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geebsTV commentary:
Eureka- Wait, Holly is a hologram and they didn't make some sort of Holly-gram joke?
Lost Girl- Is it me, or did that one Bo scene seem totally ripped off from Galadriel being offered the ring in FotR? And heh, it almost seemed like she and Lauren were going to do it over the Doc's cursed girlfriend there at the end.
Also, why the frick did they refer to liches as "licks". Its lich! Isn't it? I mean, its not "Wrath of the Lick King". And they definitely had to be referring to liches in the classic undead wizard sense, because they mentioned phylacteries. Or where they trying to be like fae and magick and do things all weirdly. Though in those cases they just spell it funny, they don't pronounce it funny!
WO blather- I think I've mentioned before, the 4 elements people seem to agree on as must haves are bolt/slay/wind/absorption. Well, brilliance is on there too, which imbues all attacks with the elements you have equipped, not just particular charge attacks, but that's one of the gold abilities, which I don't have any of yet, as I have yet to tackle the game on hard. But yeah, from what I hear, with bolt/slay/wind maxed and together, you're supposedly taking off 6.5% of the officers' life bars per attack, while brawn/might makes you do 1.2x more damage for your attacks. Supposedly, in the end they're more or less the same damage output wise. Of course, bolt adds stun and wind punches through guard, so it seems those are better in general.
As for the other 4 (well 3, since brilliance sounds like a must have) it seems up in the air. Ice seems cool (ha!) but I guess its not actually that good. I get snowed (ha again!) by its effectiveness because certain characters it seems to go off with more than others, but while freezing the enemy seems useful, its actually not, because while you're hacking away at them all frozen in place like that, with other elements, you can be pushing them back on them move whilst hitting other folks. So I should really drop it from anyone who has it.
Osmosis is kinda good because it lets you get musou back without having to switch out, but I guess that's only useful for those characters who's musous and special attacks I use a lot. Which in turn makes destruction and/or frenzy more useful. I guess flak is pretty good for specific characters as well, particularly zhao yun and zhang he, who's ex-attacks drill the enemy up into the air, and they can follow up with several normal attack whilst still in the air, so they make the most of the benefit. I guess it takes special consideration for each character, which is good that there's not a best for everyone, as variety is the spice of life.
Interesting, according to the ranking systems I've seen, Xiahou Ba is apparently the best (he must have some cheap trick that can be spammed, heh, I'm sounding like Zhong Hui right now). And Nu Wa and Mitsuhide are right below him in the second tier. I have yet to play Nu Wa, I haven't played her since DW3 or 4, whichever was the last game she was in. I guess I remember her being a beast back then. And actually, they released her moveset in DW7 as DLC, and it was indeed really good. I can see Akechi being considered that strong because he has a really solid moveset. He just has so many good moves, and he has good stats all around that he does decent damage, and he's fast enough to get his really high charge attacks out without getting interrupted. His c8 in particular is ultra safe, as it just carves a swath around him, but the same can be said for most of his other moves, he's very hard to interrupt, which is important in this game.
Interesting, the tier right below that (which also contains Xu Huang and Keiji, and we're at "best" at that point, as apparently Xiahou Ba ranks as ridiculously overpowered, and Nu Wa and Mitsuhide as slightly less powerful, and then comes the next tier, which are the consistently top characters) includes Joan of Arc, whom I have not tried yet, so she apparently ranks higher than Achilles, even though in real life, I would think Achilles would totally kick Joan of Arc's ass.
People rank here and there after that, but apparently Magoichi and Goemon are the worst. I can see Magoichi being so low. I mean, he's a cool character, but his moveset is just lousy. Like I remember in SW, he was the one that was hardest to play, because even the slow guys at least have some good moves to make up for their slowness. But Magoichi just didn't have anything positive about his moves. And despite being armed with a rifle, he actually doesn't have good range because the shots don't come out until after a few melee attacks, which aren't nearly as fast to get through as the bowmen from DW like Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan.
