Great guide! This would be especially useful for people just starting out but even as a more experienced player it was nice to get a refresher as I've mostly forgotten the details about how these systems work. As a beginner the whole remanent system can seem intimidating at first glance with all the different effects and this makes things super simple!
Thanks so much Mao! I was looking forward to your commentary. I really enjoyed both your latest wizard PvP build and the nail-biter you had with it. Gg! And let me ask: have you tested out which base bonuses stack when multiple wb members use them, and how? In particular, damage reduced for all wb members, and attack speed for nearby allies on crit.
@ShimshonDI Unfortunately haven't. I did a little testing when warband rooms were first introduced but as you said in this video in those days it wasn't possible to have all rooms using the same base bonus. I may have to try it out though! Unfortunately it has been challenging too get all my warband to login at the same time though I suspect when the major update releases I might get the chance 😏
1. How do I get to the hidden chambers? (you can see them after using the eye skill with DH) 2. Does the number of players have any effect on the shards that drop, quantity? quality? larger chambers? 3. It used to be possible to get 10 shards, now there is a maximum of 9, do you know what's up with that? 4. Making chambers with three gold shards + two others is practically impossible, I've been there a million times, what am I doing wrong?
1) I’ll have to try shadow sight in the depths before I switch classes, and get back to you on that. 2) I didn’t purge much when in an active Warband, because decent remnant sets are farmed relatively quickly when multiple people are purging (not necessarily together). The best answer I can give is “not that I know of.” When running solo, I have gotten sets of up to 10 remnants, and I’ve also seen as long of wing sizes as I remember doing in a party. I also did do some runs recently with one other person (in a different Warband) and didn’t notice any differences, so it should simply be possible to clear faster with more people. 3) see #2. You can see my paragon level in the video, indicating it was recent, and I got that 10 remnant sets within a few days before uploading the video. Since uploading it, I’ve found one more set of 10. Note that I ran enough purges to cap wb points solo without doing any endless defense. 4) I forget how many total rare remnants I have at most in my sets, but it definitely seems rare to get 3 distinct rare of the same role in one, which would be ideal. I have not gotten such a set yet. Remember that neither the total number of remnants nor the total number of rares in a set determine how good it is. It’s about how strong it is for a particular role. Many large and/or “high quality” sets are trash because their good remnants are spread across different roles, making them jacks of all trades but masters of none. Lately, I’ve been restarting if I don’t get at least two good remnants for the same role that I’m trying to improve in the first wing, or at least one rare remnant for one of those roles. That means you’ll be restarting a lot, but at least you won’t be wasting like 15-20 minutes just to get crap. Good luck!
The ancestral tableau no longer requires a Warband, as of the latest major update. You can now check your tableau from the seeker’s path in the menu, where helliquary used to be. It shows three sources of cr (tableau, helliquary, and gear rank upgrades), and unlocks chests with upgrade materials once you hit certain seeker rating values. Seeker rating is the combat rating gained from those sources. There should be a description if you click in a certain place on your tableau, telling you how to earn seeker rating for it. Mao has a guide all about these different sources, with a tier list on which grant the most per hour.
Well, my second 10 remnant set I got recently was just as bad as the first. From my small sample size, two distinct rare attacker or protector remnants in the same set seems to be more rare than 10 total, and it’s also a far more meaningful goal.
Great guide! This would be especially useful for people just starting out but even as a more experienced player it was nice to get a refresher as I've mostly forgotten the details about how these systems work. As a beginner the whole remanent system can seem intimidating at first glance with all the different effects and this makes things super simple!
Thanks so much Mao! I was looking forward to your commentary. I really enjoyed both your latest wizard PvP build and the nail-biter you had with it. Gg!
And let me ask: have you tested out which base bonuses stack when multiple wb members use them, and how? In particular, damage reduced for all wb members, and attack speed for nearby allies on crit.
@ShimshonDI Unfortunately haven't. I did a little testing when warband rooms were first introduced but as you said in this video in those days it wasn't possible to have all rooms using the same base bonus. I may have to try it out though! Unfortunately it has been challenging too get all my warband to login at the same time though I suspect when the major update releases I might get the chance 😏
1. How do I get to the hidden chambers? (you can see them after using the eye skill with DH)
2. Does the number of players have any effect on the shards that drop, quantity? quality? larger chambers?
3. It used to be possible to get 10 shards, now there is a maximum of 9, do you know what's up with that?
4. Making chambers with three gold shards + two others is practically impossible, I've been there a million times, what am I doing wrong?
1) I’ll have to try shadow sight in the depths before I switch classes, and get back to you on that.
2) I didn’t purge much when in an active Warband, because decent remnant sets are farmed relatively quickly when multiple people are purging (not necessarily together). The best answer I can give is “not that I know of.” When running solo, I have gotten sets of up to 10 remnants, and I’ve also seen as long of wing sizes as I remember doing in a party. I also did do some runs recently with one other person (in a different Warband) and didn’t notice any differences, so it should simply be possible to clear faster with more people.
3) see #2. You can see my paragon level in the video, indicating it was recent, and I got that 10 remnant sets within a few days before uploading the video. Since uploading it, I’ve found one more set of 10. Note that I ran enough purges to cap wb points solo without doing any endless defense.
4) I forget how many total rare remnants I have at most in my sets, but it definitely seems rare to get 3 distinct rare of the same role in one, which would be ideal. I have not gotten such a set yet.
Remember that neither the total number of remnants nor the total number of rares in a set determine how good it is. It’s about how strong it is for a particular role. Many large and/or “high quality” sets are trash because their good remnants are spread across different roles, making them jacks of all trades but masters of none.
Lately, I’ve been restarting if I don’t get at least two good remnants for the same role that I’m trying to improve in the first wing, or at least one rare remnant for one of those roles. That means you’ll be restarting a lot, but at least you won’t be wasting like 15-20 minutes just to get crap.
Good luck!
How do I unlock the Tableau? Or must the WB Leader do something? I need the CR.
The ancestral tableau no longer requires a Warband, as of the latest major update. You can now check your tableau from the seeker’s path in the menu, where helliquary used to be. It shows three sources of cr (tableau, helliquary, and gear rank upgrades), and unlocks chests with upgrade materials once you hit certain seeker rating values.
Seeker rating is the combat rating gained from those sources. There should be a description if you click in a certain place on your tableau, telling you how to earn seeker rating for it. Mao has a guide all about these different sources, with a tier list on which grant the most per hour.
Thank you!
I have never once found 10 pieces
Well, my second 10 remnant set I got recently was just as bad as the first. From my small sample size, two distinct rare attacker or protector remnants in the same set seems to be more rare than 10 total, and it’s also a far more meaningful goal.