Farming Darkshrines - The Question

just curious if the devs did anything to prevent this, otherwise this event will really become a rich get richer poor get poorer situation.

there are players for whom the game is hardly challenging till 60-70, and this is a short event. here's what i see happening:

phase one:
1)get to 70
2)farm tons of currency and useless rares
3)figure out how best to farm darkshrines (big areas, small, we dont know yet but we will soon.)

phase two:
4)pop rare into shrine
5)did not get desired result?
6)reset instance
7)try again until desired result is acheived

phase three:
8)repeat endlessly
9)????? (<---obligatory i apologize)
10)profit.


oh, and then bring all of it back to standard leagues when the event is over. yum.

When will it not be "rich get richer"? Should they really try to penalize someone for being rich?

The alternative is "rich get poorer" and "poor get richer" which is utterly silly.

So it will be exactly like it is now. Be fast, sell your stuffs to the ppl who are slower, profit!

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Shagsbeard wrote:

When will it not be "rich get richer"? Should they really try to penalize someone for being rich?

The alternative is "rich get poorer" and "poor get richer" which is utterly silly.

well yes i misspoke, that not really what i meant was bothering me :). i feel like i got derailed. all i really mean is is there any mechanic that would prevent darkshrines from being abused. because otherwise the whole even will be silly, with people farming spare rares then pop a shrine dont like whatchu got?


reset instance. since a possible outcome is uniques or w/e, its very different than regular farming.

i would think maybe they should disable wp and portals until you complete whatever event the shrine spawns or w/e

even at low levels it seems silly. whats the excitement? open portal. pop a shrine. crazy monster/mobs become OP pops out.

tp away reset.


seems to easy.

beyond, for comparison, just happens, you cant prepare for it, all of the sudden they are there. you can try to run, but you wont always make it, and i have even died hitting altf4

Only you would give a shit about this ''issue''

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I_NO wrote:

Only you would give a shit about this ''issue''

......................wtf? rofl.

when did this become reddit?

random pointless personal attacks ftw. go you.

and here i thought this was the general discussion forum where i could post about about, y'know, any topic that interested me, too bad my "issue" did not meet your rigorous personal standards.

You mean 'good farmers getting rich' since, after all, it'll be a new league and everyone will start from zero. And this, my friend, is an issue you cannot avoid, I assure you.

What's more, who says that Darksrhine effects are going to be purely beneficial? Or that they're even going to be all that profitable to farm outside of maps?

There are inactive accounts in Standard right now that will have more money then you will ever see, and are continuing to accumulate wealth simply because all their legacy/alt art stuff is going up in price as time goes on. A 5-week event is not likely to put a dent in the now 3-year-old Standard economy.

I think everyone is missing the point he was trying to make (at least I think that was the point).

This will be the first event/league where you have control on the outcome and can realistically farm it. We don't know how Darkshrines work yet but let's compare it to Corrupting Tempest since everyone knows how this works and how much it was farmed.

You enter a zone, find the darkshrine, put a rare in it and get a random effect like all enemies are now bunnies. It's useless so you reset the map.
Try again, put item in darkshrine, it turns the zone into a Corrupting Tempest. You run it and can now repeat this process with additional rares (once you've figured out what triggered the effect since I don't think the effect is random but more likely based on the item/stats used), allowing you to swim in 5/6link corrupted items.

Not all darkshrines have to be beneficial, but you can bet anything in the world that as soon as the good effects are discovered, they will be farmed. Even if the effect is random, there will be massive amounts of instances created until the beneficial effects are obtained.

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Namcap wrote:

This will be the first event/league where you have control on the outcome and can realistically farm it.

What about ambush?