u/Fun-Asparagus4784

Now first things first, I will recognise that I have made an absolutely ungodly amount of currency from the 5-way vestigial farm. I also made this post a few days ago. It was printing before the buffs, and after the buffs it was just disgusting. Genuinely a mirror+/day farm for those who have 3 wives, 35 kids, and juggle 420 jobs.

Assuming you had the start up funds and the character to do it.

So let me lay out my thoughts.

1. Great farm, insane currency/hour, very interesting build optimisation for me in this league.

2. I think the idea of this farm is really good. It has a specific dedicated reward that is very powerful, and incentivises build making.

3. The outcomes from the farm are way, waaaay too overtuned. Basically free 100% PTA, mirror tier corrupted gloves, many stasis mods, overvalued iron fortresses, mandatory rarity implicits on every chest slot going forward. None of this is good.

4. Now, of course this is the first league this has existed, and it requires specific characters. But going forward, I see this being the premier farm, much more oppressive than sanctum of old was or even could be. It also is so unbelievably exclusionary. Sanctum at least could be reasonably competently done with relatively cheap builds, and very well done with MB+100 div. This farm is basically golden charlatan, multi-mirror KB, or bust. I'm serious, go try a run of 4 cloak of flames and record your time. My time is 90-100 seconds for 3 variant rarity tested.

5. Booooring. So booring. You burn money till you hit. You know you will hit. You will print mirrors. No excitement during any stage. By the end of the farm, none even when breaking the egg.

6. Kinda bugged? Idk if it's a bug. Anyways there's a bad interaction. Let's say you full cook an item, the above mentioned cloak of flame. You portal out, launch a new 5-way. You can take the items out, but not put new ones in. But, you can portal out and back in, put new ones in, and then just go and cook them in that 5-way. Is this a bug? Lack of testing? Idk. I can definitely imagine that people have burned many emblems not knowing the interaction.

7. To elaborate on the great farm bit, I truly think this acheives everything a farm should. Build requirements for min-maxing without being unfair or undoable for less optimised builds? Check! Deletes uniques from the game? Check! Makes great build around items? Check! Just amazing. Question though, how do you ever balance this? I don't know, I can only provide feedback, I hope the answer is found if not it's 5-ways on leaguestart for every foreseeable league for me!

All in all, great journey. I'm hopping off the train. If you want more details, you can look at definitiv's videos on YouTube. I play with him but I am not him, he has shared the farm there and will share the build soon.

I'm working on a build concept for a crit armour-stacker on behemoth, but the first node makes the setup DOA lol. Can someone help?