Good Morning Folks. Sometimes in a game there is an event that I so loathe… that I cannot bring myself to complete. For me lately that has been the Festival of the Lost event running currently in Destiny Rising. It took what was quite possibly one of my most favorite game modes… Realm of the Nine Chaos mode… and completely ruined it by taking away the fun stuff and replacing it with dumb gimmicks to farm more candy. I have been avoiding doing any of this content, because I just was not having any fun with it. So here I found myself this morning with 23 hours left until the even goes away… and that I had not farmed up any of the actually useful items that come from it. So I put my head down and ground out all of the normal modes so I could at the very least reap the rewards.
I am really hoping that this is not evidence of what we should expect with the Dawning event that is likely to come around the beginning of the year. So far, most of the events have been pretty lackluster. They remix one of the existing game modes and then tack on some meager rewards to make you feel like you really should grind them out. It might just be that I am finding joy outside of Destiny Rising right now, and resent feeling like I need to grind this out. Whatever the case, I am very glad to see that it is over. I got my mask and got all of my exotic weapon mod upgrade currency, and am happy to call this over. I am still having fun with Destiny Rising, just not this event.
Over in Path of Exile, I am starting to get a bit of wanderlust. I’ve dinged level 97 and can in theory keep plugging away at alternating between mapping and delving until I hit 100, and slowly knock out all of the challenges. However… yesterday I started to get that old familiar itch that meant I was probably going to roll an alt. I could in theory keep gathering resources and upgrading gear until I got bored… but I am going to take a break and try and create something that does not currently exist in the league that I have seen. When I created the mule witch to get the starter gems for leveling Righteous Fire, I specifically gave it a reasonable name thinking that I would play an Elementalist later in the league, and I think that time is upon us.
Elementalist as a class, with its deeply strong new Golem node, feels like it is something that can essentially be adapted to almost any gameplay style. Right now there are folks playing all manner of bow skills on it, various assorting kinetic wand abilities, and even exsanguinate/corrupting fever on it. What I am not seeing a lot of however is trappers… and I am going to see if I can make that happen. During the short lived Pohx League in Settlers, I played an Ice Trap of Hollowness Trickster that I had quite a bit of fun with dubbed BelFreezyBoom and you can see a video of that gameplay here. It had good clear and was a fun mapper, and did a fairly reasonable job taking on bosses.
I have this idea in my head for the build where I essentially am using Ice Trap to freeze things, but also using Shaper of Storms and Shaper of Flames to make it so that my ice traps are shocking and igniting things. Then using the new version of Berek’s Respite to make it so that ignited enemies explode… so that my giant field of booms, has its own aftershock boms. I have zero clue how well this is going to work out, but if nothing else it should be fun it see it fall into place. Liege of the Primordial is a massive power node that also allows you to fix pretty much any other issues the build might have just through the use of really good semi-immortal Golems. I don’t necessarily have a build guide for this, but I did stub out a tree that I am going to more or less be following. We will see how this works out. No one appears to be doing anything similar to this… so it is going to be interesting to see if this actually works or if it feels like crap and falls apart rapidly.
Lastly I spent a good chunk of yesterday watching episodes of Dungeon Senshi/Delicious in Dungeon and am now caught up through episode 13. This super chill dungeon crawler cooking show… got real dark, real fast. I am completely hooked at this point so I am along for this ride no matter where it takes us. I am invested in these characters and want them to live a happy life… but I have a feeling they will not be. Bad things have already happened, and I fear that worse things are on the horizon. We will see how it shakes out though. I am likely going to be finishing this series run before moving on to the next Legends and Lattes book that dropped yesterday.
I started watching Delicious in Dungeon when it appeared on Netflix but I only managed three episodes before the incredibly irritating focus on cooking became too much to bear. I thought it would be a good show if they just dropped that part.