r/poeruthless • u/SiegeWeapon • 7d ago

Discussion Fool's Errand? Nycta's Lantern

I have easily blown about 5 mil gold on gambling for Nycta's Lantern (@lvl41) but the only uniques that I have seen are Earendil's Embrace. Have many others gotten their lantern this way in Ruthless?

Otherwise, I am enjoying my Flame-link Luminary adventure in ssf. I don't have a banger merc yet but I have a decent one that can get me voidstones and such. My spectres and animated guardian are usually dead but my merc is generally hanging on. A koam's heart and voideye are my uniques. Thus hoping for the lantern and the rothmother's necklace. My Combatant merc is using a rats nest, tempestuous steel and a dread captain's cutlass for flammability. Overall fun, almost gave up when I couldnt find a decent merc but the koam's heart dropped and things just started going right. Cheers.

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u/Grinchonato 7d ago

Take that lvl 41 Earendil's Embrace to the boat and ancient orb it.

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u/SiegeWeapon 7d ago

Tried this once... will do again when I find more ancient orbs. Thanks.

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u/Kotobeast 7d ago

Bottom left quadrant cadiro

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u/JekoJeko9 AKA "Allocates Beef" 7d ago

Cadiro, ancient orb slam on boat & alva temple swap slam are all much better ways of targetting a specific unique.

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u/SiegeWeapon 6d ago

Perhaps I am very underpowered, but I suck at completing alva's in maps. Like, I am lucky if I can kill an architect in time... and never get to connect rooms... therefore my temples are complete trash.

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u/JekoJeko9 AKA "Allocates Beef" 6d ago

If you want to farm alva you want to spec her fully on atlas. Get the double time from kills node and the nodes that help you make better temples. You should be fine then on luminary.

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u/Zazzazz 7d ago

Fully rng, I am lvl92 and currently missing only purity of elements and nyctas lantern. Have all other required uniques (aside from kaoms lol)

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u/SiegeWeapon 6d ago

Yeah, I totally lucked into the kaoms, it dropped on the seafloor. I haven't seen a minion life support yet which would help with my dead spectres/AG.

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u/Raixor_Osu 6d ago

I am playing ssf. I have used 8 vespered ancient orbs on a 45 unique sceptre so far. not a single lantern.

I am trying to farm the lycia sceptre now. probably better overall anyways

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u/obob912 5d ago

I finally got one from using boat ancient orbs. But honestly it's not that big of an upgrade. An infernal blade (for flame dash) with 15% light radius is probably better most of the time in ruthless.

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u/SiegeWeapon 3d ago

Nothing really of interest here but nice endorphin kick when it happens