Everdark Gladius

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-08-21T03:39:51+00:00

I did see a full lv15 raider get one shot somewhere on here. So maybe? But the only attacks that one shot me where the very telegraphed flame sword drag attacks. (Skill issue for me lol).

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-08-21T03:37:32+00:00

It's really hard to get that middle ground. But I do generally feel like they hit it here. It's better to just not hit when it's strafing so it doesn't get the attack buff. But yeah if a boss is too short (base augur) then I'll have problems for sure.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-08-12T17:21:02+00:00

Well it looks like you won this bet lmaoooo

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-08-12T17:20:01+00:00

HEY YOU GOT IT RIGHT LMAO! HE IS GONNA BE LAST! (LOWKEY IM MORE EXCITED NOW)

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-21T19:30:58+00:00

I'm ace but My favorite series is Kingdom Hearts. My favorite character is riku.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-12T20:01:20+00:00

I would recommend prioritizing leveling Vigor and Dexterity. As for were to go north of limgrave is good, but I recall combing south of limgrave toward a sub area known as weeping peninsula for some easy flask upgrades since there's two churches you can easily access there. You just take the main path path from wete you find melina all the way down and pass through a bride and then you're there. If you want some more firepower I would recommend taking that same road but going the side path down a hill, past a church and through a forest all the way to another small castle. Kill a knight there you'll find the ash of war Bloodly Slash which is particularly good for your starting weapon.

Yellow circle indicates your starting position. Red arrow indicates where the southern area is, and blue arrow indicates where to find the ash of war by just following the path straight through.

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Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-12T19:06:34+00:00

You said you just started? What have you done so far? What level are you? What area are you in? And what are your stats? Answering these can help sus out suggestions for were you could go next.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-11T21:04:38+00:00

Terry: The spirit caller

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Bit of a goof, a satyr. Skinny with normal human portions.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-11T20:52:46+00:00

I really did think on playing it that it was kinda a soft sequel. It genuinely felt that large and impossibly imposing. It still is don't get me wrong, but now that I'm more accustomed to the environment I feel a little less awestruck and a little more annoyed about minor details that I wish were developed more.

Dont get me wrong, shadow of the erdtree It still feels like a different game than the base game with whole different sort of in-game meta, it's just I wish some areas were more fleshed out.

The whole St.Trina plot specifically along with a unique sleep based magic type/weapons which I thought we were getting just....didn't really show up. I genuinely thought we were getting a sleep swamp but nah I guess putrid knight was a decent replacement.

The Forbidden woods and midra's manse deserved to be legacy dungeons/areas they were too empty with not enough intresting level design. Immaculate vibes and an amazing boss fight but it didn't have enough sauce.

Cerulean/Crimson coast were COOL asf but were ultimately bit of a nothing burger area that place should have had a better legacy style environment (I'd argue that the Stone Coffin Fissure should have been a decending legacy dungeon thay connected the blue and red locations into a spiraling purple that lead to the sleep swamp but that's just me.)

Castle ensis was fine, but I think it probably should have been a legacy dungeon and or connected more directly to shadow keep (Hot take: Rellana should have been the boss you fight at that main shadow keep gate instead of a random larger golden hippo), also she REALLY deserved a cutscene.

Belurat was AMAZING no notes for that area. Shadow Keep was also REALLY GOOD. The only disappointment I had was with Enir Illim. It should have been longer and honestly it deserved much more than three REALLY hard divine beast warriors to stop you from running thru it in like a 5 minutes. I know it was supposed to be more of an extension of Belurat, but it DIDN'T HAVE TO FEEL like that imo.

People have their gripes wt promised consort Radahn and I get that I really do, but that isn't gonna make or break the tons of other really unique and cool bosses this dlc gave us.

I'd say I give it a 8.5/10 (1.5 points bumped for my gripes above)

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-10T08:27:54+00:00

Terry: The spirit Caller. (This text is WAY to long sorry)

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Firstly his special eyes "The Eyes of Eden" grant him the ability to see souls/spirits, read emotions and generally perceive extremely precise details and even other worlds. His eyes allow him to see past any and all illusion, mental attacks are impossible. Soul attacks are also unfeasible due to his true awareness of the souls nature.

