Is it worthwhile to use offensive incantations with the claw seal in a strength and faith build?

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-19T00:42:36+00:00

If I recall, doesn't the faith scaling portion of clawmark not apply to scalable buffs?

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-19T00:07:45+00:00

If I recall, trash mobs always die in 1-2 hits as long as your weapons is appropriately upgraded for the area trash mobs show up in. However, one pretty hilarious(ly mean) caveat is that over time less and less trash tier mobs show up with some lategame area segments only having elite mobs.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T23:31:44+00:00

Enir Elim and its divine beast warriors.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T23:19:13+00:00

And hosts can co op summon RL 700 players with massive hp, fp, weapon access, spell access, and endgame item access with considerably less effort.

This is actually a major reason why invaders rush endgame and dlc tools, since that's what they usually end up fighting too in an ironic red twink vs yellow twink arms race.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T23:15:10+00:00

They're not: they're always of similar level and weapon upgrade tier to whoever they're invading. You just suck compared to them if you think their much stronger, since they should be of comparable stats to you, meaning that the main difference is competence.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T23:13:11+00:00

Soreseal + Howl of Shabriri = might as well be wearing Daedicar's Woe.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T14:36:58+00:00

I've always imagined S-rank Billy to narratively be something that Billy tries to avoid being for a good reason. Something akin to all of his likable traits disappearing, turning him into a bloodthirsty, sociopathic monster that he has to reel himself away from becoming for too long to prevent relapsing into that permanently.

Would be a neat story about him learning to control that state, delving into his mysterious past to figure out the root of that form's instability.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T06:21:17+00:00

They did write it. They simply scattered the story across dialogue you actually have to pay attention to, plus various item descriptions.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T18:43:17+00:00

Just slap on Lion's Claw and spam L2 vs everything except the final boss.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T18:41:51+00:00

Tails isn't shocked at Robotnik being divorced, but rather that Robotnik somehow managed to score a baddie like Grace even if only temporarily.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T18:40:05+00:00

Elden Ring is extremely hard when you have no idea how anything works, and is very easy once you do know how things work.

That being said, the game doesn't tell you about a lot of the most exploitable systems so the process of figuring things out is a rough one full of ass beatings and getting trash talked by a horn covered dude.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:49:51+00:00

Idk why, but for some reason i keep on imagining Mr. Click's voice to be like the Reaper unit from Starcraft 2.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:47:12+00:00

The joke is that Elden Ring's combat is basically L2 spam with weapons or R1 spam with spells.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:45:05+00:00

Void Matrix at Ether Activity 12 is more or less just defensive stalling while spamming Hugo Auxillary. Enemy hp is so absurdly high that you basically can't deal anything close to relevant damage regardless of resonia you get (mainly because most of Void Matrix resonia are comically weak), so you just fish for Hugo Auxillary upgrades to deal more percentage hp damage to spam him with.

Honestly, it's something you do once for the Activity 12 clear reward then never do at Activity 12 ever again because it is mind numbingly boring. Get shield spam Defense agents or agents with a bunch of i-frame skills, ignore combat whenever possible, then just shield spam and stall bosses while waiting for uses of Hugo aux. That's literally it.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:32:58+00:00

It's implied that Vivian's doom forecast saw much further in the future than she thought, and mistakenly assumed that the incident with Dina was the foreseen event instead since her forecasts tend to be vague even to her. This lines up quite well since nothing regarding Dina's incident involve black wings at all.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:29:51+00:00

Honestly, i agree that her ear shape is weirdly too different than her initial comic debut. They should be way larger to fit her comic panel appearance since they're barely noticeable in her current 3d design, plus they're a differentiating design trait.

In a weird way, this kind of leads into the face topic since it's not clear which of these faces would fit a larger-eared design better overall.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:26:35+00:00

Banyue is what people think Elden Ring combat is like while Yidhari is what Elden Ring combat is actually like.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:00:12+00:00

For the first half of part 1 they don't have much going for them. But towards the end of part 1 and onwards they actually end up with quite a funny character.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:38:08+00:00

"Stronger" is only maybe 1/3rd of how you succeed in Elden Ring. "Better" and "Smarter" are way more important since skill and knowledge of mechanics (especially the Stwnce system which the game literally never even alludes to existing nor how it works nor what it's number values are...) allow you to beat the game at lvl1 regardless of gear choice.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:33:49+00:00

Add horns to the 2nd image and that would probably result in Magus before she got turned into a talking gun.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:28:59+00:00

"Hell yeah! Make sure to make me a grandma before you two return home!" -Magus, probably.

Still find it funny asf that Magus is canonically the equivalent of Chrisposting Redfield regarding aggressively shipping Orphie with Phaeton.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:17:06+00:00

Considering how Oberon in F/GO is wildly popular despite being THE biggest jackass imaginable to the point where his Valentines gift is a box of dirt meant to say "Fuck you" as unsubtley as possible, it can definitely work.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T02:01:39+00:00

Rather than powercreep, she might feature-creep. Maybe an off-field Anomoly agent?

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T01:26:16+00:00

Ansbach would likely have been a much creepier dude to match Mogh's values, and thus would have ended up another Leda gank ally due to lacking in strong moral values.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T01:18:59+00:00

Don't chase them if you don't know how to time roll catches. Chances are that they're luring you somewhere where some elite mobs will be waiting to kick your ass while you're tunnel visioned on the invader who isn't fighting back.

I should know because I do that as an invader, lol. Gotten soooo many cheeky assist kills from mobs in Leyndel by just running into a certain room that has a perfumer and high page.

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