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Old School RuneScape | Slayer Tasks And Fire Giants
One of the great things about going back over all my old nodes I’ve uncovered so far this league and brought the crawler (a device you have to power with Sulphite and clear the path while it moves to a new node laying down lighting) out to. Is running down the tunnels and checking every nook and cranny finding loot that was just out of sight or I simply missed. Everything from more flares to use while in the darkness to give me light, dynamite to break down the barriers, and even chests full of loot.
I also have my darkness resistance capped at 75% for the depths I’ve been exploring to ensure I last as long as possible. Between that, life flasks, my life leech, and in case things are going sideways drop a flare to create light source I can go rather deep while I’m spamming Whirling Blades on my Reave Champion. I still die a lot but that part of this whole process
Some of the best loot so far in the darkness has been behind barriers. Sometimes they can open up a node that you then can travel to and other times just a little loot room. So far they only have taken one dynamite to blast down and I even find enough Azurite lying around while exploring that I can keep buying more from the Generator.
Here is one such barrier. You see it as this purple bluish icon on the map. I dropped dynamite and waited for it to blow up to take it out.
The great thing is often times these barriers are only a couple steps too many a dozen from where the crawler laid down a lighted path from. As such you should not really be getting killed getting to these.
I do explore a bit deeper than that looking for chests and many further ones in. Many times I’ve realized I’ve gone so far I’ve found another node that crawler could have gone to. So that part is me still learning how far to explore before turning back. Some of this area are connected and can go on for a while. Many times leading me getting killed for venturing off too far.
Without a light source monsters in the dark do not get killed. As such with my build I do find myself sometimes having to waste flares to get some light and clear a path to move around in when I get pinned down or trapped.
I’ve also found it best to not go too far without starting a fresh instance. Otherwise, you hit invisible zone walls while inside your mine. Often times very close to another node that you can even see on your map. Since you can’t portal out you either have to run the long way back, get killed or log out and back in. So I just make sure that not an issue.
Otherwise, it’s just about making sure I’m loading up on flares, dynamite and I have lots of inventory space for loot. While my flare lasts for nineteen seconds since I’ve upgraded them that not a lot of time to be working out inventory space issues. Even more so once you leave you could you could be losing anything on the ground.
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So far I’ve only spent last night and part of today when I had free time exploring the darkness. While I could from what I been getting make more out of Betrayal this is just so much more fun. I’m sure once I get more experience at it and go deeper my profits will go up as well.
The really great news about Fossils or Resonators are crafting, for the most part, are buying in bulk. More time then not when someone asks to buy either of these two types they want knows how many I have. When they don’t I simply state I have X amount how many do you want. Ninety percent of the time I get a reply back “ALL!!!” Which is just great I tend to set my sell stash to private while I’m down in the mine since I’m not trying to sell one hundred items one at a time with people bulk buying.
In total, I’ve made around 140 Chaos just going back into the old areas I’ve yet to explore from these two types of items. While not as great as It could be I’m still learning and trying not to die as much as I have been due to the darkness.
Once I get deeper I’ll have things like Maps that will be worth a lot and even items that could be worth forty or more Chaos each. For now, I’m not very deep. I look forward to those kinds of thrills! It will be a little while since I don’t have a character quite ready for that kind of adventure. That kind of gear gets pricy.
I look forward to getting back into the Mine and exploring some more. There is always some thrill in what could drop and trying not to die. I’ve been enjoying this more than the current league's mechanics from Betrayal.
Screenshots were taken and content written by @Enjar. Screenshots are from the game Path of Exile.