That fight and the later boss fights had me shuffling around my teams quite a bit. For that one I remember some parts of that fight your meant to ignore clashing and force staggering because of his buffs on clash and low speed. Luck was definitely an element to not get completely steamrolled in some of the fights this canto as well. Evade on Heathcliff is also very helpful for some of the nodes.
Olga Fishmael is particularly good for evade tanking some of the later fights. She didn't even need to hit the coinflips since her floor for the evade was often higher than the clashing skill.
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I didn't see walpurgisnacht on the timeline. Don't really know how it works considering Sinclair was like 10 years old when Ruina happened. Plus like I said before, Sinclair already has an already broken burn ID, though cucking Philip is pretty apt.
People are speculating they'll do it next week since it's irl Walpurgis on 30th and 1st and the 30th is Philips birthday. They may have held it from the update notice as a surprise or it will be live the following week.
So no 00 ID? An ego mechanic would be interesting, the most apt way for it is having the character reach -45 SP and then win a coin flip.
I imagine it being as simple as do X to gain Y. In Library of Ruina Gebura's EGO needed her to constantly deal damage or become staggered. In this case it could be have X amount of sinking on self (Because Phillip) or maybe even have X amount of burn on self or the enemies. It's interesting how right after we have Vergilius manifesting his EGO in game we now have an EGO manifesting ID.
The issue I can see with this is that EGOs become too slow for the game, unless you have multiple waves before the boss then by the time you get to the EGO you already damaged and debuffed the boss enough to be a non-issue.
That's if you use the intended amount of sinners and turns. If you go solo or duo sinners then it can be more of a snowball effect since a lot of the ID kits are self reliant (Pequod Heathcliff is a good example). This all depends on how good the EGO awakening effect and skills are.
Plus we already have IDs that change sprites based on conditions. Like the R-corp or W-corp IDs based on the amount of charge they have.
Solo or duo sinners always looked too clunky to me. It boils down to surviving the first three rounds (usually by good evasion rolls or manipulating sanity to avoid stagger) and then nuking the enemy with insane damage multipliers.
