05-29-2025, 12:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-29-2025, 12:05 AM by Spiffspoff.)
Character: Abigail Blythe
Which Event: Where Sky meets the Ground
Responsiveness: Very fast. There wasn't much exposition at all, which is probably a factor. 10/10
Balance:
I knew going into any event would be rough as monophys, but I have few issues with the balancing. The first boss was great. High-octane, a large arena, and the selection of skills were fine. I'll always personally be against ECs having autohits, but they were mostly used for mobility's sake. It was a good fight, if perhaps a little too high on damage, and a little too low on health.
The second boss had a really janky arena due to the map, which plays a large factor into why I liked it a lot less. The arena was tiny compared to the first, essentially a hallway, which in combination with the old cosmic starrain made it difficult to avoid, leaning towards unfair. I was stuck a number of times in very tiny sweetspots where all around me was essentially instant death from the many AoEs overlapping.
It cheapens going down if you just happened to RNG your way onto a tile that has 5 AoEs on top of each other in my opinion. Overall I pretty much did nothing that boss other than sit in a corner.
The third, and final boss was in an arena even smaller than the second, but mercifully it had few AoEs (Although starrain made another return). There were far more opportunities to hit this one even for monophys, which made it much more fun than the second boss. Overall it suffered the same issues as the second boss, but less egregiously so-- the uses of AoEs were much more sparing.
6.5/10
Storytelling: There wasn't much to begin with, but that was the nature of the requested event. We could infer some things, but were never explicitly told anything, and there were only a few opportunities to glean more, as we did very little between bosses. The skill checks mingled in were fun, and flavourful, and felt more like gimmicks rather than punishments, which should always be the case.
8/10
Anything else:
It was a good, sweet, short event. The perm I got was cool, as were the rewards. I also got to RP one my character's gimmicks that rarely come up, so that was pretty sick.
Overall a 7.5, mostly due to starrain in enclosed spaces make me sad.
Which Event: Where Sky meets the Ground
Responsiveness: Very fast. There wasn't much exposition at all, which is probably a factor. 10/10
Balance:
I knew going into any event would be rough as monophys, but I have few issues with the balancing. The first boss was great. High-octane, a large arena, and the selection of skills were fine. I'll always personally be against ECs having autohits, but they were mostly used for mobility's sake. It was a good fight, if perhaps a little too high on damage, and a little too low on health.
The second boss had a really janky arena due to the map, which plays a large factor into why I liked it a lot less. The arena was tiny compared to the first, essentially a hallway, which in combination with the old cosmic starrain made it difficult to avoid, leaning towards unfair. I was stuck a number of times in very tiny sweetspots where all around me was essentially instant death from the many AoEs overlapping.
It cheapens going down if you just happened to RNG your way onto a tile that has 5 AoEs on top of each other in my opinion. Overall I pretty much did nothing that boss other than sit in a corner.
The third, and final boss was in an arena even smaller than the second, but mercifully it had few AoEs (Although starrain made another return). There were far more opportunities to hit this one even for monophys, which made it much more fun than the second boss. Overall it suffered the same issues as the second boss, but less egregiously so-- the uses of AoEs were much more sparing.
6.5/10
Storytelling: There wasn't much to begin with, but that was the nature of the requested event. We could infer some things, but were never explicitly told anything, and there were only a few opportunities to glean more, as we did very little between bosses. The skill checks mingled in were fun, and flavourful, and felt more like gimmicks rather than punishments, which should always be the case.
8/10
Anything else:
It was a good, sweet, short event. The perm I got was cool, as were the rewards. I also got to RP one my character's gimmicks that rarely come up, so that was pretty sick.
Overall a 7.5, mostly due to starrain in enclosed spaces make me sad.