40/40 Review of Keepers of the Flame | One of the best leagues I've played in a while
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Finished 40/40 a few days ago just before the big patch they released, so decided to leave my thoughts of this league here.
The challenges: They were really good this time around, the only RNG annoying one I can think of is in Cross Contamination "Capture a beast holding an essence". There is no way to force this one, you just have to get lucky. My friend found a beast essence in campaign then again in early maps, meanwhile in all my mapping I didn't find that even while doing 30x einhar missions lol, but its fine I was just able to do other ones for that one to be complete. And the only ones I bought carries for were T17 Juiced Jamboree and Uber Boss ones. All the others I did myself on my zhp totem build. So yeah we're going in a great direction, like I had 20 complete by the time I was in red maps without even trying. They just need to cut out all the aspirational content from challenges so that anyone can do them on whatever build they're playing. Stuff like t17s,uber bosses and valdo maps should be relegated for the min-maxing mirror-tier builds that just want some content to push their character. They should be optional content. But I trust the t17 rework they'll do will make those maps what they were supposed to be on release, we already got a nice big nerf to them and to risk scarab which is an amazing start in that direction. We'll just have to wait for 3.28 to see if/when they do the t17 rework how its gonna look like. The league mechanic: Pretty fun overall, I like all of the encounters. The only annoying part for me was walking around for like 2 minutes burning all the walls on the defend one, but now with this patch its soooooooo satisfying seeing the chain-reactions between the dots lol, unstable breaches are ez af to stabilize and I can even kill extra monsters for more loot and graftblood after its stable, and Hive Fortress are always fun to find in my maps. The loot: My god the loooooooot its the best I've ever had in any league as far as I can remember. Already spent 120+ divines min-maxing my build to perfection, buying all the bis gear, even buying 21/20 gems in every slot. Now I'm just chilling waiting for my mirror shard shipment, and gonna gamble away all my divs on stacked decks. Its super satisfying seeing the big loot explosion after a Hive Fortress, and even the other 2 breach encounters get nice mini-loot explosions and a lot of gold. Speaking of gold. Gold: Its like night and day from last league. So much better. No longer am I forced to run 9-10 maps in a row just to barely make like 60-70k gold. Now I just run a few alch&go maps and do whatever, and breach just drops sooooo much gold. I easily get 100k in a few maps, for the first time ever I had over 1 mil gold in my town. At this rate I might even consider using Atlas Runners, since now even I might have the gold for them. Gold is in a great spot atm, and even running heist and sanctum gives a good amount. From a few grand heists I got 70-80k, and from 1 good sanctum run where I got 10k Aureus Coins, after converting them at the end I got 75k gold. Its really nice. Overall this league has been amazing for me, for the first time in a while I'm still playing after being done with 40/40, usually I instantly move the game to my HDD and wait for next league but not this time. Also, the loot is there. You just need to not use uber-omega-turbo-strict lootfilter 9000 that hides singular chaos,scarabs and only shows mirrors. The way I make currency is I pick up all scarabs, 3-to-1 vendor the cheap ones and sell all expensive scarabs I don't use through Faustus for whatever price he says. I pick up chromatic recipe items to sell all my chromes for chaos. I sell my fusings, my alts for chaos. And I just kinda vibe,play and kill bosses and sell any expensive drops I might get. I only converted 1 merchant tab, and I never even got it to half-full so far. I post like maybe 5-6 items at a time, if they sell cool if they don't I keep lowering and undercutting until I decide to take it out and vendor it. At the start of the league I even did chaos recipe a few times, just to get enough to buy some of my gear. And speaking of gear. The economy: Hoooly its so good this time. Divs aren't 200c+, they're still around 128 which is amazingly healthy. All my gear was dirt-cheap, one of my items was only 25 divines when usually it was 50-60 in previous leagues. This is how the game should be, no broken interactions for people to abuse in t17s means the economy won't break on day 5 because of people over-farming and bug-abusing. Its just amazing. 10/10 league for me, didn't even think breach needed a loot buff but I'll take more graftblood and wombfits, not complaining kek The loot is there, at least for me it is since I use NeverSink Semi-Strict. Last edited by Toforto#2372 on Nov 14, 2025, 12:21:06 PM Last bumped on Nov 16, 2025, 12:19:27 PM
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" xdd |
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" Its true though. This league has the most loot for me since any league I've ever played. There's so much after a Hive Fortress I have to keep pressing Z and walking around just to loot it all, and make multiple trips to my hideout. |
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" I appreciate your candor. xff |
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good, good, at least you have fun. I hope ggg builds the game around your thoughts only.
letsgo semi strict loot explosions!!! this is what we need. :D |
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"  The curve from leaguestart till November 12th. Looks more healthy than other leagues to me, game is still peaking 80-100k players every day consistently. So it looks like the average player, people that just alch&go map without calculating divs per hour actually enjoy the game. 2 Weeks in with these numbers is super impressive, and the last patch made the league mechanic so much better too. |
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" Day 15 48,8% Keepers 54.2% Mecenaries 53.3% Settlers. I would love to know how do you come to this conclusion. On Probation Any% Last edited by Dxt44#4050 on Nov 14, 2025, 1:56:19 PM
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" I just look at steamcharts? Its pretty obvious. A lot of people are still playing, comparing % like this is pointless because the peak player amount is different for mercenaries and settlers(that was also like a 1 year league so its not even a normal one to compare to). No clue where these % numbers even are from but the curve doesn't lie lmao, game still has a good amount of players daily. 80-100k is 80-100k. And that's only on steam, there's probably quite a bit more people on console and standalone client. |
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" Don't let others see this because apparently it is not allowed to pick up anything in the game anymore only big items that never drops anyway. |
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" I know lmao, ofc the game will feel bad when you hide 90% of the loot with a turbo strict filter and don't even pick up all scarabs,chaos or bubblegum currency. I've sold thousands of alts,fusings and chromes for so many divines already thanks to Faustus. And 3-to-1 scarab vendor recipe is just always big money, I get 100-300c per selling session depending on how many scarabs I have(more if I get a lucky containment from the vendor recipe). People just need to actually pick up the loot in this ARPG. It is there, and I also pick up all uniques that disenchant for 10k+ dust, that's how I'm about to send my second mirror shard shipment of the league. The thought of hiding singular stacks of chaos orbs, or even scarabs on my filter is actually wild. |
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