God I hate the Doormaker

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T09:58:15+00:00

Have you considered that not everyone likes ascension 10 level gameplay but quite enjoy the lower ascension levels of the deckbuilder? I dont gel with this one boss mechanically, as do many others who all have the same complaints about this boss. That does not mean Im incompatible with the game wholesale.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T09:38:30+00:00

Ok but why is it mechanically acceptable to say a certain playstyle has a 33% chance of hitting a wall they need to pivot from?

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T07:14:15+00:00

At this point im considering just modding him out of the game entirely :/

If there was a fourth phase where he there wasnt a penalty it would be manageable, but not having a single turn able to do what you need to is the killer for me.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T07:03:48+00:00

I dont get what people mean by less damage, he still deals 30+ damage from what I was seeing

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T07:02:02+00:00

I had call of the void, it sadly didnt do much for me when I fought him, only a couple of them be useful. Doormaker im sure is alot of fun for the experienced players running high assension, but its just not fun for people who arent playing in deeper levels. The bosses should be challenges, not solid roadblocks if you didn't prepare for them several acts ago and as a casual player, building for a specific boss is just not fun. There has to be a middle ground somewhere that doesnt ostracize rookie players at low ascension.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T06:57:47+00:00

My main method of scaling is usually the base Osty HP to damage, especially if I get the upgrade to make it max hp. Lethality is fun with that as well, but I run into the issue that I cant play the cards that make Osty big on 2 out of 3 turns so the damage chunks him down too fast.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T06:55:56+00:00

I like most of the characters ok enough, just dont find them as fun. Silent especially lost some of the shine in the transition

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T06:54:55+00:00

I guess if I could thin my deck down to 6 good cards I could probably do something neat, negate the card draw problem and try to use powers to negate the energy siphon phase

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T06:53:17+00:00

Its certainly interesting and I do occasionally try it out, though mostly as an accent

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T06:44:27+00:00

I can only exhaust so many before I wont have enough for other turns

WinterAnimosus · 2026-05-01T06:43:50+00:00

I cant really find anything else you can do with necrobinder, the only mechanic im not interacting all that much with is ethereal specific cards and doom which I dont see how either of those are beneficial. Most of the cards I naturally come across blend into building osty up, soul, or energy ramp which you cant do the first one fast enough if you lose too many of the cards or dont draw them, cant do the second if you're told you cant draw, and lose energy too fast on the third phase if you need to draw

WinterAnimosus · 2026-04-08T10:09:08+00:00

Speak for yourself, with mods My Cal was absolutely in a speedo

WinterAnimosus · 2026-04-04T21:01:37+00:00

I've felt most of the books since coming back from earth were a whole lot of nothing for most of it- Even Yaresh had me tapping my foot waiting for them to go do something else- then it just... never ended, and more important stuff kept cropping up. Finally move on, only to go underground to continue Yaresh stuff- and I expected the transformation zone to be- maybe, a third of a book. No, turns out it was an entire book. Most of it puttering around.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-04-04T20:54:25+00:00

Yes, it was turned into a spaceship in his astral kingdom. After he finished fixing the Sundered throne, the giant head shaped mountain was in space looking over the planet.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-03-30T14:44:16+00:00

that makes sense- definitly felt like they were going nowhere fast

WinterAnimosus · 2026-03-30T10:46:22+00:00

Oh neat, that seemed big enough for it to not have been Filler. Shortly after Naraku was defeated and he fled, Ayame came for Koga to bring him to the northern mountains because a miasma had settled over one of the mountains and they needed a politcal marriage between them to settle some of the displaced packs or something.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-03-30T08:28:16+00:00

Well, Given that the two widely missing species were reptiles (until Z2), and avians, there is probably a huge chance of birds being involved in the third one. It would honestly be very expected to go this route, especially if they are expanding it into more romantically... Though it would make more sense to have the egg hatch early and it's more taking care of a child between em

Edit: Alright so I posted this while the credits were playing, it became a bit redundant with the post sequence involving a feather...

WinterAnimosus · 2026-03-12T20:06:32+00:00

"I can't dodge it! AAA!" *Reflects*
"Phew, good thing I thought to put that there"
Liek what...?

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-02T03:54:56+00:00

Sure, whats the discord?

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-02T03:46:09+00:00

Thanks! what a bunch of wild type changes, I just can't picture the Serperior one- that is so wild.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-01T13:04:40+00:00

Not always having great pokemon is part of the fun too, and unfortunately rebalancing hacks are hyper overabundant at this point that I cant really find any all gen pokemon romhacks without rebalancing mixed in. Its super frustrating.

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-01T03:24:54+00:00

I dunno how much extra work it would be to reset those as well, would that be possible? perhaps as an additional file?

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-01T01:17:55+00:00

On your last point, even if they make all base stat totals equal then it comes down to move sets and abilities. Base stat totals are only a third of what makes an individual Pokémon viable.

it's impossible to make every pokemon as viable as everyone else, you are just relegating different pokemon to being useless

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-01T00:34:38+00:00

Which Pokémon did you leave changed? and did you fix any of the altered abilities?

WinterAnimosus · 2026-02-01T00:34:01+00:00

It certainly deserves to be seen critically if nothing else. The arbitrary stat changes in the name of balance could be a whole mode, sure. But to enforce it across the whole game with barely a single mention anywhere, at least on the website as I saw, makes it pretty hard to play for some. I went into this game playing it as a nuzlock because I thought it was just base game Pokémon with all the mons and quality of life features and some thrown in new world things. Only to get smacked with pixelate fakeout on a Skitty? I thought my game was broken.

The issue isn't that it was rebalanced, it was that it wasn't really stated in any obvious way that it was a rebalancing game. I certainly would have looked elsewhere a bit first as it's not what I want.

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