Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon Armor Upgrades and Shield Combat Tips

Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon Armor Upgrades and Shield Combat Tips

In this gameplay session, the player explores Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, focusing on shield combat and armor upgrades. They experiment with dual shields, parrying, and shield bash, while looting armor sets like the Dueling Night set. The player also discusses weapon crafting, meteorite upgrades, and various armor modifiers. Key strategies include managing stamina, using buffs, and exploiting enemy weaknesses. The session ends with plans to tackle the Shadow Horns quest.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon - Let's Play Part 6: Armor and Undead. | Transcript:

What is happening y'all? Welcome on back. So, I know I said we were going to go do the necromancy stuff just cuz it's a fun quest. But before that, you know, I kind of got some hands right now with these shields. And uh I know somewhere I can get another shield. And I think I want to go. Uh wasn't he right here? Yeah, there he is. All right. Quick save. Did it save right? Yes, it did. Okay. [__] Oh god. One more time. Let me see what a parry looks like. There still might This might just be There's no chance. wrong button.

Uh, oh [__] that's a shield bash. Oh [__] I got the wrong thing on. There we go. Honestly, I might be able to. I hit pretty hard. Let me see here. Third time's a charm, right? If I don't get him here, I'm leaving. I got a good idea. Hold up. One last try. One last try here. One last try. It's you. I'm more than How do I get my power back? Oh, what the Oh my god. All right, hold on. I'm I'm getting closer to pulling this off. If stamina is not a concern, let's see.

Take one of those. Give me your shield, Abigor. Give me your shield. Hand it over. Let's [__] go. Let's [__] go, dude. Let's [__] go. Oh, holy [__] Oh, I can't believe that worked. That's so [__] cool. Oh. Oh, man. The feeling when you pull some [__] like that off. There is nothing else like it. Little bit of buff stacking, bit of shield bashing. The best part is it ran out and I guess his stamina was bottomed out enough that he just fell down. Damn, look at that. The buff wore off. That lasts a while though. Definitely.

Uh, got that as an emergency. Okay. All right. Let's Let's take a look at this stuff. Dueling night armor. Yo, I just need a point of strength and I can rock this set. That's dope. Damn, it's a good set, too. Okay. All right. We got to go do uh What are we at on our 143? What is this? Hold towards the point of impact. Uh, read it. practical guide to profitable armor. Spend more time underwater. Interesting. H strength, 100% more damage. You know, if I'm going to drop the dual shields at some I honestly I probably will. I probably will end up dropping the dual shields just because they are clearly busted. Um but going for something like that,

that's that's cool. A new sword. So you deal less damage. Unblock 20% of your armor is damage to attacking enemies. 75 for the parry. And hold up, I got to go to car. No, inventory equipment. Okay, you are 30% of the parry damage is sent back. You are 75% of armor is sent back. You have better block. Way more stamina cost though. 24 stamina cost. Oh, I see. Okay. And since I'm block, I deal 20% of my armor. So, this is actually more of a I block with it. Let me see what the parry would look like trying to parry with it. I guess maybe because I have the other shield in my main hand, it doesn't count. Let's just rest for an hour. Um, and where is that at? It's right there.

Cool. Let's go. I think that'll be enough to get me a level. What's my I want to say strength is five. Yep. Perfect. Okay. So, I'll get strength up to six. Once that is at six, let me take that away. I'll toss on that set. I got some new armor. I might even work towards slapping on his sword. cuz there's no way I'm going to stick with the double shield thing forever. It's Oh [__] Did resting not whatever. I mean, it's clearly like insanely good, but we're in act one and if it's doing damage like that, it would um it'll break the playth through. So, we need to Why is this pig? You're not a normal pig. You have a whole icon. It's interesting.

Who want advice? I haven't seen you. It depends. I'm kidding. I'm Marg. So I'm good. So what do we got anyway? Eight strength, nine strength. Yeah. So I don't even have a good weapon to use at the moment. I do want to find um I want to find somebody and do a like a damage test. Let me go. Hold up. I got an idea. Um I just want to see. I'm purely interested in the damage off of a parry. So, first we got our frosty shield.

