Does that mean the barrels won’t be flammable?

But even if you burn all 15 scrolls of upgrade for stones, you have a 35% chance of not getting it, and you would have had to play the game without any upgrades to even get to that point. The only way to get it consistently is to find some way to farm weapons or enchantment stones, and that can take ages in a random run.

Really the problem there is that the grim reaper badge is the worst badge in the entire game, becaus all it does is measure if you were lucky enough to find a specific enchantment. There is close to no actual skill involved, and that sets it apart from any other badge in the game.

That’s a bit unfortunate to anyone doing a max-badges run. Grim Reaper was already heavily luck-based in such a run, but now it’s close to complete luck as to whether you find the right enchantment or not, if you need to use all your upgrade scrolls on the pickaxe.

The only thing that I know of that was changed with disarming logic is that it now fails to teleport a weapon if it can’t find a path to a tile in range, as might happen i.e. in the locked room beneath a broken floor room. It used to instead teleport the weapon to a random point of the level, but I pointed out that this could be used to lose the pickaxe in the mine as the result of a reclaimed trap spell. Evan had already prevented other ways to lose the pickaxe (i.e. dropping, transmuting) on that floor because you can’t leave the floor without it in your inventory, so he opted to prevent this case from arising by reworking trap slightly.

Not sure if this is related to that or not though.

How will these talents work with Metamorphosis? They’re very hero specific.

When you say not curses, do you mean that you can’t spell cursed equipment or that the spell stacks with the curse? The latter could potentially be strategically interesting, but might not be balanced considering Curse Infusion is a thing.

Just wondering what this illumination would be like. Is it sort of like mind vision? One grievance I’ve had for a while is that mobs that have mind vision from talents don’t actually have a visible mind vision debuff from those talents, so you can’t very well track the effect as a player, which seems a bit odd to me.

My main mistake here was during a blast wave wand when I shouldn’t have, because I forgot about knockback paralysis (usually it’s not a big deal, but here it ran me into 3-4 other paralyzing attacks).

That being said, the Rock density is a pretty frequent issue because there are twice as many attacks as normal. There have been times when the Sappers and Geomancer have attacked at the same time, so there literally is no safe square to move to even in completely open space. More commonly, they will attack within a turn or two of each other, before you get to clear your surroundings. This is the fundamental challenge with this fight.

Basically.

But with a sapper also appearing every stage, that frequency doubles and that can be a real problem.

I mean, I know they are choreographed; that’s not the issue. The question here is specifically about not killing the Sappers ahead of time so you can get the ‘complete’ fight, so to speak. When you have rockslides on consecutive turns or even two on the same turn, it’s nigh impossible to avoid getting hit (sometimes literally).

I feel the obvious strategy is to try and find a ring of elements and get it pretty high leveled.

Just wondering, are there a few variations for each region? Randomly picking from say, 3 or so different loading screens seems like it would be in line with some of the other variety features, such as the three-part music tracks or the three sad ghost dialogue lines per region.

The most important talent on sniper is shared upgrades. You don’t need a great variety of thrown weapons to kill just a few enemies, and each thrown weapon upgrade increases the bow’s special attack by 30%. The tomahawk + followup strike can kill basically anything just fine, if you upgrade the tomahawk.

Just wondering when you plan on releasing this update in alpha? Its close to the date you had anticipated after the last update.

Just curious if you’re willing to share any info on those 9 badges. Any chance they’re related to the subclasses? It’s sort of weird that Gladiator players get one more badge than anyone else.

I still never understood why magical porter was removed. Yes, alchemize replaced the merchant beacon, but magical porter served a different role. At the very least alchemize should allow the old porter effect as an option, which would be another way to help with inventory management.

First of all, welcome back! I’ve missed seeing your incremental dev updates, and am glad everything’s going well now.

I can’t say I’m too fond of this change though. At some fundamental level, alchemy used to be a crafting system. 1.1 took away from that somewhat (and made the third ingredient slot almost never used), but it was largely fine because it made recycling items more effective, particularly with the overall changes to how energy worked.

It already seemed a bit odd however to have items that weren’t really ‘crafted’, but it makes sense for wands and missiles, and is at least tolerable for scrolls and potions. My gut reaction for this new proposal is that it just creates too many 1-item recipes, and in doing so alchemy seems much less like a crafting system. The assymmetry of the item types in the interface (some potions would show one option, others two or three, with a haphazard mix or exotics, elixers and spells) also seems quite inelegant.

There is also the fact that a visible catalyst option makes since in-world. What is energy? It’s not very clear. However, why does putting a scroll in an alchemy pot create one thing vs another? One particularly noteworthy case is turning normal and exotic levitation into spells. How does that work? Using a scroll byproduct to make those spells seems far more concrete than simply using ‘energy’. It is also somewhat irksome to have both a potion and a spell as outcomes for a single input, which are two different item classes.

I also think having at least some sort of item tradeoff is valuable. Scrolls are generally more useful than stones, and three stones vs. a scroll and a stone are not the same from a balance perspective. Sacrificing a scroll for a spell or a potion for an elixir is not prohibitive, but it requires a bit more thought by the player.