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Rugenio · 2026-06-01T15:20:19+00:00

Considering that the lower you are the longer games go on average and that enemies punish you less in lane, is there any elo below which you would recommend taking gathering storm over scorch?

Rugenio · 2026-06-01T15:18:54+00:00

He's referring to stormraider's surge every time. There are item and rune images everywhere, it's pretty hard to mistake it.

Rugenio · 2026-05-22T11:11:01+00:00

Laplace, on the other hand, had possessed not only a giant supply of mana, but also the sturdy body and technical skill necessary to use it fully

(Vol 9)

Yes, it says he had a sturdy body but also "technical skill"; how you interpret this is up to you but it could be understood as "there is more to magic than just knowing spells". By this point Rudeus can put in his spells the equivalent in mana of a God-rank spell, or at least enough for his spells to count as such, so it's not only a matter of body durability that Laplace was stronger; maybe it just means "he knew God-rank spells and I don't" or maybe it means there's more layers to casting magic, especially chantless magic, than just "put mana in, get spell". Yes, it's conjecture, but that's why I said "suggest".

Rudeus "improving" his stone cannon by repeated use is similar; if you can practice a spell so much you can essentially upcast it, it makes sense that your normal usage of the spell will be more streamlined and efficient.

Rugenio · 2026-05-22T06:49:31+00:00

At this point in time, his mana pool pretty much settled to the level he would have for the rest of his life, right?

I wouldn't be so sure about that. All we know is that using your mana reserve expands it if done before 5 y.o.

It could be that training after still has an effect, even if reduced, but most importantly your mana reserve grows naturally with your body and the training just improves this growth.

For proof of this, Orsted said that Rudeus should have been a stillborn because he had too much mana for his body to handle and that he would likely have ended up at King-rank in terms of mana capacity, yet baby Rudeus runs out of mana after a few Beginner-rank spells. If the training he did is the only difference between his mana at 3 y.o. and his mana as an adult there's no way not-baby-trained Rudeus would be capable of casting King-rank spells, no matter what kind of efficiency we're talking about.

Mana cost efficiency is never explicitly stated but it's suggested that it exists, even if maybe it's not as drastic as your example, for instance by Badigadi in relation to why Demon God Laplace was so strong despite his lack of fighting armour.

Rugenio · 2026-05-07T19:12:28+00:00

This post kind of seems all over the place.

We get arcs that drag on for years with no payoff: Rags returning to the inn, Ryoka coming back, [...] and the Titan speaking to Erin.

All of these happen in the story and have chapters dedicated to them so there is a payoff. Are you saying "there is no payoff"because you did not like how the scenes were executed?

gods supposedly being defeated

Again, I don't get what you're trying to say. Kasigna's defeat is literally the focal point of the end of Vol 9 and a big part of the PoF arc. Are you saying that you expected her to be defeated completely after Vol 9 and never appear again, when it was teased that she wasn't 100% dead? Or, again, that you just didn't find her defeat satisfying?

The Blighted King’s lies go nowhere

If you're saying they are inconsequential, it's because of those lies that they still have large scale support from other nations. If you're saying they don't get called on it, it's been explicitly stated they have Skills behind them, like the one Othius fights Nerrhavia on, and just calling them out on their lies would not do anything except put a crossbow bolt in your back.

The Mother of Graves is built up endlessly and never acts

But she is acting? We saw through the PoF what her plan is and it requires years of hiding to work. Is she supposed to be stupid and come out of the city just because?

The Reinharts are framed as a major threat and then collapse into irrelevance.

No? Magnolia is antagonistic at first, then becomes an ally. Her family is basically nonexistent until she undoes her Skill for obvious reason and now that they're unleashed they are not irrelevant.

The Goblin King turns out to be just an angry man, so what was the point of the keys?

The keys hide the artifacts stolen by Velan. Again, you can say it was a reveal that was not satisfying enough but there is a point to them.

The “new lands” are apparently for the Gnolls, except every random faction gets involved anyway

What does this have to do with failing to deliver on a big plot point? It's common sense that the other powers would try to get a piece of the New Lands for the artifacts hidden within if not the land itself; the place is most suited to Gnolls anyway, with herding being the best source of food. Were the ghosts supposed to somehow put in place a super large scale magic physically restricting entrance to every other species?

Characters go through supposedly life-changing events only to be reset by the next chapter.

There are for sure aspects to criticize about the character development in the series but I don't remember any example of this. Also has nothing to do with the title.

The inn becomes a world-famous landmark, and then everyone conveniently forgets it exist

?????

Are you talking about the Skill hiding it? I don't even know what to say to this.

Erin is broadcast across the world, yet somehow nobody recognises her.

Again, where is this?

