Orb Click

[Versive]

I am interested in the game but have a question about a core mechanic. Does the game promote / require constant clicking on the orb or does it auto-click if you hover the mouse over it?

[silversleek]

clicking on the orb stops being something you have to worry about very quickly in the game's life, there is an autoclick mechanic, but it does not trigger when hovering above the orbs, but through other mechanics which you'll likely discover quickly.

There are some playstyles that are a bit more active than others based on non-permanent choices you can make that can make clicking more relevant if you choose, but honestly I haven't needed to click the orb in months.

[Versive]

Thank you both for the quick replies.

[Scoobydeux]

There are fifteen manual clicking upgrades, you want to click 300+ times to max out your upgrade count each run (there are achievements for upgrade count). If I recall correctly, there were challenges that required manual clicks. For leveling, autoclicks and manual clicks pool, so autoclicks are good enough.

[PseudonymousBosh]

Whilst the upgrades to the shard pool from manual clicking certainly exist, I would consider obtaining them to be of marginal benefit in most circumstances, and not at all essential.

[Scoobydeux]

Originally posted by PseudonymousBosh:

Whilst the upgrades to the shard pool from manual clicking certainly exist, I would consider obtaining them to be of marginal benefit in most circumstances, and not at all essential.

Certainly once you have all of the upgrade achievements, that's true. They come pretty slowly when you've played for a while, so 'just fifteen more' could mean weeks of progress. (current top is 2000 upgrades, so 15 is 0.75%.) It takes me less than a few minutes each run to top these out. Essential? No, but which one of us is wasting our time?

[PseudonymousBosh]

Originally posted by M F:

Ask a simple question, fall down a rabbit hole. heh

Originally posted by Scoobydeux:

There are fifteen manual clicking upgrades,

I've looked at the upgrade list and for those related to orb clicking. It was my impression from reading the benefit descriptions that these upgrades only improve orb clicking profit. Some of these upgrades are only for classes that use orb clicking as part of their mechanics, like the Exorcist and Hallowed clicks. There's also the Shaman, I believe that class has at least one summon that has stats based on the profit you would get from Orb clicks(I only reference tier 1 classes in this comment because that's what's relevent to the original poster at this point).

The fifteen upgrades in question are those that require manual clicks in the current run, which increase shard pool accumulation time. I'm not honestly sure any class really cares about that.

[JazzyJ]

Regardless of whether those upgrades are needed or even useful, using an autoclicker app will get you the 200 clicks you need in about 10 seconds. (I'm pretty sure 200 is the max required for all the upgrades, I just spammed an extra 100 and got nothing). I would recommend to anyone new to get themselves a free very basic autoclicker. It's just really convenient.

[Delreich]

The upgrades that require clicking the orb are practically insignificant; 15 upgrades on top of 1500+ other ones is only a teensy-tiny boost to anything that depends on the number of upgrades bought, and the upgrades themselves are pretty much useless. I still do it because... stuck in a min-maxing mindset, I guess. Mouse macro for 40 clicks per second makes it easy.

The only situation I can think of that (sorta, kinda; not really) "requires" manual clicking is void entity collection for Archon. Even then, it only saves you about an hour of less efficient build-up (out of 12+ hours, typically), and if Void Automaton wasn't so limited that wouldn't be a thing either. Again, some kind of external auto-clicker (mouse macro, AHK script, whatever) will make short work of it.

[Tharifaz]

We'll probably just remove them (shard pool upgrades) at some point so it doesn't confuse people.
Indeed, the game is not designed around clicking, you just get started by clicking a bit in the very first runs and can just never click ever again without any negative impact.

[Majuju]

More about gear and spell sets. I like classes that burst with clicking though

[vandllx]

bunger?

[Scoobydeux]

Clicks to get manual click upgrades

1 - 5
2 - 10
3 - 15
4 - 25
5 - 50
6 - 60
7 - 70
8 - 80
9 - 90
10 - 100
11 - 120
12 - 140
13 - 160
14 - 180
15 - 200

200 clicks should take about two to three minutes, tops. this gets you access to 15 cheap upgrades for you total upgrades count. You could wait until you are close to a number of upgrades achievement, then do the manual clicks. I do mine early each exile, then ignore it until the next exile.

If they go away, no big loss. For the upgrade count, they are worth doing while they exist. Unless you like to click, they have little other impact on the game.

[InvalidError]

Starting a new exile early on can be somewhat click-intensive. After a while though, you will be spending hours in "buildup" and "pre-burst" phases just racking up cast counts, auto-clicks, void mana, etc. before a burst. Even later on, you may have buildup phases that span days where you don't really need to click anything besides collecting dust and other housekeeping.