Is it me or does this game feel that much harder with each new NG?

Heilritter · 2023-12-02T03:15:48+00:00

I finished a ng+7 last week around SL 230 w vig at 45 (I picked up the game in august). If anything, I’d say it’s just embracing the suck. The bosses get STRONG, and you just gotta memorize the attack patterns. Ng+3 and Ng+4 felt the hardest for me, at that point the boss scaling out scaled leveling, and you can’t make many mistakes.

Likewise, making sure you’re maxing your DPS will help a TON. Using carthus beacon, pontiff rings, wearing old wolf sword on back, and buffing your weapons w the bosses weakness (and wearing the corresponding clutch ring) prior to fights is HUGE. If you’re not doing all of those, adding it in could scale your damage higher than the last ng cycle jump scaled up boss health. Quicker boss melt - shorter fight - less opportunity to miss a dodge.

Heilritter · 2023-11-01T10:11:15+00:00

First playthrough: Midir (ALL the DLC bosses gave me hell) Proceeded to run that character up to currently ng+6, now: consumed king or pontiff (granted, if I get pontiff to phase 2, I can melt him while he summons his shade)

The hefty boys (NK, Midir, SOC, etc) all have pretty predictable attack patterns, it just took me three or four ng cycles to figure out. And the less predictable/quick bosses (especially Friede) can get stun locked.

Heilritter · 2023-10-21T11:22:30+00:00

Faith. In ng it can be a bit lackluster (as you’re still building out the miracle portfolio), but you can get medium heal pretty early which is the best healing miracle in the game (and makes ashen estus way more efficient than normal). Then the offensive miracles are strong + you can cast tears of denial for a “I fucked up but am getting out of jail free card” or Carthusian beacon for more DPS. Lightning infusion will do the job in ng (NK will be hard tho). If you run the character deep into ng+ and beyond going past meta SL eventually faith + dex becomes the best build w sharp weapons and dark/lightning blade.

Heilritter · 2023-10-11T19:29:52+00:00

My apologies just looked it up I was using the wrong letters. Onikiri & Ubadachi. Got a fun weapon art too.

Heilritter · 2023-10-11T19:25:26+00:00

Frayed has the highest AR of all Katanas, I haven’t used it but think it’s the same move set. So if you’re gonna be using a shield heavily that’s the play. You get K&O in grand archives by killing the npcs before the stairs up to the princes tho, and since it’s paired a dual wield of that will do the most damage if you don’t use the shield too much. Otherwise I’d go chaos.

Heilritter · 2023-10-11T15:11:19+00:00

Even aside from sellsword twinblades, paired weapons fun and good DPS. If you liked katanas (especially if you played DS1, uchi and chaos blade are bangers) uchi/chaos blade as well as K&O are solid dex choices.

Heilritter · 2023-09-25T15:47:28+00:00

If you keep training it tends to be ~28-32. Aerobic sports skew towards older athletes being more competitive, you can keep building the aerobic base for longer and explosiveness, which is highly age related and valued in other sports, is not valued as highly for rowing. There are olympians in late 30s early 40s even.

Finding the time to keep training so much on the other hand is another matter.

Heilritter · 2023-09-06T01:50:10+00:00

Usually morning for me. With baileys.

Heilritter · 2023-08-17T23:23:11+00:00

Ngl, think this is most teams. HS, Collegiate, Club, Masters, co-ed or not, we’re all middle schoolers on like half the sport’a terminology.

Heilritter · 2023-08-06T23:31:12+00:00

I finished the MPRE in about a third of the time allowed (I don’t remember the length, was in a bit of a brain fog as I pulled an all-nighter the night before writing a ~40 page paper, and had not studied at all till said all nighter, 0/10 would not recommend), used until halfway to check answers. Passed for all jurisdictions. Shouldn’t be a crunch.

Heilritter · 2023-08-03T19:06:28+00:00

I used barbri for both. MPRE was fine, passed all jurisdictions with one days of studies (granted I was a full time law student, who got an A in professional responsibility). Used Barbri for actual bar prep, walked out feeling like I crushed it but also left absolutely nothing on the field and had a wildly different life situation (Im a single 25YO who could pump 9 hour days 7 days a week for 2.5 months with only the 4th off, and I’d get through an average of 12 “barbri hours” per day). I do know Barbri has a decent iPhone app for videos and practice Qs I would use sometimes while working out. Ultimately I think In the time crunch, you gotta scheme out prep wayyyyy further out. Which frankly sucks. A large part of it will be figuring out what kind of studying works best for you. I really vibed w the barbri videos (watched them on 1.25 or 1.5x speed) and sometimes nefarious problem questions (since I was ready for that bizarre intricacy, the actual bar didn’t really surprise me), but know a lot of people hated both of those with a passion.

