Well, i play grim dawn for quite some time and like this game alot , i only play on hardcore and i have some lvl 100 chars. So i am not to noobish.
I am quite not satisfied with the shattered realm on the current status. for example : i played with a lvl 99 char on elite difficulty entered the shattered realm on shard 5. had the 3 chunks and the boss fight. the boss fight was quite difficult. in the treasure room i got : 1 blue , like 12 green but NO monsterinfreqs and like 15 components that was all.
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This is quite ridiculous. on ultimate campaign modus i find 3 times more items by much less difficulty comparing to that shattered realm. to call it late game there should also drop more monsterinfreqs like 25 % or more, to not need farming some regions in the game. Dying through the SR lvls to go to higher tiers is not an option for me playing hc. Make shattered realm more easy and drop more loot !!!
Just as with crucible, you have to “get up there” first, and then farming mats for making waystones and reaching checkpoints before you can start to do some serious farming.
What malawiglenn said. Shard 5 isn’t that deep so rewards will be on a par. An L99 character on Elite probably wouldn’t get as much good stuff as if it were trying it on Ultimate. Overlevelled for the difficulty and shard I would guess. :undecided:
Not sure if MI’s even drop in SR since they’re monster specific.
In my experience, SR begins to be worth it at Shard 35ish. Just run Shard 35 and 36, cash in, rinse and repeat. Should take 15 minutes for 2-3 legendaries, a bunch of MI, and the amulet and armor of the SR set that you can bomb for mats, enough Eldritch Essence to build a reserve, and really good chances of blueprint drops. Might seem low in comparison to SR70+, or even crucible 100, but it is far more relaxing imho, without tributes to manage. Plus, it’s available to much much more builds.
I tried shard 1 (only shard 1) on ultimate with lvl 100 a few times and this is the result :
no leg 3 blue 19 green
1 leg 1 blue 17 green
no leg 2 blue 10 green incl. 3 Monsterinfreqs
For me it was hard to finish it even harder to finish it in time.
Balancing the effort and the result : higher difficulty with less loot than normal farming, uhh what’s it ? Dear developers please make the shattered realm more easy !! Well it might be hard to play it but please not starting from lvl 1 !!
Indeed
There is absolutely no reason to farm only shard 1
It’s completely pointless
There is “gold standard” (shard 65 AND 66), there you could get a really nice amount of good loot
You only need a waystone to 65 shard, easy obtained in multiplayer with someone who already beat a 65 shard - we go together, you get a waystone to 65 shard and below