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Brief Diadem update
Grade 2 Artisanal materials remain on the nodes with the new Grade 3 materials. Your Nest Expert achievements are still possible if you didn't complete them already.
Skyward Points for Phase 3 is now per 5 instead of 10 (13 pts and 3 scrip per 5 Artisanal materials, 15 pts and 5 scrip per 5 Umbral materials)
New standard weather is Heat Wave. Umbral weather remains the same for clouded nodes and seems to be the same 10 minutes on/10 minutes off.
Botany now goes clockwise while Mining is counterclockwise.
Stats for max node bonuses:
Gathering 2740
Perception 2642
GP 858
Creature loot tables have been adjusted. Players who are still leveling MIN/BOT will get some of each level material from the creatures as we did in Phase 2 (confrimed by one of my FC members on their off data center alt). Level 80 MIN/BOT will only get level 80 and Artisanal materials from creatures.
Someone else will need to compile the loot tables for MIN/BOT under level 80 since I don't have a low level character with access to the Firmament.
Level 80 drops
Cloudtrrap - resin, wheat, gossamer cotton balls, adders, artisanal cotton balls
Diadem Plantoid - aurum regis ore, finest rock salt, truespring water, hard mudstone, artisanal basilisk eggs
Diadem Golem - aurum regis ore, finest rock salt, truespring water, fossil dust, artisanal cloudstone
Diadem Sapling - cedar logs, resin, gossamer cotton balls adders, artisanal rice
Diadem Doblyn - finest rock salt, truespring water, fossil dust, hard mudstone, artisanal granite
Isle Guardian - aurum regis ore, truespring water, fossil dust, hard mudstone, artisanal alumen
Diadem Urolith - aurum regis ore, finest rock salt, fossil dust, hard mudstone, artisanal clay
Diadem Dryad - cedar logs, resin, wheat, gossamer cotton bolls, artisanal logs
Arch-noctilucale - cedar logs, wheat, gossamer cotton balls, adders, artisanal vine
Ageless Wood Golem - cedar logs, resin, wheat, adders, artisanal amber
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Worth noting the new Aesthete set spiritbonds extremely slowly, even on 2 star materials while the 430 set will net around 2% spiritbond per regular node with a Superior Spiritbond potion active on 2 star mats. (Assuming both sets are pentamelded)
If you care about bulk for points but would still like bonus materia while you grind, it can be worth keeping a Dwarven set handy and putting both sets on hotkeys. Then you can switch to the Aesthete for +2 Yield and +5 attempt nodes.
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