Purpose of Il Molise?

[Grape Alchemist]

Not sure if there is anything to spoil here, but just in case, *spoilers* ahead.

So far, I'm not entirely sure what the point of the new map is....

With the playtime cut in half and stationary "monsters" this level kind of feels like a "test your builds" kind of level. Which doesn't strike me as necessary? Just due to how fast every run is and how simple it is to just pick up a different play-style each run.
Not to mention, 15 minutes is not much time to test a full build. PLUS I've only been able to Evolve one item due to only receiving ONE upgrade chest at the 10 minute mark.

What do you guys think? I'm interested to see different opinions and if anyone had a different experience.

[SCamp]

Originally posted by Raven:

Originally posted by SCamp:

The build I'm experimenting with is below.

Character: Christine

Base Curse: 0-3 (I have no idea how much pot HP is affected by curse, but you want them to be killable with Song of Mana + Lightning Ring)

Core Weapons:
- Pentagram (evolve at 10?)
- Song of Mana (core, main enemy clear, evolve at 10?)
- Laurel (core)
- Clock (core)
- Lightning Ring (core kills stragglers that are slightly off screen)

Core Passives:
- Empty Book (core, max before weapons)
- Wings (core, enemy clear)
- Clover (core, primarily used to get timestops, magnets and clover pickups)
- Spellbinder (core, Song of Mana overlap for double-hit)
- Stone Mask (core)

Switch Weapons:
- Runetracer, Magic Wand, Cross (pick one, early game mob clear if unable to roll Song of Mana)
- Anything you want/need, provided that you don't want/care to evolve them.

Switch Passives:
- Spinach (increase damage on pots on higher curse?)
- Crown (evolve pentagram, faster levelups for build)
- Skull-o-Maniac (evolve Song of Mana, more efficient mob spawning, may negatively affect killing speed of pots requiring lower
- Candelabrador (more AoE for Song of Mana, more screenspace -> more efficient killing on screen -> more efficient mob spawning; aids in double-hit, aids Lightning Ring's AoE for midgame)
- Tiragisu (aids in lasting longer during pot-breaking phase)

Notes
There are 3 build paths following respective evolutions:
- Evolve Song of Mana, you get more AoE. (I don't know if this aids in slowing death)
- Evolve Pentagram, you get better late game levelups.
- Other/No Evolution. Free to use whatever you like.

^Just a heads up/note, for this stage, curse doesn't seem to effect spawn rate nor the jars at 21:00 minutes, so it only makes them harder to destroy/kill. for the bonus stage, no curse is necessary and should be avoided since it doesn't actually yield any benefits (all this knowledge comes second hand from other's tests, I haven't cared enough to test it myself)

Curse seems to have an effect on pot spawns prior to the 21 minute mega wave.

I'm unsure because I only did one run without curse and all the rest were at 2 Curse.

[Raelic]

https://imgur.com/a/p7XZdQX

Here's 18k. The vase ran out, but respawned around 21 minutes.

[mk2005]

It's just a meme about an Italian region that doesn't exist

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Il Molise WAS the first area you USED to do Gold Farming. BEFORE alot of the newer stuff like Arcanas, Golden Eggs and Limit Break was a thing. It's whole gimmick back then was SHOULD you Reach the twenty one (21) minute mark, by staving off Death using Laurel and Clock Lancet, then the game would then start spawning jars that give you tons of money.

But obviously these days the whole map has become sort of pointless...

[なかの31]

Il Molise is actually still useful.
You can use it to easily finish achievements that require you to survive 15 minutes with a specific character.

[Grape Alchemist]

Guys, this post is from 1 year ago...

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by Grape Alchemist:

Guys, this post is from 1 year ago...

Posting on an old thread is perfectly acceptable when you add something worthwhile to the discussion.

Now IF by chance someone just wants to necropost for LOLs or for post counts, not that post counts even matter here on Steam anyway :P, then that truly is unacceptable.