My advice for levelling: in addition to what hiiiii23 just commented about early level farming, acid weapon on lvl 8 and/or 9 will be where you earn the bulk of your money for endgame, just make sure to upgrade speed as well so you can kill everything. My advice for the boss is to hope he just does raindrops + missile attacks (thank God this happened 4th attempt). Fly high to the left or right as each new set of missiles comes out, then round around the bottom to other side and up again, you can avoid all damage this way.
Loving the game so far, one small design issue, at the point in the blue temple when you go up the big air vent and can go left for the stasis unlock or right over the two moving platforms, it's actually possible to make that jump without stasis. So I got halfway up the tower before reaching something impossible, only to find a walkthrough online to find out about the stasis!
@Strabbo Arcane Tower can be really tough, many character builds should probably skip it, or at least leave early if you're taking too much damage. Often Ice Caves/The Core can be easier and better sources of easy loot. You can also come back later when a bit stronger.
2 more ways to get in trouble: meleeing Clockwork Rats with a bunch of oil around can cause oil to land on your own square, and Scrolls of Fear don't work on Clockwork enemies...I was lucky to survive those lessons!
@timmcnelson If there is an enemy adjacent to the web when you use Hellfire Scroll, it burns the web along with you for the full scroll damage, Armor doesn't help against magic damage. I did the same thing to myself today but luckily had enough health to survive.
I'm surprised there are so many negative comments on the last level. With the three vertical and one horizontal spiked ball, you have to wait until the middle vertical ball will be high when the horizontal one is on the way back from left to right, so u can jump that in the middle, land, and have time to then jump the leftmost vertical ball. When the lvl starts, if you drop down that are asap, you have to wait one cycle before you can carry out this process. It's harder on the way back after hitting switch, but quite doable.
The difficult part of the hard badge is surviving to the end of lvl 4; after that with a maxed gun it's a lot easier. Key is to follow branimirb's upgrade guide in Best Comments (I got gun to 3/2/0 I think before I had to upgrade some repair bots...speed isn't as important as the other two), and to practice leading targets correctly for quick kills, and finally to focus fire the large ships at all costs (because they spawn little ones). The luck is how long your fighter cover survives, so don't give up if you bomb out on later levels, just retry.
Donating to Hazzar will double the effect of another random shrine donation blessing you've already received, so this is good to do before the Vorag fight.
Some bugs/inconsistencies I've noticed: (1) Shields' "Block" value has no influence on Block score in character screen; the only thing that seems to matter is whether you hold a shield or not, so +4 Block and +20 Block result in same total Block score (2) Non-mounted Death Knight damage doesn't seem to be affected by Dark resistance; 100+ resistance still sees them doing way more damage than other units of comparable level (3) Named items with green text and double bonus icons have no statistical advantage over regular items e.g. Lvl 10 green text Medium Greaves with Physical and Fire resistance bonus icons have exactly the same stats as mundane Lvl 10 Medium Greaves with just Fire Resistance icon
Looks like War of Omens will live on, dev response posted here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fwarofomens%2Fcomments%2F79ztq6%2Fsave_woo_on_kong%2F
Some relevant info here on the upcoming November 13 deadline and dev response: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fwarofomens%2Fcomments%2F79ztq6%2Fsave_woo_on_kong%2F
Tip for accelerating path to hard badge: go here http://pixelo.wikia.com/wiki/Easy and do all the animal category puzzles until you unlock the Zoo Keeper Badge. It gives +300% xp for all subsequent animal category puzzles, so just beeline for those. Make sure you click twice to buy _and_ wear the badge to get it to work.
Quick note for ppl going for Hard badge: in addition to the good advice in Best Comments from Van360 on getting Powerful Red, you'll also need your Energy technology reasonably high (the blue bar at bottom of Battery tab). I maxed all the items Van recommended but wasn't close until I upgraded my Battery from 200% to 348% + had excellent luck with powerups to get the achievement. Power tech was at 267%.
Good game but now I keep encountering the sped-up enemies bug and it is ruining otherwise good runs, hoping for a fix soon. This is probably already known but it typically happens after a skeleton revives or an enemy who has fled later recovers.
Zeroing in on it right now, thanks for the heads up. Every bit of extra information I get helps to track these things down faster so please continue to report all issues.
Badge Hunters: The 3x Shadowkiller/1x Devourer/1x Juliet suggestion is good for Endless Mode (got it first try), but the Shadowkiller/Devourer combo is bad for clearing the later levels. A user called Someeeeoneeeeeeeee suggested 2x Ultima/2x Chakra/1x Entropy Alien and it worked perfectly for later levels, so get those first then start upgrading for Endless Mode.
@Kaeinlya You aren't screwed, you need to shoot the other robot you meet on the next screen three times to kill it, then you can proceed. Incidentally I managed to make the jump past the robot without killing it, only to realise I couldn't make progress anywhere else.
@Keated Varians have been dominating A sectors for most of today on EU server. Like 30 players in WH sectors. A lot depends on who happens to be online when you play. If you are Varian on US server you have my commiserations, come to EU server it's much better, many others already have.
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