Is there any clue to where dark gold ore will be in the new area? I’m at 39 pieces in one of my runs and stuck just mining through random walls.
I had this problem once. I eventually just left because I was getting obliterated from all sides, and found I got partial rewards based on how many I found.
Lately the game seems to have gotten much harder. I’m being ganked by pop up mobs that come from three directions at once while I’m starving on cleared levels after roaming multiple levels unable to find food.
One recent death happened because a spider somehow webbed the hall behind me while two other mobs took me out with attacks that seemed to cut through all my armor like a hot knife through butter. It’s starting to lose it’s fun, really. No matter how well you play if the mobs are non-stop, you will eventually run out of healing potions and weapons.
I had a bat kill me after I went through two healing potions to survive the combat, and I had enhanced armor. Usually they are pretty easy to kill. It’s as if there is a random “you’re fucked” generator in this game.
No matter how well you play if the mobs are non-stop, you will eventually run out of healing potions and weapons.
The game is not designed to let you wander around or “farm” enemies and such. The game’s mechanisms like limited food, potions, and thrown weapon degradation are there to make you clear a level and move on. It’s a constant battle of attrition, and you’re not supposed to dawdle. You even stop earning XP if you kill too many enemies on a level. The enemies are non-stop, and that’s why you have to keep moving.
The bats are jerks because they randomly heal when they hit you. If you aren’t doing enough damage to them, you’re basically doing 0. I’ve had a couple runs where I made poor upgrade decisions and poor timing (on things like wand charges) and literally couldn’t kill a bat. Usually there’s something you could use to get away, though. At least from that one fight. A Stone of Fear, a Swiftthistle Seed, a Potion of Invisibility. Heck, even jumping in a pit is better than dying as long as you have one Potion of Healing to survive the fall.
But RNG is RNG. Every once in a great while the game is really stacked against you. But skill is 100% more important. There are so many tricks in this game. For one, like the other reply says, throwing literally any item at a web breaks it. You only lose one turn at most. That trick can save your life. There are countless more.
There are also strategies that work and many that don’t. You just have to learn the strategies that work and then the fun is executing them well. By strategies I mean how and when you spend your upgrade scrolls, mostly. For instance, having a good weapon is usually more important than having high armor. I haven’t upgraded armor past +3 or +4 in a long time, and I won’t do that unless it’s at least scale armor. I wear whatever I can find in the meantime. And I try to save the majority of my scrolls for a tier 4+ weapon and then dump 6 scrolls into it all at once, but only when I have the strength to actually use it. +6 upgrades reduces the strength requirement of a weapon by 3, so that means only 13 strength for a tier 4 weapon, and you will have 13 strength after floor 7, guaranteed. You just also need to find 6 scrolls first. Having a +6 tier-4 weapon in the early/mid-game is godly, and you just snowball from there. But you can also do the same thing with certain wands. But if I’m doing a wand strategy, I don’t wait to use the upgrades. I’ll just dump every one I find I to the wand or Mage’s staff, and eventually 2 or 3 into some armor.
I’m at the point now that if I survive the first 4 levels, I can beat the game every time. Assuming I have zero challenges enabled. I’ve even beaten it with up to three challenges enabled. I couldn’t do 6 and stopped wanting to try. Now I just play 0-challenge for fun.
There’s a particular Twitch streamer who randomly pops on and streams Shattered who does high challenge levels and explains everything he’s doing. I learned a lot of new tricks after watching his stream a few times. Ones I might never have discovered myself. If that’s something you’re interested in, I could go find a link.
EDIT: you would never guess his Twitch name:
https://www.twitch.tv/shatteredpixeldungeon
I recommend the mobile app, then Follow this account, turn on notifications, and watch when he randomly pops on. I find it fun and educational to watch someone much better than me play the game.
Thanks for the advice, I will give the channel a try. As for the webs, I haven’t had luck clearing them without a wand of disintegration or fire. Objects are stopped at the web.
Disintegration, fire and any solid projectile (wand or throwing weapon) will clear them but it takes some seconds for the visual effect to fade out. The web is gone after the missile hits it, just watch for it to fade. If I don’t want to use a wand on them I just keep a stack of missile weapons on a quick slot to throw at web tiles, this destroys them and costs no durability. Fire will spread through webs like grass too so be careful, or use that to catch multiple enemies and burn them.
