Thread: [Event 66] Tower of Malice vs Dysnomia Philos

Originally Posted by Slashley

So, my final score is 9480.

Random blatherings on my misadventures during the last few stages:

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Floor 13: Crom's Crotch. Fucker resisted Ryu-Oh's BP which led to a near wipe. Lost my "have 5 survivors" mission, but I guess I can only blame myself for not bringing VoF. 19 turns.

Floor 14: Cthugha. Running off-element Thunder since I had been playing safe on many floors, and I wanted to leave a back-up Water team for F15. Didn't go all that well. Would've wiped... if reserves Thor hadn't landed a pure-skill Paralyze
19 turns.

Floor 15:
Stage 1, no problems, in fact my A team demolished the mobs a bit too fast. Should've held back. Oh well.
Stage 2, could've been better, but lack of debuffs meant that I was struggling. Still, without healers can't exactly go slow either.
Stage 3, Full Burst around turn 3 (no Overdrives have happened yet since bubble-eating Cthulhu and Raph) Asherah stacks + PF blasts for 4m-ish, I don't think anyone procced Asherah Crits. Instant wipe from 65% HP Trigger. JESUS christ that fucking hurt. Of course, I had -10% from Eidolon and both Raph and Poseidon were ready for a total of -90% reduction. There's only person we can blame for misplay:
me nonsensei! Damn you for ruining my Tower run! I'm sure the video I didn't watch was the reason for this!!

Full wipe happened around six as even Herc couldn't take many punches from Phlox.

Re-key with a pitiful back-up team, bring Morgan's party-Berserk because PF isn't going to do much when starting against Phlox. Turn 4 Herc is ready to Burst, actually lands the freaking Def Down debuff aaaand... I kill her. Within the time limit. Did the previous six-ish turns even count towards the time limit now...? Anyway. I think I even skipped 15% Trigger thanks to that blessing from RNG gods. Total turns: 24.

So clearly, I am a master of Tower, defeating two floors purely because of pure skillful use of purely skillful skills of pure skill.


Anyway. It's not like there was much for me to gain even if I hadn't fucked up Phlox. Missions I missed:
500 Medals F15 (clear twice), don't think there's any chance of me being able to beat a non-debuffable boss reliably. At all.
250 Medals F13 (five survivors), not a chance. Maaaaybe some super tanky off-element team could've done it. Probably would've tried this.
200 Medals F14 (elemental advantage), don't think back-up Water team could've done this.
150 Medals F8 (elemental advantage), I missed out on this since I fucked up due to lack of planning. IRL kept me busy so I couldn't plan for the event properly (I started planning on F7-F8 day), and I had used my Balance Water Rs in a rush previously. I NEEDED Triton for a floor a bit higher, so I forfeited these Medals.

Could've had 400 more Medals with better planning, but all things considered, better than expected honestly.

Hey, I missed Ryu-Oh BP as well on 13F. Honestly, I got fairly lucky other than that in there. Barely had to eat any random AoE+scorch attack. If I ate more of those adding up to BP missing, I probably would have failed 5 alive mission. This 13F was fked up strong. They majorly nerfed the floor afterwards.
As Bear said, you did well for a first tower try (especially considering the above & that you apparently was lacking in time).


As for the rankings in general.. well, that's the power of 4m players for you guys.. I actually participated in the dark tower event in DMM with my pretty lucky account I started for the lulz. Happened to draw a shit ton of light himes on a light rate up (coz rate up is less of a lie there) & managed assemble a grid that was basically on par with my light grid in here. Powercreep in the face.
With that account, I cleared the whole thing except for 2nd run of 15F & still got kicked out of top 3k. Powercreep may be a thing, but definitely doesn't make up for this big difference. Just taco things.

Messed up a few times (apparently it's few times too much), so not even over 9000.



Still I think it's acceptable result for f2p (expected far worse to be honest).

got uh in total 7650 because i suck and 3k from ranking rewards so hey at least i know i can get a brick next time when the eido ones come out... if i have a 100% eido by then which i doubt cuz im gay ---though i still have my eido brick from the $100 goocha

so from the ranking rewards i just bought the last ticket set and got a dupe of ryu-oh's gun so im hyped as fuck cuz i using it in my grid yeyeee o:

9.140 points, rank 92. Could have been worse. ^^

rank 183... would have been better tbh (if i wasnt that lazy) but still okay
bought tix ofc cuz fuck brix

Originally Posted by nonsensei

Hey, I missed Ryu-Oh BP as well on 13F. Honestly, I got fairly lucky other than that in there.

Yup, I saw (I watched those after making my post). Like landing a Def Down on Phlox and two Crits procced on Full Burst. But I don't think any of those lucky things were a matter of do-or-die for you.

Originally Posted by nonsensei

As Bear said, you did well for a first tower try (especially considering the above & that you apparently was lacking in time).

... I honestly thought that was sarcasm... well, thanks to you both then.


I'll need to properly prepare for Water Tower, no lack of time excuse for next time. That'll be my last chance to be properly competitive anyway. My Wind team is decent-ish but can't fight for the top. Fire, Light and Dark are absolutely pitiful and won't even be clearing F15 I believe.
... unless I Miracle Ticket for Fire, which I might need to do just to get my Fire team up to par... damn those pesky Wind events (FUCK YOU WIND GO with Sieg, FUCK you). But a single Svarog/Uriel isn't going to carry more than a floor or two.

-- Slash from work

Again:
Medals will remain until the next event? Someone knows?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yup, I saw (I watched those after making my post). Like landing a Def Down on Phlox and two Crits procced on Full Burst. But I don't think any of those lucky things were a matter of do-or-die for you.

I don't know how things would have played out on the light run if I didn't stick Herc def debuff, but the water part probably would have gone smoothly regardless of crit or Atalanta's def down. Was prepared to take the trigger. Oh, and while debuffs stuck on light run, I got a fair share of TAs in exchange from the boss. RNG is fickle.

Originally Posted by ShellShock

Again:
Medals will remain until the next event? Someone knows?

Yep, they're permanent currency.

Fml

I muppeted a little, and twice failed with the final level boss on under 20k (1 hit killed by follow on party) left. But do I really deserve 10 points short? <goes away to sob>

Oh... that really hurts.... I'm actually sorry for you