General Strategies and Management

[Hisoka44]

This time arround i felt the game much harder than last year i played (and finished the campaign).

So far i regularly find my self underleveled. Im lvl 14-13-12 and i get a quest lvl 15/16. My gear doesnt seem great either. I see videos on youtube of a same mission im playing but they can 1 shot mobs, or at least their damage is way higher.
Maybe you can add some of your insights in this post that might be helpful.

Few more info:

-I use training grounds but i dont always have gold to pay for 1 mission.
-Im not sure if i should be using my Alpha team for main quest or both main and secondary
-I enhence my gear at the forge, and from time to time i increase its rarity, however from blue to gold it ♥♥♥♥♥ up the item (changing everything randomly), so im not doing that with any worth blue anymore. Should i be buying stuff from merchant and just turn them into random legendaries?
-To heal my roaster i try to put as many as i can, then pay the Joust thing and take an event from the world so it resets inmediately, but when Joust is off its hard to manage.

[sandman25dcsss]

I suspect it is caused by difficulty level i.e. you earn much more on higher ones. Today I beat last mission of act 3, it is level 16, and I had only 2 knights below that level, because I stopped using them long time ago. I am on very hard. I almost never pay for training. Lanval is level 19, he gets a level every 2 missions when training. I tried him in one mission, now I train him every time to see how ridiculous it can become, also I can resurrect a hero to that level according to description.

[Hisoka44]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

I suspect it is caused by difficulty level i.e. you earn much more on higher ones. Today I beat last mission of act 3, it is level 16, and I had only 2 knights below that level, because I stopped using them long time ago. I am on very hard.

Yeah, the game seems to have some difficulty spikes that were never corrected from last year (unless is intended), but feels bad though. Some secondary quests are harder than mains, or even some battles inside the same quest are way tougher than others. For example, the quest of killing Sir Tewelyn has 1 previous fight at a bridge that is absolutely tough, and then the last fight vs final boss (Tewelyn) is easy.

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Hisoka44:

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

I suspect it is caused by difficulty level i.e. you earn much more on higher ones. Today I beat last mission of act 3, it is level 16, and I had only 2 knights below that level, because I stopped using them long time ago. I am on very hard.

Yeah, the game seems to have some difficulty spikes that were never corrected from last year (unless is intended), but feels bad though. Some secondary quests are harder than mains, or even some battles inside the same quest are way tougher than others. For example, the quest of killing Sir Tewelyn has 1 previous fight at a bridge that is absolutely tough, and then the last fight vs final boss (Tewelyn) is easy.

It greatly depends on your party, sometimes I am forced to use different team, for instance first mission to hire Morgana requires a tank, nothing else worked for me.

[sandman25dcsss]

By the way do you try to use knights with corresponding level? When you do level 12 mission with level 13 knight, you earn just 50% XP. It is more efficient to send your higher level knights on training and use your lowest level knights instead.

[Fang]

What group composition do you use, OP?

I just finished a run on hard with the new patch, mostly using the same team comp and focusing on one damage dealer. The only times I was underleveled for a mission was for a morality knight recruit.

I'm wondering if you struggled because your heroes spent time healing instead of xping.

[Hisoka44]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

By the way do you try to use knights with corresponding level? When you do level 12 mission with level 13 knight, you earn just 50% XP. It is more efficient to send your higher level knights on training and use your lowest level knights instead.

Im never above the level mission, always same or lower.

Originally posted by Fang:

What group composition do you use, OP?

I just finished a run on hard with the new patch, mostly using the same team comp and focusing on one damage dealer. The only times I was underleveled for a mission was for a morality knight recruit.

I'm wondering if you struggled because your heroes spent time healing instead of xping.

Well, i like to use mordred as a tank/cc dealer, either hector or merlin as aoe caster, a Sage for support and 1 off tank/dmg dealer like Sir Lanval, Fearie knight, white knight, Sir Lucan, etc.

[Hisoka44]

The Green Knight fight in Hard is impossible to beat for me. Im taking Mordred, Hector, Fearie/Sage and Lanval. I just cannot stand so much damage and freezing from the green knight, plus the 2 portals spawning minions. I either fight the mobs or the boss, but cant do both.

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Hisoka44:

The Green Knight fight in Hard is impossible to beat for me. Im taking Mordred, Hector, Fearie/Sage and Lanval. I just cannot stand so much damage and freezing from the green knight, plus the 2 portals spawning minions. I either fight the mobs or the boss, but cant do both.

Don't fight the boss, you can kill it by dealing damage to the special mage with 1 HP.
I beat it today with Mordred, Leodegrance, Bedievere and Morgana, it took a few attempts though (on very hard) as I missed the mechanic initially and didn't expect what happened next. Leodegrance can heal allies in 2 ways, Mordred tanked adjacent to boss and Bediever was main damage dealer running around the whole map as needed. Morgana was almost useless, but was great in other fights in the mission.

