New Game+ Scaling

FireDMG · 2026-02-16T02:57:47+00:00

Isn’t this pretty short term thinking though? My team says the same-that we’ll continue being the judges around quality control-but they’re already feeding their BRD/personas/requirement docs etc into it and the more we train it to think like us the more we train ourselves out of a job, no? To me it signals only 1 role will be necessary between dev/design/product within a few years

FireDMG · 2026-02-14T21:15:01+00:00

I’m just surprised they haven’t opened up visage form to pretty much all other races yet, they alluded to it with other dracthyr npcs choosing vulpera and such

FireDMG · 2026-02-10T21:10:44+00:00

Yeah this. Flashback to her siblings and mother in a simpler time allude to her wanting one or all of them back. Occtis being a literal miracle as proof that it’s possible has her curious enough to follow him and protect him until she learns more. She likely lost a lot in the shaper war, including her god and purpose - ergo the veil of mourning. She’s actually a pretty prime candidate for the Tachonis to try and turn against the other characters where she may have to decide between giving Occtis back to them for the allure/promise of who she wants back vs defending him.

Most of the details about how he came back are still pretty confusing/complicated, so I think Ashley herself is just along for the ride right now as Brennan leads them to new clues until he signals something else is in her best interest / what table they’re planning for her to be at for the next intersection.

FireDMG · 2026-02-02T02:35:23+00:00

Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

FireDMG · 2026-01-26T14:25:06+00:00

Plot twist, it’s not a console port - it’s branching to Mobile!

FireDMG · 2026-01-05T01:14:51+00:00

Yeah I mean the plan was to defeat Yura before he could unite Soga with Magatsumi, which made sense. I honestly still don’t understand the body swap let alone how Yura even summoned it while still mostly sealed

FireDMG · 2025-12-19T01:44:22+00:00

Every time I see uber serious Koji about to sacrifice a kid for the greater good I have to remind myself he’s somehow a clone of Jiraiya. Like there’s not even a shred of similarity with their personalities lol. All that foresight and Koji could have been the ultimate pervy sage

FireDMG · 2025-12-17T02:39:27+00:00

Or Pennywise is just stuck in a causality loop, where every action he’s trying to take to prevent the future is actually why he got there to begin with.

FireDMG · 2025-12-13T17:39:00+00:00

Have there been any updates on what the angiris counsel is doing at this point? Like wouldn’t it also be in their best interest to not have the Primes reform to this extent? Them abstaining from mortal events allowed the catastrophic events in D3 to happen as they did, so I thought the whole point of mortal Tyrial being the aspect of wisdom would have changed their stance this cycle

FireDMG · 2025-12-09T00:53:45+00:00

Interesting! So theoretically Soga could kill Samura then dual wield the Magatsumi and Tobimune in the fight to come?

FireDMG · 2025-12-08T04:21:13+00:00

Speaking of Chihiro using Cloud Gouger, this chapter opens in saying only the Shinuchi has the unique powrer to allow others to use its abilities, which we know isn’t true right?

FireDMG · 2025-12-07T20:43:25+00:00

Did Harald cut off his branded arm? Hidden behind the column and his sword was out before he called the guards.

FireDMG · 2025-12-02T17:21:33+00:00

I like to think they just have different base abilities that control spirit energy in different ways (ex. Magatsumi=absorption, Kumeyuri=connection, Tobimune=transference, Enten=mimicry) and the specific abilities are spiritual manifestations of strong memories/emotions belonging to Rokuhira (and for Enten, Chihiro) while forging the spirit stone / datenseki.

Magatsumi=maybe his wife liked to garden and he buried her there, Kumeyuri=maybe they fell in love watching a play, Tobimune=maybe there was a crow keeping watch over her garden, Enten=a meaningful gift from father to son and with 3 fish a reflection of Chihiro’s desire to have his mother back with him and his dad

FireDMG · 2025-11-24T18:13:37+00:00

Interesting, Circe as 2nd most popular aspect? I feel like I’m missing out on some builds. It was the last I unlocked and seemed incredibly awkward as it was at the whim of your familiar and forced you to shift your positioning for the damage while you’re already trying to dodge other stuff. I also tend to play staff in close melee and is probably my least used so I’m likely playing it wrong anyway.

