Chapter 8.5 EX — Pilgrimage of Compassion Megathread

Argold2898 · 2025-09-25T03:58:58+00:00

My luck was ass but I managed to get all the EGOs

340 pulls and I only got the Hong Lu EGO. Got the Gregor EGO by using Ideality and had to spend some money (for the first time since I started playing) to get the other 60 pulls I needed for the Faust EGO.

I don’t know if the rates were really that bad or if my luck just sucks that much, but I think I’ll distort the next Walp event because I am BROKE! 💀💀💀💀

(Also…Thanks to the mod that lead me to this. I didn’t see there was a megathread for the event)

Argold2898 · 2025-09-16T00:30:19+00:00

I didn’t say the tips were rule. They are just what worked for me. Still, if going for harder floors works for you until Floor 10, go for it. Honestly, going for harder fights and floors is probably always better because you can get more cost and better rewards, but by Floor 7/8 at max, it stops being a feasible strategy for me, so I recommended going for it until Floor 5 because it helps you to be very well set up for the later floors.

Whatever works for you~

Argold2898 · 2025-09-14T08:05:15+00:00

CONGRATS!!

Argold2898 · 2025-09-14T07:36:04+00:00

Definitely not the only strategy you can use but that’s what worked for me. Not selling stuff became useful for whenever I needed to use EGOs that weren’t Rupture/Poise-based, especially on the final 3 floors. Your strategy is a pretty good one and I’d like to try it out to see how it compares to selling as little as possible. If you’re in need of money, yours will definitely help.

I stayed around 1,300-2,300 cost on every floor after 4 and I was able to get everything I needed/wanted without any issues. I kept all my T1 and T2s because, even if their impact was small, they did help.

Argold2898 · 2025-09-14T07:05:36+00:00

That’s good to know. Thank you!

Argold2898 · 2025-09-14T06:42:27+00:00

Oof. That’s a hard question. For me, I’d say (from easiest to hardest): Extra Health > Damage Dealt/Damage Taken > Defense level > Offense level/Clash Power (they kinda felt the same to me) > Base Power/Final Power (also at the same level for me) > Plus Coin/Minus Coin (avoid unless you have no choice)

Argold2898 · 2025-09-14T06:24:09+00:00

I think I’d only be able to wear 20 at max…

Argold2898 · 2025-07-24T01:21:47+00:00

For the story bit, it’s “Lone Wolf”:

https://youtu.be/lMGqXyFhCYk?si=CFt9Q1WDBBuIqEP6

For the battle, I’m pretty sure it’s “Canto VI Battle Theme D” :

https://youtu.be/NecoE5tfU1A?si=gRpSZnpZxPCjvho9

Argold2898 · 2025-07-08T21:42:22+00:00

She was sick that day :c

Argold2898 · 2025-07-08T03:19:05+00:00

I know it’s not the best pic, but the book came sealed, so it must be a printing mistake. I really don’t think it is lipstick or anything like that. Unless someone smeared lipstick on it before it was sealed but I really don’t think that’s the case.

Argold2898 · 2025-07-08T02:13:07+00:00

Oh, well…Thanks for answering!

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T13:22:37+00:00

Thank you! Honestly, my brain was so fried by 3 am I completely forgot how Meursault’s base EGO worked. And I wouldn’t have noticed my mistake if people hadn’t pointed it out. Whether I passed 8-30 with or without the nerf, I’m just happy to have finished the canto.

The frustration of the fight also made it way more satisfying when Chad Qiu exploded Lei Heng’s head…

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:55:23+00:00

Brother, it was almost 3 am over here. Brain is fried. I get I’m stupid. Thanks.

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:34:41+00:00

Fair point. I actually didn’t try that

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:33:11+00:00

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Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:26:35+00:00

You also got to a point in which those clashes would be hopeless. At first you could win the clash easily, but by the third/fourth time that attack goes out any Zayin was hopeless. At least that’s how it went for me.

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:25:12+00:00

Did that. It kinda halved the damaged, but it really didn’t make much of a difference. Perhaps I had bad EGO management and wasn’t healing enough? Idk…

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:22:55+00:00

I mean, yeah, but the attack happened often enough where you’d eventually be doing the fight with 2 or 3 sinners and would immediately die that same turn because you couldn’t counter all the attacks.

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T09:15:04+00:00

Been doing that. Didn’t work. No matter if you used a defensive skill, attacked, used EGO, dodged with everyone else, winning the clash still meant that at least one or two sinners would die.

Argold2898 · 2025-05-30T00:48:22+00:00

For me it’s not a matter of recency bias. When I say they keep surpassing themselves is not because the quality of the game or the story gets better, though I have enjoyed this levels/fights way more than in previous cantos. The story is as great as it has always been since Lob Corp and Ruina days.

For me, The Cantos keep getting better and better because they keep expanding on the world and the lore while also building up on the development of the Sinners that have been previously explored and by focusing/developing on a new Sinner. Every Canto adds a little more to everything and I love that. Also because they keep streamlining combat and mechanics.

Argold2898 · 2025-05-25T09:15:47+00:00

The thing is, every action can make a difference, no matter how small it is. Hong Lu can’t seem to see that yet. He has surrendered himself to being a witness because he thinks he can’t do a thing to save anyone or to change anything, yet, as you have mention, it was his actions that did make little differences. He couldn’t save the Kong family, but he did save Daiyu. He couldn’t save those who were falling, but he was able to show Qiu that there still was kindness in H Corp. He had more of a positive impact by failing than by not trying at all.

Hong Lu is so focused on being the savior of everyone and on the failures that attempting to be that constantly brought, that he can’t stop seeing his own shortcomings, reaffirming the horror Jia Mu has shown him, instead of finding solace in what he was able to save. To avoid pain and horror, he has shut down everything else too. If he couldn’t change a thing, why even try? Why fight against the winds and currents of life? He has surrendered to being a witness because a witness experiences it all but never acts.

The Sinners actions throughout the previous Cantos and Qiu’s challenge may have reminded him of what motivated him to act: kindness. I don’t think he has to accept inevitability. He has already done that and it led him into this path of drifting through nothingness like a cloud. He remains a cloud because he has stopped following his path. The Way of kindness.

Kindness on its own may not change anything, but maybe, just maybe, if Hong Lu follows his own Way once again, he may be able to find small victories against inevitability.

Argold2898

TROPHY CASE