This is a thread for players to ask for hints (either general or about particular encounters and enemies), as well as share their strategies.
Ancient dragons:
Some players asked about the ancient dragon superbosses and how to defeat them.
These bosses are extremely difficult to beat by design – I added them in an update for players who commented that all the existing bosses were fairly easy when you had late game equipment and skills. Because of this, there is no single trick that helps you beat the ancient dragons – you should fully develop your character (skills, perks, equipment) and use all the resources you have in the encounter!
Some general hints that may help:
- If you have Survival 2, Study the ancient dragon. You'll gain a lot of useful information that will help you develop a strategy for the fight.
- Focus on one type of attack (Magic/Combat/using allies with Charisma) and try to get as many attack/damage bonuses as possible – the bosses have a lot of health and fairly high Defence.
- Make sure you have plenty of HP/MP restoring items and items that remove negative status effects. Prepare for a long fight.
- If you have Trading, you can buy a single use item from the Collector which will help a lot.
- Equipment that revives you if you die in combat (Glass Ring, Saint's Hauberk) can help – as long as you have "revives" left, you can mostly ignore defending and dish out more damage.
Have fun, and I hope you'll beat those dragons!
So, it is possible to beat the Red Knight just with strong equipment and skills, but there are some tricks to this fight. As a merchant, you may recruit a companion to fight in your place - though you'll have to learn a thing or two about the Knight first for them to win. If you fight by yourself, there is one very helpful thing. I won't write the full spoiler just yet, but have you noticed that the Red Knight only attacks with an axe - no bow, no magic? There are ways to exploit that!
Hello! First of all I wanted to congratulate the author for the fantastic quality and depth of the game. Also, I wanted to ask you experts for some advice. I’m pretty stuck in the middle of the game, I need 3000 XP to level out every skill but I don’t know how to get it in a reasonable time. I’ve already explored all the islands and completed all the intermediate dungeons. Also, I wanted to know how to maximize my magic fighting skills (from what I heard I should look for the staff of a certain false Mirlanda, but I have no idea how to find her). Eventually I wanted to ask you where to find some Gills potions that I am often asked for.
Thanks for the comment!
First of all, you don't actually need to level up all the skills to beat the game. I think it's easiest to focus more on "finding things I can do/beat at the moment", and the EXP will come (the toughest enemies give a lot). Your biggest source of EXP right now should be the hard dungeons - if you find the enemies difficult, look for better equipment/allies/consumables (Bottled Explosions solve a lot of problems if you can afford them!).
If you haven't already done all of the side quests (found by checking rumours), they're a good source of rewards as well. Another one is joining the Academy which will open up some new areas (you can also discover those randomly by exploring or by gathering information with Charisma 2).
There's three islands infested with bandits/beasts/undead, respecitvely. You can grind for EXP there. If you defeat too many enemies, they withdraw for some time, but return later. This is quick if you're strong enough, or have lots of money and can afford bribing the bandits.
Exploring the islands and travelling has a chance for encounters with EXP, but I wouldn't call it a "quick" way of earning it.
False Mirlanda will appear at the Academy once you've achieved a certain fame threshold. But her staff is actually more useful for characters without the Magic skill, I would say!
Hope this helps! The game was designed for multiple plays, with lots of procedural generation, but the core structure remains the same and it gets easier/faster on subsequent playthroughs.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot about the gills potions! You can buy them from the Witch once you've brought her the ingredients - she'll tell you what she needs.
Hi, I was wondering if you could give me a hint on how to defeat the fallen champion. I tried to post before, and it said it would go through and be on the thread in a few days, but it wasn't. Also, I had a battlemage class, and I had combat 2, and a high brawn level. I'm thinking about trying to defeat him while wearing a certain ring that might be able to stop his biggest special move from working, but I don't even know if that would be helpful, and if it wasn't, the health regen would still make defeating him pretty much impossible. Also, sorry if there are too many spoilers, trying to avoid them. Thank you, I really love your game. P.S. I think it would be great if there was somehow a multiplayer game like this, but I don't know if that would be possible.
Hi!
Thanks for the kind words - glad you're enjoying the game!
As for the fallen champion - I haven't played the game myself in a while, so I don't remember how I used to fight them myself, but from what I do remember, plus looking at the code: it's the strongest non-boss humanoid enemy, so you may need an end-game character to beat them. As they're immune to magic, Combat 2 and high Brawn are actually very useful. Because of the healing and permanent damage buffs, it's essential to focus on high physical damage (def. try to get a legendary weapon - I'm also trying to avoid big spoilers, let me know if you want more hints on which weapons would be the best and how to find them), use Fortify on yourself. You may also try to use evade when the champion readies the big attack. Stun immunity will be helpful, and if your weapon damage is too low, but you have a lot of silver, Bottled Explosions can deal with almost anything in the game.
Hope this helps!
I've really been enjoying this game!! I'm playing a tinkerer with Magic2/Charisma2/Trading2 skills. My question is about the item I acquired from the laboratory called the Inventor's Eye: "When active, enables the use of the Study technique as if the wearer had Survival level 2." What does it mean by study technique? I haven't been able to figure out what this item does but it seems interesting.
Glad you're having fun with my game!
"Study" is a battle command normally available through the Survival main skill. It lets you view the stats and descriptions of enemies that aren't in your Codex yet (enemies you haven't defeated before), and adds them to the Codex upon use. Inventor's Eye adds this command on Survival level 2, meaning it works on all enemies (Survival 1 doesn't let you study some of the more powerful creatures).