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Post by Element Zero on Mar 7, 2019 5:14:05 GMT
Thread is slow. Maybe everyone is trying to play LotFB3 before posting?
I played a bit more as Alexios today, before beginning NG+. I finished the daily, assorted bounties and the weekly. The latter two tied together perfectly on two (four?) occasions.
First bounty was to bring Spartan Power to Low in the Southern Sporades (namely Kos). I also had two bounties requiring the sinking of Athenian ships. I killed the local Spartan leader, burnt their supplies, killed 3 bounty hunters, and triggered a Conquest Battle. I fought for Sparta in the battle, fulfilling three bounties and earning a ton of drachmae in the process.
I next took a bounty on Athenian leaders, and apparently had already slain 1 of 2 in the previous 24 hours. I saw Malis had fallen into Athenian hands and headed there. I was likewise chasing a trophy at this point, but more on that later. I arrived at that cool fort in northern Malis. It’s probably the toughest one to take down stealthily, in my opinion. I scoured it with Ikaros and saw “Douchewaffle, King of Malis”. My immediate mental response came in Sean Bean’s voice: “Malis has no king. Malis needs no king.” I chuckled at my own movie humor and got to work. I eventually triggered a fight in the fort, which was to my liking. The new “Surgical Sniper” trophy required that I heal myself 10 times while having the new staff equipped. (It restores your health at a rate of 1% of the damage inflicted per headshot.) Conveniently, I took arrow damage while climbing/racing to the brazier (or brassiere, as the guards call it). Since I was in combat, I wasn’t healing automatically. Each fool who climbed the ladder to the “brassiere” got shot in the face. 10 times later, I had my trophy and my bounty reward.
I attacked random soldiers, hoping to get the final DLC trophy by killing 10 foes with the new Warrior skill. The problem I had was that my Warrior Damage was shite, since I’d switched back to Hunter. I didn’t feel like messing with it, so I left it for Kassandra to do in NG+. My final act with Alexios was to finish the weekly quest: “Kill 50 Spartan soldiers, sink 25 Spartan ships.” I had triggered a conquest battle in Malis by killing all of their doods. I fought for Athens this time, killing 57 Spartans in the battle. Sailing from Phokis, I made my way around the Peloponnese, passed Naxos/Paros and Mykonos/Delos, and finally sunk my last few Spartans just north of Kos. I’d come full circle and killed way too many Spartans.
I have double saves for each PT, having learned that lesson the hard way. I stripped Alexios down to “misthios in a hovel” equipment and Adrestia to the most unimpressive look I could manage for her. With those things set, I created my NG+.
Kassandra is presently on Ithaka, having just parted ways with Odessa. I chose the “Greatness is hard” option for the first time. Kassandra told Odessa to go home and love her family, asking her if she’d rather be remembered or be happy. Odessa took it seriously and said she’d weigh her feelings. I liked that interaction, and may choose that option again in the future. I look forward to seeing what Odessa says when they meet again.
You guys know I like my VG dress up dolls. I have Kassandra wearing the new Master Assassin/Darius head and chest, though the hood is currently hidden. She’s wearing the leather bracers I often use. (I think they’re the Bandit Bracers. I go for the adorned silver, which actually means worn brown leather). She’s wearing the Tracker Boots (I think) with black cloth and brown leather straps, and the Odysseus Belt. I’m liking the look. I’m sure I’ll use some others, at times, but I think this one will remain a favorite.
