Squiffy Ghast

[rompier02]

Hi. What is it?

[Justice]

Super version of a Mad Man V2.0

[rompier02]

Thank you.

[No One]

The only good reason to buy laudanum.

[Gilmoy]

A hall monster, a speed bump, a momentary distraction from the maddening tedium.

[Kharn the Betrayer]

Originally posted by No One:

The only good reason to buy laudanum.

Miller.

[rompier02]

Laudanum counters his attacks that inflicts horror?

[Kharn the Betrayer]

Originally posted by rompier02:

Laudanum counters his attacks that inflicts horror?

Laudanum is basically antivenom for horror.

[RopeDrink]

Originally posted by Mike Bison:

Originally posted by No One:

The only good reason to buy laudanum.

Miller.

Endless in general, yes. Miller specifically? No.

[Kharn the Betrayer]

Originally posted by RopeDrink:

Originally posted by Mike Bison:

Miller.

Endless in general, yes. Miller specifically? No.

*Laughs in mournful keening*

[rompier02]

Thanks.

[No One]

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[RopeDrink]

Originally posted by Mike Bison:

Originally posted by RopeDrink:

Endless in general, yes. Miller specifically? No.

*Laughs in mournful keening*

If you're using Laudanum to deal with the occasional single-target keening from a trash-mob that generally gets turned to crystal - usually before it even gets to act - then I can only assume you have no Jester and/or aren't looking to push overmuch.

I'd be saving those Laudanum bottles for the Sleeper and beyond. You know, the eyeball from space-hell which spams AoE Horror3@5rds (x4) per Sleeper Stirs, inbetween the flat AoE stress nukes. Wise to chug them all there and use the leftovers against eventual Ghouls, Squiffy's, and all the other nice high-level trash once you get through it.

But hey, that's just me. I've seen no real reason to use Laudanum at the Miller, and especially not against regular scarecrows or unkilled crystals leading up to him.

[Kharn the Betrayer]

Originally posted by RopeDrink:

Originally posted by Mike Bison:

*Laughs in mournful keening*

If you're using Laudanum to deal with the occasional keening from a trash-mob that generally gets turned to crystal, usually before it even gets to act, which protects a Harvest-spamming Miller, then I can only assume you have no Jester.

I'll be saving those Laudanum bottles for the Sleeper and beyond. You know, the AoE damage + AoE horror spamming boss, not the gate-keeper with a single-target might/might-not keen you trash summon.

i mean, i'm not some poor peasant, i can afford to waste a couple cheap bottles of a consumable. and in my battle with him he did harvest like 2 times at most, he mostly just landed critical reapings. i guess the rng gods did not favor me that day.

[RopeDrink]

My point is that any team looking to push -- outside of cheese like pre-nerf MAA+ANT dodge-spammers -- would typically have sustain teams to manage sporadic horrors from any source.

I wouldn't waste a bottle on a keening when one spare turn from a JES will remedy it by itself, especially with my usual team which has two stress healers total, in a fight that comes after free camping buffs to help reduce upcoming stress even more. Well, at least not if I was attempting to push as far as possible (in which case resources are best used for emergencies rather than willy-nilly, unless you're gagging to make inventory space for shards).

Sleeper is an exception as it will spew horror on the entire party inbetween flat AoE stress nukes - without the luxury of wasting turns trying to stress-heal any of it. Any comp that isn't dunking the eyeball in a handful of rounds is going to suffer even with stacks of Laudanum in their pocket. I generally take one stack of Laud purely for that fight and little else, but that might be just me.