Okay, so after playing even through new game+ I encountered some issues with the game. First of all the game is a lot of fun and a neat short game, but the entire smith is pretty pointless because there is no point in ever wasting gold for anything that is not the best upgrade. A simple solution would be to just make each sword/character an upgrade of the previous one. E.g. best sword costs 750 gold and just make the first one 75, second one 150, third 225 and the last one 300 which also totals 750, but you can split the price into smaller increments and upgrade your sword every time and do the same for the characters. I also feel like money gain and attack are just straight up better than spear cooldown or health. And new game + is actually much quicker to complete than the normal game as you have much more money sources and can upgrade stuff much quicker.
yeah still, there literally is no repeatability for normal and hardmode besides the fact that you are forced to do it - I got like 18 coins for hardmode and didnt use a single power. it is not challenging and even if I min-max I might only get slightly more than 20 coins. still still forces me to do hardmode roughly 5-6 times to unlock everything yet it yields no real challenge because I cannot do better than not using a single power up and the rest comes down to a bit of min-maxing and rng. I dont see the point why unlimited mode should not give coins - at least make it like 1 coin for each 10-20 matches
why do I have to farm 'normal' or 'hard' mode (which are way to easy, maybe rename them to easy/intro and normal mode) to get coins and not infinite mode, which is the only mode that actually is challenging as it at least requires endurance
The amount of coins you get on normal and hard mode depends on how many stars you have left at the end of each run. If you want to unlock pastries quickly, finishing runs is not enough. You need to finish efficiently. The better you are at the game the less grinding you will be doing.
so for everyone that does NOT do active clicking, the best way to spend your skillpoints is CRIT and CRITDMG as archers do the most damage and it has the best scaling. for max damage do CRIT = CRITDMG+15 (so crit should always be 15 level above critdmg). it is NOT worth the skill anything else until you reach level 200 (because crit is at 100% and the basedamage eventually can be used to push critdamage).
1.0.7) nice QoL update and nice effort to update the game/adress issues so quickyl but the issue of the game was that it was too slow to progress later on, with the increase in XP/level it becomes even slower and the RP/time compared to RP/skill needed is just waaaay off. I did not encounter a slinge boss monster after playing like 1-2 hours, so something certainly is wrong here. some skills/magic are actually bad to skill more than once, because the value per SP/MP goes down. there also is no actual reason to not reset because the RP/time is just way better for resets compared to retries
post 1.0.6) - I would love to have an auto-/recast option for skills so they instantly refresh once they run out. right now it is just too stressful to perma click skills/magic. I feel like passive should apply separately so you always start at 1 statpoint which means upgrading is a bit faster - but generally progress is too slow due to the slow scaling with increasing costs. there also is very low incentive to not reset for RP - retry with level will only slightly increase your RP gain for the next death and will yield much less RP/time then full reset (so make idle mode do full resets instead of retries)
I really like this game, but there is so much to do for an idle game that you can not really idle much. I do not like the stats system at all, I would prefer automated X stats to everything rather than manually clicking, because that actually is one of the factors why you can not idle - also automated respawn would be nice. progress is super slow due to the increase cost of upgrades and the low impact upgrades have. some upgrades are super bad (crit power/reflect/SP, MP regen) and some are overpowered (thick skin/mana shield). reflect is useless because high defense is the best way to mitigate damage and reflect is calculated from damage taken - so high defense or dodge will make reflect useless, it should be reflected damage calculated before damage mitigation. spells like bless and mana shield are auras (which I like) but their tooltip says for X amout of times while they are infinitely long. INT and LUCK are way worse then the other stats
Thank you for the nice feedback!
I'm actually working on some automation right now and I already got "Auto Revive" working on my side.
The game can definitely make use of some balancing and that's one of my top priorities after I tackle the bugs and inconveniences and make it more of an idle game with less baby sitting.
really nice game, but sadly it wont save for me (firefox). controls feel a bit weird for range attacks. I would prefer to have an option to shoot to a specific tile and not having to click each opponent separatley (like in diablo where you could just shoots projectiles in a certain direction)
same problem with firefox 60.0.1 - game just wont load after kongregate logo shows up. console reads a couple of 'unreachable code after return statement'
Pretty sad that the majority of this awesome game is filled with afk killing the boss that gives you the highest xp/min without you doing anything.
I would like to see which items are equiped in the armory tab, stat tab should show DPS as this literally is the only relevant stat and not base damage. I would like to see what happens at level 35 but I highly doubt I will have enough motivation to literally farm 15 levels where the best start is to literally not play the game at all and only click to start combat
after finishing almost every level I suddenly cant go on the first pages of the challenge levels (1-30) - there simply is no arrow back, I can forward to empty pages but can not ge below level 31. also some levels require guessing, most of them occure in the last 2 choices tho, but I can also recall at least one level where I had to guess with ~10 unchecked fields. for challenge level - relaxing (iirc) levels 21-30 do not load at all and for challenge level medium 47 there seems to be a problem in the lower right corner as one of the 4s will check 5 no matter what
if you struggle just start with 'forced' pieces (e.g. multiple straight pieces in a row/angled pieces with only 1 adjacent one) of start and finish - after that try to go from end to start, eventually you will find either the right one or a setup that will loop or stuck so you know you need to change some of the angled pieces
Short tutorial: hovering over a monster shows how much HP you will have after the fight (sometimes the window is blank = you take no damage), SYMBOLS: red = monster attacks no matter what, yellow = turns red next turn, white = turns yellow next turn, blue = give another monster a huge attack boost, purple = not exactly sure
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The amount of coins you get on normal and hard mode depends on how many stars you have left at the end of each run. If you want to unlock pastries quickly, finishing runs is not enough. You need to finish efficiently. The better you are at the game the less grinding you will be doing.