I learned a nifty thing. After getting my weapon to +6, the waning rune slot unlocked. I put a Fire Blood Gemstone in it. This caused the weapon's entire damage to convert to fire and scale solely with Arcane, which is my highest damage stat. The downside is that my +phys gems stopped working, but I had some basic side gems to use for now. I can also no longer use fire paper, but that ****'s expensive.
Also, there's some nifty loot in the street outside the Gaol if you're interested in exploring. I think it changes later, but right now there are only 2 pigs, some dogs and one snatcher(and you can get an easy charge backstab -> visceral on that last one if you use pebbles to pull the dogs). Out there, you'll find an armor set, the lightning mace, some blood items and a fair number of bolt papers.
And finally, a little rant. Okay, so I love that your stock of blood vials and bullets restock automatically when you teleport or revive, but why can't they do that with firebombs and other similar items? I have sixty something firebombs in my storage and have to keep going back to the dream when I need more.
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