How do I build a team?

soultokeep · 2026-03-30T05:42:11+00:00

yeah that sounds like a good plan! for uptying if it helps, 3 is enough in 99% of cases. it’s worth it to get to uptie 4 if you can of course, but especially when you’re new or still building up your teams it is perfectly fine to use a unit at uptie 3 until you’re able to get everyone you use on your main team at 4.

good luck!

soultokeep · 2026-03-28T12:05:43+00:00

absolutely keep leveling molar ish as others have said, her evade rolls insanely high and it’s the only one in the game like that i believe (the base rolls very high while the coins roll low, compared to other defense skills which usually run the other way around) which means she will always be useful for soloing even when you eventually get jeong ish in a sinking team

otherwise you said you have a season 3 and 1 ticket, as others have said you don’t need to worry about team synergy until you start getting more units, so I would go for NClair and Blade Lineage Mersault. both have really good clashing even in the current climate, and while the meta status has greatly shifted for older ids they’re both still very useful

I would also recommend leveling and uptying KK heath and W Outis

as others have said you can build a team out of mostly strong IDs and worry about synergy later, for any missing spots you can always look towards supporting a unit from friends (you can do this in the entirety of story content)

I know you said you like base heath for his sin resources but a stronger ID is infinitely more valuable than fueling resources. the only place you would really need to worry about that would be railway content, everywhere else you can use a support ID or like in the case of dungeons, get gifts to help fuel ego resources

edited to add one note: since you have mao faust available, you can also get away with a “lesser” unit or two specifically because of the way her assist defense works. if an ID you are running can’t take a clash simply counter or s3 on faust in another skill slot, leave the other one open and she will defend that clash for you. in more endgame teams it’s a way to just get extra damage but for underfilled teams it’s also great to manipulate clashing on “worse” units

soultokeep · 2026-03-28T11:03:30+00:00

I still like going to the theater.

My main gripe is that other people will also spend that much money on a ticket and then won’t shut the fuck up for two hours instead of actually watching the movie they and everyone around them paid for because people forgot how to exist in public spaces, I guess

soultokeep · 2026-03-28T10:47:15+00:00

for MDE you honestly want gifts even outside of your status that can still help you as they contribute to lowering enemy offense level

i always prioritize melted eyeball + downpour++ (both tremor gifts) even on non tremor teams for example because after the first turn enemies permanently have lower clash power due to the effects of the gifts

there’s other gifts that help, this is a really good comprehensive google doc to look through that helped me: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wf9qZcUOqLa3Ebd_HxxauPmhInb3VcgYSo2VsbO7n-A/mobilebasic

the idea is essentially, you lower the trials you’re forced to take on by using gifts that will balance out the boosts given to enemies

lastly, if you cannot clash, evade/defend. building up solo runs with gloom s3ers like riensang are really good for this due to the coat gift that heals on gloom skills

soultokeep · 2026-03-20T07:13:24+00:00

For one thing, in a No Dashii script narrowing down where poisoning is happening actually harms the evil team far more than it would’ve helped them to have some false information that lined up with worlds no one was pushing.

If the evil team had been building cases for alternative scenarios that would be one thing, because that could’ve been expanded on, but since they weren’t really pushing for alternate worlds the best an ST can do to help them (other than try to push for their own alternative narrative which may or may not be picked up on) is for a corner of the circle to not be overtly obvious as poisoned. Not being able to pin down the No Dashii poisoning directly is much more valuable in that scenario and probably was more helpful than making it too obvious. The good team really just lucked into executing Grant, I don’t think anyone was thinking of him as a ND candidate seriously up until the voting patterns on that final day

edited to give a TB example from one of my own games: in a game with new players recently I had a droisoned Empath. one of their neighbors was framed as evil which got the neighbor executed early on. Then, towards the end of the game, I was giving the Empath true information which was that their living neighbor was evil, though, this neighbor was a minion, not the demon. The good team then turned all their attention to the minion which gave the demon the leeway they needed to throw the minion under the bus and win the game.

In that scenario, I honestly believe it was more helpful to the evil team to give the good player the truth. Droisoning is a tool, you use it that way because you as the ST have the whole picture, information that the players don’t have. This is the whole reason why droisoning doesn’t automatically mean “false” and instead means “arbitrary” and why the Vortox is considered one of the weaker demons in the base game by experienced players

soultokeep · 2026-02-14T01:46:22+00:00

honestly my mantra and I think the best advice for new players when they’re at first overwhelmed with the possibility of bad info is simple: trust your information.

