The Slormancer

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How best to approach Endgame?
So I completed the story and I've been pottering around levelling my characters up and I want to check I'm not missing something...

I do Battlegrounds (or repeat story missions?) to earn Elder Slorm?

I use that to access the Temple to earn Pure Slorm - which I then use to boost how much Elder Slorm I earn and can store?

At some point I run the Forge but that's purely for loot?

I completely the story with 3 characters around 29-31 - it does seem that levelling is slow - the initial Elder Slorm limit is low and I'm in for a LOT of Battleground/Temple combos!?

Did I miss something?
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hypadao 30 ian. 2024 la 8:43 
my best advice is that you shouldn't wait for max level before creating a build, the most valuable part of a build is the Slormreaper anyway
For that, you can just do the Battleground, or the temple/forge when you can/are bored
So don't hesitate to use your upgrade material, you will gain exponentially more later.
Once you have a build, you can do the temple for the ultimatum and the forge to maximize your slormreaper power in order to do the biggest difficulty/boss.
rikke 31 ian. 2024 la 14:57 
Postat inițial de shrewdlogarithm:

At some point I run the Forge but that's purely for loot?

Did I miss something?

Yes, you miss something big. The forge is not only for loot. The forge has a boss " The Siege Leader " which you need to kill many time to get runes for your Slormreaper. Runes add more fun for your build :)

When you run the forge, you have event who give you more chance to see the boss ( 5% for each wave event ). Normaly it's at wave 100 with no bonus to fight him but with the chance you'll see him far before ( i see him at wave 34 the first time, 22 is my lucky min wave and 46 my max )
Having run a fair bit of endgame, I'm beginining to think it's just WAY TOO MUCH grind for my tastes...

100 waves of the forge - you must be kidding - at my level that's going to take at least an hour and if you die you get nothing - that's just a waste of time...

Levelling also seems to be painfully slow - it took me about 15 hours to run all 3 chars (alternating) through the Acts - about the same time again has added about 6 levels to those chars and in that time I've seen VERY little loot worth bothering with

Even if I focussed on just one character that's WAY more hours than I've already spent to get into the 70s or 80s - and that's repeating the same areas/enemies/missions 1000s of times - hoping for random Reaper/Rune drops and - erm - nope...

If I wanted a game to swallow infinite time I'd play PoE tbh

There just isn't enough area/enemy variety - or indeed 'challenge' (as difficulty here seems to amount to elites and bosses with MASSIIVE healthpools which gets really boring) - to justify spending that much time IMO

p.s. I should have guessed something was up when one YT build guide hinted at their using a cheatengine to boost their character's level - I wonder why...
Editat ultima dată de shrewdlogarithm; 31 ian. 2024 la 15:59
hypadao 31 ian. 2024 la 16:33 
there's no fundamental point in leveling every character, so I'm surprised you did if you don't like grinding.
And like in POE a build that smashes everything into oblivion makes things easier, 100 waves at the forge only takes 20 minutes with a good build for example.
I would NEVER do forge without it
personally what i enjoy is not the grinding but creating my own build and believe me or not but it's actually longer than the actual grind at the exeption of the slormreaper that require specific long mindless grind.

p.s : at the end of the day the grind is just the chalenge to overcome, saying that you don't like the grind is like saying you don't like to become better on dark souls
Editat ultima dată de hypadao; 31 ian. 2024 la 16:49
If you have a build which can smash something easily - why not play something tougher which has better rewards?

A game which 'requires' you play 'easy' content to ensure you get "quick" loot - isn't much of a game - at least not one I want to play...

I played all 3 chars because I enjoyed tinkering with their builds and I found some were simply better for some types of encounter (put another way - the Mage absolutely stinks until you get some levels on it and a well made Ranger makes the other chars pointless - but that's just an aside)

I think the sheer level of grind allied to the shonky 'difficulty' means I need to play something else now

I quite like the gameplay but there's no way I'm putting the level of time it appears to expect to 'progress' - not without a LOT more carrot/variety/feeling of being punished for actually engaging with some challenge etc.
hypadao 31 ian. 2024 la 16:55 
​fair point, if you feel that you are no longer progressing you no longer have any reason to continue playing, in this kind of situation I like to give myself a goal but we all have a limit
Postat inițial de shrewdlogarithm:
100 waves of the forge - you must be kidding - at my level that's going to take at least an hour and if you die you get nothing - that's just a waste of time...
People not reading and then baselessly claiming that you get nothing...
https://i.imgur.com/iCAIZc5.jpg
If you get exp stormancer grind is super fast. Also the point of arpg is to grind anyway so..
Editat ultima dată de Enjoyluck; 1 febr. 2024 la 7:39
Postat inițial de Enjoyluck:
If you get exp stormancer grind is super fast. Also the point of arpg is to grind anyway so..

Grind is fine is there's a feeling of progress, if you're getting better items and unlocking stuff as you go

Problem here is that so much of the 'good stuff' is random-drop based or locked behind a fairly lengthy grind through the Forge etc.

I've played endgame for the same time it took to complete the Acts and in that time I've had maybe 1-2 items drops which were interesting - that's not encouraging...
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Postat inițial de shrewdlogarithm:
100 waves of the forge - you must be kidding - at my level that's going to take at least an hour and if you die you get nothing - that's just a waste of time...
People not reading and then baselessly claiming that you get nothing...
https://i.imgur.com/iCAIZc5.jpg

I don't think they compensate nearly enough for the cost/time involved in a Forge run

I don't think that's what people go into the Forge to get for the most part either!?

I'm OK with 'all the loot comes at the end' gameplay but the all-or-nothing nature of the Forge - added to the time it takes to do a decent run in there - seems a bit crap to me...

That said - the time/grind involved here in general seems OTT - I view this as an interesting indie ARPG - I don't view it as a timesink in the style of D3/4 or PoE - maybe I'm wrong but those games have a LOT more variety to keep you playing that sort of time...
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