Hey, you come here. All right. So, no raw damage. I got the frost build up and that's it. So, you are a trash consideration. Pretty good. one. Okay. So, I'd say probably three hits of that would uh would be enough for him to take himself out. Are you the same kind? Yes, you are. Okay, come here. Okay, cool. So, for the purpose of the parry, you are going to be the best and then I would go to you. See, that's interesting cuz this 30% of the parry damage and I'm like, "Oh, man. Well, this is uh 75% of my armor." But I guess

the armor is just that good. I wonder if late game that would be stronger or if it just doesn't uh it just doesn't get the job done. Um, and then here, let me put on this guy again. Cool. And then, uh, Now I want another game where I can dual equip shields and just beat people with them. Who goes there? You should be. Not their fault. I'm telling you. Ever since people started interested in local history, I can let you in. It's constant work as you can.

Yeah, I'm uh I'm here the inspector. I'm the [__] inspector. If you could uh get out of my way. I don't know why I'm getting all these bones. Yeah, it's definitely busted, bro. As soon as we get enough uh enough strength to use one of the swords, we'll swap cuz this is like [__] silly. Where was that dude at? I don't remember if there's anything like crazy good in here. We're just punching down skeletons left and right. I want to say one of these statues came to life. I'll get to you in a moment, sir. Hang on.

Might be able to craft a weapon. Who knows? That's one thing I think a lot of games uh don't do enough of is crafting your own [__] Like I mean we had it Skyrim obviously was huge, but I want to be able to craft like [__] Storm her World of Warcraft, you know? I want to be able to craft some [__] Careful there. Try not to step. Stop what I am doing here. Oh, please. Is that the only thing, Pete? My ambition isn't to command the dead, but death itself. The problem is I keep missing something. Raising the dead is easy.

Me lacking practical experience. I have observed, I have measured, and weighed decaying organs. I'd wager there's nobody on Avalon more knowledgeable about death than I am. You haven't experienced death. Why? What do you think I'm missing? What a ridiculous question. Of course not. What does that have to do with anything? I don't need to die to understand the concept of death. sorry buddy. I tried to talk you out of it. You just didn't want to listen. But thanks to you, I have lots of stuff I can sell now. I take those summoner was a pretty fun way to play this.

Oh [__] Is that sword worth a lot? I feel like it's not. Nope. It's not worth a lot. And it weighs 100. Yes, I felt that. I guess I'll do what I always do. Someone will come along again sooner or Well, this master, this place is very popular with their kind. It's not like it would hurt them to pick up a It seems so. But I'm afraid I won't be able to fulfill all my duties before I need to. If you feel so inclined a Well, goodbye then. And it's night. All right, take care of that. That was interesting. Killed it and it [__] launched me.

I think I did all this before, but I don't quite remember. Just straight looting the entire grave site. sure it's supposed to go right here. This one says in scope. Where we go? Place ashes. Despite his methods, his heart was in the right place. Rest in peace. He was a fool and a maniac. Thank gods he's dead now. You're all welcome. He picked a bone with the wrong person. It was a grave mistake. [__] yeah. Dad joke on your epitap. Wait a minute. Is an epitap the thing that they write after you die or is an epitap the words on the gravestone?

Now I need to Google it to make sure I'm not using words wrong. Nope. An epitap is a short commemorative text written in honor of a deceased person most commonly inscribed on a tombstone. come here. I will say the shield, I feel like you'd want to do the double punch cuz weak boom because this qualifies as a heavy shield. So doing like a shield bash with it is uh no bueno. solve the problem. So, he shares the same fate as his minions. Well, at least we'll have some peace and quiet around here again. You can report a job well. Now, you fought your one. Maybe one day, if Avalon permits, since you've proven you're brave enough to face the undead, I might have another job for you. A

while ago, another traveler came through. He was supposed to return with proof, but that's good. Good luck. up strength pract. That's right. I was working on getting practicality up to five to sell stuff. This gets me new armor sooner. Um, so parry, collect, stun. Don't think I need either of those. Shields. What do we got? Triple the damage. Parrying has a chance to slow. Not really worried about that. Wielding shields increases melee damage. Blocking drains less stamina. Row. Blocking spells restores mana. Reduce damage taken. These are honestly all good except for disrupting.

