WotR again again again
Apr. 17th, 2025 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethStarted playing Wrath of the Righteous on Core with a tiefling witch.
Am ready to hit the Gray Garrison, and I'd say it's going pretty well, except for I bought all the Cure items available, Ember and I can both heal, Camellia is mostly packing cure spells, and still we survive by the grace of Daeran Arendae. Like the fights are working, mostly, except the multiple tries at the Pitax wine cellar, but we're getting nibbled on so much the healing just goes. And there's so Many opponents and just when I think we've won the encounter I remember from last time it's just, oh, hey More Badness, Again.
Could have hit the Garrison without doing the big Defender's Heart bit, but xp is so necessary, I missed killing some elementals before going up to the surface and regretted it for a whole character day because I levelled slightly after waking up instead of just before.
I made Seelah have a horse because I keep forgetting to use her fancy sword upgrades anyway. The horse keeps getting sickened by Dretch. I hate those guys.
I just slept the sleep that means I have communal delay poison so maybe I shall hate them less next.
But we did Defender's Heart and I only restarted it... once I think? Maybe twice, once for realising I hadn't buffed them with anti sickness scrolls and once for crazy button misclick. Because for reasons unknown Woljif ran out into the layered trap we'd just set up, which was Web Grease Pit Mist Burning Entanglement, so if any of the characters had a brain they would have known not to go there, but the Web is specifically so the good guys get stuck before they run out into the mind eating fire weeds. Woljif should be under my control and yet, ran in the trap. WTF? Nope. So I started again. On the really huge long fight. But the plan works really well when nobody runs into the darned trap. Camellia Entangles literally everything outside the Heart, Nenio and Woljif magic the gates, then the major problem isn't attackers, it's that it's really boring waitng for them to die.
It said round 37 when it stopped.
I am once again doing the thing where I play a really long time in a row and do not do much else at all at all. Not ideal.
Also, I tried making one (1) different choice in the Shield Maze and it turns out it has Consequences, in an ongoing way, so now I feel... not great. About that.
But I did it for roleplay reasons and achievements reasons both, so I'm not redoing two days of play to go back and do different.
Wenduag is really creepy even when she's offering to be on your side. Like it's great she doesn't fight us, but it's very much not great at all that she offers to make mindless monsters out of everyone she's ever known. That could be considered a problem. A regretting your life choices problem. So I chose Lann again. I know how that story goes, but, also, do not like how the other one looks.
I like this game until it gets just the teensiest bit too hard and then I do not. I could drop the difficulty. I could drop it all the eay to story if I wanted. But I already won it at a custom difficulty only a tiny bit below this one, so here I am, being stubborn and replaying lost bits a lot.
Still, it's something to do, and I have a narratively satisfying plan, so now I've just got to see how it works out. Should be fun. If I win it.
Am ready to hit the Gray Garrison, and I'd say it's going pretty well, except for I bought all the Cure items available, Ember and I can both heal, Camellia is mostly packing cure spells, and still we survive by the grace of Daeran Arendae. Like the fights are working, mostly, except the multiple tries at the Pitax wine cellar, but we're getting nibbled on so much the healing just goes. And there's so Many opponents and just when I think we've won the encounter I remember from last time it's just, oh, hey More Badness, Again.
Could have hit the Garrison without doing the big Defender's Heart bit, but xp is so necessary, I missed killing some elementals before going up to the surface and regretted it for a whole character day because I levelled slightly after waking up instead of just before.
I made Seelah have a horse because I keep forgetting to use her fancy sword upgrades anyway. The horse keeps getting sickened by Dretch. I hate those guys.
I just slept the sleep that means I have communal delay poison so maybe I shall hate them less next.
But we did Defender's Heart and I only restarted it... once I think? Maybe twice, once for realising I hadn't buffed them with anti sickness scrolls and once for crazy button misclick. Because for reasons unknown Woljif ran out into the layered trap we'd just set up, which was Web Grease Pit Mist Burning Entanglement, so if any of the characters had a brain they would have known not to go there, but the Web is specifically so the good guys get stuck before they run out into the mind eating fire weeds. Woljif should be under my control and yet, ran in the trap. WTF? Nope. So I started again. On the really huge long fight. But the plan works really well when nobody runs into the darned trap. Camellia Entangles literally everything outside the Heart, Nenio and Woljif magic the gates, then the major problem isn't attackers, it's that it's really boring waitng for them to die.
It said round 37 when it stopped.
I am once again doing the thing where I play a really long time in a row and do not do much else at all at all. Not ideal.
Also, I tried making one (1) different choice in the Shield Maze and it turns out it has Consequences, in an ongoing way, so now I feel... not great. About that.
But I did it for roleplay reasons and achievements reasons both, so I'm not redoing two days of play to go back and do different.
Wenduag is really creepy even when she's offering to be on your side. Like it's great she doesn't fight us, but it's very much not great at all that she offers to make mindless monsters out of everyone she's ever known. That could be considered a problem. A regretting your life choices problem. So I chose Lann again. I know how that story goes, but, also, do not like how the other one looks.
I like this game until it gets just the teensiest bit too hard and then I do not. I could drop the difficulty. I could drop it all the eay to story if I wanted. But I already won it at a custom difficulty only a tiny bit below this one, so here I am, being stubborn and replaying lost bits a lot.
Still, it's something to do, and I have a narratively satisfying plan, so now I've just got to see how it works out. Should be fun. If I win it.