any tips ?

[Revelation]

whats a good skill/party build ? i cant even get past book 1 tried so many times

[Samseng Yik]

1) Focus only 1 type of damage, example HP damage for full party of SP damage.
2) Mary deal extreme single target damage especially after cast mirror on a target.
3) Dracula buff Mary + mirror combo can deal huge tons single target HP damage.
4) Headless starting skills are overly defensive. Get offensive skill on him ASAP
5) Choose candidate for even wisely. But focus more on what trait they will get. Example +3 physical damage on Mary? GO for it even you need sacrifice essence.
6) Calculate the networth of each buff/debuff. Then migrate them to enemy or to your allies.

[s†. Chris†opher]

The reason why many newer players struggle with the game, is that they don't realise how important it is to keep your TERROR LVL up, if your terror level is too low, the game is infinitely harder. It effects what cards you get you also get free stuff each level.

Rush to terror lvl 3 and get purple skills to fill out your bars and then keep leveling it higher. The idea is to get your terror as high as possible to get cards of higher quality.

You also want to do all the early elites, as they give you the most power for little effort, doing elites late as opposed to early is a big mistake, you want to do them early and if your party can deal with fanatic keep doing them.

EDIT: the default party is more than capable of beating the first book.

[UR|Dialetheia]

The first book is practically purpose made to make a new player lose a couple (dozen) times before allowing you to proceed. This way, you will be getting some levels and unlocks by essentially grinding the first map (even if not intentionally).

Skill synergy is bonkers important, even the (broken OP) characters that are unlocked later (Lilith, Samedi) can't do everything by themselves. In your lair, go to the portraits and take a look at skills of your roster - find those synergies, plan a strategy and, when on the map, look for those skills.

Dracula is a deceptively strong character. His problem is that all three of his starting skills are trash. Make a priority of replacing them, go for the altars.

Debuffs are super important. Depression and Zombie can win you fights that seemed unwinnable.

Ability to remove debuffs from yourself is equally as important.

Find a way to scale damage throughout the fight. Vampiric Dominance, Warhorn, etc.

[bla0815]

First book is probably sufficient to just focus on Bloody Mary. She start with a skill that deals damage two times and with her mirror that makes 4 times. Find 1-2 more of those. Otherwise focus everything on giving her more physical damage. That will be mostly traits (events) and relics (elites and terror level).
You'll have to kill enemies in mostly fixed order, but you'll do it quickly.

For other team members i'd take the headless horseman. He can emergency provoke/shell and get a skill that turns healing to damage.
If available i'd then take the white lady, just so you have the option to deal some serious spirit damage if needed. Dracula would be more doubling down on on the physical (which horseman can as well). There are some later elite fights, where you want both. But maybe just skip last act elites or something and have some nice extra burst.

Later on, i'd generally recommend Lilith, but i think she is unlocked aftert book 1.

[Revelation]

i give up lol dont now what im doing wrong im lv 22 at this point still havent beaten first book its getting boring at this point

[Fortytudo]

Originally posted by bla0815:

First book is probably sufficient to just focus on Bloody Mary.

Same goes for every other book as well. Just pick Mary and stack phys damage on her with 2 supports. You can beat the whole game like this unga bunga style.

[syricon]

Originally posted by UR|Dialetheia:

The first book is practically purpose made to make a new player lose a couple (dozen) times before allowing you to proceed. This way, you will be getting some levels and unlocks by essentially grinding the first map (even if not intentionally).

Skill synergy is bonkers important, even the (broken OP) characters that are unlocked later (Lilith, Samedi) can't do everything by themselves. In your lair, go to the portraits and take a look at skills of your roster - find those synergies, plan a strategy and, when on the map, look for those skills.

Dracula is a deceptively strong character. His problem is that all three of his starting skills are trash. Make a priority of replacing them, go for the altars.

Debuffs are super important. Depression and Zombie can win you fights that seemed unwinnable.

Ability to remove debuffs from yourself is equally as important.

Find a way to scale damage throughout the fight. Vampiric Dominance, Warhorn, etc.

Completely disagree- I did the first two books back to back no loss. Starting party for book 1 gave me enough XP to unlock Lilith and the White Lady, I used both of them with Mary for book 2.

I do have alot of expiereince with Rogue-Likes so that may be the difference.

