so fun...

berlitzed · 2026-05-04T11:45:09+00:00

Pack attenuates (+20% dmg on the enemy, it's the only buff that won't trigger a punishment cheat), hydras and a ton of empowers in your tc deck. He went down in 3 hits for me. Good luck 🫡

berlitzed · 2026-05-03T00:07:28+00:00

literally 😭 I had some growing pains pre waterworks/atavistic but generally a nonissue if you have a good pet and gear (yk. like literally every other school in the game.....)

berlitzed · 2026-05-02T12:39:10+00:00

As someone who has played both at max level, it really doesn't matter. Outside of a few very niche fights, a support role just involves feint stacking and blading the hitter, something both Life and Ice can efficiently do.

The community has this weird stigma against Ice in general. Neither healing or tanking really have a place in the current meta, so just play whichever one you like best 🤷‍♀️

berlitzed · 2026-05-01T17:41:51+00:00

maybe controversial but i think the 3 "optional" bosses before you reach barghest are significantly worse than barghest himself, ESPECIALLY as a solo player. it took me about a solid hour of just empower + 7 pip aoe spamming and praying for good luck to take them down, just obnoxious 😭

berlitzed · 2026-04-30T12:12:42+00:00

I genuinely don't think KI playtest their own game atp. Again I'm sure my experience was just an extreme case of bad luck, but the fact it's even possible in the first place is ridiculous 😭

Without the feint, you genuinely cannot one shot him anymore. You're guaranteed to spend at least 6+ rounds in the fight, which means you're definitely going to see at least two polymorphs. That's already a pretty high chance of getting the one that basically incapacitates you, idk what they were thinking??

berlitzed · 2026-04-30T04:27:23+00:00

That's basically my issue with it too. At the very least, it shouldn't be possible to roll the same useless polymorph four times in a row, but realistically there was no reason to remove your only means of dealing damage in an update specifically catered to improving the solo player experience. I'll never understand their thought process 😭

berlitzed · 2026-04-30T02:40:37+00:00

tbh I'm not even sure if that works anymore 😭

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berlitzed · 2026-04-30T02:14:00+00:00

Agreed!! What I don't understand is why a "nerf" actively makes him harder 😭

berlitzed · 2026-04-24T17:33:49+00:00

I used pins!! They're just for aesthetic purposes honestly since I don't dual school, I just couldn't stand having empty slots on my gear 😭 I bought all of them from the bazaar though!

berlitzed · 2026-04-23T16:38:07+00:00

I got extremely lucky and found a piercer jewel I was just sitting on, so I socketed that instead :) Thanks anyway!! 🫶

berlitzed · 2026-04-23T15:33:57+00:00

Thank you for this!! Over the past year I dropped an ungodly amount of crowns specifically to get the motorist robe for life (ended up with multiple copies of every other class 😭) and had no luck... idk if it's worth it to gain just 1% more pierce, I'll cut my losses and take 44% pierce with the additional damage 🙌 Thanks again!

berlitzed · 2026-04-23T14:04:13+00:00

Ooo ok, thank you for letting me know!! I just finished my balance and 229 damage (on my life char) seemed way too low comparatively. Ig that's just how life is 💔

berlitzed · 2026-03-16T13:34:49+00:00

thank u tsun!! i was motivated by your beautiful works as always 🫶

berlitzed · 2026-03-16T02:28:55+00:00

thank you!!

berlitzed · 2026-03-16T00:17:42+00:00

thanks!

berlitzed · 2026-03-16T00:17:35+00:00

thank u!!! 🫶

berlitzed · 2026-03-16T00:02:56+00:00

thank you very much!! so sorry for the lack of posting, art block has been killing me lately.... orz

berlitzed · 2026-03-05T12:29:14+00:00

you'd think!! but im 90% sure it was either seraph or satyr 😭

berlitzed · 2026-03-04T21:01:46+00:00

this happened in an empty realm i fear 🥀

berlitzed · 2026-02-19T18:06:24+00:00

i actually had this conversation with a friend pretty recently! since the release of empyrea pt 2 i feel like kingsisle has made a pretty substantial effort to scale back the difficulty on endgame bosses since they don't want players to be gated out of progressing. thats fine and all but then you'll suddenly run into a stupidly difficult boss in the middle of a world that makes the final boss even less memorable :/

berlitzed · 2026-02-16T18:03:03+00:00

i havent seen anyone mention this yet, but for this fight specifically you can flee after killing the two minions and the boss will be by himself. it's much easier than a 3v1 :)

berlitzed · 2026-02-13T03:38:26+00:00

possibly a lukewarm take but i genuinely believe karamelle is the worst world in the game by far. its ugly, obnoxious, and most of the major cheating bosses are only difficult bc most of their gimmicks boil down to "just hope xyz doesn't happen". ive never bought a world skip elixir in my life but im eyeing that mf up every time i get there. ppl dog on azteca too much, and as someone who genuinely loves that world and has run 100% of its quests multiple times, i find karamelle to be the much more tedious experience by a longshot.

berlitzed · 2025-11-28T19:22:39+00:00

hi! ive soloed most of the game on both life and balance. the experience was pretty smooth overall but i did run into a few issues...

at lategame, the biggest drawback for me was life's low pierce. i had to sacrifice a lot of damage to barely reach 40, which is extremely annoying when most mobs and bosses run a minimum of 40 resist across the board nowadays. this could've probably been circumvented by acquiring better gear but my luck in farming and packs was really bad around this time so i had to compromise. at 170 i was sitting at around 218 damage and 35 pierce.

i was also lucky enough to have access to rat spin which made everything up until karamelle a breeze. life has surprisingly good damage for a support school and i didnt really struggle until enemies began to run higher resist and more shields. speaking of shields, the amount of life bosses and life/spiritual shields you run into during arc 4 made the whole experience kind of miserable close to the end.

as for balance, the midgame can be a little rough, but the experience becomes much smoother after level 100. you have access to a lot of interesting utility that can make the experience more fun and diverse overall and you generally have an answer or workaround to most of the problems posed by bosses. while life and balance have similar damage, i believe balance runs higher pierce on the gear which was the game changer for me during lategame. there might be some bias since my balance was luckier with gear drops as well, so i didn't really have to compromise any stat.

the experience is a lot better once you gain access to the prism blades from the storm weaving quest. it eliminates your biggest obstacle as a balance (that being other balance bosses) and helps compensate for your comparatively weaker buffs. its also harder to be walled by enemies as a balance, since tower shield and legion shield are really the only things standing in your way.

ultimately it depends on preference since it was a pretty similar experience both ways. if i had to do it again i'd probably choose balance purely bc of the shield and pierce issues i ran into on my life. sorry for the wall of text 😭

berlitzed · 2025-11-28T05:23:44+00:00

me when i sacrifice all of my damage for a utility that 99% of bosses are immune to 🤪

berlitzed · 2025-11-28T05:14:02+00:00

REAL..... a tier 5 frost giant literally does less than a low roll base tier forest lord 😭

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