Highway Robbery

[Snobby Hobo]

Still have to defeat the last boss, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

For Highwayman there is the ability "Highway Robbery", which, in it's vanilla state removes 2 positive tokens and cannot be dodged. This is a fairly mediocre skill in most situations; you can grapple to kill 2 tokens, deal damage AND buff yourself for example. There are few situations where this is the best choice.

However, once upgraded the skill becomes: STEAL 2 positive tokens. That's a massive buff - effectively doubling its effectiveness. Once buffed this skill suddenly does feel like it's the best option in quite a few situations. I've been making it a priority upgrade and run it on every bar.

Thoughts on this skill?

[Snobby Hobo]

Ugh *grape, not grapple.

[HighLanderPony]

I haven't use it yet but I saw it in the beta. Seems like one of those situationally broken ones.

[Ben bitmişim]

That skill straight up breaks a particular act boss and makes it easier than a ghoul encounter lol. But other than that it's really fun to yoink block+ and crit tokens from evangelists and hit them back with riposte. Overall a decent and fun skill.

[Snobby Hobo]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

I haven't use it yet but I saw it in the beta. Seems like one of those situationally broken ones.

Originally posted by Ben bitmişim:

That skill straight up breaks a particular act boss and makes it easier than a ghoul encounter lol. But other than that it's really fun to yoink block+ and crit tokens from evangelists and hit them back with riposte. Overall a decent and fun skill.

Exactly.

Since tokens are quite prevalent especially against cosmic enemies it's quite often that I find it to be the best option I have available. It's a very flavorful ability too.

[evil burger]

If you don't have a hero that takes away enemy crit or damage buff, Dismas fills that role with Highway Robbery. High priority targets are typically the ones that should be on the receiving end. Although Dismas' main role is to damage so he should be the last one to do Highway unless absolutely necessary.

These are some examples of where you can use HR for value:

Exemplar's Dodge and Riposte.

Cultists units.

Shambler and his auxiliary units.

Dog enemies.

Spider enemies.

Swine enemies.

Fishfolk who receive buff from Captain.

Act 2, 4, and 5 bosses.

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Elf:

If you don't have a hero that takes away enemy crit or damage buff, Dismas fills that role with Highway Robbery. High priority targets are typically the ones that should be on the receiving end. Although Dismas' main role is to damage so he should be the last one to do Highway unless absolutely necessary.

These are some examples of where you can use HR for value:

Exemplar's Dodge and Riposte.

Cultists units.

Shambler and his auxiliary units.

Dog enemies.

Spider enemies.

Swine enemies.

Fishfolk who receive buff from Captain.

Act 2, 4, and 5 bosses.

+ Antiquarian lul

[Snobby Hobo]

Originally posted by Elf:

If you don't have a hero that takes away enemy crit or damage buff, Dismas fills that role with Highway Robbery. High priority targets are typically the ones that should be on the receiving end. Although Dismas' main role is to damage so he should be the last one to do Highway unless absolutely necessary.

These are some examples of where you can use HR for value:

Exemplar's Dodge and Riposte.

Cultists units.

Shambler and his auxiliary units.

Dog enemies.

Spider enemies.

Swine enemies.

Fishfolk who receive buff from Captain.

Act 2, 4, and 5 bosses.

I don't necessarily agree with the take that Dismas should be the last to purge crit tokens. There are quite a few situations where Dismas is easily the best option to do so; for example when cleave purge only hits 1 target (MAA). Remember that stealing a crit token also well... generates a crit token (whoopee); so it's not like you lose out on an awful lot of damage if you're not going to hit breakpoints that same turn anyway.

[evil burger]

Originally posted by Incredibly average:

Originally posted by Elf:

If you don't have a hero that takes away enemy crit or damage buff, Dismas fills that role with Highway Robbery. High priority targets are typically the ones that should be on the receiving end. Although Dismas' main role is to damage so he should be the last one to do Highway unless absolutely necessary.

These are some examples of where you can use HR for value:

Exemplar's Dodge and Riposte.

Cultists units.

Shambler and his auxiliary units.

Dog enemies.

Spider enemies.

Swine enemies.

Fishfolk who receive buff from Captain.

Act 2, 4, and 5 bosses.

I don't necessarily agree with the take that Dismas should be the last to purge crit tokens. There are quite a few situations where Dismas is easily the best option to do so; for example when cleave purge only hits 1 target (MAA). Remember that stealing a crit token also well... generates a crit token (whoopee); so it's not like you lose out on an awful lot of damage if you're not going to hit breakpoints that same turn anyway.

Of course every situation is unique and player response is different. The general rule of thumb though is that if it's a crit with no DOT then it isn't really dangerous to prevent and trading even though you take more damage is healthier in the tempo of a fight.

This otherwise alleviates scenarios where you are constantly bouncing from one end of the court to the other making minimal progress that adds more and more stress or depletes your minimal use healing skills.

Any approach is fine though as long as you live through fight.

[Blockhead]

Originally posted by Incredibly average:

Ugh *grape, not grapple.

Apologies for not actively contributing to the discussion, but you know you can edit your own posts, right? There's no need to correct yourself in an additional post, just edit your first post with the correction.