With the September 17th patch, it seems that Master of Baubles is finally fixed (or at least, I got it first try after trying after said patch….) There were no extra baubles hidden around, just those we’d found over the last two weeks. I’m sure a lot of you already have the route burned into your memory, but for those of you who were waiting for us to finish — here it is.
First off, I’ll list the bauble count by area. Given the nature of the first three areas (the first mountain), I may list some baubles in one area when they can be reached in an earlier area. I’ll have more detailed explanation of the locations later in the thread, anyways.
Area 1: 3x Blue, 2x Yellow
Area 2: 7x Blue, 1x Green, 4x Yellow, (CHEST: 2x Red)
Area 3: 4x Blue, 6x Yellow, 2x Purple, (CHEST: 1x Purple)
Area 4: 7x Blue
Area 5: 2x Blue
Area 6: 6x Blue, (CHEST: 1x Purple)
Area 7: 3x Blue, 1x Purple
Area 8: 5x Blue, 1x Yellow, (CHEST: 1x Purple)
Area 9: 4x Blue
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Another note about this zone is the difference between Infantile and Normal mode. One of the big problems here is that enemies do not drop keys in Infantile, and I have not been able to find a store after the 1st Mountain. Well, there’s the one in Area 7, but I haven’t been able to get a Key back from that store to anywhere it could be used. And once you’re in Area 4, you don’t seem to be able to reach the 1st Mountain again. Perhaps I’m missing something. Either way, that means that doing this run on Infantile currently requires me to take 2 extra Keys with me through the Teleporter into Area 4.
Normal Mode doesn’t have that limitation, and there’s not a huge amount of required backtracking. What backtracking there is can usually be readily dealt with by suiciding back to checkpoints. As such, I have no strong recommendation that you do this on Normal or Infantile mode. As is, there are some jumps required for baubles that seem extremely difficult, with Infantile Mode being no help for them. If you’re good enough for those, you probably won’t have much problem just finishing the zone in Normal.
With that said, let’s get on with the detailed list.
(edited by TFMurphy.5136)