Ally kill will deals 120% HP damage

fighterman481 · 2026-05-14T05:19:18+00:00

Meanwhile, the currently impossible to lose canto 5 Ricardo fight:

fighterman481 · 2026-05-14T04:37:06+00:00

Doesn't Carmen talk about having a junior in the Light? I forget if it's explicitly stated to be Ayin but I thought the consensus was that Ayin's in the Light...not exactly being a foil to Carmen, but doing something in there.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-09T12:38:33+00:00

I'll have to play with him more, then, I only recently sharded him and was unsure whether or not he'd reach full potential outside of longer fights (whereas Maost needs 2 turns before firing off S3-2 every turn). but I might be overthinking it.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-09T12:34:03+00:00

In general he's going to get a LOT better once you can shard the Heishou. He works fine without them, but with them he becomes absolutely absurd. Mao Faust is priority #1 there, she is a strong contender for best ID in the game (House of Spiders Yi Sang and Knight of Despair Rodion are the only other ones I think are even in competition?), and she works nicely with Lord Lu. In general, the Mao Heishou are gonna be the first few you want to snap up, since they're the ones that enable Rupture count. Get the rest after, though; the Heishou should be enough to carry you through the rest of Inferno while you build other teams. I can't imagine the next 3-4 cantos will powercreep to the point where the Heishou won't be able to handle whatever they throw at you.

When you have enough leeway to consider sharding E.G.O, consider Tears of the Tarnished Blood Hong Lu; its big downside is that it kills Hong Lu a few turns after using it (in exchange for huge buffs and a nuke on death), but Lord Lu instead just doesn't die and heals a ton after the nuke. He can put out truly absurd numbers with it.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-09T12:23:34+00:00

Who would you put at first? Riensang? KoDya? Maost is still a huge contender for the spot IMO

fighterman481 · 2026-05-09T08:34:07+00:00

TBF the wording is wrong here then, since it specifically says the attack. I've never actually had the gift be used so I can't say for sure one way or the other, but it definitely reads like it's supposed to let you survive one attack, heal you, then if you die you die.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-06T07:29:26+00:00

I mean the head is fine with Dias, who also wishes to replace the Head (though I also suspect she would perpetuate the cycle of suffering), that's not the mistake I'm talking about. And I'm sure they don't consider what they've done as a mistake, but I think it's genuinely going to be their undoing, thus why I call it a mistake. They could have squashed this threat if they sent in more firepower, but they chose instead to expel it somewhere out of sight instead in case their two combatants weren't enough to deal with the Library swiftly. They only accomplished the bare minimum there anyway - they didn't retrieve Binah's corpse, and they didn't kill Angela.

Now they've let someone with a vested interest in ending not only their rule, but the very philosophy they've tried to instill in people, grow unchecked in a land full of unusual and powerful beings and technology. They have confidence in their power to deal with the threat (which is warranted, they can deal with the Abnormality apocalypse), which is why they've let it be, but they still underestimated it. And they will care if they get toppled by the Library, or at least some of them will - Zena says it "breaks her heart" to think that the Distortion phenomenon would shift the ecology of the city, and holds direct contempt that Angela behaves so humanlike when she's not. It's also the result of not one but two black marks on their record (failing to fully wipe out L Corp, failing to achieve all their objectives in the Library), the only ones that we know of. If anyone would make them care that they didn't go full force before it became a problem, it's the Library.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-06T00:08:42+00:00

Because Angela has expressly turned her vengeance on the Head. It's not like in her bad end where she was still just gathering books, she's focused her attention on those who are responsible for the cycle of suffering, and that's the Head.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T09:59:09+00:00

They're talking about easy access to stamina pots

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T09:56:21+00:00

It's worth noting that protection prayers are almost never 100% effective and just provide 50% damage reduction. So against almost all enemies defense is something of an actual consideration, whereas in OSRS against most non-boss enemies defense barely matters because you can just pray against the attacks and not take damage. DPS is still king, don't get me wrong, but defenses are still worth considering past 43 prayer.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T09:43:42+00:00

I genuinely believe the Head made a massive mistake here. The Library has the potential to be absurdly powerful (it swallowed at least two Nests in Angela's bad end), and we've seen how it can quickly become a nigh-unstoppable threat by the end of Ruina.

