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Vaalirus -> RE: =DF= March 4th Design Notes: Arena at the Edge of Time: Never Apart (3/11/2022 1:21:35)
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Can't say I'm a fan of Deathknight's relic barrier being susceptible to Patroclus' termination mechanic especially in the duo fight, basically asking to be nuked regardless at the end of the spirit's rotation. Individually, this can be overcome to an extent by gear swapping (especially if you decided to burst him with on the edge at the start and heal your way back up when Patro's final attack is negated) just as the hit is about to come but oh boy does that get tossed out the window when Achilles enters the mix. Either way this was a deadly duo as they should be and I do like some of the other abilities displayed here.
Mechanics aside I like the lore implications to this one for a couple of reasons. For one, we now have confirmation that there were in fact other Doomknights beyond Sepulchure and while that may seem obvious given that it wouldn't have been far fetched for a doom spirit to have bounded themselves to some armor and then have some unfortunate soul wear that armor we haven't had any indication that there were more beings like Seppy out there in the Dragonfable's timeline (besides us non-canonically). Additionally, as anticipated in preview of this release, we now have apparently have witnessed another one of the more stronger doom spirits that were shown entering a portal in Caitiff's memories from the Madness quest (like The Whisper with Voyna). To clarify, Patroclus' form is most closest to the design of the Doom spirit that was between the mosquito head and the doom spirit that was closest to the portal. It has the three eyes to match, the horn atop it's head, the long hair, and of course the body cut up into rings at the end. Also, like the word play with them being titled the "Stygian" considering the Greek myth of Achilles had him be bathe the River Styx to gain his near invincible body and in a way you could say this Achilles bathed in darkness for strength as well. Furthermore, on the note Greek myth similarities, if we take their individual objective card completion texts at face value, as well as the origin of their namesakes, then it's good estimation that they're probably both been long dead at this point. A point of which I thought was strange at first considering we did eventually come across The Whisper and Voyna and they were just locked up somewhere by the Avatars. Of course I realized later that it's not out the question that when Kathool mentioned that the other doom spirits fell that it was using "fell" as an umbrella term for being defeated or at least failing to complete their plans which could mean either being imprisoned, killed, or forced to retreat.
Which begs the question: Who managed to put a stop to Patroclus and Achilles and furthermore what led to Achilles making a pact with Patroclus? Achilles' objective card states that he was torn by rage and grief before making the pact so we can assume that much like Voyna and Sepulchure he lost someone or multiple people close to him. One thing I did notice was that two of Achilles attacks are eerily similar to that of two attacks for the Dragonlord class. If these aren't simply reused animations then I wonder if this means he was at least once a dragon rider who lost his dragon companion.
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