#drg board game

[rainbowgetscreative]

dwarf sketches from DRG board game night on TTS (session 2)

bonus match lore:

I was actually the one to get the satchel charge at the end of the game, so I (the scout) got to place it in front of the drop pod instead. :)

[rocjaws-curated-collection]

And to follow it up, the three most common foes beyond the Grunts! Glyphid Webspitter and Exploder on left and right, and the Mactera Spawn buzzing down the middle.

I tried something different this time, blocking out the basic colors first so that they'd read well at the table, then going back and adding details each time I went "maybe just a little bit of pink on this one..." Turned out it motivated me surprisingly well! Having the mini already started took away the anxiety on getting it moving.

[tovaicas]

rouvastre is canonically cracked at triple triad btw. scion folklore is to never play it with him bc she'll annihilate your ass. rouvastre beats estinien at triple triad once and he has never forgiven them

[sirisaacnukem]

Deep Rock Galactic Scout

The Scout was the last miniature in the DRG board game to finish, and also my favorite class to play in the video game. Since I thought it had the most interesting pose of all the character models, I did this as my entry in an online painting contest, and did the best I could on it. I think I spent around 15-16 hours total on him. Nothing too insane like NMM or crazy freehands, just a very clean paint job. The model has a bedroll, which I was puzzled by since the dwarves never sleep in the caves (and Hoxxes would be far too dangerous to try.) So I painted it like a yoga mat, which amused me very much. And with the scout, all 58 models in the DRG board game are done!

[nikkisticki]

There's probably not many people talking about Deep Rock on here, but DRG is being put into a freezer filled with meaty tendrils for 8 months (or more) so they can slamjam out a standalone roguelike version of the game.

I think a lot of people were already pretty confused by them having that secondary team making a Vampire Survivors clone, and the board game, but now we're looking at the game that few people are satisfied with the state of as the games best time is long past most dwarves. The best grinds are for Overclocks which quickly run out and leave you with nothing but grinding for cosmetics (90% of which are slightly different versions of beards). Add on that the game is being left on an event which I've regularly heard people say they'd prefer having the robots back (and everybody fucking hated the robots)

The general issue is that rockpox demands specific build types to overcome which ruin players desires as they need pinpoint damage, which then requires more attention and drags down the experience. Robots required heat, but heat was easy to obtain on many builds.

Not a good choice for several reasons, mainly that heavy combat wasn't the main draw of this game and ultimately will fracture it's own playerbase, rendering DRG drained of its more combat focused players on top of the slow entropy of players leaving due to BEING FUCKED BY ROCKPOX for 8 months.

Add on the fact that they are acting as if the ALPHA of this new game won't need continued effort applied to it, which means the main game will slow down even further, thus leading to the same problem of players leaving faster then they'll join.

This is not the way forward to keeping this brand growing, this is how you get elongated YouTuber videos talking about the good ol days. You don't want that.

[snavian]

DRG survivor board game rogue core TV adaption I don't CARE I just want to play DRG nothin else

[cai-tan]

Hey so, I'm gonna heavily apologize in advance. I know this is a really harsh take, especially because there are fans of Lethal Company in my community.

TL;DR: I went ahead and looked up some more information and gameplay on it, and I can guarantee without a doubt that I have very little interest in playing it, let alone streaming it.

Like, it's really not Deep Rock Galactic, not even in vibes or theming. Like, yeah, DRG (the company) seems to care very little about your survival, but the game isn't built around surprising you and making you feel confused, powerless, and vulnerable. The most powerful weapon in Lethal Company is a shovel, and it's the solution to a fat (estimated) thirty percent of the threats you face in the game. The rest of the enemies and traps are essentially just unintuitive knowledge checks; you either know what to do immediately *after* someone else encounters it, or you encounter it and get locked into a situation of "Guess I'll Die".

I get that sometimes, games can just drop you in and you learn in trial by fire, and that can be really good! But specifically, when it's done right, it can be good. Dark Souls is a great example of this; the spiraling level design makes you feel like you're constantly getting lost and sidetracked, when really it's the level design guiding you through the intended progression paths. Lethal Company just gives you vague hints via mostly unhelpful, tediously long-winded log files.

I don't want to directly claim it's a bad game, or that anything I just described is bad game design, but it's really just not something I'd be on board to play or stream. Honestly, first impressions is that it feels like it's more of a Content™ Game that's all about making streamers do The Funny Reactions and Get Clipped. I kinda like getting technical with games, and this one seems like it'd feel awful to do so with. It just seems like it boils down to grabbing things and praying (to RNGesus, no less, and that guy hates me) that you either don't cross paths with Instant Death Guy 3 or Instant Death Guy 7, or that it gives you Conditional Instant Death Guy 2 and you just so happen to have the Funky MacGuffin Tool Specifically For Conditional Instant Death Guy 2.

My channel is about Analysis and Solving Problems. Lethal Company is (in my humble opinion) a game about Screaming at Scary Things and Getting Clipped.

Sorry for the disappointment.

[grumpyoldgrizzly]

Received my expansions to the DRG board game. Cool, more options for the thing I don't get to play NOW. I'm an idiot, but at least I admit it. Anyway, it's gorgeous and very well made and packaged, so a hearty 'good job' to Ghost Ship Games and Mood Publishing. Y'all will continue to get my money. Worth it.

I post so rarely, mostly because my life is alternately boring and a cesspool. If I actually posted, for real real, it'd just be depressing and I'd come off like one of those whiny bastards that complains all the time. I live vicariously through y'all, so, thanks for continuing to post, no matter what it is.