In my last post I complained about a grind. I think fatigue, induced by the very real grind of severely under-leveled gear, was at play. I experienced no unusual grindiness or hit-sponge effects today. I’m really enjoying this new Hunter loadout that I’ve assembled. I do think I’ll tinker with my active skills a bit, trying to use the new legendary perk from Darius’ gear in tandem with Vanish and Poison-optimization. I’m using the new staff and enjoying beating the shite out of the few people whom I don’t shoot in the face. It makes me want to build a Fire-staff Warrior, but the only legendary Warrior staff is a pay-wall item. 😖 I’ll need to nab that final DLC trophy, at some point. I’m thinking that random, wandering foot soldiers will make good meat for that grinder. They’ll die more easily than mercs. I’ll kill 10 of them and then pretend I never engaged in such (unpaid) barbarity.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 7, 2019 5:21:01 GMT
Thread is slow. Maybe everyone is trying to play LotFB3 before posting? I don't want to talk about it so that's why I've been quiet.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Mar 7, 2019 8:58:27 GMT
Thread is slow. Maybe everyone is trying to play LotFB3 before posting? Actually, I took a break from AC OD while waiting for the 3rd chapter to drop. I started another ME2 PT and now I cannot stop. I'll be continuing on to ME3. I have the MEHEM installed and considering the GEM. I hesitated however on installing it after win 10 blocked it. Anyway, I took a peek at the 3rd chapter of the DLC on YT which is how I knew the ending. I'm not surprise by it really. More surprise there wasn't a slew of char deaths. I wish however, they took the trouble to sit down and plan out the arc carefully, infuse more meaningful dialogues and take into account chars connected to the protag; family, friends. As it is, they're just rushing to make bullet points regards the bloodline and the journey of the blade.
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Post by CrazyRah on Mar 7, 2019 10:29:13 GMT
DLC done, not much to say really. Went about as I expected it would.
Now more thinking of maybe do a NG+ run or a new run and actually give Alexios a try!
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Post by Andrew Waples on Mar 7, 2019 10:43:38 GMT
DLC done, not much to say really. Went about as I expected it would. Now more thinking of maybe do a NG+ run or a new run and actually give Alexios a try! It was a bit awkward when Kassandra was "running" through the caves trying to save her son. I was like now is not the time to be jogging Kassandra.
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Post by dazk on Mar 7, 2019 22:00:24 GMT
DLC done, not much to say really. Went about as I expected it would. Now more thinking of maybe do a NG+ run or a new run and actually give Alexios a try! So been wanting to do the last part of the DLC but RL keeps intervening plus finishing The Expanse books, hopefully this afternoon and then yes a NG+ Alexios run!!!!!
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Post by olnorton on Mar 8, 2019 1:58:41 GMT
olnorton , I’m still seeing a ton of Legendary female (potential) lieutenants since the patch. I only recruit the lietenants who look particularly interesting, since I have somewhere around 30. I sometimes wonder if you and I are playing the same game. I reached the level cap and finished the game last night, everything except the DLC's I have no interest in playing. The 3 story legendary's Myrinne, Roxana, & Iola where not upgraded for NG+ and so where less effective than a Hetaera quest giver. i.imgur.com/izEJ9Kd.jpgNir the Whirling Blades, Level 99, Tier S4, Highest level highest tier, not legendary. i.imgur.com/TtFUw9J.jpg i.imgur.com/M55aRVQ.jpgPhile the Youngster, Level 99, Tier S4, there is no way that before the last patch these mercs wouldn't be legendary. i.imgur.com/YTMb8AC.jpg i.imgur.com/3EDGrEq.jpg It’s supposed to be a “1 every 6 draws”, but I’m way past that. It’s like they have data on my earlier success and cut me off. 🤨 I once hit 3 in 6, with back to back legendaries. I have no complaints, I guess. I’ve acquired some of my favorite stuff from the Oikos. I'm not sure where you got 1 in 6 from, but Uplay has me at 1613 orichalcum collected. I've bought 4 weeklys for 80 orcs & 4 for 100 orcs and have 113 still available, which means I've bought 39 gifts for a total of 3 legendarys. I didn't really like NG+ that much. It takes all the fun out of finding stuff, as you already have it all. It tells you you got a new ship skin, or figurehead, or crew, but you already had them. For me the only up side of NG+ is you get to keep my favourite weekly ship skin. And you have skills that were originally tied to the main quest. i.imgur.com/rLgAO4w.jpgEDIT: How do you find the legendary mercenary that you see on uplay, I assume it's a weekly thing?
