>play Dawn of Sorrow>level 33>need a few souls >3 hours later>level 46>two (2) new souls obtained>gave up on the iron golem after leveling up 8 timesWas this playtested
>>719612015Luck is literally broken. Its broken in at least 3 Igavanias
>>719612162It's only broken if you're an unlucky person
>>719612162I read about that online. I tried my best to do everything myself, but after realizing some souls are progression items and having to kill a peeping eye literally 200 times in a row, I looked up what each soul did. I hate having to consult guides, but I'm not trying random options when each one entails up to an hour of repetition
>>719612015>gave up on the iron golem after leveling up 8 times>he doesnt know
>>719612737Help
>>719612015just cheat niggadawn of sorrow is extra bad due to crafting and soul-specific levels, the rest of the game isn't worth all the effort
>>719612015I don't think I ever fully upgraded the great sword because of the iron golem requirement. I've tried before but gave up after ~2 hours of grinding and not getting much out of it besides a headache. Balmung looks cool enough anyways
>>719613062Original hardware, otherwise I'd use the romhack>the rest of the game isn't worth all the effortProblem is I'm having a lot of fun
Don't waste your time grinding early. Just complete the game and get equipment that raises drop rates. Hard mode has 4x drop rates.
>>719612850nigga get the imp soulit changes the enemies MP and HP barsfor the iron golem it changes its 50HP to 15
>>719613434>Hard modeGuess I'm doing a second playthrough now
>>719613448I have that but it conflicts with the MP I use for bat form to cheese him from behind
>>719612162If you're an IRL lucklet, no amount of LUK will save you.
>>719613280romhacks work on original hardware, my dude. i have the sigil removal patched rom on my ds.
>>719612015Just wait till you try farming the creature's soul.It has a 0.39% drop rate.Even with Soul eater you're not going to get it any time soon.
>>719612015You're not supposed to farm all souls. You're supposed to keep replaying over the course of your life and maybe hit 100% some day if you're lucky.
>>719613782*original hardware and cart. If I wanna replay it I'll put the hack on my flashcart
>>719612015And yet people complain about CotM card drop rates. It was much more reasonable than souls from Aria and Dawn, aside from cards only obtainable in Battle Arena.
>>719612015This faggot is always bringing killers to my gen
>>719613513get the kaiser knuckles. you need to hit 3 attacks on the golem, which can be done in a single use of the IMP's soul and leaves you enough MP to fly behind him with bat comany.Or you could just use the puppet master soul with the skeleton ape passive to get behind it and then switch to the other loadout with the imp soul
>>719615396Oh yeah duh, I can just jump with puppet master to throw it far enough>>719614420CotM was a pain in the ass because of physically tiring controls and a lack of good grinding spots
>>719615659>physically tiring controlsPsyop. Beat em ups had double tap running and no one complained. Aside from that, the controls are no different from other sotn clones. The complaint about grinding spots is genuine though, but grinding is only needed for Battle Arena - the rest of the game is well balanced, I'd even go as far as to say it's the best balanced sotn clone there, even more than sotn itself.
>>719616263The problem is they're scaled down to the size of GBA or DS buttons
>>719616413It's 2025 whipbro, not an issue anymore with emulators.
>>719617050I have autism and own a cart/disc of every game except Aria
>>719612015Charlotte's LCK boost spell from PoR really spoiled me. I'm a completionist, so I like getting all item drops on the bestiaryBut fuck doing that in DoS lmao
>>719613805I did that without knowing how bad the drop rate isI think I spent something like 3 hours just killing that nigger over and overWorst part is I did it on a whim thinking I'll get some cool electric powers but at least his soul ended up still being useful
>>719612162this. get the definitive+ mod>>719612162luck doesn't affect drop rate in harmony, aria and dawn, but I think it was just a weird design choice rather than a bug. I mean, what are the odds it appears in 3 different games, 1 of which is on a new console, without it being intentional?
>>719612015Did the collection fix luck?
>>719619679What else does it do?
>>719619679>I mean, what are the odds it appears in 3 different games, 1 of which is on a new console, without it being intentional?In a low budget handheld series reusing assets from the 90s, at a time period with notoriously short and rushed dev times?
>>719623910>reusing assets from the 90sHarmony and Aria don't have a single reused asset. Meanwhile SotN has several.
>>719612162Just getting the gaint axe in dawn took significantly more time than the time I spent farming cards and souls in circle of the moon and aria of sorrow combined. The drops rates weren't great in those games either but dawn is comically bad.
Literally just get the soul eater ring, it takes 30 minutes of grinding then you're good for the rest of the game. Got the final guard and alastor soul in 5 minutes total for the claimh solais
>>719624173>Harmony and Aria don't have a single reused asset.Harmony has quite a few, I'm sure. CotM on the other hand does not, aside from Killer Dolls.
>>719612015>killer mantle the iron golem>iron golem now has 1hp>ggez
It took me like an hour of grinding and killing the Peeping Eye to get its soul
>>719622753Nope, it's authentic. I decided to get every soul that could level up to max level, and decided to see how high level I could make Soma in the process. Just constant room resetting and trying to quick kill as much as possible. Great Axe Armor, Stolas, and Venus Weed were some of my least favorites.
Where the fuck do I go after meeting death in Harmony of Dissonance???? I got the crushing stone. This shit is terrible I've never gotten lost in a metroidvania before
>>719626082been a while since i finished this iirc you had to break a wall in castle A? on the highest floor or something
>>719612015They had the chance to fix luck and drop rates with the remaster the cunts
>>719626082Don't waste your life on this garbage, play Circle or Aria instead.
>>719612015Valmanway/Crissaegrim + Imp + Black Panther + Soul Eater Ring makes the Iron Golem soul grind a little less hellish.
