Good Morning Folks. I’ve now made it through the Black Star, and am working on unlocking both the Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds fights. I have to admit I have a little bit of hesitancy around both, given how hard it was to get through Infinite Hunger and now Black Star. I am just not used to playing characters that fall down if you look at them crossways. I am not sure what else I can do in my current build trajectory that would improve my survival without also losing a lot of killing power. Again I went into this knowing that I was going to be playing a map blaster, and it does that beautifully… but bossing on it is a bit of a pain in the butt. Just like Infinite Hunger I managed to down the encounter with a single portal left, so the “six-portal defense” was definitely a thing.
I’ve never quite played a build like this before where I either completely clear the entire screen… or get one shot. I’m able to wreck red maps in pretty much the same way as I could wreck white and yellow maps… but every now and then there is a single mob that just ruins my day. Mostly the challenge now is to get red maps that have doable negatives by the time I have corrupted it in order to get credit. While I am clearing, everything is peachy. When I have to stop and fight a tanky mob or a boss… things begin to get considerably more dicey.
That said I have made one heck of a lot of progress and am sitting at 68 bonus objectives out of 115, and I just got a Unique Moon Temple drop that will give me yet another point to spend. I think the challenge that I am running into is always before my map blasters were a secondary project. Now it is all I currently have and it is making me miss my super tanky Righteous Fire Juggernaut a bit. I miss being able to do heist and delve with impunity… but again I also knew what I was getting myself in for. I have a pretty thick stash of essences and am almost done unlocking what I need to run Beasts. The truth though is that I have been spending almost all of my time unlocking new maps, and not really a lot of it reaping the benefit of having such a brutal killing machine. Maybe I should pause my progression a bit to remember what I built this character for actually.
That said I did start a Righteous Fire Juggernaut, and I have to say… it is weird how much slower the character is than I remember it being. I am a bit concerned that the pace of my Lightning Arrow Raider will have adversely impacted my opinion of my old standby. That said I am only in Act 3 and have a lot of points to sink into the tree until it starts to feel amazing. However, I am shocked at how easy it was to get Righteous Fire and pretty much all of the other abilities I use in the endgame version, up and running by around level 20. I am kinda of wondering about going straight for the pseudo-six-link helm for Righteous Fire rather than bothering with the six-link chest. In theory, you are supposed to pivot to that setup eventually, but I have never gone through the hassle on my previous RF characters. By the time I get there, I should have the cash to buy a good helm and then shop for a proper RRRGGG chest instead of the traditional RF BBBRRG.
I did not make it super far yesterday, because I spent a good chunk of the night watching the back-to-back episodes of the new Disney Plus Ahsoka series. Now Ahsoka Tano is probably one of my favorite Star Wars characters, and I am a huge fan of Rosario Dawson. I think she brings a lot to the character and I enjoyed her story arc mingled in amongst the Mandalorian seasons. All in all, I was not disappointed in the show and loved the way it felt. It definitely felt like they pulled out the stops for this one and the cinematography was excellent.
My only complaint… something is just not right with Hera. I don’t necessarily think that Mary Elizabeth Winstead did a bad job playing her. It is more that something is off with the makeup. Like the shade of skin tone seems wrong, and it feels way more like a human in facepaint with rubber lekku than an actual Twi’lek. It makes me wonder if there just was not enough time to go back and fix this in the post. Thankfully most of the time we are just seeing Hera in Hologram form where it isn’t really that big of a deal but it was jarring. Maybe this is just a me thing, and because Hera was another favorite character of mine… but it was this weird offputting moment in an otherwise phenomenal show.
Overall though I am definitely looking forward to seeing more of this show. We also got a new Guild Wars 2 expansion yesterday, but unfortunately with everything else going on I did not make it much further than seeing that the launcher had updated. I really dig the color scheme this time around. The End of Dragons patcher was nice, but this one seems much cooler. Maybe I am just partial to the color purple. Anyway, I think I am going to stop typing now. Hopefully, you are having an excellent week.
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Tonight we are down a few people and have a fairly scattered show where we cover a bunch of topics… but none of them super deeply? You can tell we were all somewhat out of it because while editing the podcast there were a bunch of really lengthy pauses. Tonight Bel rails in the Elder Scrolls Patcher apparently being blocked by various ISPs including his. He also talks a bit about the Destiny 2 Dawning Event and making questionable baked goods. Thalen talks a bit about the FFXIV Starlight Celebration event.
Bel spins up a topic from his blog about the seeming return to NDA restricted games testing. Thalen talks about Return of the Obra Dinn, and Kodra a bit about Gris. We discuss the topic that has bounced around a bit on the significance of going Left in video games. There is some brief discussion about Artifact and how it is trying to right the ship… and some of the MTG Finance speculation that came into that market quickly that is super angry about the price crash. Finally we talk a bit about Starfinder and Pathfinder in general and the lack of really good ready made third party modules.
