Play Gauntlet without Gaia’s Lashing Roots

It’s way more fun and challenging!

GLR is probably the best and most effective blessing in the game, it kills the variety. It urges you to play Atlanta or Norse, spam heroes, destroy, rinse, repeat, which makes the levels monotonous.

The blessing you carry over from the GotA is usually the best one you’ll have in the whole run, and it’s going to be used always, probably with one of the eternal blessings as a supporter. Those two, along with the world twists shape you strategy going forward, so I try choosing in a way that will allow me to play different gods and different armies.

Right now I like Ptah’s Secret Tools and Kastor’s Elite Guard. They both give you a nice headstart, but tend to be less and less effective the longer the mission goes. They also give you jack-shit on Deathmatch, so you have to figure it out differently.

For one of my next runs I’m eyeing Thor’s Crashing Thunder, as that can be used with every civ and can be stacked with some regular blessing in a good way.