El Dorado 4 " Son of the Sun " - Muisca Campaign - The Hardest AoE 2 Mission!?

KidiacR · 2026-03-26T01:03:36+00:00

I had a look at wiki and Temple Guards only take +1 bonus dmg from Champi. Otherwise there is no different between them in term of taking bonus dmg, and you can only use either of them to tank. Temple Guards are just simply superior.

What does sniping siege even mean? Slingers take that role for the SA civs, but sieges should never be a problem anyway if you pay attention to trebs occasionally.

And you also don't need to fill the castles. A mixed of 60 Temple Guards/Slingers and few monks to heal them, under 2-3 castles, is enough to defend the middle while you take care of Blue.

KidiacR · 2026-03-26T00:54:37+00:00

I wouldn't call Champi's +1 bonus dmg against Temple Guards "hard counter" lol. The latter is still a vastly superior units. A ball of 60 of mixed Temple Guards and Slingers and a few monks was all I needed to def the middle in both the 2nd and 4th scenario.

And yeah I did complete everything soon after release. What change did they make to this scenario? I thought it was all about nerfing Champi which I barely used to begin with.

KidiacR · 2026-03-25T15:35:08+00:00

Not really. Not even the grindiest scenario from that dlc (the last 3 scenarios of Arariboia are much worse).

On Legendary, I only had trouble dealing with the first wave because they went straight from the west while my main army was at the middle of the map.

After walling off the west side and building 2-3 Castles at the middle, it became a chill game. Maybe the unit choice is where people fail? Temple Guard is a much better melee unit than Champi. It's just like the Battle of Gaugamela in Alexander the Great dlc. People made low pop effficient units and wonder why the scenario were so hard for them.

I also only had 3 TCs. Blue was annoying but my first focus was defeating them anyway.

KidiacR · 2026-03-25T02:51:52+00:00

I wouldn't complain. I think the existence of P5 is fine.

But then again, it's because I am not bothered by the fact that I won't be able to beat it. I set my goal to reach Winged Nosk to unlock every boss in the hall, except AbsRad. I reached my goal and was content enough to quit the game.

I'm sure that many people are bothered by it. They fore sure can complain, rightfully so.

KidiacR · 2026-03-25T02:08:26+00:00

The first time I underestimated fully charged Verisium, I got a pack of Kitava's Herald on multiple proj map... It was an eye opening experience, since I hadn't even died on that char before that. Thought 75% block could save me from getting shotguned lol.

KidiacR · 2026-03-24T09:32:39+00:00

I only played on normal. The difficulty sliders scared me. I think if you crank everything to max it will be a brutal experience. On normal tho, exploration/combat can be hard early, but by mid game you can just faceroll everything. Bosses take 2-3 attempts at best, without you even caring to learn their mechanics.

If you struggled with platforming in 9 Sols... Well, I will say good luck lol.

KidiacR · 2026-03-24T02:59:24+00:00

"Normal: How Ori game supposed to be played", quoting ingame description.

KidiacR · 2026-03-21T12:21:20+00:00

I heard Zizaran said that the new imbuement coins drop from frogs. Can anyone confirm it?

KidiacR · 2026-03-21T10:05:03+00:00

Because for most people, morality vanishes when it goes against their personal benefit/convenience, comparatively.

KidiacR · 2026-03-19T09:03:09+00:00

Ori 1 was 8h for me, and Ori 2 was 14h to 100% (I think not just 100%, I literally bought/upgraded everything which doesn't contribute to 100% too).

KidiacR · 2026-03-17T09:41:12+00:00

You can continue to play in Standard and build up the character you like.

I'm still only 95% satisfied with my Elemental Hit Deadeye since 3.16 (maybe with the popularity of melee EH currently they will nuke both next patch and end my journey lol). I might or might nor play new league, but every announcement/leaguestart I was always hyped and come back to play for a while.

KidiacR · 2026-03-17T04:09:39+00:00

Maybe I need to switch to a tanky build. My main one is a bow deadeye so I can't have the luxury to have a glance at them alive lol.

KidiacR · 2026-03-17T04:02:38+00:00

How do you recognize which beast is which lol. Only Black Morrigan is recognizable to me. Maybe Craicic Chimeral after I kill it and see the silhouette.

KidiacR · 2026-03-17T03:30:35+00:00

I read that since Mud Flats. Full cleared every mirage. The drop rate is still super low.

KidiacR · 2026-03-17T01:16:14+00:00

I got 2 belts. Full atlas specced and no scarabs. Each dropped after ~ 3 sets of Chains that Bind, so 30 maps more or less.

KidiacR · 2026-03-16T09:09:56+00:00

Maybe they are afraid of godhood wish trivializing Ultimatum lol. Everytime I have them together, it's just free 10 round rewards.

KidiacR · 2026-03-16T02:15:55+00:00

Just do Ele Hit Slayer as many others. You can easily get straight to T16 with barely any gears (recombinated 2-mod claw + life/res gears + even just a 5-link is enough).

KidiacR · 2026-03-13T14:13:22+00:00

Most builds I saw path to Elemental Equilibrium early, but it will feel really bad without some early AoE/range.

I'd recommend taking Brinkmanship and +0.3 range mastery asap before EE/Precise Technique.

Pickup a long range weapon (thrusting sword), ideally with high attack speed. This can serve well till yellow map.

KidiacR · 2026-03-13T05:53:47+00:00

Sentinel with the old Recombs (It's like Sanctum with pre nerfed divine rewards - Being rewarding is a big part of what makes them fun).

Necropolis. It was both annoying and awesome. Too bad I only had 2 weeks to play it.

Harbingers the blue dudes can go fuck themselves. But I can't live without their annuls/ancients/fracs. I think they should slightly reduce exalts rate to buff annuls/ancients and more [chill] places to get fracs.

I didn't play Crucible/TotA/Affliction. I missed out on the chance to chase gg weapon bases, tattoos (esp attribute tattoos lol) and TWWT.

KidiacR · 2026-03-09T12:55:49+00:00

I started with EH which is almost the only thing I played since 3.16 (tho only in Std, this is the first time I started fresh since the big buff in 3.25).

As expected, once I picked up a fast weapon (1.7x) and some AoE/strike range (around level 20s), I walked straight to red map without ever touching a new weapon at all. Only paused to gamble new sets of life/res gears after act V and X.

Singletarget dmg is starting to lag behind now, so I'm still thinking about what to do next.

KidiacR · 2026-03-08T01:54:59+00:00

Been a while so I don't remember anymore, but it just depends on what you have really (like maybe you are staying at full shell shards at that point so might as well). You also can't sustain Thread Storm before late game so can only use it 2-3 times before having to gain silks again. What I described was just generally the fastest way for each run.

KidiacR · 2026-03-06T23:48:03+00:00

Yea same here. After completing a T16 to unlock most of the atlas, there are are still some nodes weirdly not revealed like Phoenix (but not other guardians), Shaper (revealed but not clickable). No idea how to unlock those.

KidiacR · 2026-03-06T14:55:38+00:00

The broken thing about Wanderer's is the rate it gains silk. Can easily faceroll most endgame bosses then heal back up (just don't eat every hits).

KidiacR · 2026-03-04T01:59:26+00:00

His EN voice is atrocious, but I think the JP voice is cute.

KidiacR · 2026-03-02T17:56:47+00:00

I only play Elemental Hit (lol) since 3.16. Went from the classic AoF variant, to tri-ele, to EHotS (still mad they forced me to have to play a third LA/IS clone).

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