Intermission 14 Page 9
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“There’s lots of options here, but I think I want to go visit that arachnomancer place. Feels kind of like work piling up if we don’t take care of it, you know?”
“Sure. But you’re gonna want a good team to back you up.”
“Remember you’re expecting to find lots of spiders and poison, and probably some treasure along those same themes.”
You can now choose which three characters will join Ricki at the Arachnomancer Sanctum.
Coxyx, Lara, amodeus
If we take amad, we are giving up up lhok max bond. We aren’t guaranteed a lhok fired up dungeon either, so we need to take her as often as possible.
Team:
Lara. Kamau and lhok
Lara for poison resist and whatever drow bonuses there are. Kamau for tank and bond. Lhok for support with golly and bond
If we want to max lhok, we need to take her very chance we get.
I would rather max lhok than Amad.
Lara: Bring the spider to the spider dungeon. Story alone justifies bringing her, but also her poison resistance and massively high damage. Also, maybe likely she gets FIRED UP! Would be interesting to see how that works with an already max bonded character. Maybe we’d get something else instead of an extra bond point?
Kamau: The Tank. It’s going to be hard to bring Kamau to either the underwater dungeon or the sky dungeon where unblockable damage (drowning and falling) are gonna be prevalent, and we want to get his last bond point as safely as possible. No matter what he’s going to be useful.
Lohk: The Support. Between all our healing wands she’ll have plenty of healing to give to Kamau since he will be taking the bulk of the damage, we also want to group her with a strong team to build her level and to get her safe bond points. And Kamau + Lara is about as strong as it can get.
Coccyx head swap is peak comedy
Also, sry for double post, but shouldn’t we also consider pets here? Who’s getting mush 45? Should we take our new pet? Lohk will likely get Golly. But should be considering this…
Pets are part of loadout since in Gollys case who has her determines what items they can also carry
Amadeusz, Lara, Sue.
Amad is the only one getting bond out of this, so this gets us a chance to see what Sue can do.
Lara is probably the single best pick for a poison dungeon. Again.
Sue has a massive inventory for looting and we can see what she can do. Also she’ll be more useful for potentially aceing this dungeon over Coccyx, with her spoilers and her examination.
Amad bond negates the bond of others, so let’s take a power team and see what we can do!
Remember, the endgame is a battle against a god-emperor. That’s when we’re really going to need a power team, and maxing bond is the best way to power our characters up. If we take Amad and Sue, we’re sacrificing the chance to increase bond on two other characters. That’s not a good tradeoff.
Wasn’t the endgame to live WITHOUT the Empire, not fighting it directly? And we are bonding to get as much people on board as possible.
I don’t think we can take on the Emperor, no matter how much we level up. I mean, dude singlehandedly killed dragons, while we struggled with giant lizards that are not even real dragons. Unless it’s all a propaganda and he’s actually weak. We shall find the truth in Mac’s bond dungeon
To be honest, I don’t see how we can hope to take on the emperor either. But I never thought the goal was to live without the empire.
For one thing, I don’t see how it could work. Hiding out in the woods has bought us some time, but we know the emperor will stop at nothing to find Ricki – sooner or later, he’ll catch up with us. Better to take the fight to him instead.
More importantly, we’re supposed to be fantasy heroes in this game. Yes, we could take some people with us, but we’d be leaving many, many more behind to suffer. That’s not very heroic.
That’s why I think the story is ultimately leading us toward a battle against the emperor. If we have to overcome insurmountable odds to win, that just makes the story better.
>But I never thought the goal was to live without the empire.
Ricki said so herself on I13P7
>we know the emperor will stop at nothing to find Ricki – sooner or later, he’ll catch up with us
The implication is that The Empire will be too busy fighting hopeless war against elementals to care about some goblin and a dozen of refugees
Yes, we are heroes, but we can’t be responsible for everything and can’t save everyone. This is simply not our scale. Suicide by fighting the emperor and his armies head on sure won’t help anybody. The best we can do is to gather as many people as possible and stay away when shit hits the fan. Or somehow prevent the invasion, which seems to be Ama’s goal, for now atleast.
Baaaaaaaaaah OK fine 🙂 I mean, I still think differences in scale are not such a problem in fantasy (e.g., Lord of the Rings). And Ricki is not just “some goblin.” But you’re right, she did say that, and I did read that page, I just … forgot, I guess. Thanks for reminding me.
We haven’t seen what Ix or Coccyx can do either, and that hasn’t been reason enough to bring either of them.
This doesn’t explain why taking Amad is a good idea in the first place. We are hyper limited on dungeons and it’d unclear that we will want to sacrifice up to 3 bond (from fired up) on any of the remaining dungeons. If we can’t guarantee two bond for Amadeus we shouldn’t take him at all.
My last argument against bringing Amad right nows this:
It would make more sense to bring him to later dungeons when we have other Max bonded characters (like Mac and kamau) so we get their exclusive Max bond skills on level up.
Odds are, we probably won’t be bringing sue again to another dungeon so whatever level ups she has won’t ever be used.
Coccyx to see his level ups
Kamau to get his bond
Lara to kiss our hot ass spider girlfriend
Coccyx: Immune to poison, LSN has hinted repeatedly on Discord that they’re insane DPS, and we would finally get to see their upgrades
Lara: I don’t think I need to explain this choice
Lohk: I’m not sure about Kamau here. I’m concerned about unblockable poison damage/traps that would send Kamau over the edge, and we could definitely make use of Lohk’s healing to counter poison
Our alternative dungeons (so far) for Kamau’s last bond is the underwater dungeon (unblockable guaranteed)
And the cloud dungeon which might be better but it’s a good backup if we do remorse him on this one
Amadeusz Botanya and Sue