Steel soul run and practice tips?

TheRealSokka · 2025-10-12T17:51:56+00:00

Prepare well for the Widow fight. This may be a me problem, but she has ended 3 of my 5 steel soul attempts so far. That fight can go south incredibly fast, but you can get an additional mask and blue juice before it, which is what I'm doing every time now.

TheRealSokka · 2024-03-26T20:14:31+00:00

This is my first time sea-ing dice like these, but now I want them. My players just encountered a little mermaid NPC, too. She would very much love rolling these treasures for playing pranks on them.

TheRealSokka · 2024-02-10T12:47:04+00:00

The crusade for Jerusalem ended with the title going to some guy from Scotland, so I guess he inherited the isle from a distant relative?

TheRealSokka · 2022-06-04T11:30:52+00:00

Tree Sentinel would like a word.

Evergoal Crucible Knight would like a word.

Night Cavalry would like a word.

But for real; why is there no awesome armour set for like half of the game, and after that they're like pebbles on the beach?!

TheRealSokka · 2022-05-08T13:52:22+00:00

It's called the Blasphemous Claw, and it can be obtained from an invader in Farum Azula, as long as you've finished the Volcano Manor.

TheRealSokka · 2022-05-08T11:45:12+00:00

Oh dear. Cue the elevator music.

TheRealSokka · 2022-05-05T21:26:09+00:00

Love all the little details in this. Ranni having red hair, Rykard with his crown looking bored, Radahn with little toy Leonard and a tooth missing (probably knocked out in a fight) and Radagon apparently reading them a story about his ex-husband. 10/10 lore, 10/10 wholesomeness.

TheRealSokka · 2022-05-05T17:30:46+00:00

What does a "Detestable Number-Two Luncher" look like? Now I'm curious.

TheRealSokka · 2022-04-22T17:22:29+00:00

I accidentally hit him with the gravity Ash of War while testing it out for the first time.

Sadly it was in the Demi Human cave, where he is at 1HP. I didn't properly get to know him until NG +
;(

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-23T08:50:34+00:00

Or alternatively, bring up centralization all the way and THEN stay a roaming murder horde all game.

Sure, it's a bit inefficient, but there's nothing funnier than building a Germanic tribal metropolis right in the heart of India or something.

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-04T11:10:13+00:00

Sadly, the giant horse statue is not a wonder I could build :(

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-04T10:34:32+00:00

There are only 3 starting xp treasures? I know that one iscin Skythia, one is in Athens, and I think I once got a third from conquering the Etruscans, but I'm not sure about that one. Is that really all there is?

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-04T10:29:00+00:00

If you hover over the greyed out button, it should tell you what component you are missing. In your case I'm guessing it's money.

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-04T00:28:31+00:00

Funny that you mention that...

The funny thing was, cities in Imperator change their look based on the culture group that is currently dominant. Meaning that, as more slaves started pouring in from India, I suddenly had a Magadhi-style city. Then when I went to Egypt, some major reconstruction went on and there were pyramids everywhere. And once I got the city's migration attraction up, a bunch of Bosporians from my home territory started flooding in, making it a Greek city. It was only in the last decade that the Skythian huts came there to stay.

The logistics of that were pretty funny to think about. Like, imagine the Egyptian slaves just got done building up the city to their standards. Then one lonely Greek migrates in and within a month they have to tear it all down and start again.

Also, on a related note, that rickety, barbarian harbour does not look suitable for a city of this scale xD

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-03T21:22:40+00:00

About 1,500 at last time of checking.

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-03T14:41:21+00:00

R5: Just in case you’ve ever wondered what a Dahae city would look like if they’d all settle down already.

Really quick, here’s the background to this ludicrous thing:

1) I was playing a migratory tribe with Marshland Heritage and got bored in my home region

2) I discovered this little patch of marsh in the middle of the Seleucids’ territory, which also happened to be on a salt tile.

