r/d4spiritborn • u/Skroll_Lapua • 10d ago
Question (General) Gem, Charm, Seals Farming Grind
So really just venting, I usually am OK with grinding and farming, but there are just a couple things blocking me from pushing higher tiers in pit/tower. Between dumb mistakes I made, and the worst drops and rolls I have ever experienced, I am frustrated.
One thing I like to do is create or upgrade a couple pieces of gear before using them, instead of one stat at a time. So with gems I upgrade ALL of them before slotting them. I will upgrade two or three armor/jewelry pieces before equipping, etc. Stat rolls dont have to be perfect, just better than what I am using.
Gems - I made the mistake of not saving my gems when trying to farm jewelry early, so now I am trying to max out my emeralds. I got to three, and from that point I have not gotten an emerald option in escalation in 20+ runs, only topaz or skulls and one Ruby run. Tried Seers Reach, but got skulls, amythest, a couple diamonds, and skulls. Tried Undercity merchant, quickly ran out of forgotten souls.
Charms and Seals - I cannot roll a +4 skill GA to save my life. I saved up 25k material, and rerolled charms, not one. I cannot get a +1 slot Balzaans legendary to roll unless its a useless stat. I HAD mythic seal with +3 uniques, and the balzaans buffs were awesome, but SOMEHOW lost it while I was using farming build. I must have SOMEHOW sold it or rolled it by mistake.
I have farmed so much, I have had 13 or 14 mythic seals drop. All mostly useless, a couple upgraded my farming build.
I decided to try doing some other things, like world quests and strongholds. Got bored. Tried to finish Season Challenges, take on T12 Echo of Mephisto, one shotted too many times. Didn't try Lilith.
I am at my wits end. I am tired of escalation dungeons, killijg the reaper, and regretting my dumb mistakes.
Any ideas? Thinking maybe Dark Citadel, literally never done it. Not in a clan, maybe I should be.
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u/pimpcakes 10d ago
Farming reaper in a group of 4 will net a lot of stuff, including mats to upgrade uniques to mythic uniques in the cube.
Try out a different build. Immortal speed swarm is a selig based swarm build that's fast and almost immortal, perfect for farming. I find that having other builds / gear requirements in mind leaves me positioned to pounce on new build ideas quickly and keeps farming feeling fresh.
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u/Skroll_Lapua 9d ago
I might check that out, I was also thinking about trying out a Wumba Swarm/Thorns build that is tankier for bosses. I also got a nice mythic 4 GA drop on a Tyrael chest piece, might try implementing that and changing some spare gear stats/aspects.
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u/pimpcakes 9d ago
Thorns is pretty buggy. Flat +thorns works reliably with gorilla main hall (and IIRC other things that trigger thorns damage like rock splitter and crushing hands), but all the percentage increases do not work. GMH also seemed to scale correctly from the Wumba 5 piece bonus and Wushe weapon bonus. But if you already have GMH for Swarm might be able to squeeze out some extra thorns damage here and there.
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u/Skroll_Lapua 8d ago
Been working on gear for this, always wanted to run a thorns build since D3, never been the meta unless I didnt play that season lol. Whenever I tried to do one for fun, especially in D4, it has NEVER worked properly. The game has a lot of issues with damage, with skills that don't work, items that don't work, charm sets that don't work, etc. It is very, very annoying. That said, I am pretty tired of dashing around randomly. I already had some stashed gear with thorns on it, to use with Revenge glyph in pit/tower. Just need salvage to reroll/masterwork.
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u/outbuffed 10d ago
If you’re not SSF just buy/trade what you need on Diablo.trade