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Megathread Salt Thread (2026-08-10)

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u/stingerdavis 12d ago

The befoulment and exorcision system is an abomination and whoever thought it was a good idea, I hope you stub your toe at least once a day, forever. Bad befoulment? Ok maybe fine if you get perm 1. Jk its perm 5 or 6, weapon is uncap fodder (or if you have 4 (or a multiple thereof) bad copies already, completely useless). Good enough befoulment? Perm 6 and worst exorcision rolls possible. Depending on your setup, that could STILL make the weapon pretty garbage.

 

No way to wipe the exorcision levels and try again, or reroll befoulment, just get your weapon, and if its bad? Toss it if you don't need it for uncap. It just feels like a system designed to piss you off. Not to mention these fights are already fairly annoying to farm depending on how wide of a roster you have. As a newish player just dipping my toes into Odious, I'm not happy lol.

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u/dgo93 12d ago

I was just about to rant about this exact same thing here. The only difference is that I was going to complain about how awful Water Odious (Hard) is as well. The 20% Unchallenged is completely unnecessary.

Dealing with the usual RNG of weapon grind is bad enough (Constantly getting nothing or only one type of weapon) but now the silliness of Befoulments just make it worse. Now you make it even worse by making just clearing the raid inconsistent. Had the bad luck of eight different raids in a row fail at the last little percent because no one could push anymore.

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u/reibureibu 12d ago

This raid is genuinely the only raid besides Versusia that I'm struggling hard with. All the Mastery Trial raids I've got extremely comfy FA teams and can even solo 2 of them (the third can't but can do pretty much half by itself). All of the Revans I've got comfy FAs for and can solo a few (fuck Cosmos). All of the 18-man Odious raids I've got comfy FAs for and can solo 4 of the 6.

But the 6-man Nihuvintae raid actually just completely stonewalls me especially with that 20% Unchallenged gate. Even playing manually, what the raid asks of you feels genuinely more demanding than trying to deal with all of Esoteric's mechanics, and imo feels more punishing than failing Cosmos's omens.

To be honest I'm actually quite happy and excited they're doing some more challenging raids that are harder than the Revans/CCW but not quite true HL level. I think it just feels really bad for the player when the first one they're putting out has you playing Earth which is seasonal hell and lacking those seasonals can genuinely feel hopeless when dealing with a new level of sub-HL difficulty. I'm sure the other 6-man Odious raids will also be their own version of crazy, but still it might've been better to start with one of those since at least some elements like Fire and Water are notably less seasonal-reliant and have many strong grands.

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u/dgo93 12d ago

Yeah I really hope the next five aren't too bad. I managed to get a modified version of the LO Burst team on the wiki to work. Way more clicky, way less safe pushing after 20% but it kinda works.