as silverwolf mentioned, losing to the bosses of the 3rd zones (glacier/volcano/wasteland) cause game overs regardless of how many wounds you have. I'm not sure whats going on with the screen there though, are you running browser or downloaded? also was that fullscreened?
I know it's hard to give advice without knowing more about the run, but any thoughts on what I can do better? THere's so much going on in the game it's hard to isolate what makes an impact as I'm starting out. I'm confident my item use was way sub-optimal, once I put the harvester on scutter he was doing 60% of my damage with buffs from tizik.
One thing that stands out to me is the Unraveling Prism, that is gonna be purging your Tizik Buffs (some of the best in the game) and Seras poisons. With this team comp I would have tried to build Tusk as a tank, ideally with Mesmerizing orb and possibly an ability replacer like Iron Will if it seemed like he was taking too much dmg. Although another tank or poison remover might be more desirable like Gora. Besides Urso these are some pretty squishy mons. 6 Loops is very good though, so close to getting every regional blessing too well done!
TY! This game is great, very new to this but enjoy both Slay the Spire and used to play Teamfight Tactics and love the mashup of the two that is in the gameplay. Fantastic artwork, cool evolution system, and fun item merging as well.
I have played this game for a while and had some free time so I hope to teach you a few things. Just looking at this screen gives me quite a few recommendations. Don't take this as ragging on you. This is all useful stuff that I didn't know when I first started playing. The first unrelated thing I MUST add is that you need a poison healer. PERIOD. as soon as you get the curse "scavengers spawn periodically", you'll soon find you whole team getting 2000 poison stacks if they are not careful (that ended my first long run). that why you need a dedicated monster to deal with poison. I recommend the most broken support healer in the game, hydrim.
So from the top. Tizik should be in the middle so energize hits as many enemies as possible (3 instead of 2), Skimander is the best damage dealer to pair with tizik. At max speed, skimanders passive adaptability lets it deal 2500% more damage letting it easily cross the 10k damage per hit threshold with tactician 3 (I'm glad you have that keep it up!). Chikia is very niche. Im not a great believer in pack leader or outmanuever and the only real value I see in it is from fleet which reduces the swap cool down by 8 seconds which is insane when paired with a Mon who wants to switch most notably chip but other than that it scales quite poorly. Next there is a better way to use urso. its not meant to be used as a damage dealer or tank. its meant to make all of your allies attack instantly. Throw on a bunch of spyglasses and energy banners to get all your mana back instantly and get gang up and watch 4 of your mons attack instantly forever. tuskal is the most niche mon in the whole game. its good on 1 singular team comp which makes it arguably the most broken Mon in the entire game (get 1000 food per battle) but that's really neither here nor there. its the squishiest Mon in the game, it quickly stops doing meaningful damage and is hard carried by its revenge ability. Seras is good late game because you can get a lot of poison stacks. it actually hurt pairing it with unravelling prism because prism removes all the poison stacks that seras puts on the enemies! also pairing seras' cast with a giants short sword is very important for it to be relevant late game because debilitating bite has amazing side effects and already hits 3 times before short sword!. don't use radiant tome on it. I know first hand how appealing the healing is but in practice its not great. just go giants short sword and the utility double debilitating bites provides will be worth it I promise. As you play more you will find more synergizes and more mons that are broken in niche teams and thats what I think is so fun about the game.
Now if you are wondering what does get my stamp of approval, I'll tell you. Anything uses the two most broken items in the whole game. Heavy Shackles and Spyglass. Shackles lets your whole team get Max str and def and 3000 HP in a few loops with bulky 3 being a broken synergy so get that. And Spyglass not only gives 100% armor pen making your attacks deal 1100% more damage to max def enemies, but also spyglass gives all allies mana when you cast, letting you create an infinite chain of insta casters. I got to loop 60 using a broken team with amazing synergy and had to use cheats to end the run because I was tired of it. And the 3rd run I ever tried, I used heavy shackles (didn't know about spyglass yet) and got loop 15 before I died to (you guessed it) 2000 poison stacks! sorry I wrote an essay I hope this helps. if you read this whole thing you're a trooper.
thats a visual bug, due to the way I handle automatically highlighting the stats in the text. Strig's name snuck through the cracks in the detection lol. It will be fixed in the big update.
Sorry I missed this comment, Im glad you like it! There are actually 3 hidden monsters with special secret requirements to show up! 2 dont have hints in game but have been talked about on here and discord. In order of easiest to hardest.
