That was completely on me. Jumped into a mosh pit trying to kill a stage 1 Dispatcher, and I think there was a Warden in there.
Procced Undershirt, but didn't go into Broken Heart. Flew away safely, and Magic Mirrored
Fortunately I got the resources for a Sentient Greatcleaver that trip, as well as the Faeles and Dragon rings. I'll spend a while maxing that out, then head back in for Sentient Armor.
I think I'm good in terms of gear.
Now, in terms of a Lost Cities skybase. What are the basic spawn proofing requirements, other than extreme elevation (how many stacks of blocks) and bottom slabs? I intend on setting up a Respawn Statue so that I can use a Magic Mirror, and would like to make sure that my safe space is completely safe.
I'm not talking about storing loot, I'm talking about collecting it. In the Nether, End, and especially Lost Cities, it can be hard to safely stop, stow loot in a shulker, and resume looting/fighting.
Are there any good solutions? I'm mainly thinking of the Lost Cities, where parasites can dig into you and break any storage container you are using. This is especially problematic there, with all of the GTFO items you need to have on you at all times.
I'm currently rocking full Prot IV Unbr III Mending diamond armor, but also a maxed Iced Dragonbone bow. I'm talking yeetus deletus levels of maxed.
And, importantly, wine. I have pretty much everything I need, including bone spores that I got from a foray into the nether with my Epion. And while I haven't found a flower forest (I keep finding meadows) I do have a couple of potions of flight from the super high sky islands. I know Nether and End Lycanite's mobs hit like trucks, but I figure that wine will heavily make up for my mere Prot IV.
I intend of getting an Ankh shield first, but any tips on what buffs to use with wine? I'm definitely using the basics like Rejuvination, Regeneration, Resistance, and Flight.
Spent like forty in-game days hunting a second Special Epion. Don't ask what happened to the first. I ended up spending every night in a Defiled lands, waiting for Epions. Also got a lot of blights and misc goodies.
Team Epion rise up!
Now I gotta start scouting for endgame base locations. Might want to kill a wither first, I'll want a waystone wherever I build the base. Can you guys remind me where to find wither skeleton skulls in the overworld? My vast library of RLCraft trivia is rather dusty.
I just wanna use torches, man. They look nice.
I don't think I've ever truly mag dumped the Shard Diffractor before. Feels nice.
Watch that DPS counter rise in the top left
This level was hard, took me an hour to P-rank; an S in Time, Kills, and Style, all with zero deaths.
I also P-ranked 1-E next, so that is all of Standard P-ranked... making me legally obligated to move up to Violent difficulty.
I'm trying to set up either an automatic Cinder or Afrit farm for early game blaze powder. However, I'm finding that pistons are my only way to move mobs into water to drown them, or sticky pistons for suffocation. And mobs need to move out of their spawning block first to be pushed by a piston, which they can simply decide not to do.
Any ideas?
I'm not kidding when I say this is the most I've ever used spells. I guess I have had about... four 100% playthroughs to get my hits dealt/hits taken ratio low enough to actually have silk for spells.
If you are wondering why music is off, I have the Ultrakill OST on shuffle in the background. No offense to the Silksong OST, shit is amazing, but Ultrakill has a bit more variety. I even rolled Order during this very Moorwing fight.
Also just destroyed Sister Splinter, spells really take care of the minions.
Check in on me later when I'm have an aneurysm kudos to High Halls.
I swear to god, I can deal with these fuckers in a 1v1. Grounded. Slaps some magnets on, dump an overheat charge, JumpStart, repeat twice. Parrying is really easy, just stand still and wait for it, then dump damage when they are stunned. Gabe 1 and 2 are ridiculously easy as I can consistently crank 120 degrees to land those parries.
You can't get rid of the damn thrown glaives with the Slab Sharpshooter's cooldown, and parrying them is ridiculously hard midair. Dashing through them is an option when grounded. Meaning a 50/50 hit every time they do the attack. When they throw the SPEAR, it can be parried pretty easily, but not in mid-air. RAPIER is the same thing; easy to parry, but not in the air.
All of this with Virtues (hopefully not), Mindflayers, Guttermen, Guttertanks (possibly), Insurrectionists, and Maurice third-partying.
