The next chapter in the Age of Unmaking conjures up powerful Runes, new Abyssal Verge, Erreban Castles gameplay, and more.
Erm…
So, the new Inferno 1 difficulty has a 30920 CR requirement and drops gear for Paragon 300+ heroes. Okay, so for those of us with significantly higher CR than that (my hero currently has over 37K CR) that means Inferno 1 is going to be trivially easy. We’ll probably have enough CR to be pre-farming Inferno 2, maybe 3, but the equipment that drops there can’t be equipped until Paragon 400. Doesn’t this mean for 8-9 weeks, we don’t have any reason to be in Inferno 1?
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Among adding more and more new events, it would be time to clean up the existing ones to reduce the total time for a daily routine. Especially elder rifts (35 per week) and hidden lairs (21 per week) could use a reduction.
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Removal of Ancestral and Invocation Items
To be a more friendly system for players, we are decoupling Ancestral blessing attributes from Ancestral Weapons. Existing Ancestral Items will return to your inventory.
All gameplay that would reward Ancestral Equipment will now drop Cursed Items as a replacement for the rewards.
Currently, I have 8 ancestral weapons in my Warband Tableau. If these are no longer valid, and will be returned to my inventory, and I can’t socket them any more does this mean I have to quickly find 8 cursed weapons before Thursday so I can socket them and not lose the CR bonus from my Tableau?
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As for Dawning Echoes, I am not so sure whether the 10k platinum is for one time deal or permanent addon.
Dawning Echoes Gift and Changes
To celebrate the Resonance System now being unlocked at Rank 5, we will be giving away a free Dawning Echo. Dawning Echoes, which are required for Awakening your items, can now be purchased for 10,000 Platinum (or 1,000 Eternal Orbs same as before).
The blog sounded like the “free” dawning echoes is for sale; 10k platinum.
Yeah I had a feeling they would do this too. Perfect time to fix the progression issues and they make them worse
I took it as you get one free Dawning Echo, and you can purchase more for 10,000 plat each. (I think the Chinese patch notes made this clearer)
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That’s how I read it as well.
The problem with pre-farm for me is i don’t have enough stash storage to keep those items l gear for 8-9 weeks.
I guess i will keep them in our inventory and lock them. 
You only need to preform greens now. Legos don’t have the cr cap they used to so it’s not really worth it
The point is that my hero already exceeds the CR requirements for Inferno 1 by over 6000 CR. Most likely, my hero exceeds the CR requirements for Inferno 2, and possibly Inferno 3. So, whilst Inferno 1 may well be dropping gear with more CR on it than the stuff I’m wearing, it’s just going to put me even more thousands of CR above what I need for the next 8-9 weeks, i.e. until I can use the Inferno 2 gear at Paragon 400 which, again, I won’t need to exceed the CR for Inferno 2 for 10 weeks. Essentially, apart from the new 50 levels of Challenge Rifts, and possibly the Inferno 2 and 3 raid bosses, there’s almost no content they’re releasing on Thursday that won’t be incredibly trivially easy for a hero with my CR for 18+ weeks.
Think about how many people were comfortably doing INF6 before the difficulty / paragon changes. They had 34900+ CR. They’re all in exactly this same situation, i.e. nothing difficult to do for four months.
oh im in the same boat as you and fully agree, I’m just saying greens are the only thing worth pre farming anymore
spot on !. the time needed to finish elder rift / hidden lairs / farming wb points etc is already filling the weekly free time of players ,especially ones that have limited acess to the game due to work / rl responsibilities . so it would be nice if devs condensed rewards for such things so everyone can manage to get all rewards from old events / dailies while being able to try the new stuff .
Well, the screenshot in the patch notes wasn’t giving accurate CR information…
- INF1 CR - Open World (34900), Dungeons (35070), Raid Bosses (35320, 35820, 36320, 36820, 37320).
- INF1 Gauntlets - Basic (37320 CR, Intermediate (39320), Advanced (41320 CR).
It is a good thing as Inferno will provide a little bit of challenge instead of roflstomp like Hell 3.
It is confirmed that you can keep buying the Dawning Echoes from the NPC near the Blacksmith.
It is a great additional for F2P players. 
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now if only the normal gem market would stabilize so we can get our plat again 
Used the free one, and bought another for plat…
I’ll be spending the plat I earn on Dawning Echoes until I awaken the rest of the slots, rather than gem power, for now.
I am using multiple 5-star gems are now backfiring me hard here because it is really hard to up the 5-star gem to rank 5 as a BP player. If I know that they will lower the requirement to rank 5 instead of 10, I would have focus on 2-star gems instead.
So far I have only been able to awaken 3 2-star gems.