NG+ and synergies content

[F430]

Couple questions from me:

- if I skip NG++ and beyond, am I missing out on any unique content?
- souls [lesser/minor/etc] appear in base game from champions and unique bosses, but what about soul stones? do they appear only in Synergies-specific locations?
- is reaching level 100 required before starting Table Mountain/Derinkuyu/Selrock or is that meant purely for endgame farming?
- what equipment/items are required to access altars in Ember Steps, eg "Soulcrafting Crit" and are Realms of Discord always a hit and miss as far as dead ends go?

That's all the questions I can think of for now.
Probably more to come since I am yet to use any of the custom Synergies content besides the mod making vanilla game more difficult.
Not saying that as a bad thing, since vanilla was a massive bore to me and I've only completed a playthrough of it for the critter achievement.

But I digress, and would appreciate if someone could answer the above questions for me.
Don't really need an in-depth walkthrough, just simple "go here and talk to this NPC" or "take X and Y and that's" and whatnot.
Thanks in advance.

[Pewnix]

1. NG+ has some new content and new tier gear, there is more info about it on runic website/forum.
2. Lesser/minor souls can be crafted to soulstones, requires 10 lesser to do 1 minor and so on - drop is random through the whole game.
I have found only 2 soulstones within 50h of gameplay but around 30 of each lesser/minor. I found the soulstones within Synergies content.
3. You dont need to be lvl100 to access Table Mountain or Selrock nor for Realms of Discord since the dungeons in RoD scale to your lvl. But I do recommend at least lvl50 to enter RoD.
Derinkuyu is hard and do require atleast 50-60% damage reduction - 75% is optimal. Mobs are lvl105.
4. I belive only legendary items can be crafted with soulstones.
5. And as far as I know, the bosses in SynergiesMOD aint balanced for NG+ and beyond, but I can be wrong.

I hope this helps

[steffire3]

https://www.kirmiziperfect.com/torchlight-ii-mods/synergies-guide/#ffs-tabbed-111

Soulcrafting Tier 0:
Minor Souls, Lesser Souls, Greater Souls drop in a range from Elite, Hero, Tier0 Trash, and Tier1 Trash monsters.
Magnificent Souls drop from ancient trolls and rare dragons
Angelic Souls need to be crafted
Soul Stones will drop from all tier0 bosses
Combine 10 minor souls to make a Lesser soul, 10 lesser souls to make a greater soul, 10 greater souls to make a magnificent soul and 5 magnificent souls to make a Angelic soul.
Combine a Angelic Soul, a Soul Stone and ANY tier0 armor piece (not rings nor weapons) and the item will be ‘soulbound’ and have a 5% damage reduction affix added to it. Be warned it destoys your previous item and replaces it with a new one, sockets/enchants will be lost.
Combine 2 Angelic Soul, 2 Soul Stones and any Tier0 SOULBOUND armor piece and the item will change to a second degree of soulbound, replacing in 8% damage reduction and a health increase. Again destroying the old armor and creating a new one.

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http://www.runicgamesfansite.com/mod_downloads/compilations-tl2/download-158-synergies-v1337.html

The Realms of Discord are a series of small dungeons all chained to each other. It is currently the best place to level up your characters because every monster scales to your level.

Derinkuyu Raid is Tier 0.

Or'ak Basin Zone is Tier 0.5

Darkness Falls is Tier 1

Reaching Level 100 helps (not required) however it's farming Skulls of Limony and possibly Reichliu or even Eyes of Grell that is the most useful to survive hits for added content.

NG+ is not required for Synergies.

[F430]

Firstly, thanks for responses, it's all quite plainly explained, which is good, since I'm rather new to all the things that Synergies added.

Anywho, I've read the guide on kirmizi, but must have missed the part about soulstones dropping from T0 bosses, which was a piece of information I was also after.

Now, about Derinkuyu and other raid dungeons - where can I access them from?
Is there a hub city that is used as a starting point or do I have to find some portal scroll?
Also, do said dungeons automatically reset after completion, or do I have to reroll world each time I want to farm souls/soulstones/legendaries?

[Xercules]

Ok, new game plus and beyond is not ballanced for synergies.

Out of the first act one town, there is a green portal at the bottom of town. That takes you to the ember steps. In the ember steps is many things of note. Go explore it. Also, the portal to the relmbof discord is in the ember steps.

The rest of end game content is out of table mountain. Derynkuyu or spelling, is at the bottom of table mountain. The troll cave is also there, and if you make it through the troll cave, 2 parts, then you will find the portale to darkness falls.

Also, out of table montain is the gold mine opposite the troll cave. Go there around lvl 45- or higher if you need gold. Not a walk in the park though. Its full of ratlings who only drop gold.

I dont know how many levels there are, go through the portals at the end of each level and ignore the manticore wording. Hes not there. The last level has the rat king and you get stuff for killing it. The gold dropped from ratlings goes up as you progress. Good luck there.

I can provide specifics on other things as i remember them. If i know.

[Xercules]

Oh, also after you kill the rat king, very sure you can keep going but the ratlings are HUGE and TUFF. I only ever stepped in, fought a little, they hit hard, and either died or left.

Also about the relm of discord, its an alternate lvling option. You can use it to get to lvl 100 as it scales to your level. But gets boring after a while. I have taken a brand new char in there right after echo pass, just be careful because even though it scales to lvl, there are bosses and champions in there. Not a cake walk. And you level fast! If you live.