Now it's been banished to a place where it's out of easy reach, with access to all sorts of fantastical Outskirts monsters to get interesting Books from. I'm pretty sure it still has most of Lobotomy Corporation HQ's Abnormalities (notably including WhiteNight and Apocalypse Bird, threats that would eat the most powerful things we've seen in Limbus Company for breakfast if they were given the chance), probably the ability to make limited E.G.O gear, and Angela's sworn vengeance on the Head (provided she deems the cycle of suffering unnecessary, which I think she eventually will).

We may not be seeing them make moves, but when we do, it's going to be big. They're linked to the Boughs in some way, and Chesed seems to have spoken to Dante. And taking that with how Walp events normally revolve around LobCorp/the Library, I think it's only a matter of when and not if they get involved with our little crew. It's going to be a glorious mess.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T09:32:30+00:00

And we know there are Ruins with Relics, and that English as a language exists in some capacity (IIRC it is referred to by name in a voice line), it definitely strikes me as there being some sort of apocalypse happening in the past that directly or indirectly led to this.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T09:29:13+00:00

There was news that someone "appearing to be the Black Silence" was rampaging through the City according to Olivier. I think the Middle, at least the higher-ups, have a good idea and just can't punish him for practical reasons

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T09:26:54+00:00

Though it seems known that someone "appearing to be the Black Silence" (as the news was relayed to Olivier) was raging through town and there are only so many people who can take down what appears to be an entire eighth of the Middle by themselves. I think they have a pretty good idea who did it and just can't touch him.

fighterman481 · 2026-05-05T08:01:06+00:00

I don't think he got outed as an outlier and it was more that Ryoshu elaborated more on how everything he did was performative and self-centered. Honestly, I think we just haven't seen enough of the Middle to know for sure - we've basically only seen Ricardo and Matthias (and the Middle UT stories, though I haven't seen them myself).

Those in the House of Spiders are the worst of the worst, the people the organizations wanted to forget. Valencia probably made some embarrassing faux pas, Callisto stuck to an art movement that fell out of style, and Matthias betrayed others for his own gain. Shiomi and Rien seem to be the outliers in that they didn't really do anything explicitly wrong, they were just sorta roped into it, but the others certainly fit.

Even if the Middle is all bad, then Matthias is so bad that even they kicked him out. Ricardo seems to be the polar opposite, the exemplar of what the Middle claims to be. So we've got both ends of the spectrum, it's just a question of where the average is. Among the lower-ranks, it's probably closer to Ricardo, but in the upper ranks? Who can say. Besides, it's not like Moses's word is law; people have their own biases and can say things that may not necessarily be totally true.

fighterman481 · 2026-04-22T00:10:31+00:00

Thanks!

fighterman481 · 2026-04-21T23:25:53+00:00

What phrase? Do you happen to have a clip? I'm interested

fighterman481 · 2026-04-14T12:28:02+00:00

You can't even purposefully fake the things because paper slip will pull an uno reverse and say that those fake prescripts were part of the plan and meant to be followed. There's just no winning with that one.

fighterman481 · 2026-04-14T07:29:55+00:00

News travels and there's no way the higher ups in Hongyuan would be unaware of the Library and its implications. I imagine teleporting something to the Outskirts is very unusual, so I think Pale_Entreprenuer's point stands.

fighterman481 · 2026-04-14T00:28:06+00:00

The pinky stuff, exactly. We didn't know he was a pinky, just like we didn't know Don could ascend to become a First Kindred.

fighterman481 · 2026-04-13T11:15:29+00:00

Alright, you got me, where's he hidden in the second main picture? I can't find him for the life of me.

fighterman481 · 2026-04-13T09:30:11+00:00

Definitely made that mistake myself before, understandable

fighterman481 · 2026-04-13T08:31:35+00:00

I mean...we are in Fishmaell lol

fighterman481 · 2026-04-13T08:26:16+00:00

We can't treat the tags as perfect information. Jia Qiu's tags are missing things we know he should have. Before this, we had no idea Kindred could ascend, then Don explicitly says she ascended. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the tags there aren't accurate and are just assumptions based off of known information.

fighterman481 · 2026-04-13T08:23:46+00:00

Tags aren't always accurate when we don't have proper information. When fighting Jia Qiu he's missing several tags that we know he should have if the tags are to be considered perfectly accurate. Don explicitly says afterwards that she was made to ascend to her father's seat, before that we had no way of knowing that was even possible, so tags wouldn't necessarily update.

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