by General_Milky on Sat Oct 14, 2017 9:46 am
Dropping in here to post another gameplay report. Just because I like doing that, sometimes.
The mod has made me a much better player. I'm not sure if it's the mod exclusively, or I just happened to improve while playing Extreme Edition's content, but I feel as if the trials and tribulations of doing the Extreme Edition quests are the precise point I really learned the value of certain mechanics. Namely, god conversion, health as a whole, and just how damn good max mana can actually be (I once thought of caster approaches to be pretty bad, I'd always rather get damage, resists, and use magic to supplement brawling.) thanks to the likes of Hidden Workshop 6 badge run, and the god-awful Scrapyard vicious-hoarder.
I've been seeing the results of this for a while, as I'd been knocking out a lot of gold challenges and the triple quests out over the months, and now I'm seeing it again as I've become good enough to run vanilla Vicious dungeons purist. While I probably aren't as good as the old guys long before my time like Lujo, Tinker, Darvin, Avatar, Spleen, Choong... basically everyone on this forum EXCEPT me, I am starting to feel like I've gotten good and can proudly count myself in the elite and am in fact capable of thinking for myself and discovering strategy to call my own. Where does this fit into the mod other than me owing it stepping me up to the next level? The Golemancy Scroll.
I don't think anyone's talking about this thing, but by god they SHOULD. I don't think anyone's really talked about it yet besides me in the last post, but damn this thing's good. I've been taking it as my prep for a good few runs now, and I love the hell out of it. It's beating Vicious Token runs, it's in all honesty probably one of the most efficient items around as far as spiking goes. 2-3 popcorn is an EXCELLENT tradeoff for a high-value kill in leveling as well as an incredible repeatable boon for boss spiking, presuming it's not a magical attacker. So long as you can manage your popcorn, it's an immense blackspace saver and it makes the den of lvl 1's secret subdungeon almost as good as finding Glenrick. I once again urge anyone playing the mod and lurking around to give it a try. It's a beautiful, beautiful item and I'm SURE I'm going to owe more than one victory in the coming expansion to it.