Completed Lych NM last night, and a few things worth noting:
1.) Bonus boss (the random spawn bosses in each room) loot drops are identical to normal mode. Seriously?! *Need confirmation, have defeated 3 bonus bosses in 2 days, still only gotten a.) lv. 8 luck stone, b.) 3x soul crystals, c.) 2?x shadow crystals - This is exactly the same as normal mode.
2.) Mystery chest seemingly has a higher chance to drop crypt key - this is speculative -, but a teammate told me he got a 30x vouchers from it (normal mode had 120 vouchers) which is pretty bad if true.
3.) Bosses drops I believe are: 1x crystalloid + 1x legendary stone (guaranteed?, not sure ifwith a chance to get doubles, but there are only 2 bosses from which you are guaranteed loids and shards; none of us got legendary stones in card draw, so you'll find that you're most likely to get 2x legendary stones each run, with a very rare chance to get 6 (that would be double drops from first 2 bosses + legendary stone x 2 from card draw - assuming it's present in card draw and quantities remain the same as normal). *Could use some confirmation from others here for the card draws.
4.) While clearing the 1st and 2nd rooms is possible with a decent group, a FULL clear only seems possible with either: 2x Mage, 1x Knight, 1x Archer or 2x Mage, 2x Archer at the moment. Sure, as more stat-boosting items are introduced, it'll become easier and compositions can vary - problem currently is each boss has a single-target attack that easily does non-crit damages for ~70% of our total HP, so IS and/or Apollo are necessary in addition to more than one mage so as to stagger restoration and blessed light cooldown timers.
5.) EXP boost is noticeably higher (believe the base completion value was over 1M), had a 50% exp scroll on and I got a total of 1.96M, so it's definitely higher.
Do the boons outweigh the banes? Up to you. From what I've seen thus-far, if you don't mind sacrificing EXP for the legendaries, then you should be content to just clear past the first 2 bosses. If you DO mind the EXP AND you can clear it, I'll suggest doing 1x normal mode, 2x NM mode (warrior's call just before final boss of the first run) you'll need to clear it very quickly for your warrior's call to last all the way through to the end of the 2nd NM mode run. This'll get you the shards and the EXP bonuses, but keep in mind that you aren't likely to get more legendary stones than those that are only clearing first 2 bosses.
1.) Bonus boss (the random spawn bosses in each room) loot drops are identical to normal mode. Seriously?! *Need confirmation, have defeated 3 bonus bosses in 2 days, still only gotten a.) lv. 8 luck stone, b.) 3x soul crystals, c.) 2?x shadow crystals - This is exactly the same as normal mode.
2.) Mystery chest seemingly has a higher chance to drop crypt key - this is speculative -, but a teammate told me he got a 30x vouchers from it (normal mode had 120 vouchers) which is pretty bad if true.
3.) Bosses drops I believe are: 1x crystalloid + 1x legendary stone (guaranteed?, not sure ifwith a chance to get doubles, but there are only 2 bosses from which you are guaranteed loids and shards; none of us got legendary stones in card draw, so you'll find that you're most likely to get 2x legendary stones each run, with a very rare chance to get 6 (that would be double drops from first 2 bosses + legendary stone x 2 from card draw - assuming it's present in card draw and quantities remain the same as normal). *Could use some confirmation from others here for the card draws.
4.) While clearing the 1st and 2nd rooms is possible with a decent group, a FULL clear only seems possible with either: 2x Mage, 1x Knight, 1x Archer or 2x Mage, 2x Archer at the moment. Sure, as more stat-boosting items are introduced, it'll become easier and compositions can vary - problem currently is each boss has a single-target attack that easily does non-crit damages for ~70% of our total HP, so IS and/or Apollo are necessary in addition to more than one mage so as to stagger restoration and blessed light cooldown timers.
5.) EXP boost is noticeably higher (believe the base completion value was over 1M), had a 50% exp scroll on and I got a total of 1.96M, so it's definitely higher.
Do the boons outweigh the banes? Up to you. From what I've seen thus-far, if you don't mind sacrificing EXP for the legendaries, then you should be content to just clear past the first 2 bosses. If you DO mind the EXP AND you can clear it, I'll suggest doing 1x normal mode, 2x NM mode (warrior's call just before final boss of the first run) you'll need to clear it very quickly for your warrior's call to last all the way through to the end of the 2nd NM mode run. This'll get you the shards and the EXP bonuses, but keep in mind that you aren't likely to get more legendary stones than those that are only clearing first 2 bosses.
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