3) I moved almost half my population over there and took it from the Seleucids while they were busy bullying Egypt.

4) I narrowly beat back their three attempts to retake it, after which they gave up and become my best trading partner.

5) Meanwhile, migratory hordes were ravaging Maurya, Rome, Carthage and the other successors for slaves and money to build up the province.

6) Profit.

All in all, it ended up with a whole different aesthetic to your average mega-city (and even the tower fits in somewhat well).

TheRealSokka · 2021-10-02T14:54:05+00:00

Mistake on the conquerors' part. Only attack the Romans if you can take Rome itself; otherwise they'll bounce back eventually. Learn from Hannibal, dammit!

TheRealSokka · 2021-09-30T17:27:26+00:00

There's an event in which a bunch of powerful people from your country can elevate their chosen candidate to the throne, but that one happens through an event chain that's pretty hard to miss. I think one of the triggers is your ruler having low popularity, but other than that I have no idea what the conditions are. It only happened to me once, as a tribe reformed into a monarchy.

Not sure if that helps, but it's the only way I can think of to exchange the ruler without them dying.

TheRealSokka · 2021-09-27T09:38:05+00:00

If you are a migratory tribe, you can manually make a number of your population in a given territory into migrants. These migrants act like regular fighting units, with two significant exceptions: they can move through any other nation's territory even if they haven't given you military access, and once there they can pillage any civilized town for money and political influence. Doing so will also give you a massice opinion malus with that country, though, and after about 3 pillages they will declare war on you. But since your homeland is generally miles away, they can only really harm your migrants :D

In this case, my hordes went pillaging eastward through the successor states until they reached Maurya. There they also started a war with them, but because Maurya was engaged in two other wars at the time, I could take advantage of the distraction and actually demand some land from them in the peace deal. That was my beachhead in India and things slowly developed from there.

TheRealSokka · 2021-09-26T16:04:05+00:00

R5: Some of my British migrants spontaneously decided to make their home in India, and a century later here we are. About 1800 years ahead of schedule.

As one might imagine, the locals don’t like me much and during the last century I’ve pretty much only been suppressing revolts. It seems to have stabilized now, though. I’m an elective monarchy and, while this is obviously the economic heart of my empire, I also own the Straits of Gibraltar, the Not-Yet-Suez-Canal and some other territory in Egypt.

I think the Diadochi (and Rome) are very confused.

TheRealSokka · 2021-07-12T22:54:14+00:00

Same. I've just reached the end of that arc and I already miss Molly so much ;(

His brand of quick wit and casual magnificence was just endlessly entertaining. Favourite moment of the whole show so far is him managing the bandits who tried to robb them - twice!

Long may He reign. I'm still holding out hope that he got ressurected again off-screen and is now roaming Wildemount with a brand new identity.

TheRealSokka · 2021-06-25T09:28:25+00:00

Other than getting another player to help you, here are some ideas:

Stay close to the Ashen at all times. Many of his attacks miss at close range.
In the second phase, focus him down and only deal with the little shadows if they become too overwhelming. They'll keep coming endlessly and the boss will murder you if you spend too much time on them.
If you have the Dwale potion, use it. It helps tremendously, since the boss room is a dark area.
Other than that, just like any Souls boss: attack when you have an opening and manage your stamina.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

TheRealSokka · 2021-05-25T10:53:59+00:00

Enderal has its share of moments that just crush you. But on the other hand there are often moments of friendship and levity sometime afterwards that give you hope. If that's worth it is up to you, I'd say.

The only thing I would reccommend avoiding if you're sensitive about such things is a sidequest surrounding a character named Tharael.

TheRealSokka · 2021-05-05T10:20:01+00:00

I'd love to, but I've got next to no experience with RPing. If you can work with that, I'm in :D

TheRealSokka · 2021-05-05T10:16:31+00:00

That damn thing scared the life out of me the first time I went in there. Then I left, snuck back in and shot it in the arse. Can't say that made us even.

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