Obligatory KOL update

[yendi]

FInished my second Bad Moon run. Woohoo! I was able to beat the NS without going to level 14 as a Seal Clubber, but I used the "lost five times in a row" strategy. Sixth one was a breeze.

Took me 23 days. No, I'm not a speed player. :-)

Have ascended as an Accordion Thief for the third of my six runs.

Comments

[creepingcrud.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I finishd my third run, as pastamancer, the other day, and I've started my sauce bad moon. I am really hoping this one sucks less than its predecessor - pastamancy in bad moon is a royal pain. Sauce may lack entangling noodles, but adv. saucecrafting + hippy suit = serum of sarcasm (+100% moxie) for 90 turns/day (3 reagents x 3 potions each x 10 turns each), which should be awesome.

[yendi]

Congrats! I fully expect Pastamancer to be the worst of the six classes.

[creepingcrud.livejournal.com]

Pastamancers are awkward. Late-game fights require a minimum of 17 mp and often up to 45 (noodles+fettucini+extreme ray), which means you're spending in the neighborhood of 100-200 meat per fight while most fights give you significantly less. Add in costs to maintain Springy Fusilli ('cause healing is another expense), and despite the available of cheap mp, pastamancers just cost too much. Plus, almost all the food you get in the late game is better than basic noodle dishes, so the food advantage eventually disappears. So, yeah, I'd say they're the roughest.

Personally I am just doing the classes "in order" top to bottom, which means finishing up with the easiest/fastest classes - it'll be nice, because at this point I haven't played a moxie class since I finished my AT oxy on June 20. Plus, after the last bad moon I can do an AT or DB run with the brimstone beret in hardcore normal. That oughta kick a lot of ass (though I am sure I'll be sad when I have to put aside the beret at level 12 to fight the war).

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

Used your name in vain in my LJ. :)

[yendi]

Ha! I saw! In fact, when I saw Brust's original post, I tried to see how easy it was to get $300K in liquid assets. Alas, I'm about $300K short.

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

Yah, me too. :(
(In fact, in almost all my assets)