lol ok so I just asked for help and then I beat level 45 right after. I used a few speedups together with shields, resurrection and lots and lots of rage spells.
Any tips to beat level 45? I've been stuck there for several days and all the grinding hasn't really helped much. I also can't beat the last two quests (one where the bad guys blow up and the one where the bad guys have pierce + pierce resistance).
best way to beat the demon guardians is to play through with only upgrading your archer, not your warrior or cleric. The guardian's stats are based on your guys' stats, so if you don't upgrade those two he will be weak and easy to beat.
@VSTGames, are you going to comment on the many many many comments on the game balancing? If you think the balancing is correct as is, please tell us. If you think it needs work, please tell us. Thanks.
@Wormeh, I don't think bosses scale. I just don't think it's worth wasting resources on upgrades for the cleric or warrior since they're completely useless anyway. If you have 30k dark souls I think you should be able to beat 35 boss easily. Question: have you unlocked the various archer special powers from the demon guardians? Those are huge strength multipliers.
Wormeh, I got to cave 45 with 8,000 dark mana, so it's definitely possible. Just load up your archer and don't boost the other two at all. When you fight the boss use a couple of rage spells and the rest protections. Some luck required.
Demon guardian on cave 41: 508 attack, 0 armor, about 9 million HP. Cause I only leveled my archer and not my warrior or cleric. The monster scaling logic in this game needs a rework.
Auto-scaling in a game like this is really offensive. It's already soooo grindy without that. I keep coming back to this game because it has potential, but man there are a lot of poor dev decisions holding it back.
After about level 30 the maps get slightly larger, so that a small piece (half of one square) is hanging off the side and the frame skips as you move from left to right. Is that really necessary? Also level 36 there are gargoyles with about half a million HP. Beatable using archer pierce, but man it would be nice if the scaling was a bit more reasonable here.
Leaving your warrior unleveled is actually not that big of a deal since he's completely useless as a tank. On most fights you're just relying on the protect spell + archer damage anyway.
All of the demon guardians get stronger based on how much you have upgraded your warrior. So the trick to beating them is to never level up your warrior's HP or armor. Then your archer and cleric can easily tank them for automatic wins.
@dontbeajerk, yes the global spells persist through dark ritual resets. The exception is speed up. That gives a one time 8 hour boost and subsequent castings are more expensive. So you need to really think about when to use that one. The others you just cast as soon as available.
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