Extreme East Spoiler and Discussion Thread

[The Avatar]

Thanks for those reports for Endless Blizzard, and good luck with it! We're still refining the spawn algorithms for the various areas and hopefully they will be fully consistent when the official big patch drops.

[The Tapir]

Just won Endless Blizzard with Human Crusader of EM -> MA. Thought Baldor would be the final boss and was scared when I was teleported to a new zone with all my potions and piety gone, but fortunately Cocyteon is mercifully easy for a caster build. This is easily one of my favorite dungeons out of the whole expansion so far given how much I like the VGT structure in general, and it was a ton of fun to figure out all the quirks of this dungeon.

Echoing what was said earlier in one of the spoiler threads, with all the new effects being added in the expansion I'd love to see some more interactions between them and already existing boons/glyphs/etc. be implemented; for example, having slowed also disable riposte as it does retaliate fireball, or having cleansing and chaos avatar also remove frostbite and ensnare.

EDIT: Random question, how exactly does Whupaz interact with Riposte? I activated it against Baldor and expected to die immediately from the 50 damage + 100 riposte but instead had only a small chunk of my health go away, almost like I had the "lose 25% health" effect applied to me as well.

[General_Milky]

I found that Earthmother wrecks the Endless Blizzard boss bad. Global slow on all the minions is niiiiice, as is the HP/DR effect of Vine Form (it can add up) that is if you don't just straight up want to funnel the piety into negating Corrupting Aura. I won Endless Blizzard as a sorcerer of EM and absolutely no resists at all just because of that global slow for endless dings with no downside (no frost buildup) and a few max HP ups (along with the sorcerer's ability to heal on casts, strengthening Halpmeh) let me get in more strikes per bar.

[The Avatar]

Aha! Nice catch on EM. Sorry, but Entanglement slowing them isn't supposed to work (they should mechanically he plants, even if thematically they aren't). As for support for the extra effects in earlier game stuff: it will happen in some cases, but not others, so I make no promises. And Riposte will definitely be unstoppable no matter what. It's designed to always be the most miserable thing no matter what.

Glad people are enjoying Endless Blizzard though! It was a monster to design, make, and balance. What I'd like to see is an EB Vicious win. It proved by far the trickiest badge in any new dungeon for me to pull (EB's difficulty modified is usually ~130%, so the token significantly increases difficulty), so I'm quite curious what other people use.

[zayyeh]

[General_Milky]

Speaking of, I met the Faithful Ascendant.

I didn't beat 'im. Have my doubts anyone outside of the internal team has, so far. I see what's being said when "extremely clever god play" is needed here, because I thought I was doing very well and killing all the minibosses with near ruthless efficency, just to see that I proooobably should have found a way to grind out some more Sanguine and probably should have taken the time to get some more Taurog items and possibly have made Chaos Avatar happen... Somehow.

Heretic Gold shows off the strengths, and also the horrible weaknesses, the class has. Not being able to carry piety from one god to another and no conversions makes it a huuuge pain to actually work up to the needed boons, especially when you have only one level to do it. Getting through all the individual towers is the EASY part.

Edit:
Also been doing more Curious VGT. Took everything I had, to simply MAKE it to the final boss. It was a suicide mission from the beginning, really, I just wanted to see what was at the end.

[zayyeh]

[The Avatar]

[General_Milky]

[choongmyoung]

Avatar, is that you who put the cursing icy ghost in VGT? Hell yeah, the win came from lv9 spawning enemies and 6× (?!) patches resists.



Sorry for no video recording, I didn't think I could beat it just at the second try though I read the spoilers up here. Well done, well done, well done. This was so wonderful and awesome. I can't find proper words to describe how fun it was.

Thank you very much.