Lets get this party started eh?!
Think I'll be able to catch up to where I am currently.. stuck.
So, in the depths of mustard hell as always I'm grinding, doing the usual stuffs. Exploring every single place and trying to get deeper(higher) in the so called "castle". Whats up with that anyways, calling this zeppelin look alike a "castle"? Silly folks of Lagaard.
As my party entered 21th floor, I had a small *gasp*, right away there's someone spouting something at me, mentioning the "holy grail" something that I am supposed to fetch, in order to save the ill duke in Lagaard. All good, after reading the somewhat threatening words I decide to continue my journey.
Just like it was mentioned earlier, these damned mandrakes, get two of them and a pre-emptive strike for the enemies and chances are, your whole team is gonna get wiped and you aint gonna do shit about that.
Brilliant, just godfuckingdamned awesome, just the thing I need. <3
Thanks to my survivalist Suisho I dont have these happen all that often as I have the passive that reduces the chances of such event occuring. The thing is, I dont use her that much anymore, I'm making her rest and meanwhile she is resting, I'm leveling up other characters. Ie. my brown bear beast called GAOOO~. Beast is getting pretty big and tanky, I like that. Kind of swapping between GAOOO~ and my ronin Ronni(yeah, I know, its one boring name... I'm very bad when it comes to naming <.< ).
Anyways, Nothing much going on in Floor 21, it didn't take much effort for me to find out the patterns of the new FOE's (deathmen). At first I was kind of afraid of them but eventually I decided to challenge the one guy who thought it was a good idea to go solo.. I did manage to beat it, even though it managed to kill few of my party members with that move that can 1-hit KO anyone it seems. Taking on two of them however... is a suicide.
After mapping the 21th floor I decided to do some Chop farming for the goods.
22th Floor gets somewhat tricky again as once again I had forgotten that these certain FOE's only move during the night... So what did this mean? It meant that I had to grind force bars up to max and then try out my luck. I had earlier checked out what the FOE was, without any force spells being up and naturally I did get wiped, also I was terrified to find out that this new FOE was something related to the Helldras in 3rd stratum and just like they were a hassle to beat, these guys were naturally evenly hard.
As I was grinding force bars up, I had already forgotten that the damned things moved during the night.. when I had 2 force bars up. RIKARDO, being the BOSS that he is, he always gets the force up first and Ayu the gunner, Sheis only missed few points, same thing with GAOO~ and Reiya was missing like 30 points or so. So yeah, when it turned to night I was still running around like a clueless madman that I am and BAM! DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH! Here comes FOE and on top of that.. I was placed in such way that it was IMPOSSIBLE to run away.. Being cornered like that, for a moment I thought about just pressing the reset button but naw, I decided to give it a go, I mean there isn't anything really for me to lose by doing so why the fug not?!
After a long fight, I actually managed to beat the damn thing.. I was pretty damn stunned. I was not expecting to beat the damn thing.. I mean, I did not even have full HP on my party members and I had already wasted 1 full turn by trying to run away AND I only had 2 force spells up.. but nope, I have no idea what just happened in that fight. The thing kept on doing its charge spell and like 3 times in a row, it missed me.. or something like that, the thing was missing its attacks like a BOSS. Best thing is that I did not even have my survivalist force skill even used at that point yet.
But yeah, after a long battle, I did indeed manage to beat that thing. It was probably the most intense and nerves cracking fight I'v had so far. MAN it felt good.
After that I did the same thing for 2 more times and managed to reach floor 23. The more boost I gained from defeating the first one gave me confidence in beating them all, rather than waiting for the night to come and sneak behind in order to proceed further. Just before I went to floor 23 I decided to farm "take" spots for some extra cash and new items. :3
And, this is kind of where I still am. Floor 23.
With the amount of FOE's swarming in here, I feel rather powerless.. I have found the two mining spots and have been farming them for the new items and naturally some more gold, as clearly I keep getting this "this is not enough golds" message. Buying all these "ultimate tier weapons/armors" are pretty damn expensive.
I am currently in progress of leveling up:
Yissa - paladin - lvl 41
Ronni - Ronin - lvl59
GAOO~ - Beast - 64
I did manage to beat one beamedge in floor 23, but that was I'd say thanks to luck. Poison hitting and survivalist evasion making it possible for me. 1 more turn and deathman would have joined the fight making it certain that I would have wiped but nope! I still try once in a while to check out how I do against them, I must say that I'm not all that convinced yet.
So, currently I'm grinding money and levels on new classes. Thanks to this I probably wont be making new updates all that often.. I mean, it would be rather boring for me to just type out "still grinding levels and still grinding money" multiple times. <__<
I'm hoping that these classes will help me in floor 23.
Guess as last thing, I'll mention that when I reached the 23th floor, I also decided to give my payback to Salomox for what it did to me in the earlier stage of the game. Thanks to Yissa and her antifire and Reiyas sapping curse, I was able to defeat it. Warmight casted on Ayu and keep spamming that ricochet and also at the same time pray that RIKARDO gets some lucky 2-hits and counters! I actually managed to beat salomox on my first try(minus the ones I had in early stage) and got that 15x attack sword with fire damage for it. After all the dissapointing fights I had with it, it felt pretty good. <3