since i stop game for a while, can sb awnser me some things?

alright i have some questions since i enter to a whole new game without jesters etc
1)how do u get purple and red essence now? u have to buy it?
2)what about spirit stones buy those too?( i see u get from boxes but those are not much)
3)what is the best way to farm andermants?
4)how do pvp works? whats the best setup for pvp?
5)those platinum lines on items and t8 items drop only as extraudionary items on inf 4?



P.s. i think those are my questions i think , thanks for reading and sorry for my bad english .

 

Pretty much. It has a chance to drop in high (3k) stack from sentinels in scaling normal dungeons in high difficulties.

I hope they would increase their drop, too...

Farming the highest mode maps that you can farm efficiently.

In pvp only the base values (white bonuses) from the items work, and everyone gets the same buff that has a lot of block rate percentage. This forces everyone into 1h+shield with whatever is the highest tier of uniques they have at hand. Overally, PvP is now broken as hell, even more than before. Arena bugs are still there. Tanks are almost immortal when correctly built and have higher offensive values (new moon weapon is stronger for tank than for other classes, as it has additional crit while maintaining same dmg and attack speed).
I don't play that crap of arena, except for when I have clovers in daily challanges.

T8 drops as anything from green to leg on inf4. Platinum lines drop on exos only, but in all the modes: of course the chance is higher in higher modes, but not to the point where you cannot get them at all in the lower modes.

 

It can drop from monsters, but in such small stacks and so rarely that it does not constitute a reliable source.

This is 100% correct, but a good platinum line on a lower tier item is actually super valuable. If you have a T1 item with an awesome plat line, you can craft it with other T1 items and pay less gold to craft with it. Unfortunately, most plat lines seem to come on T4-T8 items, so you end up paying more to craft 2/4 legndaries. Even so, when I craft exos to legs, I try to use lower tier items so that there is a 50%-75% chance of the legendary being lower tier and dropping the cost of the next step of 2/4 legendary to 3/4 legendary crafting.