EOU2: Climbing a tree, 14F
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11F | B2 | 12F | 13F | 14F | 15F
B3 | B4 | 16F | 17F | 18F | 19F | 20F
21F | 22F | 23F | 24F | 25F | B5
26F | 27F | 28F | 29F | 30F (1) | 30F (2) | 31F
Two more quests from reaching 14F. One of these is to look into some suspicious attacks on 13F that see the victims looted after death, and to get Cass some stuff. For the first, I was looking around and making my way to a conspicuous corner that had nothing going on in it.
I instead get jumped out of nowhere after a battle, taking 80 damage at the start of the fight, and have to fight an advanced beetle. The Beetle Lord had 2300HP and an attack called Sweep Strike that it never got to use because I hit it with Arm Bind, and even if not, could've used Front Guard or Hit-Taker. Not a difficult fight, Speaking of which, I get a Grimoire for it after completing a quest to develop recipes that'd been sitting idle for a while. A Lv1 one. What a ripoff...
Also the scene after that one quest is funny with a Beast. He tries to poison us, but fails. And we knock it from Ichigo's "hands" on instinct, who "demands an explanation". He also rages about why we can't just die and how the monsters he's controlling are too weak.
I mosey around 14F for a bit, spotting the new FOE but showing some restraint for once, don't immediately jump on them. I do pick up an Almighty Ring here - +2 to all stats! This replaces Devaki's old Luck Ring, because why not? I also immediately run into Old Man Gunner, who acts very suspiciously! I'm sure this is not an omen of any kind at all. Nope! Not at all.
I sure have a ton of money. I proceed to piss most of it away upgrading the South Ward due to some Gourmet King coming in and buying food for everyone. A ton of workers are going to eat all the food! Not like it's hard for me to make money even without pay2win, though...although my methods are almost as cheap. Also Regina wonders why more people aren't coming. I tell her to make the food with LOVE, and it resonates with her.
So 14F. This is just another ice puzzle/slider maze. It features the next FOE, Blue Gels. This thing just bounces ice blocks back if you try to kill them the same way you kill the eyes. Obviously this will not stand and we have to bind and destroy it, right?
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Well, you'd be wrong! NYEH-HEH-HEH!! Also, check out how things look during a day/night transition.
These things really aren't all that threatening. They have two moves - a move that boosts their elemental attack, and a "screw you too" attack they do on death, much like their non FOE predecessors. Obviously since Varda has the Ice Wall to say "nope" to that, we can't have her going nuts.
But that's fine, as it lets the other shine. Ichigo could keep its buff down with Beast Roar - somehow despite it lowering physical attack and this move raising elemental attack. Since it has no skills, he could just Hit-Taker to his heart's content, backed by Kei's Chase Heal if need be. Kei could also use Guard Slash after Devaki poisoned it, which it is weak too. Again no Poison x2 (I was using Ingredients++ for most of this), but with that, Warrior Song, and some Fire Rounds/Link Order, this thing soon died. Also, I really want Varda to get a stronger non-elemental whip; she couldn't actually attack as it would cannibalize the Link Order. Total lockdown.
One small quirk as you might have noticed above - was messing around with Varda's swordskills, and managed to panic it, overwriting Venom Curse. She could've chipped in with her whip skills, but it simply wasn't necessary.
Was doing around 550 a round with Azura/Devaki, and an extra 441~ on top of that if poison was active. As you can see, this suicide attack would've HURT if not for Ice Wall. But Ice Wall exists, so suck it. To add insult to injury, if it died from poison, it wouldn't do this.
---
Notably, I got a triple/platinum Grimoire Fever when fighting the second of these. Getting quite a few of those lately...none of which have been any use but telling me I need to discard more Grimoires.
These Redfish enemies were the ones I needed to kill for the quest. Ice Wall or binding their legs stopped their special moves. Not too troublesome to deal with. There were also more of those mammoths, and regular enemy versions of those big snow guys like the one I faced on 11F. They have a conditional to kill them with ice damage - very easily done with Azura, as her Ice Rounds still deal a lot of damage. I actually got a Lv8 Hailstorm Grimoire from them. A pretty meh attack, really - it's multi-hit, but only hits a target once at most.
There was also an event where I got a special necklace, although took a ton of damage (100HP each) in the process from a small avalanche. Just needed to pop a couple Salves, there.
Also, what the hell. Wasn't expecting that much of a return. I promptly spent this upgrading the South Ward to max capacity, since that guy was still there.
So this was another short floor. Only other thing to note was where I marked a question mark - a mysterious emblem of some kind is on a random floating block!! I was warned by gunner guy that the next floor will be my tomb. Obviously, some serious crap is going down next time!
