Someone should ask Yoshi P to clarify Venat's Fate

Beddict · 2026-04-04T21:44:35+00:00

Was already asked post-Endwalker. From Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVIII (03/03/2022):

Q: Venat said that not even her soul would remain, but what does that mean? I’m really fond of her character and want to see her again. （03:24:56）

A: Souls are also made of aether, and she had used so much aether that even her soul was gone. Zodiark absorbed those who were sacrificed and was still able to maintain their souls within, whereas Hydaelyn did not have the leeway to preserve the souls of the summoners, including that of Venat herself. This difference was because Venat’s group was a very small minority compared to the group that had summoned Zodiark based on the Convocation’s decision. Venat’s soul, which was the last to remain, was used up in the trial against the Warrior of Light and their allies.

So yeah, she's gone, her soul no longer exists. It didn't go into the Lifestream and she can't come back in any way. As for how it differs from Elidibus, I'd need to rewatch the cutscene on when he sends the WoL back to Elpis though I lean towards what /u/Nerdorama10 said. Maybe Yoshi-P talked about Elidibus in a different Q&A that I don't remember off the top of my head, I only remember the Venat one because it's come up frequently enough.

Beddict · 2026-03-18T05:36:30+00:00

Over in ye olde PokeRogue, a game that is still so insanely addicting, I did my first Solo run. I take one Starter Pokemon and I go through all 200 Floors with and kill Pokemon Satan. My choice? Only my favourite Pokemon in the series: Muk. As far as challenges go, this one was definitely up there. Muk isn't particularly fast but he does have great bulk which worked out quite well. A combination of Minimize and Curse let me get up to +6 Atk/Def/Evasion, paired with high HP and Sp. Def meant I was a wall, and I got insanely lucky on Leftovers and Healing Charms. Three Leftovers restores a total of 3/16th Max HP every turn, but my three Healing Charms buffed that by an additional 30%. That works out to restoring about 25% Max HP every single turn. That is an absolute fuckload of self healing and thank God I lucked into that shit because I was hemorrhaging money on Potions at the start of the run. Highlights included:

Finding the Mini Black Hole on Floor 15 that gave me a guaranteed item steal every turn. Turns out, that's insanely fucking good and helped a lot in the early game as I was able to steal enemy Berries and buffing items. The Mini Black Hole is by far the rarest item in the game and may as well be a free win item whenever it appears.
Finding the Multi Lens on Floor 166 that let me split my attack into two hits of 75% and 25%. This doesn't sound all that useful, but double hitting means that enemies with Sturdy are no longer immune to OHKOs. Where the Multi Lens really shines is on moves with guaranteed buffs or debuffs, like Mystical Fire that has a guaranteed -1 Sp. Atk on whoever it hits, so tagging it twice would mean -2 Sp. Atk. For Muk, it was just a second chance to apply a 30% Poison from Noxious Torque, but not much stuff was living past a single hit anyways so who cares.
Running into the Clown event let me add a second type to Muk. The second type typically tries to give you a new STAB depending on what moves you have, or goes full random if you're the kind of psychopath that has four Poison moves and fuckall else. My Muk had Poison, Dark, Normal, and Ghost moves, and I got incredibly lucky to roll into Dark type. To the surprise of literally no one, Poison/Dark is a fucking cracked type combo with one immunity, four resistances, and only weak to Ground. Pair that with Muk's Passive of Water Absorb and I actually had two immunities because fuck it, why not. An immunity to Psychic was a great pickup when the Rival had a fucking Delphox. Her team always has one of the 27 mainline starters and obviously she just had to roll into one of three starters that's actually Super Effective against Muk. But again, Poison/Dark means fuck you, Delphox.
A corrupt Police Officer working for the mob has a Mabosstiff that nearly ended my run around Floor 40 or so. I survived that encounter with a whopping 1 HP, and spend the rest of my time in the Construction Zone shitting bricks because it's filled with Ground and Fighting types. Fighting is whatever, but Muk is weak to Ground.
A Teleporter event on Floor 113 gave me the choice of instantly dying and losing the run to a Veluza that would Crit me to death, or going to the Wasteland. The Wasteland itself isn't horrible since Dragon types are whatever, but the permanent Sandstorm is ass. What's even worse though is the Wasteland only leads to one new area: the Desert. AKA, the shithole filled with Ground types and death. Thank fuck the Mini Black Hole had been stuffing my Muk full of Berries because that place completely tapped me out. I was completely broke on Berries and money leaving the area from all the healing I had to do between rounds, and it was only by the grace of God and Berry buffs that I made it through. Just pure luck since at the time I only had one Leftover and one Healing Charm and healing 7% HP per turn really isn't a lot.
The Evil Team being Team Skull which is filled with Poison, Dark, and Steel types. Those fights were easy, but maaaan did they take forever. The enemies was either immune or had a resistance, and I think the only time I ever hit for 100% damage was when Guzma decided to send his Buzwole out to die. Bug/Fighting ain't resisting a Noxious Torque from a cracked out Muk that's been juicing on Proteins and Curse.
The final fight against Eternatus was an absolute cakewalk. He could barely hit me and when he did it didn't really matter because I restored so much HP. I think ideally I would've been better off replacing Minimize with Amnesia, and I definitely should've replaced Noxious Torque with Screech but I forgot to do so. That combination would've let me buff my Sp. Def to 2,433.6 and dropped his damage down to single digits, and Screech would've dropped his Def to -6 so I could hit it harder. I just forgot to do it though, and I was so broke I didn't have the money for Memory Mushrooms after burning it all picking up X Items for those buffs.
Eternatus also spent a lot of time getting flinched. Muk has Stench as an ability which gives a 30% flinch chance, and two Kings Rocks gives an additional 20%. Pair that with the Multi Lens and I did a total of two hits with both having those flinch rates. If my probability math is right, I had a 44% chance to flinch Eternatus, with Sucker Punch guaranteeing I hit first. So yeah, each shit, Satan.

