I’m sick and tired of spending 4+ hours every GD session JUST farming Ectoplasm for skeleton keys or relics. It’s required in way too many recipes to be as rare as it currently is. Something has to change.
I’ve been playing this game since Krieg was the final boss and the level cap was 30, but now I dread loading the game up because it’s become nothing but work.
36 pieces required for ONE Dirge Of Arkovia. I have 2 pet builds that require it, so that’s 64 pieces for ONE RELIC. 64 pieces of the same component that you need to run the roguelike dungeons!
Garbage run, though. I get maybe 1 ectoplasm per Spined Cove, 2-4 per Arkovian Undercity and 2-3 per Steps Of Torment. 90% of the time the ghosts will drop scavenged plating or polished emerald instead :furious:
Why would you say Dirge sucks? I tried it on my first hardcore character, a Death Knight, and the pet was one of the best tanks I’ve ever seen. He’s also the only pet with a snare!
When I run SoT, i make sure i kill all the big packs of ghosts. Often i lure them together and kill them. This way my SoT runs get me the key back that ive spend, and most probably an extra. Curently sittin on 80+ keys. While I agree that farming for a specific material for a specific relic can be a pain…what can i tell ya…its part of the game. :rolleyes:
have to agree with this, i don’t mind farming for mats; but this one is STUPID rare. i have maybe 5 ectoplasms across all my characters from leveling 1-85 on 3 different people.
If you guys think ectoplasms are too rare now, be glad you weren’t playing pre-launch. They were much harder to come by until the drop rates were buffed in 1.0.0.4
I do remember the frustration, don’t get me wrong, but compared to back then the current drop rates feel to me like ectoplasm raining from the skies.
You think ectoplasm is bad? Wait until you want to get your level 100 kitted out with the new seals and components. Ugdenbloom is even more frustrating.
I don’t seem to have that issue. A few runs through Old Arkovia, and SoT yields a fair amount. I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s broken, but I do agree that materials required to craft end game items are few and far between.
Its fair until you start crafting multiple high end relics. Your supply runs out really fast I speak from experience!
I had a nice hefty stack a while back, and thought I was the rich one. a few new builds into AoM and I can’t figure out why I can’t craft my Haunted steel! As I looked around, I realized that allot of the high end stuff needs Haunted steel. And Haunted steel needs Vengeful Wrath. And Vengeful wrath eats Ectoplasm like it’s candy!
If they don’t increase the drop rate, they could at least switch crafting up a bit so we don’t have to eat up Ectoplasm. a few recipe changes would make a ton of difference.
OP - If it’s something your into, you could actually change the crafting ingredients yourself for a few of the recipes with the tools GD provides. Or Trade with someone for the ecto’s. Or pretend your a Dev, and use an editor to magically make yourself a big stack. You can sell a stack of something else to make it feel like a viable “trade” if you want.
But to be honest, the Fix, if it comes, won’t be for awhile. GD isn’t updated tri weekly or even every few months. You’ll be waiting, so I suggest looking at those alternatives above. Not trying to deflate your issue, IMO it IS an issue, but it probably won’t be fixed soon.
I was extremely happy to find I can now craft it And since Soul Shards drop like hot cakes, it’s not hard to have 100’s of the damn things in one of your long-play time character’s inventory.
True. Actually, not long after I posted that I went and farmed a bunch in a reasonable amount of time (mostly in The Undergrowth), so my comment seems a bit exaggerated now.
Ectoplasms, I’m lucky to get more than maybe 2 complete components from an entire SoT run.
I speak from experience!