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11F | B2 | 12F | 13F | 14F | 15F
B3 | B4 | 16F | 17F | 18F | 19F | 20F
21F | 22F | 23F | 24F | 25F | B5
26F | 27F | 28F | 29F | 30F (1) | 30F (2) | 31F
Two more quests from reaching 14F. One of these is to look into some suspicious attacks on 13F that see the victims looted after death, and to get Cass some stuff. For the first, I was looking around and making my way to a conspicuous corner that had nothing going on in it.
I instead get jumped out of nowhere after a battle, taking 80 damage at the start of the fight, and have to fight an advanced beetle. The Beetle Lord had 2300HP and an attack called Sweep Strike that it never got to use because I hit it with Arm Bind, and even if not, could've used Front Guard or Hit-Taker. Not a difficult fight, Speaking of which, I get a Grimoire for it after completing a quest to develop recipes that'd been sitting idle for a while. A Lv1 one. What a ripoff...
Also the scene after that one quest is funny with a Beast. He tries to poison us, but fails. And we knock it from Ichigo's "hands" on instinct, who "demands an explanation". He also rages about why we can't just die and how the monsters he's controlling are too weak.
I mosey around 14F for a bit, spotting the new FOE but showing some restraint for once, don't immediately jump on them. I do pick up an Almighty Ring here - +2 to all stats! This replaces Devaki's old Luck Ring, because why not? I also immediately run into Old Man Gunner, who acts very suspiciously! I'm sure this is not an omen of any kind at all. Nope! Not at all.
I sure have a ton of money. I proceed to piss most of it away upgrading the South Ward due to some Gourmet King coming in and buying food for everyone. A ton of workers are going to eat all the food! Not like it's hard for me to make money even without pay2win, though...although my methods are almost as cheap. Also Regina wonders why more people aren't coming. I tell her to make the food with LOVE, and it resonates with her.
So 14F. This is just another ice puzzle/slider maze. It features the next FOE, Blue Gels. This thing just bounces ice blocks back if you try to kill them the same way you kill the eyes. Obviously this will not stand and we have to bind and destroy it, right?
---
Well, you'd be wrong! NYEH-HEH-HEH!! Also, check out how things look during a day/night transition.
These things really aren't all that threatening. They have two moves - a move that boosts their elemental attack, and a "screw you too" attack they do on death, much like their non FOE predecessors. Obviously since Varda has the Ice Wall to say "nope" to that, we can't have her going nuts.
But that's fine, as it lets the other shine. Ichigo could keep its buff down with Beast Roar - somehow despite it lowering physical attack and this move raising elemental attack. Since it has no skills, he could just Hit-Taker to his heart's content, backed by Kei's Chase Heal if need be. Kei could also use Guard Slash after Devaki poisoned it, which it is weak too. Again no Poison x2 (I was using Ingredients++ for most of this), but with that, Warrior Song, and some Fire Rounds/Link Order, this thing soon died. Also, I really want Varda to get a stronger non-elemental whip; she couldn't actually attack as it would cannibalize the Link Order. Total lockdown.
One small quirk as you might have noticed above - was messing around with Varda's swordskills, and managed to panic it, overwriting Venom Curse. She could've chipped in with her whip skills, but it simply wasn't necessary.
Was doing around 550 a round with Azura/Devaki, and an extra 441~ on top of that if poison was active. As you can see, this suicide attack would've HURT if not for Ice Wall. But Ice Wall exists, so suck it. To add insult to injury, if it died from poison, it wouldn't do this.
---
Notably, I got a triple/platinum Grimoire Fever when fighting the second of these. Getting quite a few of those lately...none of which have been any use but telling me I need to discard more Grimoires.
These Redfish enemies were the ones I needed to kill for the quest. Ice Wall or binding their legs stopped their special moves. Not too troublesome to deal with. There were also more of those mammoths, and regular enemy versions of those big snow guys like the one I faced on 11F. They have a conditional to kill them with ice damage - very easily done with Azura, as her Ice Rounds still deal a lot of damage. I actually got a Lv8 Hailstorm Grimoire from them. A pretty meh attack, really - it's multi-hit, but only hits a target once at most.
There was also an event where I got a special necklace, although took a ton of damage (100HP each) in the process from a small avalanche. Just needed to pop a couple Salves, there.
Also, what the hell. Wasn't expecting that much of a return. I promptly spent this upgrading the South Ward to max capacity, since that guy was still there.
So this was another short floor. Only other thing to note was where I marked a question mark - a mysterious emblem of some kind is on a random floating block!! I was warned by gunner guy that the next floor will be my tomb. Obviously, some serious crap is going down next time!
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