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That stupid song is stuck in my head from work. Ugh.

So, this month’s KoL IoTM is the libram of love songs. It’s yet another skill book! Cris was very sad. But I was, you know, still alright with it. I like IoTMs. They’re what keep me playing these games, trying the new items and seeing how to use them. So I was all about being able to Summon Love Songs. I snapped it up immediately.

Since this is a Libram, each cast of it increments the same counter that lets me Summon Candy Hearts. This hasn’t really been a bit deal for me. I have like… 4 gabillion candy hearts at the moment, so I can just summon love songs all day long. Eventually, it might become a tough choice. I kind of hope it does! It’ll probably be candy hearts for the beginning of a run for a few days, until I have a few Lavenders, Oranges, and Pinks to get me through, and then all love songs.

Now, each love song can do two things. They’re powerful combat items that deal elemental damage equal to various stats. (Well, okay, one does physical damage.) They can also be used up as a 5-turn buff with the interesting mechanic that the buff does more depending on how much duration you have. So if you have 5 turns left, it’s less effective than if you have 10 turns left, and so on, up to a cap. I think that’s a pretty neat mechanic.

There’s no denying that these items are useful. They are damn, damn good combat items. I’ve been extremely thankful that this book came out right at the beginning of my Basement dive because these combat items have made the combats trivial, which is one less completely frustrating thing to worry about. (The basement SUCKS.) I haven’t actually used them as buffs, though, the main reason being they’re so much more expensive to use. I’m using up the combat item to get a shorter effect than my candy hearts, though potentially a bit more effective if I use a lot of them. (For example, Withered Heart caps at +20% Items, +20 Myst, as compared to the Lavender Candy Heart‘s +3 to all attributes, +10% items, but I have to use 4 Love Songs of Disturbing Obsession to get up to that boost, and then continue to use them to keep that amount up.) But the candy hearts are so much easier to use in that regard. They’re going to be what I go to for buffs, even if the mechanic is neat.

And I guess that’s really the issue with this IoTM. I only really want this libram to summon powerful attack items. I don’t need the buffs. But if I had a Libram of Divine Favors, then I’d already have a much better source of attack items that would let me have a chance to get the all powerful divine popper. If I was someone who had the favors but not the hearts, then this is a great source of buffs. But to those players who have both, this really does have to seem mediocre. I mean, it has some really funny text when you use the attack items, but this really does seem designed for people who are missing a libram, or maybe even missing both. There’s nothing especially wrong with that, and I’m happy with it, because I was missing a libram. But it does seem like, if you have the other two, you could probably safely skip it. Maybe I’m missing something awesome you can use it for? But that’s how I feel about it.

Still, I’m going to continue to enjoy it greatly.