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Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

This thread seems a bit dead, but I've been playing this game a lot lately. I think overall I like it better than Slay the Spire, at the very least I find myself more motivated to climb higher and higher in the covenant ranks. I'm up to rank 22 so far and I can certainly see myself making it to the end. Haven't even started fooling with the divinity stuff yet, though I did grab the DLC for the last clan.

I was wondering though if anyone can give me tips for a pure Imperialist or Direchannel run? Those are the only two champion upgrades I've never even managed to get to the third stage of - they just seem so bad. I know there's not really any reason to stubbornly stick with them but I wanted to get them all filled in and see how they play at the end.

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Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Zurai posted:

The third Direchannel upgrade pretty much requires the double incant artifact, IMO. It's too slow otherwise. The bad thing about that is that it doesn't scale with incants, it's either on or off, so it also kind of wastes the artifact's potential compared to other upgrades of the same champion. If you do get that artifact, just use your champion as your blocking unit and put either a multiattack siren or a quick sweeper behind it, then concentrate on buffing up your attacker. Double incant is usually a pretty easy win even against the Divinity.

Imperialist wants Endless Imps (especially welding or fledgling imps, and of course Transcendimp, but NOT NOT NOT Apex Imp--she'll throw him too). She prefers having an artifact that either makes the imps free or gives you energy for playing one, but aside from Transcendimp you'll do fine without. She's not especially bulky, so you want to pair her with either welder imps to toughen her up or a good Quick attacker and fledgling imps to clear the wave before they can kill her. Consider grabbing defensive spells like Alloy of the Ancients, March of Shields, and Tiresome Climb and buffing them up. If you see an Inferno, grab it and reduce its cost, it's incredible at mauling dangerous waves before they can overrun you.

That's awesome thanks! Hopefully that'll do the trick.

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Zurai posted:

Another tip for anytime you play Abyssals: if you see a frostbite shark, strongly consider grabbing it and getting an Endless and some extra health on it. It's very good at being your gatekeeper on the bottom floor, wiping out nasty backline enemies before they reach your main killing floor.

Oh for sure I love that guy.

I think my favorite champion is Little Fade, every run I've had with her just ends up being hilarious

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

What do you need to do with Primordius to make them amazing? I've done fine with them but I didn't think they were top tier.

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Man I made it right up to Seraph with Direchannel but couldn't quite pull off the win. I ended up dipping into the whole shard mechanic and fused a siren into a shard soul carver with multistrike, creating a nigh unstoppable monster with insane attack and armor. But alas it wasn't enough to withstand the sheer number of enemies in the last level.

Anyway I achieved my goal of getting it filled in even without the win so I think I'll leave it at that. Direchannel just isn't great. On to imperialist.

E: Lmao got right up to the final floor and stumbled. I had a strong sweeper but never managed to make 'em quick so they finally overwhelmed me.

Well thanks again for the tips, now I'm free to work on the last few covenants and team combos in my own way.

Regy Rusty fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Oct 29, 2021

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Covenant 25 Seraph is so hard. All that health... :negative:

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Yesss I did it. Killed 25 Seraph with a 1794 damage Reap. :shepface:

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Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Beat the divinity with quick Wyledenten, two multistrike Coldcaelia infused with Titan Sentries, three more endless Titan Sentries, oh and double frostbite that doesn't decay from the relic.

I thought I was gonna cry when the boss got to purge my frostbite after every turn but we pulled through in the end.

Not sure where I wanna go from here, I probably do wanna clear something with the last two team combos (Hellhorned/Stygian and Stygian/Wurmkin) but I don't think I really wanna try to take the divinity to max covenant. Maybe I'll take a break after those two wins.

Regy Rusty fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Oct 31, 2021

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