[F430]

I'm not entirely sure, but I recall the gold mine somehow being available from Ossean Wastes [act 2 overworld?]. I got to floor 3-4, then, despite being a few levels above, started taking too much damage to justify going further and simply retreated through a portal.

Then again, that was way back in mid-2015, so perhaps the mine got moved to Table Mountain, because I certainly never went there. After that, I stopped playing the game and focused on other titles, booted it 2 months ago and there were a few things I didn't see before, like Selrock bot.

Anywho, about Discord portal. Is it still buggy?
As in, are there instances where a portal isn't going to open because the monster who was meant to "drop" one didn't spawn? On top of that, there is no way back once you go past floor 1, no "stairs up" transition and whatnot.

[Xercules]

Ok well, i have had very few times when a portale was unavailable. When that happened a town portal saves you anyway. And i mean, like 2 times.

And then, um..oh. Not to buggy, no. My issue is i seem to only get about 4-5 maps is all. Within 3-4 maps, you will come to a boss map level, and at the end of those is a red return to surface or town portal.

Almost always though i still got the normal portals to so i could choose to go back to town or keep going.

[Xercules]

It kinda sounds like im pushing the relm of discord to lvl up. Im really not.

The regular play through in synergies is a good time as well. With more monsters to slay, and tweeks with them as well. More afixxes, whatever, champions and giant versions of monsters. Wow.

Plus there are world bosses that can spawn in the out door maps, excluding echo pass. I remember making my way through the frozen map in act one, and came across the fairy queen for the first time. Holy crap! It was a blast, but wow did i get my butt handed to me. With all the dressings.

So choose wisely. Maybe do the relms and gain a few levels, then hit the story mode. The bosses in it are amped up to, so FUN.

I really must give a shout out to a new-ish mod on par with synergies. Salan, the creator and modder of synergies is burned out and done. We cant blame him, he went for a couple years straight. A legend he is.

However, a modder named Corley has created a mod called tl2-e-complete overhaul. Its not as massive as synergies, but she is still updating it and adding new stuff. Its very good.

And she is making changes and additions based on fan requests. As long as its ballanced. Her words.

So, when you have had your fill of the maddnes and fun called synergies mod, i highly recommend her mod. Omg, its awesome. Custom classes, revamped and ballanced original classes, end game content, a fully integrated act 5. Check it dude. Its good times.

[F430]

Got almost 230 hours in TL2 at the moment, so I'm probably not at the stage where I'm bored of the game just yet. Moreso since I didn't really reach the endgame parts, so whenever I'm done with Synergies, I might give that TLE mod a go.

Thanks for all the answers, advice and tips.

[Xercules]

No, i totally didnt mean, lol, your welcome😀

[F430]

So, I gave Discord dungeons a go and I have to admit that levelling up with those is a blast, but completing the actual kill quests is a major pain.

First one to kill was the Ancient Titan. No biggie, took me about 20 minutes to get to the forge, or whatever the boss location was called in stock game, got the kill, returned for a reward and picked up a new quest.

But this is where the pain began. Getting to Cacklespit's realm seems to be borderline impossible.
I'm not sure whether RNGsus hates me with a passion or there are some hidden criteria I'm not aware of, eg kill the totally-not-Aruk-The-Lizard, then enter the portal he drops, but I keep getting dropped into the same location, including the Ancient Titan arena, which I can't do anything about other than zipping through back to Ember Steps.
On top of that, I got stuck next to the Steps/Realm transition area because the game decided to spawn me inside the world geometry.
And not to mention I've spent just over 2 hours trying to do the Cacklespit quest there, while, as stated above, Titan took me about 20-25 minutes at most.

Therefore, if someone could shed some light on this, that would be grand.
Again, if this RNG, I might as well grind up to level 100, then ditch this place completely and move to Table Mountain, otherwise I'll try to something else.

[Xercules]

Well, i never do the quest in there. Lol. Didnt even remember it was there.

Funny cause seemed to always get the three sisters. Its totally random. No gimick on aiming for a certsin one. Just, luck. Thats way i never did the quests. Just jump in and grind.

[F430]

Finally got to L100, finished the kill quest chain and had a go at Derinkuyu.
It was interesting to say the least. Spent about an hour there, died several times, got 4 soul stones, 15 souls, 10 legendaries and more uniques than I can count.
It's frustrating but at the same time rather rewarding, not to mention enticing.
Though, it's a bit of a pain that the hub resets every time I beat a boss, and those L120 mobs do pack quite a punch.
Overall, it's not bad for endgame content but will probably bore me by the time I get at least one class-based set and enough DPS and damage reduction to decimate the troll homeland.

[Xercules]

Yes. Each portal boss in there drops maybe 4 pieces to like 5 diffrent sets, so i couldnt imagine the time grind to be a completist there. Lol.

[steffire3]

Originally posted by F430:

Overall, it's not bad for endgame content but will probably bore me by the time I get at least one class-based set and enough DPS and damage reduction to decimate the troll homeland.

Hence the great strength and flaw of Synergies End Game Mod Content:

I have read some of Salan's Notes and it was stated that the decision was to "lengthen" the time it takes to gather sets and boosts.

Synergies caters to those who love the grind of farming items and slowly accessing higher tiers of damage and survival.