I would like to use the Freezeframe rocket to parry the OVER HERE, but it is very hard to get setup given that SPEAR will destroy your rocket and that Maurice will specifically target rockets.
And yet, every time I ask for help with Powers, the one answer I get is to parry them over the void. So the only fucking solution is "yeah use cheese". Complete bullshit, please get the fuck out of my Cybergrind. I'm asking nicely. I said please. I'd gladly take not-limited-to-one Mirror Reapers as recompense. At least those can't follow you everywhere you go, and be an existential third party in the process.
Or perhaps not enough
I didn't know you could detonate shotgun bullets with the Sharpshooter.
Dead Heat Pulse being fire as always
Here are my initial thoughts; for each percent of health lost, a boss gets a percent or two of damage resistance. This resistance can go up to 100%, but might never reach that point if the resistance goes up by 1% per 1% taken. This resistance decays by 2% per second, so you can either choose to wait for the resistance to go down or keep up the pressure (and status effect/upgrade combos) while the boss has high resistance.
All of these numbers can be heavily tweaked, but my base concept is that low DPS teams (or solo players, like me) barely deal damage faster than it decays, or simply aren't affected much at 20%-30% resistance. Meanwhile high DPS teams (or solos) might quickly hit, say, 60%-80% resistance, but have the option to keep shooting through the resistance. If they have that much DPS, it might not even slow them down by much.
Changes might scale with Depth. Higher Depth bosses might gain more resistance per damage taken, but the decay rate would have to be higher as to not act as a pseudo invulnerability phase every time you shot the boss. Lower Depth bosses might have lower resistance caps.
It would also help that reduced damage would mean reduced increase in resistance. As I said, a team might balance out at 20%-30%, not going higher because of the existing resistance but also not having massively reduced output.
There is also the option for damage resistance to persist throughout the proper immunity phase, albeit still decaying.
I hope this idea would please both casually and sweaty players alike. I feel like high damage resistance is much more satisfying to deal with than straight up immunity. One side is unaffected, while the other side can brute force it with moar boolet.
So, I figured I was going to get all the secrets and challenge in 8-3. I had just gotten the secrets and challenges in 8-1 and 8-2 (need those challenges for Cybergrind music), so I wasn't thinking much of it. This is also far from my first 8-3 clear (some of which being P-rank attempts), which makes this run being my record time even more mysterious.
First, I get the challenge. After beating the first three Powers deathless, I get to the fourth expecting to restart once or twice. I clear the first wave, clear the adds in the second, the successfully parry the Power over the loop pit. Takes a while, but no deaths. Then, I beat the blue path, forgetting that I just read that I needed to do the red path. So, I do the red path next, and get the fourth secret.
By this point I realize that, hold up, I might be able to actually P-rank this. So, I start kicking some ass to Event Horizon, and get to the blood tree. I kind of fumbled the entrance and find myself at the Power with 3 HP and 3 seconds before the seventeen minute mark. Luckily, I get some blood off the Swordsmachines and figure that I have until 17:30 to P-rank. I finish off the Power with dual wielded impact hammers and run into the exit with two seconds to spare.
What a way to get the P-rank. I'll certainly take it, but that now means all I have left to P-rank (on Standard) is 7-4... I swear 8-1 and 8-2 are easy compared to that nonesense... maybe I've been playing too much Cybergrind, and as a result Fraud feels like home. Well technically there is still P-2 and Encores, but I'll pass on those for now.
The Auto Aim doesn't activate sometimes, but when it does activate I can basically treat it like a budget Lok-1.
I also had two stacks of +40% Weakpoint damage on the gun.
I think this is the most damage I've ever done, had 300K damage with 112K overkill.
To be clear, I'm still not picking the M1000 when I can avoid it, or don't see Auto Aim. Really not great for Creepers, with how fast they are always moving.
That's pretty much it. You get infinite soul from the worms, basically infinite soul totems with extra steps. And then the difficulty comes not from the platforming tricks themselves, but the amount of them you need to do consecutively.
Both sections took about twenty attempts each. Annoying, but nothing as horrible as the final section of Path of Pain.
This is about the furthest I'm getting without better instakills, I don't have a strategy for a Power, Insurrectionist, Ferryman, Radiant Cerberus, and Radiant Swordsmachine all at once.