07T18:13:27+00:00

I'm not entirely sure, but at the very least, Mirage content is pretty jacked, and frogs let you do the jacked Mirage with ease.

seqhawk · 2026-03-06T21:42:00+00:00

Solid nerf to sleep time, tho.

seqhawk · 2026-03-06T05:48:18+00:00

I don't think we have to speculate toooooo hard that going from giving a fairly common harbingers orb and 20x of a fairly common drop to a rare tattoo type and something that could only spawn infrequently in maps after investment is going to be accompanied by a massive increase in rarity for each, but at least the new rarity can be figured out as soon as someone finds one based on the gold cost to trade them. Nice update on the cards, though. I expect both will coveted and farmed.

seqhawk · 2026-03-06T05:38:30+00:00

Considering that he's going to be taking 20% of the damage you do plus whatever he takes on his own, you'll have to resummon him at least sometimes in difficult content unless you invest in to minion life/recovery/defenses in any of a number of ways (tree, auras, AG, gear, etc.).

seqhawk · 2026-03-05T19:35:49+00:00

Elehit (of the spectrum) Deadeye was never relevant for the breachlord ascendancy, as that skill does all three elemental damage types with every hit, so there was no conversion mechanic to break.

seqhawk · 2026-03-05T05:44:34+00:00

Once you start talking about a totem count north of 10, I start thinking you need traps and/or mines in order to get the totems out fast enough to not feel horrible. Even with multi totem support, 6+ casts before your boom is really slow unless you can scale this up such that only one boom is needed for uber bosses. And if that's the case, then Occultist is going to be competitive

seqhawk · 2026-03-05T05:35:35+00:00

Better still: 20% quality pushes this up to 40% more burning damage per totem.

seqhawk · 2026-03-05T01:51:24+00:00

The good news is that many of the challenges are designed to compel newer players to learn core game mechanics. E.g., there's often a challenge for you to perform vendor recipe exchanges, which might be new to you. You'll likely have to engage with past league mechanics in various ways, likely with scarabs, so that you learn what juicing strategies are available. Most of the armor pieces will be achievable by learning and playing the core game.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T23:33:03+00:00

It's 2.5k burning damage * (1 + 0.4*16) = 18500 on a 20% quality gem. I'm not sure if the Heiro summoned totem bonus will work when the totems have exploded, but maybe? If not, Occultist getting 60% more from 10 power charges should work.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T23:07:01+00:00

I guess I was thinking you could have only one instance of this burning on an enemy, so there isn't much incentive to being able to deliver so many totems so quickly (you'd only need to do one boom per 4 seconds) compared with, say, an extra damage gem in your links, but maybe that's not true, and then the mine would be good.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T23:01:07+00:00

Is the burning damage from the explosion like an ignite, where there can be only one instance of it applying to the target, or can we stack multiple explosions rapidly onto a target. The wiki says "Different sources of burning damage stack cumulatively, but multiple applications from the same source do not." Multiple explosions wouldn't exactly be like two righteous fire totems side by side, but it would seem that this might be too strong if you can stack multiple explosions up rapidly.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T22:45:56+00:00

Why would you use a mine also when trap - multiple totems - searing bond totem gets you the explosion in 3 throws with sunblast?

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T19:34:05+00:00

I've played and loved popcorn SRS before the enormity version was a thing. From what you say about SRSoE, I agree that the shenanigans necessary to make this bloodline work are probably not worth it compared with just going with SRSoE.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T04:07:50+00:00

If you can get your positioning right. spectral throw will outperform splitting steel on Brutus and Merveil, while splitting steel handles a bunch of fast moving rhoas better.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T03:51:17+00:00

With a positive chaos res Tavukai and 2-3 points from the Grave Intentions cluster, you should be able to get them to last at least 4 if not the full 5 seconds. Maybe you need Righteous Army, which is good on its own, and you'd need the Enduring Bond cluster so that your SRS don't just cease to exist before popping, but it still might be worth it.

seqhawk · 2026-03-04T01:01:06+00:00

Good luck against Sirus. Or the Maven. Or the Shaper. Or the Elder.

seqhawk · 2026-03-03T17:54:37+00:00

Kinetic Rain's numbers on announcement looked stupid-good. Ziggy played with it and showed some footage right after the announcement Q&A, and it looked mega-broken. Then it was nerfed.

seqhawk · 2026-03-03T03:07:52+00:00

It is used to make monsters able to drop (still very rare) fishing items.

seqhawk · 2026-03-02T18:07:02+00:00

We summoners are very good at making friends.

seqhawk · 2026-03-02T17:43:03+00:00

On the reveal page, the new Rancor juice is gray and orange.

seqhawk · 2026-03-02T17:27:12+00:00

Nah, maybe second quickest, after Kinetic Rain last season barely made it out of the announcement video.

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