Has anyone done research whether challenges choices correlate to Ultimatum rewards?
The 2 times I had an exalt reward was when I took one of the more "difficult" choices (the one-off's) early in the Ultimatum.
Posted Apr 24, 2021, 11:00 AM UTC
Anecdotally, it feels like I see better rewards when I pick the temporary Quin DPS option or rush tier 3 of the multilevel debuffs.
Realistically I doubt it changes anything and the reward set is predetermined cause GGG has no way to balance the difficulty of the choices since many are irrelevant to every build. CI doesn't care about the chaos damage nodes, most builds that aren't Archmage are tickled by the 1000% mana cost as damage choice, 3x faster buffs legit doesn't feel meaningful unless assumedly you have a HH, etc.
temporary Quin DPS option
This is gold 😂
What if none of them are difficult. I play cyclone and just run circles till it is over, and i can do any combination of the challenges even the flask effects remove active flasks one, the chaos one, and the ruin ones. If you move non stop, always deal damage, have block, capped res, and some chaos res, the content is not challenging.
The hardest part is clear speed, since the rares actually have pretty high HP. However those with only a single defensive layer will struggle.
In high yellow low red maps i do fine with 1800 hp playing low life cyclone guardian with 80% block / spell block, 30% evade, petrifying blood, 100% mana reserved, 49% life reserved, and mediocre infinite life leech (never removed since I never leech to full life, due to petrified blood). Once i get anomalous petrified blood with the less reservation enchant, i can swap another aura to hp reservation, and pick up something else to reserve on mana. Ideally pride if i can fit everything with an enlighten.
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