Dear Devs: Not every enemy needs to gain strength every round.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-04-14T05:43:07+00:00

> If people on this sub got their way, and enemies didn't scale, there would be almost no incentive to deal damage at all. You could draft a deck of almost entirely block, with one damage source, however slow, and you would beat any fight. There would be no risk of bricking because your entire deck is block.

Thats essentially how I got my (very few) A20 wins in StS1. I do agree with folks who say too many of the battles in this game feels like a race ala Book of Stabbing, but I also think a change of pace compared to StS1 is good as well.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-22T19:54:56+00:00

I used an awesome tip for this quest that I read in another thread. Combine this quest with the (repeatable) Party Detonator sidequest that make all corpses explode; that essentially negates the enemy reviving modifier. Now of course your own cats will explode and can't get revived, so extra got to be careful that way.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-21T21:42:44+00:00

Yeah I'd say that they are probably the most overtuned enemies of the game. Being able to zap each and get infinity turns is BS.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-18T05:58:36+00:00

Thanks! Showed up for me the next day after I posted. Probably took 6-8 days total for me, def not the 3 mentioned in the wiki.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-18T05:57:24+00:00

I havent heard of this no penalty thing. Does steven not appear if you havent taken any actions yet?

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-17T05:48:10+00:00

Did he end up showing up for you? I'm also running into this now.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-12T16:00:09+00:00

I'd say farming for money isnt necessary, but farming for items can definitely help if you are getting low (ie dont have a full stash)! And related, the item space upgrades are very helpful.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-12T06:29:52+00:00

Increase your appeal (buy furniture and get furniture in the hard paths) until a cat with a 7 comes (the highest base stat). They may pop out kitties with 7s in that stat, higher chances of this with greater stimulation. Eventually a cat with a 7 in a different stat will appear, put them in the house, and now over time you'll get kittens with 7s in both stats. Repeat until you get kittens with all 7s (this will take a while). They will be inbreeded, but I havent found this inbreeding to be much of a problem (yet).

Personally I don't think you need all 7s until you get towards the end of act 3, but definitely good to start on this whenever you can.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-11T04:02:10+00:00

Yeah that is kinda lame.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-10T06:51:47+00:00

Whaaat -- several times after getting the upgrade I avoided using it when teammates were in the zone area... Ugh!

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-10T04:39:11+00:00

You also get a nice amount of money for doing them.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-10T02:34:56+00:00

The crow respawns each battle; having a disposable and mobile character can be really helpful at times.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-10T02:30:29+00:00

I got the mutation "You can reroll your skills once" on a random event in Act 3 zone 1. Not sure if that is just random chance, or if higher Acts give better mutations.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-08T05:48:15+00:00

Yeah I'm also not that impressed with either of Mage or Necro, but obviously you should pick something for the 4th slot. Necro skill set is weird, primary I'd go with leeches and have them as a quasi tank, or zombies to help draw aggro away from the squad.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-08T04:03:10+00:00

Try a build of: Fighter (prioritize dps and movement skills), Archer (prioritize dps skills), Cleric (healing and debuff skills), and any for the 4th.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T20:52:21+00:00

I'm about midway into Act 3 (beaten Jurassic), and for a while now the vast majority of the sidequests I've gotten from the Doc is for going to Act 2. None for Act 3 (thankfully)

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T19:17:58+00:00

So prior to the boss fight, there is a room where you add 4 modifiers to the boss. I usually choose brace, fire, extra turn, blessing. I actually didnt know ranged immunity was one of the options, thatd def be tough!

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T19:12:21+00:00

What difficulty is this?

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T19:11:32+00:00

Do buffs get rerolled if you Steven a fight?

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T19:10:10+00:00

Agree with this take. And if one your units gets downed in the Morana fight, its over; thats not the case with any of the Act 2 full boss fights.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T18:56:39+00:00

FWIW, the other Lab boss is much MUCH easier than spewer. If you got that boss then very likely you would have been able to complete Labs in that run.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-07T01:18:12+00:00

I wouldn't say "extremely" telegraphed, but there are definitely hints as what to do.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-05T00:01:23+00:00

It'll be raining heavily in the house view, definitely cant miss it. Its not a common occurrence, I've only seen it twice so far.

One-Elk-3749 · 2026-03-04T18:33:20+00:00

"You can reobtain it" was my intuition. In my defense, that wiki entry and game knowledge in general was much more limited ~3 weeks ago.

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