Extreme East Spoiler and Discussion Thread

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[Nurator]

Wow from just reading this I am getting flash backs of the gilded goat, part 6 You can do it!

In the mean time, I am stumped at errand boy pt. 3. I can get to the second boss phase consistently, but I dont really understand how to minimize the goat spawns... Any tips?

[shade_of_ox]

Oh don't worry, I'll beat it... eventually. In the meantime I've written a macro to grind out money in Curious Northern Desert so I can work while I rake in that sweet sweet boss gold. Hopefully the game won't crash when I pick up the piles...

EDIT: Yeah, it's been running for a little bit now and I decided to stop it.
http://prntscr.com/la84kp
That's 47 prestige levels.

By the way, @Srid, is there a reason the mod stops my hotkeys from functioning when the game is in focus? The base game didn't do that, I don't think...


@Nurator - That's Gorgon in Lekon's Table, right?

The easiest way to approach that one is IMAWALing the goats as they spawn, so he can't get any refills. Or alternatively you can just get enough resists and damage (probably Binlor + Body Pact, for Gorgon) to be able to kill them straight up. Remember, once you're level 10 you can't actually lose piety with Binlor (without IMAWAL), so you can kill them without worrying about his punishment.

[srid]

[shade_of_ox]

For instance, I have a hotkey to mute my mic on Discord, but when the (modded) game window is in focus, that hotkey doesn't work.

[Nurator]

@shade_of_ox Yes, thats Gorgon. I am still unsure how exactly the goats spawn in the first place to minimize the number... it seems that they spawn on every interesting point and all normal monsters are converted into lvl 10 goats. I also noticed that enemies that were goats before stay goats with their normal level. Is that correct?

[srid]

@Nurator If I'm not mistaken, every normal enemy is turned into a goat of the same level (it's like if they died, really), and a bunch of additional lvl 10 goats spawn too.

I haven't played it much, but it seemed like the right strategy (in general, I'm not talking about the Gorgon here) is to manage to kill the Sacrifice soon enough (by sinking all your mana spike into it) to turn all enemies into goats and spare you the hassle of killing them twice. Then you should kill as much goats as possible before taking on the boss, because he will eat them to heal and gain resistances.

@shade_of_ox You hotkey not working with EE while it does with the base game is very strange, and certainly not intended. And I doubt we changed anything that could be related to that... Are you playing on Windows?

[shade_of_ox]

@Srid - I'm on Windows 7.

@Nurator - yeah, it's something along those lines. If you're saving the subdungeon blackspace, make sure you remember where they were before you start on the Vessel, and knock the goat off rather than killing him (and making a wall) on that space. Otherwise, just kill the Sacrifice ASAP, probably around level 7 since it's hard to kill him earlier with his high attack. It's fine to blow almost all your blackspace on this because the Vessel creates a lot more blackspace for you. Then it just comes down to killing a lot of the goats that get spawned (they actually have pretty low stats), which you should be able to do thanks to all the level-up refills you get. Try and get your deathgaze up as high as possible (I think I had it at 50% or so for my run) because the Vessel has a huge health bar.

By the way, a slight polish suggestion - why does the Vessel say something along the lines of "you will remain human - the only form crude enough for your soul" when you're very clearly not a human? He should probably just say something like "remain in this form, then, the only one crude enough for your soul" instead.

[Nurator]

Ok thanks for the tips, I will try them out tomorrow

[shade_of_ox]

84 prestige levels is my new record from leaving the macro running for a couple of hours. I'm honestly surprised the game hasn't crashed from a memory leak or something by now, kudos to the devs.
http://prntscr.com/lakgih