Re: Video Review of Desktop Dungeons and a Let's Play!
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:01 pm
Even still, Whupaz is pretty great. Then again, you won't understand its true potential until you see some more of the vicious bosses/dungeons. I just did a priest silver run quickly and managed to win without any leveling tools (excluding BURNDAYRAZ), and with LEMISI and a badge of honor it is doable.
Thief Silver: You're going to win this won. You're definitely good enough. This offers one of the better items to prep in the game. It totally changes everything. It is great in vicious, with the vicious token, or with a nasty monster set. All of the pre revealed monsters are level 2s. Man, this makes me remember the original thief silver. The boss had about 200 more hp, there was no LEMISI, and the level 2s weren't revealed. Now that was a fun challenge. What you should do is use LEMISI to locate attack boosters. Good. You are doing this properly. The level 5 chest is the important one. ENDISWAL is huge in this dungeon. You need a potion to take out the level 2. Even still, you need a slightly more hp. You can convert LEMISI for slightly more damage. This won't work. You didn't check HIS hp. Well, you could still win, but it might be worth restarting. You basically have to find 2 attack boosters and 2 health boosters. Then convert LEMISI. Also, the fight wouldn't have worked anyways because your WEYTWUT would have revealed a tile. Okay, you could win, but it is probably worth restarting. You could kill that level 2 right now. There. That was a poorly done start, but it will work out if you play it right from now on. There. After the start this dungeon is smooth sailing until near the end. You shouldn't be killing any level 9s. If you do, you have totally over leveled. YES! THAT IS BIG. ENDISWAL is the key to the whole challenge. You can kill level 6s, but it is not necesarily the smartest choice. It costs so much to pre-stoneskin that it is actually a smart move to kill level 5s. If this were a tougher challenge you would pay for leveling improperly. Frankly, you are probably better off sticking to 1 level higher kills which cost almost no tiles. Well, you considered your options, and you picked the right choice. Good. NO! You should have converted a glyph for the damage to two shot the level 5. You have been getting far to relaxed with your conversions. Well, at least you are ENDISWALing properly. Even though you shouldn't be wasting so many tiles in doing so. You used two potions at level 1. See, you are only converting when you need to get rid of stuff. You need to be converting for more damage. Unless you are a halfling, gnome, or maybe goblin, you shouldn't sit on glyphs you aren't using. If you can cast GETINDARE before you level, do. It racks up the dodge chance. Actually, BURNDAYRAZ isn't that important for this scenario. Thank you for going back to 1 level higher kills. It is so much more cost efficient. YES! YOU REALIZED THE CONVERSION! And that was wrong. You should simply convert IMAWAL. Saving 6 tiles is better. You should probably start the boss fight. You are using an extra resource. It is called popcorn. This is painfully bad. You just wasted all of your popcorn nothing. You should have just engaged the boss. I can condone using a little popcorn to save a bunch of popcorn. In fact, that can be a smart move quite often. But using ALL of your popcorn is a massive mistake that will haunt you later. You will win, but it is going to be close. If you had done good kills to reach level 7 you could have scored 2 mid fight level ups on the boss. You have this, but it was not well done. Two fireballs are slightly worse. There. It is over. You won, but it was bad. Well, just check the key points.
KEY POINTS: You need to be much less relaxed with conversions when you aren't being a race that saves them (halfling, gnome, goblin). You should be considering before every fight it you will keep using that glyph or whether you are better off with a stat bonus. Also, you need to consider what kill has the best exp to exploration ratio. Of course, you aren't going to do the math, but just briefly thinking about it should reveal the truth (it costs 8 tiles for a one level higher and 26 for a two level higher, which is 3 more exp).
