So I take a few days off the forums, and Stelagel manages to complete the whole game in the meantime, using only rubbish gear.
These challenges are really refreshing; there are so many ways to play the game, and too often we tend to get fixated on the “optimal” way to play. Stelagel finds more new, interesting, entertaining and challenging ways to play than the rest of us combined. I think we could all learn something from his positive flavor of madness.
Also, I totally agree about the albino bat, he’s a total jerk these days. Last time I went there I was somewhere in mid-levels, thinking how “that’s just another migame boss, easily beaten”. I ended up poke-roll-kiting it for many long minutes - heck, I ran out of aloe potions and had to run in circles while waiting for passive healing to heal me up so I could afford to take another hit if I time my roll poorly.
I suck at the game badly enough to ever get to Stelagel’s level of stunts, but it’s always fun to read his journals about the many versions of his Bella.