Act 1 Grind and Zone Variety?

[Leonydus]

I'm confused on the variety the game presents early on. I'm guessing there are multiple acts, each of which has new "zones" which are used to gain passage to The Mountain?

I'm wondering how long I'm going to have to grind the same two maps over and over again before I can finally beat any of these bosses.

[Heroic Ryan]

The rest of the zones open on act 2. The sluice (A totally optional zone with a bunch of pigs from DD1's warrens), shroud, and foetor.

Additionally there's no need to kill a region boss during act 1. You can enter The Mountain without it.

The first act you only have to go through 2 regions. The rest of the acts you gotta go through 4.

[Leonydus]

Thanks for the clarification!

[Pixel Peeper]

Did you not see new regions in the second Confession? Could have been very bad luck...

All the Confessions have the full content, except Denial. For some reason, Denial only has half the content.

Inexplicably, it doesn't even pick the two easiest regions. It's got the Tangle which is one of the harder ones. I don't know why it's not the Sprawl (easiest region) and the Foetor (second easiest region).

[Grimwulf]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

Inexplicably, it doesn't even pick the two easiest regions. It's got the Tangle which is one of the harder ones. I don't know why it's not the Sprawl (easiest region) and the Foetor (second easiest region).

4 initial characters have no way to clear corpses, making Foetor encounters harder than they need to be. PD gets her Magnesium Rain as the last shrine, while GR's dead of night only clears one corpse at a time.

Arguably, the starting team will have an easier time in Tangle, and the point of Denial is to get new players comfortable with the game. I think so, at least

[Pixel Peeper]

One corpse at a time is plenty. Even if they eat one, it's not the end of the world, they wasted a turn eating.

The Tangle is so hard for a new team. Cadavers hit super hard and are hard to kill. The Unusual Suspects are capable of taking on the Dream General (assuming you upgraded Bolster or filled up on Laudanum) but after your first run (in which you probably shouldn't try a Lair boss), you'll have unlocked a whole bunch of other characters, and there's no guarantee you'll still be using them. He's the second hardest Lair boss, not very friendly to beginners.

Admittedly the Foetor's loot is lacking. If you don't have a Blight user, most of it is worthless. Not that the Tangle doesn't have a whole bunch of garbage loot either, but some of it is generally useful enough that most groups can use it.