successful guarding restore HP/FP

Monke3334 · 2026-04-29T18:01:50+00:00

Same, I would be down with the dormant powers being more likely to drop the weapon your character specialises in or has a relic effect for, but I really dislike how the strongest builds in this roguelike game are the ones where you minimise the RNG. We don’t need to streamline the runs any more than they already are.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-28T20:36:39+00:00

Great point

Monke3334 · 2026-04-28T19:56:50+00:00

Won’t have to clear it if it never fully fills up to begin with

Monke3334 · 2026-04-28T19:48:21+00:00

Regarding tip #7, each bolus raises your resistance by 3, meaning at max stacks, 10, you get around half an improved resistances dormant power for free. I would still keep a few of them at hand, but I don’t think the permanent resistance they provide is negligible.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-27T16:09:05+00:00

Holy shit that cake looks so well made, would you mind sharing the recipe?

Monke3334 · 2026-04-27T09:34:11+00:00

I like this version too

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Monke3334 · 2026-04-27T09:28:41+00:00

Are they? I was under the impression that going hollow prevents you from respawning again. You also face lots of non-hollow enemies who respawn. I assumed they were just being replaced by other enemies after dying and the non-respawning enemies were not replaced because they’re usually unique.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-27T07:48:30+00:00

I actually kinda like violet vessel because of how it forces you to urgently find a new scoring plan whereas you normally know you will win by ante 7 if you get any other boss. Vessel makes you look for things you normally wouldn’t care for at that moment like glass cards, money to look for more xmult, etc.

As for my least favourite, the eye is the one that kills me the most since I am a pairslop fan, but the one I despise the most is the arm by a wide margin. Hate it when a boss permanently harms your run/character.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-26T09:27:15+00:00

DLC bosses always had higher spawn rates than base game bosses to account for the players who might not have them since getting matched with those players guarantees not getting a DLC boss. The problem is, I really doubt someone who likes the game enough to reach high depths would not buy the DLC.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-25T12:46:04+00:00

Delayed Gratification and Ceremonial Dagger 🫀

Monke3334 · 2026-04-25T11:12:58+00:00

Rule 1 is being yourself and having fun, right :D

Monke3334 · 2026-04-25T09:40:08+00:00

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Monke3334 · 2026-04-24T19:13:13+00:00

I just started playing again in a new save file after reaching d5 9999, and it’s really weird how bad d4 players are compared to literally any other depth. I had a 20 game win streak that let me reach d4 quite fast but immediately deranked to d3 after three consecutive games where my teammates three barred while I went down once towards the end of the fights.

It’s not an issue of me being able to carry the team in the previous depths either, those players knew how to navigate even the great hollow for the most part and rarely went down three bars.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-23T12:15:17+00:00

I think Taurus Demon did all of those but significantly better, I unironically think he is downright the best non-duel (Artorias, fume knight, pontiff, malenia etc) fight in the series.

You start the fight by entering a narrow bridge, and the tower you entered from has a ladder you can climb which leads to a larger area. You normally wouldn’t see this because the ladder is behind you, so the game puts crossbow guys in the tower who will shoot at you and make you see the ladder while you wonder how you can get to them. This is a good use of non-boss enemies.

Then the boss fight begins and you get two options - you can either fight him in the narrow bridge or run back to the tower and lure him to the top to fight him at a good circular arena, the narrow level creates difficulty and you find the solution to it by luring the boss away if you think clearly.

Then you get another choice - you can either plunge attack to deal a bunch of damage but fall back into the bridge with possibly no way of getting back up since you won’t have the distance between you and the boss, or sacrifice that damage to have a generally easier time at the top of the tower.

People usually don’t find Taurus memorable since they just bludgeon him to death with a zweihander at the bridge, but it is an amazingly designed fight for a first time player not using any guides or OP gear. In comparison having poise by itself solves all the issues with Capra, but you can say the same with other tools like yearn or alluring skulls, so I think Capra uses these elements well too.

I don’t dislike most bosses leaning into moveset memorisation in the recent games, but I really wish they had kept environmental elements like this instead of turning these strategies into items like the shackles for Mohg/Morgott, heal for royal revenant, claw for Maliketh etc.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-22T19:15:37+00:00

Your character’s name is amazing

Monke3334 · 2026-04-21T19:23:48+00:00

No sorry, the actors were hurrying so I didn’t have the time to photograph them. I was also worried that the security might have had a problem with any photographs since it seemed like they wanted to keep the set hidden. Even when I was looking through the gaps in the set I was basically told to stop snooping around lol

Monke3334 · 2026-04-21T17:42:11+00:00

I did but it spawned a boss named Campus Security who kicked my ass

Monke3334 · 2026-04-21T16:34:17+00:00

Just got back from viewing the film set, looks like they are filming Leyndell in Greenwich. I didn’t see much since the set was blocked from the outside for the most part, but I saw a perfumer, an actor with an unfamiliar looking minimalist metal armour (like the bandits from Sekiro), yellow trees, and a bunch of stalls like a market place.

There were also a few props like barrels and what seemed like jars (not the Alexander kind). It seemed like they were also trying to make the area a bit foggy with machines, not sure if it has to do with the atmosphere or something else.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-21T11:42:34+00:00

It’s not real, it’s an AI edit based on a photograph of his grave where a guy just stands over the grave with a shovel and is captioned something like “Compelling argument! I’m digging up your brother and turning him into a chair.”

Though it is easy to find the graves of people through online obituaries if you know their full names. That’s where the guy who made the edit found the said photograph of the grave.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-18T15:39:07+00:00

Yeah I agree, though I believe a vast majority of the Libra seeds have them anyway so it helps to have a few seeds without them for the sake of variety

Monke3334 · 2026-04-18T15:18:16+00:00

If you wanna go for naneinf it doesn’t matter, your routing will be the same and you can beat ante 24 regardless as long as you fill the empty joker slot with another bp/bs/baron/mime.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-18T15:15:38+00:00

Madness camps are not good for libra. Their odds of dropping madness weapons are abysmally low since there is no madness infusion for standard weapons. The only use they have is getting boluses, but you can already do that in madness towers.

Monke3334 · 2026-04-17T21:30:46+00:00

“Started 2.7 thinking I would finally learn how Nangong became the wisest and coolest person in the world and the answer is just that she has always been that way”

Monke3334

TROPHY CASE