A question about classes and strategy

[Slein]

At the moment I feel like the Wildling is by far the strongest class. the damage output with pummeling is so good, and they also get a lot of health. Knight also went pretty well for me, although it doesn't feel quite as strong.

both the Rogue and the Mage don't really work for me, I feel really weak when using them, do other people have different experiences and if so, what's your strategy when using those?

Also, any other good ideas for increasing different skills with the knight and wildling? At the moment always max fist weapon/swords and then vitality. Maybe I'm missing some really good stuff, and maybe I should adjust my playstyle for other ways to play?

[Anaxa]

Me in my mate are rogue and mage, the mage go for enchant weapon + knowledge on potion and scroll, rogue go for a mid range situation, archery and dex. that the best build we can use for this 2 class.

[Robocop333]

depend of the situation, if you go multiplayer Enchant is really good with mage since you can enchant any weapons. it does really give edge for your whole team. Solo i usually go Spellcasting than max my Int to top. For rogue there is 2 build in my opinion. Either you go Full Archer and full Dex. ( seem to me like a mix is a bad option) or go full Dagger with Str after, it give mid range damage. I think Rogue is the best character in the game, and the easiest to master

[N3310]

I play rogue, and I think it's easily the most overpowered class in the game. Wildling being second. For rogue, I usually put 3 points into stealth asap, max out archery, then go 2 points into acro. After that, max out stealth, finish up acro, then I just do whatever.

As far as playstyle goes, I try to make it a habit to not use arrows unless I have to, in floors between caves and forest, aside from on bosses. By the time I'm at catacombs, it's worth to start using them a bit more aggressively, abusing the crit I get from stealth in as many of my shots as possible. I say "worth" for a few reasons. One, because that's around the time my arrows start doing actual damage, like, 30-70 damage (heavily depends on gloves, and if you have a longbow or not), and two, because you don't actually have that many arrows. Forest gives you enough to last through catacombs, rift, and dark cavern, as long as you made an effort to not waste them prior, and you continue to not shoot them for no reason.

Absolute ideal enchants on items would be boulder prot helm, inf jumps chest piece, improved archery gloves, feather falling boots, multishot longbow, and a lifesteal dagger. If you have that setup, then, dying is pretty much impossible. I feel like you'd have to actively try to kill yourself to die with all of that. Grabbing an axe early game can also be very helpful, but late game it becomes useless. Abusing stealth and an axe is really OP early game if you do it right, making sure to hit through walls, and in spots bellow you. Axe has a massive hitbox if you use it right.

Everything else on rogue is very situational, though. Rogue is more of an opportunist than anything else. How you play it changes radically every run, but, this is just a general guideline I follow when I play it. Hope it helps you if you decide to play rogue again.

[Slein]

Go stealth huh, do you also steal stuff from the merchant then? I definitely want to try your suggestion.

I play solo, so I guess the mage support isn't really all that useful for me. enchant was better before actually. It seems it got nerfed a lot. :o Will try out rods though.

[N3310]

Originally posted by Slein:

Go stealth huh, do you also steal stuff from the merchant then? I definitely want to try your suggestion.

I'm not really sure if you can steal solo, I know touching the merchant instantly takes you out of stealth. I've never really bothered to try. I go stealth early so I can start off fights with 100% chance to crit. It also helps me to see where the enemies are, make a plan as to how I want to kill them all without getting hit, and I can use less arrows because I don't need the DPS as heavily as I would otherwise. Also, feel free to add me if you wanna play some time or something, no one good plays this game anymore Dx.

[user]

If you play rogue and put 1 point into acrobatics you can consistently kill the merchant without taking damage by hitting him once, then dodge and repeat.