2021 was an amazing year. I started with T8 LP100 Mod and I pushed hard. I was enjoying hunting a lot and I wanted to tier th pistol as fast as possible hoping to get it to T10 by migration so I had to be very active. Luckily there was Gorgon and RDI so I alternated those two for the first 3 months of the year, working on backpack dailies and farming gorgon mats which had good markup, allowing me to cover losses and also gather mats for next tiers. NI had just started the Community Recognition Program awarding a set of low protection armor but with 10% skill buff - the skill buff part was a suggestion from my wife in one of the developer calls NI had from time to time. Not knowing how much we would use it later on...
Easter Mayhem came with good returns - ended with almost 99%, high box price, above 3 each and I went hard for high cats. Didn't have luck with points so no placement in Annihilation but I did place in Defence. I was again pushed down in scores by exploit, luckily! If I had place one spot higher, I would have pulled the last LP100 fro vendor to sell it. Bullet went by my ear so close!!!
C1 BABYY!!! After Easter a VU came and got us the C1 expansion. A much bigger and more complex instance, with new mechanics with an emphasis on team work. Ofc we teamed up fast and went for it, finished it in the first day and then we farmed it. Slowly the ventilation room killed the spirit and desire to farm and team members lost interest1 by 1 so we focused more on daily A1 + B1 and after, gorgon waves. By the end of April I had my 500 contracts ready for the backpack so I rushed and clicked the mission. Nice stats and super hard to get, crazy amount of work but also some help for which I am grateful to my friends. There were hints from MA about the tezlapod pet but nothing to be foudn in game, no matter how much i ran around the newly improved vegetation around Oshiri hearts...
At that time I was doing RDI content with many friends from HM and because there were rumors of the opposite side to attack them in LGs, I decided to drag my PVP noob ass to LG and try to give a hand. I joined the soc shortly and was pretty happy to discover not only the friends I knew but all soc peeps were amazing folks.
NI had pretty badass content in the past few years, the guys got a lot of new cool stuff to the universe and Moloch caves just introduced with some hints of epic stuff to be discovered. I rushed and accessed the cave in the second day and later that week, after opping Perception for so long, finally managed to hit lvl 100 looter.
Mul ritual started but I was not drawn to those much and Im not the one to grind for codex so didn't do them as I do other mobs, but I jumped on Eomons early on, remembering the shopkeeper I got in the first hour I did migra a while back. BEcause as always spawns are a big mess in this game had to fight for lower maturity almost for every mob so I decided to try the big ones. Those got my but kicked really hard but I made it work so I stayed.
Second day of migra, a healer came to me runnign by for his life, a nexnecis was chasing to murder him so I switched from my prowler and killed the beast and to my surprise, I got an rare HOF on it, while I was looking for rare HOFs from the other monsters, the ones I was actually camping. Got an electric attack chip 7, some 500 peds MU, not bad but little did I know that rare item was the start of a crazy series of rares in that migra. farming migra made sense because that year, IIRC, they started to drop the summer boxes on mobs outside. Two weeks later after a lot of grind, the first mod shadow item popped in my loot and I was extremly happy. It dropped in the middle of the night and yes ofc I hade to go and wake up Lu and brag that I got the thing on my shift. I was then trying to oconvince myself and my better half that with that loot plsu all the boxes we could pay off any potential big loss in eomons so we should push pedal to the metal. Two weeks later another piece came along. All the money went into further gearing, slowly convincing wifey she needs to add some gear here and there as well
Looted 4 mod shadow parts, an angel, a mod exca, a slughstorm and the electric chip, during that migra. Hunted a lot and it payed off. I managed to get the pistol to T10 as well, gettign the ATH for it. Migra was 97%, a little bit over 60k tt loss but epic on the rare items side. I was using gamma and beta which were 150 each, a but also a lot of armatrix when I could find them. Shame the UL RDI gamma came into the game too late
Migra ended and I went back to Gorgon waves until VU came with another new expansion that changed our play style a lot. Lock capacitors were dropping on tezla wave and we started to do things in the 15 minutes in between the tezla waves. Very crowded place but we liked a lot that content so we stayed for many months and successfully farmed that place. The pets were around 15k in the beginning and they allowed further investment in gear, cover for big TT losses and even getting some nice profits while having a blast. Had a little gold rush run, but wasn't any good points so back to hardcore farming!
End of October came and MA dropped the big bomb on us: new Mayhem format, no more competition, because MA deals with exploits like this - they remove the reason for why people want to expploit, in this case, they removed the competition from Mayhems.
But they added new items in Mayhem vendor which made me unable to sleep for 2 days. I saw the mod nano and I could not stop thinking about it. My dilema was this: I was close to getting it, very close, it was worth a lot if sold, but obviously in my hand it woudl have been even more valuable... but it was a big risk. But I was only level 78... sorin was telling me I need liek 2 years to max it, messi told me "are you blind? can't you see that damage?". Bit of family meetings and it was decided, I was gonna go for it and try to sell the LP or give it to Lu. Either would have been great! With heavy heart, I grabbed all the swords I could find and went to skill, something I never actually did since I was lvl 10 or so....
Mayhem started and as I was getting close to the nano, got some skills and put all the codex in swords, got it to 85ish and I streamed on twitch as I was counting the last few tokens. The "chat" gave me a nice surprise, some of them got out of the instance and start dancing around the Mayhem vendor as I pulled and got the ATH for it. Those were great moments and damn was I shaking!
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I had a incredible luck and I am thankful to
@Jhereg for allowing me to rent his Reaper's blade and be done with skilling after MM in like a month and a half. I did some skilling in between mayhems too, the nano was being tested and ticked a little bit as well, I was getting ATHs for the tiers. Every minute I wasn't swinging a sword to skill was painful but I had my setup ready, with the Ascension armor borrowed a ring as well, mod resto and giga pumped ready to go skill!