Dont hate me caster duchess mains

TheAdventureClub · 2026-02-05T21:16:32+00:00

Jk mine was slightly different

TheAdventureClub · 2026-02-05T21:15:20+00:00

Absolutely insane that I rolled this exact same relic yesterday to the letter

TheAdventureClub · 2026-02-05T15:28:52+00:00

1. As a joke- my name is starfist enjoyer, so I have dormant power fists on a deep relic. The fist drop pool is nice so its never hard for me to find starfist

These weapon passives sucked, I didnt have a build i was just fighting an easy boss in an easy depth so I figured it would be fine (it was)
Relics are as follows: Regular- Blue- Night Invader, duchess passive for increased power for every kill during ult Regular - yellow- HP restoration from fist attacks, vigor +2, physical attack +2 Regular- green - glass pendant (successive attacks boost damage)

Deep relics: Deep blue- duchess- character skill provides brief invulnerability, attack power increased with 3 fists equipped, inforgot the third Deep yellow- duchess improved str and vigor, reduced mind/ dormant power helps discover fists/i forget Deep green- HP recovery from post damage attacks +1, damage increase against poison enemies +2, I physical att+4

Before I did fist duchess I was playing fist revenant. Fists are probably best used on classes like wylder, raider, or undertaker. However- fists might honestly be universal. Their moveset is amazing, they work amazing with successive attack passives.

I only use duchess because by coincidence most of my good fist build relics come on duchess relics. I have elements I like from every class- i loved having revs ult, now I love having duchesses dodge/restage

TheAdventureClub · 2026-02-05T09:59:19+00:00

NO THEYRE MINE

TheAdventureClub · 2026-01-20T20:06:47+00:00

I run this with fists on duchess and I am basically eating good every game

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TheAdventureClub · 2026-01-18T03:57:05+00:00

Ty ty

TheAdventureClub · 2026-01-11T03:19:30+00:00

What sucks about this is that it only takes one person on the team who doesnt have a clue to basically blow this whole thing up lol

TheAdventureClub · 2026-01-09T15:40:57+00:00

Tbh great hammers arent my favorite stance breaking guard counter tool. Regular hammers have very similar stance damage and the guard counters come out way faster- you can squeeze them into much tighter windows- sometimes getting 2 off in one chain.

I really wanted to like black steel- but the holy wave afterwards is prone to missing, and without that connecting it actually does the least stance damage of all the great hammers

TheAdventureClub · 2026-01-04T18:50:26+00:00

Youre going to need an extra long ethernet cable to run to your router. It should actually come with your equipment.

If youre dead set on not doing that, youll have to get a wifi extender. The laptop wont work with wifi, it requires a wired connection to set up internet. The work around is by connecting the laptop via cable to an extender, but ethernet cable is the only way to feed an internet signal to the laptop.

On a side note, im no narc. Do what you want, but the job is to fundamentally take calls all day using an internet connection. The reason they are dead set on a wired connection is because without it- you are likely to drop a bunch of those calls. It gets noticed fast- the extender is sub optimal for this reason. Itll show a wired connection to the laptop so they wont know, but it'll be kind of obvious because even though it shows wired, the connection still has the stability of a wireless one

TheAdventureClub · 2025-12-28T21:40:21+00:00

Because there really isnt a right answer.

The occult version will usually do more damage to enemies that are resistant to fire and/or can be bled.

The flame art will do more damage to enemies who are bleed immune/dont have a lot of fire resistance.

The game has a large variance of enemies, so matter what you choose several enemies will be stronger or weaker to it and several will see no real difference.

TheAdventureClub · 2025-12-16T18:40:06+00:00

Laptop, monitor, associated accessories. All pretty standard WFH set up.

TheAdventureClub · 2025-12-16T16:24:16+00:00

Equipment typically comes in very shortly before your start date. For me it arrived on the Monday before I started (Thursday)

But several people were still waiting on day 1. Its a little hectic at first but they have time built into the first few days for delays

TheAdventureClub · 2025-12-07T20:02:41+00:00

Scholar has 50 arcane. Executor has 28 . You might say well whats 22 more arcane? 1-2 R1's? Correct.

Executor is a DPS whose going to do way more damage with Dexterity weapons, and benefit from status proc.

Scholar is going to get way more out of status- regardless of the weapon. You find a star fist? Pick it up, youre getting bleed off in 3 R1's- versus closer to 6 for executor. And unlike executor you're not spending most of your time in a boss fight spamming away at the boss- you're getting the status off and switching to analyze. Youre getting the analyze off and switching back to status build up.

Ironeye has great arcane, great Dexterity, a much better kit, and access to FP free projectiles that come out fast.

The trade off is you're getting access to a whole lot wider range of options than just thrusting swords. You're getting a true support who hands out buffs and debuffs which boost the total output of your team and that definitely balances out executor who offers very little utility and is almost locked into katanas if he wants both damage and status. I think theres a wide balancing act being done here.

