Recent posts by Sh33p on Kongregate

Topic: The Grinns Tale / rubies, how the hell do you get them?

Pick pocket can also meant that you will gather 2x the same item. So it’s not going to double your chances. Still it is MUCH better to have it selected than not. Once you level up, rubies are not that hard to get, but diamonds are a pain. Worse still is that damn blue crystal! I’ve only ever gotten one no matter how many replays and am about to give up on the game for that reason!

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Two peaks

Haha got him on first go, but after reading your comment CerotechOmega, I played on through room three where Pokey Potsie also was…. So I killed him too. Came back to the main screen only to be given the quest to kill Pokey Potsie…. Who seems to have disappeared :\

Topic: The Grinns Tale / where is the gosh darn balloon?

Usually top left corner of the screen. Use the minimize (-) button found in the settings (bottom right of the screen) if you are still having trouble seeing it.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Librarium Artifact?

Pretty much what people have already said, the game doesn’t explain this, but often you have to redo levels in order to get “all” of the promised rewards. I redid level 36 (I think it was 36) heaps and heaps of times and collected all of my missing artifacts… Except for level 4 armour shop which is buried under the monument or some other impossible to find location.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / This game is dying

I have to admit, that I still log in every day, but the thought of having to GD run or farm diamonds the other way I posted or whatever is actually just not doing it for me. I seem to upgrade whatever I can afford to in the village, build potions, plant wheat and then go do some other internet thingies. I realised I have been doing this for a while as I have about 150 revive potions, 100 extreme potions and about 60 wheat. Not sure exactly what I am waiting for. Even when I was playing backyard monsters I didn’t mind farming Kozu or attacking some random player for the fun of it. I just really don’t want to go explore anymore.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Diamond Farming: the Sh33p method

That’s a good point. I’m a little afraid of GD however due to the numerous experiences I’ve had with “oh no, it looks like you have a problem… Refresh.” I think that if the game were more reliably stable I’d try this more often. I can’t begin to recount the amount of lost items in GD!!!!

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Diamond Farming: the Sh33p method

That being said, farming is a pretty boring task, so mix it up to your most comfortable skills etc! Whatever is the least tedious for you. The main reason I chose beserkers and wizard is there is only one drag at the beginning to fight. If they had the “pickpocket” and “go to next room and kick butt automatically without wasting my time asking me” skill, I would just use them and nothing else!

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Diamond Farming: the Sh33p method

This may or may not be the fastest/best way, but I seem to gain a few diamonds each time I try. It is most certainly superior to just heading into GD and hoping for the best. I have gone past level 30 several times without a single diamond in GD, that’s a LOT of time spent. So assuming that you have quite levelled heroes, try out this way…

Re-visit floor 37 (he is a good boss with diamond drops that is easy to kill)

ROOMS 1-3
STRATEGY: simple, drag attack wizard to any enemy…. WIN

Wizard (in back)
- Inferno
- Magic up
- Life Steal

Bezerker x2 (strongest/fastest in front)
- Hunger strike
- Ricochet

ROOM 4 (boss)
STRATEGY: Haste cleric a couple of times, haste adventurer, haste tank. Attack same enemy with tank and adventurer, make sure adventurer gets last hit on boss

Haste Cleric (in back)
- Haste
- Regen
- Magic up

Adventurer x2 (strongest in front)
- Pickpocket
- First Attack
- Life steal if 2x adventurer, Ricochet if knight in front

alt instead of second adventurer)
Tank/Knight (in front)
- Sacrifice
- Life Steal
- Ricochet

Added tips:

1) For slower machines (like mine) don’t put your spare XP hogs in the back row, it only slows down your processing. This is for diamond farming, not levelling your characters. Just use the 3 attackers per room.

2) Keep your bezerkers hungry, they do more damage. Just give them snacks as need be!