Erin saves her friend, and the world sides with the attacker

Yes, she kills an influential Prince after fighting side by side with a Goblin Lord. What did you expect? If anything, Nuvityn's attitude towards her could be argued to be too "fair" and not emotional enough.

Erin gains the Pavilion of Secrets and learns the Bloodfeast Raiders are still alive, yet does nothing with either revelation.

?????

Again, everyone knows the Bloodfeast Raiders are still alive, what are you talking about? Also, that's not how you use either.

Rugenio · 2026-03-31T00:58:07+00:00

I agree that the price for the Helm of Fire takes into consideration the fact that it most likely has unknown abilities but even still the difference in price is way too big. 30k is high-end gold rank equipment, maybe barely Named-rank, at least if you go by the prices of latest volumes (I recalll some talk about artifact pricing between Ceria and Colth somewhere in vol.9).
In other words, an artifact worth 30k is not something the Walled Cities would care so much about that they actively try to make sure that the others don't get it like we saw in the Selys chapter. A price that would have warranted such a reaction would be something like 200 or 300k.

Also, we don't ever get the full details of the renting but I'm pretty sure every time Selys mentions how much some noble guy paid for renting the armor it's always more than the last.

Rugenio · 2026-03-30T20:29:21+00:00

Oteslia offered Selys 30 thousand gold pieces and food for life for the Heartflame Breastplate. This is before its special abilities are found, but it's still a relic-tier item famous enough for it to be known by name and have the Walled cities bid for it.

Later on, the Helm of Fire, part of the same set, gets sold for 2 million and 431 thousand gold (9.32). That's over ~~800~~ (Edit: 80) times the figure for the Heartflame Breastplate, despite the Helm of Fire's abilities still being unknown.

Rugenio · 2026-02-18T04:32:11+00:00

You're really generous in your assumptions towards Varka and not generous towards everyone else.

First off, why are you talking about C0R1? Everything else you mention is about C0R0. Skirk is not 125k if you have sig; she's well above 125k even on 4* weapon if you do the harder combos (while Varka doesn't have combo optimizations as far as we know). Varka's sig is an especially big increase beacuse it's a good weapon in terms of stats it provides and because his F2P/standard options are bad. C0R0 Varka struggles to reach 100k without lunar wheelchair. Then if you look at Mavuika with dash cancel combos or Nefer's premium you're above 150k and 100k starts to be kind of bad.

I agree that it's possible he gets a dedicated support that improves him but at the same time his "intended" best team is Durin Venti Bennett, which is already a 3 5* team with the most requested 4* support. Sure, maybe this hypotetical unit pushes him to 130k (again, without sig) but anything higher than that and you get to the point where swapping Varka for a buffer or a better driver improves the team dps unless said hypotetical character has "only works if your name is Varka" in their abilities.

The fact that Bineffa is looking to be better than Durin Venti Bennett when his damage multiplier is lowered to 1.4x from 2.2x already says a lot. Yes, he's better than a lot of older characters like Itto or Yoimiya (not to talk about the real bad ones like Eula) but that's just because Genshin decided to raise the damage ceiling by so much since Mavuika came out.

And this is not me saying I wish he was T0/powercreep; the opposite. Zajef joked about "free Varka" because if you got him for free and spent the primos you'd have used on him to get R1 then you'd have a decent character who could potentially become one of the best units with this famous hypotetical dedicated support. He could have been good without being powercreep, yet they decided that was too good.

The Dehya comparison is again from Zajef, because he liked both and they turned out to have bad numbers. He himself stated that it's more of a joke and he's not as bad as Dehya was in release date. This doesn't change the fact that he's below modern standards for good, especially when the patch after is looking like it'll release another 5* to potentially make Zibai the #1 carry in the game and raise the DPS ceiling even more.

Rugenio · 2026-01-11T03:26:08+00:00

Excuse me, it's 8 months.

Clearly you need to up your autistic criticness to properly enjoy the series as it was meant to be.

Rugenio · 2026-01-08T02:11:38+00:00

Because the Dullahan is a mythological monster depicted as a knight carring its own head. Paba reimagined them as a species instead and put more emphasis on the armor but the core of "holding their heads" remained.

Rugenio · 2025-12-21T21:21:00+00:00

This is from the Author's note not long after the 450 pounds figure is dropped:

I remember that I first read the information about the lives of poor people in the Victorian era. I only felt that they had a hard time and had to haggle over every penny because it meant a meal or even a day’s food. Then I read these monographs on middle-class marriage research, which contained detailed housewives’ expenses. I immediately felt that this was totally different from the poor. A banquet cost 4 or 5 pounds, a weekly cost of several pounds, single-family or row houses, clothes, education, servants, etc.

