KoboldLord wrote:Sprucery wrote:What's wrong with frog pond? (I don't even remember what it's like...)
It's basically a huge lake filled with mostly amphibious monsters, with a couple paths of shallow water leading to an island with a cache of loot. If you make the slightest bit of noise anywhere on the level, all the frogs in the universe start hopping directly toward your face. It is noticeably harder than any other Lair ending because you can trigger the Frog Carpet of Doom even from outside the vault, possibly even without realizing the Frog Pond is on the level. All other Lair 8 vaults have some sort of obstruction or choke point that disrupts noise and monster pathfinding to some degree.
Then you stair-dance for 20 minutes or so until there are no more frogs.
Usually I just find the water, realize that's the ending I'm dealing with, and make circles around it killing things, it usually takes one full circuit of the lake to make walking to the center safe, I prefer to fly to it too (Getting stuck in combat in shallow water sucks) but I'm a "spot the thing and pull it back to a safe zone" fighter generally. Typically I clear out an area away from the lake, pull stuff out of it and move back, then move around the lake, clear the area, approach the lake and draw stuff back in kind of a scrunchy pattern, picking up the loot at the end once I've made a full circle and cleared the entire (or nearly the entire) floor.
I do find it's probably one of the harder lair endings, but I dont think it's particularly more tedious than say the spriggan ending, and certainly feels more rewarding to me than say, the brain worm/dragon ending. I'd put it solidly in the middle for myself. (My least favorite is probably the hell ending, because it's a long tedious fight for pretty much 1 occasionally decent item, and the wolf/hound ending doesn't give much in the way of loot, but it's also pretty quick)