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Wrath of the Righteous goes well, but the Enigma is deeply annoying. Also I missed a few obvious things and had to go back and forth a few times which does not make it less annoying but is on me. I used the online guides for all the puzzles because I absolutely do not see how you're supposed to figure them out, and also my characters would figure them out, it's what Nenio does. I also checked online for when the Midnight Bolt works, and used it appropriately this time.

Once again being 20th level mythic 9 just kind of wipes the floor with everything even when you don't play it turn based, and the magic users are a bit cantrip based when not turn based. The fights take care of themselves right up to the boss fight. And that went better than expected.

After that I did the ice themed DLC, and that one does *not* take care of itself, even turn based. Very challenging. Great big enemy with some unique abilities that were no fun. Yet still, it only took two cycles of the great big enemy being in reach of attacks. Nifty. ... Daeran needed a lot of healing after the big attack but Daeran *has* a lot of healing, so that works out. The online guides somehow overlook how nice it is to do Mass Heal twice in one round for two to four hundred damage while fixing up all your friends.

And then we found the travelling salesman so Arue has Killing Pace. Win.

That leaves me with only two DLC, Midnight Isles and Dance, and then Threshold.

Might finish this week.



... might actually take a break when I finish and not go right back in as a new character on a higher difficulty, or keep doing achievements in the DLC, who knows...

Today was a successful Cleaner Day and an okay day of Wrath of the Righteous.
The Core difficulty continues to be frustratingly lumpy.
I only needed two goes at Iz because the first go had everyone in the wrong formation and the one with the midnight bolt died immediately. I haven't had as much practice at the Iz boss fight because of the time when I one shot him with Daeran doing Dismissal. Like that was a very cool win but it taught me nothing.
I didn't actually set out to do Iz that time, I went for the Falls and then realised it was sitting right there and it seemed churlish to not go pick up the Queen when it was that simple.
I did the Angel myth path challenge next and the actual required part was fine, easy even, but there was one of those stupid big purple rocks and that took three tries and a ridiculous strategy. (It is impossible to beat subsonic hum, but a Heal spell with fix everyone stunned by the hum. So keep Daeran out of range, let Ember into range to Hellfire it, summon everything you can handily achieve, elemental swarm worked great, let the summons take the actual damage and hedge the rock in, then Heal Ember and let her kaboom it. Works if and only if the initiative order goes just right. Stupid rocks are the only thing that's actually challenging on this part of this difficulty. But we're about to hit level 20 so soon if the game gets more difficult we don't get any better to face it. Shall see.)
Now I didn't mean to do the Prison but it landed right in front of me so okay, guess I'm going to try it with this random half dozen.
Gave up for the night because I am sure I saved it but it did not act saved when I quick loaded. Time to get some sleep and hope it behaves itself when it wakes up.

Core was so difficult to start with I gave up repeatedly, but at this end there just isn't much that can land a hit on a 19th level adventurer, and whatever does, Daeran can fix it.
Now if I can just figure out how to get Woljif to hit on less than a 20 it'll be golden...

I need to get more sleep but I noticed I haven't posted this week
*waves hello*

I am into Act 5 of Wrath of the Righteous and kind of vaguely irritated with the difficulty. The stupid humming rocks would stun all of us and then turn us to stone and win but the big confrontation boss fight things are simples.
... also I just realised I don't remember there being a loot drop in Colyphyr and the internet says it would be a really cool one I would be using right now so where did my Core loot go? Did it just not acknowledge the coolness of me? Annoyed now. I definitely killed the Darkness on a high enough level. Guess I'll have to do it again at the end of this play through because no fixing it now. Or, it did make a rift and I just didn't notice it, that very annoying thing could happen too.

I didn't do optimally at Act 4. I forgot to finish a quest that doesn't show in the journal, the secret conspirators one. And I didn't see how to progress the Angel quest after running around everywhere so I did it the clumsy non sneaky way. And there's some optional things I didn't kill but outside of a very specific achievement I'm not on that's just an XP issue and we're going to max our levels real soon now anyways.

But Core difficulty is seeming achieveable now we're all high enough level.

Also if I was willing to bring Ember everywhere killing things would be so much simpler. Boom boom boom. *sigh*

So anyways, that's all I've been doing, playing and replaying fights on Wrath of the Righteous.

Oh, and rereading fic. I started reading Giles/Ethan long fic from the longest end in the archive. It is still good, but the feelings made by Ethan getting disappeared by guys in not uniforms working for the US are just... well, time to read every fixit ever written, obviously, but. I'm having a set of feelings where every fic that ends up with Ethan joining the new Watchers is just winding me up. Think a few more things needed Change than that.

Rereading fanfic is just giving me tired feels though because obviously the canon still isn't going to change and it does not seem optimal.
I mean can you imagine it being this much later in an event dense timeline like BtVS? So so many changes by now. Or so much fail.


Anyways. I need to be asleep. Sleep is for humans.