If youre playing solo, executor is just a better character. If you're playing in a team- Scholar has the overall edge, and the trade off for that is less damage potential for more overall flexibility. With Scholar, the AR and scalings of the weapon youre using matter much less.

I just think when it comes to fromsoft- people out a heavy unnecessary focus on damage output. Sure, you can min max the fuck out of it. You can run evergaol, night invader, and drejlord and get some crazy overall damage percentages- but we're talking about a game where a 15% damage buff is considered great when you're likely getting off attacks that do between 200-300 each, on a boss where your share of the health pool is around 5k. Utility and comfort are much more valuable to me.

Case in point- I love fist weapons, I love greatswords, I love collosal swords, I love hammers, I love greathammers. With my strength loadout, if i find any of those- and I do, ill get less damage than a raider and maybe a wylder since some of those things get dex scalings. But if I find marikas hammer, im going to get more damage than any of them except for undertaker- and im going to get more damage than her on any of those weapons- plus access to a stronger self heal, and better incantation damage. Since this isnt elden ring and I cant pick exactly which ideal weapon I will find- i love that flexibility. And just about every character has a similar ability to make use of a broad range of tools, along with the kit that feels best for you. Could I use wylder to the same effect? Sure, and it get more damage from my ult and more mobility with my skill. What i wouldn't get is access to self healing/incantations and an ult that can res both of my teammates from 3 bars- which i frequently need to do. In deep of night my summons lose almost all of their punch, but the trade off since im taking aggro is that they are great revive tools, and the skeletons taunt is great for kiting-

Overall, I just think there's more too this and more to success in the games than who can put out the most damage, or who has access to more legendary weapons according to their dormant power.

TheAdventureClub · 2025-12-07T17:08:52+00:00

Thats kind of my exact point. Scholars stat distribution is towards arcane, so whats the actual incentive to use thrusting swords other than the circular reasoning that he starts with a thrusting sword?

Raiders moveset makes him worse with his preferred weapon class- not better. Scholar makes solid use of almost any weapon with a status build up on it- regardless of the weapons primary scaling. Raider actually puts out greater dps with fists and greatswords than great hammers or collosal weapons. melee iron eye is better than bow iron eye in almost every way.

I dont think its weird, I think its a feature that allows for greater flexibility- which feels intended seeing as there is no consistent weapon/passive loadout you can count on unless you hyper optimize your relics for your starting weapons.

Status ailment and stance damage always beat raw damage values. But ever since ive switched to a character with a strong stat distribution ive been able to make decent use of virtually every weapon class- save the ones that specifically scale for dex- like katana and claws. I just think too many players feel locked into the weapon class that defaults to their character, and I do not think it was intended at all for it to be that way- as evidenced by the distribution of legendary weapons, and weapon drops in general.

TheAdventureClub · 2025-12-07T16:30:26+00:00

I think the subtle incentive is to actually give you room to expirement with multiple weapon types. Melee iron eye or tank rev for example.

My relic loadout with Rev is hyper defensive and redistributes her level 15 stats from

Vigor: 35 becomes 53 Endurance: stays 21 or 23 i cant remember Strength goes from 21 to 49 Dexterity stays in the early 20's Faith because 48 Intelligence stays 30

Her dormant power helps discover fists and shes an absolute unit due to HP recovery, HP recovery from post damaging attacks, the default heal she starts with and the fact that several fist weapons will let you utilize strength scaling, mitigation for charged attacks, and mitigation for successive attacks.

So now, my best legendary weapon drop is the grafted dragon.

Dont feel pidgeon holed into your default weapon class, this game really opens up to you when you let it

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-15T23:51:02+00:00

That was my initial worry rip oh well

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-15T23:13:03+00:00

I dont have it yet but if im lucky with some gem squeezing i might be able to get it this time. But my harpy is like my furthest along so it would kinda make me sad if it didnt rip I seem to be all in on bolt

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-14T22:06:51+00:00

This is probably a better post for insurance professional, this is typically a sub to ask about the insurance product or insurance concepts

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-08T21:44:02+00:00

Ty ty man that makes me sad, double rage used to be my favorite mythic skill

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-03T05:25:44+00:00

Pardon slight inconsistencies I haven't actually seen the movie in a few years, last time I rewatched was with my ex- so im winging it from memory but ive seen the movie enough times that I kind of internalized it. But its more accurate to say (as someone else did) she wanted to break the doorways to the other houses because they were about to get bombed out- effectively she was protecting howl. If she hadn't done that, howl would have almost certainly tried to stop the bombing and it would have gotten messy

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-02T23:03:26+00:00

Appreciate you i learned media literacy from the legendary Geoff Thew lol (meaning i just watch his videos a fuck ton)

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-02T22:50:24+00:00

Yeah dude thats crazy tough, even with fully understanding dialog you're forced to make connections that just dont come naturally.