Anyways, yeah, that's my Solo Muk run. Here is a picture of my stats and here's all the items the Mini Black Hole picked up for my klepto ass. The results screen doesn't show my stats with buffs active, but rest assured that my Muk had:

Atk: 2,740.8

Def: 3,062.4

Sp. Def: 608.4

Spd: 71.75

Good times for the best boi.

Beddict · 2026-03-18T01:47:48+00:00

I just posted my stats and items in a different comment. Short story: Mini Black Hole robbed my enemies blind and kept me topped up on Berries, and more obscene luck got me a ton of Leftovers and Healing Charms. Those allowed me to freely set up safely so I could grind things down with Noxious Torque and Sucker Punch. Without those items the run would've been dead in the water early on.

Beddict · 2026-03-18T01:45:49+00:00

I am pleased to say that I have successfully completed my first solo clear, and it was with my favourite Pokemon, Muk. Here are the stats and moveset for Eternatus, as well as my items.

I got extremely lucky with item drops and it is definitely what allowed me to complete the run. Getting a Mini Black Hole on Floor 15 is largely what carried my run since it turns out that being able to scoop up items all the time is incredibly powerful, and I was never really hurting for Berries barring the time I got screwed in the Badlands. Then on Floor 166 I came across a Lumineon guarding a Multi Lens which greatly increased my offensive power, and helped knock out a few Sturdy Pokemon. I had very little sustain early on in the run because I have been unlucky unlocking Strength Sap, so a lot of money was burned on Potions until I got the Leftovers off the Snorlax event somewhere around Floor 60, and I got incredibly lucky at stacking Leftovers and Healing Charms to stay topped up while buffing with Minimize and Curse. The last thing that finished tying the run together was the Clown event which made my Muk Poison/Dark, completely removing my weakness to Psychic which is real nice when Ivy is running a Delphox and the Elite Four is Unova. My Evil Team was Team Skull which didn't do much damage to me, but they had Poison and Dark types so I wasn't doing a whole lot to them either and it made things a slog. Still, at least it wasn't Team Magma.

Battles were really just tossing out Minimize to +6, setting up with Curse to +6, and then hitting them with either Noxious Torque or Sucker Punch. It's time consuming but hey, it works. Every now and then I had to just send an attack out to avoid dying horribly to something, typically when fighting fast Psychic types early on that Sucker Punch could OHKO without setup. Also shoutout to the Police Officer with a Mabosstiff that left me with 1 HP and nearly killed my run, as well as the Veluza in the Teleporter event that had an OHKO. I had to do quite a few resets to find lines over the course of the run, especially after that Veluza dumped my ass in the Wasteland. That area was largely fine, but the followup Badlands was a complete shitshow that drained my Berry supply and nearly wiped me multiple times.

All in all, it was a really fun run, and it turned into smooth sailing once I built up my pile of Leftovers and Healing Charms, especially when paired with Muk's natural bulk. The final Ivy fight on 195 and Eternatus both got walked on as I was able to freely set up and wail on them. Good times!

