Starting skills are random : )
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Starting skills are random : )
Poodlestrike
Banned
Starting skills are randomized, and as such, they're generally more sidegrades; some skills work better with certain builds than others.
No shit? Huh interesting. Like I said I am very early lol
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Aztechnology
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Skills are random at level 0.
It's about interaction and zone. Some zones have enemies that tend to use different abilities. Also trinkets you get will help further modify your characters to suit different roles. There's not really inherently better skills, they usually just have trade offs or are situational.
You get the loot back if you win the fight, the trinkets get added to the loot afterwards.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Finally got the 16 lb brigand down, and now the way to the darkest dungeon is open.
He was by FAR the most difficult out of all the champion bosses for me. I'm surprised I got it since the collector showed up in the last fucking room before the boss.
Went with a Vestal/Highwayman/Crusader/Hellion combo, basically I just took as many adds down each turn as possible and prayed the cannon would only spawn 2 enemies.
The lighter enemy will spawn each turn regardless, but you can luck out and just get the lighter dude, or the lighter dude and one other. Which makes it much easier to dps the cannon itself down that turn.
I tried doing the marking tactic and only taking out the lighter but I was just getting rekt by the musketeer and dual dagger bandit with slice and dice. One tactic that could work possibly is if he spawns a fatty, if he spawns a fatty then he'll only call the lighter each turn but you would need to stun lock the fatty with a group loaded with +stun% trinkets and they would have to be a group with range.
It was a fight of attrition but I'm glad I got that boss down finally.
He was by FAR the most difficult out of all the champion bosses for me. I'm surprised I got it since the collector showed up in the last fucking room before the boss.
Went with a Vestal/Highwayman/Crusader/Hellion combo, basically I just took as many adds down each turn as possible and prayed the cannon would only spawn 2 enemies.
The lighter enemy will spawn each turn regardless, but you can luck out and just get the lighter dude, or the lighter dude and one other. Which makes it much easier to dps the cannon itself down that turn.
I tried doing the marking tactic and only taking out the lighter but I was just getting rekt by the musketeer and dual dagger bandit with slice and dice. One tactic that could work possibly is if he spawns a fatty, if he spawns a fatty then he'll only call the lighter each turn but you would need to stun lock the fatty with a group loaded with +stun% trinkets and they would have to be a group with range.
It was a fight of attrition but I'm glad I got that boss down finally.
Aztechnology
Member
Yes the type of mission and rewards are constantly changing aside from boss missions who's only difference would be rewards.
Week 6, no deaths yet, but every run is so stressing (no pun intended lol). This is addicting so far, has that "1 more run" thing going
Im not sure if I should be bringing some rookies with me on these quests to level them up, like I did with Xcom lol. always took 1 rookie
edit: and of course my best guy is my first death lol
Im not sure if I should be bringing some rookies with me on these quests to level them up, like I did with Xcom lol. always took 1 rookie
edit: and of course my best guy is my first death lol
TheSadRanger
Banned
Just thought that I'd point out that if your gonna send one of your guys to the bar to blow some steam.. Unequip any trinkets they have, because they can lose them....... permanently.....
Avinexus
Member
That takes a random trinket out of your total trinket inventory, not just that one characters inventory. Either way, don't waste resources using that building or upgrading it. The Abbey won't lose you a trinket and serves the same purpose.
welp >_>
so, I think im playing the game "wrong", im trying to keep a balanced roster but now veteran missions are popping up that say they are for rank 3, and I dont even have any rank 3 guys yet because ive been leveling all my peeps, so I have a bunch of s and a few 2s :/
TheSadRanger
Banned
Fuck the shuffling horror, lost a legendary abom, man at arms, and jester. And I lost trophy trinkets that you can't replace. Fucking bullshit fight..... Was doing just fine except he gets like four fucking actions per turn, and I'm guessing you can't resist his move shuffle.
Nothing wrong with that, I do it myself. I find it better to keep everyone around the same level as it increases the available combos and allows for some experimentation. Plus there's no advantage in having a super high level squad and a bunch o newbies around.
The dungeon level is just a guideline. You can take 1s and 2s on veteran runs although it probably isn't the best idea, unless you are feeling courageous and/or have the blacksmith and guild upgraded to match the enemy's equipment and abilities.
will the level 1 quests still pop up? I was afraid it would all become veteran soon enough and I would be screwed
There will always be Lv 1 quests so you can train your newcomers
Though, really, is there any use for the Bar?
Competition for Portraits is harsher than for Busts, since Portraits drop in 3s and upgrade the Guild, which is a priority over the Sanitarium.
And the Abbey costs the same, and carries less harsh penalties (Some bad traits, against the risk of losing trinkets and gold in the bar)
Competition for Portraits is harsher than for Busts, since Portraits drop in 3s and upgrade the Guild, which is a priority over the Sanitarium.
And the Abbey costs the same, and carries less harsh penalties (Some bad traits, against the risk of losing trinkets and gold in the bar)
well some dudes only want to go to the bar. unless you remove that quirk I guess
i meant upgrading it : )
Ah ha!
Dont you eventually upgrade everything anyway? That was the perception I got from watching the quicklool, Alex was even dropping the heirlooms because they were useless since he had everything maxed.
There's a gold cost to taking heirlooms home, since any and all medium-long runs are going to be inventory fills, especially if you run around catching some curios at empty torch after finishing fights.
I did my first long run earlier. Shit is so stressful. Kinda loving this game and I don't even particulary enjoy hard games (I say that with the Souls series being my current favorite all time favorite series).