1. Check shops for an item you don't see anywhere else. It will hint to you what to do.
2. Requires a specific tier 3 village structure. You need to do something you wouldnt normally do. It is tangentially related to cold. You will know if you did it right as soon you go to select your team for a new run.
3. Requires a bird egg from egg sense. you need to carry it with you to a specific non-random event. It will be tangentially related to warmth. It will hatch automatically when you do the right thing.
Theyre kinda convoluted so feel free to ask for more info or exact solutions.
It allows you to purchase a Radiant Aurite 1 time from a aurite location during a run. Radiant Aurite costs 777, and when used on a 3rd form monster, gives them the rest of the abilities you didnt pick when evolving them.
you shouldnt be able to, there is a small bug with that option allowing you to buy it even if you dont have the village station built though. There is one you can get from the greater blessings rewards from looping in infinite mode though. That one doesnt care if you bought one and doesnt require the village.
Hi guys! I haven't updated you all in a while!!!! i had more hardware issues so i had to restart again i think its trying to tell me something... anyways this is the end of loop 3 (also i count the first run/standard as loop 0!!!)!! look at him. just a little guy. fun fact: i ate over 2k food in this loop.
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okay jay why does mana regen cap out at 23 my wrymling is very sad
Welp. Got lazy and got cooked.
it ended the game with 3/9 wounds and it said i had too many wounds?!?!?
also for some reason i only see in my corner of the screen and abt half is black
if whole team dies in boss fight that happens
as silverwolf mentioned, losing to the bosses of the 3rd zones (glacier/volcano/wasteland) cause game overs regardless of how many wounds you have. I'm not sure whats going on with the screen there though, are you running browser or downloaded? also was that fullscreened?
to fix that zoom in twice with control plus
browser
didnt know lol
why would u call the monkey mudgill? why does it become a worm??
Mudgill is inspired by sharks and flatworms!
oh lol it looks like a monkey i always thought it was
if you zoom in with Fullscreen twice using CONTROL, PLUS SIGN the screen will fit perfectly guys. Jay is updating the game he will fix it
vangaurd monsters lets gooo havent played this in like a year
fullscreen still broken tho...
I know it's hard to give advice without knowing more about the run, but any thoughts on what I can do better? THere's so much going on in the game it's hard to isolate what makes an impact as I'm starting out. I'm confident my item use was way sub-optimal, once I put the harvester on scutter he was doing 60% of my damage with buffs from tizik.
One thing that stands out to me is the Unraveling Prism, that is gonna be purging your Tizik Buffs (some of the best in the game) and Seras poisons. With this team comp I would have tried to build Tusk as a tank, ideally with Mesmerizing orb and possibly an ability replacer like Iron Will if it seemed like he was taking too much dmg. Although another tank or poison remover might be more desirable like Gora. Besides Urso these are some pretty squishy mons. 6 Loops is very good though, so close to getting every regional blessing too well done!
TY! This game is great, very new to this but enjoy both Slay the Spire and used to play Teamfight Tactics and love the mashup of the two that is in the gameplay. Fantastic artwork, cool evolution system, and fun item merging as well.
Thank you, Im glad youre enjoying it!
I have played this game for a while and had some free time so I hope to teach you a few things. Just looking at this screen gives me quite a few recommendations. Don't take this as ragging on you. This is all useful stuff that I didn't know when I first started playing. The first unrelated thing I MUST add is that you need a poison healer. PERIOD. as soon as you get the curse "scavengers spawn periodically", you'll soon find you whole team getting 2000 poison stacks if they are not careful (that ended my first long run). that why you need a dedicated monster to deal with poison. I recommend the most broken support healer in the game, hydrim.
So from the top. Tizik should be in the middle so energize hits as many enemies as possible (3 instead of 2), Skimander is the best damage dealer to pair with tizik. At max speed, skimanders passive adaptability lets it deal 2500% more damage letting it easily cross the 10k damage per hit threshold with tactician 3 (I'm glad you have that keep it up!). Chikia is very niche. Im not a great believer in pack leader or outmanuever and the only real value I see in it is from fleet which reduces the swap cool down by 8 seconds which is insane when paired with a Mon who wants to switch most notably chip but other than that it scales quite poorly. Next there is a better way to use urso. its not meant to be used as a damage dealer or tank. its meant to make all of your allies attack instantly. Throw on a bunch of spyglasses and energy banners to get all your mana back instantly and get gang up and watch 4 of your mons attack instantly forever. tuskal is the most niche mon in the whole game. its good on 1 singular team comp which makes it arguably the most broken Mon in the entire game (get 1000 food per battle) but that's really neither here nor there. its the squishiest Mon in the game, it quickly stops doing meaningful damage and is hard carried by its revenge ability. Seras is good late game because you can get a lot of poison stacks. it actually hurt pairing it with unravelling prism because prism removes all the poison stacks that seras puts on the enemies! also pairing seras' cast with a giants short sword is very important for it to be relevant late game because debilitating bite has amazing side effects and already hits 3 times before short sword!. don't use radiant tome on it. I know first hand how appealing the healing is but in practice its not great. just go giants short sword and the utility double debilitating bites provides will be worth it I promise. As you play more you will find more synergizes and more mons that are broken in niche teams and thats what I think is so fun about the game.
