by Minaro on Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:28 pm
Well, one of my obvious foo strategies is obviously always carrying a burn salve with me into dungeons. It can always come in handy, and is a free desecration with no drawbacks if you find EM. I think god punishments should get an overhaul overall - some are so nasty that you would *never* even consider desecrating them short of a last ditch effort (getting a blood swell from Dracul, Potions from TT etc), while others are so moot that you it's laughable. I think god punishments should always be very much noticeable, but not enough to, on it's own, cripple your entire run.
Other "easy" punishments to handle in the right circumstances are obviously Binlor - if you have no resistances - Mystera - if you're about to get Chaos Avatar from Jehora - and Dracul - if you've already obtained very large amounts of health somewhere else. All the others are all very major.
Heck, unless you've planned way ahead (picking up nothing you *need* later on) aswell as having only stuff you can consider Converting, you would never even consider Desecrating GGs altar. TT is also another one you wouldn't even consider unless you're on a last ditch effort, seeing how majorily it cripples any character, especially if you were worshopping him prior to it. Taurog is a no-brainer - no one wants to lose 40% attack bonus, that's equivelant to more than all the original attack bonus tokens you find in a dungeon or converting 4 glyphs to a human. Also a no-brainer to avoid unless you're on a last ditch stretch, as it cripples all future battles heavily (even more earlier in the game where you have fewer attack bonus sources to begin with). Jehora.. Well, first of all, the one time I did desecrate Jehora's altar I noticed that it does far more than just reduce your HP and MP to 1 like the Wiki says, I'm fairly sure it also affects some permanent values. Then again, it's a gamble that suits Jehora, but the severity of it might still be slightly out of line.
While writing this, I also came to think of an interesting scenario - What would happen if you have one or more pieces of Taurogs equipment on you when you desecrate GG? Would you be hit by Taurogs punishment ASWELL for losing his equipment?