Crucible Mode Before/After Main Campaign?

[RyRy McPWN]

Playing through on my first toon (Gunslinger-Demo/Occ) and enjoying the campaign thus far. Is there a benefit to loading up Crubicle mode before I finish my first playthrough? Just looking for a few opinions. Thanks!

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

You can use Crucible mode to get a fast 5 Devotion points. Faster than you can in the main game. That will allow you to have maxed devotion points before you reach Ultimate. To me, that is the main purpose of the Crucible. That and Legendary farming in the endgame.

So do it like this: New game, run your fresh toon throught the Crucible and get the 5 Devotion points. Then, completely forget about Crucible till you are powerful enough to beat Ultimate. Once you reach that level, blow through the Crucible on the highest difficulties to farm for Leg's.

[johndoe]

I'd recommend going crucible after clearing epic difficulty at around lv75+ for you first toon.

Ultimate can be quite challenging without decent gear. Thus, you'd want legendary farming in crucible.

Playing crucible at low-level or before clearing epic can result over-levelling. It is bad because killing under-leveled mob gives diminishing return. For example, there is barely any reason to play in epic at around lv80.

You are too weak to complete crucible. The main reason to play crucible is to reach wave 150 and get legendaries--unless you enjoy mundane mob slaying. But this can't be done reliably without decent build. So your build needs to be in decent shape.

Later you might play crucible for further legendary farming and fast-leveling from die farming.
Having fun from crucible is upto you.

[Lechuck's Beard]

Originally posted by DeadlyDanDaMan:

You can use Crucible mode to get a fast 5 Devotion points. Faster than you can in the main game. That will allow you to have maxed devotion points before you reach Ultimate. To me, that is the main purpose of the Crucible. That and Legendary farming in the endgame.

So do it like this: New game, run your fresh toon throught the Crucible and get the 5 Devotion points. Then, completely forget about Crucible till you are powerful enough to beat Ultimate. Once you reach that level, blow through the Crucible on the highest difficulties to farm for Leg's.

Sorry, I am not clued up on the method of getting the 5 devotion points that way. Do you just grind the levels to a certain point in that mode until you get the points or something? I found it quite boring after a few waves before knowing this, but this sounds interesting.

[johndoe]

Originally posted by NukSooKow:

Originally posted by DeadlyDanDaMan:

You can use Crucible mode to get a fast 5 Devotion points. Faster than you can in the main game. That will allow you to have maxed devotion points before you reach Ultimate. To me, that is the main purpose of the Crucible. That and Legendary farming in the endgame.

So do it like this: New game, run your fresh toon throught the Crucible and get the 5 Devotion points. Then, completely forget about Crucible till you are powerful enough to beat Ultimate. Once you reach that level, blow through the Crucible on the highest difficulties to farm for Leg's.

Sorry, I am not clued up on the method of getting the 5 devotion points that way. Do you just grind the levels to a certain point in that mode until you get the points or something? I found it quite boring after a few waves before knowing this, but this sounds interesting.

It is like you said. It is painfully boring but you will get some levels and 5~10 easy devotions. However, once you start crucible farming getting 30 devotion point is easy. And your build won't need 50 devotion to complete normal crucible. So, I usually skip early level crucible entirely.

[Myagony]

You do 10 waves then collect rewards. Spend tributes on devotion pts. repeat. Even faster and will carry you furthur into the leveling is a bud does 80-100 or 150 for yah while you sit in back with your new toon... be 20+ and have over 5 devotions.. more like 10.

Originally posted by NukSooKow:

Originally posted by DeadlyDanDaMan:

You can use Crucible mode to get a fast 5 Devotion points. Faster than you can in the main game. That will allow you to have maxed devotion points before you reach Ultimate. To me, that is the main purpose of the Crucible. That and Legendary farming in the endgame.

So do it like this: New game, run your fresh toon throught the Crucible and get the 5 Devotion points. Then, completely forget about Crucible till you are powerful enough to beat Ultimate. Once you reach that level, blow through the Crucible on the highest difficulties to farm for Leg's.

Sorry, I am not clued up on the method of getting the 5 devotion points that way. Do you just grind the levels to a certain point in that mode until you get the points or something? I found it quite boring after a few waves before knowing this, but this sounds interesting.

[Rylocke]

Originally posted by NukSooKow:

Originally posted by DeadlyDanDaMan:

You can use Crucible mode to get a fast 5 Devotion points. Faster than you can in the main game. That will allow you to have maxed devotion points before you reach Ultimate. To me, that is the main purpose of the Crucible. That and Legendary farming in the endgame.

So do it like this: New game, run your fresh toon throught the Crucible and get the 5 Devotion points. Then, completely forget about Crucible till you are powerful enough to beat Ultimate. Once you reach that level, blow through the Crucible on the highest difficulties to farm for Leg's.

Sorry, I am not clued up on the method of getting the 5 devotion points that way. Do you just grind the levels to a certain point in that mode until you get the points or something? I found it quite boring after a few waves before knowing this, but this sounds interesting.

Play to wave 10 and stop. That'll yield 3 tributes which you can trade in for one devotion point at one of the NPCs on the left. Repeat 4 more times.

The cost of the points goes up based on how many you have, so it's best to do this before obtaining any shrines. I personally get 10-20 points before diving into the campaign. It makes act 1 normal kinda boring, but everything catches up after that, and you'll have 50 devotion pretty early on.

Also, I dive in to the Crucible after completing each difficulty for as many waves as I can to simply switch up my gameplay and keep it interesting as well as update some old gear pieces. There's nothing stopping you from entering the Crucible any time you get bored of the campaign.

Edit: also, I always play crucible on multiplayer so I can increase the gear rewards and potentially see some cool other builds too.

[Lechuck's Beard]

Nice 1. Thanks fellas =)

[RyRy McPWN]

Thanks for all of the replies; lots of great advice. I appreciate the time you took to help out!