by Lujo on Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:43 am
I've been reading tinker's brags, too, and really appreciate all the nice research she's done - and I'm putting it to good use in the playthrough.
My experiences thus far would be:
- Losing form on level up changed things up quite a bit, and I like it
- Gnomes seem to be better than elves for refen fighting with fireballs now, especially if you back it up with other spellcastery features.
- It's fairly difficult to use the health form effectively except rather late in the map, or if you stack resists
- Bycepss stacking and potions don't work well togather, because you need to regen your health. Might work with other glyphs/freebies, but it's kind of an either/or thing for me.
- Farming JJ is actually not that straightforward in mana form, you might be better off not using it because you can't spam byceps (and getindare) unless you hit stuff and you run out of health if you do. You can spam a lot of wheytwut and use Byceps on slowed popcorn, but I'm not really sure that's nearly as explosive. Still if you're poisoned, you might as well keep mana form up until you get petition.
- Goblins don't make great chemists, chemists make great goblins.
- Any chemist at all can probably start off in mana form to farm a ton of piety, and any chemist at all can regen fight with fireballs with any sort of backup (elves just psych you into actually doing that even if they're not the best for it, I feel like only gnomes are in fact great for it because they can do it reliably).
- Orcs are very strong, but not THAT strong, simply because health form takes dedication compared to just overloading on a piety farm and playing whatever comes out of that. They also have a caveat that it doesn't take much to have your run get unintentionally hijacked by PoS whereupon you're not playing a chemist anymore.
- Halflings can stay in health form indefinitely. What's this good for, I'm not sure yet, but since you could get a warmonger Orc through everywhere back when he could stay in health form indefinitely (and you can use 2 shcadenfraude when needed), I suppose all you need is regen fighting stuff and damage and they can beat up anything.
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!