Edit. Minions attacked Mordred near boss and then Morgana used her AoE skill.

[Hisoka44]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Originally posted by Hisoka44:

The Green Knight fight in Hard is impossible to beat for me. Im taking Mordred, Hector, Fearie/Sage and Lanval. I just cannot stand so much damage and freezing from the green knight, plus the 2 portals spawning minions. I either fight the mobs or the boss, but cant do both.

Don't fight the boss, you can kill it by dealing damage to the special mage with 1 HP.
I beat it today with Mordred, Leodegrance, Bedievere and Morgana, it took a few attempts though (on very hard) as I missed the mechanic initially and didn't expect what happened next. Leodegrance can heal allies in 2 ways, Mordred tanked adjacent to boss and Bediever was main damage dealer running around the whole map as needed. Morgana was almost useless, but was great in other fights in the mission.

Edit. Minions attacked Mordred near boss and then Morgana used her AoE skill.

My mordred cant tank that much for sure. Not for that long. Maybe i can share tankiness with Sir Lanval, idk. But the problem is the rest of the minions are a lot and hard to kill.

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Hisoka44:

My mordred cant tank that much for sure. Not for that long. Maybe i can share tankiness with Sir Lanval, idk. But the problem is the rest of the minions are a lot and hard to kill.

My Mordred doesn't have anything special, just the highest armor with -2 penalty and an item to restore armor when killing an enemy, also skill to restore HP when attacking of course. Don't forget you can use potions to restore 50-80% HP, it can make wonders.
Probably main problem is too low damage dealt by your team, then you should find some knight in your roster who can deal literally hundreds of damage per turn.

[Hisoka44]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Originally posted by Hisoka44:

My mordred cant tank that much for sure. Not for that long. Maybe i can share tankiness with Sir Lanval, idk. But the problem is the rest of the minions are a lot and hard to kill.

My Mordred doesn't have anything special, just the highest armor with -2 penalty and an item to restore armor when killing an enemy, also skill to restore HP when attacking of course. Don't forget you can use potions to restore 50-80% HP, it can make wonders.
Probably main problem is too low damage dealt by your team, then you should find some knight in your roster who can deal literally hundreds of damage per turn.

Mabye.. i dont have any other option. My rest of the heroes are healing. I just cant deal with mobs+boss. I send mordred to tank the boss and the rest to deal with mobs and the 1hp mage. But when i focus the mage the rest of the mobs start putting a lot of damage.

This is where i feel the game turns unfair honestly. It feels such a difficulty spike its impossible to overcome. I have replayed this fight many times, trying different strategies, but none work. The boss just freezes 3 of my team in 1 turn, while being inside of the red area aoe. Nothing i can do

[Hisoka44]

I tried lowering the diff to normal and i cant even beat it. I dont know, this game frustrates me more than anything. I have been playing in hard all the time, but this Green Knight fight is a non go for me. Its just super op, the guy gets huge armor and hp, some turns he just freezes 3 of my characters making me lose an entire round, the 2 portals spawn hard hitting mobs and that apply stun or freeze. Its just impossible no matter how many compositions i try.

[sandman25dcsss]

Then try ignoring the boss completely and kill the minions first.
Are you unable to win completely or just losing a knight? I had issues with act 2 boss, Merlin got 2 wounds and lost almost all vitality, so I switched to different knights and he is 3 levels below the rest now and I am not going to use him ever, it is almost the same as losing the knight. Not a big deal, we have 12 knights and also some aspirants waiting and resurrection scroll.

[Hisoka44]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Then try ignoring the boss completely and kill the minions first.
Are you unable to win completely or just losing a knight? I had issues with act 2 boss, Merlin got 2 wounds and lost almost all vitality, so I switched to different knights and he is 3 levels below the rest now and I am not going to use him ever, it is almost the same as losing the knight. Not a big deal, we have 12 knights and also some aspirants waiting and resurrection scroll.

I cant win. Sent you a friend request, maybe you can watch the fight and tell me what you think.

[Fang]

Yeah I think you lost that game on the macro level in the long run.

Sir Ector is a necromancer, not doing much damage but summoning minions to slow down mobs.
Lanval is slow and one of the worst champions in terms of damage.
Mordred is a meatshield with a bit of CC.
Faery knight is the one I do not know in your team since he got buffed.

Overall this comp seems to lack mobility and damage.

Ector's death hex is good for bosses, so you could try using that to surround and take down green knight before you get overwhelmed.

Iirc for this fight I used Mordred, Guinevere, Merlin and Boudicea. Boudicea buffed by Guinevere rushes to destroy the gates, Merlin and Mordred distract boss and remove armor, raged-up Boudicea destroys boss.
One could so something similar with a champion instead of Boudicea, with teleport ring for instance.
Icewall is also fun to exploit with one or two sages to trap freeze bosses.