Part 81: The final race! It better show up. The fact that it hasn't shown up yet is ridiculous. Monk is one of the toughest classes for western jungle due to the bosses magic damage. The monk is ridiculous. Resistances are one of the single most broken attributes in the game. That was close. You almost totally wasted that. Purist monks are rather miserable. Bloodmages are best as gnomes, elves, dwarves, and humans/orcs if you play it as a fighter. Good choice. And so Damm Golddigger enters Western Jungle. The blue sparkle god is JJ. You should have taken him since you found him so early. This would have been a total blow out. You could nullify your mana penalty, score two extra full heals on the boss and crush everything. You can still worship JJ! NO! WHY ARE YOU SO SCARED OF JEHORA JEHEYU. JJ is one of the tamest gods out there after a few tiles. This is rather painful. Purist bloodmage and sorcerer are miserable. Yeah, that's magic resist for you. You need JJ. You could have scored so much piety by now. Heh, don't normal dungeons seem so easy when you are used to hard level stats. You can literally hit a one level higher monster to death... And there it is. You really should pick the easiest target (THE GORGON). There is a disadvantage to not WEYTWUTing your popcorn. It nets you less exp for mid fight level ups. You are playing this bloodmage as a fighter. Don't. You need to use B2P. You really are reaching far for a boss kill at level 4. Save that for vicious. WHAT? NO! KILL THAT LEVEL 6! You are opting for easy over effective. Eh, it is normal, just don't make a habit of it. The dragon heart is a great item if you have WEYTWUT. Nicely done. I don't actually think you can locker the dragon heart, but it is GREAT in game. You can kill about half of what you say you can't. It is kind of sad. Learning is great for popcorn. Reflexes is the key boon for TT, unless you are just leveling. Wow. That was kind of sad. You didn't use B2P at all. You can kill that bandit, you will just just incur a loss of 3 piety. Poison is a boon that is only good in larger amounts. Frankly I tend to ignore it entirely. You should't be afraid of incurring piety loss with TT. What the heck are you thinking? You should't get close to leveling using popcorn. Do it with higher level kills. You could have explored without a blood pool. Wow. You are netting 21 health per level. Wow. That was sad. Whatever. It is normal. You should take reflexes from TT. It is his late game boon. YOU DODGED! You really should use your fireballs, but it doesn't really matter. The subdungeon is in another dungeon. Or castle. Whatever.I honestly don't need to commend on the rest of this. It is just a clean up. Well done. It was normal, so you can screw around. Reflexes is the boon you want. Anyways, I'll skip to the key points. He shows up pretty commonly throughout the west. Just do Muu and you will find it pretty fast.
KEY POINTS: As a bloodmage, you should use B2P. It is a very good glyph. If you see JJ early, you should basically take him no matter what unless you are specifically searching for a certain god that is key to your strategy.
Thief Silver: You're going to win this won. You're definitely good enough. This offers one of the better items to prep in the game. It totally changes everything. It is great in vicious, with the vicious token, or with a nasty monster set. All of the pre revealed monsters are level 2s. Man, this makes me remember the original thief silver. The boss had about 200 more hp, there was no LEMISI, and the level 2s weren't revealed. Now that was a fun challenge. What you should do is use LEMISI to locate attack boosters. Good. You are doing this properly. The level 5 chest is the important one. ENDISWAL is huge in this dungeon. You need a potion to take out the level 2. Even still, you need a slightly more hp. You can convert LEMISI for slightly more damage. This won't work. You didn't check HIS hp. Well, you could still win, but it might be worth restarting. You basically have to find 2 attack boosters and 2 health boosters. Then convert LEMISI. Also, the fight wouldn't have worked anyways because your WEYTWUT would have revealed a tile. Okay, you could win, but it is probably worth restarting. You could kill that level 2 right now. There. That was a poorly done start, but it will work out if you play it right from now on. There. After the start this dungeon is smooth sailing until near the end. You shouldn't be killing any level 9s. If you do, you have totally over leveled. YES! THAT IS BIG. ENDISWAL is the key to the whole challenge. You can kill level 6s, but it is not necesarily the smartest choice. It costs so much to pre-stoneskin that it is actually a smart move to kill level 5s. If this were a tougher challenge you would pay for leveling improperly. Frankly, you are probably better off sticking to 1 level higher kills which cost almost no tiles. Well, you considered your options, and you picked the right choice. Good. NO! You should have converted a glyph for the damage to two shot the level 5. You have been getting far to relaxed with your conversions. Well, at least you are ENDISWALing properly. Even though you shouldn't be wasting so many tiles in doing so. You used two potions at level 1. See, you are only converting when you need to get rid of stuff. You need to be converting for more damage. Unless you are a halfling, gnome, or maybe goblin, you shouldn't sit on glyphs you aren't using. If you can cast GETINDARE before you level, do. It racks up the dodge chance. Actually, BURNDAYRAZ isn't that important for this scenario. Thank you for going back to 1 level higher kills. It is so much more cost efficient. YES! YOU REALIZED THE CONVERSION! And that was wrong. You should simply convert IMAWAL. Saving 6 tiles is better. You should probably start the boss fight. You are using an extra resource. It is called popcorn. This is painfully bad. You just wasted all of your popcorn nothing. You should have just engaged the boss. I can condone using a little popcorn to save a bunch of popcorn. In fact, that can be a smart move quite often. But using ALL of your popcorn is a massive mistake that will haunt you later. You will win, but it is going to be close. If you had done good kills to reach level 7 you could have scored 2 mid fight level ups on the boss. You have this, but it was not well done. Two fireballs are slightly worse. There. It is over. You won, but it was bad. Well, just check the key points.
