Slormancer screenshots and assorted comments

[Frindis]

Sure she has her tongue poking out

I'm blaming Belle Delphine for that one

 

[Colif]

I can't shake the feeling I have played this game before. So much of it isn't so much learning as remembering... which is odd.
And yet other parts are mysteries I am still working out...
For instance, you can buy grey items on a store and without knowing how, I knew you would be able to convert them from grey to legendary items... i have worked that out now. You just take it to the blacksmith and he can add anything you want... for a price. Need mats for it as well, I had thought you needed to find the item and then break it down so he can learn... but no, he knows them all now.

The game lets you make the items exactly how you want... for a price. And it may take re rolls to get it exactly right

I thought game threw archers at you if you lacked health or armour... no, its just one of the groups you likely to meet. Same location could be full of skeletons or spiders next time, Some things more likely to show up if you lack dps.

After getting one bow to 100, game not really interested in me training more bows. Or maybe the one I got to 100 turns game into easy mode and rest don't. Last one I tried giant spiders started to trap me constantly. Not a problem with the lvl 100 bow, as it shoots things before I get to them.

I have every bow you can find, and one you have to buy in game. Some of them are mysteries to me, I only know of one other you can buy. One empty slot is a weapon you get for beating main boss.. I doubt I ever see it.

Her build is essentially press one button and move. She has 3 moves she could use but its actually her personality in game that makes her unhappy if she uses more than 1 move. Her performance in game suffers until she used the one attack several times in a row before she gets over it...
So her secondary attack is actually a minion - an auto firing arrow that wanders stage hitting things... and her other move is jumping attack I should use to escape trouble but there generally isn't anyway to escape to. Best answer is kill them before they kill you.

 

[Colif]

i was going to try a knight today, it didn't last long. I fiind him clunky and annying to play compared to other two.
So i started his quest and said stuff it, and logged out of game.
Log back in to find game had put me on my mage instead, since its her save file they are all playing on
Go to swap back to huntress and game put me on the knight instead? He was in town so I ran to where huntress is to swap characters and I got an error and game crashed.
Scared I had broken save I reloaded game and it seemed to fix it. Put me on huntress.

I really don't have bank space for more than two characters. Like Diablo 4 they share bank tabs,
unlike Diablo 4 you can buy new space in the bank but i am not made of money and restricting myself means I can't save everything. Just in case I play the knight and low lvl rings can help. Every character needs things like life on hit or mana on hit, just to survive.
the mage and Huntress are past that stage and will never return. I should have a fire sale tomorrow.

At least there is a separate stash for legendary items. Lets you collect them without wasting bank space.
Stats on legendaries are random, there are abilities that are set to them as well.
I didn't achieve anything today, just wasted time levelling up two bows. I should do the forge but I find it boring

I wanted to see what bonus would be on this bow

Not a lot of damage but lots of defences. I had that one on my mage already, I knew the bonus would grow

this one was just for fun, it does wreak havoc by causing explosions.

Guess I am running out of excuses and will have to do forge tomorrow. Shouldn't be so bad, she only has to play it at difficulty 3 and she been finding difficulty 6 expeditions boring recently. Went from trying to kill her (well, they still want to) to being easy., Could be as I made her harder to kill now or it could be I should be on difficulty 7

top 2 figures are raw damage and elemental damage, she doesn't have much use for magic but some bows use it to add damage.
next are health and mana. She doesn't need lots of mana, just a constant supply
19k is armour, 3.9 is elemental resistances, and last one is Evasion. Better to not be hit at all but you can't rely on it..

my dps is nothing compared to some people I watched online. 1 million dps... I don't even. I also don't know if some of the things may have been patched out in last 5 months.

She wants to get to 90 and try the temple keeper at 100 again. Have to make sure I can damage it and survive its attacks. Entire reason I made her was to beat him. Need to get to floor 150 to beat him again. The reward is meant to be good.

you can mark your equipment with the makers name... i didn't understand why until i learned it boosted the damage of the reapers made by them. So far all of mine are made by Astorias so I have marked a few legendaries I am wearing and it does help. Also boosts levelling time... I started using one of them this morning and in about 2 hours its already lvl 70 something. I was amazed... until i noticed I had a 44% boost.

