The Meat Grinder Trap

[TheHogfather]

I've seen the future and it is the meat grinder. After getting all three endings using it, trying to play a character that can't use 2 handed weapons, or trying to play without killing people (Abella) feels so tough. What are your tips for kicking my Grindr addiction? Particular when playing a mage like osaa or marina

[KharnTheKhan]

Originally posted by TheHogfather:

I've seen the future and it is the meat grinder. After getting all three endings using it, trying to play a character that can't use 2 handed weapons, or trying to play without killing people (Abella) feels so tough. What are your tips for kicking my Grindr addiction? Particular when playing a mage like osaa or marina

Pretty sure its getting nerfed in the next update, So wait then. Meta is a slippery slope.

Though if you want a fun challenge, Marcoh fists only run or Marcoh fists into Red Virtue

[Toowestadam]

Try out scorched earth with spice forge to have it activate at the start of tougher fights and then use pyromancy trick or ornament lanterns. Basically scorched earth increases the amount of fire damage to everyone in the fight and beefs up the previous 2 items into basically grenades. Super fun, lots of damage, might want to get a max mind increase tho

[Action-Bastard]

Marina with starting Grogorath gives early access to spells like black smog, necromancy, black orb, and blood golem. Day 1 morning start collecting heads from all the moonscorched to get as many soulstones as possible and make Marina OP immediately. Kill Osaa to get the spice forge and you can solo the game.

The major challenge is Marina is the weakest character at the start of the game since she starts with only a knife. So to mitigate this recruit Abella immediately, assuming you're not playing Maso mode, or kill the Janitor in the tutorial for his Kassara, OR pray for good RNG and you get a good melee weapon from looting.

Necromancy will let you add some party members via ghouls but in recent playthroughs I prefer to have more heads for more soulstones.

[TheHogfather]

These all sound like awesome suggestions. Something I learned since making this post is that Olivia is super OP and fun with toxicology and undergrowth awareness