Let's go that for now. dual knight helmet increase stamina cost and increase max stamina. That is awesome. more armor, attack speed when my health is low, and max stamina. Less armor, but crit chance when stamina is low and max stamina. Same armor, max stamina, and more movement speed. I don't really like these modifiers, though. your health is low, you get to run faster and you get more stamina and you get more attacks. Like, they're all kind of shitty, you know? Sell all those. I think the practicality set might be better. I mean, if nothing else, I'm dripped out. We love a good amount of drip. You need eight. You need nine. So, that's not neither of those

are happening anytime soon. Skull staff on hit restores damage dealt as mana. The onehander. I need spirituality. So that's not even happening. 9 to 11. That's dookie. Wait, did I get gloves? Critical hits restore stamina and increase melee damage by 20%. All right, so that's good. So gloves and helm from this set are fantastic. And the other three pieces will just figure them out as uh time comes. That's actually pretty easy way to do it. Hang on. Just do the AoE. Shoot that out and it kills all the little shits that are on you.

I do get some good raw stats out of this though, don't I? Yeah. Max stamina by 10, stamina by five, stamina by five. So, I'm getting 20 extra stamina out of the parts that I didn't really care for. That's solid cuz I was at I would have been at 63 beforehand. So, that's Yeah. Maybe I come here after I've like pulled Excalibur or something. Forgotten the soul. Maybe I need to go up this and then like leap across or something. Yeah, like go across that big bridge. But I wonder if I need to like if this is cuz this has a big like Oh, it's a portal. Like I open that and then it takes me up top.

Try going around. We'll see what we find. I've been here. Oh, yeah. This is Isn't this where like the funky sleep stuff happened? No, I don't think that's going to get me up where I need to go. Maybe, maybe. Oh, nope. Getting good or though. Wait a minute. This looks promising. We're up higher. I don't think I can get in through that window. Man, I'm just thinking about the uh when I played this before and I got up to like the druid's grove, like the dialogue I took, it ended up basically like locking me into a [__] fight

against like something crazy. It was like five or six berserkers and I was fighting for my life. Like they would be distracted by my pets for like seconds and then come after me. And I feel like with this build Oh, it's good news. When the keepers are What about the Traveler? Just as a Thank you. Huh. A few nights ago, I spot I had it in my sights. Arrow notched and ready. When a weird ears are rare and valuable, but that's not all. Their antlers make perfect handles for knives. Well, except the meat. I'm not saying you couldn't make a stick. I do, but the wolf tore a chunk out of my leg and the wound still healing. Weird ears are skittish creatures.

You're welcome. I remember trying to kill the weird deer before. I want to say you I want to say I don't have what I need to take this thing down though cuz I know it's like you get a chance to shoot and it [__] dips. What is this quest called? Let me like I don't I don't want to [__] this one up. I'm going to actually Google this real fast. Weird deer take uh hunt for the weird deer. All right. You need to complete the Stagfire Stag Father Shrine trial quest to hunt it. Um, after you complete the shr, you can rest at the bonfire until night when it comes out. Use your king's power to slow down time. gain an advantage, possibly kill it. After hunting the weird ear, you will immediately receive

your reward. 300 XP and complete your quest. But I want to say like you couldn't like you had to use a bow. I'm searching the marked area. I'm not seeing it. Time skip then teleport at the location is pretty much the right below. RE come from stack. You can't farm them. what do you get for killing it? Killed the thing first time I went. No corpse, nothing. Same issue. Killing it. Dissolved on the spot. No loot, nothing. Quest complete. So, I guess XP. Need to return to the shrine. Interact. You get components.