[ZephyrFE]

Originally posted by s†. Chris†opher:

The reason why many newer players struggle with the game, is that they don't realise how important it is to keep your TERROR LVL up, if your terror level is too low, the game is infinitely harder. It effects what cards you get you also get free stuff each level.

Rush to terror lvl 3 and get purple skills to fill out your bars and then keep leveling it higher. The idea is to get your terror as high as possible to get cards of higher quality.

You also want to do all the early elites, as they give you the most power for little effort, doing elites late as opposed to early is a big mistake, you want to do them early and if your party can deal with fanatic keep doing them.

EDIT: the default party is more than capable of beating the first book.

Thanks a lot. :)

I was in the same situation, being stuck on the first book for hours. Then I made a run focusing on terror early and then everything got much better.

[UR|Dialetheia]

Originally posted by syricon:

Originally posted by UR|Dialetheia:

The first book is practically purpose made to make a new player lose a couple (dozen) times before allowing you to proceed. This way, you will be getting some levels and unlocks by essentially grinding the first map (even if not intentionally).

Skill synergy is bonkers important, even the (broken OP) characters that are unlocked later (Lilith, Samedi) can't do everything by themselves. In your lair, go to the portraits and take a look at skills of your roster - find those synergies, plan a strategy and, when on the map, look for those skills.

Dracula is a deceptively strong character. His problem is that all three of his starting skills are trash. Make a priority of replacing them, go for the altars.

Debuffs are super important. Depression and Zombie can win you fights that seemed unwinnable.

Ability to remove debuffs from yourself is equally as important.

Find a way to scale damage throughout the fight. Vampiric Dominance, Warhorn, etc.

Completely disagree- I did the first two books back to back no loss. Starting party for book 1 gave me enough XP to unlock Lilith and the White Lady, I used both of them with Mary for book 2.

I do have alot of expiereince with Rogue-Likes so that may be the difference.

Your disagreement is against this whole forum being full of people declaring the game broken after getting bloodied by the first book. Decent flex, tho.

[kirill-busidow]

Originally posted by syricon:

Originally posted by UR|Dialetheia:

The first book is practically purpose made to make a new player lose a couple (dozen) times before allowing you to proceed. This way, you will be getting some levels and unlocks by essentially grinding the first map (even if not intentionally).

Skill synergy is bonkers important, even the (broken OP) characters that are unlocked later (Lilith, Samedi) can't do everything by themselves. In your lair, go to the portraits and take a look at skills of your roster - find those synergies, plan a strategy and, when on the map, look for those skills.

Dracula is a deceptively strong character. His problem is that all three of his starting skills are trash. Make a priority of replacing them, go for the altars.

Debuffs are super important. Depression and Zombie can win you fights that seemed unwinnable.

Ability to remove debuffs from yourself is equally as important.

Find a way to scale damage throughout the fight. Vampiric Dominance, Warhorn, etc.

Completely disagree- I did the first two books back to back no loss. Starting party for book 1 gave me enough XP to unlock Lilith and the White Lady, I used both of them with Mary for book 2.

I do have alot of expiereince with Rogue-Likes so that may be the difference.

No amount of experience could predict that final boss will get from 200 to 1000 in 1 enemy move.

And developers did this.

[Cyiel]

Originally posted by UR|Dialetheia:

Originally posted by syricon:

Completely disagree- I did the first two books back to back no loss. Starting party for book 1 gave me enough XP to unlock Lilith and the White Lady, I used both of them with Mary for book 2.

I do have alot of expiereince with Rogue-Likes so that may be the difference.

Your disagreement is against this whole forum being full of people declaring the game broken after getting bloodied by the first book. Decent flex, tho.

The whole forum is maybe not representative to the whole community don't you think ? Obviously people who succeed don't complain...

[Samseng Yik]

Originally posted by Revelation:

i give up lol dont now what im doing wrong im lv 22 at this point still havent beaten first book its getting boring at this point

Gosh how many hours? I am only level 11 and finish book 4.
I think you need understand the game mechanic more and don't forget the "Devil power"

[fairtoki]

Early night farm the Terror until lvl 2-3 then try taking the double skill from fight.

[Olives & Spinach]

Originally posted by Revelation:

i give up lol dont now what im doing wrong im lv 22 at this point still havent beaten first book its getting boring at this point

Brudda I am end here!

[Olives & Spinach]

how much IQ do you have?

Originally posted by Samseng Yik:

Gosh how many hours? I am only level 11 and finish book 4.
I think you need understand the game mechanic more and don't forget the "Devil power"