KEY POINTS: You need to be much less relaxed with conversions when you aren't being a race that saves them (halfling, gnome, goblin). You should be considering before every fight it you will keep using that glyph or whether you are better off with a stat bonus. Also, you need to consider what kill has the best exp to exploration ratio. Of course, you aren't going to do the math, but just briefly thinking about it should reveal the truth (it costs 8 tiles for a one level higher and 26 for a two level higher, which is 3 more exp).
Part 81: The final race! It better show up. The fact that it hasn't shown up yet is ridiculous. Monk is one of the toughest classes for western jungle due to the bosses magic damage. The monk is ridiculous. Resistances are one of the single most broken attributes in the game. That was close. You almost totally wasted that. Purist monks are rather miserable. Bloodmages are best as gnomes, elves, dwarves, and humans/orcs if you play it as a fighter. Good choice. And so Damm Golddigger enters Western Jungle. The blue sparkle god is JJ. You should have taken him since you found him so early. This would have been a total blow out. You could nullify your mana penalty, score two extra full heals on the boss and crush everything. You can still worship JJ! NO! WHY ARE YOU SO SCARED OF JEHORA JEHEYU. JJ is one of the tamest gods out there after a few tiles. This is rather painful. Purist bloodmage and sorcerer are miserable. Yeah, that's magic resist for you. You need JJ. You could have scored so much piety by now. Heh, don't normal dungeons seem so easy when you are used to hard level stats. You can literally hit a one level higher monster to death... And there it is. You really should pick the easiest target (THE GORGON). There is a disadvantage to not WEYTWUTing your popcorn. It nets you less exp for mid fight level ups. You are playing this bloodmage as a fighter. Don't. You need to use B2P. You really are reaching far for a boss kill at level 4. Save that for vicious. WHAT? NO! KILL THAT LEVEL 6! You are opting for easy over effective. Eh, it is normal, just don't make a habit of it. The dragon heart is a great item if you have WEYTWUT. Nicely done. I don't actually think you can locker the dragon heart, but it is GREAT in game. You can kill about half of what you say you can't. It is kind of sad. Learning is great for popcorn. Reflexes is the key boon for TT, unless you are just leveling. Wow. That was kind of sad. You didn't use B2P at all. You can kill that bandit, you will just just incur a loss of 3 piety. Poison is a boon that is only good in larger amounts. Frankly I tend to ignore it entirely. You should't be afraid of incurring piety loss with TT. What the heck are you thinking? You should't get close to leveling using popcorn. Do it with higher level kills. You could have explored without a blood pool. Wow. You are netting 21 health per level. Wow. That was sad. Whatever. It is normal. You should take reflexes from TT. It is his late game boon. YOU DODGED! You really should use your fireballs, but it doesn't really matter. The subdungeon is in another dungeon. Or castle. Whatever.I honestly don't need to commend on the rest of this. It is just a clean up. Well done. It was normal, so you can screw around. Reflexes is the boon you want. Anyways, I'll skip to the key points. He shows up pretty commonly throughout the west. Just do Muu and you will find it pretty fast.
KEY POINTS: As a bloodmage, you should use B2P. It is a very good glyph. If you see JJ early, you should basically take him no matter what unless you are specifically searching for a certain god that is key to your strategy.