XENOSHG'S PROFILE

ToEE left part is not so hard, just mana-consuming, as long as enemies don't surprise me.

Story-wise, I got to Ubiquity, and after hearing something along the lines "There's the final boss, go through that door over there" I, naturally, do a 180 and leave, with the intention of finishing everything I started and collecting everything I can.
And getting the best equipment, clearing everything, feeding the pig until he bursts.. (492-504-451-503 for now)
Rare materials shop doesn't get an upgrade? Then grinding some monsters, too.

Nightmare dimension "race" was enjoyable - not hard, enemies are easy to evade, the boss is not insane, and the idea is good. The "parade" is harder, because final boss casts revive and revitalize, and if I kill monsters before her, she restores them when she dies, but if I try to kill her first, I don't have time for others. Still, wanna finish this.

I'd like to say that arena is great!
Grinding usually straightens into "check what skill hit harder, then how many hits enemies can take > use them again and again"
While arena levels make room for combining inefficient equipment, sacrificing something to compensate the lack of teammates, and overcoming the enemies.
First time I tried to pass Yvette's arena A with anti-elemental dress and anti-status ring, the enemies bit me to death. Second time I got half-MP cost necklace to heal myself... got confused, and killed myself. Third time I equipped +50% evasion dress, and +30% evasion Vampire Cape, and it became a comedy - I hit monsters, monsters can't hit me, sometimes Yvette gets confused and tries to kill herself, but misses. And enemies also miss, which is why confusion lasts until it wears off... And final boss renews it regularly. So, using Meditate or debuffs isn't too effective, and I had to just Atomize it.

Or using mass-debuffs, which also looks like some kind of sadism - enemies are already all-stats down, blind, silent, paralyzed, stunned, poisoned, confused (which doesn't help because they are paralyzed and stunned), and it's only the second turn! Then double-buffed Ivy is breaking them one by one.

If that's what you meant in last update, thank you. My current max is around 47000 damage, which is Ivy, under Shout and Blessing, using Divine Punishment on Nightmare Count. Very enjoyable!

Maybe Pallance will still be running around. He's alive in a very loose definition of not-yet-dead, but well..

-When I first asked my parents to buy me a dog, they bought me a goldfish, so that I'd learn how to care about someone. 50 fish later, I know one thing: everything I care about, dies.

Actually, I don't think longevity should be so depressing. How many really great friends do you, for example, actually have, and for how long have you been friends with them? People don't usually have dozens of close friends, for extended periods of time. Some people change, some priorities shift.. Yes, if you get life-long best friends, you'd be sad when they die of old age, but people can as well accidentally die young, which is equally sad, so the only thing longevity does, is giving you the advantage of having more times to find those best friends.

There are popular opinions about dying before you get to know you grandchildren, or seeing your grand/children die young without accomplishing anything, while you grow old.
But how many people can relate to seeing their grandchildren die after having lived a long, successful life, and leaving your great-great-grandchildren to care about? I don't think there are many.

If we count deaths of relatives as a whole, then most people have at least 1 of their grandparents die during their conscious lifespan. People get sad, yes, and then usually cope with that, yes, but "coping" usually includes living normally, while having sad memories, and not being constantly sad forever, with occasional sparks of sunshine when you somehow get yourself to be happy.

For another in-game example, among the characters there's Magnus, who's 100+ YO, has probably seen his fair share of undead psychologists.. I mean, dead people.
People aren't made for depression, people are born for happiness, our bodies care about that.
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If someone wonders, after completely remapping everything, I found those 2 chests: polaris one was tucked in the corner behind zeppelin parking, and the Dragon one was on the border where forest and swamp converge. Now there's one more at the Elevator..

Three? I saw 2, lower right and lower left, and then library building and the zeppelin parking slot.. Gonna check.

The problem is, I'm replaying what I already played, and I'm also making kind of a map, so I know where to drop to get both chests under the swamp, and where in the forest were witch's hat and something else, and so I don't quite understand where I could miss something.
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So, Phobos's and Lucas's powers are opposite? One withers plants, and the other regrows?

Will Lucas and|or Nox get to giving sermons like 2 others?

Will anybody cover that gaping black hole in the middle o the city council building?
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I have a feeling that option to make S-class materials means Balfur's weapons aren't as best as people think they are.

I actually don't think "parallels" is hard. I think, it's god-f*ing impossible. What are the fastest ways to kill everything? Maybe some hints? Please?
Oh damn, i got to the boss.. it's the most cruel joke I've ever seen.

I don't know why, but I can't even cheat. Maybe I'll come back 20 levels later