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Post by Element Zero on Mar 8, 2019 6:39:08 GMT
olnorton , it’s not just legendaries from the Store that count. It’s also Rares and Epics that are sold in the Store. Maybe you’ve had better results than you think? Or maybe you’ve just had cruddy luck. The latter is entirely possible. 1 in 6 figure came from Odyssey’s official forum. I didn’t see the source myself, but the community there takes it as factual. The Ubi mods are very engaged and would likely speak up if it were not factually based. In a related bit of news, Ubi has altered the Oikos to sell two Store items each week, rather than only one. They also intend to adjust the RNG in our favor, it seems, as well as looking at pricing. Which NPCs are Legendary is entirely random. The ones I really want, based upon cool looks, are hardly ever Legendary. I get most of my legendaries from the mercenary pool. I see Legendary mercs very frequently. If I have a need for better crew, or if I just like someone’s look, I’ll beat ‘em up and recruit them. Hanako Ikezawa , if you stick to your plan to play once for the loot, you’ll come away with some good stuff. I’m hopeful that the Atlantis expansion will be the better of the two. I continued with Kassandra in my NG+. She finished the events of Megaris and just had a confrontation with Elpenor in Pilgrim’s Landing. A couple of things: I always do 100% of the content, locations, etc... I figured I’d mention that here so that I do t feel the need to keep typing it so frequently in my recap posts. Secondly, “Pilgrim’s Landing” always makes me think of “Pilgrim’s Rest” in Jade Empire. What an icky association. 😆 I started the game with Adrestia looking as crappy as I could manage, given the fully upgraded features. It looked pretty plain if you ignored the crazy ram and fire jets. I always switch my crew after the events of Phokis, thinking that by then the protagonist will have done enough to attract a better crew and improve his or her branding (sail and presentation). I was eager to swap in the female assassin crew (my female warrior cult crew) and to switch the cosmetics. Since the game opens with a ton of land-locked action, I’d likely have waited; but I was given an in-game rationale for Kassandra’s explosive rise in reputation. We always land at Megaris with a bounty incurred by sinking the Athenian blockade, yes? In my experience, after the conversation with Stentor, a merc always arrives. This time, striding out of the main gate of the Spartan camp, came Exekias the Legend! I dropped him with two Devastating Shots to the face. Gotta love NG+. Between that, the half-dozen other mercs she’s killed, and her work in Megaris, I figure Kassandra would have done enough to satisfy my imagination in regard to the ship and crew changes. It was cool to hear the female singers again. I prefer the men, but the women sound good, too. I’ve tweaked my armor cosmetics setup. My Hunter gear is presently: Master Assassin/Darius Hood; Master Assassin/Darius Chest; LotFB2 Persian Bracers (can’t recall name); a version of Athenian Tassets (IIRC); Tracker’s Boots (brown on black) My Warrior gear is more cliche, but still awesome. I don’t have the Amazon Armor, as my last PT was with Alexios. I do have a number of the “Wondrous” pieces, which are alternative colors for the Amazon set. My Warrior setup is: Wondrous Circlet (bronze); Wondrous Chest (red); Wondrous Belt (red); Bronze Bracers (Kosmos Style); Bronze Boots (Kosmos Style) Having these fun options up front really improves the game. More importantly, having all of the game mechanics unlocked from the beginning dramatically improves my fun. My biggest gripe with Odyssey has involved the unnecessary leveling for the protagonist, enemies and gear. It takes 30+ hours for the gameplay to fully bloom. With NG+, you’re doing awesome stuff right from the start. It’s a big improvement, in my mind. So far, the early hours of the game have been more fun than in any of my previous three PTs. Well, what else did I do? Hmm. I did the daily quest, which ended up being pretty brief. I did a bunch of bounties from the boards. I played both sides in Megaris, targeting Spartans for pay while also working for Stentor. It worked out fine and I got some huge payouts. I’m already well over 1.3M drachmae in short order. I’ll need a lot of cash to upgrade everything once or twice more, as well as to keep “learning” new engravings from the crazy Smith in Myson Cave. I should be closing in on the final DLC Trophy for 10 kills with “Fury of the Bloodline”. The damage is trash when you’re not optimized for Warrior Damage, ot course; and I’ve mostly been rolling as a Hunter. I did switch to Warrior for the Megaris Conquest Battle and kept it that way to confront Elpenor’s guards. I think I should be at least halfway to the trophy. I’ll know when it pops, I guess. The animation for the skill is pretty awesome, but the damage is unimpressive. I guess they had to nerf the damage since it simultaneously grants immunity and regenerates stamina. At the moment, I’m using it in place of Shield Breaker, seeing if it can adequately replace it. I need to try Charged Heavy Attack with the new legendary perk from LotFB3’s Sword of Kings. I, wondering if the charge is fast enough to eliminate the need for Shield Breaker. I’m still enjoying Staves, particularly from horseback. I’ve never had so much success in mounted combat. Even with my fear optimized toward Hunter damage, I’ve been one-shottimg patrolling dudes and wolves with galloping staff-slaps from horseback. If my wife hadn’t started complaining about her need for sleep, I’d probably still be playing. Pffft. Who sleeps when gaming is afoot? She does t understand the urgency of the situation. This is my fourth PT, but my first NG+ PT. I needs to keep playin’.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 8, 2019 6:57:39 GMT
Element Zero Yeah I did my one playthrough, despising pretty much every moment of it but touched it out for the loot. Now might just start a NG+ so it can be completely ignored, though thankfully I have Anthem to distract me from it. Hopefully the Atlantis DLC is better. Can’t imagine how it could be worse.
