Unlocking Alchemist and weird issues

[Raven Claw]

First off I am assuming this is a ME thing and easily explained. For reference I'm at 2.3 e216 for level, I am wearing 5 pieces of the nethers embrace set (3 uncommon, 1 common, 1 rare) I also have 2 trophies (epic, necrotic powerstone, anomilous essence). I am also running expeditions in the background, and done about 3 trials during this run. I am sitting on my stats screen showing all void mana 4.20E12 / 1.82E23. Looking at alchemist for collect void mana it says 99.33%, 1.71E10/2.00 E20. I am also very aware it takes time to accumulate this, and by my numbers shows I put in some time for it to unlock. I am just checking to see what I am doing wrong/not understanding. I did unlock ironsoul already which was much easier/faster then this. /shrug not complaining just a comment. Also obviously running as voidmancer i can complete the goals very easy but as stated I am voidmancer and can't just change to another wizard.

Now to my questions:
I noticed that the % of it is off, when I was about 2.0 E9 it was trying to tell me I was 80% there. I assume this is just a simple calculation/display bug since 50% would be 1.00E10 and not what it was trying to say.

The accumulation of void mana for the unlock seems.. Well buggy. It seems it get's suck every so often, and logging out of the game and coming back in seems to unstuck it and get it moving again. I managed to get from about 1.10 to 1.6 resetting that. I left it run over night, it was about 1.7E10 and now it is 1.71E10. Seemed sus, so I exited and restarted the game again. Still at 1.71E10 but to be fair it takes time to move that number. It might be unstuck again?? time can only say.

SO does running trials pause the accumulation for the unlock? Does running expeditions pause it (I don't think so but asking anyways). What am I missing? Am I just unlucky and one of the recent updates just happened to bug it? Is my game/save bugged? Am I just the problem or is it more then that?

Thank you for your responses and help,
Peace

[Zirenaz]

For the first questions, the % for many of the high number are logaritmic, so just trust the math.

No, running trials doesn't stop anything else.

What spells and pet are you running?

[PseudonymousBosh]

With regard to the progress meter, progress meters in the game are quite often logarithmic, including some instances like this one where that may not be the clearest presentation.

It does seem like you're maybe having more difficulty than would be expected. I suggest checking over your gear again; if you don't have the best void mana pieces, then your voidterror will also respond well to charge speed and pet power. See if you can improve your setup.

[Raven Claw]

Originally posted by Zirenaz:

For the first questions, the % for many of the high number are logaritmic, so just trust the math.

No, running trials doesn't stop anything else.

What spells and pet are you running?

I am atm running archivist, but was running ebonsand behemoth to help synthetic entity. Spells well I have void lure, void radiance, synthetic entity, ritual of power, manabeast, and primal elemental. My only logic with archivist was to help synthetic entity for getting more bang out of each charge. Going to change pets over to voidterror now that you mentioned it. Like I said earlier with the numbers it seems I rang the bell so I am kind of at a loss. I mean e12 > e10 I thought.. =/

Thanks

[Raven Claw]

Well that is another weird point. I just finished swapping to void terror, and I somehow went from 1.71E10 to complete. I just noticed after I finished with the pet swap and just checking how far I am. Good point it is done. Odd points are I think there are some bugs but exactly what not sure, and still haven't ruled out I might be the problem in not understanding/me being a goose on the loose.

Thanks again for your help. At least a new wizard is unlocked! :)

[PseudonymousBosh]

The 4.2e12 is the total collected, including void mana that was lost to decay, whereas the requirement is to have 2e10 at one time.

[Raven Claw]

Originally posted by PseudonymousBosh:

The 4.2e12 is the total collected, including void mana that was lost to decay, whereas the requirement is to have 2e10 at one time.

OOOOOOHHH that makes more sense. Also why other classes like voidmancer which specializes in void is able to ring that bell so fast. Thanks, so it was more a me thing. Thank you!

[Zirenaz]

Glad you unlocked another class