Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

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Re: Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

Postby Darvin on Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:35 pm

In a more general sense, there's no way to ensure you get the right deity for your class/race/item/dungeon/boss combination. Yes, there are a handful of levels that really scream for Binlor and one that benefits enormously from a little Earthmother Gardening, but this is only part of a more general issue that you often don't have the right deity for the job.
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Re: Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

Postby Sidestepper on Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:18 am

I'm hoping that there will be new temple preparations that either let us limit the pool of gods for a specific adventure or guarantee the presence of one particular deity.
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Re: Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

Postby The Avatar on Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:51 pm

Yeah... that would seriously reduce scumming.
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Re: Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

Postby q 3 on Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:21 am

Is the Crusader still getting his +1 altar no matter how many you've unlocked? He could be a part of a fairly powerful limited unlock profile - two deities gets him two altars, with the two deity combo guaranteed. Four deities gets him three (?) altars, with a 67% chance of any specific three deity combo. I'd test it myself but I haven't ever found the Crusader except on my long-abandoned main profile.
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Re: Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

Postby TigerKnee on Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:43 am

Unfortunately I think the Crusader needs a certain amount of deities unlocked before he'll appear. Potentially all the deities.

I can't prove it, but my limited unlock profile never had him show up for a long time. When they finally implemented the altar number change, I decided to just unlock all the deities and the Crusader finally showed up.
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Re: Thoughts on Strategic Alter Unlocks

Postby Darvin on Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:16 am

I'm sitting at 4 altars (JJ and GG all the way!), and I have not been able to find Crusader. He definitely has minimum god unlock to get him. I don't know how many are required.
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