Yesterday, I was writing about Crumbling Farum Azula, which is the last new area of the game. It’s an amazing environment, but I do not like going through it. I have said that it’s my fault because I inhale the games, so I’m fatigued by the end. That’s on me. I could have taken breaks. I could have been more measured in how I played the game. It’s my nature to be obsessed with something until I finish it, which the From games play into so aptly.
Couple that with how ramped up the last areas tend to be, and it’s no wonder that my squishy caster wants none. of. it. I was at 18 Vigor for the first hundred hours of the game. I still can’t believe I had skimped so much on my HP. but it makes sense because as a caster, I need to put endless levels into Mind (which gives FP), Intelligence, and Faith. A bit of Arcane.
To be fair, I could have chosen Int. OR Faith, but I never do. Well, not since the second Souls game, though. I love spells and incantations, and I hate having to decide which I’d rather do. It’s always the same. I resolve to put levels into two or three stats, and then I start putting them in this and that, just a few, and beforeI know it, I’m ignoring health for everything else.
I know it’s called being a Glass Cannon, but that would mean I actually had to have the cannon part, which I did not. I usually put a few points into health, but in this case, there were just so many other things Iwanted to level. I usually put my health to 20 at the very least if not 25, but for whatever reason, I simply ignored Vigor in this game.
Until. And this is a *MASSIVE SPOILER*, but also a well-known thing by this point. And realize that there will be *SPOILERS* for the rest of the post.
Until the Mimic Tear. This is the best spirit ash by far. Some will argue Tiche is, but it’s the Mimic Tear. Because, of course, someone who is the clone of you? Yeah, they are going to be HARD.
Here’s the thing, though. The Mimic Tear takes health to summon rather than FP. You can probably see where this is going. It takes 660 HP in order to summon the Mimic Tear. 18 Vigor is 598. I had to level up my vigor to 21 (680) just so I could summon Mimic Tear, and that left me with 20 HP. There was no way that was acceptable, so I pumped more levels into Vigor. I think I made sure I was up to 25 by the end of the game. Maybe 30. Which still was barely enough. I think that character has 38 Vigor, which is still not much.