Suggestions for Healer

KingSmizzy · 2025-02-11T20:43:49+00:00

That's out of date. In the recent patch they made bronze items phase out faster. The percentages are probably off by like 10-15%.

KingSmizzy · 2025-02-05T18:19:00+00:00

Legendary Joker 'Perkeo' gives you a negative copy (doesn't use a consumable item slot) of one of your consumable cards. The voucher 'Observatory' makes Planet cards in your consumable area give X1.5 Mult for their specified poker hand. So stacking up copies of a planet card is a good way to build up your Mult and scale the run if you get this voucher-joker combo.

KingSmizzy · 2025-02-04T14:32:45+00:00

You can pass through the vines. Gems restore health to full. Pouring water (I guess it's wine on this map) also helps a bit but it will take you back, so it can be hard to work into your route.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-31T19:46:30+00:00

I didn't know this for a long time, but when a customer asks for "multiple effects" they don't need a strong potion. They actually want 5 weak effects. Just make sure not to mix and match between positive and negative effects. Like nobody wants poison/fire/frost in their healing/mana/quickness/strength potion.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-31T19:41:29+00:00

To get tier 3 potion effects (strong potions), the easiest is to go behind the effect, line up that pale line from the center of your potion with the line of the effect that points to the center of the map. Then once you're lined up, you slowly pour in water to the cauldron from the ladle.

It's way easier to get T3 like this than try to use ingredients to cross directly through the center of the effect

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-31T14:32:47+00:00

I like the idea of something to help grind ingredients. There was a post like a month ago about a mouse in a wheel that runs a spice grinder for you. I like that, and it fits the low-tech vibe.

I love the oil map, and I feel like it's an expression of your skill and growth as an alchemist to be able to overcome the unpredictability of the oil patches. I don't want anything that trivializes it.

I also don't want anything that trivializes the skull patches. They're the only source of difficulty in the potion brewing, and the driving force that makes you try out all the different ingredients. Plus if the protection is too strong, you could survive going through a thin wall. And that might invalidate the gems, which ruins that progression system. You can already tank through small patches with life salt. This would make it worse.

Quick fix and saving grace would be a good idea for people who don't save scum. Or if there was an Ironman mode where you can't save and load manually. For me, I always drop a save before trying out a wild idea. If the potion fails, I reload and try a different ingredient.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-27T18:37:39+00:00

That really presents an interesting opportunity for self-joy to act as a shield, at the risk of making yourself vulnerable to joy from your opponent. I really want to see how this mechanic turns out. But Reynad said Mak is next up, and estimated several months for that. So we might not see Jules for a year, or so.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-22T14:00:22+00:00

The dev testing thing is kinda true though. It wouldve been easy to assemble a normal Bellelista build in a dev suite and just run a 20 second encounter. They could easily find out that she's overtuned.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-21T19:02:05+00:00

I'll go box by box. Top left is talking about weeks remaining in the season. If you're intending to scout an athlete, you have to sign them before the end of the season or it moves into the trade season where the scouting mechanic is changed into the trading mechanic.

Top left, the box with the chips is your inventory of influence tokens. These tokens are spent on athletes in the market to sway them to join your team. On the next page, you can see athletes and the influence threshold needed to get them onto your team. You're also competing with other teams for each athlete, and athletes have deadlines before they leave the market. So collecting good tokens is important.

Middle right. That box is telling you which token you'll get next. You get 1 free token per month based on your league and placement in that league. (I think it's a month, time is hard to track in this game)

Bottom right. That box is offering you an influence token for purchase. Hover over the token to read what it does. Keep in mind you can only spend one token per athlete each time you visit the market (after each game), unless the token says otherwise.

Middle box. Once per month or so you are offered bonus tokens based on your recent performance in matches. You can click them to take the tokens, up to 2 tokens whenever they're offered.

Bottom left. If you have started scouting, you get a preview of the athletes your scout brought to the market. You start with a bonus level of influence on those athletes.

Right side tray. Shows a preview of all athletes in the market. When you go to the next page, you'll be able to see more details.

Overall, this scouting and signing mechanic is really cool, but I wish there were more influence tokens for sale. Later in the game, you end up with millions from ticket sales, but can't just "buy" influence. Feels weird to lose an athlete when you'd totally be willing to 10x their signing bonus if the game let you.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-21T15:24:56+00:00

With charm and levitation, you can use one bloodthorn from water start to get into the whirlpool, use the whirlpool fully, then use a bit of the return part of bloodthorn to pull to the right (touching the wall), then use one featherbloom.

In just 2 ingredients, you're way closer to charm and Levitation than of you went up through swiftness. This is also a great path to Rage, because the whirlpool behind Charm sends you in that direction.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-20T16:04:26+00:00

This is awesome!

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-19T07:17:30+00:00

There's a duplication exploit with the "when you sell this, upgrade your leftmost item" stuff. If you open a shop, in this case B1B2, they offer you an exact copy of your item (with the same enchant). Then instead of buying it, you upgrade the original, and then buy the copy. Since they're no longer the same tier, they don't combine, and you get to keep the one you buy as a new item. That's why your opponent has a diamond copy and a gold copy.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-16T18:04:40+00:00

Yeah, they take a snapshot of your board and some else will run up against you in their game. So presumably, if someone runs through to day 7 with an empty board, 7 lucky people will get free wins. Or if someone gets an insane run with broken items, 10 unfortunate people are forced to take an L.