All right. [__] it. Let's go for it. Why not? Nothing going on. I got some new armor. Well, hang on. Where? I'm going out there. And there is a fast travel. Let's run by town. I can sell off some stuff and then I can um Well, yeah, it does make sense to run by town cuz my inventory is at 177. So, down we go. And then after town, we'll go hunt the deer. I want to say I remember. Maybe it's the Stagfather's Trial that you can fail. Let me look that up real fast. Let me see. No matter how many times I try kill one, the other two run times up. Is there a trick to this? I use big bonk. They instant died. Save and loaded. It seems like there's a 24-hour countdown if you fail.

Composite bow with good arrows. Pop the bow. Quick draw potion along with lock stamina for 10 seconds. So maybe the last time I did it, they just got away before I could kill it. Cuz everything I'm reading sounds like I can just go up and shield this [__] down and be like, "You're dead. more damage if the enemy is below 25 stamina. I do like that. We'll hang on to you. Um, sell cell. Each block hit increases the shield's block by 5% up to 100%. So, you go up to 100 block total. Yeah, it sounds terrible. I don't want that. Um, I'd probably use Well, I don't know though. 10% melee damage is nice and full health 15% more, but it's only has four armor. I want to be a

thick boy. I want to be armored out the ass. I think it's just for a different build. It's not for me. Oh, put that on. Overlook that for sure, dude. Five crit chance and 25 stamina. [__] yeah, I'll take that over. If something hits you, you get some life steal. 2% trash that burn. Put burn on a shield for physical damage. Hang on to those guys for sure. Um mana. I don't really need mana. Well, I should hold off on selling that though. And this stuff I'm gonna Oh, you're trash. and do the stag fires stag fighter stag father's trial. Well, I mean, you were safe until you decided

that attacking me was the right answer. Now, I'm going to take all your parsley and your potatoes and your cabbage. I mean, that's impressive, bro. Oh, bro. Had a full ass uh got a whole little farm going out here under a bridge. H. What do you mean? Trial has begun. I think this is the thing I'm I'm thinking of about like you need to use the bow. pathetic, right? Uh, how far back? Um, oh, cool. There's an auto save that I could call, too. It's just before I activated the shrine, I think. Oh, right. Right before I killed Mr.

Bear. These wolves should not be a problem. Big save. All right. I don't think I killed the third one last time. Well done. There we go. Y'all want some, too? the stags defiance. Neato. All right. Then what's that other quest that I picked up? The husband of one of the red priest victims must be wondering what happened to her. Did his dreams. Where does this go? Oh, and then the proper hunt for the weird ear. Okay. Um, so I would Rest until There we go. Weirdness. I didn't really use uh my power like that much previously, but I definitely should have. Like that's crazy good, dude.

All right. and red priest. The husband of one of the reds priest victims must be wondering do I dreams the deck. I don't know where that person is. That's the problem. Um, go turn this in and take a look at [__] I can craft. Maybe uh maybe make some kind of weapon just to guess people don't like waking up at 8:00. [__] Good thing you got rid of him. We already have the Dria. You did well. Excalibur. Well, be Mike. But unless you're King Arthur. All right. And I have gotten a [__] ton of ore. Going to go take a look. See if there's something I can craft.

Let me uh deposit that helm that I've been carrying around forever. mana and mana regen. I don't need that. So, I'll sell that once my practicality hits the five. Um, yeah, definitely rocking you. Max stamina and then just faster when I'm running the world. Um, see this one's a little harder because stamina regen by 45 is nice. Critical hits restore stamina and 20 I mean it's the 20% melee. I think I would keep dual night gloves, nine armor, 25 health compared to 10 stamina. And then out of combat healing is insane. but still 510. That's that's a while

away. So nothing to concern myself with for the time being. Always a pleasure to see you. Okay, I want to craft stags defiance. Dashes during a block have increased distance. Dashing into enemies, 25% chance to stun. Eh, not bad, but I'm not really excited for that. Stags. Whoa. Dex and Perception. Hitting a target, 50% chance to restore health and 15% chance to restore stamina. Be a nice like dagger setup. Um, stamina costs down by 20. It's pretty good. Word, the bone, the arrow. So, can I just like raw? Like, how do I get recipes?