3) On the boss level, be sure to skip animations by clicking on heroes… Not necessary for first rooms, although you can skip bezerker animations by feeding them when their timer is full.

NB: I tried to use only adventurer against boss using Turkey as weapon for fancy flurry, it’s still faster to use knight and adventurer to attack as turkey dmg is terrible.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / disconnection issue

Originally posted by NittanyAgent:

I have the same issue… I wish Kongregate would address this.

It is not an issue for Kong. It is the game itself and the servers that are being used. The devs need to deal with this issue unfortunately.

Topic: Kongregate / Vote for the Best of 2012 Quest!

BUGGER!!! I started a thread asking when this was going to happen. Now it has all gone and passed and I didn’t get to vote. Kong should really announce this in that newsletter that they email, or some other place that attracts attention.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Ideas/Suggestions

Originally posted by LordofoDrol:

Sh33p,
I very much keep an eye on this forum. However, I am less likely to respond on this forum since it is generally active when I am not around like weekends and at night.
That being said, there are some great suggestions here and in other threads. I strongly urge that you guys also post to the Official Grinn Forums (http://thegrinnstale.com/forum/index.php). I am just one guy in a team of many. The more places you post, the more likely a suggestion will be seen by more people. Plus, I can’t look at every post on every forum so, again, the more places you post and all that.
Keep them suggestions coming!

Thanks for the reply LordofoDrol

I kinda figured it was something like that. It’s good just to see the occasional post like this one that lets us know that you are in fact there. I think that most of the Kong users prefer to post in the Kong forums than have to trek to other sites, so you may not see many over there. That being said, I’m sure there will be many using both :)

Topic: The Grinns Tale / GD Items Farming

I was under the impression that the rogue set was only available in GD. Same with the other 2 sets. There might be some info on the wiki, but there is a lot of that that doesn’t apply to the Kong version, only the FB version, so you can only depend on it so much.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Ideas/Suggestions

Originally posted by Fellnix999:

Hey why don’t you stop making jokes about me sh33p!?

Why not tell me to write better and to space the words out or whatever instead of telling me that I talk to much.

Sorry mate, wasn’t meant to be a personal attack or anything. I think it sounded more diplomatic from my end than it actually came out. I just saw this animation recently and guess I have been itching to share it as it gave me a good laugh. If anything it represents ME in real life! :D

As I said in that same post however, I think it’s good that you make suggestions, and I agree with some of them. You should just be aware that the way you presented them is what we generally call “spamming the forum.” Keep your suggestions to one post at a time, think them through and make them brief and clear. Multi posting can often get your posts deleted by mods.

…And no, I get the feeling that the devs don’t read this page at all. I think that most of the feedback that they concern themselves with is either in the comments below the game, or else on the facebook forums.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Adventurer Pickpocket

It works 80% of the time I think. I have had moments where the only attacker on the field was my pickpocket adventurer being hasted by the cleric, and still only 1 item drops. I think there is a bug too. I just keep forgetting to screenshot when it happens so I can report to devs.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Need some help

Originally posted by mbone:

Too bad you get mired in this grinding so badly.

That’s the real issue with these facebook games that come to kong. We are used to games that are designed for gameplay, and these are designed as business models. I have to say that Grinn’s tale is one of the best that I have played in terms of gaming enjoyment, but it does still run on the same principals of getting you addicted, forcing you to wait, and annoying you into paying money to not wait. Where other games allow you to do things better, stronger and faster the longer you play (either through upgrades or practiced skill) these games make you do basically the same thing, but over a longer period of time. It strange that it works so well!

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Ideas/Suggestions

Mate, good on you for making suggestions and I agree with some of them, but please do try to take the occasional breath so that we can understand you better…

EDIT: BTW not trying to offend you, just jks with the pic. All in good fun :D

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Need some help

Originally posted by mbone:

Is this really the way the game is designed? To keep you from progressing for over a month at a time?

