I just finished EoD on Normal. First run ever.
There's only one thing I want to say:
I HATE YOU ALL!!!
You scared the living bejesus out of me with all that "Oh my gosh I can't see the end of this" "How can anyone go the whole way" and all that jazz.
I was so scared I've spent endless hours on training my profs.
I was so scared I've spent endless money on trainings like Pack Rat, Assimilator and stuff...
I was so scared I've even used 1 voidseeker shard and 1 aether shard fearing I wouldn't make it out of there alive! (IMG:[
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I packed only godly pots: 1 Health, 2 Spirit and the rest all Mana, Mana, Mana... My gosh I won't ever have enough Mana!
And what of it? I used only 4 fricking Mana pots! No drama, no running out of spirit, OC, mana or health.
And it was actually just 3 pots 'till round 99... I used the last one then with still half bar left, fearing I needed to cast cure spells every other turn in the last
pyrotechnic round.

I just kept my usual three spells on all the time, same old, same old: SShield, Regen II and Heartseeker. In the whole run I think I cast Cure I about 2 times, tops.

Weapon: Eth Mace (
a crappy one!)
Armor: full Shade,
H -
Br -
G -
L -
Bo.
Strategy: Great Cleave + Rending Blow on Schoolgirl = arena wipeout; then ONLY IF there's no Konata in sight, add Shatter Strike to speed things up a little and bash away.
No deprecating spells: don't have any, don't need any.
Average turns per round: 30-35 (boooooring, that's for sure)
Tomorrow I'll try it out with the same set, without shards... Then I'll rise the difficulty one step at a time to see when it'll actually be impossible to complete it.
EoD is a friggin' absolutely normal arena like all the rest. (IMG:[
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Ah, in the end I got 5 trophies, two of which in the last round. It's seriously underwhelming for the number of schoolgirls downed. (IMG:[
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