Manor Upgrade Priority?

[Honster]

Aside from the old 1 point in everything, whats are upgrades worth prioritizing? Im pretty out of my depth for the order in which to unlock castle upgrades.

Im starting a new file after a long absence so i have a little familiarity with the game. I'll usually grab equipment if have enough gold for it after getting(or not affording...) manor upgrades.

Also, im curious what peoples preference is for the quick drop option.

[Maxscart]

I did an FAQ/guide a while ago... It involved my personal preference in upgrading. Here's the
FAQ/guide[www.gamefaqs.com] and the excerpt (all the original website terms apply):

Priority 5:

*Smithy/Enchantress/Architect: Base upgrades that are necessary for
unlocking further upgrades.

*Unlock Shinobi/SpellThief/Miner: Grant access to various upgrades.

*Upgrade Lich/Shinobi/Barbarian/Knight/SpellThief/Knave/Mage/Miner:
There is no reason not to level these as soon as you can. They are
cheap and greatly enhance the classes. Many of these abilities could
help you take less damage, or even complete a fairy chest room with
ease.

*Gold Gain Up: Upgrade this whenever you can, and max it out quickly as
well. The earlier you have this maxed out, the more long term gold you
will be able to get. 50% increase to gold is huge, especially in the
first stages where the coin will be a half more than it usually is.

*Randomize Children: Doubles your chances to get a good character, or
at least something that isn't terrible.

Priority 4:

*Attack Up: A good offence is the best defense.

*Health Up: Take more hits and makes chicken legs more valuable.

*Crit Damage Up: Deal ridiculous amounts of damage, especially when
further coupled with some attack levels.

*Crit Chance Up: Extremely useful when coupled with attack. Critical
strikes are necessary in the later stages of the game as they can
score massive amounts. A maxed out Crit Chance Up will produce a 50%
chance of criting, which is huge.

*Invuln Time Up: Being invincible for a few more split seconds can
allow for many actions to be done, including escaping, getting that
money laying on those spikes, and going berserk on your attacking
knowing you are safe for a few moments. The extra time is noticeable
as long as you are quick with your moves.

Priority 3:

*Equip Up: ONLY upgrade when you need to. Good for using better
equipment and pretty much mandatory if you want to have a strong
character.

*Upgrade Lich: Unlocks the Death Defy upgrade. Considering the
character isn't that great, don't get him until you want to start
leveling Death Defy.

*Death Defy: Useful at times, but sometimes you will be purposely
killing yourself and it will activate. You come back with very little
health and chances are if you died, there's no easy way for you to get
back up too easily other than to continue attacking and hoping to get
somewhere. The cost of this becomes extremely high as it is upgraded,
as well.

*Mana Up: A big mana bar is always useful. MP potions will restore
more, and mana can be used for spells and abilities as well, the
latter of which are necessary to use from time to time.

*Potion Up: When your health and mana are high, this upgrade is even more
valuable. A maxed out Potion Up will give you a half more than potions
and chickens would usually restore.

Priority 2:

*Armor Up: Health is much more useful than armor, except in the latter
stages of the game where you will need some armor in order to take
considerably less damage. You shouldn't upgrade this save for one
point until you max health.

*Magic Damage Up: Mainly useful for classes like the Archmage and the
SpellSword, and you usually won't be using spells too much on other
classes, making this upgrade not that used.

*Mana Cost Down: Same as Magic Damage Up, mainly situational, and a
bigger Mana bar will usually be more favorable if you are planning on
spamming spells.

Priority 1:

*Haggle: If you use your gold wisely, you should have so little gold
left that it's not worth it to invest thousands to keep a couple
hundred coins which might end up being wasted in the next upgrade
anyways.

*Down Strike Up: Apart from not unlocking anything, the cases where you
would pogo (down strike) are not many, and if you are even attempting
it, you should be good enough to score a few more successful pogos.

*Bestiality: The Dragon is a fun class and can be good in some scenarios,
but those will have to be very specific. It's usually not worth it as
they become very weak. They also do not unlock anything more. Even if
you have more than enough money, think twice about buying it, because
it means that a weak class can be chosen for an heir.

[Honster]

Thanks for the guide. I decided to go ahead and get the dragon even though hes very unimpressive with my lack of magic focused upgrades. Im happy enough with randomize children and having to take the occasional dud can make things interesting. (I'm almost tempted to start a magic focused save file...almost)

If i had to guess im honestly pretty awful and overlevelled but im having fun repeatedly clearing the map getting most of the pricy upgrades that have a low level cap and moderately upgrading my core stuff to keep its price accessible. Im level 99 http://imgur.com/zi3y6Gt

Im gonna kill the final boss but i was wondering if I would have to reacuire the obols that unlock the remix bosses in NG+
Also if anyones got any tips for the axe carnival game id appreciate it, i usually just get 80ish targets.

[Honster]

Well, i beat the boss thinking no way it will throw me into NG+ without a prompt. I wuz wrong. ;_;

[racknae]

Originally posted by Honster:

Well, i beat the boss thinking no way it will throw me into NG+ without a prompt. I wuz wrong. ;_;

You always have access to the remix bosses once you've found the obol. Every NG+ you just have to beat the bosses to access the remixes again.

[Escriba]

Good guide!