King sucks....

[Vinex]

How is this ability any good? I'm losing constantly on easy difficulty because every enemy had some combination of 'not total' .... Am I dumb?

[Red Mantis]

Works well on bosses and you can use it to help with companion abilties e.g. the cook. If you fill up your dice bag with sixes rights before a boss you can take many of them down before they can do anything. Of course getting to the bosses is a little harder.

[depresso]

King is actually extremely good and easy to use in my opinion. It helps A LOT if you have the trinket Creature Head ( Start the game with 3 additional gold coins) and your goal is to buy gold generating items, and combo with Wanderer + Blue Medal (every spare or unusable dice turns into 2 silver) or Begger which turns 5 silver -> 1 gold, or Gambler skill which you have a 20% chance to get 1 gold.

If you get a variation of currency items you'll be able to hit the 10 gold damage cap and using 1 6die for 10 AoE Dmg skill is INSANE value imo. My last run on King Hard I had insane gold econ with Gold Chest, i had about 37+ gold for the last shop, which was stage 28 i believe?

[devxx]

DEVS, at least on EASY get rid of the 10 max. damage. if i sacrifice buying stuff in order to keep gold around at least let me use all i got!

[Cronus the Trustworthy]

King is pretty easy once you pretend like your first 10 gold does not exist. Did it first try.

[Garou]

I'm not sure if he sucks or I've had unlucky runs so far, but he seems to be a bit more nuanced than the other starters. I think I'll lean into his gold hoarding ability more and see what happens

[AntiVerified]

Originally posted by depresso:

King is actually extremely good and easy to use in my opinion. It helps A LOT if you have the trinket Creature Head ( Start the game with 3 additional gold coins) and your goal is to buy gold generating items, and combo with Wanderer + Blue Medal (every spare or unusable dice turns into 2 silver) or Begger which turns 5 silver -> 1 gold, or Gambler skill which you have a 20% chance to get 1 gold.

If you get a variation of currency items you'll be able to hit the 10 gold damage cap and using 1 6die for 10 AoE Dmg skill is INSANE value imo. My last run on King Hard I had insane gold econ with Gold Chest, i had about 37+ gold for the last shop, which was stage 28 i believe?

The item that gives you silver for each stage based on current gold (up to 8 I believe) is also good for building exponential wealth for King’s ability.

[Hemmels]

Does seem very item related, and is hard early game to hoard, the fact that it requires a 6 is a bit of a mickey take, since a lot of rounds don't have more than 1 total slot enemy anyway, half the time i'd rather use the 6 than use king's ability. I think if it was a 3 or 4 required it might make more sense

[N20 Games]

The King's ability is best when there are multiple slots open because it effects them all. Also, if you can save some 6's in your dice bag, he can rapidly beat down a boss.

[tootoome]

Sorry for the late response. Thank you so much for the feedback. I'll bring it forward to the development team and we'll see if we can make it work into the later builds. <3


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[Antorius]

Had a rotten time with the King so far. Yes, yes I understood immediately that I am not to buy non-critical items until 10 gold hoarded in order to maximise skill, and I combo'd with the Gambler, etc. Bosses are fine. The problem is his health pool. He just gets beat down chasing exact dice (either a 6 for his ability, or exact dice for the enemies).

I feel like there needs to be a variation of his skill depending on whether gold is skill-capped (e.g., currently 10+). I mean, if you put in the pain of skipping items to get to capped, then you should see some reward. For example: if you have skill-capped gold, then in addition to its usual effect, the King's skill converts a target exact monster dice to total dice -- the idea here being that these converted dice can be targeted the next time the King's skill becomes available.

[N20 Games]

The king can single-handedly defeat most of the boss fights. Late in the run, buy the trinket that allows you to roll all 6's in the first turn if you have the chance. The King will unleash unmatched massive damage with that combo because his ability doesn't lock after using it.

I don't suggest buy that trinket too early because rolling all 6's seems powerful but you really need a variety of different dice for most encounters.

[A Temu Vape]

He's good for non-specific dice but not much else. My problem is I clear the non-specific spots easily and then never get the dice I need to kill anything else. By then, my companion and I are both dead. I just also never get the items I need to begin with anyways.

[N20 Games]

That is his specialty but he's a hero that attacks all of those dice slots at once. He can use one 6 and hit all three slots on a salamander, or troll plus other monsters. He clears out so many slots with just one die. I personally feel like it's a great ability.

I think many players spend all their gold. If you like to do that, don't use the king.

[Cronus the Trustworthy]

I think the issue is that the King is required. Maybe they don't want to play them, but they want to progress in the game to a character they might like.

[A Temu Vape]

Originally posted by N20 Games:

That is his specialty but he's a hero that attacks all of those dice slots at once. He can use one 6 and hit all three slots on a salamander, or troll plus other monsters. He clears out so many slots with just one die. I personally feel like it's a great ability.

I think many players spend all their gold. If you like to do that, don't use the king.

That's assuming you make it that far. King almost makes it impossible to do that. His ability if very niche and very bad. Sure, I can get 1/3 enemy die slots... but when I keep getting 6s and no other dice I'm taking 15+ damage before I can actually clear any other slots.

I also basically keep my gold at around 10, anything after 10 is when I start shopping. Even then, most items are not enough to actually do anything because most items are seemingly useless in this game. +1 health on stage start? Heal 2 from food? Doesn't help king, I'm gonna be stuck with a dumb ability that doesn't actually help me in any way outside of a boss stage and makes it frustratingly annoying to play that specific character.