How the hell do I finish a run?
How the hell do I finish a run?
I get past the 4th area, kind of easily, but the 5th and the final boss is cancer. Guides recommend getting a +6 plate armor. How the fuck do I get through the game if I don't find it. What if I find it in the second or third area? There are not nearly enough scrolls of upgrade to get that high.
What am I supposed to do? I am missing something but I don't know what.
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You shouldn't use any scrolls of upgrade on any equipment that you won't be using at the end of the game. That means that the earlier levels will be harder because your equipment won't be as good, but you will have enough scrolls to properly upgrade a set of plate armor and a high tier weapon. Any upgrades you apply to equipment you won't use later might as well have been thrown away. Same thing applies to the blacksmith quest upgrade. I typically backtrack to the blacksmith to get that upgrade after I find a couple of matched tier 5 weapons or two sets of plate armor.
And try to use your scrolls on equipment that already has a level or two.
If you absolutely can't get past the lower levels without upgrading try to do it as sparingly as possible. The number of scrolls of upgrade is set and you don't get more.
You should use your resources to win. If you lose with SoU in your inventory then you wasted resources and a run.
Replace SoU with heal potions and I'd agree with you. But if you need to overspend SoU to survive the early game, then it was a doomed run anyway.
The Dwarven City and Demon Halls are balanced with the expectation that you'll have heavily upgraded high-tier gear. Sewers and Prison are not. Generally I try to spend no more than 1 scroll per region on low- or mid-tier gear, and save the other 2 for my endgame gear.
Yeah, but if I find a +1 mail in a 6 chal I'll invest 2 SoU to wear it in prison. And 13 SoU is basically the same as 15 because diminishing returns.