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  • DigitoDigito Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Ah gotcha. Intelligence and Vitality/Endurance/Whatever it's called seem pretty obvious for what they do...

    Though so far I've been dumping jewels all into weapons and not armor. Though elemental damage doesn't help at all unless the monster has a weakness, in which case I think every level in an element is equal to a level in that weapon in general, so... elemental weapons, worth the effort to pump up elemental swords?

    Though damn, Diamonds are a pain to get lots of.

    Digito on
  • NerdtendoNerdtendo Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Digito wrote: »
    Ah gotcha. Intelligence and Vitality/Endurance/Whatever it's called seem pretty obvious for what they do...

    Though so far I've been dumping jewels all into weapons and not armor. Though elemental damage doesn't help at all unless the monster has a weakness, in which case I think every level in an element is equal to a level in that weapon in general, so... elemental weapons, worth the effort to pump up elemental swords?

    Though damn, Diamonds are a pain to get lots of.

    I don't know how the math works, but enemies seem to take completely independent amounts of damage from base weapon damage and elemental damage. Each jewel might be worth 100 points of weapon damage for all I know, but I do know that the elemental damage counts for quite a bit.

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  • zanmattozanmatto Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Nerdtendo wrote: »
    Digito wrote: »
    Ah gotcha. Intelligence and Vitality/Endurance/Whatever it's called seem pretty obvious for what they do...

    Though so far I've been dumping jewels all into weapons and not armor. Though elemental damage doesn't help at all unless the monster has a weakness, in which case I think every level in an element is equal to a level in that weapon in general, so... elemental weapons, worth the effort to pump up elemental swords?

    Though damn, Diamonds are a pain to get lots of.

    I don't know how the math works, but enemies seem to take completely independent amounts of damage from base weapon damage and elemental damage. Each jewel might be worth 100 points of weapon damage for all I know, but I do know that the elemental damage counts for quite a bit.

    It's not a flat number, from what i see. It's a multiplier. It adds damage when the element helps, nothing when it doesn't, and divides when you're fighting something that it is weak to.

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  • AiranAiran Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I just encountered the motherfucking Colossus. It's a goddamn Iron Man :lol:

    It also has 1,000,000 HP or something, fuck that :x

    I'm stuck at the 11th boss
    Efreet

    My attacks do nothing. What's going on?

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Airan wrote: »
    I'm stuck at the 11th boss
    Efreet

    My attacks do nothing. What's going on?

    He sucks if you haven't been grinding the shit out of things. Best recommendation is use as many aquamarines as you have and pimp out a sword to the maximum level you can afford and slap the +1 waters on it. And if you have some spare rubies trick out a suit of armor with fire protection.

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  • NerdtendoNerdtendo Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Airan wrote: »
    I'm stuck at the 11th boss
    Efreet

    My attacks do nothing. What's going on?

    He sucks if you haven't been grinding the shit out of things. Best recommendation is use as many aquamarines as you have and pimp out a sword to the maximum level you can afford and slap the +1 waters on it. And if you have some spare rubies trick out a suit of armor with fire protection.

    I'm not sure if you didn't know, or if your post was just misleading.

    Efreet takes zero damage from your weapon unless it has aquamarines on it. You'll be fighting him quite a bit later to get rubies. A weapon with around 250 aquamarines is enough to one shot him.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Airan wrote: »
    I just encountered the motherfucking Colossus. It's a goddamn Iron Man :lol:

    It also has 1,000,000 HP or something, fuck that :x

    I'm stuck at the 11th boss
    Efreet

    My attacks do nothing. What's going on?

    Is your katana still fire? Pump it up like crazy, and pump up your magic and strength until you can farm Poseidon (earlier water boss). He's weak to fire, and it shouldn't take much to get him down to a science. He drops a lot of water enchanted gems. You have to buy a new sword (or enchant your dagger if it has nothing else on it) and fill it full of the water gems you get from Poseidon. Then you'll be able to beat Efreet eventually.

    You do the same thing with other bosses. Later you'll want to farm Efreet for fire gems to help kill the snow queen.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Digito wrote: »
    I wonder what Luck does...

    Better money drops? More jewels? More rare monsters?

    I know that it makes tree monsters drop a fuckton of apples, so I'd assume it affects all drops. I think it makes rare monsters more common too.

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  • SuMa.LustreSuMa.Lustre Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Should I even change swords? Can I just upgrade my katana all the way?