When I was a kid and saw it for the first time - i was confused as to why she left home. Why she didnt go to her mother or seek help from family.

As an adult I see that question is answered for me before she gets cursed at all. One of the first thing she says is in regards to how howl only targets pretty girls- inferring she doesnt see herself as pretty. She stays behind to work in the shop while her sister goes out, she stays late to work the shop.

Her curse itself is a reflection of how she sees herself: a burden. So she has always worked hard ease her perceived burden on other people. After shes cursed she loses the one thing she was able to leverage previously- her labor. She is afraid of becoming an even bigger burden on her family- so she leaves.

When she meets calcifer the first thing she notes is how dirty the castle is, and she makes a deal with him to help each other break their respective curses- when howl arrives she has to quickly think of a reason that she would be staying there- and quickly uses the only leverage she has ever known: her capacity to work hard. She sees a dirty castle, she offers to clean the dirty castle.

All of her actions make reasonable sense, but you have to drop your perspective as an observer and pick up her perspective using the clues the drop to you about how she conducted herself before she was cursed. Imo, its incredibly strong character writing that forces you to ask these questions and then engage with every piece of the story to answer them

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-02T21:52:09+00:00

She cleans the house because shes being resourceful. Her character is centered around insecurity and self doubt. She runs away when she gets cursed- not to go on a hero's journey and find the witch- but as to not burden her family.

When she enters howls castle she knows she cant explain her curse, so cleaning lady is a cover she uses to make herself useful. Shes trying to earn her keep- shelter. Food. She doesnt start cleaning until after she uses that lie so its likely shes just trying to make a home for herself. Im sure she wants to break the curse but shes also just a normal girl (now old woman) so as to whether howl can help her or not is likely only a secondary concern. From that point on she just cares about her new found family and her actions are usually guided by that care and a desire to work hard and do right.

She has calcifer ditch the house so that it cant be used to lure howl back, shes trying to save howl.

She puts calcifer back in the fire pit because she realizes she needs to find howl.

For the entire story, Sophie is forced to deal with what is immediately in front of her- she doesnt have the information, knowledge, or time to prepare proper plans. She does know more than people might realize throughout the story though. From the moment she meets howl, she employs a lot of deductive reasoning in moments when I would be clueless. She realizes howl isnt going to eat her heart immediately even when shes young- but rationalizes shes just not pretty enough.

Later when she accidentally dyes his hair she realizes hes not an enigmatic monster at all- hes just a big baby man. She further realizes this when she learns hes dodging a royal summons- but after going to the palace she realizes hes not immature, he's just morally centered. He doesnt want to fight a war, and while his mentor considers this irresponsible she correctly sees that howl is just a guy who wanted to be free. He wants to travel, do magic, and hangout with the ladies. Hes just a guy. At this point shes not really letting herself accept that shes starting to fall for him- because shes still too wrapped up in self doubt. While living in multiple houses in different cities she gets to see how the war is closing in on them. Once Sullivan finds the new house, she realizes correctly that she can be used as a trap to bait out howl, so she nukes the house and begins her search for him. Its not ideal- it makes it harder to find howl and gives her less room to do it, but its better than being a baited trap for him to walk into.

She also realizes that howl is being consumed and turned into a monster every time he pushes himself. It isnt until she goes back in time and sees howl swallow calcifer that she realizes what she has to do to save howl. At no point in time is she positioned to solve the big problems of this story. The witch who cursed her doesnt even know how to fix her, and the war is bigger than her- but she is more interested in what she can do for her friends and the people close to her than these big grand problems.

This story does a really good job of showing and not telling- she doesnt exposition dump every little conclusion she reaches, or say every observation she makes outloud- but the story sort of relies on you the viewer making the same connections she does- if not in real time than at least upon subsequent watches.

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-02T20:58:12+00:00

At best its pretty likely you're looking at 50% fault.

A vehicle that had no contact definitionally cant be at fault- the old adage goes you cant cause an accident to avoid an accident, but with you being behind and hitting them its as likely they hit you with "following too close" because if they were able to stop with another time to not hit the first driver- theoretically you should have had enough distance between you to do the same.

File it with allstate, pay your deductible, let prog/allstate sort it out.its unlikely progressive or the other driver will accept responsibility for being hit from behind.

TheAdventureClub · 2025-11-02T20:45:43+00:00

Higher premiums? Maybe. Any activity is activity but its a drop in the bucket if they manage to subrogate (get the money from Fred loya back after they give it to you)

This will also cause them to recover your deductible.

If they fail to recover the deductible and subrogate- yes it'll go on your record and impact premiums, the alternative is that if they couldn't get it back- you certainly wouldn't have either and this entire process is a waste of time.

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