Talk:Eternal Ordeal/@comment-1909186-20180826190055

72+ kills with what I call "Beating Zote at His Own Game":
 * Thorns of Agony,
 * Grubsong,
 * Grubberfly's Elegy,
 * Quick Focus,
 * Spore Shroom,
 * Stalwart Shell.

Yes, this looks terrible. It kind of is. But it's also REALLY funny, and it actually works as we all once hoped (at least in this fight). You heal. A lot. This implies you get your a$s kicked. A lot. Does it look like you can panic heal there? Try it! Nice! Almost that time! (We just gotta get off maybe half of those!)

The secret sauce is that GFE projectiles knock back any Zoteling that can be knocked. So if you focus on staying at full health during the early (<20-ish kills?) part of the fight, you will find you can bat away most guys to focus on your arch-nemesises, Zote Turrets. (Zote Fatties are easy enough to mostly dodge. Everything dies to Thorns eventually. Except the godd@mn turrets, which also have a nasty habit of interrupting your heals. Murder them. Abyss Shriek them out if you can afford it.)

Why in god's name does this remotely work? You're getting 25% soul from every hit you take. So soul is surprisingly not a problem so long as you don't try to spell stuff down...no matter how punchable Zote's face is. I know, it's so godd@mn tempting. Keep healing instead! Think like a Zoteling! Herp derf! Now, to be fair, you do need to make up that 7%/heal somewhere. (A heal costs 33%.) But that's less than one nail-hit per heal. (Yes, really--you get 11%.) So just, like, try not to suck too much? That was my plan. It worked out well!