Path of Achra: Cycle 2: Virya Aslan of Eris/Flame Knight

In this series I will play cycles of Path of Achra, trying to beat them. I am not going to 'promise' that each cycle will be beaten with an entirely fresh combination but I will try to mix them up a bit.

It is best to consider this an 'irregular' series as, past around cycle 10 or so, things start getting very, very, VERY VERY VERY HARD. So, I'll try and record further but, for all intents and purposes, with each 'cycle' video that comes out consider it the 'last' until further notice.

Unlike a lot of my stuff, due to the nature of how PoA is played, I will actually do - *gasp* - editing. Minor editing (which is the most skilled editing I can do) to show off what I call 'bloopers' at the start of the video which will come with a timestamp, just to show how many attempts it took to beat that cycle without boring you to tears with dozens of minutes (in some cases it may be a few hours, in the later cycles) of footage of me losing.

That said... not every episode will necessarily have text unique to it, but if it does, it'll be below but above my usual link to my other channel.

In this episode, I try first to do a Virya Warrior playthrough only to switch gears and try to do a Virya Aslan of Eris playthrough, repeatedly, until it finally works. Not much to say here other than the means by which to heal in PoA are somewhat limited, and as you can see in the video, Flame Healing is particularly good if and only if you can get the right setup going to make it, essentially, heal you faster than you take damage. Once that falls apart, it turns from being a 'regenerator' build into a disintegrating build and you can find yourself having to take levels in vigor just to stay alive in fights - a tactic that is NOT sustainable.

We manage though after some effort. For some behind-the-scenes knowledge, the bloopers came from a recording session that was about fifty minutes in length, cut down to the ~8m15s you see here. I won't mention the length of the cutting room floor material again, I just wanted to have that here for reference that yes it was a good bit of fanagling to figure out how to make this build work for the second cycle.

Anyway:

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