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Post by saandrig on Mar 8, 2019 8:01:48 GMT
Saving the last Chapter and several Lost tales for a weekend binge. I am staying out of the thread, because spoilers 😀 I am tempted to click them.
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Post by CrazyRah on Mar 8, 2019 11:53:04 GMT
DLC done, not much to say really. Went about as I expected it would. Now more thinking of maybe do a NG+ run or a new run and actually give Alexios a try! It was a bit awkward when Kassandra was "running" through the caves trying to save her son. I was like now is not the time to be jogging Kassandra. Probably didn't help that I acidentally got caught on to something on top of the jogging. Made for a somewhat awkward if amusing "rush" throught the caves
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Mar 8, 2019 14:34:09 GMT
I dont fucking know what I had the will to lurk here, because I knew the kind of shit I would encounter They wanted to tell their story!!! - said the basic straight dude BSN poster TM Those quotes just took me about 5 seconds to find, I'm sure there are a ton more like those. Save your bullshit and comments, i dont fucking care about your hateful sealioning rhetoric and how lgbtq players dont matter, I'm not gonna respond, I'm tired of this gamerbro culture and the lack of empathy. also my sympathy goes as well to straight women having her character forced to have a stupid child or to those straight players who were forced to be in a relationship with random npcs.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Mar 9, 2019 0:24:53 GMT
DLC done, not much to say really. Went about as I expected it would. Now more thinking of maybe do a NG+ run or a new run and actually give Alexios a try! It was a bit awkward when Kassandra was "running" through the caves trying to save her son. I was like now is not the time to be jogging Kassandra. The Bionic Woman / Man theme comes to mind. Frenetic music, run, run run.... don't worry, I'll get there, the villains will wait you see because they must. The script says so.
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Post by dazk on Mar 9, 2019 0:42:49 GMT
So another short session yesterday, spent most of the time re-doing my build from flame to poison and reallocating mastery points then changing abilities to add the new warrior skill "Blood Fury" I think its called. I am a fan to say the least!!!!!! Rearranged some armour which cost me some Hunter stat's so now on most occasions can't one shot a lot of people so more sneaking, Rush Assassinating etc. The intended to clear up the Lost Tales I haven't done but got caught up testing my new build etc on Merc's. First 3 or 4 didn't give me too much trouble but some merc's who using his Kassandra tracking device and wandered into a fort I was taking down caused me some trouble mainly due to his stupid Lynx and his fire grenades. I'd also rearranged my melee tool bars and that caused some dramas. Need to look at them again today. Also found three new Fast Travel points, two on one island (Keos? wherever Xenia is) that already had one that probably enough!!!!! Wish Bandits would learn how to park their horses: Still loving the views:
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Post by olnorton on Mar 9, 2019 1:12:45 GMT
olnorton , it’s not just legendaries from the Store that count. It’s also Rares and Epics that are sold in the Store. Maybe you’ve had better results than you think? If you got store rares or epics, you would know. You wouldn't be able to dismantle or sell them, and they would show up in the store as owned. In my NG+ I killed Stentor and the Wolf, so I was pretty surprised when Stentor showed up later in the game. So in this game (Yeah, 640 hours and I've started again. Not NG+ though.) I decided to throw Stentor's body off the fuckin cliff, just to make sure. The game lets you pick up and throw Nikolaos' body off the cliff, but you can't interact with Stentor's body, so he is not dead, and you can't kill him. Anyway, I need to get my merc rating up, so it's time to "work a number 6 on em"
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Post by Element Zero on Mar 9, 2019 5:19:24 GMT
