Hard is impossible?

[Broxi]

Hello
i have now played with every Hero and now i want to try a hard try (for the Archievments)
but how? i try some runs with different Heros and i had no Chance, how it is possible?

[N20 Games]

It is challenging but I have completed hard with the first 3 heroes so I know it can be done and I am not a hardcore gamer.

I tend to feel like anything that lets you roll extra dice is most important followed by healing (especially the item that heals your hero when your companion is attacked).

Maybe focus on that little bit. Good luck!

[Mitvolarith]

It is possible.
1) Have some good trinkets (Old king's ashes (x2 health), really big sword(x2 silver drop)).
2) Keep one weak enemy (the one that deals 1 dmg) for 6 turns in the first 3-5 opening stages and try your best to complete those Gold Dice Sets while using the occasional red dice to heal. Sometimes, enemies with 2 dmg are fine to keep as well
2.1) One useful tip: if you haven't managed to complete the GDS in 6 turns (the dungeon master appears during the seventh)

1. store a die that can finish it off in a Dice Bag Slot,
   
2. Press "End turn"
   
3. After the enemy makes its attack, finish it off with said stored die
   
4. After all that, pressing "Roll (2)" will not trigger the Dungeon Master. This additional roll can help you with your GDS struggle.

3) If you have a large amount of coins in a shop stage and bought everything of value, it may be beneficial to Reroll the items in the shop (unless you play as a King or a Trader).
4) The artist, Shopkeeper and the Cook are great companions if you commit to the stalling strategy.
5) It may be difficult to plan your actions during the later stages. Online chess sites allows for drawing arrows on the chess board while devising the strategy. In D&F you can drag your dice below the slots you intend to fill with those dice before using them there.

This said, it is hard to play and grind a decent debut with some characters (Craftsman, Missionary).
The Wisard, Enchanter, Trader, Rogue are quite easy if you follow the tips above.

[Svir Volgate]

I just finished everyone on hard last night. It is hard, but some heroes make it really easy. Some skills are kind of op and others just get a lot of trinket slots. The hardest one for me was actually the 1st guy for some reason.

Make sure you heal, save up dice, get complete gold sets as much as you can early on. Lower attack to 1, so you can get the dice you need to get gold, heal, etc. This is very important during the fist 5-10 levels.

[Bioloko]

Hi, I have half of the characters with hard mod completed and i ha've failed 4 runs to get this 10 characters in hard. I've got the firts 10 characters.
I think is relatively easy if you do some things and if you chose the right mate for your character.
For me, the most challenging characters are those who use armor, so they can't roll red dices. Your mates are going to die most of the times and its hard to recover your own life.
Some tips:
1. I think one of the keys is farm dices under some conditions. E.g. in the first fight dont kill the enemy with your fist dice roll. Keep both dices in your bag an kill the enemy with your 2nd dice roll. So you have 3 dices saved in your bag. With a armor character try to use an armor dice to tank the enemy hits while you're farming dices. Just finish your farming in the turn before the dungeon Master appears, following Mitvolarith tips.

2. As Mitvolarith said, in early stages are some enemies with only 1 atack, keep them alive, and just farm your dices to: get some healing, to complet the gold dice sets, and to save posible blue, grey and orange dices.

3. You can even farm dices in advanced stages if you use an orange dice to reduce some enemy atack to 1 (be sure that this enemy can't increase its atack under some conditions). This farming its important to get a lot of gold so you can purchase more and better objects.

4. One estrategy that is working for me when using armor characters is to use the homeless as a mate. His skill do nothing, but he has a lot of life so he works as a tank, and if you buy in the shop the right items (the hearth that heals you when your mate is hitted, and the items that heal yourself and your mate when some skill is used) combined with the startegy of farming dices, you cant easily get +10 life to you and your mate in some of the stages with the homeless skill. In my last run with the gladiator eack use of the homeless skill healed him for +3 and the gladiator for +1. And you can activate the skill with any single dice.

5. Trinkets. For me the trinket that gives you an extra dice roll is compulsory in every character that can have trinkets. So, only 1 trinket, an extra dice: 2 trinkets an extra dice and a mate; 3 trinkets, extra dice, a mate, and probably the trinket that makes the enemies drop twice silver coins when killed. So you can buy a lot of things in the shop.

6. Shopping Strategy. Try to compensate for your character's shortcomings. E.g. when playing with a character and a mate that can't heal themselves, buy items taht heal both of you, preferable those that heals passively (when using skills, when your mate is hitted, at the end of a stage...) and ocasionally the ones that heals you and your mate directly.
e.g. 2, if the character an the mate have problems to deal with a huge total amount boxes, buy items that reduce the total amount.

I hope it helps you. It could be hard, but using the right strategy i'm finding that the game is relatively easy.

[Grisgram]

With the first three it was quite a walk-through, not really hard, far from impossible.
Easiest with the king (from the first three) but the queen and jack also did good.

you have to use the abilities as often as you can. with the king, for instance i played to have always 10+ gold (i even took the item to get 10 gold and no more companions), so you kind of AOE their number slots, which is especially from fight 10+ an extremely powerful thing.

use the abilities wise and pick a companion with synergy (like rolling additional dice for the king and queen ... things like that). and use. your. bag. save dice.

[Garou]

Stalling/collecting coins while fighting easy enemies, abusing Wanderer's "useless" ability with the right artifacts and playing a hero with highly usable skill (Rogue) can make any run quite easy. Hard focusing economy can also easily patch any tactical holes you have in your build.

[Ace]

I'm no hardcore gamer, but in 3 days I managed to 100% the game.

Select good trinkets and farm gold and items. That's it.

[Grisgram]

i always take the "you get +1 dice at start trinket" and if the hero has more than one trinket slot, my second pick is always the sword in the bottom row "enemies drop double silver coins" and my third pick depends on the hero, which fits best, but sometimes "double start health" is good to go.

[Jingseng]

=P

pay attention to your own mistakes and try to learn from them. Think about the choices you made in a run you lost, and consider not repeating them. Using dice haphazardly because 'math is hard' and having no plan will always result in a loss, no matter how easy the game gets tweaked =p