Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160428221352/@comment-25936766-20170707010249

SpiritedDreaming wrote: 1) Avo's Tear is literally exactly the same as the Sword of Aeons. If the Tear is meh, then so is the SoA.

2) Though, the good/evil thing is easy to get around. Just have a whole heap of cash on hand and the ability to get to the temple of Avo.

3) I used to just wade into battle with a melee weapon and Physical Shield to ignore stagger.

4) I've been looking into poetry and history. I'm finding a few poems about specific heroes, but they don't tend to get the title Hero of ____, just sort of named hero by the poem itself. 1) ....Well, it was. I thought "This legendary sword is going to wreck everybody in these frozen lands at the ass of Albion!". Then I hit everything with it and they hardly flinch. And I find melee weapons worthless against Golems, and the SoA was no exception.

.....But I guess there's an aesop in all that? I killed my sister for it, and it was really not worth it.

2) Well, I was a master at that game in Bowerstone (forgot the name) where you must find each pair before time runs out. Easily went from 247 gold to the Ks in 10 minutes. But it's too much of a pain to do that just to be good.

I didn't even need that bow anyway, a simple Master Bow looked cool and already dealt enough damage to 1-shot a White Beowulf with just 1 silver augment.

3) I simply rolled around. The invincibility frames were much bigger than I expected, and one can keep the shot charged while rolling, and even fire the arrow right before and after rolling.

Against most enemies, this meant I could use that Bow point-blank and walk out with no damage at all. And it's also the reason I found melee-weapons worthless against Golems; the rocks are easy to evade while firing. You cannot do the same with a blade while dealing with ground slams.

I did try that Shield spell though. Still worthless because it took my Mana from 100% to 0 in just a pair of hits, and that Mana was better spent using the "Hit everyone Myriads of times" spells. Or the Matrix-Time spell. Or the Healing spell. Or the Summon spell. Or the Super Speed Charge. Or the Lightning bolt.