Troubling Times pt 2

[The Avatar]

Hilarious! That dungeon is waaaay to easy! Any hard dungeon with a faithless purist fighter should need considerable luck.

[gjaustin]

[The Avatar]

That's about how many medals you can get on Hobbler's Hold, and I'm guessing you could have gotten miser too...

[Darvin]

My personal record on Hobbler's Hold is:

Purist
Miser
Unstoppable
Faithless
Feeling Parched
Cheeky
Warmonger
Specialist
Hoarder

Let's be clear here: I don't think that's possible on any other level.


That said, I'm leaning towards downgrading Rock Garden to "normal" classification currently. I actually disagree that the new Western Jungle is harder. Because Getandafix only spawns mana burners, it's easy to clear all his plants when you're about to do a mid-battle level-up. The big difficulty with druid grove was always having this guy pin you (or himself) behind a bunch of nasty plants. Now that it's one type of plant, the worst-case scenario is that this is a boss that only occasionally mana burns you.

[The Avatar]

Yes, but he has better stats than the golem or bandit anyways. The reason it's mana burn only is because this is supposed to be a "fighter" course.

[Darvin]

Back when Western Jungle had the Golem and Bandit, it was by far the easiest normal-difficulty level on the board. Yes, it's harder, but it needed it. A beginner need only bring a Berserker and Getandafix will fall without much of a fight, with or without the aid of Taurog.

[The Avatar]

Pretty much... When the boss is guaranteed to do magic damage 50% resists is too high. Since the class is good anyways, giving 30% might be more realistic.

[q 3]

I think Berserkers with 25% mag resist and either only +1 MP cost to spells, or no increased cost but -5 max MP, would actually be a good idea across the board. Less overpowered in their specialty, more viable outside of it.

[Darvin]

That would make the Elf Berserker a fairly formidable combination... might be worth trying.

[The Avatar]

Finally an alternative to berserking orcs! That sounds really nice actually...