by Lujo on Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:56 am
Well, here's me again.
Pactmaker - I've been over this, when it's all said and done it's probably me rather than him, now that consensus has been tweaked. Never developed a habit I guess.
EM - I always liked her, I think her clearance is outstanding atm, and the cheap stuff is worth a few shots. The big problem was, as was noted, that she is a free desecration, and getting rid of her penalty also gets you rid of MW penalty, and that's too big to pass up. If her desecration penalty was changed more people would see that she's actually a really good god.
Mysterea - refreshment is one of the strongest things in the game, mystic balance so so. The weakening boon is as expensive as it is because it's in fact stupidly strong where it's applicable - now that I've tried it out, being able to take away a bosses magic resistance is huge for any spellcaster. I guess Mysterea is one of those things which are actually rather above curve, but I never feel like ranting about. I think she only pales in comparison with Drac and TT and thats no measure for anything. To reiterate - refreshment is off the charts in terms of power, unbelievably strong boon. I can't tell why noone else noticed this or voiced it publicly, but it alone makes any prep competing with "extra glyph" a loser.
JJ - no clue, never was good with him. I did use him a lot, and he never screwed me over, so I only saw 2 things about him - 1) he always felt like pure upside to me and 2) all his upside rarely contributed to much because I'm not prone to things which could exploit his boons. EDIT: also, I was arguing he was too generous about piety gain.
Binlor - I mostly avoided him, experimented a bit back when prepping him was busted, got bored. I find him a good source of Refreshment Glyphs for mysterea (as well as Refreshment piety so I can convert to whatever the 3rd guy is sooner). His piety gain method leaves his piety spike problematic, although the spike itself is well concieved. Suffice to say that I wasn't even aware he HAD a piety spike until very recently, that's how much I've only used him as a piety farm.
GG - for a very long time I hated his guts, then I let myself go and pigged out on his overpowerdness, then campaigned to make him less monstrous, and now I use him as a nice mid-range piety farm. I very rarely go dedicated or actually use any of his boons apart from Humility (-1 level). Very rarely if ever use him for an end game piety spike through heals. Except when I take and Elf Fighter and go on a manamonster rampage. I guess that he just doesn't synergize with my usual routines, as opposed to the way he used to boost anything through the roof. And I got utterly sick and tired of him during that phase.
Taurog - he always was good, but is so self contained and single minded that even if I know I can do something with him it doesn't mean anything to me. He has his own DP spike and ridiculous piety farm, and I pick him up quite a bit just for that. As was stated a couple of times he's designed to be like an "alternate mode" guy, and I guess he's where he should be ATM. Probably. No point discussing.
Drac - Broken Ole Drac, what can I say. "Bloodswell" is a theory term. For various endgames nothing comes close, anyone can do the math on it, and so on and so forth. So much brokeness and brokeness enablers in one place, but if its intended then I don't mind. When he lost spellcaster support it made his current first boon rather pointless, I wouldn't mind seeing it changed. No point discussing.
TT - guy has a boon that'd make a sweet cheat code, on top of everything else. At least you don't get handed money for taking it and can't be unlocked first thing you do in a playthrough. He's a resource management and utility overload, but it's all good. I could write a book on him, and probably allready have. I guess he's another obviously overpowered thing I consistently turn a blind eye to, except that one episode. No point discussing.
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Lujo on Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!