Soon I will have to use bows by another maker but its just a coincidence that 4 of mine are from one maker so far.

 

[Lutfij]

and I'm blaming whoever summoned me to this thread...🤺

 

[Colif]

and I'm blaming whoever summoned me to this thread...🤺

I didn't know CT was on here too

 

[Colif]

So tonight

• did a 30 level run on an expedition just to complete an achievement in game
• got about 3 bows to Primordal state, currently doing another because it sounded interesting.

It is an added sting to any melee that try to hug me

She achieved her lifes goal tonight, beat temple keeper at lvl 100 of the slorm temple. If I ever get to floor 150 I have to try again.
Her dps is way higher than the Mage, which is wrong on many lvls.

Top left is raw damage, actual damage is different as its often multiplied on weapons and I saw over 1 million in the end expedition report card. I had to boost everything today as one creatures attack is the explode... and It is meant to kill those with not enough life. So I took the hint

She got this belt

But it doesn't work in town as one NPC who always tells me to go away, did so while I was invisible
Sure would help in some stages if I didn't have self firing arrows that alert enemies to my presence
Below is a combo of the belt and the bow

I have the ring and belt of the fisherman, they both add different effects to the goldfish bow so if I ever find the gloves as well, I will see what it all does. Guess that would mean levelling it up. I was ignoring it so far. Trying all the bows out.

Some weapons only work properly if you have the right character build to use them. The fire sword only works properly, for instance, if you have skills that use fire. I have all the elemental weapons but no point using them. Seems I do shadow damage if I chose the right skills.

I need to think to use the gold find bow, I always seem to be around same balance. Go up and spend the money I just collected. Maybe in a while.

few hours later:

the gold find bow caps out at lvl 50 and really doesn't help alone. I found I get more gold on a normal run than I did with it. Best way to save is to change what i do when i get to town - I check if any gear needs an up and if they do, and it doesn't cost too much, i will do it. really it can wait.

Most of the primordial weapons have negatives that go with the bonus they add on to them. The original bow you used all that time still exists, they just give you a new version you can use. Of all the ones I have so far, only ones downside doesn't bother me. It can only be used for ranged damage, and that suits me fine. Even still you better off using the original still.

 

[Colif]

Seems I am stuck at mid game. To get further I have to do a 100 stage forge run and I get bored at 30. It takes too long. Guess I am used to thhem on my mage and all she has to do in them is avoid running into any monsters before they die. If she did more damage I would be past this step but the mini bosses are a struggle on her


That and I have to beat some boss and I still seem to be down on DPS though I have a different build to him

And then end game is still a mystery to me, guess iits revealed once i finish those two challenges.

I might give game a break for a while as Sacred 2 remastered is released next Friday.

 

[Colif]

Silly me needed to add crit damage onto parts list, I went from 22k to 53k now.

Things melt now. Way less struggle. Wonder if that is what mage lacks as well.

She surpassed the mage in weapon numbers, and also on floor 140 of the Slorm temple. its not so bad, enemies are only lvl 79

I did two short runs of the Forge, and it isn't so bad but I still get bored after a while.

Expeditions are meant to supply you with the cuurency needed to enter forge but that currency can also be used to enter the Temple. So I have concentrated on temple but with only 8 more floors left in there, and floor length can range from 5 rooms to up to 10, I am running out of side activities.

You don't know until you start how long a floor might be, and all rooms look the same; an empty space with a group of up to 40 monsters you have to kill as soon as possible or you start to get attention of temple keeper and dungeon starts to fall apart. That generally only happens if you lose track of which way last room was, and backtracking loses you time. A floor only takes a few minutes to run as in most groups there might only be a few monsters that take any time to kill. Right now there are some knights with 2 handed swords that take me time to destroy if one of them is a boss, Most rooms aren't so hard.

There are reasonable reasons to run the temple, as every 10 floors (until 150) you get an item that can give various benefits and allow you to ignore some aspects of your build. For a long time I used one that set my mana regen at 400 meaning I never had to worry about running out of mana in a fight, or so I thought. Almost did against temple keeper itself at 100 which would have been ironic. I have swapped for one now that sets my Crit damage at 400 which is why the DPS grew overnight. I got one today that increases your crit chance but unless it gets easy to find crit damage stat items later, I think I stick to damage.

