by Lujo on Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:58 pm
Gold challenge took me a few tries because I was unsure how exactly to take the DP's off.
Silver however isn't easy or difficult as much as both teaching and missleading at the same time. I suppose you can't really make a different challenge to showcase scarred - scarred just makes a bunch of monsters vanilla, and in that sense you get to see what it allows. It's difficult, however, because you have to take the crusader to an endurance fight and the challenge doesn't seem to really compensate for this in a crusadery way. So scarred makes your opponents vanilla, but your opponents and the boss sort of make you vanilla. Properly managing your resources still helps a ton though. And you learn what you don't care about with crusaders, and what you still have to pay attention to (corrosion, weakening)...
Gold is only easy once you figure it out, and since theres a bunch of ways to try it and a few ways to fail it, not to mention layout bussiness, it's not as easy as you make it sound. Figuring out how to take rats out is also a bit of a conundrum. I think it's simmilar to the priest gold which is a puzzle rather than a dungeon, and works well to showcase the "don't try to build up momentum past a reasonable level".
However, I'd really love to hear the official justification for spirit pact. Won't launch off into any polemics, it's been bugging me since forever. If were missing something big enough to justify it being like this - what are we missing? If complex math shows it would introduce crucial levels of CP into a particular set of runs - it'd tell us something about the system or the CP strat... What's the deal with it?
We the commuinty've been pondering it at various stages, it's one of the few things we can generally agree upon - 5 piety for 10 CP upon conversion sucks major posterior. Different oppinions on why, mine is that the "per conversion" mechanic isn't really supported well enough to warrant picking it up over another boon, pact or at all, while some have said that the killer is to piety to CP ratio.
I never herd of anyone ever using it, so if someone is, could you clue the rest of us into what's it there for?
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!