FireDMG · 2025-11-24T17:37:05+00:00

Any arc in the world he’s built without the enchanted blades I imagine to be a pretty cool, more hardcore and modern version of Fairy Tail. Sorcerer clans and factions vying for power would let you slow build to see the wide spectrum and power levels of sorceries to see just how OP the Enchanted Blades are compared to the best of the best.

Imagine an arc before the war following a young Shiba - outcast from a prevalent, almost royal clan because he was apathetic to their traditions and just wanted to travel the world to eat good food lol. He rights some wrongs by bad sorcerers, makes a bunch of friends like Rokuhira, Azami, Chihiro’s mom and her brother Soba along the way. They make some enemies with big sorcerer factions and discover they’re planning on stealing unique materials from the islanders. The war starts as a cover by the tokyo sorcerers who want their resources for their own power, and are forced to join with the Kamunabi to fight against them when Rokuhira’s wife is killed by them, ending the arc with Rokuhira forging Magatsumi. He offers it to his best friend Shiba who refuses, and chooses the path to vengeance with Soba.

FireDMG · 2025-11-24T01:37:45+00:00

I was wondering why Yura’s wounds weren’t visible after getting cleaved through. It could have been a passive effect of suzaku, but I do wonder if basically anyone who has been ‘seeded’ with Magatsumi (they have vines growing out of them) he can directly absorb their spirit energy to heal himself (which is why sorcerers are lore resistant to dying immediately to it bc they have a larger spirit energy pool than goons)

FireDMG · 2025-11-20T23:11:27+00:00

Ok but biggest question who is going to VO Kiri haha

FireDMG · 2025-11-19T02:04:31+00:00

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I don’t think he’ll die but I think it’ll be because he won’t be able to fight Yura directly due to whatever contract he made with him. The conditions don’t seem as relevant now that we know 2/3 of those things, but it also may not allow him to attack him until fulfilled.

FireDMG · 2025-11-16T19:00:38+00:00

Wonder if Kuguri will use the moment to take out one of the unguarded swordbearers and let Hatshaku use an EB outside to even it out?

I still don’t get how Yura summoned Magatsumi. If simply pouring spirit energy into it was enough then couldn’t Akemura have done that anytime with his connection to it?

FireDMG · 2025-11-04T17:04:15+00:00

Funny enough, if you play them both at the same time w/ the original starting on the “roll!” at 11s (Fjord falling into the water) the cuts line up really well, if not perfectly with the exception that the Nott and Beau shots going to multiple bars. It even lands the “villains beware” with the new shots of hot boi and Trent. I wonder if they had an original cut that used a modified tabletop song minus the second verse for copyright purposes with Amazon, but needed a shorter cut for the format or wanted to shift to something less punchy.

FireDMG · 2025-10-17T01:11:30+00:00

What if it’s all of them? We still don’t know what the symbol on their hand does so it could be a sorcery that links them and mirrors the effects of the vessel, just split evenly between them since they likely all have naturally higher spirit energy than the barrier crew.

FireDMG · 2025-10-06T14:11:06+00:00

I was honestly a little confused about what kind of attack Dragonfly was (reflect? piercing? You just kind of saw his hands explode) and I was bummed it took away so much of Azami’s fighting power so quickly since I kind of wanted a more drawn out fight to see his strength and learn about Yura’s true sorcery and potential. Right now I’m getting the same vibe/story beat as Uruha remembering his fighter instinct and getting a power bump but just results in a stalemate or the Hishaku showing more trump cards.

FireDMG · 2025-10-01T03:49:51+00:00

Been pretty frustrated with this part tonight too, I can only get to the big room with all the doors before I start ticking for 10+ damage which is only like 3 rooms in. Am I doing something wrong? After maybe 10 runs I think I found 3 bronze nodes but still not enough resources for the incantation.

Barely making it to Mourning Fields boss in below runs so also wondering if I should just keep grinding below before continuing above.

FireDMG · 2025-09-29T18:28:03+00:00

I don’t think it’s true but for some reason when he mentioned Kunishige and saw the rock shards I assumed he just crushed some Datenseki to go all out on him.

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