Question: is this a game where if I completely fuck up and lose all my best guys, I can always come back because of the meta town upgrade system, kinda like Rogue Legacy?
I dont think I could start over like 20 hours down the line (I have about 5 now) :/
Question: is this a game where if I completely fuck up and lose all my best guys, I can always come back because of the meta town upgrade system, kinda like Rogue Legacy?
I dont think I could start over like 20 hours down the line (I have about 5 now) :/
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeah. There's not really any way to truly, permanently lose. Even losing your entire roster and all of your cash can be recovered from, though it'd be a real pain in the ass.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I just did and now my new strategy for at least the future is to use my new guys to fund my higher tier equipment.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Town Events, The Merchant class and The Musketeer class are planned for the march 8th update.
They are also working on full steam workshop integration and better mod tools as well console versions.
You can read on their post release statement they put out.
http://www.darkestdungeon.com/post-release-update-and-short-term-road-map/
Is this a free update?
TheSadRanger
Banned
Yeah, although it's unclear if the Musketeer will be for kickstarter backers only or not. I think they've said it will be available to everyone.
They have said they have dlc planned for the future but I imagine that's a ways down the road.
Sweet, the various classes is one of my favorite things about the game.
So today I learned that you can fight the Collector in apprentice (lvl 1/green) missions. That was a nice thing to teach me, Darkest Dungeon. You really didn't need to teach me two times in a row though.
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? First two runs of the day I say to myself "I need to get these Arbalests of mine to lvl 2 so I can use them against the 8-Pounder". So I take the fresh recruits into 2 medium apprentice missions, and low and behold the fucking Collector shows up both times and offs a character each time, one of the Arbalests and an Occultist. I killed him both times and even then all I got was some shitty gold, which I immediately spent to de-stress the remaining 3 guys that had to run away screaming. I'm 55 fucking weeks in and I've never seen the Collector outside of yellow missions. Is this new? Is this because I'm 50+ weeks in? It's really shitty to fight him with any number of lvl 1 heroes, but I don't know how else I'm gonna level them up.
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? First two runs of the day I say to myself "I need to get these Arbalests of mine to lvl 2 so I can use them against the 8-Pounder". So I take the fresh recruits into 2 medium apprentice missions, and low and behold the fucking Collector shows up both times and offs a character each time, one of the Arbalests and an Occultist. I killed him both times and even then all I got was some shitty gold, which I immediately spent to de-stress the remaining 3 guys that had to run away screaming. I'm 55 fucking weeks in and I've never seen the Collector outside of yellow missions. Is this new? Is this because I'm 50+ weeks in? It's really shitty to fight him with any number of lvl 1 heroes, but I don't know how else I'm gonna level them up.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
It's DLC in the sense that they had a deadline and could not get everything in the game in time.
But since it is an indie game, nobody dares say "cut content".
lol
(btw that's not a jab at Red Hook)
And guys.
Reynauld just died.
How do I load my last game?
What is the save game trick?
Collector spawns if you hang around too much with a full inventory.
You can also just run away.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
And now three of my four Champions are dead.
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I haven't done this, so I can't attest if it works but I'm assuming since it's on PC you'd just make a backup of the save directory.
RIP@U if they're already dead though.
tap arrow up.
Last time I did that, your suppose to stand where the star is and then click W so that your actually going in.
From the tutorials apparently you need a key but...I opened the chest without it and still got an ancestral item.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Ugh. Well, I guess that's for my 99-week run.
You can open the secret chest without any keys but the real juicy treasure requires one.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I think it'll be a while before I can go back in.
i guess most people played this in early access and not so much now on release? Thread seems... slow 
Killed my first boss with a team of level 2s, kinda destroyed it really. I have access to the other 3 bosses now, but Ive been mostly ranking up my lowbies
Killed my first boss with a team of level 2s, kinda destroyed it really. I have access to the other 3 bosses now, but Ive been mostly ranking up my lowbies
I've found the secret room 6 times now, but I only got items in the first 3. I got the severed heads from the collector. Now I only find the crystal he drops.
I guess you have been lucky. I find the collector all the time. Lost counts of how many times I fought him when I was still doing green missions.
Thankfully I never lost anyone to him, but in the beginning I usually had to abandon the quest.
I guess you have been lucky. I find the collector all the time. Lost counts of how many times I fought him when I was still doing green missions.
Thankfully I never lost anyone to him, but in the beginning I usually had to abandon the quest.
Weird. I end up with a full inventory on tons of missions and I barely ever see him. He's not that tough really, it's just that with lvl 0 dudes he's a pain in the ass.
I almost never run away from fights, so I'll try to remember that I can for the next time.
Never seen this colector. Almost had my first full wipe this morning, I only had 2 guys survive because I managed to lock these 2 fuckers in the back rows where thye constantly passed their turns.
Cultist heal is cool but I actually killed someone with it from the bleed lol.
Edit: still dont have a Jester or a Bounty Hunter, I think its the only classes I havent seen yet. I got my first Abom today
Cultist heal is cool but I actually killed someone with it from the bleed lol.
Edit: still dont have a Jester or a Bounty Hunter, I think its the only classes I havent seen yet. I got my first Abom today
thechristoph
Sir!
Just tried my first level 3 dungeon and lost my crusader. Damn. The quest was to purify 3 idols or something. I got two of them but ran across a very high level variant of the big fat brigand guy with the whip. He lashed my whole party to death's door and his crossbow wielding toady finished off poor Marisco.
I had to abandon the quest. Bad feel. But we will be back.
I had to abandon the quest. Bad feel. But we will be back.