u/DragonEmperor7

Yesterday I ended the series and it was a thrill experience, even after Ragnar's death I still enjoyed it. But there were many moments watching it that I had the thought "That doesn't make any sense" or "Why would this character act this way".

For example in season 6, Hvitserk after becoming exiled for killing Lagertha and Ivar finds him, his whole bloodthirsty mindset for killing his brother get scrapped. We went from a drunk, drug addicted user whos only purpose is to find and kills his brother for the griefs he made him endure (killing his love, using him, humiliating him etc.), to the two of them chilling in Kiev, with Hivtserk bolstering how he killed the bitch Lagertha. For sure the drug addiction played a major role, but his intends were crystal clear before their abuse.

Another example from the same season, at the start of it King Olaf subdues King Harald's kingdom, enslave him, humiliate him, even considering killing him, for Bjorn at the end to come to his "liberation", something he shouldn't even consider, since King Harald throughout all seasons was a backstabbing, power thirsty ruler and always took the chance to oppose Ragnar's lineage and take what they have, specially from Bjorn, a fact that is solid stated, trying to persuade Gunnhild to abandon him and side with him, becoming king of all Norway through conspiracies with the other Jarls and Kings, ruling Kattegat, try to marry both of his wives, even him stating it that he wants everything Bjorn had.

Even if we get past that, that their bromance is so strong to bypass those difficulties, how the three kings Olaf, Bjorn and Harald end up chilling after their dispute, Harald got humiliated and enslaved, probably many of his warriors died in battle with Olaf's army, same wise with Bjorn he lost many warriors in the fire water battle against him, only for them to accept the voting of a King for all of Norway. Sure after the election of King Harald, his makes King Olaf his prisoner, but we can't compare the way he got treated with Harald's imprisonment, roaming free, no chains, good cloths, bathing, eating good etc.

I am mostly referring to season 6 because I didn't binge-watch the series in a single week, so I just recall the most fresh moments in my mind that made me question the actions of the characters. Nonetheless I had a blast watching Vikings and I am looking forward for Valhalla.

Today I run a comp around Monarch Leper in the final confession to try him out at max stacks. I run Instructrice to buff Leper, Wanderer Occultist to feed Leper with combo tokens, Monarch and Wanderer Flagellant for tanking/healing. Around the last region I reached the 66% threshold but the damage was inferior to Tempest. The whole run I played around feeding Leper to stack the passive and in many occasions I had to leave some enemies act one more turn for Leper to kill them, while with Tempest you only have to pop revenge and smack them with chop. Generally it felt like a chore setting all the kills for him to get the most out of the passive.

But to give it some props in the confession boss I was popping Revenge with Ruin and smacked both the boss and proclaimer with Hew, with crit and strength tokens I wooped a 64 crit on both targets. Perhaps I should utilize upgraded Ruin with one more damage dealer, like rank 3 HWM instead of Duelist.

The verdict of trying Monarch at full stacks for the first time gave me the impression that you have to build your whole team around him to make him work, while Tempest is pretty self sufficient and hits harder.

I started a fresh kingdom coven run. First region I faced Warlord, lost my Hellion. I get to the camp fill the empty slot with Crusader, second region I face Death, lost my Flagellant. Somehow I managed to defeat both of them and defend the inn, but kinda crazy to face two roaming bosses in the first two regions.