[mithrilist]

Hey idk how to say but I am looking for more people like me, I guess. I Identify as a werewolf and I am 22. I am a college student about graduate and I work! I love playing board games, video games, D&D, DRG, working out, basketball, and the moon of course. I like to write about her a lot in my poetry. Walks at night and being outside at night is very freeing for me. So yeah, if I sound like someone you'd wanna talk to, just shoot me a DM! I am open to talk to anyone!

[rainbowgetscreative]

dwarf sketches from DRG board game night on TTS

bonus: (original sketch b4 the host censored it)

[thelastspeecher]

Pirate AU - Down to Davy Jones’

This is a Gravity Falls AU, so naturally there is an equivalent to the portal incident, where Ford gets stuck somewhere for a long time.  Here is that moment in this AU.  Some angst, some Stangst, and some dad!Stan.

Enjoy.

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              Small footsteps sounded on the deck, immediately followed by Manly Dan’s distinctive, booming voice.

              “NO, Daisy, your DAD said no HARPOONS!” Daisy’s giggled response wasn’t legible through the closed door, but Stan knew that she wasn’t going to give up the weapon easily.

              “You should probably go help Dan,” Angie said. “We’re done with our meetin’.” Stan didn’t get up from his chair, set across from Angie’s desk.

              “No, we aren’t,” Stan said.  Angie looked up from the papers she was perusing.  “You finished saying your piece, now I have to say mine.”

              “I…didn’t realize ya had somethin’ to say,” Angie said, bemused.  She took off her reading glasses.  “What’s wrong?”

              “I’m just…”  Stan sighed.  “I’ve been thinking about the girls lately.”

              “I certainly hope so.  They are yer children.”

              “Not like-”  Stan huffed impatiently.  “I’ve been thinking about how they’re only three, but they live on a fucking pirate ship.”

              “And?”

              “Angie, you’re not dumb.  You can’t think this is a good environment for two toddlers!”

              “What do ya want to do?” Angie asked calmly. “Settle on land?  I’d stay at home, birthing and tending to children, and you’d find some professional, well-paying job?  Or maybe you’d want to pursue farmin’ like my pa.”

              “Not all of that.  Just the settling on land part.”

              “There aren’t a lot of options fer us on land. We’re wanted criminals, fer one thing.”

              “No one knows your real name,” Stan pointed out. “And I’m fine using your real last name, since Stan Pines is a known pirate.”  Angie sighed.  “I know that it would be difficult to figure out, but we can make it work.  I really think we should give up the whole pirate thing.”

              “Stan-”

              “Angie, it’s not safe for our kids to live on a pirate ship,” Stan said firmly.  Anger flashed in Angie’s eyes at being talked over.  Stan forged ahead.  “It’s not just the rusted metal and weapons.  It’s the fact that we literally have battles.  Danny and Daisy are three.  They shouldn’t be anywhere near a swordfight.”

              “I…”  Angie chewed on her lip.  “I just…” She sighed again.  “I made this my life’s purpose.  I built my whole life ‘round bein’ a pirate, I can’t just give it up. At this point, it’s part of who I am!”

              “I know.  But I just- I don’t think I can do this anymore,” Stan said softly.  “Not with our baby girls on board.”

              “I understand.  And I don’t want ‘em hurt or near any sort of danger, either,” Angie said. She reached out and took hold of Stan’s hand.  Stan gently traced the scars on the back of her hand with his thumb.  “I’ll think ‘bout it.  At the very least, we should be able to-”  There was a loud crash.  The ship tilted heavily.  “Fucking hell!”  The door to Angie’s cabin slammed open, revealing Greg.

              “Captain, First Mate, we have a problem.”

              “What?” Angie asked.

              “It’s the Armageddon,” Greg said.  Stan could feel the blood drain from his face. “She came out of nowhere!”

              “Are we lucky enough that the Armageddon’s had a change of captain?” Angie asked, getting up from her desk.  Greg shook his head.  “Fantastic.  Have Dan bring the girls belowdeck.  Stan and I will do our best to handle things.”

----- 

              “Handle things” ended up meaning what it meant the previous times the pirate-hunting ship previously named Orion but now called Armageddon had caught up to them.  It meant a fight.  Stan couldn’t see anything other than the sailors directly in front of him, but a voice cut through the sounds of battle.

              “He’s heading belowdeck!”

              “Who?” Stan called.

              “Bill!” came the reply.  To Stan’s left, there was a loud swear that would put the filthiest of sailor’s mouths to shame.

              My blushing bride.  Said bride cut down the sailor between her and Stan.  Angie’s eyes were wild with rage and terror.

              “Come on!”  Angie grabbed Stan’s hand and dragged him through the chaos, following Bill into the belly of the ship, where Danny and Daisy were hiding with Dan. They caught up to Bill, just before he was about to enter the room that had been designated as the girls’ hiding place. “Bill!”  Captain Bill Cipher turned around, grinning evilly.

              “Hello, Captain Sally,” he said slimily.  Stan’s heart leapt to his throat.  Now that Bill had turned, Stan could tell the captain held Ford in front of him, a knife tickling his throat.  “I’d be careful if I were you.  You’d hate to kill your brother-in-law.  Especially after he committed treason for you.”  Angie snarled.  “Now, go back to the battle.  I have more important things to do.”

              “We’re not going anywhere,” Stan spat.  Bill shrugged.