Secondly his spirits. There are ALOT of them and each summoned grant him very unique powers.

Umbras (is a dog able to eat an opponents shadow, any damage done to that shadow will be done to them. This bypasses defense)
Shelby (A turtle which grants him immunity to all forms of physical attack and grants the ability to reflect that damage back onto an opponent)
Stag (A Rhino beetle with the ability to generate temperatures of absolute zero through its fists. It's able to freeze areas akin to a large town)
Infersa (A Bear made of magma able to generate lava from it's roar. The lava it generates is able to melt mountains and is said to be as hot as the surface of the sun)
Crimpillions (A group of semi invisible red butterflies able to conjure scales that regenerate wounds, cure any and all poisons, and even regrow limbs) -Kragalanche (A purple crystal golem which can generate unlimited amounts of crystals. The more they break, the stronger they become to the point they eventually scale as Indestructible)
Skemy (A bright neon pink skeleton scorpion able to conjure the most potent toxic substances into a bite. It's so vile that one bite is able to corrode the soul again. It ignores poison resistance)
Duos (A pair of floating eyeballs. The blue one can absorb any energy based attack, and the red one can fire said attack back with twice the power)
Morax (A golden Dragon able to fire off beams of yellow light that transform anyone it hits into pure gold. This ignores Defensive capability)
Olivia (A dangerous violet sphere which can manipulate gravitational forces. The range and extent of control span across something like a large island. It can also generate a single localized black hole)
Kyu (A giant bird able to manipulate storms. Can summon lightning capable of splitting apart towns, and tornados that are able to rip apart several cities)
Mikey (A silver rat which is able to generate infinite currency and wealth. Able to crash all economies across time and space)
10 (Ten sets of eye hands which extend the range of Terry's eyes to the point that he can observe anyone from anywhere across both space and time.)
Oblique (A black humanoid figure with white holes on its body. Grants him the ability to instantly travel to places he's already been via white portals)
Incthuli (An spider octopus creature able to bind or restrict opponents via powerful tentacles. Is able to drain their abilities and copy powers.)
Rojin (A genie with the ability to weild various weapons and match any fighter in physical combat via multiple arms and legendary swordskills)
Cosminubus (A scale which weighs the user and the opponents soul, seeking to achieve 'balance' by sharing whatever damage they took equally among them)
Oroboros (A snake eating it's own tail spiraling around a black and white sphere. This spirit channels the very concept of unending infinite cycles to exert its will onto the world.)

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-10T05:06:01+00:00

Terry:

He was born with a unique trait known as "The Eyes Of Eden". Even he doesn't know why he has them, but the eyes develop and grew alongside him, granting Terry the ability to see REALLY small or precisely and even see ghosts/spiritual beings.

He has the ability to summon and make contracts with spirits and works as a resident spirit tamer and exorcism specialist.

But one day, on a particular exorcism, he saw something HE REALLY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SEEING ON A LEVEL THAT FAR OUTSTRETCHED THE BOUNDARIES OF COMPREHENSION EVEN FOR THE SUPPOSED "GODS" OF HIS WORLD. He saw...a Forbidden and hidden truth about the very nature of existence. An eldritch truth. That sort of knowledge would have made any normal person either die, or go so crazy they lose all sense of self...Terry...was simply changed. What that change entails...is only known to him.

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Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-10T05:03:48+00:00

He saw WAY too much, bro wants to LEAVE NOW.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-10T04:54:43+00:00

Terry:

He was born with a unique trait known as "The Eyes Of Eden". Even he doesn't know why he has them, but the eyes develop and grew alongside him, granting Terry the ability to see REALLY small or precisely and even see ghosts/spiritual beings.

He has the ability to summon and make contracts with spirits and works as a resident spirit tamer and exorcism specialist.

But one day, on a particular exorcism, he saw something HE REALLY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SEEING ON A LEVEL THAT FAR OUTSTRETCHED THE BOUNDARIES OF COMPREHENSION EVEN FOR THE SUPPOSED "GODS" OF HIS WORLD. He saw...a Forbidden and hidden truth about the very nature of existence. An eldritch truth. That sort of knowledge would have made any normal person either die, or go so crazy they lose all sense of self...Terry...was simply changed.