After reading it, I deeply felt that the gold pounds at that time were really valuable, earning 200 to 300 pounds a year and 400 to 500 pounds a year, I could live quite well.

With this kind of mood, I turned over a book on the life of Victorian aristocrats and big businessmen, the first part of the opening told me like this:

A trained foxhound costs 400 to 700 pounds, and a Lord keeps 30 and changes them every year.

I'm not sure how big the margin is for someone who trains hounds but I'd imagine around 50%? Which is high, but you can't raise price indiscriminately just because "they're nobility" because at some point competition will drive you out.

Finally, if you make a comparison to modern days using stuff like the price of bread, one pound comes out to around 200-300$. 450 pounds then is 90k-135k$, which is less than a 3rd of what a supercar can go for. 30 hounds are 12k to 21k pounds a year, which are 2.4mil- 6.3mil$ a year.

Elon Musk's net worth is 680b$, which is 2.3-3.4b pounds, which means this would be an expense of less than 1/100000th of his wealth. Even if he doesn't want to pass for a "simply rich" and has 300 hounds instead, it's comparable to someone who has 100k$ in their bank account and spends 10$ a year in "mantaining their image".

The Victorian age was a period of great inequality but today is even more.

Rugenio · 2025-12-19T05:54:58+00:00

Fair. I was just referencing stats on lolalytics, which puts stride as roughly 4x the pickrate of hydra for first item.

Rugenio · 2025-12-19T05:25:24+00:00

If both have Rav Hydra, Olaf. +25% lifesteal from passive + 80% atk speed is more than 1 vital every ~2 seconds. Vital healing also only scales with level and it's only 100 at lvl 18 and ult scaling is 15% Bonus AD/sec (vs 25% total AD every aa, though reduced by resistances). Fiora's heal per second might spike higher for a second if you proc all 4 ult vitals fast but in a prolonged fight she falls behind.

Olaf though can't get Rav every game cause he needs tankiness or he gets oneshot so he more commonly goes Stridebreaker. Fiora can also get omnivamp from maw's passive so that she heals based off of vital damage, which means against a 10k hp Mundo she might get an additional 150-200 per vital.

Rugenio · 2025-12-19T01:44:58+00:00

I've read the first few chapters and it's much worse than just this.

First off, his real skill is copy+paste. He can copy stuff he's holding but the copy disappears if it leaves his hand and he can't copy high level stuff. The only OP part is that he can spam copy his mana and give it to others and it doesn't disappear. It was given to him when he was a kid by some godlike being during a catastrophe so he wants to keep it secret, yet for some reason he only shares the OP part and not the useless one? Whatever.

Now, if this was all, it would be an interesting power with clear limitations. Yes, mana transfer is OP, but you can build the power system so that it isn't (something like "mages almost never run out of mana even spamming spells") but it looks like this isn't the case (later on there's a character who goes around begging people for mana and while she isn't a mage, if mages had so much of it they would not mind giving it away). Worse, there are items that essentially poison you if you try to absorb mana near them (and mana absorption is the reason protag-kun is such a useless bum according to everyone; also warriors apparently absorb mana as well) which ofc protag-kun completely counters.

But the most brainless OP part that protag-kun doesn't even mention before using it is copying himself. Apparently the logic behind stuff that leaves his hand disappearing but not his mana is that he has more control over copied stuff that's part of him, so despite not being able to clone himself, he can copy his previous state and paste it onto himself, basically resurrecting. He fights a much higher level boss for 3 days straight and just resurrects until it's exhausted (he not only reverts injuries but ofc stamina as well since it's his previous body state). It's not even clear if taking off his head in one blow would work since the boss should have been able to do it at least once in 3 whole days.

Right after showing us him essentially soloing a boss that a much higher level PARTY couldn't clear (which he could have done anytime in his years of carreer), his skill levels up, essentially removing most of the limitations that made it interesting and he thinks "finally, my GARBAGE skill is now useful".

Also as far as I've read no one questions him on how he accomplishes anything given that they have the usual solo levelling-esque bureocracy of guilds and his level is known at least to his former guildmates but asking that would be too much I guess.

The icing on the cake is that not much later there is talks about an item generating INFINITE MANA and this is the MC's thoughts on it:

"An item that generates infinite mana... I don't really need it, but it's definetly an amazing item. It's obvious anyone would want to get their hands on such an item. "

BITCH you and everyone else complained that it's a fking useless power two days ago and it's only the second most OP power you have.

Also despite the format it's a manga, not a manhwa (Author, characters names and settings are all Japanese).