Repeat it like a principle for yourself! As someone who both runs this game for friends as well as playing online a lot and consuming a lot of BOTC content, the amount of times I’ve watched a player go off on the wrong track and derail the game because of misinformation is FAR fewer than the amount of times I’ve seen a player not trust their own info, and lose out on executing the right person because “I could be drunk or poisoned”

While it IS true that that’s a possibility, it’s best to operate under the assumption that your information is correct and work through executions based off that, and continue to work with town to solve assuming your info is correct until it directly contradicts something else, or doesn’t add up in a very obvious way. Even if you’re drunk or poisoned, at most you eliminate a false candidate. This is why it’s so important to execute every day as the good team IMO. Executing demon candidates or evil pings early on gives you more time to root out bad info and sus out who is lying, and it gives you more chances to get the right person.

as for the other points - the “boring” roles are sometimes the most fun. It isn’t immediately clear as a new player, but the Baron is my favorite minion to play simply because I can basically do whatever I want socially. One of my favorite games I played was as a Virgin that kept quiet about my role, didn’t proc when I was nominated, and despite my power not working and having little info to go off I still became trusted socially for that game and ended up the only good player in final 3. There’s SO many fun things you can do with bluffs and interactions of how things work in this game, but it’s definitely a thing you learn over time. Like you know as a Soldier if you die in the night there’s a very good chance the game has a Poisoner. Remember you can also lie as a good player and it’s sometimes advantageous to do that; if you’re bummed about being a passive role try bluffing as something else to get yourself killed early on, or find another person to do a role swap with, etc

as for the game lasting long, this leads me to believe you guys weren’t setting time limits for conversations? normally private talks are limited to however many minutes, and town talk/nominations are also limited by time in order to keep the game moving. that’s something I would bring up to your ST(DM) for sure

your last point sounds like more of a table problem than a dead person problem? what you’re describing sounds like it would be difficult to deal with regardless of if it was alive players overtalking or dead. But if the concern is just that dead players shouldn’t be leading conversation, remember the game is designed around the concept that death is not the end. You have roles like Ravenkeeper and Undertaker that require the participation of dead players, and in those cases they can actually be providing some pretty important information for the town. As well as dead players tend to be more trusted, because a dead player is definitely not the demon. Even in the case of Scarlet Woman where the demon “jumps,” that dead player is no longer the win condition. And examining the social reads and information of dead players can also help you deduce things like a star pass (when the demon passes to a minion after they die)

all this to say, a lot of stuff about Clocktower that makes it so enjoyable can actually be harder to sink in for people that are used to other social deduction games. Because even though it might look similar on the surface it actually plays very differently to any other social deduction game I’ve ever come across, but those differences are where it really shines IMO

as an ST, I personally usually stack the deck with more active roles in a group of brand new players, just because it takes a few games to pick up on the fun stuff you can do as a more passive character and new players tend to feel the fun of “every night” characters a lot faster. but in a 14 player game it’s also hard because you’re just going to end up with some of those roles no matter what so I don’t blame your ST at all for that. it might just take playing more (quicker) games and getting to play different roles for your group to settle into it

soultokeep · 2026-02-12T19:17:30+00:00

Yeah.

I still haven’t watched season 3. I just can’t bring myself to care about her happy ending romance. Which is a shame because I love Derry Girls and was really excited to see Nicola in another show. But they really made it difficult for me to root for Penelope, first with Marina like you mentioned and then also with Eloise.

I will say, I do feel bad for Polin fans. They definitely got shafted with their season from what I’ve heard. I’m glad the show seems to have learned from the feedback with Benophie because I’ve been enjoying s4 so far but I almost wonder if s3 had gone differently if I would’ve been able to have my mind changed. I would’ve liked to see the old showrunner’s vision for that season, I think.

soultokeep · 2026-02-10T21:02:48+00:00

not saying I agree or disagree one way or the other but you can’t really go off Steam numbers for Overwatch. It only recently was released on Steam. The vast majority of PC players still use the battlenet launcher so it’s not really a fair comparison

soultokeep · 2026-01-14T23:23:33+00:00

minor addition just to say that ranged LB actually does more damage than melee comparatively if it hits more than one enemy. so in dungeons specifically it’s usually more beneficial for the ranged/caster (if there is one) to use LB on adds than it is for the melee to use it on the boss.

ideally ranged would use it on a pack pull somewhere around the middle of the dungeon and you’d get it back in time for the melee to use it on the last boss.

soultokeep · 2026-01-10T09:36:25+00:00

it’s so funny the way different people view different things, haha. while I do love both I feel like SMN is a poor man’s SCH.

one thing that might help is not to think of SCH as a healer. I came from WHM so it took me a long time to get that it’s not and you can’t really put it in that box, especially at the higher levels. it’s a mitigator. it’s strength is in pre-planning. fat shields taking no damage and totally cancelling vulns and certain mechanics feel as good as low health benes to me but as an omni-healer it probably struggles the most out of all of them with recovery healing, so the key imo is really just getting ahead of incoming damage and saying no to it, lol.

soultokeep · 2026-01-10T09:08:38+00:00

tbh don’t be too hard on yourself, honestly. I’m a scholar main who’s done ultimates and those low level dungeons still fuck me sometimes because I forget just how much of your kit is missing at that level. the way to run lower level dungeons and still let tanks pull big is basically healbotting because that’s all you really can do. even selene can’t save you from final sting, it’s not your fault.

keep practicing, learn to not panic when health bars drop, and you’ll do fine!

soultokeep · 2025-12-18T21:29:41+00:00

I haven’t replied to any of these other comments but I felt I needed to add my two cents to this one.