Eureka- Wait, Holly is a hologram and they didn't make some sort of Holly-gram joke?
Lost Girl- Is it me, or did that one Bo scene seem totally ripped off from Galadriel being offered the ring in FotR? And heh, it almost seemed like she and Lauren were going to do it over the Doc's cursed girlfriend there at the end.
Also, why the frick did they refer to liches as "licks". Its lich! Isn't it? I mean, its not "Wrath of the Lick King". And they definitely had to be referring to liches in the classic undead wizard sense, because they mentioned phylacteries. Or where they trying to be like fae and magick and do things all weirdly. Though in those cases they just spell it funny, they don't pronounce it funny!
WO blather- I think I've mentioned before, the 4 elements people seem to agree on as must haves are bolt/slay/wind/absorption. Well, brilliance is on there too, which imbues all attacks with the elements you have equipped, not just particular charge attacks, but that's one of the gold abilities, which I don't have any of yet, as I have yet to tackle the game on hard. But yeah, from what I hear, with bolt/slay/wind maxed and together, you're supposedly taking off 6.5% of the officers' life bars per attack, while brawn/might makes you do 1.2x more damage for your attacks. Supposedly, in the end they're more or less the same damage output wise. Of course, bolt adds stun and wind punches through guard, so it seems those are better in general.
As for the other 4 (well 3, since brilliance sounds like a must have) it seems up in the air. Ice seems cool (ha!) but I guess its not actually that good. I get snowed (ha again!) by its effectiveness because certain characters it seems to go off with more than others, but while freezing the enemy seems useful, its actually not, because while you're hacking away at them all frozen in place like that, with other elements, you can be pushing them back on them move whilst hitting other folks. So I should really drop it from anyone who has it.
Osmosis is kinda good because it lets you get musou back without having to switch out, but I guess that's only useful for those characters who's musous and special attacks I use a lot. Which in turn makes destruction and/or frenzy more useful. I guess flak is pretty good for specific characters as well, particularly zhao yun and zhang he, who's ex-attacks drill the enemy up into the air, and they can follow up with several normal attack whilst still in the air, so they make the most of the benefit. I guess it takes special consideration for each character, which is good that there's not a best for everyone, as variety is the spice of life.
Interesting, according to the ranking systems I've seen, Xiahou Ba is apparently the best (he must have some cheap trick that can be spammed, heh, I'm sounding like Zhong Hui right now). And Nu Wa and Mitsuhide are right below him in the second tier. I have yet to play Nu Wa, I haven't played her since DW3 or 4, whichever was the last game she was in. I guess I remember her being a beast back then. And actually, they released her moveset in DW7 as DLC, and it was indeed really good. I can see Akechi being considered that strong because he has a really solid moveset. He just has so many good moves, and he has good stats all around that he does decent damage, and he's fast enough to get his really high charge attacks out without getting interrupted. His c8 in particular is ultra safe, as it just carves a swath around him, but the same can be said for most of his other moves, he's very hard to interrupt, which is important in this game.
Interesting, the tier right below that (which also contains Xu Huang and Keiji, and we're at "best" at that point, as apparently Xiahou Ba ranks as ridiculously overpowered, and Nu Wa and Mitsuhide as slightly less powerful, and then comes the next tier, which are the consistently top characters) includes Joan of Arc, whom I have not tried yet, so she apparently ranks higher than Achilles, even though in real life, I would think Achilles would totally kick Joan of Arc's ass.
People rank here and there after that, but apparently Magoichi and Goemon are the worst. I can see Magoichi being so low. I mean, he's a cool character, but his moveset is just lousy. Like I remember in SW, he was the one that was hardest to play, because even the slow guys at least have some good moves to make up for their slowness. But Magoichi just didn't have anything positive about his moves. And despite being armed with a rifle, he actually doesn't have good range because the shots don't come out until after a few melee attacks, which aren't nearly as fast to get through as the bowmen from DW like Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan.
