#to me it’s a Hong Lu abnormality but it is also VERY much a don abno and we know.

[hongluboobs]

hey don, nice void dream ego gift you got there

update!! she has fragment of the universe’s too! (little hearts next to the meat lantern lure on her chest)

i also found out the new outis id has bloodbath’s ego gift which is. concerning for several reasons

[a-shrieking-cloud-of-bats]

some notes and suggestions on MD2 hard mode for people struggling with it;

- you are expected to lose clashes, the game up to this point has largely framed losing a clash as a freak accident. It Will Happen in MD2H and learning how to take these losses gracefully is important, in abnormality fights inparticular try to line up clashes you can’t beat with units that have a resistance to the enemy’s damage type, bonus points if their stagger resist is high, Meur is great for this as a lot of his IDs have a very generous starting stagger resist, usually around 60% as opposed to 75%, many shi IDs have good stagger resists as well. You can obviously do that in a non abnormality fight too, but you obviously have less options. Do your best, and remember defense dice exist, they have very generous rolls and can save you from a bad time sometimes, and block dice straight up reduce damage via a shield so they’re usually good.

- Do Not Use An EGO Just Because You’re Losing A Clash; this partially ties in to my above point, but if you’re using an EGO to avoid losing a clash that’s going to do like 2 damage because it’s 1 coin and the target has ineffective resist to the damage type and applies no status effects you’re wasting EGO resources that are going to be Very Valuable on the higher floors; most final MD2H bosses require some degree of EGO spam at this point, uptie 4 may change this. Again, Losing Clashes Is Okay; enemy attacks can be surprisingly ineffective in the right circumstances.

- EGO gift meta right now leans towards ego resource generation gifts and healing gifts; if you’re struggling healing gifts will give you much more wiggle room, homeward and phlebotomy pack are both extremely good, but any heals you can get are great. Other EGO gifts aren’t bad nessacerily but they’re obviously more comp dependent and often more reliant on winning clashes

- Stacking similar damage types and resists is a heavy risk, especially in your initial party. If you’re anything like me you have all 4 liu units built up, but if you take all 4 into your initial party and guido shows up on the first boss, he is going to turn you inside out. Him and his gang do mostly pierce damage, liu IDs are all fatal resist against pierce damage, and all his buddies roll extremely well and will roll extremely Better when they start dying; gregor and meur liu are basically useless in this scenario and they can’t even risk taking a losing clash because they’ll take boatloads of damage from basically anything they do. Crusaders might be weak to blunt, but that doesn’t mean they’re weak to liu.

- some ID/EGO suggestions: Base heathcliff is honestly surprisingly good, his sk2 and sk3 clash well in lower floors and he has a self power buff that can make them competitive even on higher floors. Lobotomy Corp Remnant faust was and still is among the best clashers in the game, she can neutral clash even some surprisingly big rolls in higher floors with opportunistic, and her sk2 shreds on lower floors. This is counterbalanced by her having maybe one of the worst sk1′s in the game, keep an eye out for skill swap machines with her face on em.

Shi don isn’t incredible for general use but overbreathe is an EGO tier coin that can help take some pressure off your EGO resource reserves.

R Heathcliff is as always decent, though he can struggle to clash sometimes (though not more then base heathcliff! would argue he’s always worth taking over base heath, though I’m still working with base heath, his self power buffs might end up making him clash better on higher floors)

Defensive IDs in general are helpful as they can usually take clashes more gracefully, meur is a surprisingly good sinner in general just because all his IDs are skewed towards being able to take shots; presumably K corp hong lu is a beast as usual but I don’t have him so I can’t confirm on how well he clashes.

If you have Fluid Sac Faust, it’s an excellent support EGO that is also an AoE; it’s the best of both worlds.

Pursuance is a targeted heal and can really save a sinner’s butt if they’re in trouble

AoE EGOs can be helpful in general for boss fights that summon adds; they’re also just good damage in general on non boss fights. Legerdemain continues to be extremely good.

MD2 Hard mode is mostly hard because the game up to this point hasn’t really been encouraging good play habits, I suspect as time goes on this content will get “solved”, but for now this stuff should help you out if you’re struggling to clear. As you get some of these habits into your system I suspect the content will get much easier to handle; again this is mostly just learning there’s more to the system then auto win and use ego when clash bad (I certainly know that’s how I was playing before MD2H).

[everysky-enjoyer]

Future EGO predictions - ZAYIN

Thinking about future EGO possibilities is fun + there are so much old lobcorp abnormalities that would be cool adapted in Limbus. I will try to associate each Lobcorp abnormality to one or a few sinners that would make sense. Starting from the ZAYIN risk level!

- One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds: the og good boy. Associated with difference between good and evil, judgement and atonement. The two sinners that resonate the more with these are Sinclair (tension between world of light and world of evil) and Meursault (being judged, see also Pursuance EGO). 

- Plague Doctor: guy who has god syndrome. I feel that Faust is a very good fit for him. Pretty curious as to how they will implement him and his divine persona (noticed there are 13 sinners counting Dante?)

- Don’t Touch Me: impulse control - the abnormality. This screams Rodyon, but also not sure what its EGO would look like.

- Opened Can of Wellcheers: this is a tough one. Not really sure what its supposed to be about. You could tie it to impulse control again (”yeah soda is cool but don’t drink the opened can”). You could also spin it along the theme of trust, and associate it to Hong Lu and Ishmael (bonus for nautical theme!).

- You’re Bald...: this is a joke abnormality I think? The lore is about some kind of idealization of baldness so Yi Sang maybe?? Gregor could fit with the whole appearance change thing too. Seems pretty far fetched. I would honestly give it to someone it would be funny to see bald so Hong Lu or Don Quichotte. But hitman Gregor also sounds cool..

- Mirror of Adjustment: strongly tied with the themes of transience of being and change. Gregor is a good fit.

- Fairy Festival: being used by someone to fulfill their needs. Outis comes to my mind with the whole duplicity thing.

- We Can Change Anything: gore for fun and profit. Ryoshu.

- You Must be Happy: Meursault got a variant of this one already, so I’m not sure if we will see it. Otherwise it’s Yi Sang material.

- Old Faith and Promise: faith, betrayal and trust. Ishmael or Heathcliff maybe? Hong Lu could also fit the trust aspect or Rodyon for the rng fest this abnormality is.

- Army in Pink: Don Quichotte is perfect here (pious vow to defend). Depending of your interpretation of the abnormality true purpose Outis is also decent.

I’m sure we are bound to see some of them, probably with interesting twists like PM did with You Must Be Happy that will radically change the predictions.