I know it’s random but I haven’t received a single orchid, fulgore, tusk, spinal or mira dossier despite playing through shadow lords about 7 times. I know most of these depend on defeating certain mimics but I haven’t gotten a single dossier when fighting these mimics. Also yes I have been playing on Godlike.
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It really just comes down to luck. I’ve only gotten my first Cinder dossier a few days ago, and I’ve had the mode for weeks.
They can definitely improve the drop rate. On the bright side, I’ve gotten quite a few from simply deploying my team (mainly on godlike difficulty of course).
I honestly think that deploying your characters gives you a greater chance of getting dossiers based solely on that out of the 3 times I’ve ever deployed my team I always got one.
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perhaps some new low cost items/ craftables that allow you to increase the odds of getting a dossier on your next mission. Or maybe increase the odds of getting a certain crafting material or astral energy…
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I know it doesn’t help much, but I imagine there’s a slightly better chance of finding dossiers the higher you pump the difficulty.
For example: I’ve been cruising on Normal testing some things: Nothing. As soon as I bumped it up to Challenging, 2 documents on the first day.
I mean, that makes sense. Dossiers are Killer level items.
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Which also means you’re more likely to get them from a)high level missions, or b) special chests. I’ve gotten at least 2/3 of my dossiers from Tank/Skeleton chests, probably more.
If you’re on the hunt for dossiers, pick some characters that can easily pop tank chests, and put on some damage buffs for good measure.
I don’t think the difficulty matters. I played godlike once, and have played casual ever sense, and I have 100% of the guests folders. My over all % is 30 for the dossiers and cinematics.
I have noticed that the more characters that Iuse the more dossiers I seem to get.
Also this is not the full release, so some might still be missing.
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What about omen dossiers. They never drop, at least not at normal.
I was going to take a screen shot, but yeah, there are a TON of Character dossiers, and they do drop at a fairly slow rate.
I’ve got all the Item dossiers. All but like 4 of the World dossiers. And all the Guardian dossiers. But there are just WAY more character dossiers than either of those in the other categories. Of the 240 character dossiers, I have 90 of them.
I spent a lot time this past weekend just grinding in SLs. I had to have beaten Gargos like 10 times in the past 2 days, and unlocked 6 or 7 Mimic skins, but I still have SO MANY more dossiers to go. Doing the “boss rush” is kind of fun…at least it is the quickest means to an end, but I think for the next few runs I’m just going to take it easy, go for as many turns as possible, and just try and unlock things as I go.
for each run i usually go for 22 - 33 turns before fighting gargos and no matter how many item dossiers i get, char dossiers drops in a very low rate. No more than 2 or 3 per run.
In my current run, I’m going for a long one. This time I’m using a few characters I’m more familiar with, so I’m more comfortable playing it a bit more on the edge (more common items, more common Guardians, less deploying, etc.). The most turns I’ve taken when I’ve done this type of run before is about 30 or so turns, this time I’m looking to beat that by a bunch. When I was just going for Gargos, I was keeping my turns to around 16-17. Getting to at least 50 turns on a serious run in Normal should be doable.
I don’t mind the character dossier drops so much as I’d like a very slight increase to the odds of a Skeleton chest dropping.
Pretty much. Gargos came on Day 66 for me but that was with a few unfortunate losses because of disconnections. Probably easy to get to day 80 with minimal use of the Shadoworm.
But does it worth it to run for so long? The more you delay gargos arrive more difficult the fight becomes and so, more resources you need to expend. Wondering if it’s not better to just play fewer matches on godlike instead.
I don’t think so, the drops come less often from what I could tell. I get tired by day 20 in my later runs and skip to fight only Omens and Gargos. I will have to do some kind of analysis to see whether its just better to speed run Godlike rather than prolonged runs on Normal.
I’m currently grinding some mimic skins with repeated normal runs. I only use deploys, and I try to fight only against Omen and Gargos. I will be interested in the future about grinding the dossiers, so knowing which is the best way to grind them is important for me
I already got mimmic skins for more then half of the cast and the ones that lacks are with a high count of kills. Deploying is the worst option to choose because in normal if you fight you can get better loot and you do not even need to use consumables. In normal you can fight from medium to hard matches with minimum resource spent and from easy to medium with no spend at all.
I can complete a run without using a single guardian or consumable.
I just skips until one Omen appears, I defeat him without using a single consumable/guardian, skip days until the next Omen, and repeat. If corruption is high in several zones before defeating all Omens, I try to deploy a pair of missions to lower it. I use Green guardians when I’m not confident about the deploy success.
When Gargos arrives, I only need to use one character, and to be sure, I equip him with Killer Serpent Guardian.
Each run is about 15 minutes, and I fight against 4 Omens and Gargos, nobody else. With the deploys, I get enough resources to feed the few Guardians I could use. I don’t see a faster way to achieve this.
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Well, what i did was:
1- I’ve started with the guests because the only way to get them is defeating gargos. Then i switched to gargos/omen for the same reason.
2- I make runs of 20 turns fighting the max amount of mimics that the game provided and skipping real fighters (except when they came for side quest missions). With that i could get an extra 40~50 kills per run.
3- My team atm is composed by the 3 ones that required 100 kills (wulf, bot and hisaki) so for each run i make i get lots of skins for them.
It may take a bit more time playing a run but it worths (imo), since it gives me lots of skin counts, astral gems, quest rewards form extra loot boxes, etc.