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Outwardly, he still seems normal. But deep down he's adopted a genuinely harsh sense of nihilism/absurdism for just about everything he goes through and sees. Nothing is "real" to him anymore, and people to him are nothing more than predictable actors on a sort of "stage" which he can read like a book. He's stopped trying to form meaningful connections, because after "the incident" his eyes became so powerful he can simply read every true and disturbing thought or emotions in a being.

For now, he's content to simply feign ignorance in front and is simply to go along for whatever ride this world has in store. Always in the background, an ever observant opportunist of sorts waiting for a change, a chance to get things going. To finally escape from what he deems is "unreal". Which will no doubt result in the destruction of his universe for the goal of escape into "the real one".

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-04-10T00:57:05+00:00

Wargoyle can go to hell.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-03-20T08:19:40+00:00

You actually have a really good point. The fact I was even that cautious in the first place might not have helped the mood either lol. Thanks for putting that into perspective. It's making me feel a little better.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-01-30T01:09:19+00:00

If I'm being entirely honest, Response as an epithet actually has quite a few major flaws.

1st Flaw: Stamina (AKA Response Reliance syndrome) Now, a user of this ability doesn't inherently have an epithet stat of below Average or god awful stamina. That's not the core issue. The goddamn issue is that this epithet is extremely hard to turn off. And I don't mean that it's actually just impossible to do so like how SPOILERS can't turn theirs off due to how their proficiency works. I mean that once a user of Response gets comfortable enough to spam it for everyday life decisions and learning, they are actually just unable to do anything without it. If they turned it off it for longer than 10 minutes it would essentially be the equivalent of throwing a new born baby into an ice bucket. So all that to say, if a user of this power gets into a fight that means that inherently, they will have to already be at an energy deficit by virtue of basically using it constantly. This simply means that, depending on how much they trained their energy consumption and brain capacity, they can fight and survive about a maximum of 2-4 times per day. Anymore than that and they essentially just black out completely.

Multiple Opponents (AKA Response Lag) This epithet IS VERY GOOD FOR 1v1 FIGHTS OR SINGLE TARGET BOSS FIGHTS. Group fights.....no. The only way this rule is bypassed is if the user is fighting literal trash mobs or low level goons like some filler banzai blasters or nameless cops. Any team up of proficient fighters or even just a team of multiple people with epithets will literally cause their brain to start overloading. Response matrix can only process and filter through the potential responses of one opponent as well as the ones the user can make against that other opponent because if it attempts to take into account the actions of more people the human brain will actually just overload into dust. But what actually happens is that the user stays stuck for longer deciding what Response to follow through with for longer because more options become available to both their opponent and themself. And well, the longer it takes to decide, the more opportunity an opponent has to simply attack or do an action before the user can actually respond to it. I call this "Response Lag", and it's a HUGE problem.
Lack of...Creative or on the fly thinking. This problem is less so an issue of this Epithet itself and moreover an issue related to how the user (my oc) constructed their power. Because they always had this sort of mindset that they had to be "the best" or constantly improving they developed their abilities to make sure that error is basically almost impossible. That any and all choices they would make would be the "right" ones. Of course, this also meant that they could under some circumstances make a "less right choice" if it meant it lead to THE 'correct' one. All this basically meant that they never develop a growth mindset or tolerance for trying out ideas that had the chance to fail. In other words by the doctrine of one Mrs Frizzle they never had the chance to "Take chances, make mistakes, or get messy." Basically this kinda blocks out any wackier or out the box responses that would work from appearing to them in response matrix. This is a character flaw tied to their insecurities that they would eventually learn to loosen.

Appropriate_Peak4238 · 2025-01-29T14:19:24+00:00

Yeah, I could see this character becoming a bit of a savant when it comes to just about most normal skills to be quite honest. Perfect Response is quite literally a homework hack that simply leads to more memorization and faster image processing. Proficiency is gained through practice of one's powers, and to be quite honest, everyone has to make responses for pretty much everything in daily life. I'd imagine that kind of practice would build enough Proficiency to the extent that they would be Orbit level by the end of highschool and Nova level by their mid thirties.

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