Suggestion Map Markers for Materi Fissures

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  1. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    We've all been there... You click the red podium to summon the Materi Fissures and then it is a mad dash to find and destroy the fissures in 60 seconds before they disapear to get all the fragments. Sure, in Grimagstone, it is rather straight forward, but in the other maps, you will be lucky to find 2-3 before time runs out. How about adding some sort of marker on the mini map to help locate these. It could let you split the team so half the team goes one way and the rest of the team goes the other.

    Before anyone claims that it would be abused to farm the fissures, the farming method is already easily done in Grimagstone due to the highly linear nature of the map, but it would open other maps to farming for fragments, and make the portals easier to hit during normal runs.
     
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  2. pydragons

    pydragons Padavan

    The mechanic itself of this particular shrine is pathetic. I must find and kill a portal???
    Better be reworked to appear somewhere on the map and spawns 10-20 mobs with a champion leader.
    Also, I'm afraid that these shrines are... well lets say that BP will not implement any more shrines.
    I would like to see a shrine that gives healing spheres +30% heal.
    Shrine that gives +10% drop rate.
    Shrine that gives +3 champion mobs in the map.
    Shrine that gives buffs, armor, speed, attack speed, damage.
    Etc, etc.

    Killing a portal to get few frags is unattractive. I'm confident enough to say that BP will not implement a single new shrine in the next 3 months. Sad.

    PS: @Baragain now you answer in my thread (in the same forum section), please.
     
  3. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    If you say so. I can make 3000 an hour in Grimmagstone III.
     
  4. Twixy

    Twixy Forum Greenhorn

    +1
    Sounds good to me.
     
  5. Guitarman

    Guitarman Forum Master

    er are u saying that there are >1 fissures...... I tot only one ?
     
  6. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    There are 5. But they only last 60 seconds so you have to be fast... try it out in Q1M1(I).

    --MERGED--

    Just broke and set my own record. I still have the two 100% buffs sitting in my locker. I used one and farmed for an hour. I received 9180 fragments in those 60 minuets. To break it down, that is an average of 153 fragments every minuet, or 1.9 portals every minuet. I could have done better, but I had some really bad luck in the last 10 min and only got one portal map... I had been on track to get over 10k in that hour.

    I did a little comparison math to decide if it is worth buying a pair of fragment glasses vs just spending the ander on Fatal boss portals directly. The conclusion, if you can speed farm like I did, then the answer is yes. 1600 ander and the ander farmed in 60 min of normal farming gives you enough ander for 9-11 portals. If you can farm at the rate I sustained, you end up with enough frags to buy 20-22 portals to a Fatal boss. I doubt that I'll spend the ander to buy glasses to farm frags to buy portals as I prefer to spend my ander on things that last (like gems), but it was/is an interesting exercise. I also have to admit that it was one of my most enjoyable hours of farming in a while. Sure, I didn't get any glyphs, but I did get a challenge... something severely lacking for an endgame DK. The farming was high tempo; if involved plenty of skill and timing; it took carefully reasoned gambles to get the most out of each set of 5 portals. Best of all, not a single death.

    I still have one more scroll, and here's hoping I break the 10k boundary next time. :D If they gave me the map markers for the portals, I would hit 5/5 even more often and the 10k goal would be a piece of cake. Right now, depending on the semi random spawn pattern and the fact that I need to do a simple search patter means that I get 5/5 25% of the time and 4/5 the other 75%. I may keep my last pair of glasses just in case they like my idea and implement it... or when I find my self needing frags fast. :p:D
     
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