Do you need to craft your awesome two handed melee weapon that is worth few divinations (without counting 6L) just to be able to clear red maps? And still are too slow to dodge anything while attacking.
No idea about trade, but it's definitely more achievable than getting Dialla dropped or Covenant dropped in SSF (got them only once in basically three months of almost daily farming). Also, if your build can't clear red maps with bad gear, maybe it needs some tweaking (I screwed up with DD last league and had the same problem, still no idea what I've done wrong, boss dps was like 100k or less, i think)
AG is a cursed thing, a few days before 3.25 started I was trying div card farming with the scarab that got deleted, popped in 'back to basics' and went to the Ziggurat map (new T17). Cleared the map, then I've entered the boss room (and I thought mods were fine, just 'bosses get random shrine buffs), bursted Katarina to the first lich phase, he spawned and immediately deleted AG (which had doppelganger, decent gloves, was res capped etc), golem and all my relics in a second. Simply poof and they are gone, lol.
I have not reached end game yet with my current melee slam guy but I've been reading comments from many that did and they are not happy with two handed slam, even Juggs. They either die too much or do bad damage.
The melee buff was obviously for enemies :D
I'm not yet in red maps but I can tell you that new glad is very tanky as of right now at least. I don't think I have ever had this shitty gear at this point of the game and yet with just res cap, block/spell block cap(which is very easy to get) and a bit of suppression I'm facetanking most things. The only problem are dots but those can be fixed in various ways.
More value means better stuff but like always with rares it is pure RNG. How often do you get really good rares while mapping?
The dust is useless except as a modifier for shipping, and the dropoff is so steep I'm probably better off stopping disenchanting to bank coins.
Sadly I don't have automapping since the game turned all my bismuth into bars, so I can't upgrade my recruitment.
Using lots of dust is only way later to get those 1+ million value shipments.
I tried dark pact once long ago. I remember it did pretty good damage but ultimately it was too easy to get instagibbed by enemy packs since you have to cast skeletons and dark pact before any damage happens.
lots have changed apparently. Now at gem lvl21 you summon 4 skeletons at once. I also sport max resistances and block so them staying alive is not an issue, like it was for me in a past
Them staying alive was never the problem for me, it was that they lag behind so you want to summon new ones anyway for clear speed and safety. 4 per cast is enough skellies to bounce off though.lots have changed apparently. Now at gem lvl21 you summon 4 skeletons at once. I also sport max resistances and block so them staying alive is not an issue, like it was for me in a past
also: 'It is currently intended that Unleash cannot supportSummon Skeletons'
I'm playing Sunder Slayer. It's not just casters, but also giga hasted fuckers that can sprint (some even teleport) to you and blast you before your slam animation is even half done. My build is especially weak to this because I heavily rely on (over)leech for survivability. This means I have to try and hit mobs off screen, predicting where the next pack will be, or risk death.
I did once, then I died 4 times before I could kill them all. After that I just do half charge and it can still be tough with this character that still has a 4l and gear found during leveling.
I've done it in some white maps when I've started mapping, it's just like with affliction league mechanic - its negative effect increases exponentially and you don't really know how much (until you get insta-gibbed etc), especially if it is combined with other map mods / mechanics like possession etc. Currently I just get by holding it up to 200 ish ore (a third of the bar roughly), it's safe and you can get much more ore if you meet one of the league bosses (black knight i think?), whose arena has like 4 or 5 max-effect ore nodes without mobs.
For me casters are only problem because I got 65% block (using Staff) vs non-spells and 7 endurance charges up so I can tank those. I thought with buffs to endurance charges it would keep me alive vs elemental but it seems it does not. I will need to get spell block somehow as well.
