Another unique villain has entered the fray. Our objective is to take her out before she runs out of cards to play. Her damage is obscene as she is willing to heal everyone if we sacrifice some of her cards. Now, you don't get to see it here, but Baccarat does have a variant that can slice through her. Baccarat is here for the nemesis fight, but if you can string along enough Afterlife Euchres, you can add the nemesis damage up to take a huge piece of her out. You do have to be careful with her damage and the detail that Baccarat is fairly squishy. Impulse is here just to show off this variant. I am not a fan, but it will be making an appearance later when the Renegades enter properly. Tango's variant here is akin to Dark Watch Nightmist in that you want to set up her deck for specific critical draws. I prefer to just use the backpack to charge up damage and rip a piece out of someone. Just make sure you don't hit yourself or an ally. Berserker Knight is his most damage intensive form. You either get your sword and start swinging it, or you can sacrifice your equipment for nukes. Eventually, he will run out of stuff, so you need to make sure the game is somewhat short. Finally, I brought Gyro here to try to learn her. She is a little tricky and we won't see her in detail until we're dealing with the Scream Machine. As for the environment, I've given this one a few tries. Wraith could completely neutralize it, but it is a fairly tame environment compared to the others in the Cauldron. Absolute Zero can thrive here and so can anyone else who can use the cold damage (some heroes have incaps for this). I think we will see it at least one more time before I conclude the Cauldron as there are a few places I do want to revisit. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbDl713SYM

Our sailing excursion comes to an end with what is probably the second most difficult dungeon in the game. It does not feature any puzzles or much of anything to confuse you, which is a warning of the boss you will encounter here. Before you can get to him, you must defeat a lesser boss that is visible on the world map, but it is no match for us anymore. As for the other guy, his gimmick is that he sheds his weaknesses as they are struck, so you will want to bring a group that shares a single weapon type and eliminate everything other than that, or bring the guys who can deal break damage regardless. I ended up not doing either since I wasn't sure what all to expect (joys of playing blind). As a result, I end up isolating the axe weakness and Castti has to do some work here. Luckily, she is one of the characters that cannot bypass weaknesses for breaks, so she has something to do while I have Temenos, Agnea, and Hikari, all of which have ways to bypass breaks. Temenos has his latent, which I have to use sparingly, Agnea has one of her dances, and Hikari has a stance, so it is not as difficult as you may expect. Truthfully, I got kind of lucky I had all of them. Now sadly, this is the last time you will find me fighting something roughly my strength. From here on, I will be stronger than everything I encounter, and I have to go out of my way to try to hold back to prevent the fights from being an execution. When you get to Throne's finale, you will see that even with me pulling my punches, I still end up overkilling the enemy... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXo4b9wZlTw