Card Hunter

The bug forum says that Unholy Energy is currently triggering for damage on every card in players hand, not just certain types. This will be fixed whenever the next build goes out. No wonder it is working out so well for you right now gogusrl.

I didn't think to check the bug forum. Also stuff moves way to fast at the start of the round and that combat log is pretty much useless.

Provided it stays on them and they dont cycle it off, with it currently broken you are doing 18 damage over 3 turns and giving them 3 extra drawn cards.

I rerolled to an all human party and am finding it much better. Before I would have to stay huddled around the dwarf and plod across the map now I can skirmish with guys running into range to do damage and then retreat back for the group heals and auras. I steamrolled through all of the first area up to level 8 last night, partly due to knowing what I'm doing now and having some twink items also I'm sure.

I went all elf for the mobility and have not regretted it once - a few less HP is so nice when you're just pulling useless move cards so you can actually kite and/or keep up with them when they're trying to kite you.

Won at least a handful with only one member standing and just kiting until the right stuff came up (especially Wizard/Cleric on the kiting - Cleric kites until good HP then wails in melee again, Wizard just kites period)

Don't think they get many more HP in the long run - but the Dwarf skills can be pretty good at damage absorbortion - in contrast elves are mostly mobility and human are flexibility.

Vvoid_sl said:

Anyone know what the endgame stats are for each race/class combo? Because if all a dwarf gets is the initial 4/2 extra hps, it clearly isn't worth it. But if they get extra all the way along, then eventually the excess hp might be worth my time. Otherwise I think I'm going to at least have to drop back to humans.

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For elf/human/dwarf max hp.

Mage : 32, 40, 48
Priest : 40, 48, 56
Warrior : 48, 56, 64

The skills are an interesting mix - dwarf has probably the most interesting ones, where you dodge an attack and then take that attack into your hand, although elf has lots of movement shenanigans like take a move, if you don't end up next to an enemy, take another turn.

One of the weird things I found with this game is it seems at certain levels when you unlock a new equipment slot you feel less powerful than the previous level. Since you cannot weed out unwanted cards I am having more and more issues with my warrior running around with nothing but moves and armor and having a hard time pulling attack cards. I am sure at higher levels it becomes less of an issue but there are certain humps at low level where you almost regret getting new gear slots opening up as until you have good items for them it usually just means flooding you with more crappy move 2s

Short term very true but soon enough you will have more gear than you know what to do with and it will become an issue of cherry picking the best stuff, having different themed builds, etc.

velk: What level is max? That seems a long ways off from 15 where I'm at in SP currently.

Well some value is in things like Elven Insight and the like where you can predict their cards - its another reason I don't regret Elves (although I just recently got it at L13 or so) ever. And some cases it just comes down to learning what a mob does by trial and error - the chess piece missions are of course the biggest example of that once you get there (I just did them) since the Bishops and Rooks have massive attacks each in their move pattern from chess, Ogres have massive damage but no range so Spears and hedging movement cards does wonders, etc.

Additionally with having high movement it makes warriors with the cheap (and power token free!) plate armor a ton more viable since a dwarf can't use standard moves in plate to do anything more than pivot when the "bad armor" card comes up, humans can barely move, but Elves can still run around moving 2 with the bad one and 3 with the good plate - I've actually run around holding 1 good and 1 bad plate card for multiple turns when I've been sitting on just my warrior left and it absorbs SOOOO much he's won encounters basically solo while he waits out appropriate attack cards.

Finally, remember of course to plan for immunities - some weapons are versatile, but overall it's more effective rather than tailoring weapons to use acid and other armor removal tricks (including indirect ones like discard) and sticking with your favorites in my experience.

I got a nice epic divine sword with 3-8pt hacks on it so I usually keep a lot of penetrating and move plus attack stuff on my warrior. He goes in and soaks up the damage and can at least do some damage if the other two don't have any armor removal stuff up. Then I'll move the cleric in to mop up with those hacks and bashes. Been working really well so far. Also it seems you can get the epic items from the treasure hunts as random drops too. Got two of those woodholme daggers at the same time out of the last chest in the final Trog module.

L15 I think was my first "Major Power Token" showing up (which was replacing a "Minor" not adding one) - and yes, 2 range attacks and Step attacks are both huge.

Note that Range 1 attacks do get much better with some of the Keep "Dodge" attacks where you get a Free Move most of the time when they attack back. [For hard hitters like ogres/ettins/zerks of various sorts]

Vaclav_sl said:

velk: What level is max? That seems a long ways off from 15 where I'm at in SP currently.

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That's level 50 values. So yeah, long way off from starter, but useful to know in overall planning.

Putting this on a shelf. Got to level 17 and do not feel like grinding more in PvP, so I will wait until it is in a release state before diving back into it.