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  • NerdtendoNerdtendo Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Should I even change swords? Can I just upgrade my katana all the way?

    You'll need more than one sword. Your katana will end up being worthless against some enemies.

    At minimum, if you intend to fill out the library, you're going to need three swords. Your primary weapon will be your sword with diamonds in it. Since none of the regular enemies are strong against holy, and several are weak against it, you'll use this weapon for grinding.

    Your ruby sword (katana most likely) will probably end up being your second strongest for quite a while, so you'll want to throw emeralds and onyxes in it. It will save you some time later when you're making a weapon to get the hyper armor, and take down the avatar. Once you can grind fairly well with your diamond sword, throw all the money you earn into the katana, and start grinding away for emeralds. Hyper armor is tedious as hell to get, and everything you can put into your katana will help deal with the tedium. The onyxes will be helpful when facing the avatar.

    The final weapon will have whatever the earth stone is, and aquamarines. This weapon was probably being used for taking down efreet. You won't really need to pump this one up that much unless you want to fill out the library.

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  • AiranAiran Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Ok what the hell is up with Necromancer's bullshit push beam attack thing. I cannot evade it at all! Must I finally buy the "No Escape" medallion? Can I disable the effects whenever I want? :(

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Airan wrote: »
    Ok what the hell is up with Necromancer's bullshit push beam attack thing. I cannot evade it at all! Must I finally buy the "No Escape" medallion? Can I disable the effects whenever I want? :(

    Yeah get it it's awesome, you can turn it off in the inn in the first square

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  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    FUCK YOU GARGOYLES

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  • AiranAiran Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Nin-nin's pretty cool yo'

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  • NerdtendoNerdtendo Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    This game needs some sort of sequel. It's too awesome.

    I just hope they'd add in a *#### function for buying shit.

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  • Home Run KingHome Run King Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I keep thinking "I'll just play this for like five minutes" and end up coming back to my senses an hour and a half later, clickin' away to farm money and gems and such.

    I'm at Yggdrasil, the Map 12 boss now. I keep getting killed by its vertical lightning attack.

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  • GraviijaGraviija Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I got up to map 15 with only a water tinted katana. I am currently stuck at the multi-demon fight.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Lemming wrote: »
    Airan wrote: »
    Ok what the hell is up with Necromancer's bullshit push beam attack thing. I cannot evade it at all! Must I finally buy the "No Escape" medallion? Can I disable the effects whenever I want? :(

    Yeah get it it's awesome, you can turn it off in the inn in the first square

    Yeah, you essentially have to have it for him. Unless I've got a weird bug, it makes his dark attack do nothing, no pushback or damage.




    Ok guys, I found a program that will save your clicking finger and prevent carpal tunnel.

    1) Download and install this free program: http://www.autohotkey.com/ Use all the default settings.
    2) Open AutoHotkey. Say yes to the sample script. It will open up.
    3) There is a line that says:
    #z::Run www.autohotkey.com
    

    Change it to:
    #z::Click
    

    4) Save changes and close the file. Open AutoHotkey again.

    Now every time you press the Windows key + Z, it will click wherever the cursor is. Hold it down to click continuously. Perfect for fighting and buying upgrades once you're rich.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Argh, Death is a little bitch and I hate him. It's just like Yggdrasil in that his defense is absurd, except that he just seems to randomly decide when I can and can't hurt him. Grinding Diamonds for him is annoying too, but at least the Ice Queen is giving me a lot of money.

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  • MonstyMonsty Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Now every time you press the Windows key + Z, it will click wherever the cursor is. Hold it down to click continuously. Perfect for fighting and buying upgrades once you're rich.
    Just a heads up, but you used to be able to tab to an upgrade that you wanted and hold enter to level quickly. I would assume the functionality is still there. At least, I'm pretty sure that's how it was accomplished.

    But I do need to set that up. I used to use that proggy in WOW so I could use my two side mouse buttons as shift and control. Pretty solid little utility.

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  • DigitoDigito Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yeah I've been doing well up untill Death, who I simply can't seem to take down yet. But the snow Queen is pretty durable too, so grinding up Diamonds to get my Katana light'd out (for some reason I'm using my katana as my light sword, Claymore as Fire, Dagger as Water) is proving to be a bit of a pain.

    Suppose this is as good a time as any to trick out the Claymore with a ton MORE fire...

    Any real point in tricking out an Earth or Wind weapon too? I have an Earth Zweihander and a Wind Scimitar, both very poorly upgraded, but they're there nonetheless.

