Campaign on Nightmare Level
OK, I am making an effort to shake up my tree and see what it would do to run nightmare campaign. I have always shied away from anything in the game that required higher levels of energy burn, like NM Campaign and higher level dungeons/keeps. I did reach L20 on Force and Void keeps, a few others are not far behind.
NM Campaign is supposed to offer 3 to 6 star artifacts. First time out I made it halfway through. At first I was getting 3 stars per roll, but eventually my 2 champs (Stag and Athel or Runekeeper) petered out somewhere in Lifesteal section. If I switch to 4 champs I can get higher in the campaign but fewer stars.
I was both pleased and disappointed. Early on I started winning millions in silver. I also hit big on a double XP boost which got me over 6 days of double XP. Also got some gems but that was not as big. The down side was with the artifacts. After about 50 or so tries, I only hit 3 artifacts that were 6 star, and 2 of those had flat stats, so really only got 1 useful keeper. Mostly all 4 stars plus a few 5 stars, all Common. So the Dungeons definitely have the better artifacts if you have the patience to plow through the pile of junk you get there.
Last but not least, I won a batch of 5 blue ancient shards, for which I will take the advice I have seen here many times about waiting for a 2x event for opening. So when that occurs I will open and reveal what I get. Not expecting much but we will see.
For now I see that NM Campaign is not so good for getting artifacts, but silver and shards are better.