              “If you insist.  Maybe you can help me find what I’m looking for, then.”  A vicious glint appeared in his single eye, a weak amber that almost looked yellow.  “A one-of-a-kind relic with a one-of-a-kind enchantment.”  Hunger entered Bill’s gaze.  “The ability to open a gate to Davy Jones’ Locker.”  He cocked his head, grin broadening further.  “It’s a funny coincidence, since that’s exactly where pirate scum like you belong.”

              “You’re a fool, Cipher,” Angie said calmly.  Out of the corner of his eye, Stan saw Angie slowly reach for her pocket.  Unfortunately, Bill saw it as well.  Too quickly for Stan to intervene, Bill cast Ford aside, grabbed Angie’s shirt, and pulled her to the ground.

              “Uh-uh.  No guns, lady,” he said in a faux-sweet tone.  Angie hissed at him.  He put his knife to her neck.  “Do you want a new scar to match the one you’ve already got?  If so, feel free to struggle.”  Angie reluctantly stilled.  Stan rushed over to where Ford had fallen.  “That’s right, help your brother while your wife is on the floor.”

              “You piece of-” Stan started.

              “Ah, ah, ah!” Bill said, pressing the knife blade against Angie’s neck.  A bead of blood appeared.  Stan swallowed his insult.

              “Stanley,” Ford whispered.  “Here.”  He pressed something into Stan’s hand.  Stan looked down.  It was some sort of pendant, composed of a glowing opal ringed by gold.  “You’re the only one I can trust with this.”

              “Not so fast, Fordsy,” Bill snarled.  The feigned light tone was gone.  He finished drawing the knife across Angie’s neck, then tossed her to the side.  Stan’s heart plummeted to his feet.  “I thought you might be holding out on me, you-”

              “R hvmw bv gl gsv ylggln lu gsv hvz!” Ford shouted, suddenly shoving Stan off and tackling Bill.  There was a deranged look in his bloodshot eyes.  He gripped the front of Bill’s shirt.  “Drgs nv.”  The pendant in Stan’s hand glowed brighter.  As the light filled the room, droplets of water fell from the ceiling, building from a slow trickle to a gushing waterfall that enveloped Ford and Bill.

              “Stanford!” Stan shouted over the roaring water.  The light of the pendant grew brighter still, forcing Stan to close his eyes.

              When he opened them again, Ford and Bill were gone. What little remained of the water had puddled on the floorboards.  Angie, still on the floor but now soaked through, slowly sat up.

              “What…in the hell…just happened?” she croaked. Stan quickly moved to her side.

              “Stay still,” he instructed.  “If you move too much, you might bleed out.”

              “Relax.  He didn’t really cut me that bad,” Angie said with a scoff.  “This just feels like the ship cat got a bit too frisky with me.” She smiled weakly at Stan.  “I know neck wounds, and this one isn’t a problem at all.”

              “Well, that’s good.”  Stan sat down next to her.  “That’s…the only thing that’s good.”

              “What happened?”

              “I don’t know.  Ford gave me this glowing thing, and then he started saying gibberish, and then it glowed more, and there was water, and-”

              “Stop.”  Angie held up a hand.  “What did Ford give you?”

              “This.”  Stan opened the hand that was still clenched tight around the pendant.  The brilliant glow of the opal had completely faded, leaving it dull.  Angie took the pendant from him curiously.  “I swear, it was glowing earlier.”

              “I believe you,” Angie said softly.  She closed her eyes.  “This is…a big old mess.”

              “Understatement of the century.”  A moment passed.  “So, uh, I know you said we would talk about the whole moving to land thing, but there’s no way the girls can stay on the ship when this sorta shit happens.” There was a beat.  Angie nodded.

              “I agree.”

-----

              “Let me take that.”  Stan took the chair from Angie.  She glared at him.  “You gotta be careful about how much weight you carry.”

              “That’s a chair, Stanley Stanford McGucket,” Angie scolded, hands on her hips.  “Not an anvil.”

              “Can you blame me for being extra cautious?” Stan asked.  He set down the chair just by the front door, then returned to Angie and placed a hand on her already swelling belly.  “We’ve got another little twerp on the way.”  Angie sighed.

              “No, I can’t blame ya.”

              “Good.  Now, go sit in that chair while I bring the rest of the stuff in.”

              “But-”

              “We’re not on the ship anymore, Captain,” Stan interjected.  “You can’t command me.”  Angie raised an eyebrow.

              “Yer playin’ a dangerous game, husband of mine,” she said, but sat down in the chair anyways.  She leaned back, watching Stan bring the rest of the furniture in. Shortly after Stan began to move ashore with Danny and Daisy, Angie discovered she was pregnant again and, hoping to avoid the traumatic birth she’d had previously, as well as help her family settle down, decided to join her husband and daughters on land.

              To be honest, Angie was kind of glad to have an excuse to be on land.  Yes, she might not strictly need an excuse, but she still liked having it.  Stan was clearly haunted and troubled by what had happened to Ford.  He needed all the support he could get.

              To be even more honest, Angie wasn’t being half as argumentative as usual, out of concern for Stan’s mental state.

              Not that I’ll ever tell him why I’m bein’ so gentle.

              “It’s gonna be great to have us all here as a little family,” Stan said, carrying a dresser.  He grinned.  “Y’know, it’s basically what I wanted when I was a kid.  Wife, kids, my own business.”

