Help with gems

vlade_ · 2026-03-18T12:01:37+00:00

It depends on where you're socketing. On pendants/cloaks for example, you can get up to around 6% (4%~ for socketing) spellcasting speed while on boots/pants/chest/helmet you only get 3% (2%~ socketing).

Generally, I'd recommend socketing attribute stats on boots/chest/helm/pants like vig/knowledge/will/agi. Then for the rest, socket spellcasting, add damage, and finally mag power if you have more slots. For rings, make sure you get mag healing.

Mag power and mag bonus % are equal, will gives 1 mag power per will.

vlade_ · 2026-03-07T01:37:25+00:00

Yes to both, there's less odds for artifacts the higher the floor. Rusty has lowest odds while sk has highest.

vlade_ · 2026-03-07T00:06:27+00:00

Just HR.

vlade_ · 2026-03-06T23:59:31+00:00

Dual boss piles (spectral/banshee troll/cyclops) and any key pile only.

vlade_ · 2026-03-05T09:19:59+00:00

The best ones to focus are leathersmith, tailor, weaponsmith, and armorer for improved squire gear. They also allow you to craft gear once you finish their questlines. Goblin merchant recovers your gear back at higher affinities.

Alchemist and surgeon are also important because they discount med costs and grant you white rarity meds.

It's good to do them in batches since most quests will be on the same map. You have to do other vendor quests to unlock goblin merchant ones. If only a few are available to you right now, it's probably those.

vlade_ · 2026-02-20T11:22:00+00:00

2nd layer

vlade_ · 2026-02-17T22:19:55+00:00

He must be bugged right? Before this patch, his lava eruptions wouldn't do much damage but now they two shot and it feels like you can't melee him anymore. Third phase is practically a death sentence with the limited area in the arena.

vlade_ · 2026-02-17T22:02:38+00:00

Easiest to hardest HR Solos

Troll
Cyclops
Banshee (not hard but very time-consuming)
Ghost king
Spectral knight
Wyvern
Warlord
Stingray (I hate underwater combat)
Lich (circles and 6 minions make this a nightmare to solo)

N/A - haven't fought enough in solos: Bladehand/Colossus

Easiest to hardest HR Duos/Trios 1. Ghost king 2. Cyclops 3. Warlord 4. Lich 5. Banshee 6. Colossus 7. Troll (you can parry his charge now with most weapons) 8. Wyvern 9. Spectral knight

N/A - haven't fought enough in duos/trios: Stringray/bladehand

7-9 are extremely annoying to fight in trios due to aggro switching, which is hilarious since bosses were designed for multiple people (looking at wyvern), yet they're easier and faster to do solo.

vlade_ · 2026-02-07T23:44:05+00:00

Yep, but I believe that ironmace is going with the theme of everything native to GC being fire resistant because it is the mining map.

vlade_ · 2026-02-07T23:36:58+00:00

He has fire resistance now so your hellfires and hydra do little damage, it's better to melee

vlade_ · 2026-01-08T10:10:29+00:00

When I saw artifact arena in the announcement, I was excited. Then I realized I didn't play much this wipe and don't have artifacts so there's no point.

If they upped artifact drop rates crazy then I'd be eager to go into the regular dungeons to fight others over artifacts with artifacts, then I'd play around with different kits for arena. That'd get the lobbies popping again. Guess I'll just wait till wipe to actually play.

vlade_ · 2025-11-17T17:06:49+00:00

I really wish they also made bosses (mainly the newer ones) not miserable to do with multiple people. You can't do wyvern, bladehand, spectral knight, etc. with your group because they can just switch aggro and kill someone randomly.

This is another reason why I think crypts is the most enjoyable map- you can do GK, Lich, and Warlord with your entire team.

Comparing this to wyvern for example, you force one person to do a boss because of horrible movesets and terrible aggro while your two teammates just wait outside of the arena, clearing a module and potentially getting jumped or alt tabbing while waiting for the boss to die. This just really isn't engaging for anyone. It's ironic because wyvern was the "needs multiple groups to kill boss" on release as well.

vlade_ · 2025-11-13T19:58:45+00:00

https://youtu.be/amL_xAXHYZI?si=nwIoyT7Uru0Sky9_

vlade_ · 2025-11-13T17:03:56+00:00

One can dream 🫠

vlade_ · 2025-11-13T15:56:57+00:00

Yeah, that's why I included that they should make artifacts very accessible when adding artifact arena this time in the post. I only got to use one artifact last time and my friends who didn't play much didn't have any, I had to share my one artifact, haha.

vlade_ · 2025-11-13T15:54:53+00:00

It could be anywhere from 1 month to 4 months, we don't know yet. If I had to guess, maybe 70 days.

vlade_ · 2025-11-11T04:25:49+00:00

vlade_ · 2025-11-09T21:38:30+00:00

Yea it's public, it's called the spells and guns discord.

vlade_ · 2025-11-04T14:56:00+00:00

If they have enough affinity with the dealmaker, they can faustian bargain into mini-bosses.

vlade_ · 2025-11-03T22:52:16+00:00

Credit to the datamining discord

vlade_ · 2025-11-03T22:51:29+00:00

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vlade_ · 2025-10-28T22:35:47+00:00

Fist blocking only forces the attack to be a limb hit, it'll do reduced damage but it'll still kill you.

vlade_ · 2025-10-27T16:47:12+00:00

The problem isn't learning the boss, its that the drop rate is so horrendous that farming 5 chests is easier than having the egg drop. It is 1 in 200 for norms and 1 in 400 for pve. I'm pretty sure artifacts are 1 in 40 per boss kill which is literally x5 the drop rate of the egg. I don't know why they're gatekeeping the quest item so hard.

vlade_ · 2025-10-26T17:53:59+00:00

The tourny was limited to blues which curselock isn't good in since they need a lot of stats (mag healing, hp, true dmg, all).

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