So based on what we know, this guarantees a 100% success chance on an instant death magic ability? Isn't that pretty much unbeatable? 100 hour CD means he can kill one entity every four days? The only reason Shalltear lived was because of the extra life item from Peroroncino. Does anyone have any extra info on this skill? If this skill's description is accurate, can't Ainz just instantly kill any character with TGoAiID and Grasp Heart/CoTB/Despair Aura etc.? I mean it might not be that strong in Yggdrasil PvP as there are thousands of opponents and the CD is too long, but there are barely any powerful enemies in the New World, so technically Ainz can just kill all of them with Widen Magic: Cry of the Banshee if they ganged up on him? If Ainz just walked up to say, Sebas, and used it, wouldn't it be a guaranteed one hit KO? I'm a bit confused.
There is a 12 second delay, but I highly doubt there any any inhabitants of the New World that can kill Ainz in 12 seconds. If there were, then Ainz could just use an instant cast cash shop item, right? Even if he only had like five of those, that's probably more than the number of people who can kill him in 12 seconds. We know Shalltear with Einherjar couldn't do it, so that just leaves Gargantua, Rubedo and maybe Mare and the PLD with wild magic? World items can be mitigated by carrying another world item, and teleporting out of range is easily solved with dimensional lock. Basically, TGoALiD+Instant Death magic is kind of fool proof. Does anyone have any insight on this?
If Ainz put all the floor guardians in the same room, and used Cry of the Banshee and TGoALiD, wouldn't they all die instantaneously? Are there any limitations to the ability that we know of? Aside from the 12 second delay.
Yes, it's an overpowered skill. *The Goal of All Life is Death* is the ultimate skill of an Overlord who mastered death in the truest sense, so I could reckon that probably only few skills/spells/items could resist it. Even the self-resurrecting item could only fix the damage (death) after it was inflicted.
But for any opponent that would easily fall to this skill, Ainz wouldn't need to use it. For the true powerful beings worth using the skill on, Ainz needs to be careful. For example: As [Widen Magic - Cry of the Banshee] only has an AOE caster-centric radius of 100m, one only needs to withstand it through some method like items, among others (I reckon these insta-death spells are more probabilistic and the closer the target is in level/ability to the caster, the lesser the chances instant death would trigger), and when the *TGoALiD* kicks in, they only need to time their positions to teleport away from the reaches of the skill-boosted [CotB], possibly something like [Delay Magic: Greater Teleportation], or even just keep count of the clock then scram just a (few) second(s) from end. Instead of resisting it, there could be many means for the target of preventing it from affecting the them.
All in all, it really is a powerful skill as it amplifies all insta-death attacks, but using it isn't so simple. Basically, in the New World, Ainz wouldn't need it to trample the fools who dare oppose him, and in case he needs it, it would require complex handling and operation to properly apply.
Still, I do hope to hear your response on this.
I see. I think I pretty much agree with most of what you've said. Momonga's power was always stressed to be above average in Yggdrasil but very overpowered in the New World, so I guess it makes sense for his signature skill to be almost unbeatable in the New World as opposed to the VRMMO.
However, wouldn't one just need to use a teleportation blocking spell lick Dimensional Lock before initiating TGoALiD to prevent anyone from escaping the AoE radius via teleportation magic? I guess extremely high mobility characters may be able to escape the range of effect in time.
The premise of Overlord is an OP MC, so TGoALiD isn't exactly out of character, but the main thing I was wondering about is whether it would be a fool proof trump card against any entity in the New World. Right now, aside from an extra life item, I cannot think of anything that isn't a player being able to avoid being one shot by this ability, as none of the non-player characters have any knowledge regarding the cast time, cooldown or even the effect of the ability, much less try to develop countermeasures against it. If all of them dealt with TGoALiD the same way Shalltear with Einerjar did, they'd all be killed after 12 seconds with out without instant death immunity.
you're half right, if ainz gathered all the floor guardians and use TGoaLiD plus CoTB they would all die so its an instant KO but if he uses it he still to worry about the 12 second cast time in which if someone could hit him hard enough the spell would be interrupted.
And ainz doesnt have the agility necessary to dodge attacks for 12 seconds strait so a hard hit from someone like cocytus would strop the magic from activating and he wouldnt be able to try again for another 100 hours /: so its OP but useless unless he has someone to guard him while he uses it or unless he can set up a scenario where his enemy cant hit him hard enough to cancel it
Firstly, sorry for my comment above as it was made with an errant premise. I thought that [CotB] was a duration-sustained magic, but it appears that it was simply a quick one-moment attack. It seems that any insta-death (ID) magic/skill activated during the 12-second activation period of *TGoALiD* would be fine as any affected - or for a lack of a better, more accurate term, touch - even just once, even those whose ID did not trigger, would eventually fall with the activation of the OP skill. In that case, the greatest concern is not the ID-amplifying skill, but the ID spell/skill itself. As long as you were not affected by such, *TGoALiD* would probably not work on you. Your entire surroundings could become a desert with stale air and no signs of all life, but if you were not even touched by any ID spell/skill, it won't matter for you.
In that case, there could be a number of methods to keep ID spells/skills from touching you. There could be abilities that let you counter and suppress them like what CZ (or Doppel-CZ) did in Volume 13 against Ainz, or simply get away from them before you are touched by the spells/skills (like Despair Aura V), be they single target, multi target or even AOE. The methods could vary, but as long as you don't get touch in any way by any ID spell/skill, *TGoALiD* shouldn't affect you once it completes activation.
As for the matter of active resistance, on the premise that it is the ultimate skill of a true lord of death, anyone who fails to actually kill him during the 12 seconds after being touched by an ID spell/skill should face certain death. It appears that simply damaging him hard won't cut it as even when the Einherjar kept on damaging him, the countdown did not stop, and that is perfect a skill for one who rules the end of life - death; either death for me (the user) or death for you (the target). Unless of course, *TGoALiD* still applies even when the user is killed, then that would be awesome. Well, whether it works for World Enemies and raid bosses would be an issue, but that's another matter.
Now, as a foolproof trump card against any entity in NW, it could be. As it seems that players (and their NPCs) are among the pinnacle (if not THE pinnacle) of being and power in the NW and Ainz's skill was attained on the premise that it is the ultimate skill of a true lord of death, if it works the way it usually does, no one should be able to take him down, be it the Dragon Lords or the Godkins. Or at least that's what I think. There's too little we know of. For all we know, there could be a level-100-player-like being in the war with the middle of the continent as Maruyama-sensei somewhat teased in an interview. Perhaps there is an entity out there that could even defy such high-tiered Yggdrasil common sense (technically game algorithmic rules)? Who knows. Possibly only the author does. There's too little we know of the realm of the most powerful beings in the NW.