Pretty much!
As 4Tropos said, you just have to spend time upgrading your party and then what used to be incredibly hard is suddenly incredibly easy. The only real challenges then lie in when you have completely upgraded your heroes and you need to beat a harder floor to get the next artifact. But it is always doable. Did someone say “revive potion….???”

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Fight problem

Happens to me with Chrome. It is an issue with the game, not the browser

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Grinfinite Items

That sounds like waaaaaaaaay too much GD grinding than I have the patience for. I’m not sure what it’s like for others, but I lag like anything and a GD run is anything but quick. It took me about an hour to get to level 41. This game is fun, but I can’t dedicate that kind of time to it!

EDIT: Only a couple of days after writing this thread I now have a full set of Rogue gear where 2/3 items are refined. It was as it the game read my posts…

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Grinfinite Items

Ah thanks for that. Looks like the sets are weaker than the tier 6 sets. Also apparently don’t need to climb too high to find them, although there is no guide on Zweihander level.

Rouge Set items rare 13-22
Sardaukar Set items very rare 21
Zweihander Set items very rare ???

I’ve never seen the pramin purchasable suits before though. They look good (if you can afford them!).

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Grinfinite Items

I read somewhere that there are super special items that you can acquire in the Grinny dungeon. Doesn anyone know what floor they are one? I just went up to floor 41 thinking that I would get one around 30 or so. I have noticed in the high scores that people seem to stop between 50-60, then again at 80ish and some smart alecs at 150+

Are the items worth the journey? I got really bored after after about level 30 and after 41 just had to quit. I wish there was some variety in that dungeon, or at least a way to get through it quicker (no animations, no variety of backgrounds, no drag system, etc – just waves upon waves of enemies).

Topic: Kongregate / Best of 2012 quest

Ok, I’ll be good :D

Thanks for the replies

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Beating the drag system

My mouse moves fast enough, it’s the computer that doesn’t :) You have to hover the cursor for a second for it to target the Grinn/enemy. If you let go too fast, you get no selection or it imagines that you selected some blank space. The old girl is about 6 years old now, so doesn’t handle these complex flash environments too well.

I have now beaten those bosses using the method vpiemon2 suggested, although due to the stupid draggy system all of my heroes flattened out with 2 hits left to go. I spent the 19 pramin to revive simply out of apathy. Looks like I’ll be saving even longer for that fuzzlehorn! Mind you, I’m now at the stage in the game where the fuzzlehorn probably won’t give me any advantage other than clearing out my junk. Maybe powered mills are money better spent?

Topic: Kongregate / Best of 2012 quest

I remember about this time last year we all were able to add our favourite games to be considered for the best of 2011 quest. I can’t seem to find a similar thread using the infamous Kong search engine. Does one exist? If not, can we start one here?

I’d like to add

“The Grinn’s Tale”

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestion - Adult Games

It’s an interesting topic. The game Leisuresuit Larry comes to mind that was an extremely popular adult game of the 90s that had several sequels to it. I believe it fared well due to the the popular Sierra adventure game model and twisted humour. I’d also wager that 90% of the people who played/bought it were under 18yrs old. It was a naughty game of it’s time and commonly shared on floppy disks in school grounds.

Nowadays we have soooooooo many sites that tailor to different crowds and taste. Now that I am an adult, the idea of adult games, especially sexually based ones, are very unappealing to me and I think don’t belong here on kong. The other sites are created for a reason and I think that if you want that kind of thing, then you should move your gaming to them.

I think that others hit the nail on the head with two points:

“It would lower the integrity of Kongregate” and also the unlikely hood that “the point of adult games is quality.”

As there are already places for that stuff, I think that Kong should keep it’s current model of promoting quality gaming. There don’t appear to be many rules to what you can/can’t make, but it has to be universally enjoyable. 18+ does not expand the community (inclusiveness) as the OP suggest, but instead creates a select community within a community which is exclusiveness. I am not one to agree with this suggestion sorry.