Won after 120+ deaths! My opinion = play necro. Do all side dungeons for max loot. Use consumables ONLY to avoid death. Upgrade energy/focus till max energy=21, then ALL dex (for evade+stealth). Don't underestimate evade. Prioritize evade rings, else toxic. Poison staff is the way to go, while your skeles fight, juggle DoT on multiple enemies = max damage. Ignore all other weapons. Ignore fire/cold/shock/melee/ranged power. Energy regen's HIGH priority. NEVER get infectious disease or find out the hard way. Up some forti to survive bursts n life spike to heal. 12 forti's good by F16. Diagnl click uses 1 turn, but arrow keys take 2. Religions don't do much. Only enchance poison staff. With skeles, keep 3 energy buffer to emergency life spike. Don't chase snipers, hide n they come to you. Upon F16, ideally, toxic mastery=3, summon skele=3, life spike=2+. Buy energy potions+hell fire scroll+knife-summoning+confusion wands for F16! Restart if no good loot by F3. Full-offensive builds suck.
(1) Auto-explore should collect yellow/red/blue fountain (2) starting weapon should be in quick-slot (3) auto-explore should never use single-use weapons to destroy crates; melee punch should be used instead (4) when auto-exploring, I find myself spamming E so often because auto-explore keeps stopping even though there are no nearby hostiles, and this is because auto-explore keeps stopping on some other events e.g. gold collected, item collected, door spotted, etc. There should be an option to avoid such meaningless stoppage during auto-explore
Here's how to beat the 2nd boss. Wait for and buy a legendary (or mythic) mage with a defensive core from shop monsters singles and give it a Psychic Shield, Steely, Holy Spirit, and other good defensive traits. Then get 4 elves and give them Tribalism or Team Player. Leveling them is very important. I don't know but maybe it's possible to use auto clicker overnight to farm gold. But anyway, over time level your elves to 50 and your legendary to 30. The boss should die in less than 5 seconds as damage stacks multiplicatively. If you have problems, just save up and use 6 consumables. And when it dies, you can see that you did not get the medium badge even though the badge's icon is the icon of the 2nd boss, the name of the badge is "Beware False Eye-dols Badge" hints at the one-eyedness of the 2nd boss, and the badge's description is "Defeat the second boss". You wallow in immense pain realizing that the area number in the badge is wrong and you now must clear another 16 areas.
Most important features that this game is lacking:
1) Ability to auto-collect captured monsters during AFK gameplay.
2) Ability to auto-restart a run when a run fails.
How to stop a boss fight? A few seconds after I enter the boss stage I realize I'm unable to kill the boss. But then I can't find a quit button and must wait for the timer to timeout?
Only after playing for hours did I realize why I was getting money from clicking a rock... the game's name is Midas and it was about turning what he touches into gold just like the myth!
Kongregate's star limit is not high enough because this game deserves more than 6 stars. Anyway, I have finally reached spirit forge and I must say that there are no fields remotely close to V7 in terms of difficulty. V7 is truly painful and everything else is just a breeze compared to it. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a hard or impossible achievement for V7...
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