Good Afternoon Friends. I am very late in getting this post started, and quite honestly for a bit I thought I would just give today a pass. I’m still poking at Path of Exile and I find myself in the process of trying to finish out league challenges. For those who have never played this game, during a league there are a series of 40 challenges asking you to interact with various league mechanics. For your troubles you are rewarded with a Totem pole for your Hideout that grows in height based on the number of challenges that you have completed. There is also a set of cosmetic gear that will only ever be available for completing challenges and four tiers of ever fancier sets that also map back to the number of achievements you have finished. At 19 Achievements you get your first totem and around that same mark is when you finish the first tier of cosmetic armor. Starting with Sanctum I have set myself up to trying to get at least the “sad little totem” that is available during that league.
Last league I managed to complete enough challenges to get one size bigger, and this league so far I have gotten up to the third stage of the totem. Now I find myself in a pattern of trying to complete as many challenges as are reasonable for someone who generally hates bossing. Between yesterday and today I have completed three more challenges and find myself closing in on another one. Given I am still in the mood to grind I could in theory probably knock out a total of 32 out of 40 this league gaining me the full set of Tier 3 armor and another few steps of totem upgrades. This however will require me to keep respeccing to shift league mechanics. I ground out a bunch of Harbingers and Beachhead maps in order to finish out the last few steps for that challenge, and ultimately bought the last item I needed to craft a harbinger weapon from the market.
Currently, I have respected my Atlas in order to focus on Essences so that I could knock out a few very specific achievements… namely a Map Boss with 6 Essences and a Rare monster with 3 Deafening Essences. All that I have left there is to use a bunch of remnants of corruption and that will be another challenge in the bag. After that I need to spend some time specced into Incursion and Betrayal in order to knock the bosses of each game mode off of a meta-achievement that I already have six of eight. Fighting Incursion and Betrayal bosses will also give me a little bit of progress towards another achievement centered around fighting league mechanic bosses. I am getting most of those down in Delve however so I am personally having an easier time with that than a lot of folks are.
Each league SirGog puts out a video talking about how he would approach all forty of the challenges and for me at least this was appropriately timed. Given how many Doryani’s Maps that I have sold recently, I am guessing a lot of folks are focusing on wrapping things up. I have a feeling that I will get sucked into Diablo IV Season 4 when it starts later in May, so similarly I am experiencing a bit of pressure to get things wrapped up while I am still engaged. All of that said I am happy enough with my current progress so that if I never played anymore I would still be satisfied. I have a growing collection of sad little totems and they make me happy.
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