Another slower gathered reward from temple is it lets you increase the chance of finding pure gear and how good the stats of that gear is
The teal line on this Amulet is a pure stat, they generally way better than you normally get on say the other ones which are just yellow because of my loot filter

Blacksmith can't alter the values of Pure lines, but I can change every other line on them. So I just changed everything else to match what I wanted.
White on above item is just something I had to deal with unless I wanted to spend all my gold rerolling the Epic stats lines to get a better combo - Fire resistance isn't bad, just not a priority.
I am most of the way through collecting mats to pay to improve my chances of finding totally pure items where all 3 or more lines are teal

But once I have that and beat temple keeper at lvl 150, I won't have any excuse not to do forge runs and do the few things I have left to do in there.

Another time waster I had was trying all the different bows, and I am running out of options. Some don't make sense as a non melee build (huntress can be melee) and others rely on having elemental attacks to use the special abilities. I have all the good ones at 100 now, and as I said... its better to just use the originals and not the special Primordial bows... it makes no sense to make the final reward worse than the originals in most cases so far. I get sad when I get to end of levelling process... that goes for character too. Only 4 more levels to 100.

I looked at cost to make one of my items into a legendary earlier, its more than the total gold I have. I still wonder how you make money, or perhaps whether I should have been updating my gear as I played. There is one level of gear above legendary but you don't get that till end game. Purples

Found an answer for two questions:

1. How to make money
2. What to do with spare legendary items

Sell 2 to answer 1. It feels wrong to sell legendary items but these are spares and in some cases I have a few copies. I kept the best versions - game has two stashes. One for normal items and 1 for an example of each legendary. I don't have them all yet, some tabs are really empty

Frees up bank space for other crap I will end up selling
I was down below 1 million, now back to 1.7 again. I still have more to sell really. I just wanted to clear up my on character stash as it was getting full of spare legendary armours.

 

[Colif]

There are exceptions to the teal is best rule. Sometimes they get beaten by a legendary

Its where the decimal point is that counts. 85% beats 8.55%

I beat the temple keeper at floor 150 and he dropped a bow

which comes with a summons as per description
And once high enough level fights alongside you if you use bow/staff/sword. I should get the mage some crit gear and see if she can beat it at 150, that actually help her build. One more guardian.

But bows true purpose is the 3rd line
Pure slorm used to buy the chance to get Pure items, it was a long grind before i got that bow, and I wish I had known it would help so much. It only took about 30 minutes to finish it off.... now game has to give me some drops lol

Some of his offers aren't very tempting. Some I just bought with spare pure slorm.


Oh and I got to 100 last night... yawn. Levelling means so little, allocate a point... move on.

Forge runs are only way to get cash really. Well, until you get to true end game, but the cash supply never really gets better, the prices of end game gear is just silly. Need to make a farming set to get close to buying some of it.

Bows Primordial form gets better damage based on how many floors you go past 150

Pet started off annoying and by end it was really helpful. Good thing its final form is actually useful. And gives me a reason to go past lvl 150. Maybe. Not being able to use ultimatums is a downside, I need to find some gear with Crit damage for that purpose.

edit: I just found out that the gold find weapon that tops out at 50 merges with another weapon to create a combo weapon that starts at 50. so it might help. Might need to combo with boots I have that increase drop rates.

 

[Colif]

So, remember that bow that is for gold find that maxes out at level 50? There is also another one that collects another mat that also maxes out at 50. If you level both to 50 they combine to become this:

which can go all the way to 100. Combined with these shoes:

And I suddenly have 200% gold find and made some money tonight... before I spent it again. But that is on me. Need to get lvl 100 armour and upgrade it to lvl 10 which costs gold. Had to upgrade the boots themselves as they only start with 17%

Bow is funny, it gets stronger as things die around me.

I have to be careful where I use it as its upgraded version does more damage but I can't use life on hit, life on kill, life leech or life regen when using it and while farming difficulty 7 is easy, 8 can be dangerous if I am not close to the falling materials I need to heal off.

Spent some time levelling up other bows to let them evolve and now I am missing only 5 bows.
2 are evolutions, one is a shaman bow and other is the rabbit bow
3 are rewards for finishing game/trials

I am on 115 of 120 bows. Some are fun, some still make me ask why they exist.