olnorton , it’s not just legendaries from the Store that count. It’s also Rares and Epics that are sold in the Store. Maybe you’ve had better results than you think? If you got store rares or epics, you would know. You wouldn't be able to dismantle or sell them, and they would show up in the store as owned. In my NG+ I killed Stentor and the Wolf, so I was pretty surprised when Stentor showed up later in the game. So in this game (Yeah, 640 hours and I've started again. Not NG+ though.) I decided to throw Stentor's body off the fuckin cliff, just to make sure. The game lets you pick up and throw Nikolaos' body off the cliff, but you can't interact with Stentor's body, so he is not dead, and you can't kill him. Anyway, I need to get my merc rating up, so it's time to "work a number 6 on em" I’ve never killed Nikolaos or Stentor. I told myself I might kill Nikolaos this time, but I couldn’t do it when the moment came. If I want to play a more vengeful protagonist, I’m going to have to avoid projecting my own feelings into the situation. It’s interesting to know that Stentor can’t die at the protagonist’s hand. Now I’m curious as to how he reappears in the story. I might check YouTube, I guess. Stentor is a only a mild ass when we first meet him. He even has some moments that make him seem somewhat tolerable (in limited doses). He sure does prove to be a petulant, spiteful little douchebag. It’s easier for me to forgive Nikolaos than to tolerate Stentor. How they can both end up at the family table is beyond me. Passing on revenge killing is one thing. Acting as if dad didn’t drop you off a mountain is another. Some things can’t be undone. I completed the Phokis arc and region, today. I played along with Elpenor a bit longer, having Kassandra tell him that her mother apparently still lives. I usually tell him, “I don’t know you, biiiitch,” or whatever the reply is. Imagine my surprise when he told Kassandra, “You’re going to kill her for me.” I thought, “This motherf@#$$# is out of his mind!” Kassandra replied similarly, so that worked out okay. I also saw the pythia tortured by the Monger for the first time. Damn. My bad, girl. Now in my fourth PT, it’s interesting to recognize the voices of so many of the cultists to whom we speak. It’s easy to identify them, though I can’t say I ever paid much attention before now. Quick rewind: I recruited Odessa today without romance. I’m definitely going that route henceforth. The dalliance with her is cheesy, and I just don’t find her appealing, anyway. She’s far too egocentric to be likable. In fact, I think I’ll just not recruit her at all in the future. Telling her, “Enjoy your life in Megara” would probably be satisfying, given her selfish attitude. I saved my game outside Myson Cave, where I spent almost 2M more drachmae in furthering my engraving skills. The money and XP are rolling in steadily with real quests to complete. I started at level 82, and now I’m just shy of level 89 in Malis (right after seeing the cult for the first time). I suspect that hitting 99 won’t take very long. I was worried that I might be burnt out during my NG+, but I think I’ll be okay. I enjoyed sailing about, working bounties with Alexios these long weeks between new content. It’s been great, though, to get back into the story proper, fully engaging sites I’d long since completed, etc... And it’s fun to be playing as Kassandra, again. I enjoy both VAs so much. Fury of the Bloodline is more than a bit disappointing. It does abysmal damage. It’s primary purpose is to regenerate stamina and grant a few seconds of invulnerability. I was expecting more of a heavy firepower ability than a defensive skill. It looks deadly, but too often the opponent is still alive after using it. I did get the trophy, at least. I’m not going to rush to retrain, at the moment; but I doubt I’ll keep it long-term. I tend to favor offense over defense in VG combat. The best status effect is dead, as they say. Well, I wish I could say I’m going to log off and play some Odyssey. Unfortunately, it’s late here and everyone is asleep. I’ll probably just loiter here on the BSN longer than I should before finally going to sleep.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 9, 2019 5:30:04 GMT
I also saw the pythia tortured by the Monger for the first time. Damn. My bad, girl. I made sure to avoid that ever happening, and will continue to do so. Will be much easier with the Pilgrim set. Also why I let the hetaerae literally rip the Monger apart after seeing the kinds of things he does, Brasidas being pissy at me be darned.
