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[nenjin]

Save scumming?

[Bauglir]

Eh, go ahead and post it. Savescumming is difficult because the game autosaves very frequently, so that usually by the time you know something went wrong you can't go back far enough.

[Simon]

Damn, you guys are creative.

Well I guess it IS savescumming, you simply quit the game (Alt + F4) right at the moment you're about to receive a deathblow to one of your chars (quickly enough so he/she doesn't "finish" his/her turn dying). You run the game once more, hit continue, and the monster that was to deliver the killing blow is skipped. Continue ad nauseam.

Found out about it when I ragequit some time ago. Tried it out few more times, the skipping only occurs when one of your chars is about to be killed via force or stress. You probably meant this. 

[nenjin]

Huh. Every time I tried to Alt+F4 the game and reload, I got a corrupted save file, or one that restarts after the effect.

Seems way simpler to just savescum on a per mission basis. If the mission is fucked, reload, start the day over again. For Short/Medium runs, it's only about 20 minutes wasted.

[ChairmanPoo]

I kind of hope the town events release spices up the darkest dungeon.  Wouldn't be the first time they patch things throughly after adding them. Consider the revamp corpses underwent.

[Spehss _]

Lost one of my two kickass lepers and Dismas to the brigand 12-pounder. Misclicked and attacked the wrong bandit with my arbalest, leaving the matchman alive at the end of the round. Cannon got a shot off, knocking Dismas and Neland the leper into death's door, and the brigand shotgunner's aoe managed to pick off both Leperbro and Dismas as I couldn't afford to waste two turns of dps to heal them both with my arbalest. Also lost some nice trinkets. Had to back out before a total party wipe since my party was heavily reliant on proper positioning and my arbalest in rank two can't do shit.

Uuuuuuuugh. Losing that leper hurts me emotionally. I'd grown fond of him, and his fellow leper. Both of them were from the same batch of recruits. The two of them were always in the same party, killing evil side by bandage-covered side. Watched them grow from lvl 0 peasants to lvl 4 masters. Rest in leprous pieces, Neland. Leperbro Osmont will miss you.

Shame I lost Dismas too. Guess I won't be getting that achievement in this save file.

[gimli]

I think that my first party is ready for the DD soon. The party will consist a vestal [58% heal skills], 2 lepers [1x recovery charm on both of them, but they need a couple of better quirks before venturing forth to the DD] + X [I guess it will be either a BH or a HM]. This setup steamrolled all of l5 dungeons so easily heh....so DD can't be that hard for them either. 

[Blaze]

A word of warning: the first boss of the DD is called the shuffling horror for a reason.

[Bauglir]

Sweet Jesus, I cannot advise you strongly enough against bringing Lepers to the first mission.

[Spehss _]

Sweet Jesus, I cannot advise you strongly enough against bringing Lepers to the first mission.

A word of warning: the first boss of the DD is called the shuffling horror for a reason.

Assuming the shuffling horror is called shuffling because it shuffles parties, I would think lepers would be bad since they can't do anything unless they're in the first two ranks. So if they get moved hen that's wasted turns moving back.

Unless you're suggesting lepers since they have high move resist.

[Bauglir]

I'm suggesting no Lepers, to be clear.

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It'll be a massacre. Indeed, the first boss shuffles your party every turn, and I don't think move resist applies. Could be wrong. It doesn't matter too much - more easily moved characters can easily get shuffled in front of the Lepers anyway. Lepers and Arbalests are terrible choices for that mission, but quite respectable for the others.

[Spehss _]

I'm suggesting no Lepers, to be clear.

Oh. Misread your earlier post. I english good.

[Boltgun]

I just installed the new patch. Forget about the Antiquarian, the Highwayman got buffed into a new level of holy crap.

Now to mention that Dismas had crit quirk, melee crit quirk and unholy slayer (which he lost after the run), duelist advance had him turn the entire enemies into dust. That'll teach em to try to focus on him.

In fact pair him with the antiquarian, and you'll double the chance to get ripostes with protect me.

[Spehss _]

I just installed the new patch. Forget about the Antiquarian, the Highwayman got buffed into a new level of holy crap.

I got a highwayman off the stagecoach (this is the version before antiquarian patch) that had the slugger perk that gives +15% melee damage and his camping skill unparalleled finesse, which gives dodge, speed, and damage and accuracy to his melee attacks for 4 fights. Made a melee based build with wicked slice, open vein, duelist's advance, and tracking shot for a self buff and to let him do (chip) damage to back ranks. Works pretty good aside from being limited to targeting the first two ranks for his two main dps attacks (open vein and wicked slice).

[Simon]

Not sure if anyone's still playing this (you probably are, you creepy masochist bastards), but the Antiquarian update from approx. a week ago was kinda awesome:

- New Class: Antiquarian!
- New Stage Coach upgrade tree: higher level heroes to recruit!
- Quest Rewards: Heirloom type is no longer tied to each region. Instead, a random heirloom reward is generated for each individual quest.
- Heirloom Exchange: trade heirlooms in town! You lose a little in each trade, but this is a quick fix to get that upgrade you really need.
- reduced deed costs in blacksmith

Since then a couple of hotfixes tweaked some minor issues, but c'mon, this is big. You sure can't say the devs don't listen to the peepz.

Now let's give this another soul-breaking, heart-attack-inducing try.