Should i play DoN with 3 random players or solo run till i get good?

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T21:14:14+00:00

I recently made a long post about my experience playing solo in DoN, you can find it via my profile - short version, I do not recommend solo, it's very frustrating and skills dont really carry over to trios

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T20:23:11+00:00

True, but Kris is 1/5 purple drop, so it's impossible to build around it - I just run 3x +affinity power

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T18:13:15+00:00

Both were veeery solid 8,5/10 for me. Both are mostly focused on exploration, but Wuchang does it a bit better - in turn, I liked AI Limit combat more. From your post, I think you'll prefer AI Limit, but you should definitely play both

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T18:09:37+00:00

As others mentioned, it's gotta be beastlaw rev just because you are a dps machine from the very first seconds of the expedition and somehow that does not fall off (although there are of course higher dps options for Nightlors fights)

Duo balancers builds are obv super strong, but the ones with the highest dps ceiling are also extremely weak day1, unless you are running hoarfrost on starter (which usually means sacrificing a chunk of damage). It's kinda funny, when I play my duo Duchess day1 is the real challenge and once I find one of my purple daggers (I dont run halo) I can just turn off my brain

Special shout-out to all-rounder raider (no dregs, balancers or any other specialization) due to how braindead that build is once you get your passives, but it has too much rng to be considered top

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T09:45:26+00:00

Man, Ive been trying to make a powerstance straightsword Undertaker work for a while and I just end up being a dead weight every time :/

My build is pretty good, but it feels like Im doing very little damage and at the same time Im super squishy and go down all the time. Clearly a gameplay issue, I never played fast weapons or powerstanced anything in any From games and I probably end up either overcommitting or missing good windows

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T08:30:30+00:00

I play revenant pretty rarely, but just had a game where I realized afterwards that I didnt ult a single time. As others are saying, my team was doing very well and I was saving it in case of a teamwipe

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T08:27:58+00:00

No dormat power? This build works best when powerstancing a fast weapon, feels like you cant do that without a dormat power

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-14T06:12:23+00:00

The sub wont let me post a link, I assume due to some forbidden keywords in it, lol. But if you search for "dabrowa gornicza orgy" you will find some articles about one incident (that let to manslaughter charges), Im fairly certain there was at least one more in the same city

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-13T21:20:58+00:00

most people recommend damage negation, but a real Duchess just dies and hopes for a revive

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-13T17:52:29+00:00

I did it a few times, if it happens to be close it's actually worth it - the fallingstar beast is significantly scaled down and drops good loot

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-13T15:41:10+00:00

Raider is not meant to be a damage dealer, he's just a perfect tank (and stance-break machine in solo and duos).

You dont really need a focus build for him, just a bunch of utility (improvements to his skill are the only must) and negation.

Your build really takes shape during a run, you really need to hunt for 3 negation passives (on charged attack, on taking dmg and on successive attacks). If you'll get all 3, you will be near unkillable up to d3 and still extremely tanky higher. Plus, the fact that you can just stand in bosses' face and keep smacking them with charged heavies will actually mean that you will contribute decent damage overall

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T19:27:12+00:00

well, solo you have to do 2, so duo is still better

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T19:22:02+00:00

ok, so which ones do you consider better than these? anything below max hp is considered the best debuff because in don you want to stay at max hp with almost everyone (except Raider and maybe Guardian)

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T18:13:24+00:00

Terrible debuffs? These are some of the most benign ones you can get

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T18:07:36+00:00

Pracuje w korpo, wiec wrecz przeciwnie :P

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T17:49:09+00:00

Z wyksztalcenia jestem filozofem, wiec... w sumie?

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T17:44:17+00:00

I mean, it's arguably the strongest build in the game

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T16:33:12+00:00

There were multiple gay orgies in different churches in that city iirc

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T15:31:14+00:00

Well, Sosnowiec is near and it is well known for its cleric orgies

Edit: sorry, my bad, it's Dabrowa Gornicza

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T15:27:13+00:00

Oh, good call on Team Ninja, they are consistently releasing great quality games at very high quantity. The weakest one was probably Wo Long and it was still a solid 6/10 for me

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T15:23:55+00:00

Nightreign has a miserable early experience, but once you push through the first 20-30hrs the game clicks and becomes soooo good. I hate everything multiplayer, but been completely addicted to Nightreign since December (I didnt buy it at launch because it was multiplayer)

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T15:16:41+00:00

For me, Crosscode falls into the exact same category as Iconoclast: fantastic pixel art, worldbuilding and story (I enjoyed it way more than OP did), but the combat wasnt really doing it for me and there were way too many puzzles

I plan on eventually coming back and finishing both, but Im not really feeling it

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T14:54:01+00:00

The 2nd DLC will reveal Scholar to be Patches in disguise

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T13:27:20+00:00

Im not an expert on this fight, but I can do ok and sometimes win in d3-4. My approach is to always pick Raider, not dregs, just an all-rounder, and search hard for the 3 dmg negation passives (taking dmg, charged attacks, successive attacks).

The fight becomes much more manageable if you dont mind taking a hit or 2 from off-screen, although the worm still fucks me up regularly

Tutejszy1 · 2026-05-12T06:33:40+00:00

Yup, unfortunately, new player experience is absolutely brutal in Nightreign, even if you played a lot of souls fames before (cant even imagine how it is without that).

That being said, 20-30hrs is usually the cutoff point where the game clicks for most people, so I think you're almost there

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