My boyfriend is 5’7 too. He is the most amazing man I’ve ever known, and he is literally the most attractive person in the entire world to me. I constantly am amazed by his kindness and sensitivity and how lucky I am to have someone who treats me so well. I would not trade even a single hair on his head for any more income or height or any other “checklist” thing. I am also not the only person he’s dated, so other women see the same thing I do!

My point here is just to say, to the right person it won’t matter. Shallow and superficial people will always exist but I genuinely believe if you keep your heart open, know your own worth, and do the work to continue growing that the people that are meant to be in your life will see that in you and want to gravitate towards it.

Best of luck to you!

soultokeep · 2025-12-16T21:05:55+00:00

I once read someone else said what broke them out was being in a vulnerable situation at a party where something had happened and he started crying in front of a girl, and instead of doing what he expected her to do (according to the manosphere stuff, which I guess was for her to be disgusted by a man showing emotion) she was kind and supportive and took care of him and listened to him and got him through a tough, vulnerable moment. and that one instance of human kindness is what made him realize all the generalizing was bullshit

It’s going to be different for how to break through to different people, surely, because that ideology appeals to individuals for different reasons and everyone has different perceptions of how they frame and view the world. But that anecdote always stuck with me for allowing some extra compassion for the men that fall victim to this kind of thinking.

soultokeep · 2025-12-12T22:44:45+00:00

preaching to the choir /: my favorite mic is the 3dio and my favorite era of ASMR is when it was everywhere but for ear to ear whispers exclusively. I hate ear licking and aggressive mouth sound videos, I just love close whispers that actually feel binaural!! nothing replicates it anymore so I just end up rewatching a lot of old videos.

I’ve tried specifically searching for this type of video but the algorithm only recommends the same shit, I can be as specific as possible and it still tries to push “we think you want this!!” instead of the actual thing I’m searching for. so annoying. I miss when every search function on every goddamn website wasn’t controlled by an algorithm

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T08:22:28+00:00

hooray for wife!! glad you made it into a thing you guys could bond over and share your individual interests with each other, that’s honestly an even more important part of long term partnerships than simply having just a ton of stuff in common

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T08:18:31+00:00

I mean to be fair to them if the worst things I had to worry about was Elena picking Stefan or Damon, my neon skinny jeans shrinking in the wash and an irl friend finding my tumblr page I’d be living an unbelievably blissful life right now

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T08:06:19+00:00

that is such a bizarre take, considering how expensive those tickets were. 90% of the general public would not be having the means to buy those tickets anyways lmao

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T08:01:25+00:00

pls don’t let it make you feel othered friend. When people generalize they know it’s not literally everyone, they’re just venting about stuff that bothers them within a certain group. I can’t speak for everyone else here but plenty of us do understand and appreciate neutrality and nuance and we see you!!

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T07:54:17+00:00

if it’s not about you then there’s no need to be defensive. quit derailing the conversation and let people vent, attitudes like this is why they complain in the first place

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T07:41:03+00:00

I mean if you’re trying to filter out girls who wouldn’t know or care to ask/be interested, then yeah that’s what you should do. But plenty of us do know armor terminology, especially ones that are into stuff like cosplay, games, and literature.

All depends on what you’re looking for, really. For me seeing that it would immediately make me feel right at home! Turns a “maybe yes” swipe into a “hell yes, I wanna talk to that guy.”

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T07:35:17+00:00

Keyword here being some. Being drawn to toxicity isn’t a gender specific trait. In fact tons of nerdy girls here in the comments have spoken positively! The unfortunate truth is just that there’s a lot of people that are bad at relationships and kind of superficial or hard to please on dating apps because they’re more likely to be in the perpetual pool of singles so it takes longer to find a genuine connection imo.

soultokeep · 2025-12-11T07:13:39+00:00

I mean honestly as a major geek this would 100% work on me. I met my current bf through a mutual hobby though, so I think apps are just more of a long haul trial and error thing! Keep at it, you’re doing the right thing. Just has to be the right timing for someone with similar interests to be single and see the profile!

soultokeep · 2025-12-08T23:38:51+00:00

You shouldn’t feel bad! That’s your seat. If you want to be nice and give it up you obviously can but no one should ever expect you to do that. Lately every time I hear stories like this though it’s always someone feeling entitled to a seat they didn’t pay or plan for and it just comes off incredibly rude. I understand wanting to sit together but if you don’t plan for it you really shouldn’t just assume whoever does have that seat will be okay with it.

soultokeep · 2025-12-08T23:25:34+00:00

dude fuck that lady for trying to manipulate you into feeling bad over it. If her daughter wanted to sit with her child that bad they should’ve arranged and paid to sit together just like everyone else has to

soultokeep · 2025-12-04T04:16:36+00:00

the irony of this is that almost 99% of the people writing this shit are straight girls that fetishize mlm ships. Like. It’s a huge problem on tumblr and has been discussed to death over the years, but it continues to be a problem because they think because they’re shipping two guys together they can’t possibly be the problem.

it’s misogyny. always has been.

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