ANB Bronze League #24

[WarriorSeven]

Finished my dedicated farming runs in Story. First time using an EPIC GMC/ELR set (most gear from the Ephemeral cube awards) with EG+XP as main attributes plus a Leg Fire Lily and a Brooch of Stormcaller both with Fire + Frost Damage additionally. I actually enjoyed this combination during gameplay!

Ran full Story to the end and then alternated farming between Darkhold Citadel and Morgenheim (17 runs each) until my 200% boosters ran out. Accumulated 10.1M+ of gold (~120K/minute) and decent amount of materials and BoLs. Maybe I'm not as efficient as many since I like to open every free chest when playing Bronze instead of shooting for the final ones at the end of the map, but then, again, I do like practicing in the various tight quarters areas with Thermal Shock and Shatter, especially during Bronze.

Also cooking/leveling up minor abilities (@102 Synergy presently).

With new boosters, it's now back to Trials starting at TL75, which is a hell of a lot different than Story. I'll need to upgrade at least two or three pieces initially to progress since I'm way too squishy with most of my lower level EPICs. THEN I need to decide if I stick with the Fire Lily build or transition to Crit (and pursue higher TLs?). Need to also re-focus on the key priority attacks and abilities to bring them L10 with the help of more BoLs drops.

My end goals are to secure 2 CTs and 2 needed ELR gears for my main.

Lots still to do!

[Wisp]

Veterans League BH.

Doing fair.
Earned back about half gems.
Crafted a couple of decent xp. items; I may socket and CT; lots of time to go.
CL approaching 800.
Heroic Misty.
All Companions and an extra research slot.
Farming TL 95, average almost 30 lvs. in under 2:30.
Running Full Havoc Fire Lily xp. Build.

Edit: Syn.100+
Stars 76
Abilities mostly 8 on active, 5 on others.
Using PI instead of PA.


Got an oddball drop that I'm thankful of, as I have a 77 on Main.
Saves a lot of Mat's. ;-)

Happy Hunting !

~S~

As the question was asked elsewhere, I ran a non-medalled account up to level 70 using the same approach as for my main. That reached 70 in a little under 17 and a half minutes. I did lose some time jumping into Trial 7 a bit too quickly and getting 1-shot due to a total lack of toughness and life on hit Quickly adapted playstyle to avoid being hit, which worked a treat!

On the main, I have finished the initial experience booster, so 30 mins in and CL533. Having been farming TL70 but could (and probably should) be moving on up to TL80. Will be crafting a rough gold farm set and run story for a bit next, so I can collect Eileen and finally have a vortex for at least one DfA cast

Should hopefully have recovered all gems spent on the event tomorrow (under 300 to recover now), and then it's a case of aiming for that 14k target.

Going for another (relatively) cheap run but recording the important bits this time. Same approach as ANB Gold, so all inventory and skill slots unlocked, one upgrade slot and one companion slot so I'll be running with just Marcus and Eileen throughout. Got to lvl 70 in a bit under 15 mins on Friday night by running Trials as soon as I reached lvl 10, and just cooking skills now until Monday evening. Will go down the DfA route again for exp farming and then Frostbeam for the "Push" (if I can call it that!) Since there are no 77s that I need and only have an interest in the Medal of Knowledge, aims for this ANB are:-

1. Finish in the top 50 (hopefully exp farm gear will suffice for this).
2. End the event with 14k+ gems (started with 12.9k)
3. Do some research on story maps including 5-starring heroic mode.....

[WarriorSeven]

Hmmm ... Really out of practice with my mage. It's been at least a year! Progressing okay, but I again realize this class is a tad more complicated than to just "shoot and score". Need to revisit bojck's MOST excellent mage guide and to watch 's latest Fire Lily build video. These two have made enormous, unselfish contributions to this class.

I need to get back to understanding the effective use of sequencing attacks with the right abilities. Practice, practice, practice on my main!

Anyway, glad it's Bronze to relearn what I should have retained as well as to teach this old dog new tricks! Hell getting old.

[WarriorSeven]

Recasting this Topic to remove the ANB #24 “bug” posts.

For those with lingering or new issues, please appropriately report them in either the Tech Support or Bug Reports subforum.

Good luck, again, in your progression in this ANB!

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We're a go is to start ANB Bronze #24 today, Friday, June 30, at 17:00 UTC. So, now is the time to get your ducks in a row to prepare for this 12-hour playtime event, the longest of the 3 ANBs. No War Supplies after the last Gold and this upcoming ANB, but a new Season has started.

Pausing my foray into Warrior builds and probably going to play Mage for awhile. In a rut, and need to exercise some gray matter!

Good luck to everyone, and remember the most important thing is to have fun!

UPDATE #1: WARNING!
For those of you that are aware, as of this post 18:33 UTC, there is a game server issue that prevents you from backing up your local game progress to the Eternium systems, which also means you cannot share any progress from one platform to another (say, PC to mobile). This issue started several hours before the start of ANB, and it does appear rather serious.

It also been reported by some on Discord that some functionality has been restored, but I for one haven't seen it. If you, like me, first log in and see a GREEN DOT in the upper right hand corner of your game screen, please wait several minutes to see if it turns into a RED dot. That means the issue remains for you (us). I would suggest be patient for the time being, and on a personal note, I would NOT start ANB Gold #24 before the situation has been given the ALL CLEAR.

UPDATE #2: TRAVIS reports from Discord (19:05 UTC):
"The event that started at 1700 was bugged, so it has been removed and a new event has started. Anyone who created an event hero during the bugged event will not be able to do anything until the engineers fix the data.

Anyone who did NOT create an event hero for the bugged event is safe to create an event hero for the new event and play normally.

Once the bugged data has been fixed for affected players, we will address Gem refunds.

+ If you see a red dot, you can't really do anything until the data is fixed.

++ It will be fixed in 30-60 minutes."