General-purpose thread of secret shame!

[eastless]

[MTaur]

Yeah, pure casters are a little bit of a mystery to me too.

Pure melee --> hope for CYDSTEP/GETINDARE/HALPMEH/APHEELSIK, settle for ENDISWAL. Spam WONAFYT or WEYTWUT on the weekend.
Regen fighters --> cast whatever, do whatever, use burn and poison if you have it, keep spending your mana
Pure caster --> Have fun blasting wraiths I guess?

I like to stick Codex on a Sorcerer and pretend he's brawling.

[MTaur]

The other thing that bothers me is potion races and to a lesser extent Goblins. I just want the stat ball, most of the time. As much as people don't like Dwarves because the sort of get a head start in fights but then they need over 9000 blackspace to heal it back, at least they get to keep their max health. Halflings start without the head start and have to burn potions if they want to tread water with the Dwarf, and then hope they have enough leftovers to deal with bosses.

That's probably the wrong way to think of it, but man. Potion races. I would only be kind of good at them if the CP cost were brokenly low.

[Lujo]

[Tinker]

[Lujo]

Gnomes are a one trick pony, boost mana throw fireballs / pissorf. Way more stuff you can do with halflings with way more other elements/approaches. Goblins always sorta hijjack the class, but are also open to way more interactions than Gnomes. Any goblin plays a lot like an assassin if you're doing it right, which is why I rarely pick them for assassins specifically. Gnomes are if you want to reduce your gameplay to just mana pool size and fireball damage, but if you're going that reductive just go pissorf + cb, which is why I play them so little these days.

But yeah, all three play differently, lumping them togather will have you trying to play them all the same way. Which will in turn have you comparing them according how all three can pull off something only one of them is made to do. Goblins play both bars every time, halflings play the health bar (health boosts, physical damage, resistances, dodge potions etc) + god potion shennanigans, and can get significant boosts out of their CP at any stage of the run, gnomes play the mana bar (prefferably only at the boss fight) and that's pretty much it.

For Gnomes go Sorcerer. Start with Elven Boots and prepped Mystera. That's pretty much it.
For Halflings, if you don't want to go Priest because it's silly, go Berserker.
For Goblins, go GG or JJ with something that benefits from levels (any hybrid is good, Thief crops up often in the PQI, anything but VGT is doable with a Goblin Thief).

[MTaur]

So are Gnomes and Halflings going to be hard on most DERPs, then?

[Tinker]

[MTaur]

[Lujo]