Helltides are the best part of the game. But they’re still not viable for farming endgame gear. 925 items are all over nm dungeons, the worst part of the game. Please let us stack Profane Mindcages so we can get only 925 items in helltides too. Game is not worth playing if I have to only play in NM dungeons to efficiently farm gear.
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Dont monsters past 90 guarantee 925? Also HT is more efficient to farm gear. Soooo much loot.
Id like to stack just to make it harder and more chaotic.
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I have not been able to play since the stupid tornado hit Houston where I am currently so I can’t check but I too recall what you said being mentioned.
Anyone can confirm?
But… I also would not mind making the HT even crazier lol.
Using Profane Mindcage in HTs nets me almost all items under 900. Running NM dungeons at tier 45+ it seems every items is 925. So farming NM dungeons is the only way to go for efficient item farming. I suggest this changes because Helltides are the most fun the game has to offer imo, and NM dungeons just make me want to uninstall out of boredom.
I understand this is a matter of personal preference, but I’m noticing a lot of people prefer Helltides over NM dungeons so it might be a common opinion.
Ill look later. I stopped looking at all gear that doesnt have GA and I havnt seen anything under 925. Normal legendaries just took thebplace of rares after the 3rd day of playing.
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Yea that’d for sure be fun. Actually I even thought that they could stack when s4 started
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This just means you arent high enough lvl for the helltide plus mindcage combo to give you high enough monster level
I’m not sure what the downside of this would be. You get another optional way to engage with the game that you have to initiate on your own.
Unless you think other people should play game modes they don’t enjoy as some kind of a requirement for good gear. I mildly wonder if those people still play through the entire campaign every character because it’s part of the progression as well.
Ahh ok, so it should be fine past the 90s then, got it. I guess that’s okay. Not perfect tho. I still would rather do helltides instead of nightmare dungeons. If I can only get good gear doing NM dungeons until the 90s, it’s still kind of a problem, personally.
Just in general though, I’d like mindcage to stack. There is no reason why it shouldn’t be able to stack in my view. If you need to cut efficiency so on every stack for items and threat generation that is fine…
Just want to dopamine hit some Helltides here and there and letting it be challenging helps with that =)
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you are full of it. helltides drops only 925 gear when the mobs are over level 90.
Sure, but you can do nightmare dungeons that drop only 925 items as early as 70. Why should it take 20 levels just to get helltides to become worthwhile?
The game forces you into nightmare dungeons entirely too much. The moment I step foot in one is the same moment I start contemplating quitting the season. And I already have quit the season because I can’t get through nightmare dungeons. They’re so entirely boring I just can’t do them.
I just want to run legion events, helltides, world events, and world bosses. But I can’t be efficient and do that until level 90. The only way to be efficient before that is to do nightmare dungeons.
Stacking mindcage buffs is an adequate band-aid for this. As long as there is a continual flow of mindcages.
then quit the season. mind cages dont need stacking they are fine as is. helltides dont need to be the only thing a person does. that what people used to say about nmds. now you have options
We have differing opinions, and that’s fine. But I’m going to keep advocating for mine.
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well no because it’s not the activity that gives you the best progression rate.
just like helltides aren’t the best power progression rate once you can get 925 out of NMD, until you can get them in helltides again. they are the best levelling rate to the point that you’d not bother getting gear out of NMD unless you’re playing a meta build that can steamroll NMD underlevelled.
in other words, you can do NMD and eventually get big gear but level way slower, or do helltides and be much higher level but with lower gear score. unless you get phenomenally lucky with specific drops in NMD you’re not going to recoup the time.
you’re not forced into anything. the most efficient path to 925 is still sitting in helltides because of the rate of exp.
It seems off to me to expect a level 70 could have all the best gear in the game, so the opinion you’re advocating for is to artificially inflate helltides at a strange breakpoint.
the 1-100 progression purely in helltides is trivial now and the gear scales with your level so you never feel weak or behind a curve.
it isn’t more efficient to go into nmd at any point before 100
It’s funny how the tables have turned.
“I hate helltides, why does living steel only come from helltides? It’s a waste of time!”
“I love helltides! NMD are horrible and are only good for glyph leveling, give me more Helltides!”
Curious to see when/if they change NMD how people will change their attitudes again. Now I’ll admit NMD are definitely on the boring side right now, but at the same time there’s only so much I can take of doing helltides too. I have to mix it up myself.
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No the most efficient method is to hit WT4 and immediately farm NM dungeons since every drop will be 925. This is an item hunting game. The efficiency is even further compounded by the fact you are also leveling your glyphs at the same time as getting exclusively 925 drops. There is no question that doing NM dungeons as soon as you can kill 90+ mobs is the most efficient route in the item hunt.