I jumped into this because of playing D4 last weekend. Level 20 now and other than dodging a few beams I haven’t had to move much at all, I think less than in D4. And while I have crafted two mods onto gear I think I’d still be streamrolling everything anyway. Reading up a bit there seems like a lot of depth to the crafting, when does it start to matter?
If you’re level 20 it won’t be long before you start dying. Then it will matter. :)
I just unlocked mastery and chose necromancer. this seems to fit with what ive been doing, which is look for skills that add minions, minion damage, and minion health. my gear is mostly magic or rare with some sort of boost to minions and nonevof my resists is over 40%. should i be looking for more resists or more health/armor/ward or just more minion damage? and what sort of items should i start with? despite reading a couple of crafting guides i really dont understand this yet.
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I say take anything that helps your minions, be it damage, health, health regen, etc etc.
I found a shard and opened up the crafting window and put my axe in but I can’t find any way to apply this shard to the axe or any reason I couldn’t. What am I missing?
is it time to start shattering items with those mods? and should i be adding them to blues or yellows or?
I usually only shatter stuff that doesn’t give as good a buff, so I get stuff to use to upgrade stuff I get later that does.
Click the empty suffix slot. It’s the (+) below Chance to Bleed On Hit, on the right hand side.
I believe it pulls all the crafting mats from your storage, so make sure to deposit them (there’s a button right above your inventory to do so).
So I love how your progress in the monolith maps is saved. Wanna take a break from the story? Do some monolithing and come back later. Done with monolithing? Go back to the story. Very, very nice. Don’t know if I’ve yet seen a key for the dungeons though.
I just noticed this was changed to 10 levels in 0.9.
Some of the monolith echo rewards are keys.
It’s silly but I forgot to pick up both monolith rewards when I came out of them the first few times.
@Kolbex If what @KevinC said doesn’t work it may be that shard is for a Prefix slot. I can’t tell from looking at it if it’s a Prefix or Suffix shard. You only have a Suffix slot available.
i finally realized that the different timelines have different levels. it seems i still have unfinished quests in lower level timelines. should i loop back and do them or focus on the hardest zone Ive unlocked.?
This is what I was missing. When I did what you suggested (or dragged and dropped the shard into the slot) it popped up a search window that said “no materials matching your search parameters found in crafting inventory” or something like that. Not super intuitive! I’ve got the thing right here, just take it!
It says “affix shard,” so I assume it’s good for both.
Someone in the game chat called me to the fact that the quests list their rewards. Unfortunately, it looks like I will need to go back and do this one.
It isn’t. Affix refers to all shards, but the shard types are exclusively prefix or suffix.
When you finish the Quest Echoes in a timeline it resets them. You need to revisit the lower level Timelines to unlock others, so pay attention to the Quest Echo dialog choices. Also look out for “Echo of a World” nodes that increase the Timeline corruption and thus boost the monster levels and xp/loot/stability gains.
Co-op has some nice shortcuts: you gain teleport access to any timeline you’ve visited, and you get the completion credit just for doing the final Quest boss (though maybe only the host unlocks a Blessing). I’m not sure if you need all 10 timelines clear or just the level 90’s to unlock Empowered Timelines, but solo you’d have to do them all to get the 90s anyway.
Well, how do you tell? Nothing in the shard’s description specifies.
The crafting screen will show you which category all your shards are in, when you go to add one. I posted a brief primer on the crafting system here, if it helps:
Specifically, this is the screen you get when you go to add an affix. Each one is either a prefix or suffix, but it’s already categorized into what you can add vs. what is unavailable due to lack of slots.
Use the big middle button in the Forge or the View Materials screen. I don’t look at shards on pickup, just bank them. Do read the rare glyphs though.
Gear is replaced so often in the early game that I usually wait until the later chapters before crafting unless I get something worth keeping and buffing. Just make filters to find your ideal weapon, generically good other gear, and tweak them a bit as you go.
Yeah, waiting is probably the pro move. I was just checking it out.
The problem is at this point I don’t really know what that looks like yet.