How to farm Nightshade (LVL 90)?

[Kelthur]

I'm currently farming Stellar Cores and have 51 so far. Upgrading everything requires 210 Stellar Cores total though, so that requires killing all LVL 90 bosses 420 times (3x2 items per Stellar Core).

I could pretty much autofight Juggernaut and Arkana (the other two LVL 90 bosses) even before Stellar Core upgrades, but Nightshade is a huge pain even with upgrades. Autofight is very unreliable and I'm lazy and don't want to fight that thing 320 times manually.

If anyone knows a loadout that does work passively, please tell me.

@Dev: Unless I'm missing something, that boss is way harder than the other two. Consider tuning it down? Unless you don't want it to be killed passively with all the best stuff... but who would want to kill it manually 420 times?

[♥♥♥♥ Goblin]

You don't like spamming repair bots despite the boss being weakened, impaired and you have fortify? /s

[Kelthur]

Well... I could do it using an autoclicker as that goes around the ingame autoheal healing to late sometimes... but then I can't use my computer for other things.

So no - I don't like spamming repair bots (unless it's the autoheal and I don't die, nothing wrong with that).

[Kelthur]

Having farmed a total of 130 Stellar Cores now, I just realized that you need 2100 more Stellar Cores for 210 Prismatic Cores to get the final level 50 upgrades.

While I can now automate the Nightshade fight, it does still take 420k Outlaw Tags, Reaver Badges and Seeker Medallions to summon each of these bosses 4200 times. The fastest way to get 420k Seeker Medallions (and just these) is doing five Voyager Bounties nonstop. Each gets you one Seeker Medallions every four seconds (at +800% speed obviously). So it is four days just to get enough Seeker Medallions (the other two items are faster, but all these things add up).

I decided not to do that, as I find it rather stupid. Considering how smooth all progress was up until Stellar Cores (and 100% / 80% / 100% completion), I don't understand why the final part is such a huge grind. Will drop the game here.

Makes me sad since only two achievements are missing... but whatever.

[Noody]

Hey thanks for the feedback there, I'll have a look at nightshade as I see a lot of players having troubles with this one. Also @Kelthur, I'll introduce some balance changes to late game crafting costs as they are a bit overtuned right now.

[Random Dude]

In theory Nightshade becomes a whole bunch easier if you could use the Bastion shield without it detonating the Corruption.

[PraeTo]

yea i got same problem here, ennemies lvl 90 ( elites ) hurt too much that it s impossible upgrade the ship.

I have tried all 3 differents elites lvl 90 , same results : not fun at all , frustrating, loosing time for nothing.

Need a balance for this part of (end )game

[rexalian2000]

I was able to handle the other two, nightshade you literally have to constant spam repair , at least for the first few dozen until you can upgrade your armor and shield, and you will still need to manually heal currently even if FULLY upgraded. Currently i still can't auto this enemy with all level 50 shield/armor/both weapons, maxed out glyphs, tier 8 repair and ammo, every upgrade maxed on all crew members. There is literally no way to be stronger than i am now and i can't auto what should be the 4th strongest enemy. I can auto the other two but not levianthan, which makes sense as that is the meant to be the strongest enemy in the game and you 'only' need 210 of him as opposed to around 5 THOUSAND nightshade.

[PraeTo]

i'm stuck at lvl 39 ship upgrade :/

[rexalian2000]

make sure you are using the barrier shield, dragon armor, suppressor works best for me and whatever secondary weapon you want. have all your upgrades from all the crew done (science, quests, etc) and the +80 healing packs. and make sure you have a good set of runes set (i like the +25% from ammo, +25% to elites +25% to outlaws , one of the two that speed up the power up and one the damage reducer). after that just spam healing the entire fight until you kill it. rinse and repeat (only when your powerup is on ideally) until you have enough to upgrade the armor, weapons and shield for that fight. but understand, even FULLYL upgraded you can't auto the fight with any reliability. At all lvl 50 ship i still fail at least 1/5 fights on auto, you have to spam healing.

EDIT: You probably want bastion now to clear off corruption, it no longer triggers it and kills you. This MIGHT make it farmable now actually.

[♥♥♥♥ Goblin]

Nightshade is easier after the patch / with bastion shield but I still die ever now and then if I leave it idle. Guess you just need to use an autoclicker to click the repair bot button every 0.5s.

[♥♥♥♥ Goblin]

So for the curious, here is how many resources you need to get all ship items their level 40 upgrade: 12600 strong emitters (25200 frames), 4200 tags, 4200 badges, 4200 medallions. (420 fights per boss, 1260 total fights).

To get all level 50 upgrades, you need all the above doubled (25200 strong emitters, 8400 of each badge) plus 2100 potent emitters (4200 super conductors, 4200 display interfaces) and 210 bio computers (5250 quantum computers, 5250 void hearts). Those bio computers require ~11 hours of fuse recharge time (2 fuses every 6m20s at max recharge speed)... And 2500+ total fights with all the bosses.

For leveling from 40-49 (upgrades and overseer), I estimate you need 6336 of each end game component.

[M.D. Geist]

Publicado originalmente por ♥♥♥♥ Goblin:

4200 badges... (25200 strong emitters, 8400 of each badge)

Iam currently at that point in the game. And it is in fact 10x the amount you wrote. It is 100 per lvl90 boss fight.

So for lvl 40 you need 42.000 badges of seeker, outlaw and reever and for lvl 50 upgrades it is 84.000 badges of each. The rest of the numbers seem to be correct. And since you don't always win every fight. It is even more needed to complete everything.

Also I am at 98% exploration and visited everything. What am I missing ?!? No idea. The fun of the game drops of hard when you reach "endgame" as it forces you to refarm a ton of the old stuff. Well it is what it is.

[♥♥♥♥ Goblin]

Doh, you're right, lol.