Reliable Heart Influence?

[Jade Kitsune]

Heart influences are surprisingly difficult to come by... I can't even say with confidence that I've ever found one. It's usually Grail. The wiki doesn't even say the Mansus has them, just lots of Grail and others.

Where can we reliably get Heart aspect Influences? Or are they all one-time shots?

[Kallisti]

Not exactly reliable, but I used auguries (Talk with Lantern follower, add your cult as subject) to find the ones I needed.

[xiazailolk]

In the most recent patch, the Mansus can now be used to harvest heart influences. I’m sure that the left lane of the White Door gives lvl 6 hearts and the Spider Door gives lvl 10 hearts. Other encounters to be discovered.

[Quizer]

Originally posted by xiazailolk:

In the most recent patch, the Mansus can now be used to harvest heart influences. I’m sure that the left lane of the White Door gives lvl 6 hearts and the Spider Door gives lvl 10 hearts. Other encounters to be discovered.

This. You can also combine influences now. If you can't get a level 15 Heart influence from the Mansus, just repeatedly stick the first level 10 you get into the Talk verb with Sulochana to freeze its timer while you get a second one, then research to combine them. You can also subvert them, but I think the order in which the aspects subvert each other is not the same as it is for lore. For example, putting in lantern and moth influence together gives higher-level moth influence.

[kia256]

Found a reliable way to get heart influences that requires only a phylaxian and a head start.
Get yourself a Phylaxian summon. Raw Prophet is the easiest.
Use it in the Talk verb. You can use the slot to freeze timer of any timed card.
Wait for the timer to have only few seconds left and swap whateveer inside for health.
Get yourself a Stay of Execution. You can replace the card you want to freeze.
Repeat ad nauseam.
You'll end up with a ton of Stays.
Stays decay into the lowest level of Heart influence. If you have a ton of them - they'll be giving you one each 60 seconds. Then you can upgrade them with vitalities and with each other. Plus if you still have a Prophet in talk - you can use it to freeze the current highest influence when you're fusing others.

[The Queen Salis]

You can also drink warm tea in the best HQ every evening as you send minions out to battle curses.

[kia256]

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

You can also drink warm tea in the best HQ every evening as you send minions out to battle curses.

HQ is fine. I also use the Morland's bookshop. But it takes 60 sec and occupies the Explore verb. So you can't use it during the expedition.

[The Queen Salis]

Originally posted by kia256:

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

You can also drink warm tea in the best HQ every evening as you send minions out to battle curses.

HQ is fine. I also use the Morland's bookshop. But it takes 60 sec and occupies the Explore verb. So you can't use it during the expedition.

It's prudent to load up a beefy bloodclot *before* starting a vault anyway.