Discipline Hollow Full Gauntlet Clear - all Bosses (Normal Difficulty) aka "How to deal 100k damage to bosses"

[NatePrawdzik]

I finally did it. o.O

https://youtu.be/mnHZcL3I23g

I'm very interested in why this exists with no actual clear reward or achievement, and curious if any other strategy could be used, or improvements could be made. This is also an opportunity to summarize the way I view endgame.

[River Running Games]

Congrats, this is amazing! The question about reward is a good one. There's a general problem with end-game content that I don't know the solution to. The loop of new reward > new challenge > new reward > etc. has to stop on one or the other. Ending on challenge feels lacking because you don't get something tangible for your efforts, and ending on reward feels lacking because there's nothing left to use it on. I chose the former so that the game's state is preserved - I wanted the Discipline Hollow to remain a place where people could push their builds further and further if they chose to do so, rather than the reward being something to optimize their builds into something perfect. I hope that makes sense, though I admit it's not perfect and could have been done better.

[NatePrawdzik]

It makes a ton of sense. With your preferences in mind, my suggestion is something like a Steam Achievement along with maybe a cosmetic change so that it provides a sense of reward without feeding into that loop (perhaps a golden border on the character portraits in-game).

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Originally posted by NatePrawdzik:

I finally did it. o.O

https://youtu.be/mnHZcL3I23g

I'm very interested in why this exists with no actual clear reward or achievement, and curious if any other strategy could be used, or improvements could be made. This is also an opportunity to summarize the way I view endgame.

Does it matter if you are using assist options to make it easier? Or is this a "i beat it any way possible woo" types of things?

Being lvl99 is such a gigantic boost in stats it would be hard to imagine not doing it?

[NatePrawdzik]

I tried at 99 for weeks, fairly convinced it was impossible, until I finally hit on the solution. You should give it a try and see what you think. The game is quite interesting when you uncap your level, it's not at all an impediment to challenge.