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Post by dazk on Mar 9, 2019 5:39:24 GMT
If you got store rares or epics, you would know. You wouldn't be able to dismantle or sell them, and they would show up in the store as owned. In my NG+ I killed Stentor and the Wolf, so I was pretty surprised when Stentor showed up later in the game. So in this game (Yeah, 640 hours and I've started again. Not NG+ though.) I decided to throw Stentor's body off the fuckin cliff, just to make sure. The game lets you pick up and throw Nikolaos' body off the cliff, but you can't interact with Stentor's body, so he is not dead, and you can't kill him. Anyway, I need to get my merc rating up, so it's time to "work a number 6 on em" I’ve never killed Nikolaos or Stentor. I told myself I might kill Nikolaos this time, but I couldn’t do it when the moment came. If I want to play a more vengeful protagonist, I’m going to have to avoid projecting my own feelings into the situation. It’s interesting to know that Stentor can’t die at the protagonist’s hand. Now I’m curious as to how he reappears in the story. I might check YouTube, I guess. Stentor is a only a mild ass when we first meet him. He even has some moments that make him seem somewhat tolerable (in limited doses). He sure does prove to be a petulant, spiteful little douchebag. It’s easier for me to forgive Nikolaos than to tolerate Stentor. How they can both end up at the family table is beyond me. Passing on revenge killing is one thing. Acting as if dad didn’t drop you off a mountain is another. Some things can’t be undone. I completed the Phokis arc and region, today. I played along with Elpenor a bit longer, having Kassandra tell him that her mother apparently still lives. I usually tell him, “I don’t know you, biiiitch,” or whatever the reply is. Imagine my surprise when he told Kassandra, “You’re going to kill her for me.” I thought, “This motherf@#$$# is out of his mind!” Kassandra replied similarly, so that worked out okay. I also saw the pythia tortured by the Monger for the first time. Damn. My bad, girl. Now in my fourth PT, it’s interesting to recognize the voices of so many of the cultists to whom we speak. It’s easy to identify them, though I can’t say I ever paid much attention before now. Quick rewind: I recruited Odessa today without romance. I’m definitely going that route henceforth. The dalliance with her is cheesy, and I just don’t find her appealing, anyway. She’s far too egocentric to be likable. In fact, I think I’ll just not recruit her at all in the future. Telling her, “Enjoy your life in Megara” would probably be satisfying, given her selfish attitude. I saved my game outside Myson Cave, where I spent almost 2M more drachmae in furthering my engraving skills. The money and XP are rolling in steadily with real quests to complete. I started at level 82, and now I’m just shy of level 89 in Malis (right after seeing the cult for the first time). I suspect that hitting 99 won’t take very long. I was worried that I might be burnt out during my NG+, but I think I’ll be okay. I enjoyed sailing about, working bounties with Alexios these long weeks between new content. It’s been great, though, to get back into the story proper, fully engaging sites I’d long since completed, etc... And it’s fun to be playing as Kassandra, again. I enjoy both VAs so much. Fury of the Bloodline is more than a bit disappointing. It does abysmal damage. It’s primary purpose is to regenerate stamina and grant a few seconds of invulnerability. I was expecting more of a heavy firepower ability than a defensive skill. It looks deadly, but too often the opponent is still alive after using it. I did get the trophy, at least. I’m not going to rush to retrain, at the moment; but I doubt I’ll keep it long-term. I tend to favor offense over defense in VG combat. The best status effect is dead, as they say. Well, I wish I could say I’m going to log off and play some Odyssey. Unfortunately, it’s late here and everyone is asleep. I’ll probably just loiter here on the BSN longer than I should before finally going to sleep. I was exactly the same with Nikalaos, was going to kill him and changed my mind right at the moement, even hesitated a few seconds. Re Blood Fury, thought it was great but have been using it and yeah it isn't as effective as I thought. Have even invested more points in Warrior to try and beef it up but nope.
