general tips for hardcore and a small review

[ozkal.arayici]

Tips for Hardcore and General Review

Positive's: Old school, challenging enough, quite long, good story, have many features , have secrets, and much more;
Negatives: Traps :) , limited valuable classes, weapon quality over levels ; no set items etc.. terrible loots; Gaulen's being classses! , stock prices increases with your level (how nonsense is this)

Overall 9,5 / 10 ; buy it :)

Tips for hardcore: (no mods installed)
I directly started in hardcore; finished game at level 66, did all maps clear (no single moster left, killed princes after killed armies, killed guardians first,even the powerful demon that gives horn which was in my idea the hardest fight to survive etc.) ,have all achives, ranked 99/100 in the end with score 33,183
My party was - (front) Gaulen -Barbarian- Thief (back) Divine summoner , Mage, Priest;
Though you can prove otherwise, here is my experience ; "you cant finish the game without a thief and a priest"; both you must have; and "you will have many difficulties if you dont master shurikens";

Now, general rules;
-Dont buy food; there is enough food in Nabros; and strating area
-Get treasures from imps (i killed all imps but not worth it believe me)
-Dont harvest plants until level 30;
-When you feel you are struck, and all armies left quite powerful, know that there is a fight with some small sacrifices to be done and you will in the end find an area that is simple to you ,
- In lower levels always get Constitioun blessing and then go explore ( it makes a huge difference)
- when you have enough money, buy like 30 torches/lockpicks/cyrstals and always shurikens in early stages, later these will be quite expensive;
- Dont rely on loots and stock sellings,
- Wounds and bleeding is quite important, so i suggest two classes that one goes for sword (barb. for exp.) and one for axes (Gaulen in my case), and thief with sword;
- After level 10 or so, equip shields for back row and no weapons; cause waepon damage is quite low for magic classes, and weapons dont gives stats but shields do :)
-Check the world map and try to locate teleporters; and go in that way first :)
- Be patient (i m a working man did 1 months to finish the game),
- Save often

Feel free to ask any questions

[Versive]

Is the treasure associated with the imps reduced if you attack them?

[Celerity, Executor of Impunity]

No. But it is based on the area + a few levels. By the time you can kill them it's not really relevant, so if you're killing them it's for the random herbs + small experience + score.

[Dopefisher]

Just as an example, the first imp chest I got had a 7 star katana, when most of my characters were still using 1 star weapons.

[ozkal.arayici]

also , i think i get 99/100 score cause i fisrt killedlast herald and then killed monsters in last temple to get area clear; also killed powerful horn demon in this stage; anyone got 100 score can clarify this (the game makes an auto-save called game -end when you kill last herald)

[Celerity, Executor of Impunity]

I have no idea how you get 100 score. Even those people who obsessively spammed reset with their prophet gimping only got 99.

[Dopefisher]

Sometimes, I get 6 or 7 score. Then, I reload! Lol!