Good Morning Folks! I don’t have a massive blog post this morning as I am sort of just trucking along in the league and grinding things out on my Righteous Fire Chieftain. I hit 90% to all resistances by leveling my Purity of Fire the rest of the way to 20 and have been slowly upgrading things as I get currency. This morning I upgraded Burning Damage and Elemental Focus to Level 21/20% Quality gems for a bit of a damage boost. Since I am still running on a 4-Link chest, my Righteous Fire is starting to finally be noticeable how little damage it is doing. I have the final chest piece that I am trying to link but have not won the RNG game against Fusings. I bought some of the loot boxes from this league and picked up this amazing crab backpack, which was the item I was hoping to get. I had to hide my defiance banner so I could see the beady little eyes.
As far as Atlas progress goes, I am sitting at 87 out of 115 but largely because I am not entirely pushing maps. When I fill up on Sulphite I shift gears and work on Delve a bit and have cleared out a few more cities as well as taken out my first Vaal Delve boss. I’ve also taken down the Blackstar and “Shrek” and am now working towards unlocking Eater of Worlds and Searing Exarch for my first two voidstones. In theory I should be able to finish up both of those today, at which point I will shift gears back to finishing out the Maven unlocks. I tend to stall out on Maven because they give me less than unlocking the two altars end up doing for mapping. I need a lot of Eldritch currency in order to finish out the implicits on my gear. I am not exactly swimming in currency and everything seems wildly overpriced as I think there was a big loss of players when the league turned up not being that great.
That said I am hoping the patch that dropped over night is enough to bring folks back. While it greatly upgraded the crafting and lowered the difficulty of the negative mods, it did nothing for the existing corpses that we had clogging our morgue. As a result this morning I tried crafting a new Sceptre and simply by being able to choose my base of choice it was already an improved experience. I threw almost all of the corpses that I had sitting around at this and wound up with something that was actually an upgrade over what I had been using. Essentially I stacked a bunch of corpses for improved chance of Fire Modifiers and Elemental Modifiers, and then stacked corpses that reduced my chance of pretty much everything else. The final result is a sceptre with five mods that are “workable” and two that are actually pretty solid… one of which is the 30% Fire Multi which was actually damned good.
Yesterday I got my first Exalted drop. I have no clue why I take screenshots of these “firsts” but I find it interesting. Other than linking my chest, my other active crafting project is attempting to throw “reforge fire” juice from harvest at a sceptre that I got with 38% burning damage as a fractured mod. I am hoping to get +1 all fire gems on it and maybe a few other useful mods. However, it is going to be hard to compete with that 30% fire multi that I just crafted this morning. I also plan on saving up a bunch of the “better” versions of corpses from Necropolis to make another run at an upgraded sceptre if I don’t hit something soon on the fractured base. I do hope folks come back because right now trade feels a bit dead. The only thing that has not been fixed… is the ability to just nope out of the league content. We will see if Kripparian ends up trying it again given that he was probably the most public person to quit the league.