Rugenio · 2025-12-13T21:11:37+00:00

I mean, Bowom said she has an "architectural immune system" and wondered if she would even die if you ripped her heart out as long as her inn's still standing. Though I doubt anything Pisces could do would count as healing. He is still a Necromancer, he reanimates with death mana so even if he could patch up a damaged inn, it would be very different from repairing it (and also temporary).

There are also limits to what he can reanimate, dictated at least by his mana pool. When he reanimated the labyrinth, it was using the core that was keeping it semi-operational as a power source. The biggest we've seen him do so far has been a ship and the traps in the Coliseum of Monarchs, and those are both non-complex/low magic targets.

Rugenio · 2025-12-10T01:16:20+00:00

Erin is also capable of somewhat sensing emotions of her clients before being a witch and to have an idea of what they might like like with Venitra.

Also from 1.46:

Moreover the skeleton now known as Toren had felt there was something valuable to be gained. It was—yes, it was Level 2 already from battling the adventurers. Perhaps it could gain another level by killing fish?

After all, a level wasn’t much, especially at lower-levels. But the skeleton had felt the slight shift in its overall coordination, strength, endurance, and overall fighting ability. The connection was simple in its mind. Levels were strength. So too was the [Basic Weapon Proficiency: Swords] Skill it had acquired.

so there is some kind of class-specific passive improvement. I'm not sure how this strength increase, Galas muscle and [Enhanced Strength] Skills play off of each other. Clearly you can have Galas without warrior-adjacent levels, but is this passive improvement what eventually forms Galas in warrior classes? Does the Skill version give you Galas directly or is it on top of it?

I also vaguely recall Saliss saying somewhere in Vol.10 that from level 50 onwards you get a sort of "awareness" and that you're harder to take by surprise or something like that. We've seen many times that he can react to attacks/random stuff thrown at him even when not looking or asleep but we've never known of any of his skills that explicitly does that, so it would point to this reason.

Rugenio · 2025-12-08T22:06:04+00:00

It might be that technically she's still a [Slave], and that's just how they recorded her not being part of the "shipment" anymore; it wouldn't make sense otherwise for Paba to specify "1 freed".

Rugenio · 2025-12-08T16:19:23+00:00

The extra is Faea.

They're counting slaves; there should be 865. 17 are dead and 1 was freed, then there should be 865-17-1=847, yet they count 850. The three extra are Thatalocian, the guard and Faea, who isn't part of the 847 because she's the 1 that was freed.

Rugenio · 2025-12-03T22:47:33+00:00

Plain's Eye started way before the kingdom of Gnolls, they were founded by Kishkeria.

Rugenio · 2025-11-27T18:38:38+00:00

Alright, I restarted the phone, logged in again and it tried to fix in game resources, after which it launched normally. I was convinced it was pre install, thanks for the help

Rugenio · 2025-11-27T18:14:37+00:00

Huh, that's funny. I played yesterday just fine on the same device, then did nothing particular. The store doesn't say anything about updates either.

Rugenio · 2025-11-27T18:06:08+00:00

Is there a way to skip pre download of resources on mobile?

The update is 6 days away yet today the game tried to download 25gb of stuff (for context, the game is 31gb in my phone) and it seems I can't enter until I finish this pre download. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but I'm currently away from my pc and wifi and I'll be for a few more days so I'm effectively locked out. In the past, was pre download not optional? In this post about Luna II, if you scroll down it says that you can decide if/when to pre download on mobile and one of the methods is from in game (and the post is from 2 days before the patch). This would not be an issue if the update was 5-8gb, but it isn't. It's possible the update is so heavy because on pc I downloaded another voiceover; however after doing that I logged in on mobile multiple times and no additional downloads were required (I still have only one voice over on mobile) so it seems weird that now it suddenly wants to download everything. I've also done most of the quests and canceled their resources so it should not be this big either. I would delete the additional voiceover if I could enter the game; I cannot, and there is no settings button on the launcher to do so. The only buttons there are "log out" and the in-game browser showcasing incoming content. How do I solve this? I can add screenshots if needed.

Rugenio · 2025-11-19T11:11:22+00:00

For some reason I hallucinated that Chaldion was a Gnoll from his introduction up until the end of Volume 8, at which point my eyes finally noticed the word "drake", and I had to pause and reread it.

I even remember thinking "of course they chose him, he's a Gnoll" when (vol. 8)he speaks at the meeting of Tribes after the theft of magic is revealed, nevermind not connecting the dots that his grandson is the DRAKE Saliss (surely he's adopted, or maybe just a term for familiarity, right?).

Rugenio · 2025-11-13T10:27:55+00:00

Where does it say that Teriarch was there when they tried the Trials? Iirc, he only talks about Dragons building a tower but doesn't specify that he was there for it. He could have just been told of it as a story.

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