As a follow up, I bought
I've been thinking about this a little. With the odds of getting a 6L being like 1/1000, it seems much less maddening to save up the fusings to get 1500 and pay Vorici to do it. Or maybe not, I dunno. I imagine I'll be trying to 6L something like the Belly soon and am really hesitant to play the 1/1000 game. I bet I'd get a 5L and give up
Vorph
start getting comfortable with currency and want to level past 90 you need to check out sextant blocking and sextants. It's expensive and a lot to learn but its the only way to grind past 92+ and keep your sanity. Again you need A LOT of currency to use sextants, I typically pause around 88 in new leagues and stack money so I can afford to do this.
Yeah I watched this video:When you and
The TLDR is depending on the maps you shape and the amount of sextants you can use you can double your XP gain per map by using sextants to populate the map with extra mob packs. One of the reasons Shaped Strand and Shaped Shore was / are so popular is that you can 5-6 sextant those 2 specifically so that's 6 extra mob type packs on top of what the map already has essentially doubling its density. In the larger picture think double the mobs from sextants, 25-40%+ packsize from rolling the map properly, and then doing a zana mod like beyond or breaches. The XP and returns actually make for bearable XP at 90+ and you can easily sustain any maps if you do all 3 mods to the map (zana, roll map, sextant).
I'll definitely keep an eye out for 6L corrupteds.
Korrupt
is the only person I know here that does sextant blocking with any seriousness. It's a huge pain in the ass and really only necessary if you're farming for farming's sake. Which is fine, do that if that's what you like, just realize your goals before you go whole hog shaping(not the orbs) your atlas and blocking sextants. Most people will grow bored of the game LONG before that point. For instance, if your goal is to try a few builds, get 36/40 achievements, the serious farming stuff is not necessary.
You're going to get a lot of different opinions on that, especially if you're thinking about sextant blocking.
So just to be clear, the only thing I have to do to prepare for doing this is to not spend my sextants and shaper orbs, right? And until I'm level 90ish I shouldn't worry too much about it?
You want to spend your shaper orbs immediately in the hope that the shaped versions start dropping, you just have to know exactly which ones you want.
Oh fuck me, map drops are based on what maps you unlock, and completing the maps the obvious way (that I've been doing) by unlocking all the maps I can penalizes me?
You can fix it later by "deleting" maps from your Atlas doing...something I forgot but you can probably find it on the wiki. Generally you'd want to open the whole atlas at least once to see each map and stuff but yeah if you're trying to progress past 90 or so, you'll start to want to limit the maps that can drop and use some strategy.
Tuco
the more maps you complete the "bonus objective" on it raises the % counter in the center of your atlas. Then when maps drop for you that % bonus makes it so that the map that just dropped has that % chance to drop 1 tier higher than it would have.