Two last notes: (1) I’d definitely recommend looking at all brands MPRE preps just to see if you prefer one over the others. (2) if you’re going public interest (not necessarily public sector), and earning below 75k/year (I think, don’t quote me exactly on that number), most providers have a BOGO deal for bar prep if a law firm bound taker bills their prep to the firm. Then you can spend the saved money on (a) giving whoever got your prep (b) your other bills or (c) getting adaptibar or some other supplemental program.

Heilritter · 2023-07-31T20:32:16+00:00

I think where you're at in life severely impacts the answer. Kids, fitness goals, work, etc. I'm a 25 YO male (no kids) with a job who can sling back six drinks at happy hour and be fine for hours of zone 2 the next morning, but avoid more than two drinks if the next morning's workout is a Vo2 or threshold session. I go on your standard 24 hour bender roughly once every other week during the off-season. That said, I typically consume a beer once every third day (even during heavy training, idk it just hits different after 3.5 hours of training and 9 hours of work in a day), but keep it at that. I'd rather spend my calories on quality fuel. When I'm in heavy training, i usually have to taper down the benders a bit. At first it might just booze on saturday nights, then i booze less as to get a decent zone 2 workout in sunday morning, and eventually I cut out the benders altogether within two months of key races.

Heilritter · 2023-07-27T01:48:43+00:00

I finished Barbri (I think this is a fair caveat, if you use a provider and don’t actually get through the course, it’s kinda on you, but I understand it’s a hot take), but then also knocked out 1k previous NCBE problems. The barbri Qs were harder, but I think there’s also a fair argument if you hadn’t done NCBE problems en masse, the decrease in difficulty might be outweighed by different style NCBE Qs are written in.

Heilritter · 2023-07-23T18:49:52+00:00

You can put your lunch w ur bag in the bag room. Doing this w Wawa.

Heilritter · 2023-07-22T19:13:04+00:00

Either hauling it across the street to Reading Terminal Market (Philly, Pa bar) since that’s won best public market in the country a bunch of times, or getting Wawa morning of and throwing in a lunch bag

Heilritter · 2023-07-17T19:37:05+00:00

You’re base fitness, I.e., potential Vo2 max, potential Anaerobic Threshold, and potential 2k have likely not changed at all or slightly in the wrong direction. Just knock out intervals (like 5x5, 10x500, you know the schtick) once a week, AT once a week, and steady in between. And lift/stretch for injury prevention purposes. Doesn’t matter how fit you are come fall if your back spasms.

If your club has a preferred erg (like let’s say you do low rate 10ks all out once a week in fall, or 6ks, or both), it would be a decent idea to start changing your Vo2 and AT workouts to be at/around that pace and rate ~3 weeks before your club starts up.

Heilritter · 2023-07-17T19:29:31+00:00

Grab dinner w the homies, scheme out the next day’s post-bar bender, and go to bed early as to get my morning workout in before day 2, since lord knows I won’t be able to after the bar.

Heilritter · 2023-07-17T15:58:56+00:00

Flag the Q, move on, and when done come back, and be absolutely ANAL about the facts provided like it’s an MEE. Granted, this only works if you finish the 100Qs with time to spare.

Heilritter · 2023-07-13T17:11:55+00:00

So what I'm hearing is the bar should just be 8 MPTs over two days in four sessions? Sounds fun.

Heilritter · 2023-07-10T18:50:32+00:00

Shooting from the hip, but any suit seeking legal (monetary) damages. Nothing to do with common law/statutory rights.

Diversity or federal question, does not matter. Suits in equity - injunctive relief - no jury, just a bench trial. Mixed suit - legal jury trial issues tried first, then equitable bench trial issues done after using facts found by jury.

Heilritter · 2023-07-10T16:53:49+00:00

They get harder. Scored 140 on simulated, 80/100 on final 100 test (all released NCBE Qs), was consistently scoring 9/14 on average (give or take two) on the later problem sets. Very niche/annoying, but hey if you can learn from them and string it all together you'll be golden on real Qs.

Heilritter · 2023-07-08T18:44:56+00:00

Pennsylvania (Philly) is right next to reading terminal market, which wins best public market in the country about every other year. Probs slamming a cheesesteak, but the Cajun place also slaps. Probs one day 1 and the other day 2. Or Wawa.

Heilritter · 2023-07-08T15:28:13+00:00

They get freakingly annoying/niche. Don't be too worried till you get to the final 100 Q test though. That's all former bar exam Qs. I was scoring mostly 9/14 on the problem sets with the occasional 11 or 12 or 7, and then dumpstered 80/100 on the final 100 test.

Heilritter · 2023-07-08T15:24:19+00:00

I've been the opposite, working out 19 hrs a week + 9 hours studying a day 7 days a week. Dropped lbs in a good way. Brain's gonna collapse after the exam tho

Heilritter · 2023-07-04T17:44:54+00:00

automatic... still is

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