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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Karpathos21 on 08 September 2023, 13:16:27
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Hi all, new member here, I hope I post in the right place. I'd like to ask if anyone has come across neidan specific items in the game? I've played two characters from level 1 to above 50 epic, but I'm yet to see any. No + skill to neidan mastery, not even a + to one specific neidan skill. Do they even exist?
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Wow, you're a helpful bunch, aren't you? :-\
I looked at every shop, picked up every loot, but no neidan stuff. Has anyone ever found one? Please?
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Neidan related items drop only in the two Legendary acts (Chinese and Egyptian) from Eternal Embers AFAIK. Don't ask me why, it's a decision made by the devs.
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This is a usual flaw in this game's design/engine.
If a mastery is added by a DLC, bonuses to that mastery or its skills are mostly if not always added to items that drop in the new areas of that DLC. So items that boost Neidan are found only in Legendary, in the Neidan map. Maybe Electrum Orbs from "the East" can work too.
I think the main reason is the engine, it doesn't adapt the loot or the mastery/skill bonuses to the DLCs you have.
So instead of dropping Neidan items in all acts, and that would also be for people who don't own Eternal Embers, they make them drop only in the EE map. Or maybe Electrum orbs, but maybe those are locked for people who don't own EE (if so I don't know how it's done)
It was a bit of the same with Dream/act 4 (now that it's tied to the main game, a few Dream items have appeared outside of act 4)
And same for Runes/Ragnarok.
Edit : I think they added Neidan bonuses to stuff you find in the Hardcore dungeons (head armor from Immortal Hero or Chaos set, Perseus' Discus). Also an Epic ring in Atlantis (Shine of Pandia) and a Legendary throwing weapon in Ragnarok (Chakram of the Sun). Those are kinda exceptional and found kinda late in the game.
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Now these were proper answers, thanks a lot! (I thought it might be the case, I just don't like to start in the middle, always from level 1, until they die. It's some sort of sickness I have, really annoying...???) Thanks again for clearing it up!