Shadow Beasties in Spindleskog

I may try it later tonight, I've got twelve of them now.

Me too. I've gotten the poison recipe only so far, and that was a gift from @Sara Dreygon. I spent a few hours on Friday, but it gets boring pretty quick, since it takes so long to kill them and their normal loot is so crappy. I got Chris' attention on twitter about the normal loot, and supposedly the next patch will contain something. Whether that means just more gold and more corpse wax, or something altogether better remains to be seen.

 

They have. I've got the poison, and I've seen one of the potions on a vendor.

 

The API also shows the recipes dropping. They don’t drop a lot though......

 

Yup.

 

Yeah. Once I'm full up on silver in Elysium, I night try a 3-4 person LFG Recipe Hunt. Might be slightly less boring with others, and killing stuff quicker. At least the XP will be good. Plus you just know if you hunt 'em alone, you're going to get multiple duplicates before you get the ones you don't have...

 

3 players in Normal is pretty decent XP. You might not attenuate but should kill quite a few shadow mobs.

3 players in Hard is great XP but you're killing less and you'll either need to kite or have great stuns.

As far as essence, drop rate is much better now. I usually get 2-6 per run depending on how many people are in party. Recipes drop 1-2 per run. All 3 have dropped many times.

 

Yeah. I tried to get a Normal mode group going, but only had one taker. Wasn't quite enough to kill things quickly.

 

It's possible to change the difficulty?

 

Weirdly, not from the overworld, but yes. There are two teleporter platforms in the scene. One in Normal takes you to Hard and the other takes you from Hard to Extreme. They're a bit hidden, not by the entrance like Lamech's. Two separate platforms, each platform has two "teleporter pads" on it.

 

(Er, now that I'm on a PC, I can explain that better.) There's four teleporter pads in the scene, two each on two separate platforms. They are kinda half buried under leaves, and the pads only activate when you get close, so they're hard to spot. (One of them is particularly well hidden behind some trees at the very edge of the scene, just a small gap to go through into a little clearing.) In Normal, one of the platforms is completely dead, and on the other (the really well hidden one) one of the pads lights up as you get close. That one takes you to Hard. In Hard, the other pad on that platform pad lights up and goes back to Normal. The other platform in Hard takes you to Extreme (and back via the other pad.)

I found the first (dead) one pretty early on, and only found the second because somebody told me to look for it. So, Hard and Extreme may have been in the game a while now (possibly even when the scene first went live) but went undiscovered. XP is pretty good in Hard, I was with a group of five, and we attenuated in about the same time as a 12 person ERG group. If the loot ever becomes worth the effort, it'll be a really good scene.

 

LOL, so there's no easy mode?

 

BTW, what's the recipe for the dodge potion?

 

Not as of yet, unless it's really hidden. I think they mentioned at some point that not all scenes would have all four difficulties, though, so it may not get one.

Uh.... I think it's 8 essences and some reagents, I forget which.

 

https://imgur.com/a/b1ZcbZ5

That's form somebody else's post, I've only got the poison.

 

Wow, somebody was super busy to get that many shadow essences.

 

I think they did it offline.

 

Does "+2 Focus Transfer Ratio" mean that intsead of taking damage to my health, I would take double damage to my focus?

 

Not sure. That's what it seems like, based on how Air Shield works. Which... I mean, I guess it's still sorta better than taking damage to your health? I suppose it can also stack with other shield spells, so you could have Death Shield and a crappy version of Air Shield up at the same time. But it doesn't really sound that great, given its rarity.

Or, he got confused writing the tooltip, and he meant .5. But that feels way too good, given that the best I can get on my air shield is like, .9. Or was it .6? I don't recall, because there's what my tooltip says, and then what I get from a six-stack.

 

I bet that getting that dodge potion recipe is going to be like getting a wyvern head. I literally grinded for months to get a head.

 

@Cora Cuz'avich No offense, but it surprises me that you aren't aware of the fact that "shields" have never been able to be worn at the same time.
Any shield will immediately cancel whatever shield you are currently wearing .