Suggestion Umbrite

[aesteval]

Running all those roulettes every day for 5 weeks...IS A GRIND. And I seriously doubt it's getting done in 1.5 hours per day

[Brian_]

Well first, the assumption you will need 80 umbrite is not accurate. You will probably need around 70 depending on your luck.

And you're bottle-necked by the Aether Oil step anyways. Unless you're spending lore on Oils which is a terrible idea, it's going to take you 5 weeks of weekly CT quests to finish it.

Like I said in the other topic, as the relic quest line exists now, it takes you 5 weeks to go from nothing to an i260 relic with no real grinding. If you want to put in more work to grind more lore, it's even faster. Compared to the old relic, that's nothing. I think it's pretty reasonable TBH. As long as the next step isn't also a lore grind, the entire quest line is not that bad and can be done simultaneously. The only thing I would change is to make singing clusters and their related quests available to anyone.

[Seyb]

Like I said in the other topic, as the relic quest line exists now, it takes you 5 weeks to go from nothing to an i260 relic with no real grinding.

I would love to see your calculations for this. I agree that you can start with the ilvl 240 before completing even the first anima step, which would suggest you can collect between 20'000 and 24'000 tomes in 5 weeks?
At 20'000 tomes, that would be 571.4 tomes every day. And that is not a grind? I sure have better things to do than that for 5 weeks straight.

The step should have been nerfed with patch 3.4, because the tome weapon is the actual weapon "with no real grinding". 7 times Alexander (15 mins per week) plus 1000 tomes.

[aleph_null]

After getting my BiS tome gears even capping 450 scrip weekly feels like a grind to me.

On topic, I think we'll see some sort of nerf on the umbrite step and the next step will be another big one like the unidentified and umbrite steps, and honestly I can't see SE putting a step that doesn't rely on tomes lol.

[Whiskey84]

& here my issue is not having enough poetics or amber ect. for sands on my 2nd anima. =/

[aesteval]

& here my issue is not having enough poetics or amber ect. for sands on my 2nd anima. =/

I'd be happy to trade you some of my excess untradeable crafting / gathering tokens / amber / Poes for some of your excess untradeable Lore, but for...yeah...

[Whiskey84]

I'd be happy to trade you some of my excess untradeable crafting / gathering tokens / amber / Poes for some of your excess untradeable Lore, but for...yeah...

Would love to, if I wasn't already putting a 3rd ones items together.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

My guess is come 3.5 the ilvl 240 step will be nerfed in the following ways:

Umbrites reduced to 150 lore
The maximum Crystal Sand and Umbrites required will be reduced from 80 to 40.

That falls in line with the massive nerf the 210 got. They could wait until 3.55 though and simply nerf the Aether Oils, which I also think we happen.