Before FoA every expansions super secret boss only dropped joke or useful leveling gear. But in FoA you can actually get useful endgame gear.
And this feels kind of weird to me. It feels weird to gate gear, that might be best in slot for certain builds, behind things that only 1% of your player base will ever do.
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I guess I should add for people who don’t know, in the super secret FoA quest you get the ability to crafty this set,
And beating the super secret hard boss drops this weapon,
The baby uber is hard still I admit but doable, it’s the uber version which is made only for super specific builds to fight with.
I would say Calla has this problem u describing too but most of the problem with n’rf boss has its healing which no other boss has “this much” ever.
Yes, but not entirely.
while Callagadra does drop a useful endgame piece of gear, it’s not part of the super secret quest. So while it’s hard to beat, it’s not hard to find. The super secret quest lines are not the kind of thing almost anyone will get on their own, so only those who are deep in the community would even think to look them up.
The Dark One’s Gift Set is also tied to a secret quest, so there’s at least a little precedent. You don’t need to beat Nerfatal in order to craft the Awakened Excitement set; you only need to get to the stage where you get the Medal that allows other characters to skip a large section of the quest.
As for the weapon itself, considering there are no skill modifiers and that the +2 classes are Arcanist, Inquisitor and Demo, it is more likely to be a meme build item than a serious weapon that players feel can be prevented from accessing.
you know I’d gotten bits of that set but I wasn’t aware it was from that, so i guess it has happened before.
But it’s not so much actually being strong enough or good enough at the game to beat super bosses it’s actually knowing how to do the secret quests. It would be a rare thing indeed for someone who wasn’t part of the online Grim Dawn community to just stumble into these things. There are some very obscure steps (I still remember the pain of “Flameond bleu” even knowing exactly what to do).
level 1 medal for your levelling fun, as is tradition
There is also a legendary ring. At least, I think it was a ring. I had it, but lost it somewhere, and now I can’t remember where I found it, or what it’s called so I can find it again. If I remember, it has +15 % to all damage? It’s not that I ‘need’ it to level a new character, I just like to keep those ‘fun’ items and use them every once in a while. In Grimarillion, there is the Dropnur (sp) ring.
Leovinus ring, from urn in FG Grim Dawn Interactive World Map
“lore bonus”
it’s Leovinus’s Ring. You can find it in a secret area in the north of the “Temple City of Osyr” area in the Forgotten Gods DLC.
Ah I need to learn how to link things better.
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Cool. thanks. I was trying to look it up online, but the ai kept giving me an answer for a level 58 ring in Ashes of Malmouth.
Now I need to get that medal to have both, just for fun. Grim Dawn’s version of heirlooms.
Edit.
Oops. It’s a level 10 purple ring. Why I thought level 1 is beyond me. I forgot, I used to go to ‘that area’ to get the bonus shrine. HA! I forgot about that too.