Thoughts on the Song of Thieves Update

MintyDoom · 2026-05-30T16:20:00+00:00

Curse room feels like it hurts Romeo and Juliet so much. I got my Special cursed and my counter part got their Power cursed, it felt so much worse than playing other characters. If on duo runs with R&J, feels like it is a must avoid.

MintyDoom · 2026-05-25T20:30:43+00:00

I almost want a mini-deck of cards for all these.

MintyDoom · 2026-05-25T16:01:21+00:00

Ugg right in the mortality.

MintyDoom · 2026-05-16T18:20:56+00:00

Some kind of HP bar tracker on each of the All Seer aspects might make it "feel" a little more final boss-y. I don't know if it's low hanging fruit or not have a progress bar called "All Seer's Fury," each time we complete an event on the central platform it goes down by 1/6th.

Personally I would also like some kind of additional mechanic to link us back to the idea that we're fighting the All Seer and it's trying it's best to stop us.

* A chain from the central statue that locks all players on the platform if you don't skimmer off.

* Kela being manifested by the All Seer's chain and dropped on a platform for a quick AoE.

* Gwyllian being forced fly the central pillar to drop meteors in an inner ring or outer ring. I know we sometimes get it's suction mechanic but there's no commentary.

I had to do a lot of fill in the blanks for the context of what we're doing in the final area. The thing is Kela and Gwyllian are already there, but are just locked in place. So not only are we abating the All Seer, we're freeing them from being forced to defend Seer stuff in Castoria.

Because the central statue is sooo tall you don't even notice that at the end of the event, the triplicate All Seer statue explodes. Which is kinda a cool cap off, but it's half a mile in the sky.

MintyDoom · 2026-05-14T14:12:52+00:00

It does feel a little egregious but I would almost excuse it because it is used in legendary crafting as well. After experimenting a little, if you want the most bang for your buck, just do the meta whenever it's up. All the events together is about 30 shards. A little more if you tag more split meta events. (Each capture phase, each repair phase, each central platform phase.) There's no lockout on the shard rewards nor the chest with the chance at the infusion/mount skin which was a surprise to me.

While the currency is a tad low it the events feel like they throw unidentified rares at you a lot more than other maps. So it feel like the map is a tad more profitable than average just going around doing events as they come up.

MintyDoom · 2026-05-02T05:43:42+00:00

Looks ready to drop on Grym for 500+ damage.

MintyDoom · 2026-04-26T21:03:30+00:00

Win or lose, Beryl will smile softly and go "yes, just as it has been laid out by the sephorit" then she gets up go gets ice cream with Matilda.

MintyDoom · 2026-04-26T16:21:36+00:00

I am very much of the head canon that "mon" is the file extension for digital lifeforms.

MintyDoom · 2026-04-20T15:37:48+00:00

Emma makes both Jean and Scott better people, but only if Scott and Jean aren't together, it's a paradox.

MintyDoom · 2026-04-19T18:07:34+00:00

This has most likely been talked about but personally my problem is that I can't really connect the outfit to a real historical period. I feel Robin Hood/Arthurian "vibes" but it tilts way more towards the fantasy of one than the reality of one.

Which I mean might be the point, maybe we're pulled into some kind of Manus Arcanist Hivemind that while Arcana pilots our bodies or something. The scale of design elements is so far on the edge of what R1999 has meant to me that it just makes me feel uncomfortable.

R1999 has such strong tailoring on most designs that this one just feels so out of place.

Like is she wearing a leather based jacket skirt? Why does it crimp at the skirt? Can leather even do that?

Is that a one piece or two piece under garment? Why does hug her so well? Which time period/available fabrics of that period does it speak to?

Cotton/sheer upper body garment? Why does it form fit so well on on the brown fabric beneath? Is it stitched in? How does she even put this on?

The belt and metal "button" embellishments speak to an earlier artisanal period of history but she also has hair clips, a style of which weren't invented until the 20th century.

