Post by dragondeity in There's nothing fun about what Avaritia lets bosses do to allies.

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I know they're there to be used, but blessing items just costs way too much. Once you can learn the spell yourself after the festival it's great, but spending 250 gold just to bless one bomb is brutal on the wallet.

IMO using vitality potions etc on allies also just feels bad, I prefer to save them for activating pink scenes, especially chaining pink scenes after a hydrangea fight that I've used a blessed water prior to. Star shine solves the ally issues as well, so after the festival, items you've exhausted on them feel redundant, and using too many mutated spores prior to the recipe bonus you acquire post-festival ALSO feels bad.

New game+ comments are fair for hard mode (I've come around to normal with hard mode as a ng+ mode), but doesn't really solve the problem first time through.

Minotaur is easy, but yeah, ultimately I do leave the demon alone until closer to festival day. It's still inconsistent though because of weak allies, but at least if left later, (on normal anyway) you can minimize the rng by having Aura utterly annihilate the demon with offensive stance double criticals.

Annogiemouse2 years ago

Money shouldn't be much of an issue on pink runs, you can get 5 vitality potions without the use of mutated spores in act 1, which you shouldn't need to use on Aura during pure runs, and an extra 10-15 health on an ally can still translate to them tanking an extra hit after you unlock starshine so it's not entirely wasted.

Unless killing the lesser demon is necessary to shave time on your festival of greed date, the main benefit of an early demon kill is to get at the poisoncloud gnome's star metal in the eastern forest of runes, which should give you a decent payday when combined with the skeleton loot further east and the demonic vaults quest reward. Faster festival can easily get you a return on investment on those bombs though, especially during pink runs.

One thing you could try is to summon your slime and move John to the 5th spot in your formation so he only enters the battle after your mucous monster is killed. Still a little rng, but it could help him survive the Avaritas, and a slime rampage can be almost as good as slash.

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