Got a little tired of leveling up against the same chthonics and decided to take on the Kymon quest. I have to go through the dreaded mine fields just to get there, but I will do what I must.
You can make it fun by leading enemies around and killing them with the mines, but it’s easy to overlook a mine and killed yourself instead.
So sad to only get 21 more points of health when I level up and add a point to physique. Maybe I should finish the inquisitor mastery. With a regular character, it’s not so important to max out both masteries because equipment can make up the health, but I have to play be different rules with this guy.
I need more dps with my totem and wind devils, but there is a rumor going around that dps is not the best when you die.
Entered the forsaken wastes, even my regular characters rarely come here, but all my skills are geared towards chthonics and should help.
Have entered the obsidian throne. The very atmosphere weighs down upon my shoulders.
I did not check what damage types Bane does. I hope it isn’t elemental, I’m weak at those.
Serves me right, he’s fire. Luckily, he’s very slow, his fire waves and explosions are easily avoided and he telegraphs everything well in advance.
Took him out, now back to kymon.
Have to get the eye of korvaak. I only did this quest once before, it should be fun.
So glad they are mostly chthonics, I do more damage to them than any other enemy type.
Now facing ghouls, to their dismay, thanks to dryad their bleeding is useless against me.
Meeting bosses I completely forgot, like Harvoul the earthshaker. I guess when your parents name you earthshaker, your career paths are limited.
Sharanatu is not much different than Bloodlor Thal, he just summons different minions. The fight went smoothly without a death or even a close call.
Kymon was overjoyed to get the eye. The next step I can not reveal to you, only those with enough thetans are worthy enough to find out.
I will try the Devil’s crossing honor quest. I’m curious how much dryad protects me from the acid in the sewers.
It holds me up pretty well. I cross the streams and don’t suffer at all, even standing a couple seconds doesn’t kill me. The slith and spiders are pretty nasty here though. Most likely due to my terrible pierce resist.
I really should get the first 2 points of aeon to increase my poison reduction, plus it helps many others. Maybe it’s the key to surviving Log with its poison and vitality reduction. Fire and chaos will be an issue, but if I no longer have to worry about vitality and poison, I could shift devotions from vit/poison to fire/chaos. I’ll have to test this idea.
Forgot there’s no room to maneouver here in the slith boss room. The vents that shoot up, reminiscent of Charon, prevent any dodging. This will have to be added to my ‘to do’ list for later, but it isn’t important, I have all the relic blueprints already. It was worth the trip to see just how effective dryad was. Those acid rivers normally quickly kill an equipped character.
I think i’ll test dryad’s bleed resistance against the bonehunter. It’s pierce too, so I may get hurt from it anyway.
He went down in about 5 minutes. A lot of running around the rock formation. I only got hit a couple times by his spikes, I dodged or kept the rocks between us the rest of the time. I got damaged, but didn’t notice and DoT effect. I think it was just the pierce portion hurting me.
Running through the east swamp, I think it’d be cool if you could bargain with more factions, kind of like kyman vs the order of death. Maybe you could pick between trolls and grobles. They’d need to be a separate sub-race so they don’t interfere with the overall factions, maybe a swamp race of each.
You could meet with the swamp king of the trolls. I’m sure something threatens his swamp and he’d be grateful if you took care of it, like the undead from the east and the plotline with the order of death. If you’re with the order of death, the trolls would not want to ally with you, but otherwise you could pick a side. Maybe there is a territory war with the grobles, both believe the swamp is rightfully their homeland. They’re both intelligent enough to recognize a strong hero who would benefit them more as an ally than as an enemy.
A perk could be that you hire troll mercenaries or work with a troll throughout the questline and he joins you when you complete it, like a pet that scales with player bonuses. It could be summoned from a troll armor set, like the blood knight set’s pet. Or maybe it’s a relic you can only get by completing the questline and it gives a troll shaman as a pet, like a superior version of the mistborn talisman.
Siding with the grobles could be interesting too.
I will continue leveling to 100 tomorrow. Getting close.
