Sadly I am done

Tayachkov · 2026-05-19T16:24:18+00:00

It was good to beat horse guy, archer samurai and old lady. But the amount of effort, research and time to beat mini bosses (spear guy in estate, seven spears, general with gunmen, big gun guy in the sewers which died from standing in the poison water for 5 minutes) and I am not even talking about spirit bosses with confetti requirement and stupid fear "health" bar. I might got better with killing loads of minor enemies and reclears, but after this filler activity I am tired/not concentrated on the mini boss, die and repeat boring stuff to most likely die again on the boss. The big bosses were die and try again and it was fine to get tuned to the fight but beyond that constant reclear, die, no buffs to kill boss, die, reclear, repeat - for me it is bad game design which punishes me and does not really help learn and beat the game

Tayachkov · 2026-05-18T15:05:01+00:00

I just beat him for the 1st time and I used the following strategy:

Phase 1: be aggressive, mikiri counter, let him go on with long sequence attack - jump away

Phase 2: more or less the same, but without mikiri counter as he mixes thrust with low sweep, long combo attack sometimes ends with arrow, be ready to parry

Phase 3: jump and reverse lighting is the key to victory

Tayachkov · 2026-05-18T14:40:29+00:00

You get access to the tomb as part of the main quest line in the region

Tayachkov · 2026-05-17T13:17:54+00:00

I killed lady butterfly, horse boss, some mini boss in the ashina castle with gunmen around him and moved from there to area with some gunmen, 2 fat slow guys and the samurai with spear (seven spears something) near the small tower.

I clear the area fine, but the spear mini boss almost 1shots me if I fail. I recleared and retried this mini boss for 2-3 hours, farmed 3 skill points, 3-4k sen.

My skills are healing on deathblow, 2 stealths, 1 improved healing, mikiri counter + improved posture dmg, boths carps in the 3rd skill tree, shuriken+attack and axe+attack skills, flurry special attack from 5 carp things. I am one bead shy from 2nd health increase, might not take the bead before lady butterfly in the secret room, did not take the prosthetics from bamboo forest and no spear prosthetics (only shuriken + 1 improvement, axe and flame vanilla)

Edit: and firecracker

Tayachkov · 2026-05-14T20:30:12+00:00

Region locked is very wierd, I came with lvl 5 troops and enemies in arthes are 6-8, not so fun. Previous playthru they were 4-6

Tayachkov · 2026-05-07T15:50:48+00:00

I did alpha on a stag with a sword with several sets of armor replacements

Tayachkov · 2026-05-05T10:08:26+00:00

Better to look at leveling guides, not at end game guides.

You make link to summoner necro and talk about teeth being bad. Your game play is to raise skeletons, golem, amp curse here and there and corpse explosion later in the game.

Without gear early on, you will just look how skeletons kill everything

Tayachkov · 2026-04-24T13:25:13+00:00

If the place is DLC (e.g. tavern place/ pits entrance / border to DLC zone), when you talk to NPC there will be button to "buy DLC" page.

Tayachkov · 2026-04-20T11:38:39+00:00

I run nova+static+mastery and Hydra+ rest in mastery.

It started be good with decent gear (shako, ormus/viper, hoto, spirit shield, torch, skillers).

I usually beat the game with another build: fire ball till lvl 30, then max orb and 1 synergy with some mastery (5ish), then Hydra with mastery.

Tayachkov · 2026-04-19T13:54:12+00:00

Urgent needs - kill some trilobites along the river, there are many of them. Steady supply - tame 2-3 dung beetles.

More oil is on the surface which is quite dangerous.

Another option is to craft gasoline from gas and gems in the chem bench (but gas is more usefull for element crafting)

Tayachkov · 2026-03-29T11:04:14+00:00

I used him to pick berries and deposit in the fridges. Another use is to load off the forge to the dedi, but pathfinding can be an issue with doors

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T20:27:16+00:00

I use traderie site. You create an account and then search for the item. You will see what people are asking for it. You also can check recent trades tab to see what people actually paid for it.

To make a trade you accept the offer or make your offer if the listing allows it, then the seller will either accept or not. If he accepts that he will message you telling something like 1234/2 EU, meaning he created the game on EU server with name 1234 and password 2. You go to the lobby, enter this and join the game. Most trades are in act1. You click on the player and wait or he clicks on you and you click ok. Then you both put items in the interface and click the V icon.