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  • BeenieWeenieBeenieWeenie So Delicious So NutritiousRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I think the only three you really need are fire, water, and light.

    Though there's nothing holding you back from having one of each, you know, just cuz.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I think the only three you really need are fire, water, and light.

    Though there's nothing holding you back from having one of each, you know, just cuz.

    You'll eventually want dark as well.

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  • BeenieWeenieBeenieWeenie So Delicious So NutritiousRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I didn't know that.

    But since, you know, I can't stop playing the damn thing again now, I'll keep that in mind.

    Grinding on level 14 right now. Can't stop

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  • MonstyMonsty Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Well that was fun but wasteful. I whipped up an autohotkey script so I could control my guy with the keyboard and it was somehow more awkward.

    I suppose with some tweaks and trickery it could be made okay but it would be less intuitive(like when you enter a battle on the right of the screen but you start on the left so you need the mouse to warp over there quick, you'd need a special button for that). Meh.

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  • BeenieWeenieBeenieWeenie So Delicious So NutritiousRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    What I REALLY LOVE is when I'm gettting my ass whipped, and as soon as I die the goddamn cat thinks it's time to start healing me.

    Good timing, good timing.

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Does the boss of area 16 have any weaknesses or do I just need to pump up enough to kill him faster than he kills me?

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  • BorysBorys Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Heh I remember playing that game over a year ago. I grinded for hours and was able to kill The Avatar in 6 seconds. I took longer to collect all that shit he dropped than to kill him. I even got to him in the second quest (HARD MODE) but I was to weak to even hurt him... damn fine game, though. Better crack than Diablo 2.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The sandworm is an asshole.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I've run into both a Colossus and an Ambrosia. How the HELL are you supposed to kill those?

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The solution to all of your problems is to grind more

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  • DkarrdeDkarrde Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Basically, there's 1-4 variants of every monster type -- usually 4, but some have less. In most cases they're simply tougher than the last kind, though they can have extra abilities sometimes. The fourth tier includes monsters like the Colossus and Ambrosia, and they just have so many goddamn hitpoints it may seem like they're invulnerable.

    The benefit is each variant drops an order of magnitude more money than the last.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I just spent 30 minutes fighting an Ambrosia.

    I won.

    It gave me like 11 million. Holy crap.

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  • MonkeyDLuffyMonkeyDLuffy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm sure I'm missing something stupidly obvious, but how do you fight the enemies in the stage right after the Lizard Assassin boss? I enchanted one of my swords with light/diamonds, but when I hit them my sword doesn't do anything. Magic does hurt them, but my Cross Napalm takes like 2 or 3 minutes to kill a single enemy. What do I do?

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  • BlitzAce1981BlitzAce1981 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I just spent 30 minutes fighting an Ambrosia.

    I won.

    It gave me like 11 million. Holy crap.

    Just wait till you stumble across an Ettin in area 14, and suddenly find you've gained 80 million + 2 gems.

    Now I just need to figure out how to kill the False God faster, since even with ~200 Strength, it's barely denting his health.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm sure I'm missing something stupidly obvious, but how do you fight the enemies in the stage right after the Lizard Assassin boss? I enchanted one of my swords with light/diamonds, but when I hit them my sword doesn't do anything. Magic does hurt them, but my Cross Napalm takes like 2 or 3 minutes to kill a single enemy. What do I do?

    Upgrade your intelligence.

    Oh, and the spinny energy is pretty good.

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  • XtarathXtarath Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I think I love this...

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I just spent 30 minutes fighting an Ambrosia.

    I won.

    It gave me like 11 million. Holy crap.

    Ptolemeaus is my current record on drops. With around 50 Luck that ugly ass mummy dropped 102 million plus 3 Onyxs.

    Took me about 25 minutes to kill, but it was worth it.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I just spent 30 minutes fighting an Ambrosia.

    I won.

    It gave me like 11 million. Holy crap.

    Ptolemeaus is my current record on drops. With around 50 Luck that ugly ass mummy dropped 102 million plus 3 Onyxs.

    Took me about 25 minutes to kill, but it was worth it.

    I think my best was Geldra, the rarest orc. If I remember right I got like 200 million, and the fight wasn't even very long.

    Of course my real best is the Avatar, who drops 12-13 billion and a ton of gems and stat apples.

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  • SuMa.LustreSuMa.Lustre Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    peewi I hate you so much

    EDIT: What beats Yggdrasil? Like what element?

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