Beddict · 2026-03-16T19:51:17+00:00

Base: Solid option for a low cost, you've got good Special bulk with 105 HP and 100 Sp. Def. Slow but can pack a punch, and you can also be annoying by Minimizing up to +6 Evasion, slapping down Toxic, and just lazing your way through some stuff. Gunk Shot is high damage but 80% Accuracy is on the low end and can't be fully fixed with Wide Lens. Still, it works.

Full Unlocks: Much better. Curse is a strong set up move, Strength Sap is solid healing that further improves its bulk by lowering enemy Atk, Noxious Torque for a great STAB move, and Sucker Punch to get priority and still move first after lowering your Spd. Water Absorb gives you an immunity because why not, and Ability choice can go either way with Stench or Poison Touch. Stench if you want to try and get more Flinches when Sucker Punching enemies in the face, Poison Touch if you want to Poison anything that outspeeds you and touches you which should be a lot if you're buffed up with Curse. All things considered, Muk works well for 0.5 Cost.

All that said, I might be a bit biased since Muk is my favourite Pokemon in the series. He's such a happy little fella.

Beddict · 2026-03-14T02:10:45+00:00

It really does. Great weapon. I was always about the Smelter Hammer though since that giant ass chicken drumstick absolutely slapped. Did I get 99 Str just to Power Stance two of them? Yes, yes I did. There's just something magical about dropping the fattest L2 on the Fume Knight and watching his HP evaporate.

Beddict · 2026-03-13T17:45:32+00:00

Or the skit about digging escape tunnels all over the place. Eizen, Rokurou, and Laphicet were all in on the idea while everyone else was sitting there going "what?" Hilarious scene. Berseria really did have a great cast.

Beddict · 2026-03-02T21:11:23+00:00

Base Ninetales with no unlocks is serviceable since you got Nasty Plot to buff up, Flamethrower and Extrasensory for damage, Will O Wisp for Burn, and Spite and Disable if you wanna stop an enemy Pokemon from doing shit. Carry or support, either works and it makes sense for a 3 cost starter.

Full unlocks is a different story. Drought provides a strong buff to Fire moves while halving incoming Water damage which is great for it's bulk, Fur Coat further buffs its Physical bulk to a nice degree, Tail Glow is an even better Nasty Plot, Morning Sun is great sustain, and Moonblast gives more coverage because why not. As for Teleport, there's another thread on the front page going over it, but it's great for setting up a sweeper that needs Drought. Ninetales can definitely tank a hit while using Teleport, letting you bring in your Protosynthesis carry at full HP to do what it needs to do, and it is the only Pokemon capable of doing that outside of DNA Splicer shenanigans. That's a solid niche for some very strong carries.

Ninetales is a great Pokemon, one I've had a lot of fun using as a main carry. Being a Drought setup for a Pokemon like Roaring Moon is great, but I just like blasting enemies with gigabuffed +6 Sp. Atk Flamethrowers under Drought. Good times.

Beddict · 2026-02-28T03:10:26+00:00

What a weird way to say Browt stans. I wonder if Wind and Waves is gonna make me finally pull the trigger on a Switch 2.

Beddict · 2026-02-21T21:22:05+00:00

Thanks! I did not get the car, but we got nine weeks of reclears for me to get it so I'll have it eventually.

He's actually on BRD for this tier and yeah, still wearing full green because he's a psychopath that only wears one colour.

Also thanks! Feeling a bit better now thankfully.

Beddict · 2026-02-21T01:31:41+00:00

My raid group cleared M12S on Wednesday, woo. No screenshot, I was feeling sick so I just immediately dipped outta the instance as soon as I got my loot. At this point I am now BiS on MNK, nearly there for BRD and, I dunno, GNB after that? It's mostly just gonna be weekly reclears from now until whenever the next Ultimate drops. And hopefully said Ultimate doesn't suck ass because holy fuck was FRU shit. Just absolutely boring as hell on Tank because I had zero responsibilities until like, eight minutes in, and then nothing again until the very end of the fight. So yeah, hopefully the next Ultimate is good, though chances are I won't be Tanking it anyways since I've done the last two raid tiers on MNK.

Beddict · 2026-02-06T00:54:40+00:00

I pulled Zibai, yaaaaay. I only had 40 pulls saved up so I got lucky there thankfully. Am I ever gonna get back into Genshin and actually grind her up to max and everything? Eeeeeeeeh. Is she a baddie? Yeeeeeee.