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Post by Element Zero on Mar 9, 2019 5:51:35 GMT
I also saw the pythia tortured by the Monger for the first time. Damn. My bad, girl. I made sure to avoid that ever happening, and will continue to do so. Will be much easier with the Pilgrim set. Also why I let the hetaerae literally rip the Monger apart after seeing the kinds of things he does, Brasidas being pissy at me be darned. Its been a long time since I last played and I really wasn’t thinking about the repercussions. I killed the guards before ever triggering the quest. I killed a merc after triggering. I’m not sure if it was the dead guards or the dead merc that flagged her capture. I felt badly about it. She was terrified, and I knew that she should be. That dude is sick. I haven’t let her kill him publicly, yet. I just didn’t like the optics and potential for fallout. I later learned that this was one of the significant decision points in the game. Are you able to spare Archon Lagos if the Monger gets killed publicly?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 9, 2019 6:11:51 GMT
I made sure to avoid that ever happening, and will continue to do so. Will be much easier with the Pilgrim set. Also why I let the hetaerae literally rip the Monger apart after seeing the kinds of things he does, Brasidas being pissy at me be darned. Its been a long time since I last played and I really wasn’t thinking about the repercussions. I killed the guards before ever triggering the quest. I killed a merc after triggering. I’m not sure if it was the dead guards or the dead merc that flagged her capture. I felt badly about it. She was terrified, and I knew that she should be. That dude is sick. I haven’t let her kill him publicly, yet. I just didn’t like the optics and potential for fallout. I later learned that this was one of the significant decision points in the game. Are you able to spare Archon Lagos if the Monger gets killed publicly? The moment I heard Herodotus talk about using stealth instead of force I immediately went sneaky pacifist for that part. I only knew he did that later after looking up if she showed up later. Regardless of torture or not she runs away and goes into hiding with her family so I was glad she was okay. No you aren’t able to spare Lagos. You can try to convince him but he brings up the Monger as why he can’t trust you. So I killed him, pleasing mom and pudding off Brasidas, and wasn’t able to have enough evidence to expose the Cult Spartan king at the meeting. You have to hunt him after that and then bring the evidence on his person to the other king in a pretty humorous exchange and you get your house back. Brasidas is pissy at you for the rest of the scenes he is in, but I didn’t care. Talk about a fair-weathered friend. It did lead to an unintentionally hilarious scene when you meet his cousin who is like “Youre Brasidas’ friend right?” and I’m like “um...sure”.
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Post by dazk on Mar 9, 2019 22:24:39 GMT
So another day of murder and mayhem in Odyssey yesterday, again set out to play the DLC and again played none!!!!! Need resources for upgrading The Adrestia so took contracts off the board that gave me Obsidian glass and bought it wherever I could find it. Finally accumulated enough after killing a mercenary for a bounty, then decided to take down a leader which is always good for loot and did that, took a contract to lower the power level in Arkadia, shot one silo and achieved it. Accumulated a level three bounty and attacked a fort to get more loot, didn't give myself away, trapped the signal fire but no one lit and 3 Merc's turned up as they obviously had a death wish. So got the fort loot and merc loot as a bonus. I think its a crime that the merc's after level 70 drop rare gear. Had a naval contract so started that but didn't get to finish it as Pirate ships where I was were few and far between. More horse parking fillies follies: Not sure why Phobos thought this was a good place to wait!!!! Promoted a new Lieutenant: Thought she looked familiar:
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 9, 2019 23:02:00 GMT
I find it funny people frame that woman next to that statue to say they are Athena when that statue is not of Athena.
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Post by dazk on Mar 10, 2019 1:07:37 GMT
I find it funny people frame that woman next to that statue to say they are Athena when that statue is not of Athena. Didn't frame it that way it was just a screenshot I took.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 10, 2019 1:19:52 GMT
I find it funny people frame that woman next to that statue to say they are Athena when that statue is not of Athena. Didn't frame it that way it was just a screenshot I took. I was just speaking in general since I’ve seen other people do that image while saying that.
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Post by olnorton on Mar 10, 2019 5:15:27 GMT
Kassandra was surrounded by dead Spartans, spear in hand and covered in blood, a Spartan Brute "Hey, your trespassing" And it seems you can't fall over in Greece without finding a historical site. Kassandra slipped, did a bit of a slide and bam, historical site found. And who comes up with the names of some of these places? I mean, Cave of the Dead Wolves? Sure they're dead...now.
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