              “This is temp’rary fer me, though,” Angie reminded him.  “I’m only ashore fer the pregnancy and post-partum period.  After, I’m headin’ back to sea.”  Stan set down the dresser with a grimace.

              “Angie…”

              “It’s not like I’m abandonin’ ya.  It’ll be like merchant fam’lies what have the father gone to transport tea and whatnot.  But in this case, it’s the mother.”

              “I guess.”

              “I know yer not happy-”

              “Yeah, I’m not happy.”  Stan took a breath.  “But I just have to deal with it.  Who knows? Maybe you’ll love your time ashore so much, you decide to stay.”

              “Don’t hold yer breath hopin’ fer that possibility, love.”

              “Yeah, yeah,” Stan muttered.  “You better be giving me a son, by the way.  That’ll make being a single parent more worth it.”

              “I know yer jokin’, but don’t say that ‘round the girls.  They won’t understand.”

              “Right.  Speaking of the girls, uh, where are they?” Stan asked, rubbing the back of his neck.

              “Yer not pretendin’ ya don’t know where yer children are as a way of me stickin’ ‘round, are ya?  I know full well yer capable of takin’ care of ‘em,” Angie said.  Stan frowned at her.  “They’re with Maria.  She should be bringin’ ‘em back any minute.”

              “Mama!” a voice screeched.  “Papa!”  Three-year-old Danny and Daisy ran up, wrapping their arms around Stan’s legs.

              “Hey there, little pirates,” Stan chuckled, ruffling their hair.  “Didja have a good time with Mrs. Ramirez?”

              “Don’t be silly, Stanley,” Maria said, walking over to them.  Her grandson, Soos, was holding her hand.  “I’m not Mrs. Ramirez.  I’m Abuelita.”

              “Yeah!” Daisy said loudly.  Soos broke free of his grandmother’s grip and ran to Stan.

              “Mr. McGucket, can you tell me a pirate story?” he asked eagerly.  Stan grinned.

              “Like you need to ask!  Come on in, kid!”  Cheering, the children followed Stan inside.  Angie got up from the chair and embraced Maria.

              “I’m so glad you kids settled here in Gravity Falls,” Maria said.  Angie smiled.

              “Well, you and Soos seemed really happy here. And Stan was thrilled to be close to you two.”

              “Yes, Soos is a wonderful boy.”  Maria raised an eyebrow at Angie.  “So, what are your plans?”  

              “Stan wants to turn part of the house into a pawn or antiques shop,” Angie answered.  “After all, we have plenty of things from our adventures that he can sell.  And since I won’t be giving up piracy, I’ll be able to help restock.”

              And if Stan sells interesting relics, he’s more likely to meet people who might know something about the pendant that sent Ford away.  Said relic was locked tight in a chest, tucked away beneath the floorboards of their bedroom.

              “You’re not quitting?” Maria asked, surprised. Angie shook her head.  “Surprising.”

              “I just…”  Angie looked down at her feet.  She toed the grass.  “I probably will eventually.  But not yet. I have more I want to do.”

              “I understand.  Though I don’t understand why you and Stan went with the last name ‘McGucket’.”

              “…It’s actually my real last name,” Angie mumbled, rubbing the back of her neck.  “My real name is Angie McGucket.  So I went back to that.  And since Stan Pines is a known pirate, he took my last name.”

              “Ah.”  Maria looked Angie up and down, then put her hands on her hips.  “You need to eat more!  You’re pregnant, but look at you!  You’re skin and bones, mija!”  Angie laughed.

              “I was wonderin’ how long it would take fer ya to try to feed me.”

              “Try?  I am not going to try, dear.  Come inside, I will make you something to eat.”

              “Maria, this is my house.”

              “So?” Maria asked, walking into the house.  “I can use a kitchen even if it is not mine.”

              With a chuckle, Angie followed her inside.

[sirisaacnukem]

The kickstarter for FOUR more expansions to the DRG board game just opened! Looks like about another 50 minis or so in total.

[vexredain]

Vex’s Not-So-Brief Guide to Eureka Hydatos

Patch 4.55 is here, and with it, the two final parts of Eureka are here - Eureka Hydatos and the Baldesion Arsenal! I’ll be splitting Arsenal into its own guide as it is very, very different to the usual Eureka. This is a comprehensive guide to Eureka Hydatos, covering all aspects of Eureka Hydatos, and will serve you will for your adventures into this part of Eureka, the Forbidden Land! 

As with previous parts of my Eureka guides, I’ll open with my thoughts on Hydatos. The map is a lot more safe to run around in than every before, with most of the water ways clear of mobs, and I barely had to sneak my way around unless there was a particularly strange placement of a Happy Bunny chest. Hydatos has multiple ways to level, with some quicker than others, though all are completely viable. It plays a lot like Pyros and Anemos, with very little of Pagos to be seen other than chaining. The map is also pretty spectacular, if you haven’t gotten a chance to see it yet, it’s beautiful. 

Be sure to check out my master post >here< for the rest of my guides to Eureka Anemos, Pagos, Pyros, and when I get to it, the Baldesion Arsenal. As with previous guides there will be links to exterior content, as there are many people who have made much better content than I could have on elements of Eureka!

So! This guide will cover: 

Leveling

The Relic Steps

Moisture-Warped Lockboxes

Elemental Conflicts (Bunny FATEs)

Efficiency tips/tricks

That pesky extra-extra magicite

New Logos Actions and Logos Action Board Augmentation

Map

Baldesion Arsenal Entry and Support

This will be a long guide, so I’m placing it below the cut! As always, best of luck to all of you Warriors of Light who seek to venture to the penultimate part of the Forbidden Land, Eureka Hydatos!