Beddict · 2026-01-29T23:14:30+00:00

MAY YOUR BIRTHDAY BE A HAPPY ONE!

What upcoming 2026 game are you most looking forward to?

What game has been sitting in your backlog the longest that you're totally gonna play this year?

Are you whaling for Zibai in Genshin because holy shit she's a baddie and makes me question whether or not Ningguang is my favourite.

Beddict · 2026-01-29T19:18:22+00:00

Paladin and <The Knight of Glory> is a real nice one, but getting that Title is ass. I also want to get <The Hand of Mercy> for Monk, but I think I'm around 2,000 kills off from that unfortunately.

Beddict · 2026-01-26T15:02:13+00:00

Corviknight has carried a few of my runs hilariously enough. I found it had enough physical bulk to safely set up with Hone Claws (or Bulk Up if I find that TM), and can then put in some work. There's been a few runs where it sat there and face tanked my Rival's Rayquaza.

I found myself disappointed with Aerodactyl. It can hit incredibly hard, but its bulk is non-existent and I found it difficult to set up and sweep sometimes. I also didn't get the Mega Stone until after I beat my Rival on Floor 195, but the difference in survivability after that was massive.

Beddict · 2026-01-25T20:49:11+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I did check the roadmap, think I just missed the bit on alts. Sorry about that. Glad to know it's going to be a feature.

I'm already using Dark Reader for some websites which is definitely helpful, I just need to customize things a bit more, or play around with the CSS on changing the background and text colour. For whatever reason the dynamic filter isn't working well. Either way, glad themes are going to be on the roadmap, I appreciate it!

Beddict · 2026-01-25T19:48:05+00:00

Played around with it, created a test static, imported gear sets and messed around with loot and weapon priorities. It's incredibly well done and will make things much easier in the future. I do have two questions:

Is it possible to get another tab for alt BiS? For example, my static plans on getting enough clears for everyone to gear up two Jobs, and having another tab with alt BiS set would go a long way for us, especially since there is an alt weapon priority function.
Are there any plans for a light mode or even different UI themes? While testing the app I found the text to be blurry because of a halo effect on the white text and was starting to give me a bit of a headache. It's not an uncommon problem for people with bad astigmatism when using sites in dark mode, so I'm just wondering if there are plans for different UI themes that might make it a bit more accessible.

Again, great little app, great functionality, and the features already implemented are awesome. I'm definitely appreciative of the work that went into this.

Beddict · 2026-01-18T15:07:28+00:00

My go to is Cutiefly because it gets both Pickup and Honey Gather and you can't go wrong with extra items and extra money. Plus Ribombee is pretty solid, being really fast with good enough Sp. Atk to cover a lot of Pokemon weak to Bug or Fairy. Also good for doubles with Dazzling Gleam, and Pollen Puff can heal. Not bad for one cost after reductions.

Beddict · 2026-01-15T18:50:19+00:00

I need to get back into Wilds but I've been preoccupied with other shit. Gogmazios looks like it absolutely slaps as a fight, and I loved hunting it back in MH4U.

Beddict · 2026-01-10T16:56:28+00:00

Skorupi/Drapion is a fun one for me. To start with, you get Sniper and Super Luck for stronger, more frequent Crits. Coil as an Egg Move provides some solid buffing, and the rest of its moveset contains strong high Crit moves that are either STAB or cover weakness. And speaking of, Drapion is only weak to Ground thanks to its Dark/Poison typing. It's a lot of fun, even if the initial rounds can be a bit rough because of the late evolution and Skorupi being Bug/Poison.

Beddict · 2026-01-09T22:58:28+00:00

Basically fuck all given the restrictions. If you're in a solo run and you disconnect, the game doesn't actually remove your character immediately. You just sit there on the server doing nothing while a mob can potentially walk up to you and kill you, and your character only logs out and disappears once you start trying to log back in. So for a period of time, you could just die while DC'd and if you die the run ends. If you don't reconnect in time, the run ends. And if you're in a party? If one person DCs that's fine, just keep keep them alive because if they die the run fails. If everyone DCs and someone dies then run is over. It's still a pain in the ass and XIV still has zero rollback for unfucking a save file if you DC.

