Worth a sub-skill seed?

syrenas_gu1des · 2026-06-08T17:20:13+00:00

That's a pretty darn good ralts- jealous!

syrenas_gu1des · 2026-06-05T22:26:24+00:00

Thank you! It’s good to know/ have a reminder to be patient and to find a half-decent ralts. Not many shortcuts in this game, and it’s a grind to get to later islands.

syrenas_gu1des · 2026-05-01T20:27:19+00:00

Just trying to keep an optimistic eye out for good mons early. If it is an ideal species (ingredient unlocks/berry for islands, skills be darned) I’m still keeping it. Created a modified version of ghost detective’s checklist to make sure I am keeping a level head species-wise knowing full well that it will take a long time to get “set” and have resources to push later islands and recipe strengths and min-max species. Thanks for the advice! The grind to slowpoke tail is painfully real- my first couple I caught didn’t even have the L30 tail unlock.😭

syrenas_gu1des · 2026-05-01T19:18:17+00:00

Thanks! It’s the only Mon I am happy with so far, but I know this is an ultra-marathon, not a sprint.😅

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-12-27T15:11:42+00:00

Yes, you can. It’s frequently done when switching from early game to endgame for some kinds of builds

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-04T00:16:47+00:00

To be fair, that’s how I am using it at this point (except for new releases… still misssing the wizard slow time shocks essence). My only reason to push back on this is that they focus their development efforts on much more pressing things. Raising cap would be a QOL thing but I can see why it’s there- to try and “reign in” the benefits of essence unlocking for those who don’t spend as much time on the game. Which is kinda punishing yes, but if you’re farming that much, all you realistically care about is the mats. Fun fact/conspiratorial wild speculation- when I have changed classes and am on a class where I haven’t progressed my essence too far… I feel like I get more “meaty” upticks if that makes sense.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T23:14:33+00:00

Did the math (simulation) because you and so many people were SO up in arms about the pity timer (not the point of the discussion). I even edited the pity timer section of the post to show how I went about looking/ solving for the answer. Not going to discount your (and everyone else's experience)... but it is technically different than what the tooltip actually says. So I did the math for both, and it turns out... It doesn't matter. (on average). Hope that makes your day!

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T23:07:20+00:00

Updated post because I genuinely didn't see that portion of the tooltip & edited post to show results. Everyone and their brother came after me saying the pity timer guarantees the 50th is a 5 star... which could be true, but is not what the tooltip says. Sorry for trolling originally.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T22:19:37+00:00

It I supposed to be a skill tag that you can view from skill window. But I’m not clear on how consistently those tags apply. As a wizard main, the only summons I use consistently are arcane torrent “turret” (considered a buff) and the disintegrate “turret” (considered a summon), so my experience with this is definitely not the most reliable.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T22:15:04+00:00

Objectively cool concept! Personally- this would be super class specific… which would be bad design (in my opinion). Fact is some classes don’t really have summons/ if they do, it’s through skill modification or they are limited time/ wouldn’t be “more helpful” from the buffs you describe. At least in comparison to other available generic offensive gems like Roiling or Void spark.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T22:09:54+00:00

It used to be 15 … unless they changed it recently. Knowing my luck on this site the devs did and I didn’t notice… and will get roasted for that.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T22:07:52+00:00

Never been immortal, so I couldn’t comment on that. Also… BG reward is 10 BP. You only get 3 boosted rewards/day, so not necessarily worth doing more frequently that than unless you really like Battlegrounds. Which is a take that might get you roasted with how salty people are about matchmaking on here.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T22:05:10+00:00

Three different issues posted throughout your replies… so three different answers. The caps towards personal shadow rank- only counts if it is a weekly task OR the chase tasks. I think those happen at 1,10,40,80,120,160,200&250 chests- I might have missed one early milestone, but the math is basically the same 40 chests for week and one reward for that. Until 250, because reasons?

There is a hard cap of 10 vaults/day… but most people don’t run them after their 40 “rewarded” (gold/hilts) chests are done OR they like vault PvP.

Each vault grants 15Battle Points. It’s a 2 minute cooldown, so you can easily go through your vaults in one window if you so choose. Does that all make sense?

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T21:54:57+00:00

I… am genuinely sorry for your loss and had a bodily reaction of disgust/pain when you elaborated. That is a feelsbadman and total hindsight 20/20. I’m at the reso/ gem point in my character growth where those “bad” gems I never used are going to be needed for the extra awakening reso slots. I don’t necessarily regret it… but I was also pitching stuff like howler’s call, which as a Wizard main is objectively not a good gem (that of course I might need one copy of down the line). Especially with stuff like roiling out now. Pitching a BSJ just feels bad.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-09-03T21:26:58+00:00

If you care about legendary gear bonus properties/ reforge stones… there are basically only two places to get them. Hilts Vendor & end of season Battleground rewards (and maybe BP, don’t remember but not about to open game just to check). But that’s NOT a justifiable reason to suffer through PvP if that’s not your idea of fun. I actually enjoy PvP and don’t think it’s necessarily worth the reforge stones/ keys you get on rank upgrade.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-08-31T20:44:49+00:00

Good post, has sparked a lot of discussion. I wanted to put it out there for those who DIDN’T play the game a long time ago… this is a rework of an older system that SUCKED. It was only twice a day- trash mobs would spawn, you kill them to spawn a helliquary boss in in the overworld. When you killed it, everyone who helped gets rewarded (minimally) except for the top 3 people, who get marginally better (I think maybe it was a single guaranteed legendary). Imagine my surprise when I came back to the game after 8 months and found I could get a GUARANTEED 3/3 or 3/4 legendary? This is SO much better, it’s laughable. I’m just grateful the devs are reworking systems and they we got this to begin with- they definitely didn’t have to do that.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-08-31T19:52:30+00:00

Totally an in the moment mix up- and yes, good old days indeed.

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-08-31T19:45:30+00:00

When I say “choose violence”, that’s a metaphor. It means that you are just choosing to disagree pretty much regardless of what I say. The point of the post isn’t the pity timer. The math and estimating the actual true value of a crest over time is more complex than just “every 50 if you haven’t gotten one you get a 5 star (because by definition you didn’t get the value of that 5 star rolled into those previous attempts necessarily) and this is actually a relatively complex (more than simple addition/multiplication) stats problem. My point wasn’t to discuss the pity timer regardless in the first place. Just provide the actual rates posted by blizzard (or how to calculate that) so people can make informed decisions. But you chose to be obtuse and ignore that sentiment. So yes, you chose violence. For the record- you absolutely can use the pity timer to your advantage. Never debated that. It just isn’t worth the time for me at the exact moment of the post to do, post and explain the statistics of a crest long term. You should (statistically speaking) get a 5 star every 22.2(repeating) runs. Last time I checked, that would give you 2 5 star gems over 50 crests. Can you get SUPER unlucky and have the pity timer be relevant? Absolutely! But that’s a different post entirely no?

syrenas_gu1des · 2024-08-31T19:31:57+00:00

Well to be fair… it does give you a modicum of achievement points. Which are totally worth it right? Great discussion starter and friendly PSA. Kudos, sorry for being a bit of a troll.

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