1. Leveling 

Leveling is quite simple in Hydatos, depending on the method you want to take, as there are a good few open to you this time around! These are training, chaining, and reflecting.  Training. Just like the previous Forbidden Land instances before it, Hydatos’ NMs give an immense amount of E-EXP, with the first NM giving around 11 million E-EXP. You may also notice that a weather condition, Umbral Turbulence (Which looks a lot like the skies around Azys Lla) will spawn often, complete with an NM - Ovni - who’s up around every 10 - 15 minutes. He is a level 60 NM that is always worth going to, giving around 8 million at ELvl 50, and rising to upwards of 16 million or more at ELvl 59. He’s a quick way of getting E-EXP. He will also kill you... A lot. So make sure you’ve a party. 

Chaining. Back when Pagos first released you may have heard the phrase “The train is dead! Long live the chain!” This certainly was true back on release (though it has been fixed now and NM training is very much the more viable option there now) if you have the patience and time, chaining can easily work in tandem with training, or by itself. Chaining is the act of pulling mobs and killing them in order to benefit from the E-EXP percentage increases at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 kills in a chain. For those who may not know, you can see your chain number on your magia board. Find some mobs around 4-5 ELvl above you and kill them, though be sure that they’re always around that number of ELvls above you, as the E-EXP given by mobs around your own is abysmal in comparison.

Reflecting. If you didn’t do a reflect party to level in Pyros, you’ll become quite intimately familiar with how it works in Hydatos - particularly if you want to progress into Baldesion Arsenal. Reflect L is a Logos action made through the combination of Wisdom of the Ordained, Protect L, and Shell L and reflects all magic damage back to the caster for 10 seconds. Reflect parties therefore will have one member cast Reflect L upon themselves and pull all Sprites in an area, who will then damage themselves until KO. Note that this only works on Sprites barring some certain exceptions. If you go into BA, you’ll be doing this often on Sprite Island in the south east of the map. 

2. Relic Steps

The final relic step is here! So you’re all on the cusp of getting that shiny, fancy new weapon that will not fail to catch eyes, but how exactly do you get it? Well the good news is that it is a relatively simple grind in comparison to previous steps (Pagos I’m looking at you) and does not involve any items from BA to complete. The steps for both the relic weapon and relic armour can be found below!

Hydatos Relic Weapon Steps:

50 Hydatos Crystals. ILvl 390. 

100 Hydatos Crystals. ILvl 395.

100 Hydatos Crystals. ILvl 400. New model! 

100 Hydatos Crystals, 5 Crystalline Scales. ILvl 405. Glow!

Thus you will need 350 Hydatos Crystals and 5 Crystalline Scales in total! 3 Crystalline Scales are dropped each kill from the NM Provenance Watcher, who is spawned by killing Crystal Claws, in the FATE “Crystalline Provenance” so you’ll need to kill him twice. He spawns in any weather condition. 

Unlike previous Eurekas, there is an additional step that stands apart from the normal relic steps, and is completely optional to do. You can augment your completed relic into a Physeos weapon at the cost of 100 Eureka Fragments. I don’t recommend doing this at all unless you want to do progression into BA, as Eureka Fragments can only be found within the Arsenal, and are really only helpful for content within Eureka, as it will allow you incredible bonuses to your elemental damage within the Forbidden Land at +348 to elemental offense and elemental defense to whatever you’ve selected through your Magia board. You get 26 of these fragments from a full clear. 

Hydatos Relic Armour Steps:

A note about the Hydatos armor is that unless you want to venture into BA for progression, you do not need the +2 armour. The +1 has the same glow as the +2 and the additional step is only necessary for progression. 

+1 Armour. 50 Hydatos Crystals per each chest and leg piece. 30 Hydatos Crystals per each boots, gloves, headgear piece. ILvl 390. Glow!

+2 Armour. 35 Eureka Fragments per each chest and leg piece. 21 Eureka Fragments per each boots, gloves, headgear piece. ILvl 390. Eureka Effect. Glow! 

The Eureka Effect makes your Eureka gear more effective, giving you more elemental offense and defense depending on how you’ve outfitted your magia board. 

3. Moisture-warped Lockboxes

Moisture-warped lockboxes work much the same as the previous cold- and heat-warped lockboxes found in Pagos and Pyros. These are found by killing mobs that mutate or adapt within Hydatos, a good example of these are the Mylodons in the south west of the map. 

Items of note that can be found in Moisture-warped Lockboxes are:

Yukinko Snowflake minion

Onslaught Orchestrion roll

Tactical Logograms

Sharlayan Aether Oil

Ballroom Etiquette: Overzealous Affirmations (/fistpump emote)

Sharlayn Aether Oil is a reagent for one particular method of entry into Baldesion Arsenal. It is untradable and unable to be sold on the MB.

4. Elemental Conflicts

The Happy Bunnies are back to their usual tricks, though this time they’ve done nothing to aggravate any of the Forbidden Land’s creatures except drink from the Val River. There is only one Elemental Conflict in Eureka Hydatos, giving around 2.5 million E-EXP (perhaps a bit more), and works exactly the same as the previous instances. You get a bunny, look in your Duty Information or Key Items for a lucky carrot, and use it much the same as you would an aether compass. Take the Happy Bunny to where they direct you and find a chest! 

