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That's awesome, I'm glad it was useful

It does feel that way in practice, they at least made an effort to alleviate it a bit with the Corruption catch-ups they added in 1.1.3 I don't think they do it intentionally, more that they haven't quite centered on what is actually fun for the player, and Good Grind vs. Bad Grind The Harbinger Eye drop rate is another good example of something that is a bit unfortunate right now

That's currently how it's set up to work. I tried going for Gaspar first since that's the fight I suck at most. What I ended up finding, though, is that I was way more geared at 300 than I was trying the Harbingers at 100 fresh out of Normal, and I would have rather fought the tough one then. Obviously it won't be that way for everyone, but maybe there's some hope. They should probably think of some way to make the system more flexible though.

​@@Vision_GL Thanks for the reaction. Yeah I think I'll have to opposite, a build that starts relatively strong but doens't scale well into the lategame (I found a 20%-rolled singularity early on and made a no-crit hit build). My main goal for this season (my first) was to just clear all the timelines, see the boss, die horribly and acknowledge I can never beat it with my current build. And try again next season with a build made with a lot more game knowledge. We'll see if I can still reach that, given that the two areas I found to be easiest are gone already. I'll get gaspar and lagon out of the way first and see how it goes with the higher corrupted ones. It might even be a good thing to mention explicitly if you ever remake this video. Not only a good heads-up (I imagine not that many players having a real problem with this), but also to grasp the mechanic (I personally didn't even understand the system, I thought maybe I needed to do them all at 125, all at 150, etc, because this system where the order matters couldn't be the case... guess I was wrong).

I'm glad I could help, good luck!

Yeah, that sucks. Everything completely changes - I noticed when I was making the video that even the base type can change

That's good advice!

It should, the only thing that wasn't available this Cycle on offline and legacy initially was the Aberroth fight, but since he's been defeated now, that should also be available.

You get 10 keys for free, you can get more keys after that by killing Harbingers, but it isn't a guaranteed drop them

That's great to hear, good luck!

It's pretty comfy already at 1,000. It can go further than that if you optimize

Favor is tied to your Experience gain basically, so just from doing Empowered Monos, pushing Corruption. The % increased XP blessing from Fall of the Outcasts also helps with this.

@@Vision_GL thank you

That's a funny comparison to the Elden Ring player. I want to look into it a bit, I have this feeling that it may be way faster to push a timeline to 500 or so and get the bonus catch up corruption in the others, so you only have to kill 1 Shade Per instead of stacking the Corruption from scratch in each one

This is a good one. I have a couple ideas for this, should be my next two videos

Awesome, I'm glad. Good Luck

Nope, even better now. I updated the guide on Maxroll with some new tech using Apogee, and we get more health scaling on the mage per Int and Player Level, so it's even more comfy

He's in an Echo movespeed drifting somewhere

The fight does look awesome, I love how cinematic it is. Really can't wait to see what EHG does next as far as boss fights go. Also, good point, breaking the 21 hours down into a week or more of play time

Sooooon!

Glad you're enjoying it

80 mana would give (15% MORE Damage + 4 Flat Minion Damage), 12 Int would give (12% MORE Damage + 48% Increased Damage) BUT, also the Int gives 48% Ward Retention too. The Mana would be more damage overall, the Int would give a good amount of player Survivability (the ward retention is really nice) also some Minion HP (5 flat per point). The Int is the all around better stat, but if you feel defensive enough as the player, and your Mage isn't dying too quickly, Mana would put out more damage.

It gives your Mage damage scaling - More Damage based on Max Mana from Skeletal Mage Tree, and Flat Damage for Minions in Chaos Bolts tree via Revolution node. These are efficient ways to scale your damage, and otherwise rare stats - we get them with Mana. The mana regen is baked into the Mana Prefix, other Mana Regen comes with Int, which also scales damage. The regen itself isn't bad to have, because it helps you recover a bit when you are Chaos Bolting to stack debuffs on a single target.

@@Vision_GL Ahh that makes so much sense I forgot about those nodes. Thanks alot, been playing the build and at lvl 92 right now, loving it

That's awesome, glad to heart it!

@@Vision_GL Another quick question: Thoughts on using chronostasis for more ward? I guess you'd want to slam it with flat minion spell damage?

Personally, I think Chronostasis is a bit gimmicky and inefficient - for starters, you can only get ONE of the Minion Spell suffixes (Minion Melee and Spell), so you lose out on another full suffix of Flat Damage which is the best possible stat you could get for damage scaling. Second, if you want to run a Sword and miss out on that flat damage anyway, why not run Apogee of Frozen Light - it would give your Mage +3 Levels which you could use to pick up Frenzy or more Cast Speed from the tree. You also get 14-24% MORE Cold Damage to Chilled Enemies for your Mage. You trade all of these options for a 50-80 WPS roll, and 6-10 Int, only useful stats for you on a Chronostasis. You could argue the Ward is nice, but I wouldn't trade it for the flat damage, especially not on a build where the player has the freedom to run around and do mechanics while the minion fights.

I found the issue, DO NOT have spell damage anywhere on ur gear, it increase ur infernal shade dmg = ur minion die faster

Use the Reach of the Grave Wand and throw minion spell damage on it

Yeah ..for me too, it has insane damage but if you are not hitting for a couple of seconds, it just dies and the worst situation is that you just used deadshred on it so it is on cooldown now. You can not even look at your loot drop because it will die in the meantime. Anyway, until there is some solution I am using wraith skills for now by summoning 2 wraiths with necrotic melee damage. Doing OK for now. Let me know guys if you have any better suggetions. BTW Reach of the Grave Wand is still not a good solution

Good luck, have fun. If you have any questions feel free to ask

1. Crit Avoidance for the Mage, 2. Leech Rate, which it does Leech from Necro Passives, 3. % Increased Health, very good stat you can't usually get on rings, 4. Easy to Target Farm for LP, so you can add stats. It's a really nice item

@@Vision_GL tbh i leveled roid up to 100 on beta and i was kinda familiar with the build but i never used the ring. played around 350 corr and it was smooth. i got all the items i wanted after release and i tried roid again but dmg was sooo bad and after i droped wraithlord's harbour i stoped playing completely. your video showed me things/items i could replace and i'll try it one more time. i just need good weapon and i'm set. thanks

The weapon is huge, such a big source of damage now with all that flat damage and pen and mana

@@Vision_GL so quick summary. i got lucky with Julra and got 15 int on boots, 15 int on a ring, shred and minion life on a amulet and 11 int on a chest and decided to put things together. but mage was dying sooo fast with like 430% inc life. i had to take out amulet and make another belt and now sitting at 777% inc minion life gaming is way better. atm i have 117 int. runing 400+ corr with no problem and mage not dying from dread shade and infernal shade. i need better weapon and maybe if i ever get lucky and find Chronostasis 2lp+ i could slam on it

Thank you!