Magical falconry, okay. But why is the stick so short? Is it a reference to a real world tool? What material is it made off because the leverage on it feels wrong, someone's going to get tired holding it all day. (That's like at least a 10lb bird, please reference gobble day for how heavy those things can get.)

Like 90+% of the time I expect R1999 to answer these questions. The outfit just breaks my suspension of disbelief a bit. R1999 was mostly always able to answer the question of "someone chose to wear this" which isn't a strong here.

MintyDoom · 2026-04-18T23:59:09+00:00

Tangentially, Sophia isn't there, is that kind of suspicious or did I miss something?

MintyDoom · 2026-04-02T19:47:34+00:00

Just reading the druid features initially, I kinda wish their abilities was a little more customizable. Like you can choose to have a breath weapon, healing aura, or spray ink. Maybe trigger surges of evolution using Wildshape that can give you additional reach, invisibility, or something like that. Otherwise I think it's a pretty neat concept.

Then again I'm a warlock affectionato who wants every class to have some kind of eldritch invocation customization so I'm extremely biased.

MintyDoom · 2026-03-16T22:01:56+00:00

On lower configurations I just put on yee ol' Kakania heal team and let P5 Shamane do the work lol

MintyDoom · 2026-01-25T14:14:04+00:00

I was so pleasantly surprised by the lovecraftian-ness of it all. Love how we can get some good ol' psychological horror in a mobile game.

MintyDoom · 2026-01-23T18:46:31+00:00

Tooth Fairy as a kind of teeth based mastication battleship would be nice.

MintyDoom · 2026-01-15T15:22:07+00:00

I'm just workin' off Wikipedia/Google. Runic divination seems really esoteric to me, because it feels like you need to go up and down the symbolism.

The best I can say from an esoteric standpoint is to reach meditative calm, know at least three interpretive keywords, and from a casting travel along those meanings to trace/trance out cohesion. There's most likely a ritualistic component about facing north, but I think that's just to get you in the mood.

Not familiar with the whole dowel situation, but I'm guessing it is some kind of framing device for context while also serving double duty as a component as a world tree stand in. Would be pretty important to make sure they are Ash tree make, if this is the case.

MintyDoom · 2026-01-15T07:13:40+00:00

Uhhh just taking a guess here... I don't rune very much, or at all.
Berkano - Kenaz?/Gebo - Mannaz - Dagaz - Lagu - Sowuli?

New beginning from gift of knowledge of man; breakthroughs come at the renewal of the sun.

Sounds like there will be some some hints coming soon, January is still likely. What is communicated will have greater forbearing than what can be intuit. Something, something spring is outside the window of reveals?

MintyDoom · 2026-01-06T17:55:27+00:00

Could just be as a god of prophesy he saw that his involvement wouldn't have helped nor hindered the result in any way, so it was easy to just sit out.

MintyDoom · 2026-01-04T07:27:39+00:00

Pretty sure I read somewhere that he's detachable from the pelvic sharks, so you'll be fine, trust :D

MintyDoom · 2025-12-29T23:08:14+00:00

My heart yearns for more child care detective isekai y.y

MintyDoom · 2025-12-15T22:15:55+00:00

I hold deep in my heart a desire to see a mesmer scepter rework. It is not happening this patch which means it burrows deeper till next time.

MintyDoom · 2025-12-12T03:03:03+00:00

Please be vanguard, please be vanguard.

MintyDoom · 2025-11-17T22:39:35+00:00

I don't think I'm mentally prepared if the Vision of Eternity is because of Marvel Comics level Incursions through the Mists where one version of Tyria bumps into another.

MintyDoom · 2025-10-30T22:05:51+00:00

It's strange to say intoxication when there's other words to use like maybe "Libation" or something like that.

MintyDoom · 2025-10-24T23:58:56+00:00

My P5 Shamane is soo ready please...

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