Question about endgame activities

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I understand glyph XP was moved to pit, and pit materials were moved to NM dungeons.
Those two endgame activities have a specific purpose and function.

What specific purpose or function, if any, do infernal hordes and kurast have? Just massive gear/material/resource/currency drops?

If thats the case… what specific purpose do Helltides now serve (other than living steel)? Back in S4, they were the defacto XP meta until a certain point mid endgame.

Thanks.

Hit Torment 1 this morning and trying to get a handle on what I want to focus on next to push to T2 quickly.

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Bingo. IH compasses are said to be less common now, so you may not find as many as you used to. When you do it’s supposed to be break up the monotony I guess.

Undercity is meant more for specific farming. Once you have the appropriate tributes of course. At least you can guarantee a specific type of loot, or a guaranteed random affix within certain parameters.

Same thing they always did. If you want to use them for exp you can. I would say they’re still good for grinding out the seasonal reputation, but less needed now with all the content you can do. Otherwise like you said, just for Living Steel.

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From what I understand, helltides are really good and outshine some of the other content, but they cant be spammed because they need compasses which are more scarse than in s5.

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Thats unfortunate. They went from moderately useful pre s4 to abundantly useful in S4, to “meh” now.

you mean infernal hordes?

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Yes my apologies. I keep swapping these names.

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So, I suppose the loop would be:

NM dungeon spam for Masterwork materials
Pit spam for glyph XP/difficulty push
Helltide to break things up/Living Steel/XP Grind?(Is this better than NM dungeon/pit for XP?)

IH for gear/mats/resources when available
Kurast for target farming

Rinse. Repeat.

Whispers for gold, boss ladder/ubers for mythics.
Citadel/Lillith endgame challenge.

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Sounds about right. I would say the density of Helltides combined with the ability to summon the Blood Maidens would potentially make it the best spot to grind exp, but I don’t have the numbers. You’d have to refer to a number crunching streamer that loves to grind.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think NMD have tiers anymore right? It’s based off your difficulty tier?

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IH is for mw mats, gold and items i guess

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Correct, looks like it.

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Basically yes. I was gonna write a separate post on this but I’m having a hard time finding the right words without writing a 10 page essay lol.

I would say S6 VoH has more variety and options now for the endgame journey. In S5 you are pretty limited and gated with meta builds that can clear T7 / T8 for mats and forcing yourself to do the non-challenging, boring NM dungeons.

Now NM is more palatable. Infernal are still good but now you don’t feel getting gated with a meta build. Pit is less toxic in terms of boss difficulty. Plus you have Undercity for a different dungeon challenge with target farming and Seething Realm for more items.

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