Now if you are wondering what does get my stamp of approval, I'll tell you. Anything uses the two most broken items in the whole game. Heavy Shackles and Spyglass. Shackles lets your whole team get Max str and def and 3000 HP in a few loops with bulky 3 being a broken synergy so get that. And Spyglass not only gives 100% armor pen making your attacks deal 1100% more damage to max def enemies, but also spyglass gives all allies mana when you cast, letting you create an infinite chain of insta casters. I got to loop 60 using a broken team with amazing synergy and had to use cheats to end the run because I was tired of it. And the 3rd run I ever tried, I used heavy shackles (didn't know about spyglass yet) and got loop 15 before I died to (you guessed it) 2000 poison stacks! sorry I wrote an essay I hope this helps. if you read this whole thing you're a trooper.
I’m back to this game after almost a year my run still going strong
weird egg???
weird egg!!!
hey why does STRugeye have the STR in its name red
thats a visual bug, due to the way I handle automatically highlighting the stats in the text. Strig's name snuck through the cracks in the detection lol. It will be fixed in the big update.
hey are all monsters unlocked from the start or are some monsters unviable until you do something because I haven't seen 3 monsters yet.
huge fan of this game. however three creatures have never shown up for me so i was wondering if it was a bug or not
Sorry I missed this comment, Im glad you like it! There are actually 3 hidden monsters with special secret requirements to show up! 2 dont have hints in game but have been talked about on here and discord. In order of easiest to hardest.
1. Check shops for an item you don't see anywhere else. It will hint to you what to do.
2. Requires a specific tier 3 village structure. You need to do something you wouldnt normally do. It is tangentially related to cold. You will know if you did it right as soon you go to select your team for a new run.
3. Requires a bird egg from egg sense. you need to carry it with you to a specific non-random event. It will be tangentially related to warmth. It will hatch automatically when you do the right thing.
Theyre kinda convoluted so feel free to ask for more info or exact solutions.
Wait for hint#1 are you referring to the C H E E S E
Ok i fold can you give me more info
try carrying the cheese with you to where you get monsters and look for something different :D
Oh i thought you had to go to that event where you can steal food from a tent
hey what structure do i need for #2
(Edi: Nvm i figured it out)
oh fyi you can get the C H E E S E from a chest
tk you where a big help!
made the tankiest hydrim ive ever seen lmao
its only going to get tankier lmao
that hydrim looks like theyd love a radiant aurite
REALLLLL sadly they all died and i lost the run like a loop later lmao
if you put the heavy shackles item on all your guys and get the bulky 3 synergy, its really easy to get 4000 hp on all your monsters :)
just a couple of elephant dudes
this actual wasn't too bad of a run as well
baywatch 😄
yo guys a new boss just dropped!!! (this is not actually real i just drew him but shhh)
👀
is there a way to view the extra skin for the monsters?
not currently, the next version will though. All of the alt skins have been posted in the discord though!
thank you
this is one of the best games on here I've played in a while. 👍
Thereisnocontextneededforthisphotoguystrust:)
My parra had more than 100% dodge chance lol
thats one fast bird
and strong and smart too lol
what does the 3rd level of the aurite mine do?
It allows you to purchase a Radiant Aurite 1 time from a aurite location during a run. Radiant Aurite costs 777, and when used on a 3rd form monster, gives them the rest of the abilities you didnt pick when evolving them.
one question
If you buy a radiant aurite in the run, can you still buy one in the mines in between zones as well?
you shouldnt be able to, there is a small bug with that option allowing you to buy it even if you dont have the village station built though. There is one you can get from the greater blessings rewards from looping in infinite mode though. That one doesnt care if you bought one and doesnt require the village.
Hi guys! I haven't updated you all in a while!!!! i had more hardware issues so i had to restart again i think its trying to tell me something...
anyways this is the end of loop 3 (also i count the first run/standard as loop 0!!!)!! look at him. just a little guy. fun fact: i ate over 2k food in this loop.