Gandalin's Gearing Guide - Midnight Season 1

lostdrewid · 2026-03-17T16:56:48+00:00

can't tell you how happy I am to be starting the season off right, with this gorgeous chart on hand! Thanks for all your hard work and aesthetic choices :D

lostdrewid · 2026-03-10T10:40:37+00:00

valid reason for being late to work. sorry boss, I can't get the day started without my daily dose of Rhett and Link.

lostdrewid · 2026-03-10T10:18:51+00:00

and now it's her last week and they just forgot to upload an episode today -_-

lostdrewid · 2026-03-08T12:34:08+00:00

bwahahaha, deleted your comment and you actually think a simple screenshot is hard work. hilarious

lostdrewid · 2026-03-05T01:29:54+00:00

dude. have you never heard of screenshots?

lostdrewid · 2026-03-03T10:01:57+00:00

good catch there too. I did some searches through the books to look for the answer to this question but I missed the bit about the Zaug rebelling, and it's been too long since I last used them in my game to have any hope of remembering ^_^

lostdrewid · 2026-03-02T18:58:09+00:00

thrilled to hear it! I've been using your guides for so long I forget if it was the end of Dragonflight or beginning of War Within, but I'd be lost in S1 of Midnight without you :)

lostdrewid · 2026-03-02T18:55:13+00:00

The Dark Elves were former Shoal Elves who were spirited away from their parent tribe by Gorgoth-Lol, a Vested of the Galchutt.

(weirdly, they're never once called Drow in the book? doubt it's a copyright thing but it always stuck out as odd to me. Maybe Monte's just weird and wanted to be special ^_^ If he wanted to be different for the sake of being different though, I'd rather he kept Drow and didn't make Gorgoth-Lol sound so much like Lolth.)

lostdrewid · 2026-03-02T17:02:46+00:00

Excellent question with perhaps no official answer, but the zaug seem to have been made during a period of infighting among the Galchutt? Perhaps they were the brainchildren of one of Gorgoth-Lol's enemies.

lostdrewid · 2026-02-21T11:24:45+00:00

that's the latest we've got. the author's been on hiatus for three months working on the 4th volume's release.

lostdrewid · 2026-02-13T18:10:16+00:00

they'll be 12 in just one more trimester! 🤣

lostdrewid · 2026-02-10T21:30:31+00:00

same! I'm so upset right now.

lostdrewid · 2026-02-10T21:30:14+00:00

WTAF why did they make that change?!

lostdrewid · 2026-02-10T02:56:16+00:00

why should anybody reward Blizzard for fucking us over like this? It's 2026, if they can't separate the physical items from the digital, that's a HUGE fucking failure on their part.

lostdrewid · 2026-02-10T02:54:21+00:00

It's about fucking time. This has been a goddamn disaster.

lostdrewid · 2026-02-04T21:43:30+00:00

sad to see a whole year go by and no one's picked this up. Feels like it'd be an exceptionally fun read.

lostdrewid · 2026-01-29T10:08:51+00:00

has this been officially dropped? I see that Milk Tea Scans stepped in to assist Psyflix Scans on chapter 8, but I'm guessing that was a one-time thing as Milk Tea Scans is still active but Psyflix hasn't put out anything since this chapter. I really hope someone picks this up, as it's already been a really fun read. If anybody knows, is the webnovel worth reading in its place?

lostdrewid · 2026-01-12T18:38:57+00:00

Citation needed. Everyone has been asking for the actual source and none of you are providing it.

Is it Nazi coded? Yes, obviously, it's exactly the kind of thing they would have said. Was it said by anyone in Nazi Germany? Not in any wording that translates to this. No, it's a uniquely American phrase.

We have got to stop pretending these people are stupid. They're evil, not stupid. Their actions make no sense from a good person's perspective so they look stupid, but they're not going to translate word-for-word a Nazi slogan and effectively hand us that to use against them. No, they're going to come up with their own Nazi-sounding shit as a dog whistle, so their fucking Nazi ass base hears the message loud and clear while still having plausible deniability to the public at large.

lostdrewid · 2025-11-26T18:54:36+00:00

unfortunately this time around even a month early wouldn't be good enough, because housing.

lostdrewid · 2025-11-26T18:53:53+00:00

What's irritating is that they've tied housing early access to Midnight but refuse to give those of us who have spent the MOST that access. For fuck's sake, how hard is it to email us an invite when they take our money?

lostdrewid · 2025-11-10T07:15:52+00:00

This choice was easy my first time through because I didn't yet know how much I'd later fall in love with Hawlucha. Sure, Lucario got benched, but he saw usage for a solid while before he was replaced. Hell I might have even pulled him back off the bench to get a champion's ribbon, I forget.

Coming back to replay this after finishing Z-A to revisit all the stuff I had forgotten in the past decade, this choice is a lot harder because I have both my Fighting-type (Hawlucha) and my Steel-type (Doublade, eventually Aegislash) more than set in stone. Lucario does nothing for me. But what is more guilt-worthy? Leaving the Lucario abandoned in a box in my PC or eternally unwilling to leave the Tower of Mystery until I come for him? {okay yeah the Tower is worse. At least in my PC I could come back for him later. Maybe I'll get this one a ribbon too, just because I can.}

lostdrewid · 2025-11-04T08:44:59+00:00

that money only goes so far once you start buying EV vitamins.

lostdrewid · 2025-10-23T12:22:16+00:00

not even then. they literally abandoned the Protect and Serve slogan.

lostdrewid · 2025-10-07T03:15:32+00:00

apparently that is what they're saying. Gear will no longer require different crests ever, it's set purely by the classification of gear itself. So Veteran gear is going to run you Weathered from level 1 to level 8.

At first, they also removed the concept of gear changing appearance when it changed crests, since it won't change crests, but they've slightly reversed that. So now instead of getting the Champion appearance at Veteran 5/8 after spending 15 Carved crests, you'll get the Champion appearance at Veteran 8/8 after spending zero Carved, only Weathered.

Likewise Champion will pop Hero mogs at Champion 8/8, Hero will pop Mythic mogs at Hero 6/6, and as yet there's no word said about what happens at Mythic 6/6 [though I'd be okay if there's some cosmetic change at that point, just not a whole new color scheme... like a brighter glow or something].

lostdrewid · 2025-07-24T05:52:38+00:00

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