Goblin Boss threat too early?

[DiscoZombie]

I'm on day 10 of autumn. My highest hero is CR 18, on a good day. I now have an imminent threat to slay the goblin boss, which is CR 22-33, *5* times. That just seems crazy. Not sure if it's a bug or what. Also not sure what will happen when I inevitably fail it in ~10 days - we'll see.

[Lokerian]

Originally posted by DiscoZombie:

I'm on day 10 of autumn. My highest hero is CR 18, on a good day. I now have an imminent threat to slay the goblin boss, which is CR 22-33, *5* times. That just seems crazy. Not sure if it's a bug or what. Also not sure what will happen when I inevitably fail it in ~10 days - we'll see.

Hey Disco, I'll try to help you with that but i have to give a spoilers alert for this.
There are a few things you can do.

How to Prepare for a Boss Threat

• The Boss Threat will appear once you reach the 4th location in a Slay Quest. If you are not ready to fight the boss, you can delay your progress by doing gather quests (which don't have bosses). This will allow you to decide on your own when the fight actually happens.
  
• Try to get your hands on T2 Materials, The trader can sell you some or you can do the
  [Farming & Mining] at the [Mountains] or the [Animal Beasts] at the [Farms] quests from CR16+.

• Once Defeated the Boss will not re-appear and you will gain access to the 4th location permanently. You will also be able to send Heroes to the Boss Quest in that location at will, which increases your chances to receive multiple resources from completing it.

How to Beat it

• You can craft excellent food for your best heroes in the innkeeper and assign the food through your inventory menu to the heroes that you are planning to send on the quest.
  Usually T2 Excellent Foods are great, but even T1 can go a long way to get them in good shape.
  
• Craft CR Potions at the apothecary and once again assign those to make sure to boost your best heroes.
  
• Send heroes with CR16+ To Gather T2 Materials, The first place you can do this is [Farming & Mining] at the [Mountains] or the [Animal Beasts] at the [Farms]. Use those T2 Materials to increase the CR of your Heroes Further.
  
• You have plenty of time to deal with the Boss Quests, some of your Heroes will have enough time to go at least twice to their mission. but if you get unlucky don't worry too much.

Failing a Boss Threat:

• Failing a Boss Threat will take a big impact on your gold and resources, this can be lowered by having constitution based Heroes.
  
• When losing a Boss threat the boss will take back your access to the 4th location corresponding to him, You can attempt fighting him again by sending heroes to attack his minions. But make sure you are better prepared the next time around.

[DiscoZombie]

Thanks for the thorough set of tips! I will keep them in mind going forward

[Celestial]

At the start, my 8 Heroes were barely able to complete the Imminent Threat Goblin quests with success chance boosting Potions, and the following Imminent Threat Goblin Boss x5 was out of the question. Some Heroes failed and few even died.

Now I have 50 Heroes with all the craftable gear bonuses they could wish for, and no one wants to do Imminent Threat Goblin quests anymore. They are mostly too high CR, I usually wait for the few newer Heroes to complete them as I priority mark them, but it takes long.

It would be nice to see the CR of the Heroes when I am Reserving the quest for specific adventurers, not having to go back and forth between Quest list and Heroes list.

The game concept is new and interesting, quite enjoyable so far, but can get tedious to manage later on. I think some more quality of life improvements could benefit gameplay, like being able to see what Tier your items are when selling to Trader, sometimes you have 20+ items with varying names in several different stores. My only current guide is, lower item price means lower tier.

Also I think off-handed Daggers and Swords should be the same as normal main-hand Daggers and Swords when crafting, there really is no need for extra categories, they are practically the same thing, just harder to mange especially since you can't distinguish them after crafting.

[Lokerian]

Thanks for bringing up some interesting points. I will try to answer few of those.

Originally posted by Celestial:

It would be nice to see the CR of the Heroes when I am Reserving the quest for specific adventurers, not having to go back and forth between Quest list and Heroes list.

This will be available in the next patch.

Originally posted by Celestial:

The game concept is new and interesting, quite enjoyable so far, but can get tedious to manage later on. I think some more quality of life improvements could benefit game play, like being able to see what Tier your items are when selling to Trader, sometimes you have 20+ items with varying names in several different stores. My only current guide is, lower item price means lower tier.

You are not wrong, for the most part more money = higher tier, as higher tier items require more resources and higher tier resources to craft is safe to assume they are always more expensive. You Can sort the Trader list by clicking the inventory you wish to sort twice in the trader menu.

With that said i'll look for ways to improve the experience and perhaps show the Item Tier in someway.

Originally posted by Celestial:

Also I think off-handed Daggers and Swords should be the same as normal main-hand Daggers and Swords when crafting, there really is no need for extra categories, they are practically the same thing, just harder to mange especially since you can't distinguish them after crafting.

Off-Hand Weapons Belong to a different category as they can only be equipped with weapons that allow for off-hand equipment and their training cost is lower. You can identify Off-Hand weapons by their Picture as they always show as Hilt up and Blade Down unlike their counterparts.

You can also Filter your inventory to show Off-Hand weapons in the inventory menu, to manage & track your current stock.

[Celestial]

Originally posted by Lokerian:

Thanks for bringing up some interesting points. I will try to answer few of those.

Originally posted by Celestial:

It would be nice to see the CR of the Heroes when I am Reserving the quest for specific adventurers, not having to go back and forth between Quest list and Heroes list.

This will be available in the next patch.

Originally posted by Celestial:

The game concept is new and interesting, quite enjoyable so far, but can get tedious to manage later on. I think some more quality of life improvements could benefit game play, like being able to see what Tier your items are when selling to Trader, sometimes you have 20+ items with varying names in several different stores. My only current guide is, lower item price means lower tier.

You are not wrong, for the most part more money = higher tier, as higher tier items require more resources and higher tier resources to craft is safe to assume they are always more expensive. You Can sort the Trader list by clicking the inventory you wish to sort twice in the trader menu.

With that said i'll look for ways to improve the experience and perhaps show the Item Tier in someway.

Originally posted by Celestial:

Also I think off-handed Daggers and Swords should be the same as normal main-hand Daggers and Swords when crafting, there really is no need for extra categories, they are practically the same thing, just harder to mange especially since you can't distinguish them after crafting.

Off-Hand Weapons Belong to a different category as they can only be equipped with weapons that allow for off-hand equipment and their training cost is lower. You can identify Off-Hand weapons by their Picture as they always show as Hilt up and Blade Down unlike their counterparts.

You can also Filter your inventory to show Off-Hand weapons in the inventory menu, to manage & track your current stock.

Thank you, love the game.

[Lokerian]

Thank you!

[CEASEFIRE NOW]

Thanks for all the tips! I did also find that the Goblin boss threat appeared too early for my heroes to be able to handle them - I only got a hero with high enough CR on the last day of the boss threat for me. Feels like it could be a pacing issue, though the tips certainly help.