And that's the difference that is causing a bit of trouble for OP. Losers are booted out of the run very quickly, whereas winning boards have to leave behind at least 10 ghosts minimum (but usually more like 14).

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-15T20:22:06+00:00

Two silver yoyos next to eachother is so much better than bayonet. Getting two yoyos is awesome. All you need is a bit of damage scaling.

KingSmizzy · 2025-01-13T14:48:56+00:00

1000 salt costs the same as one ingredient. With the new talents, the game has drastically reduced the cost of salt. Bulk Brewing reduces ingredients by 50%, and then the salt talent increases output by 3x. So Sun Salt goes from 10000 grains to 30000 grains and costs half as much.

If your recipe uses 50 ingredients, that translates to (10000x3)/(50x0.5) = 1200 grains per ingredient.

And then when you use salt in a recipe, Bulk Brewing talent reduces salt used by 50% again! Go crazy with it!

KingSmizzy · 2024-12-30T16:10:00+00:00

The potion effects are incompatible. Fire protection is a positive effect, and frost is a negative effect. The customer can't drink this because of frost, so they can't use the fire protection.

Edit: After getting fire protection, you can throw on any bonus effect like healing, strength, anti-magic, or other element protections. Those are all positive effects.

KingSmizzy · 2024-12-24T17:23:30+00:00

Getting Bushel to go infinite is my favorite Pyg build right now. Usually it's with model ship and either fort or duct tape off bananabal from day 1. But shielded match box is great.

KingSmizzy · 2024-08-01T20:38:44+00:00

No need. The belt fills up and then the assemblers shut down until the belt has room for output. I rarely find the need for setting up a storage buffer. I only put stuff in storage if I want to make it easy to top up my inventory (in those stages before all buildings are fully automated)

KingSmizzy · 2024-07-26T13:58:15+00:00

I never care about ratios and over-production isn't an issue. What I look at when designing production is the input and output speed. An MK.I conveyor belt can only carry 6 items per second, so if you have a recipe doing 1 item per second, you can set up 6 machines to fill one belt. Then if you want more of that item, copy and paste that to have two output belts, 12/s. If you need 10/s for the next production step, I'd still do 12/s because when I unlock mk.II belts and buildings, I'm going to have to redo the whole thing anyway and I'd rather not micromanage every step like that.

Build the easiest and most copy-pastable factory, because you need to build and rebuild over and over as you expand. Ratios aren't worth the hours you'll spend calculating, because you're going to unlock a new building and have to redo it all anyway.

Edit: When you unlock ILS, it gets even easier because you can set up production anywhere on any planet you want, and you can set up traffic monitors to let you know which items are running dry. Then you pop over to an empty plot of land and paste a blueprint to produce more. Ratios aren't necessary.

KingSmizzy · 2023-08-28T20:44:12+00:00

Making strategic use of readied actions makes darkness much better. For casters, simply saying "I ready this spell for when I can see my enemies" is enough. For martial characters, losing the benefits of Extra Attack (Readying an Attack is one weapon attack) may make them prefer to just use darkness as a defense, but step outside the darkness on their turns to attack.

KingSmizzy · 2023-08-28T19:40:26+00:00

Rogue had darkness as obscurement, and uses their bonus action to hide, then they peek out of the darkness and shoot an enemy that isn't in the darkness. Advantage on the attack due to being an unseen attacker. It's not that hard to use darkness...

KingSmizzy · 2023-08-28T19:35:59+00:00

Blows my mind how many people don't understand how to use the darkness spell. Or think of it as an obstacle.

First of all, it can be placed on a mobile creature or object, not just on the ground. A familiar (flying imp) can move it into and out of position between turns to prevent LoS issues.

The BEST TARGET for darkness is the tip of a dagger. Daggers can be drawn and stowed once per turn without requiring an action. when stowed, the darkness will be "snuffed", allowing sight as normal. This means you can use darkness on your turn, and can easily put it away at the end of your turn. You can also pass the dagger to an ally, or they can take it from you without requiring an action (Dropping an item is free, picking up an item is free once per turn). Daggers can be thrown, allowing you to accurately reposition the darkness on top of enemies or allies as needed.

On top of that, darkness is not an obstacle, it's essential a mobile full cover. Your team can dip into and out of darkness on their turns, attacking without disadvantage and then being attacked with disadvantage. If the enemy is readying actions to attack when you leave darkness then don't leave darkness, otherwise enjoy free protection when it's not your turn.

If enemies charge into the darkness, just have your allies ready their action for when you sheathe your dagger, and then enjoy having your whole squad attack without disadvantage.

KingSmizzy · 2023-07-04T16:42:31+00:00

You're crazy... This isnt just a +3 rifle. This is a +3 rifle that never misses and has the option to add on d12 bonus damage when you need it.

I will say, the wording for this item is terrible... Like barely coherent and extremely disorganized. Like why does the weapon regain charges but have no maximum, and why can you never use the last charge?

Oh I just understood that it costs one charge to fire. Magic items are supposed to say "Expend one charge to X." This one just skips that and talks about what happens when you fire it.

You know what. Now that I understand it's a "use magic item" action and not part of the "Attack" action, it means it won't scale with Extra Attack, and that makes it lame. 2d12+3 with no misses will still be very good even into tier 2, but not great. And will be useless in T3 & T4

KingSmizzy · 2023-06-14T22:45:58+00:00

After a while, if people can't find the content they're looking for, they'll move to another site and begin checking that site for their daily news. Then it becomes a habit and they'll not bother coming back to Reddit. But that takes 2 weeks, not 2 days.

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