The items that drop from the Happy Bunny chests are as follows: 

Gold Chest: Aetherically Conductive Plate, Eurekan Petrel Horn, Offensive Logograms, Penthisilea’s Spear (DRG weapon glam), Absolute Lance (DRG weapon glam).

Silver Chest: Aethertight Flask, Inimical Logograms, Happy Bunny Triple Triad Card, Aetherically Conductive Plate, Mitigative Logograms.

You may notice and consequently ask what Aetherically Conductive Plates and Aethertight flasks are for. The Aetherically Conductive Plate is for one particular method of entering the Baldesion Arsenal, whilst Aethertight Flasks are for augmenting your Logos Action storage. Both of these are untradeable and unable to be sold on the MB. Everything else is fair game to sell! You can see the Eurekan Petrel mount below!

5. Efficiency Tips and Tricks

There are two aetherytes in Hydatos, Unverified Research in the southwest, and The Dormitory in the southeast, these are unlocked at ELvl 51 and 55, respectfully. 

Your Mount is unlocked at ELvl 60 after the completion of the Eureka Expedition Storyline.

Remember, remember, remember your Potion of Harmony (10% E-EXP increase made by Alchemists) and/or the Heat Of Battle FC buff (if you can have it on II or III even better!). This will make things even quicker!

Remember that mobs don’t aggro on to you if you’re 2 or more levels above them!

Hydatos Sprites aggro on cast and touch. Death Sprites (new) spawn in Gloom.

Hydatos Ashkin still aggro on low HP and touch.

Obscure Logograms are dropped by many of the different creatures within Hydatos, these are needed for the new actions. Many of the NM trigger mobs drop obscures. The ELvl 50 NM FATE “I Ink, Therefore I Am” and the ELvl 51 NM FATE “From Dusk Til Dawn” also drop these. 

Every NM FATE in Hydatos barring “I Don’t Want to Believe”, “The Baldesion Arsenal: Expedition Support”, and the Elemental Conflict “Drink Me” drops Hydatos Clusters necessary as reagents for one particular method of entry into the Baldesion Arsenal. If it’s not one of the aforementioned FATEs, it drops. 

Remember to get Hydatos Elementals for E-EXP and damage buffs! Also call out the position of the Elemental using <pos> in your chat box or ctrl-right-click on the map to alert other Warriors of Light to its position!

6. 7th Magicite

Yes, there’s another Magicite in Hydatos, and yes you’ll have to get it from NM drops just like the Pyros one. The required items are: 

King Goldemar’s Horn. ELvl 56 NM FATE “Duty-Free”.

Molech’s Horn. ELvl 52 NM FATE “Bullheaded Berserker”.

Ceto’s Claw. ELvl 59 NM FATE “Stone-cold Killer”.

7. New Logos Actions and Logos Action Storage Augmentation

There’s 6 new Logos actions in Hydatos to create, and all require a Mneme that is found through the new Obscure Logogram. These are drops from certain mobs and FATEs. All 6 of these are required to unlock the ability to augment your relic armour to +1 and +2. 

The new Logos Actions are:

Sacrifice L. [Magic Burst L, Raise L, Esuna L] 

Perception L. [Wisdom of the Breathtaker, Stealth L, Dispel L]

Wisdom of the Elder. [Wisdom of the Ordained, Magic Burst L, Wisdom of the Aetherweaver]

Wisdom of the Fiendhunter. [Eagle Eye Shot L, Spirit Dart L, Featherfoot L]

Wisdom of the Indomitable. [Double Edge L, Wisdom of the Platebearer, Incense L]

Wisdom of the Duelist. [Wisdom of the Skirmisher, Wisdom of the Skirmisher, Double Edge L]

You can now store 6 sets of Logos Actions in your Logos Board, up from 3 in Pyros. You can find Aethertight Flasks from Happy Bunny chests, and hand these in to the Expedition Alchemist for an increase in your storage capacity. 1 Aethertight Flask is required for each expansion, with a total of 3 needed. 

8. Map

You can find a map of Eureka Hydatos, along with a wealth of annotations and marks that are beyond helpful >here<!Credit to Noranda Lu’Luna of Excalibur World for the map, and the Eurekan Explorers Discord for the information within it.

9. Baldesion Arsenal Entry and Support

A lot of people will be doing Baldesion Arsenal whilst you’re making your way through Hydatos, and hopefully we’ll see you venture in there too! You’ll notice two FATEs that are tied to BA which will spawn, these are the ELvl 60 NM FATE “I Don’t Want to Believe” (Ovni) and the ELvl 60 NM FATE “The Baldesion Arsenal: Expedition Support”. I’ll speak more about what these do and why they’re here!

Baldesion Arsenal Entry: 

This FATE spawns a ELvl 60 NM, Ovni, who upon death will give all participants who are ELvl 60, have completed the Eureka Expedition Story and the Baldesion Arsenal entry quest, and got Gold participation, a buff which will enable you to enter the portals which will now begin to be strewn around Hydatos. These will have two different phases - Unstable, and Stable. 

Unstable Portal [Blue]

Stable Portal [Red]

All portals, after 5 minutes, will turn Stable from Unstable, indicated by their change from Blue to Red. So what exactly is the difference? Unstable Portals [Blue] require an Aetherial Stabiliser to use. This is purchased with one of two methods: 

1 Sharlayan Aether Oil, 1 Hydatos Cluster, 1 Aetherically Conductive Plate

500 Anemos Crystals, 500 Pagos Crystals, 500 Pyros Crystals

While this does indeed look intimidating as these are NM drops, and a lot of time farming previous Eurekas, worry not as these are not required to enter Baldesion Arsenal. The Aetherial Stablisers serve as VIP tickets, as they allow entry through the blue portals and are the only way to access BA through one. When the portals turn Stable [Red] they are able to be entered without the use of an Aetherial Stabiliser! 

