Spirit Bar and Time Urgency

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Just finished the Sunken City, and it really hasn't been difficult to maintain the Spirit Bar with my play style; it's just something I have to keep in mind. There are plenty of "spirits" to devour, and you just have to make sure (if you don't want to increase your craving, which I don't) that you use your one-time-per-day as a killing blow on a creature with a large amount of hitpoints.

The only minor issue I've had is knowing when the "next day" actually is. Sometimes travelling resets the accounting of number of Devour Spirit uses and sometimes it doesn't, and it didn't seem to coincide with getting spells back either. So sometimes I'm surprised to find my craving went up when I wasn't expecting it, so I just reload and rest before Devouring that spirit again

 

I find spirit eating as evil is definitely playable, even pretty fun.

*spoilers*

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The challenge is that you're committing yourself to going through the game with a maxed out craving.

During the first part, just leave the Wraiths and Shadows of the Void in their urns as and until you need to recharge.

Once you've worked your way through the Death God's Vault, the fun begins when you're told to go to the Wells of Lurue. The trick is to get the Uthraki some food in order to acquire the Devour Soul ability. Now you have definite flexibilty. (e.g. Hags, Hagspawn, humans, etc.)

Then devour the Wood Man to acquire Spirit Gorge. In tandem with Devour Soul, you can recharge your spirit energy super fast.

The one annoyance here is that you have to be judicious about how often you sleep. The trick is to max out your energy, then sleep, and in a place where 'food' won't be far away. Quite the challenge indeed.

 

I just finished, and playing "good" wasn't bad at all. Mainly, you just have to plan for it. What I did in general was plan my sleep when I knew there would be something to use Devour Spirit or Eternal Rest on. And the place is literally crawling with elementals and telthors everywhere.

I think for me what was important was to get everyone in the party some item with Regeneration on it, so there was never a need to sleep to regain hitpoints, and since during dialogs, the Spirit Bar is paused, but time is still passing (i.e. you're still regenerating) conversations were great healers

 

As I mentioned above I didn't like Suppress; it really didn't give much energy back. So once my craving was at zero, I never used it again.

Since you can use Devour Spirit once a day without increasing the craving, that's what I would do. Once my Spirit Energy was below 80 (or I just needed to rest for the party to regain spells etc.), I'd find a place to rest where I knew there would be something to Devour and I'd use my one use for the day right after resting, and I'd almost always get it back up to 100. Most of the time I'd find an elemental to Devour because they typically have a lot of hitpoints.

Eternal Rest was best because it never increases craving; there just aren't that many undead outside of Shadow Mulsantir and the Dead God's Vault.

 

Eternal Rest is your friend! Basically, the result of using it is identical to Devour Spirit, only you can use it as often as you want and your craving will not increase. IIRC your alignment also shifts toward Good.

However Devour Spirit works only on spirits which includes incorporeal undead (wraiths etc.), elementals, and fey (telthors etc.) while Eternal Rest only works on undead.

So the good thing about Eternal Rest is you can use it 10 times a day and never increase your craving. Devour Spirit you can only use once a day without increasing your craving. Suppress is worst of all because you can only use it once per day, it prevents you from using Eternal Rest or Devour Spirit for the rest of that day, and it doesn't give you much spirit energy. The only good thing about Suppress is that it reduces your craving a little.

 

Vampires for sure; I can't remember if I tried it on the Death Knights, but I'm pretty sure they are undead.

 

Don't use Suppress. Use your one use of the day on Devour Spirit as a killing blow, or use multiple Eternal Rests per day (also as a killing blow) if you can find that many undead.