First time and minute on the upper floor, "Yep... This is the White Tower." It's such an insane jump in difficulty that it almost feels like it should have been the final level or at best completely optional. The wraiths cast that overpowered snake-spell and they can spam it to a punishing level. I felt like this area got the least amount of polish overall and it shows. Either allow the ghosts to attack you from in the walls or put a limit/cooldown on their spells. Anyway, that was quite the grind but you got through it!
It's actually not too bad if you have the Vaelan's Cube--that thing is insanely powerful against ghosts and goes through them like a machine gun. It's one of the hidden things that the game expects you to figure out, much like the correct way to defeat Scotia. But DarkWolf is deliberately not using it as a condition of his challenge run.
@strikezilla01 No question, it is one of the craziest spikes in difficulty of any game I have ever played. Obviously the idea is that you are supposed to use the Vaelan's cube, but it is not explained nearly clear enough in game. It never bothered my much because I have always known to use it, but trying to get through without it was miserable. For me, the snake spell is the biggest issue. I think I could manipulate the situation well enough to survive them hiding in the walls, but the snake spell is just so devastating and they use it so fast/frequently that it just cannot be overcome without at least a little bit of luck. I cannot tell you how drained I felt as I finally finished the tower on this run. I was genuinely shaking.
@mam162 Absolutely. The ghosts can bum-rush you hard enough to get a kill in even with the cube, but in general doing the 3rd floor with the cube isn't too much of a challenge, so long as you aren't acting foolish.
First time and minute on the upper floor, "Yep... This is the White Tower." It's such an insane jump in difficulty that it almost feels like it should have been the final level or at best completely optional. The wraiths cast that overpowered snake-spell and they can spam it to a punishing level. I felt like this area got the least amount of polish overall and it shows. Either allow the ghosts to attack you from in the walls or put a limit/cooldown on their spells. Anyway, that was quite the grind but you got through it!
It's actually not too bad if you have the Vaelan's Cube--that thing is insanely powerful against ghosts and goes through them like a machine gun. It's one of the hidden things that the game expects you to figure out, much like the correct way to defeat Scotia. But DarkWolf is deliberately not using it as a condition of his challenge run.
@strikezilla01 No question, it is one of the craziest spikes in difficulty of any game I have ever played. Obviously the idea is that you are supposed to use the Vaelan's cube, but it is not explained nearly clear enough in game. It never bothered my much because I have always known to use it, but trying to get through without it was miserable. For me, the snake spell is the biggest issue. I think I could manipulate the situation well enough to survive them hiding in the walls, but the snake spell is just so devastating and they use it so fast/frequently that it just cannot be overcome without at least a little bit of luck. I cannot tell you how drained I felt as I finally finished the tower on this run. I was genuinely shaking.
@mam162 Absolutely. The ghosts can bum-rush you hard enough to get a kill in even with the cube, but in general doing the 3rd floor with the cube isn't too much of a challenge, so long as you aren't acting foolish.