u/Mrcoolcatgaming

I didn't really mind that the ninjago stuff makes the rest easy (my issue is giving the 4* totem for free) I love that plasma pistols have so much more durability (I hate the durability system in all games it's in) but the expert mode session made me realize a flaw in the easy enemies

easy totems of return, mainland brutes drop many, but with ninjago charms, and weapons, even base they're easy

But then, I found something crazy, Butter cakes of the immortal

You telling me that epic decided that something requiring farmyard items, minus the oven create recipe, to make, can save you from death, with 3-5 second invulnerability window, only takes 2 seconds to eat? I come from minecraft where there's something similar, it's called a totem of undying, it's criticized for being OP, but it's not stackable, doesn't have invulnerability, just effects that help you recover, but if you're hit again fast enough, it's pointless

Why the heck is the only difficulty in expert mode, bugs, or not being too lazy to farm butter cake, and totem of return mats? I'm not too fussed about the totem of return cost, but butter cake?

(Also sad to think about how easy the original 5 trophies are now with ninjago charms, but I've mentioned that peeve enough)

So apparently skoona can be an enemy of the carnivore gyro, which isn't even an update focused gyro, which is confusing right?

Or is it? They've been quiet news wise for a couple months, last month only getting monthly events teased by idgt, this month not at all even though tournaments and weekly events (most useless post types) started back up

Then the first tournament this month was also hidden fsr, while we don't know why, timing adds up, with main events pushed on the 2nd or so, but the tournament not til the 6th

Also we had a leaked boss focused event months back, then suddenly on the 1st the scorp 2 one leaked, which i assumed was caused by a delay, day after alot of boss related texts were found

The 4th then, the spinotops quest pushed for the next monday, that's the day that the amber market after scolo was in leaked

My theory? Spinotops quest wasn't planned, it was supposed to be skoona quest, that gives 4500, I think this was actually brought up by someone early on, and I pushed it off as unlikely (I'll link it if I find it as a pinned comment) but they had to delay the release for the same reason as the rest I'm saying, so they quickly recoded the reqs and sdna type but forgot/didn't care to change the gyro opponent list, choosing spinotops because they could **use angel pass as an excuse not to change their tournament order** (maybe also herbi mattered)

I was also shown yesterday a video that may have revealed that the cause of this was a lawsuit at universal, I haven't watched it yet, but I know that it fits all things considered

If this is true, i think we might be in for a dark few months, lawsuits aren't necessarily quick, and if we're stuck with 1 superhybrid, 1 unfinished boss, and 2 stars for months, that is gonna suck, especially for star haters, angel shows stars may be exempt from this, so maybe they hotfix in stars to keep something new coming

My only hope is we have an ETA

So a while back while trying to get the golem trophy in my first expert world (shared with my mom) I died with a totem of return on, yet it counted as permanent death, since that bug, we have been dismotivated, this was around the original odyssey update,

Fast forward to 2 shatter spawn rotations ago, the spark was half back, it was something I brought up doing, see my first weapon post (was Sunday for the shatter spawn) with the distaste of temporary events for expert mode, and missing another trophy, later I found out that the thing from beneath is already teased to return too so I'm not as mad now

It wasn't til last Saturday that we actually committed, second to last weekend and all, and we have one goal, getting good

Another flashback to ninjago update, I was mentioning that it peeved me that you got charms close enough to our old final charm immediately in the game now, common ninjago 4* charms, are as good as the epic 4* charms from before which wasn't easy to build up to, we didn't even have them in the expert world we lost

Now we spent Saturday gearing up, but at the end, I decided to figure out how to get to ninjago island now, which wasn't easy, I never found any of the workarounds, I had to swim there, however I am appreciative of those charms, they got us ready to beat ninjago, speeding up our road alot, Sunday was mainly spent on the hero quest to unlock dual pistols, and basic farms, today we got up to 7 star, which essentially means 4 dragons before I'm happy for shatter spawn, I ran into a lost master portal too, so we're set for a while on totems (29 bells), wonder how rare it was (we each expended 1 totem, my mom was yeeted by a dragon today, and I crashed day 1, and I'm guessing enemies got me while I was registering as off, because of that I took my 9 year old brothers starter totem, didn't matter much though as I've still yet to die again, and now we're probably gonna spend some time storm core hunting)

But the chase is, I criticized them giving out totems immediately that were as good as our old end game, and while i stand by it, I applaud that it helped me this skirmish, as I really don't like expert mode, however it really makes me think of how much easier pre ninjago trophies have gotten