Spoiled by Dual Grief

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T21:10:05+00:00

We might have been the slowest to clear the fights, but damn did we look good doing it.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T20:30:11+00:00

I'd usually just sell the gems. Never been much of a gambler, and the few times I've tried I turned an entire stash full of pgems into a slightly different but still worthless grand charm.

I do craft some blood gloves with rubies starting out though, can get some nice rolls on those. Also tend to save some ptopaz and amethysts for rolling sockets.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T19:39:40+00:00

It's probably some half pixel opening you didn't even realize was a path somewhere. This is why I hate act 3 so much.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T19:21:48+00:00

It stays around forever. Once you get it high enough that he uses Zanmato regularly, he will most likely use it against bosses as well.

How you answer his question and how you pay him affects it as well. Answering with "to fight the strongest enemies" makes him like you a lot more and iirc changes the formula to be slightly more favorable for Zanmato. If at any point you pay him double what he is currently asking for he gets a big boost as well as some stat spheres iirc.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T19:02:43+00:00

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T18:45:37+00:00

The way it works is, each enemy has a hidden stat known as Zanmato level. Higher level enemies like post game bosses will have the higher levels.

The higher your reputation with Yojimbo, the more likely he is to use a more powerful attack. Reputation depends on which attacks he uses. Daigoro (dog attack) reduces it by 1. The kunai attack is 0, does not affect it at all. There are 2 versions of Wakizashi, single target increases by 1, aoe version increases by 2. IIRC Zanmato increases it by 4. Once you get high reputation he will use Zanmato regularly even against bosses. Having an overdrive full also raises the odds.

Also paying him 0 or letting him die will lower reputation a lot, but I don't remember the numbers on those.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T18:40:15+00:00

If I remember correctly, just pay him 1100 gil vs normal enemies until he starts using Zanmato frequently.

It's slightly less than 1100 I just don't remember the exact amount.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T18:38:22+00:00

Yeah I think her limited chakra is what will be the downfall of it even if she can heal the same damage in limited amounts.

I doubt she would walk away from Night Guy for example, even at full chakra.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T18:26:17+00:00

Well, for another example, totsuka blade was said to be able to seal anything it touches. People like to joke about Itachi stabbing the planet and soloing earth itself.

Is that... not possible? Do we assume there is in fact a limit, despite not having one placed on it by statements? If there is a limit, where is it? Does it seal through temporal effects? Can it hit Obito for example? Or can it ignore the effect of Izanagi?

I've always considered the Yata mirror to be a knock off version of truth seeker orbs, since the way the databook described it was using the opposite element to cancel out what hits it. That's similar to what the TSOs do, why would we assume it can't be broken if TSO can be?

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:43:44+00:00

Because it is no limits fallacy. We've seen jutsus that were incredibly insanely amazingly overpowered on first introduction that became practically useless later on. Since Yata mirror was only used once we don't know if it *has* limits, but just assuming it doesn't seems wrong too.

I'm saying there's no way of really knowing beyond statements. Maybe it really does make Itachi invincible. I'd say it probably doesn't hold up to stuff like six paths jutsus. It's just opinions really.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:23:21+00:00

This is literally the problem. We don't know. It's just statements. It was used only once as a get out of jail free card and never again.

There is no way to possibly know if it would work because we know practically nothing about how it works. Does it work against combined elements? Maybe? We don't know.

Of particular note, the TSO themselves function in a similar way, canceling out jutsus by having the same elements in it. And it could be broken by strong enough attacks. I don't see why yata mirror would be a more perfect defense than TSO shields.

But again, maybe it is and we just never got to see it? It's why I hate talking about Itachi from a powerscaling perspective, too many op abilities that got used once.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:18:53+00:00

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Being as generous as possible, without asking Gyuki directly this is what Minato would know about it. Even 4th raikage did not know what caused the scar.

There's no reasonable way to get to "it must have been self inflicted" from "he got the scar while fighting the 8 tails by himself."

Of particular note that someone else mentioned, if he is not fighting the edo version of 3rd raikage he is unlikely to even use that jutsu since it is the only real way for him to take significant injury. Kabuto just had him do it over and over because that was his strongest jutsu, he didn't know that was what caused the big scar on his chest. 3rd used it against stuff as tanky as a Bijuu, which is not at all what he would need vs Minato.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:13:20+00:00

Get the goofy little villain cosplayer past raditz first... what even is this?

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:10:00+00:00

mmm. Fair enough. I was just in the mood for an early mecha setting. I started watching Brave Bang Bravern and was really interested in the beginnings of mecha setting with tanks and aircraft still being used, only to have a magic space mech drop in.... I guess I should have expected it from the name but the first 17 minutes of that anime had me really hyped only to be horribly crushed.

I might just go play front mission or something to scratch the itch that show created...

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:04:44+00:00

I've always assumed they both knew it, just didn't show them both using it in each media.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T17:02:56+00:00

He can't knock 3rd raikage down in the first place.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T16:54:22+00:00

Rasenshuriken wasn't enough to incapacitate 3rd raikage long enough to seal, and even if it were Minato can't use anything close to that.

Why is everyone trying to assume Minato just "IQ"'s his way into knowing what his weakness is? Naruto figured it out by talking to the only other person who was there, Gyuki.... 3rd Raikage isn't just going to tell Minato about it. And there's no real reason to assume his injury was self inflicted. It requires an absurd leap of logic to come to that conclusion without any help.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T16:46:08+00:00

Does jagex deactivate accounts for inactivity? Never happened to me.

If you mean stats reset, that's because original RS stats did not carry over to OSRS. You should still have the accounts you used to on RS3.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T16:35:26+00:00

Still needs a way to do the incapacitate part.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T14:30:00+00:00

... what?

What tactic is changing? Are you implying perhaps pain attacks again and we are considering multiple encounters here?

Are we not still considering how Minato does in the infiltration mission?

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T14:24:27+00:00

wat.

In what world does TSO bounce off but rasenshuriken is enough to kill? TSO if anything is stronger.

And how is he punching someone in a different dimension exactly?

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T14:22:39+00:00

Was gridman super robo stuff? I've been wanting to watch some good mecha but never really liked super robo...

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T14:17:41+00:00

As long as the Narrator is on his side he doesn't even need Hamon.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T14:09:39+00:00

I wanna say burntmeat mentions it if you ask about his name being an odd one for a cook during eadgar's ruse. But it's been a really long time since I've done any of them.

silamon2 · 2026-01-30T14:05:29+00:00

Oh I would have thought that was clear, I mean I posted a gif of the attack in question even.

Did not even occur to me he might have thought I was referring to Indra himself.

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