Has anyone been in Elvia today to kind of gauge how often those Gem of Void pieces drop? Like do they drop like crystallized despair or are less frequent than those... like an accessory?

Was thinking going to Elvia after work today to get a few... but if they're really rare, I'll probably wait for another item drop event.

Thanks

I think I may be misunderstand what's in the update...

I see this:

I see "Elvia Realm field monsters"... is this not talking about like Elvia Primal Giants, Trolls, Red Orcs, etc as well as the Orzekea place?

I was thinking I could just drop in at primal giants and have an mindless grind to get these Gems. But if I've got to go to the latter, then I don't think I've got the skills or gear to pull it off.

It's just the new zone. Most streamers i've seen, which usually have better gear, were getting up to 10 an hour.

Why not make it so that, if you have the gear, you can have a chill grind? Theming new spots around Dekhia 2 Ash doesn't seem likely to drive player retention.

they want to push you for tet god armor

Yeah, though, the new spot is no way as hard as Dehk or even OG Ash at the point it was launched.

It is still on the wrong side of annoyingly sweaty on most classes, though. But at least tagging is dirt cheap now so I guess instead of caring about balancing that, it's easier to just tag the FoTM for it.

With an appropriate class, the problem for me is not that it's sweaty, it's that, once again, the sweat is not really worth it vs dozing off to sleep at Darkseekers (or Pig cave, if it's open).

It's sorta worth doing now just to get the crystals, but ofc these will sit in a few months and they're also only a few more monster AP, and clearly invented just to give the spot a new drop without really adding anything of substance.

OG Ash/Crypt was worth the sweat and crystal risk back in the day when there were no base debos on the market, and a pen debo was a highly elusive, end-game BIS item that required you to grind the spot to get it. But dehk ash was kinda pointless at launch, because it was hard but gave nothing particularly desirable except an invented, minor upgrade crystal. This is just a repeat of that.

If they want to make sweaty endgame grindspots, they need them dropping something desirable that you can't just wait a bit and get off the market, whilst making 500m+/hr more grinding an easy spot with no chance of crystals breaking in the meantime.

Because there are not new DP brackets, TET god armor isn't enough to make this kind of spot chill, as I understand it.

Not everyone is a FOTM slave like you.  Most people wants to play the class they enjoy , all classes should do similar damage in PVE.

I got  21 voids  for 2h today,  12 + 9  and I got 13k trash per hour,  on 4k trash less than avg on garmoth. I even will not talk about 22k succ warrior.  Succ woosa buffs when?????