Once you’ve beaten the Brood Duo at the Gate the plague outbreaks begin. To this day I have never seen Marin woods get a plague outbreak. Marin woods is the best designed level in the game! But I don’t feel any need to return there because I can’t farm any of the torn resources. Is this a bug?
Not sure if it’s a bug..
When I want to clear the outbreaks, I go to each zone and if there isn’t an outbreak, I make one (burning 3x embers + effigy).
Granted, I’m end game with hundreds of each resource.. so for areas like the Nameless Pass, Woods and Meadow, I always use the effigy so I’m not spending a bunch of time running around when all I really want is the boss loot.
If you’d like to learn more about the outbreaks and how their scaling difficulty does not affect non-boss drops:
So on that subject, are you saying that Marin woods can be activated manually? That doesn’t solve the issue of whether is should be activated automatically like the other areas.
I’ve got over 300 hours plus in this game so It’s not experience I’m concerned about. I’m interested if this should be the case or not, and what you’re describing is a manual solution to what I think should be automatically based on what they are doing with the other areas.
Yes, you can go to any campfire in a zone and burn materials to activate an outbreak manually.
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Most advanced players use 9-12x Torn Sinew.
*Produces a T4 - C3 outbreak. -
I typically burn 3x Embers + 1x Torn Effigy
*Produces a T4 - C9 outbreak. -
To get the “hardest” outbreak from scratch, you burn 4x Fallen Embers.
*Produces a T4 - C10 outbreak.
As listed in the topic I posted:
T1 - T4 is the boss loot value,
C1 - C10 is the power of the penalties against you.