This brings me to another point. If there are premade BA groups in the dungeon, it is far better to ask if they have space for you or your party instead of forcing entry through portals. Please do not do take portals in this instance! It messes with, and can ruin, pre-made group’s progression attempts. The best way to attempt to progress is to ask for entry into a group, or to join one of the many BA discords floating around! 

The link to the one I have been using can be found >here<!

Baldesion Arsenal Support:

You’ll notice that often a ‘Support Group’ from pre-mades entering the Baldesion Arsenal will use shout chat to foretell the coming of the ELvl 60 FATE “The Baldesion Arsenal: Expedition Support”. This NM, Tristitia, is responsible for giving Absolute Virtue his health regeneration and is required for a clear. Please assist the Support Group in killing the NM to assist the people inside the Arsenal in their clear attempt! Furthermore, Tristitia gives E-EXP and 10 Hydatos Crystals per kill. 

Thank you all so much for reading, and I hope this helps your expeditions into Hydatos! It’s been a pleasure writing all these guides and exploring Eureka with you all. I’ll have a final guide to the Baldesion Arsenal up when I can, and I look forward to writing more come the Eureka-Like Content planned for Shadowbringers! Some other thanks to all the people who’ve helped me explore Eureka and those in my FC such as Ririnzo in particular for their efforts.

May you ever walk in the light of the Crystal,

Vex 

[forgiven-whimsy]

Birthday Story time!

Tuesday was my 37th birthday, was mostly just a day, kids were being their usual end of summer kid selves, we had cake, sang happy birthday, and I put littlest bug to bed. Husband was being snippy, and it was obvious something was bothering him, but he had gone out of his was to be extra sweet, ordered me some new slippers, and even made me a hair appointment cause he know I hate calling and making appointments, so pretty decent low key birthday, just the way I like it.

A quick aside, Sunday was raid night, we're on Eden 2 savage progression, we're hitting the enrage, so we're close, but I had an off night, my uptime was in the shitter. I play white mage, I reached out to my co healer and have some solid strategies to improve and I was excited to implement them on Wednesday, which was second raid night, we only raid 2 nights a week.

Back to the story, after putting littlest bug to bed, and husband tucking the two older bugs to bed we head down to watch some wrestling and hang out with husband. He apologizes to me for being short tempered and off, and then proceeds to tell me why....and man....here we go.

So we raid with a bunch of friends we've known since game launch, we've been playing with these folks on and off for roughly 6 years, not always on the same raid teams, but we know each other and consider each other friends. Back when husband and me came back from our hiatus 2 weeks before Shadowbringers (we were gone almost the entirety of Stormblood, so about 2 years, I stopped raiding after final coil, cause I had just had a baby, and couldn't commit to raid times....cause baby, so the last time I seriously raided was about 4.5 ish years ago) a bunch of them got really excited and wanted to know if we were able and wanted to raid again. Husband and me jumped at the chance. We had 6/8 people ready to go and so raid lead starts recruiting the last two dps we'll need. He was adamant throughout this that this was a casual raid with friends, no pressure, 2 nights a week is hardly competitive progression, and that me and husband being rusty in our roles was no problem. I even spoke to him privately, explaining it's literally been years, and that I can be slow to learn, but I'll give it my all and that once I get a mechanic...I get it, but so long as they can be patient with me, and accept those things, I'll put the work in to improve.

Back to Tuesday night, husband let's me know that I've been cut from the team. Raid lead not only went to my husband instead of me to cut me, he never discussed the issues he was having with me, never gave me a chance to improve, even after me and my co healer had come up with some strategies and advice for me to use. He cuts me without any consultation from any of the team, he tells my husband he doesn't think I can hack it in the tier in general, and that he would be replacing me. Husband got the discord message at around 9am and gave him the entire day to reconsider and make a better call. He goes on to contact the rest of the team to see what they know about this, no one has heard boo, also, no one has any issues with me or our rate of progression, they noticed I'd had an off night on Sunday, but we all have off nights, and didn't think anything of it. Husband goes back to raid lead, reminding him of the expectations of the raid group as a whole and how he was going back on his word, how he was prioritizing a game over actual friendship, how it was unfair to cut me without giving me a chance to improve, and that it goes without saying if I get cut, he's leaving, Husband waited until 8pm to tell me. So there goes a tank and a healer.

News gets out, and our dancer, who was one of our new recruits, and the only other woman on the team, decides no thanks, turns out me and husband were her favorite people on the team and she writes to me letting me know how much she cares about me and how welcome I made her feel, and how the decision is garbage, and that girls stick together.( her voice through the guys off, she stated her pronouns I immediately switched to her preferred pronouns and carried on like nothing and the rest of the team fell in line.) So a most welcome ride or die! 

So keep in mind we still haven't filled our 8th position, and raid lead now needs to fill not 2 but 4 spots. My co healer, the one person in the entire team who husband and I are closest to, the one who really pushed for us to come back to the game is feeling shitty and pissed in equal measure. He's getting in raid leaders face, calling him out on the bs, going to bat for me. Second tank and dragoon are also pissed, they don't care about the rate of progression, they both just wanted to play with friends and do some raiding, especially now that raid lead is changing his tune, suggesting two more raid nights, talking better parses upping everyone's game, ect ect...so we end Tuesday there. Raid leader has yet to contact me directly btw, he hasn't said a goddamn word to me about cutting me directly.

