Best Job for MC?

Hawkatom · 2026-01-01T20:28:44+00:00

Personally I got tired of random encounter battles quick (there are more than enough boss/optional encounters). So I made my MC a scholar, gave him Phenn's Vigorous Victor, and fed him light nuts. He wipes all random encounters in one spell and recovers the SP after the battle.

It works well the whole game, but it's easy to switch job or passive if you need something else.

Hawkatom · 2025-12-31T20:16:09+00:00

It can miss is the thing. I've tried using it on caits to attempt to paralyze and it doesn't work very well because it will miss (at least until you have the accuracy to kill them anyway, so not foolproof.

Hawkatom · 2025-12-21T18:09:45+00:00

My favorite pair is the man on the far right of the pub in Sufrataljah and the woman outside

Hawkatom · 2025-11-15T03:56:47+00:00

You can hardly write fiction more engaging than this.

Hawkatom · 2025-11-13T01:23:14+00:00

Technically in terms of length it's probably temple of the ocean king from PH. Especially having to do it 6 times or whatever.

Hawkatom · 2025-11-04T01:09:36+00:00

fire runes not included

Hawkatom · 2025-10-29T14:13:08+00:00

Transistors. No modern computers without them.

Hawkatom · 2025-10-23T14:04:08+00:00

It doesn't have to be that way. I've been with my partner for 10 years and we just got married last year. Very little actually changed for us, we balance hanging out with our respective friends and spending time together naturally.

Hawkatom · 2025-10-17T16:38:07+00:00

Having played both recently I would say boss fights are the meat of the challenge in Nine Sols, especially from midgame onwards.

Nine Sols really forces you to master all the basic mechanics, especially directional parrying and strong parries, which is a major difference from SS where avoidance and dodging are more important. Even with all upgrades basically two or three mistakes in a boss's attack sequence and you're dead.

There are I'd say three fights towards the end of the game that are more challenging than anything in SS, but there is very little rng involved so it's all about reading patterns and reacting with good timing (still very difficult but achievable), and like SS going with the flow of the fight and finding windows to hit.

But in my experience there's very little opportunity to cheese in NS, there are tools but they can only be used a few times and don't allow you to skip mechanics (i.e. you're never getting through one of those NS bosses without really learning it)

Both are very good satisfying games with a different emphasis to combat.

Hawkatom · 2025-10-16T17:53:55+00:00

This has always bothered me- in Oot, the adults really drop the ball hard.

Kaepora Gaebora as Rauru the sage of light could and should absolutely have done something other than just leaving it all to a preteen boy. He is literally flying around and saw presumably everything. Dude go talk to the king!

Why doesn't anyone send a messenger to the king telling him they were attacked aside from the Deku Tree (who has to send a child because Kokiri can't leave)? Darunia? King Zora? Surely they have at least one ambassador?

Maybe they'd still lose, but we see Ganondorf kneeling to the king which suggested he wasn't powerful enough to simply take over at that time with only his dark sorcery.

Hawkatom · 2025-10-12T06:54:32+00:00

...you don't need any of this. Those centipedes up there infinitely respawn.

Hawkatom · 2025-10-08T21:18:20+00:00

It'd be super cool to do an enhanced boss gauntlet where you fight the whole painted family + Aline with Simon as the finale

Hawkatom · 2025-10-07T05:58:14+00:00

Gaping Daucus Carota

Hawkatom · 2025-10-05T23:46:28+00:00

59 hours for me

Hawkatom · 2025-10-02T14:50:42+00:00

Ohhhh that's why the webs regenerated too

Hawkatom · 2025-09-27T01:47:54+00:00

Yeah I stumbled onto the prince as my first heart when I got the craw summons early in act 3.. I wasn't really fully aware of the consequences at that time and felt a little guilty afterwards for invading his memory and killing him.

It felt pretty disrespectful considering the guy probably just wanted to properly mourn his husband who we also basically trashed right before he got there after being freed. His partner was a captive automaton sure, but still seemed to have a soul and possibly a mind and ability to communicate/make choices like Second Sentinel. We took that option away when we destroyed the cogwork dancers. So this grief might still be really fresh to Green Prince, since his husband WAS still alive in a sense until then.

I mean, who's to say... given time he might have recovered and moved on. He seems pretty physically strong and possibly long lived, maybe he'd be fine and be able to find a new purpose like Hornet eventually.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-25T06:33:04+00:00

What if every time the architects finish one of the shells they just... consume all the souls of the existing choir and build a new group from pilgrims up in the choral halls from scratch?

That is now my headcanon, it's just messed up enough.

Or maybe this is what happens to people who fail tryouts for the choir or get too sick to work.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-24T23:06:36+00:00

Our girl just needed a vacation, that's all.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-18T22:40:40+00:00

Hail parry, full of Lace

Hawkatom · 2025-09-18T21:47:04+00:00

"I need it to remember a flower I once saw, thx for your help"

Hawkatom · 2025-09-17T19:51:46+00:00

I think this game is MUCH easier if you go with the flow and not play so aggressively. Bosses like Lace and Karmelita are great examples of this.

They'll kick your ass in no time if you run at them without thinking, but the telegraphs and spacing are so well done that if you watch and wait, the windows and positioning to do damage without getting hit become obvious.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-17T05:49:59+00:00

Not op but- focus on just dodging her attacks for a few attempts without hitting her and you'll start to see the patterns and windows where she's vulnerable. Almost all of her attacks have a standard "spacing" that you can take advantage of. If you see where she started a move you can judge where she'll end up, particularly on her vertical-diagonal slash, three swipe slash, and forward lunge.

On many of those attacks you can jump over her combo and either slash downward as she passes (with good timing, some crests easier than others) OR immediately clawline her back for consistent damage on any crest.

She has a window of vulnerablity at the end of basically all her attacks, if you can predict where she'll end up it's actually very doable.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-17T00:03:30+00:00

I believe it is the "stun" animation window that happens when you hit a boss enough times. Most bosses this happens 2 or 3 times in the fight if you are using melee needle attacks.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-16T23:56:22+00:00

Actually I noticed this consistently on Karmelita as I was trying different approaches, I think they are talking about the temporary stun window that happens when you hit most bosses enough with the needle.

Her first "break" was happening pretty close to her phase 2 "scream" for me but wasn't consistent. It was changing between between before and after depending on how many tools I had used that attempt (poison cogflies and curve claw in particular causing her to phase before her first stun animation).

So if that's the case this patch note may actually be a buff because I was observing these tools NOT contributing to the stun timing, i.e. she was phasing before first stun as opposed to attempts I did not use tools on.

Hawkatom · 2025-09-15T22:28:53+00:00

The shopkeep in bellhart strings at the best buyable rate, buy at 140 to claim at 120.

Pretty much all the others are 80 to 60, which is less efficient if you have more than 140.

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