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Aug 16, 2018 @ 5:50pm

Tips on stopping Kobolds?

Made it through the campaign, beat Betsy pretty handily, but I'm stuck on the Forgotten Ruins - specifically, because of the Kobolds. I do well until my walls are destroyed literally almost instantly, out of nowhere. Any tips?

I'm using a standard squire walls/ cannonball crisscross method that I've seen before, with sky guards and flamethrower towers helping out. It works well, except for when I lose the whole wall unexpectedly.

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Cranky

Aug 17, 2018 @ 3:34am

Make sure you're running fortification shards on your barricades and upgrade the shard as much as you can.

You could also hold left shift, and tell when they're going to spawn in mass amounts, and just spam barricades on the lanes until they've all killed themselves.

Recycle the leftovers and focus the remainder of your mana on towers that need it, and repairs on your walls. Don't upgrade walls, just repair. Upgrade towers only.

If you have it, put construction shard on your gloves and max the shard, so you can repair much faster.

Aug 17, 2018 @ 6:13am

Thanks for the advice! I'll try all that stuff out next time.

Question as I'm still learning about the game, can you upgrade shards the same way you upgrade gear or is it different? Honestly haven't noticed yet haha. I do have a costruction shard on my gloves though. Any way of finding specific shards that you need?

Cranky

Aug 17, 2018 @ 6:37am

Originally posted by Casual Collector:
Thanks for the advice! I'll try all that stuff out next time.

Question as I'm still learning about the game, can you upgrade shards the same way you upgrade gear or is it different? Honestly haven't noticed yet haha. I do have a costruction shard on my gloves though. Any way of finding specific shards that you need?

ctrl+leftclick shards and just dump gold into them. They will cap out at what ever their max level is, and the benefit will go up as well.

If you want to farm specific shards and build your DPS/builders, check the dd2 shard wiki out and it'll show you where shards drop.

Same thing for mods, there are certain tiers in game where mods on gear begin dropping, so if you want X, and it drops in campaign, then it's best to play campaign to narrow the possible MOD drop pool so you have a higher chance at rolling a decent MOD, green etc

Google some spreadsheets made by players.

Last edited by Cranky; Aug 17, 2018 @ 6:38am

Aug 17, 2018 @ 9:36am

I actually have a fortification one, maxed it out. Definitely helps out a lot on the lanes I'm not focusing on, but the kobolds are still giving me trouble. Even when I'm standing right there spamming attacks, the walls still blow up right in front of me lol... I gotta keep practicing at this.

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Aug 17, 2018 @ 11:44am

FAs and Skts work well when well laced and strong enough! :-)

Aug 17, 2018 @ 12:28pm

Originally posted by growl:
FAs and Skts work well when well laced and strong enough! :-)

I assume FA stands for Flame Aura? And what does the 'Skt' stand for? Sorry haven't learned names and terms yet!

The flame aura is one of the only things I haven't tried out much yet, so maybe that's what I'm missing. I tried a lot of builds people were talking about: explosive traps and boosts, lightning auras, ballistas and cannonballs/traps with no walls, no luck so far.

Aug 17, 2018 @ 2:51pm

So I finally managed to beat the level, thanks for the tips! The flame auras really made the difference. Also I hadn't realized that each hero had their own resource bar, so I changed up my hotkeys to swap between them easier and that also helped I think.