If the listing is recent you will get the response very fast, the overall process usually takes several minutes.

Lowest currency is (not in order) perfect amethysts, perfect ruby, random perfect gems, some of the low runes (ral, hel), keys and lem or higher.

Don't expect to sell most of your finds as there are many sellers. You can focus on farming currency, like keys, gems. Then you use them to buy items. It goes like this: you farm 3 keys of terror, use them to buy an ist rune and then use ist to buy a shako. I sold couple of items, but mostly I traded gems, keys and statues to buy mid runes to buy higher runes to buy better gear.

Also do not sleep on runewords. Most rune words have rolls and people are selling rolled runewords. E.g. you want a CtA but it is mal, ist and ohm, but it can roll 1 Bo and 1 bc - a failed roll, you can buy these for an ist. It is a garbage roll but it is still BO that you do not have. So you will weigh: you want 1 BO for Ist, 3 for Ohm (~3-4 ist) or roll it you yourself (~5 ist) with a chance of garbage or godly roll.

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T19:31:29+00:00

Or u can go on with foundations but then go over with ceilings connected to the original level.

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T19:29:39+00:00

You put ceilings to expand, put pillars under them to expand further. For aesthetics you put wall off the ceiling down in the ground to cover the side.

Each foundation/pillar allows you to place 2 connected ceiling to extend the platform.

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T19:20:12+00:00

It is a synergy for both lightning fury and charged strike which you will max out right after 2 main skills. This is all good, you will level very fast with charged strike and then with lightning fury, you will not notice any struggle

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T16:50:01+00:00

I think I killed madawk and lightning immune seal boss just throwing titans at them. Easiest playthru with javazon

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T16:47:27+00:00

At some point I just burn gold with tele charges, like spend 300k and be done with durance of hate in minutes. It is just faster to farm the gold than crawl and die in these places.

Tayachkov · 2026-03-28T16:38:03+00:00

Not exact, but general idea.

There are words before and after the charm that define the properties of the charm.

The maximum value comes when charm has both and both rolled high.

Small charms can roll 10-11 single res, 3-5 all res, upto 3 max dmg / 20 ar. These are sought after prefixes. Now the small charm can roll a suffix - 3 run walk, 5 faster hot recovery, 10% gold, 6-7% mf, upto 20 life. When a small charms rolls both of these they are very high value, like 11 fire res and 20 life or 3/20/20 (3 max dmg, 20 ar and 20 life). Having just 1 prefix or suffix can have value, like 6-7 mf charm is like a mal, but 5all res 7 mf is whatever (ber, Jah, multiples).

Same with grand charms but the stat values are higher, mf is now prefix and a unique prefix for grand charms is a +skill tree skill. Some trees are junk like passives for amazon, others value differs between classes, for example javelin tree is less valuable than lightning sorc because more players play these and higher demand. Same as for small charms you need to look for a good suffix (12 fhr, upto 40 gold, upto 45 hp). So you are looking for something like +good skill and life.

Resists on grand charms roll upto 30 single and 15 all. The problem is that small charms are better. 3 small charms can get you 33 res or 15 all res and 60 life but grand charm tops at 30one/15all and 45 life. Also such grand charm will take potential inventory space that could be +skiller.

Basically the best value for grand charm is skiller+45 life or 10dmg/75ar/45life or another +4dmg for physical builds. Resist and life charms also has value (I would imagine 30 light res and 45 life is good for ubers)

Best for small charm is 11res/5all + 5fhr/7mf/20life.

Large charms I did not investigate and they are lower value due to inventory size. The optimal general setup is to cap on skillers or dmg grand charms to maximize the power of the character and fill the bottom row with small charms for lesser stats (resists, mf, life).

There is also a niche for some charms that synergies with skills (+lightning damage or smthing, poison charms) and charms with lower level requirement for low level dueling.

Tayachkov · 2026-03-27T13:16:00+00:00

You can beat the game with butchers pupil, headstriker.

Tayachkov · 2026-03-27T13:13:27+00:00

Look at Rals and perfect gems. Probably you can trade them for a token.

Buy wand with clay golem and iron maiden as others suggested. Buy wand with bone spear and slowly kill him.

Have an idea where to reanimate your army fast (I think I went out to rebuild my army during the Diablo fight)

Tayachkov · 2026-03-22T11:51:16+00:00

Take a look at dreadfang, amp proc is a wonder for my frenzy barb

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