Am I going to be parentric? I like that this deals damage based on blocking blocked. You're more push you. I can probably sell. Why not? Let's upgrade my shield. Damn, the warp pick needs meteorite, too. Didn't see that coming. All this [__] needs meteorite. About you. You don't. But I don't think you get better. You need meteorite. You need meteor. Damn. All right. So wonder if it mines faster. I don't think it will. Freaking everything needs meteorite. Jesus. I can't believe this needs meteorite. It's just a [__] war pick, bro. That's not special.

Uh yeah, [__] it. Slap them in. Every enemy I kill, I become stronger and I burn you also. Meteorite to do this. Okay. Could Oh, cool. So, only has another shield. A thousand for that. Make it look like I got double shields. Eh, honestly, it's so big. It might look kind of goofy. I wonder where I get more blacksmithing recipes. Where to find blacksmithing recipes? Tainted grail. Where to find all the crafting? Let's see. Uh, acquired from merchants, quests, readables scattered throughout the world.

There's a bit of a mess on the wiki and we need to clean it up. Um, a lot of weapons were flagged as craftable since they show up in grindstone after using console command. Um, in about 10 hours the tables in the handcrafting wiki page will be updated. Handcrafting wiki page and crafting location arsenal handcrafting recipe. Uh, swan knight gave me the knight set. How to forge iron without making a fool of yourself is sold by a merchant. Um, frozen sear set. Ghastly helm. Wing cavalier set. Paladin set. Let me look at that. Good. What does it do? Oh, it increases mana regeneration. Okay, don't want that.

Um, corpse binder, revenant armor. Let's see. Revenant, melee damage, and weak spot dam. Uh, corpse eater, death from afar. That's trickery, flame gorge set, flame gobblers, beasts born of fire and fury. The mall increases critical damage. The breastplate, when you kill an enemy, you trigger an explosion. And the gauntlets increase damage if an enemy is burning. That sounds [__] cool, but I need a [__] ton of meteorite ore. Um, A lot of this stuff is from Let me see what he's selling. Maybe he has some stuff. Uh, what do you got here? [__] it. I'm just going to buy the books when I find them, honestly.

I cannot sell the books back to you. Whatever. All right. So, I could require seven strength. Hatchet 12 to 24. Broadax two-handed. Uh, hatchet hand axe 13 to 19. Could go back to just big mace. I mean, big mace was pretty good. 15 17 16 18. Wait, 26 to 29. 12 stamina cost. Damn. Why is the machete so good? All right. Uh Damn, I just realized I burned through like all of my [__] money, but my hand crafting went up considerably.

I'm going to keep this here in the back pocket for emergencies. Otherwise though, I'm going to rock. I'll bust out a machete and the shield cuz if I'm using the other thing like, bro, I'm going to be an unstoppable god. Like, and we don't want that. Obviously, that'll that'll kill the enjoyment of the playthrough. well, I should wait. Let me wait. I'll sell them after my practicality gets up to So when I hit that, is that going to be what burns? Hope so. Punching somebody with a shield and lighting them on fire sounds pretty dope. All right. Well, it was fun being double shield destruction, man. Like I said, we'll keep it here. That way, if it's like, yo, I'm getting [__] up. I still

have access to it, I can go back to it. I think that's the play is just, you know, keep it in the back pocket for uh for emergencies. Um, terms of quest, don't know about that. I don't really need the cheese one. Um, I don't particularly care about that. Honestly, I think we're good for Shadow of the Horns. So, let's wrap up here. We'll make our way out for Shadow of the Horns in the next part, and I'll catch y'all with that later today.

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