Greetings adventurers,
Today we'd like to share some tips and tricks to boost your survivability.
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Melee Combat
Look for melee combat versus Skeleton Crossbows and Mages. Their Evade Bonus adds up to their defense points, hence they are hard to shoot from a distance. Chase Crossbows as they are not capable of melee attacks at all and will try to run away. Once you nail them down they're easy prey. Mages can engage in melee combat but are way less powerful, however it's harder to nail them down while they can move over lava tiles.
Ranged Combat
Use ranged attacks versus Zombies and Skeleton Warriors. Specifically Zombies have neither defense nor evade and are good targets, even with lower bows. Keep in mind the far distance malus (3+ tiles). The same applies on defense. While clearing adds, keep Crossbows 3 tiles away so that they will suffer a distance malus. They will not come any closer unless you move completely out of their range.
Room Order
You might wanna aim for easy rooms first, to gain more XP before entering stronger rooms. As rooms are procedurally generated, there might be slight changes to your preferred room orders from run to run. If you have the Thief perk, you can try to sneak through a room unnoticed to unlock further rooms with more favorable mobs or better access to loot. While invisible, the closer you get to a monster, the higher the chance to get spotted. You can leave rooms to escape critical situations if a door is near.
Perks
On level up, you might want to look back at previous perks. There are some pretty mighty perks that combine neatly. The most powerful perk is Thief. Both, Focus and Critical Hit are strong picks, not only for the boss fight and you should definitely pick at least the initial tier. Stamina is the strongest perk in terms of survivability. Later must-have is Magician that enables you to cast spells to increase your mobility.
Focus
Do not underestimate Focus bonus which is a powerful advantage all mobs can gain except green zombies. Focus bonus is granted, once an attacker is targeting the same opponent successively. A red marker on the plinth indicates that a monster has focus bonus on you. To break the focus, you need to force the monster to move. You activate focus bonus yourself once you have obtained the Focus perk. Your focus target is indicated by a green plinth marker.
Positioning
When rushing a room of ranged creatures, you will look for the shortest path to engage in melee combat and cut off escape paths at the same time. Versus melee, look for chokes that allow minimal amount of melee attackers passing through at a time. Make use of mobs blocking each others way when fighting larger groups. Monsters will only move as long as they are not in attack range, which can lead to blockages. Again, if monsters have focus on you, consider moving out of range to break focus.
Door-Hopping
In case you can enter a room through more than one door, make use of it to gain advantage in positioning. Hop into a door with a Crossbow in melee range, and get right out to enter the room through another door that allows you to land some ranged hits on Zombies. This is especially powerful when combined with the Thief perk, as the perk will activate every time when you enter the room through a door that is different to the one through which you walked out.
Items
You pick up items automatically, as long as you have space in your backpack left, so sometimes it's not worth to fight your way onto a specific loot item. Spells can be picked up only once you acquired the Magician perk, but you can always walk back to previous rooms and stages to pick up loot you left behind. If you have a full backpack but plenty of loot left you can increase your backpack size with perks as well.
We hope this helps to defeat Medium and Hard game modes.
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Good luck and safe travels! Keep in mind, death is not ultimate...
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