Limbus 2025
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Limbus 2025
I was going to mention something about buffs but Buukki beat me to it; summarized it perfectly. Buffs are standard when you have jobs that do buffing. I've spent more time on cor and geo since limbus came out than I had in a while, and I even spent the past two months gearing bard so I could increase my support versatility. Supports do buffing. It's what they're there for. As much as I enjoy playing my DD jobs I'm more than happy to play support if it makes the run go faster. I want my limbus runs to be clean, fast, and efficient, and if that means I'm blowing bubbles, rolling dice, or yoedeling at the moon I'm all over it.
For the record, I don't advocate using Hoxne ampulla for random stuff if you can't afford it. I do because I play only a few hours a week, so I enjoy what I can while I do it. Not needed, but just my preference. Makes certain jobs a lot more entertaining and opens up new gear builds. Anyways, all experiences does not need to be standard. Limbus sucks regardless. Wish it was 30 min max. Can't wait for the floor reduction.
Ampulla MNK is nuts in Limbus. But it cost me 700k for a Temenos clear and going SAM WAR DRG is similar enough while free.
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My limbus runs are just triboxing 135 with SAM BRD COR in 45-50 mins while watching something more interesting on the other monitor. I haven't done a single climb in 2026, though.
You know it's bad when Sterk, the innovator and Aminon savant, has zero interest in Limbus climbing.
I dont mind the climbs, its much less boring than Sortie. Its the absolute dogshit time:reward ratio.
Its trash, you know its trash. Heres what similar 3 month time investment gets you: Sortie - stage 4 prime and a couple pieces of Emp+3 Limbus - 2 R30 armor pieces if you get all the mannequins and are in the primary DPS alliance on the CN mobs. Don't make me defend Limbus. But you CAN acquire artifact and relic gear from it. So there are intermediate and long term goals, similar to Sortie with Empyrean. 9b starts to feel like a job after a while and you're invested into the next stage of your prime, so you can't quit. The reward at the end of Sortie is better, but I'm not convinced the grind to reward ratio is definitively better. The next stage after 4-prime is miserable comparably. So it kind of evens out going from 4-5, or finishing next few pieces to r30 Limbus gear.
What's kind of humorous to me is their recent quote about wanting to reduce the amount of times you need to do the content, as their reasoning for reducing floors and making Temenos??? Easier. That tells you they know Limbus is a miserable grind. Imagine a software company that knows their product is terrible and they said "the goal is to reduce the amount of times you log into the app". Lol Lakshmi.Buukki said: » But you CAN acquire artifact and relic gear from it. Some analysis from the JP side lists 10 must upgrade, 29 worth upgrading, 17 only absolute min-maxers should upgrade. So only about 15% of the AF/Relic is actually worth +4ing, the 17 min-maxers pieces from the JP list are not part of that ~15%. Burning units on shitty upgrades that will give you zero additional performance, when a lot of people are complaining about being short of units (somehow, I dont get it), probably not a wise decision, idk. With a few exceptions (BLU,?) empy also wasn't all BiS for every piece so it's usually always been mix and match. Maybe it wasn't the best strategy from SE to release empy upgrades before relic and af as empy seems to be better overall but empy is only +3 so they kind of had to.
BLU got +2% WSD on a body and legs, probably uninteresting if you already maxed out nyame but keep in mind this content isn't aiming for that group of players. Assimilator's Charuqs +4 for instance have 52 AGI and 132 EVA and there are now enough -PDT and -DT options to still cap at 50 or get really close. I think the next best options are gletis with 33 AGI and 125 EVA max augmented or malignance with 49 AGI and 119 EVA. I think relic and af excel in ACC, ATT, EVA and MACC. The thing is ACC and MACC are only interesting when you're uncapped, EVA is very niche and ATT doesn't add much value anymore when it isn't coupled with other stats like PDL and multi attack during TP or PDL, WSDmg, maybe SCDmg during WS. Overall the upgrades/rewards are there but those sets strengths aren't as exciting anymore. Limbus is very repetitive, in particular too grindy for the stretch goals and every individual run takes too long. The worst part is it's as if it was designed in a vacuum, like the devs forgot there are already several other activities that demand the players daily attention. |
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