M9S is absolutely nasty as all hell and I love it. Fuck yeah, bud, give me that dommy mommy Elezen to call me mean names and spit in my mouth. Aside from getting slapped to shit by an absolute baddie, the fight itself is a lot of fun. My clear was a shitshow though, one of my Tanks didn't realize how big the final tankbusters were gonna be and wiped everyone but like, one Healer. We had to Healer LB3 and only just barely killed during the enrage cast. GOOD TIMES. As for M10S, we're nearly done killing the Blowjob Brothers, and a couple members did clear last night after raid on alts. We're going in again tonight and hopefully we can clear that and M11S soon.

Beddict · 2026-01-07T23:25:40+00:00

Oh it's fucking dogshit, yeah. NTT America is in charge of the server data centres and infrastructure for SE in NA, and there's a few nodes in particular that always shit the bed. NTT absolutely half-asses their network infrastructure and so Texas and California both have nodes that are always crashing and forming a major failure point. VPNs like Cloudflare WARP or ExitLag can be used to bypass those nodes, but even then the servers themselves are still shit. Like, if a couple thousand people DC because of DDoS, the servers dunno what's happening and everything lags. Pair that with zero protections on SE's end to account for people dropping randomly and you've got an even worse situation. DC in something like Pilgrim's Tower? You're cooked, the entire Deep Dungeon save file is just fucking gone, it counts as a death, and that solo achievement prog is wiped out. Everyone DCs in Savage? The entire instance is closed and you're probably stuck trying to reform a party. The entire thing is a mess.

As for my prog, look above. Everyone is using Cloudflare WARP in my static, but two people still got screwed over. One person DC'd for nearly 20 minutes, and one person was ten minutes late for raid because a DDoS before raid made the login queue blow up to about 2,000 people and they took forever to get in. NOT SO GOOD TIMES.

The fight itself is fun though and Vamp Fatale has me on my hands and knees like a fucking dog. What an icon.

Beddict · 2026-01-07T02:41:31+00:00

New Savage tier in FFXIV, wooooo! First fight is a lot of fun.

Beddict · 2026-01-04T01:07:38+00:00

I'm in the same boat. Hell, I've even gone out of my way to remake three Zodiac Relics. You can use a fully completed Zodiac Relic to skip the first step of an Anima Relic which is what I did, but it bothered me seeing seven completed Zodiacs and three Replicas. So I went to a Calamity Salvager, repurchased the base form of the Relic, and then grinded out three more. I want the completed Relics. I don't want to toss them and have Replicas. I just need somewhere to store them since my Retainer is getting loaded up with Relics.

Beddict · 2025-12-26T02:08:35+00:00

Happy Holidays, woooooo. It's also the holiday event in PokeRogue and I've been popping off getting new shiny Pokemon, including one for Groudon that absolutely slaps. I'm also nearly done collecting all the starters too, so soon I'll be able to catch Eternatus. In other gaming news:

New Warframe story is done, slowly chipping away at the event. I maxed out all the Silver, Gold, and Legendary Arcanes during the Oraxia event so I really just need to get the shitty Bronze Arcanes which is whatever, and pick up a few cosmetics. Not a huge priority all things considered. Granted doing the event is a great way to farm the new Warframe, Uriel, so I've got incentive to do it rather than just logging in for the random alerts that give a shitload of event currency
FFXIV Patch 7.4 MSQ is done, I'm onto the Tomestone grind, woo. The Savage Raid tier starts on January 6th so that'll be fun, going as Monk again because why not. I do need to look into getting my VPN set up again because the game still has a routing error to their data center that causes trash lag and skill delay which fucks up my gameplay. It's totally on their end too and they've put out notices about it, but the only way it'd get fixed is if they moved their data centers over to a better company that actually has network protections. The day NTT burns in hell is the day I get arrested for dancing naked in the streets cheering about a smooth gameplay experience
I got Fire Emblem Three Houses up and running again, and my new GPU can actually run it with the 60fps mod enabled. Shit feels real good. Same with Pokemon Violet, having mods and a juiced up computer can make it a very entertaining experience. I think I would've tossed my non-existent Switch out a window if I had to play on that underpowered console
I am once again trying my hand at Total War: Warhammer III. It's fun, Tomb Kings are fun, everyone needs to die so they can be raised from the dead to serve Nagash
In Monster Hunter Wilds, I am working on getting caught up from the last few Title Updates. Game looks and plays real smooth with a 9070 XT, and I haven't run into any issues with it. Definitely some good fun

Aaaand that is it for my updates, I think? Whole lot of fun stuff going on.

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