So, I've accumulated about 2000 of each type of mineral... What should I do with them? The fiends above the FSC turned out to be far less interesting than I hoped, too much shadow steel, not enough philoso feathers. Besides, shadow for the entire T3 strata isn't as much fun as, say, shadow above the JK.
Thoughts?
Last I looked it was set by the system
Last I looked it was set by the system
Indeed it is set by a system, but the system can be influenced by players. See: http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Gate_construction
By putting a large amount of two kinds of minerals into a gate right before the new gate starts, you can probably get the type of gate you want. You may have to put a smaller amount of a third type of mineral in, to make sure the anti-color doesn't destroy your choice, and you run the risk of someone else trying to do the same thing, but I suspect you could get what you want most of the time.
I agree with yurka, make the gate into fiends again for the trolling value of it. Its a great filter for all the bad whining players. Not to mention, Dark City is hard but it is also very very fun to play.
You could deposit everything at once and give the system a huge migraine.
Make FSC gates fiends, give me some CR, once the core comes out make that fiends... Be evil. It's fun.
Mail me ingame, I'll help. I got quite a bit as well. IGN bigfootm
Hmm I dont get this, "lets be a chocolate starfish becuase we are better than them" mentality you all seem to have. Youd rather put people off playing than helping lesser skilled players see all the content?? How very awesome of you.
I couldn't care less what what you do with the gate, but arnt you being oh so very eiltist and selfish??? I hope to god the core is too hard for some of you and you get screwed over the same way you are screwing over others.
/rant im gonna go farm what ever you flacid members throw at me....
peace out from your loving mattress
Again, I didn't find fiends above the FSC to be that interesting. Few crowns/heat, the mats aren't worth much, etc. I'm looking for something more creative. Undead above the JK leads to lots of owlite feathers and such, which isn't bad for T2. Maybe something like a freeze/poison pair of strata for a T3 gate? It might give a wide selection of monsters... Or, a jelly/beast pair for T3 under snarby to give people a good chance at the dauntless delver achievement?
Actually I want the fiends to go away from Vanaduke now, I don't care about the skill, not as many people are dying as some say, mat prices reflect that with all the mug of miseries and etc that have shown up and the low heat/crown from being a stratum 5 area makes it depressing. But I won't sway you one way or another concerning that gate. Perhaps you should try shock for lols..
BUT if you're taking requests, in either the next Jelly king gate or Twins gate, in stratum 6, I'd like to see fiends, the battles with them there are worthwhile. And no one will complain about them there. Bonus points if you can also pull off a jelly stratum in stratum 5 that yields grim galleries/caveat halls. This order for me is pretty fun since I tend to be lazy about joining (in any tier) prior to Basil whenever possible. But when I had a gate that was like that, I walked through the entire thing with no complaints, it was great for Philoso/Owlite in the first parts, and the then semi awesome mug of miseries would be in the second stratum while I run for my life against the really dangerous fiends since their at the current max power (stratum 6). Shadow steel and plague essences also showed up a bit so those were nice little bonuses there.
Technically the stratum 5 request could be achieved with undead as well but I'm not sure how you can definitely make scalet/grim galleries/etc appear with either option and if it doesn't spawn those levels, then I'd rather have normal lichen levels anyway better than blight boulevards...
If you go for the Jelly/beast snarby gate one, I'll try to help out a bit though I don't particularly care about dauntless delver right now.
P.S. Anyone been noticing how you can tell about these things? Like if a jelly stratum is going to yield caveat halls because it has xxx amount of minerals vs being a lichen kind?
Get 10K of each individual mineral and sit on 60K total. Then work your way upwards to 600K minerals total and sell it all off.
i say keep it until OOO fixes gate construction. right now its pretty much useless, so little crowns come out of it.
yes wrw1864, I know, what I was saying, and probably didn't expound on since I was using my iPod was that at the time that I last looked when I wrote my post, it was an anti-mineral stratum, where we have no control over it. Like, right now, as I write this, depths 14-17 are chosen by the system. They must rotate the anti-mineral depths, anyone know how?
an anti-mineral stratum, where we have no control over it
As per the gate construction wiki page, anti-minerals are determined by the third most common mineral in the gate construction for that stratum. To fix the anti-mineral situation, you just need to add enough minerals so that some other one is the third most common.
I suggest just sell em or keep them.Mostly keep them in case you got broke and needed only a small amount of cr but got no mist or ce.
Fire/Freeze would be a fun and nasty combo. I'd like to see a beast stratum 5 though, because the beast materials are worth the most for their star rating. Also everyone tends to disregard piercing and say it's the least important protection of the 3 non-normal damage types, so it may remind them that piercing monsters are still around.
I was unaware you could still add minerals to those, I had never tried
@mattress97: "Hmm I dont get this, "lets be a chocolate starfish becuase we are better than them" mentality you all seem to have. Youd rather put people off playing than helping lesser skilled players see all the content?? How very awesome of you. "
*reads comment* *clears throat* *straightens papers on desk* *reads comment again* *cracks knuckles* *googles*
"These trolls feed off the reactions of their victims because "their agenda is to take delight in causing trouble"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29#Troll_sites
I'm just tired of feind levels becuase my allies on them always suck =_=. I'm constantaly reviving people. If my buddies would rather fight jelly, so be it. I don't really care.
I'm tired of fiend because I just don't enjoy them that much. I always like to see poison or undead for totem levels, or slime for aurora isles and generally fun levels. Preferably in stratum five before vanaduke because that's the run I'd be doing most, but any S5 is great because it makes for a fun recipe dive.
More beast gates.
Fiends are just too problematic for my latency issue...
I don't have the gear to survive a tier 3 fiend stratum yet (no shadow defense armor above 3*, not leveled up to dark briar barrage yet), but I have what I'd need for FSC. The fiend-trolls basically cut me off from the FSC content because I can't reasonably survive a fiend stratum with the gear and I have, and it will take a few more weeks yet for me to get the gear I'd need.
It's not just about "haha you're not good enough." Sometimes it's about not having enough time to play to level up to 5* shadow gear. I can play 2-3 times a week, so it takes a couple of weeks to level up a 4* item to heat 10 so I can make it 5*. I believe I have the skills for FSC (I got dauntless delver on my first try), but I know I don't have the equipment for the gates people keep building.
@starlinvf
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh now I get it people are asshats, so that people think that they are asshats.... makes perfect sense. Nobody knows who they really are so cant call them out irl...
Its just their way of feeling good about themselves.
Well as long as it makes them feel better about it then great, ill continue inviting people in at basil and make everything they do null and void
Kudos to all asshats on the interwebs I saulte you all....
Twats
Icee, don't you have friends or guild? No reason to have to go through that, anyone with a lot of either pretty much can skip that. And 4* shadow gear should be enough since its stratum 5. And I don't have shadow gear at all so lol (I did get a blackened crest, that helps a noticeable bit).
If you need it, just pair with one friend and go all out with RSS and your Spike Shower. That oughta be enough.
Troll and make FSC and JK runs have fiends!!!I simply love fiends.
might as well sell them all and destroy the gate creations.
and give the cr to me =D
if you get enough minerals mabey you can rule the gate construction by changing any gate you want with quite a few clicks
like a boss
Looks like I will be using a lot of yellow and purple to try to get the candlestick keep levels.
Fiends again. It caused complaints on the forums and I want them to keep coming. We have to protect our goldmine that is FSC from bad players.