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ShatteredElysium posted...

Wait. One of the stages is offering Book of Holiness (-20% Stress, -10% Deathblow resistance) which is uncommon but seems to be better than Solar Crown (-20% stress if Torch above 75)? Not suffered a Deathblow yet so don't know how bad dropping Deathblow resistance is.

You do not necessarily always want your torch above 75. You get more loot from everything at low light. If you can handle it, its actually generally a good idea to have light as low as possible for more moneyz. It does take a pretty big toll on sanity though, and you're more susceptible to getting ambushed. Plus everything is just, in general, harder. But advanced players will do 'no light' runs a lot.

Also deathblows are when you get to 0 HP, you don't necessarily die immediately. It puts you on deaths door, and from that point on any damage you take has a chance to kill you. 33% at base, I think. So while it is a demerit to have -20%, it actually doesn't do anything unless you're already in a bad spot, but it will make that bad spot riskier.

So IMO the Book is straight up better than the Solar Crown, personally.

Week 14 - Weald (Medium - My first)

Lolo - Night Owl / Sickly / Wasting Sickness
Ark - Resolve 2
Para - Nothing
Mana - Resolve 3 / Healers Gift / Fear of Eldritch replaces Soft

I gained a positive quirk on Lolo from a curio and also purged one from someone but I forget who. I also upgraded a ton of people's skills and unlocked others pre dungeon but I forget who so I guess we will find out next time I do a full roster update!

I got a lot of stuff from the dungeon including finding a secret room. Main issue becoming not enough slots to take everything back so I had to leave a lot

Main reason I did the dungeon was to get the Book of Holiness.

Upgrade Stagecoach Experienced Recruits to 1

I need to scroll back and check sign ups as there's 2 interesting recruits in the stagecoach. I'll be eating before the next dungeon so there's time

Next dungeon is probably a boss run. Got to decide between Holy Orders (Crusader Very Rare Trinket) which is from Swine Prince and Wounding Helmet (Bounty Hunter Very Rare) from Necro Apprentice

Ok entering Necromancers Apprentice with the following team

Stan - Crusader
Ark - Bounty Hunter
Para - Vestal
Mana - Plague Doctor

And damn, forgot to do stagecoach stuff. Oh well!

Edit: Immediately come across a Shambler's Altar. Not today!

I anticipate death during this boss fight.

Week 15 - Ruins - Necromancer Apprentice

Other than it being in the very last room I checked, the fight actually went really smooth. I think maybe I'm higher skill / gear than I should be. Every party member had a stun of some sort (although I never used Stan's) so nothing before the boss was bad. At the boss I just stunned it first turn, kept putting Blight on it and had Stan Smite the shit out of the skeles. I was actually surprised when the boss fight started with just him but as expected from a necromancer he summoned adds. Anyway, Stan Smited the adds, Mana kept blight on and Arc just kersmacked the shit out of the boss. Para was basically there in spirit alone healing when it wasn't ever necessary. I assume that's the easiest boss since its probably the first most people do? Didn't seem much harder than normal fights except for lots of HP

Stan - Resolve 3 / Unyielding replaces Warrior of Light (that sucks)
Ark - Gained Natural
Para - Resolve 3 / Known Cheat
Mana - Nothing

Upgrade Treatment Ward
Upgrade Medical Devices
Upgrade Wagon Size

Nothing interesting on the stage coach.

Or I'm just a boss I guess. Cool!

You went into the boss very well prepared, although yeah Necromancer is probably the easiest though he can cause problems for some teams. A party of level 2s that are well upgraded should be able to handle any of the level 1 bosses though

I mean you are an absolute tank. I don't have any trinkets on your because of 'Natural' which I think boosts healing received, speed and HP if you wear no trinkets. I'm sure longterm it's a bad quirk but right now when I have no good trinkets, it's good.

Anyway, you have like 52 HP when everyone else is in like the 20-30 HP range.

Paratroopa1 posted...

You went into the boss very well prepared, although yeah Necromancer is probably the easiest though he can cause problems for some teams. A party of level 2s that are well upgraded should be able to handle any of the level 1 bosses though

I always run with 75% and above light which probably helps too I imagine. I've barely had any stress issues whatsoever outside the first few runs (which is why I stopped mentioning it) as I started keeping the torch topped up and just stunning anything that causes stress before killing it quickly.

Stun in general seems to be overpowered but I'm not exactly far in so I'm sure that will change.

EDIT: I will say I am playing this game significantly more cautiously than any other game I play where I am usually very reckless. If I hadn't known ahead of time that death was permanent we'd definitely have casualties racked up as I'd be playing with less provisions, low light and touching everything in sight!

It's actually very hard to get "ahead of the curve," in DD. Once characters hit level 3, they'll refuse to go on Apprentice (green) missions and then at level 5, they'll refuse to go on Veteran (Orange) missions, only believeing themselves worth the challenge of Champion (red) expeditions.

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I think because I'm playing on Radiant mode it lets me ignore that. Someone was resolve 3 on my last clear.

The game didn't really explain the difference between the difficulty levels

I'll probably play a little bit tonight. I have like 50 pairs of shoes to list on ebay but it's miserable to do. So I'm sure once I've listed 15-20 I'll want a break and likely play

Radiant mode changes it so the cutoff is level 4 for novice dungeons.

Radiant mode isn't actually any easier, really. It's just less of a grind because all of the gold/trophy costs are scaled way down. Enemies have the same stats, etc. I've played both and there's not really a discernible difference in difficulty.

Will proably be Thursday before I get back to this. Took the missus away for the weekend. Then one of my cats had to go to the vet and be watched constantly. Have a Magic game tomorrow night so Thursday is probably my next free evening

Tomorrow hopefully