Economic Stability

[Joist]

Sweet refreshment works with mana burn. Warlords should be able to tear it up in Dragon Isles now.

[Malow]

Woohoo! Thanks! Back to Vampire...

[Darvin]

Well, Warlords do want to have the soul orb for that scenario anyways. Still, it's nice that the boon actually will function under mana burn conditions. That affliction is too powerful and if anything needs more countermeasures so the soul orb isn't such a disproportionately valuable item if the boss mana burns you.

[Joist]

They do. I can beat it prepping Soul Orb (Is that still unavailable for new accounts) but his damage is low. Getting to matron is easier prepping Tri-S, pretty confident I can do it as a no-scum run.

[Darvin]

Some temporary measure to unlock Soul Orb and Venom Ward is necessary. Those are two of the best items in the game. Low-cost, versatile, and high conversion.

[The Avatar]

Yeah, I wish it would be unlockables for my testing profile.

[Darvin]

Okay, so the locker lobby increases in price by a factor of 10 when you purchase it. Because of this, you need to buy nine bank upgrades before you can possibly save up for the second locker lobby. This means you need to accumulate 560000 gold in total for the second locker lobby. If that formula holds up, then the third locker lobby will cost you 1 million, meaning you will need to buy 99 bank upgrades. For all intents and purposes, this means the second locker lobby is the last.

[The Avatar]

I don't know, I play a TON of DD. I personally think that your Bank should also work like the locker in terms of cap and cost of the next cap.

Oh yeah, the first exploration puzzle gives you a black screen, just like the tutorial did.

[TigerKnee]

I guess this technically fills the role of a gold sink, but somehow it feels so unsatisfying compared to just winning a new class/race combination and getting a max gold increase to take in dungeon or something.

Edit: Really, except for a couple of us who play DD WAY too much, what's the actual use of a max Kingdom gold increase anyway outside of buying the OTHER actual useful gold sink, the extra Locker space? It's just a double unlock system.

[The Avatar]

I agree, especially how it takes 9 bank upgrades to get ONE more locker. That leaves a seriously bad taste in my mouth. That and the loss of my excess gold.