Noita
Prodeses Apr 6, 2023 @ 12:36pm
Peaceful ending (spoilers)
This post is mainly for bragging purposes.

I finally managed to collect all 33 orbs. 21,5 hrs run. Oh boys what a rewarding experience.

I'll wrap main points, some tips and highlights:
-Start was nothing too special. Killed Kolmisilmä and High Alchemist with following: Fireball orbit, Explosive projectiles, Crit+, few multicast and 8x Triplicate shot.
-Traveled to parallel worlds with Fast projectiles, Gamma, Wand refresh and Black hole. Ambrosia and teleport to pass the cursed rock. Grabbed few 100k gold during travel.
-Started collecting perks. Focusing on Perk lottery and Extra perks whenever possible. Preparing to break reroll machine. Took also quite few move speed and levitation perks. Learned that fungus perks (and fungus transformation) are not good for long runs. Also exploding gold + trick greed means a lot of healing. And often frame rate of 0,1...
-Somewhere around here opened Coral and Dark chest unlocking Divided by x and Spells to X spells.

At this point I had Wand of multitudes filled with Luminous drills, Crits, Chainsaws and projectile weakness curse. Ping pong path for the range and Red glimmer for style.
-After a while I had enough Stainless armor, health and all kind of damage reductions so I could walk on cursed rock.
-Returned to main world with Holy mountain portal (in PWs you need to dig in and deal with Skoude/Stevari, portals send you back in main world).
-Killed all the bosses reaching 100% enemy progress.
-Tried the Sun quest. Learned that star child will happily fly to freedom and is impossible to find after it escapes. Second time failed because I used Matosade while feeding the soon to be sun. Apparently Jättimato can swallow the sun. Lost Paha silmä during process.
-Spend few hours looking for new Paha silmä in parallel worlds all in vain until I decided to give up and returned main world. The damn eye popped out of nothing.
-Gathered few more Auringonsiemen with intention to create both suns. Managed to create one and lost the second sun seed. I had enough Stainless to stand in the middle of the sun unharmed. Somehow also this first successful sun escaped me. Decided it's time to move on.

NG+
-Went to kill Kolmisilmä. As I had Divided by 10, my wand was a black hole shotgun. Easy trip to everywhere I wanted to go. I also had so much increased movement speed I didn't bother to use teleport anymore.
-Completed void moon quest. Gather the essences and bring them in to center of moon.
-Started to search for orbs. I made a freaking Excel spreadsheet to track them and whenever I found one, I made a note where it was. For example, Holy bomb orb was: "dig straight down from left end of pyramid." Orbs are in same location in every PW.
-Learned that cursed hearts from corrupted orbs deals somehow less damage if I move. I assume multiple Repelling capes and Stainless armor works here. Cursed heart deals poison damage, maybe it has really short living status effect that washes away with enough repelling cape.
-Shat my pants few times thanks to polymorphine. 4x More love perk saved me multiple times.
-Climbed to Mountain altar and finally completed the Work with 33 orbs restoring the world.
-As an epilogue I collected restored essences and Refreshing Gourd. Went down the mines once again and forced gourd down Kolmisilmäs throat. Salt does not spawn in restored world so I had no way to provoke him to fight.
-Flied to the moon and learned that it's enough if Kolmisilmä just eats the gourd. At least the moon cracked open and released all of the Touch of spells.

Slapped all of them in my wand without any triggers and committed suicide. See my stats below.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958505147
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SaltHuntress Apr 8, 2023 @ 8:43am 
Just ended a 10 hour 33 orb attempt cause i accidentaly shot my storage wand and killed myself in 1 frame
Perseus Apr 8, 2023 @ 9:17am 
Originally posted by SaltHunter:
Just ended a 10 hour 33 orb attempt cause i accidentaly shot my storage wand and killed myself in 1 frame
For storage wands, may i recommend storing spells in a way that makes accidental uses harmless, for instance by starting it with a refresh, or filling it with modifiers only?
Prodeses Apr 8, 2023 @ 9:58am 
Oh my, don't let me start whit storage wands...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958780875
Titan Dave Apr 9, 2023 @ 9:57am 
Any tips on finding orbs in NG+? Even with the all seeing perk, I still struggle.
Prodeses Apr 9, 2023 @ 11:48am 
Well I used this:

https://easyzoom.com/image/262057

One thing I have noticed is, extremely dense rock border seems to be always same. This can be used to scan areas both horizontal and vertical. As I said, I made an excel spreadsheet to track locations and collected orbs.

There's also "Guiding powder" but that seems to point to the nearest orb room, not closest uncollected orb.

I feel bit embarrassment for looking the map but to be honest I wouldn't have ever found all the orbs without.
Prodeses Jan 1, 2024 @ 8:55am 
An "update". I finally managed to do it by first collecting all 33 orbs and then killing Kolmisilmä at NG++.

My intention was to also complete the Sun Quest but sadly game crashed and halfway during progress destroying soon to be Dark Sun.
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Date Posted: Apr 6, 2023 @ 12:36pm
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