Wednesday morning, after a shitty sleep, and littlest bug waking multiple times has me and husband cranky, but I'm going to a theater festival with my mom to go see Othello, something I've been looking forward to for months I refuse to let this fuckery ruin my mood. The sad disappointment has turned to angry indignation, and I'm determined to be petty by continuing to play, in raid leads fc, that he invited me to, I am determined not to run away and cry and hide like I normally would, I am determined to be a duck and let this roll off my back in the most passive aggressive way possible...since you know, he still hasn’t technically cut me, CAUSE HE HASN’T TALKED TO ME! 

I have the best day yesterday, the production of Othello was one of the best I've ever seen, we had a fantastic lunch, got to connect with my mom who I'm really close with. Get the kids to bed, and husband, who is as petty as me suggests we log in at raid time with our dancer friend and run maps and other content. We get on I have an ingame mail, it's from raid lead, he's apologizing, not for cutting me, not for being a coward and not speaking to me directly, not for refusing to give me a chance to improve, no no, he's apologizing for doing it on my birthday. He sent me a flying bed mount, it's currently on the market board for 10.5 million gil, I did not reply to the letter. We find tank 2 and co healer in discord, so we hop on to shoot the shit, and chat, cause we're all buddies. Second tank asks us if we we're still interested in raiding, with the same team.....minus raid leader. Husband, dancer and me are like, hell fucking yes we are!!

And that's the story of how my old raid leader kicked himself out of his own raid team.

We refer to the flying bed as the hush money bed, the rest of the team is upset they also didn’t get a flying bed for the upheaval the wanker caused. Dude is throwing a pity party threatening to quit the game....no one cares. It’s been almost 6 years of him pulling shit like this, people are done with his bull shit.

SO if any of you play a dps class on Aether and are looking for a ridiculous, fun and easy going raid team to join who have zero tolerance when it comes to drama, we have two spots open, knowledge of your class is a bonus, but a good attitude and willingness to learn and improve is more important. We run Sundays and Wednesdays from 8-11 est. A caster and physical dps are preferred but we're willing to try a myriad of dps. Our current comp is: pld/drk, sch/whm, drg/dnc. shoot me a message here, or hit me up on Shiloh Mitka on Midgarsormr in game. 

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[noro-noro-noro]

3 dreams.  1. direct to google drive 2. at the ?store with my dad & sister. we won knockoff drg figurines.  3. i remembered in highschool a bunch of my friends made a club & now, 8 years later, we could get free food at some restaurant if we could prove it. was sophomore year of highschool really 8 years ago??? did i really graduate from college 6 years ago???? what the fuck . i’m going to pass away

1. the only part of this worth noting is that due to the lighting, i really wanted to touch this person’s face right at the corner/below their eye where the eye socket is. like that hard bit of bone. top of the cheek? i wanted to touch it with my thumb. i wanted to put my hands on their face & my thumbs on either side of their eyes on that bone. i think if i did that i would have gone for the eye gouge next, so good thing i ended up never doing that. i bring this up because i keep touching this part of my face now at work.

2.  I was at the grocery store / art store with my sister and my dad? it was a bit like when people paint found footage pics of grocery stores at night - it was dark, the freezer aisles still had the lights on, but it wasn’t really dangerous. it was just dark. before this, it was more like a Lowes or a home depot or a BJs with the tall shelves, concrete floor, and fluourescence, & i was looking for something to give to my dad. 

as we were leaving, me & my sister realized we’d won some kind of giveaway. mission control himself was there next to the door sitting in a blue forklift. he gave me & my sister capsule toys. (these were also blue). my sister won a scout sitting on the vacuum from tellitubbies ? or something? that was also a pachinko board. i won a driller that looked. like the driller figurine from the board game 

He was also mounted on a blue plastic sheet & you could move his mouth like a nutcracker to make bubbles come out. I was like “wow, cool”

3. there was some kind of club or something that me and my friends were in in high school and we all made these shitty little plastic rings that had the name of the club (it was something like EPIC REVENGEANCE, or at least some part started with an R) and everything too, and we had like actually pretty decent stuff? we had a clubhouse that was an alternate universe version of my mom’s house. slightly blue tinted, like a scene from a movie where a character is walking alone through a house that’s white. it’s got the blowing curtains, the bluish light. we also had our own Wi-Fi was there that we could connect to at any time. one of my friends from that time when I no longer talked to went by like ... blood girl and in my dream I was like you know what that seems accurate to my high school friend group.

anyway there was a couple people trying to get in on that and it was a little bit uncomfortable and they wouldn't leave. I think it was some Hispanic guy? maybe the one that always was playing soccer with his friends next to our lunch table. and he just showed up at my mom’s house uninvited while we were chilling & came inside & just sat in the middle of the floor. we were like uh. hello. can you leave? whgo are you. and they just ignored us. there was a part where i think we were tryna ditch him but he kept folllowing us around in his van? there was alaso a lot of shittalking through the gc, which was green. 

then there was a restaurant in arizona that would give us free food if we could prove we were a member of this club originally, & i still had my ring! i showed up with my friend amanda & i was planning on getting a strawberry milksshake when i woke up.