Hey all, back again after the 10/F clear from 16 days ago. After we cleared 10/F, we struggled on the 13th floor for about a day before working out a clean strategy for it. It was the next major hurdle before the 15th floor, though the 12th floor had scared us on more than one occasion.
After that day, we started making it to 15/F consistently, only to find that this boss was the most difficult fight we’ve ever encountered in this game, not because of the boss necessarily, but more because of the sheer threat that the enemies had posed to us. The dogs with their ranged attacks, the pags with their ranged magic, all in tandem with the boss’ very deadly attacks. Even yesterday we had a run where all three of our DPS were instantly zapped from 100% to 0% while standing inside a Safety Zone. But we started working out better and safer strategies, figuring out when enemies were spawning in, how they were spawning in, what enemies were coming out, where it was safe to spawn. It was a tantalizing effort where we were frequently losing to RNG and our own stupid mistakes. I don’t have a recording of the winning run today, but I do have this:
As an idea of what the fight is like. We messed up SO many things during this fight and could’ve gotten it a day sooner. But fortunately it worked out today.
We have four days until the kTOS repository merge. We did try 16/F today, only to lose at 175/195. But a lot of things are to be refined, and we don’t know a damn thing about 18/F, 19/F, or 20/F. Heck, we barely know anything about 17/F.
LunarRabbit did open up his cube. Inside, he got Lv. 1 Earth Fragment, three times (this is worst case scenario). We shed a tear for his loss of the cube, as well as 800’000 silver from re-rolls.
As always, thanks to the tireless team as well as all the people who supported us (especially you sexy Squire players). It takes a special kind of masochism to go through an hour of Earth Tower each run, unsure if we’ll succeed or not.
