299422, RE: approaching the final levels. DLC time? gems?
Posted by Auk_The_Blind, Mon Apr-04-16 05:14 PM
>i only
>regret putting those last 2 points into arcane to see what the
>executioners gloves did. not worth it
Yeah, sadly the purely offensive spells are only worthwhile at very high Arcane. Apparently their damage scaling doesn't start to kick in until 25 Arcane, and then you basically need to at least 35 to actually make that scaling relevant. Augur is still great as all-purpose combat tool though.
>i'm primarily using evelyn, chikage, and rifle spear. kind of
>underwhelmed by evelyn and transformed chikage but i also
>don't have a lot of points in tinge which is something i'm
>slowly correcting. my guess is that i'll beat the game with a
>30/30 skill/tinge build and very few changes to the other
>stats
+10 Evelyn with 30 tinge should deal ~300 damage a shot, which is respectable deep into the Chalices. Using Marrow can kick that up to ~2K.
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>just made it to nightmare of mensis. still need to go back
>and kill amygdala in nightmare frontier. poked into the DLC
>and got destroyed by time/space distortion axe guy at the top
>of the stairs. my understanding is that there are some
>amazing weapons in the DLC and that i need to do the DLC
>before beating the final boss, wherever that is (probably not
>in mensis?)
You'll be able to fight the final boss immediately after Mensis; it'll be very apparent. The reason you'll want to do DLC now is that its basically at NG+ difficulty by default, so it gets sorta unfun at higher iterations.
>where do i farm gems besides the chalice dungeons? i really
>don't like the chalice dungeons at all but i think i just need
>to spend more time in them to learn how the pieces can be sewn
>together, spelunky-style. but the chalice dungeons are the
>only place where you get alternate versions of weapons, right?
> is there a particular dungeon i should be running for loot?
Chalices are definitely the primary source of high quality gems. However, if you're stocked up on sedatives, you can farm Cursed Blood gems (which go in any slot) from the metroid-headed crazy critters that are on a bridge in Mensis.
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