Legendary Boons

[Paradox]

I know this has been talked about before, but acquiring these for the purpose of the fated list is tedious. I've spent the last ten-ish runs purposely seeking a single one, and have yet to have it show up. At this rate, this single prophecy could take upwards of 40 hours to complete. For all I know, this could be intentional. Maybe devs wanted it to take multiple tens of hours to complete one prophecy. Regardless, it's not fun.

For those curious, the steps I've taken for Second Wave are:

-Dark Foresight for increased gold laurels
-God's Legacy for increased legendary chance
-Fated Authority for re-rolling gold laurels

-Conch Shell to quickly acquire tier 1
-Fill other command-based boon slots as quickly as possible to prevent other tier 1
-Acquire tier 2 as quickly as possible
-Avoid further tier 1 and 2 if possible to prevent duo showing up
-Check shops for boons, including random boon bags
-Take keys for more re-rolls

Not really sure what else I can do. There's a sentence on the wiki that I'm not sure I trust which states the following:

"The chances for Legendary Boons can be increased with specific gods' Keepsakes, Eurydice's Refreshing Nectar, Well of Charon item Yarn of Ariadne, and the Mirror of Night talent God's Legacy."

To my knowledge, Legendary is a special rarity and is not affected by any of these other than God's Legacy.

[sumolagann]

From another thread

"There are 3 steps to hunt for legendary boon.
First change the mirror list from God's Pride to God's Legacy.
Then you when you pick a boon during run, always open your codex to see what is required to get a legendary boon, they even highlight the boon you already have so that it's easier to track.
Lastly, if you have Fated Persuasion in your mirror and you're sure that you have fulfilled the requirement, try rolling the boon offered, ESPECIALLY if you're in a mini boss / feuding gods room (1 skull room).
With good preparations, I can get 2 legendary boons, or 1 legendary with 3-4 duo boons, or 5 duo boons in a single run, so it's not really rare IMO. Haven't managed to get 6 duo boons though (highest possible with 4 gods)."


Going to try that too, guess the skull rooms help the rate. Need a few and to purge one still.

[Paradox]

Of these 3 steps, I'm already doing 2 and the third is outright false. Skull rooms offer higher rarity boons, which has no effect on Legendary.

As for Fated Persuasion vs Fated Authority, I was using Fated Persuasion at first but I found that rolling other Gold Laurels into boons gave me more chances/higher success.

[mangonaise]

Originally posted by Paradox:

Skull rooms offer higher rarity boons, which has no effect on Legendary.

was wondering about this. any chance you could point me to where you discovered this? i think the rarity in this game is a little opaque

[Paradox]

I have no inside information on this mechanic. It is my understanding that Legendary and Duo boons work differently in terms of rarity and therefore things affecting rarity would not affect them. It is entirely possible that i'm incorrect.

Consider the normal ways of upgrading the rarity of boons that you already have; replacing slot boons with ones from another god, Demeter's Rare Crop boon and Eurydice's Ambrosia Delight. Each of these will take boons from common to rare, rare to epic, or epic to heroic. It seems as though Legendary and Duo are simply not part of this scale.

I've not been able to find a reliable source of information regarding the mechanics of this game. I'm running on a combination of my own experience, other posts and the wiki.

[Songbird]

I know people who have played the game for 1000+ hours who, at least last time I heard from them, would take "rarity" increasing options when seeking legendary and duo boons and said they did boost the chance of them occurring even though they aren't really a "rarity" but a special boon category. That said, I've never decompiled the game or anything to check myself.

From what I found with a quick search, the following "rarity" effects DO affect Legendary and Duo boons:
1) God's Legacy (duh)
2) "Favor" boons from Chaos
3) Yarn of Ariadne
4) Refreshing Nectar (Eurydice option 3)

Additionally, having that god's keepsake equipped apparently boosts the chance for legendary and duo boons. All of these increase chance by 10% (even if they give another number -- for example a Favor boon from Chaos that says 22% is still exactly 10% for legendary and duo boons), but I'm not sure how that stacks (e.g. is each "current chance x1.1" or something else?).