in hindsight, I should’ve played my first playthrough exactly the same…the only difference is I would’ve gone after all 24 powers (only did 12)…then I should’ve done abbreviated playthroughs for NG+ 2-9 with the focus being on elevating my powers…then replay the game one last time similar to what I’m doing now…cuz I still want to do a playthrough where I don’t use any weapons at all other than my powers…unfortunately I don’t think you get powerful enough to do so until you really level up on those powers…tried using no weapons on my 2nd playthrough and had to scrap that idea pretty quickly lol