Bit of a Noob here, some quick questions

[webmetalreese]

I've been playing for about 15 hours without even looking at really how to play I've been just treating it as a typical Hack and Slash, but now I'm at a point where I'm getting dead like all the time.
So I read about the Vigilante build and I figured I'd give it a shot, so I started a new character and went to Fractured Worlds. (Because, in the guide it says to do so and "grab your gear" which I assumed would drop in Fractured Worlds) but it seems the only drops I'm getting as basic white - nothing legendary.
Is it because I'm not max level? Maybe I need to adjust the difficulty? Or was the "grab your gear" meaning you've already gotten it with another character?
Also, I've yet to see a talisman drop - like my entire game not one has dropped. Are there certain areas/stages where they do? What am I missing?

Any help is greatly appreciated. So far I am really enjoying it.

[Venuminostrates]

Originally posted by webmetalreese:

Is it true I can just farm secrets? Will the console guy eyes light up even though I've already found them?

Yes. They reset every day. The demon's eyes will glow everytime you go by one that hasn't been picked up on your current trip to the map. But you will only get loot (besides a tiny bit of gold) the first time each day you open it. When I was grinding for gear, I made sure to hit as many secrets each day that I could.

Originally posted by webmetalreese:

Is there any time where you literally just wade into an army and unleash hell upon them - filling your screen with explosions and OVERKILL CRITICAL messages? Yeah, I'd like that. I was in world of war and swarm after swarm of skellies were approaching, I didn't have skelly card so they kept coming back. I hit the lighting tower DP and whoosh all these numbers flashing on my screen - did a speical with the handguns WHOOOSH everyone dead.
That, to me - is intoxicating. I think that's why I enjoyed D3 so much. With my monk build I would just lay waste to everything in my path.

Is there a way to achieve this in Victor?

Absolutely.

My Pistol Vigilante build probably has the best AoE damage in the game. I've never been out killed while using it, and I often go 100 kills to 1 when I'm in groups. I use the Berserker Aura substitution that I listed in my guide, with Aether Vial / Lucky Rabbit Foot as consumables. You can get two Bullet Hells by comboing the Aether Vial with Barbarian. Not much will be standing after that.

The Devil's Kiss build (in the same guide further down) is probably the best build in the game. When I'm playing at my peak, even 100 stacks of epic stands no chance. It's got a lot of split-second combos to internalize into muscle memory which makes the learning curve pretty high. But you can hit a small group of targets every 3-5 seconds for hundreds of thousands of damage, sometimes even millions, depending on what cooldowns you have available.

Any of the other builds that I listed at the end of my guide are also really powerful.

I haven't published this anywhere yet, since I was planning on putting it in my upcoming Hardcore Hard Mode From Scratch guide, but the maxed out form of the build I showed you in the video is the probably the second best AoE build in the game, and by damn good, if not the best healing build. There are a lot of variations, but this is the core version:

Holy Warrior Gadget
Lucky Rabbit Foot x2
Zealous / Cursed / Duelist Tome
Zealous / Cursed / Duelist Hammer
Death Machine x2 (OR Death Machine / Heartbreaker OR Death Machine / Blink)
Mikkey's Outfit

Cards: Barbarian [5], Obelisk [4], Oak[2], Tower[2], Tower [3], Wildcard [8]

Wicked / Divine effects:
1. Speed on Kill 7 seconds (Or
2. Brutatlity when Overdrive is filled (29% chance)
3. Brutatlity when Overdrive is filled (29% chance)
4. Gain 3.9% of max overdrive on Overkill
5. +27 Armor Penetration
6. +27 Armor Penetration

Strategy:

Gadget does damage based on weapon currently held. Use the Tome for quick bursts of overdrive generation or single target (with a properly positioned dimension wave), but otherwise let Gadget deal damage while carrying a hammer. You have to keep the hammer, but any Zealous / Cursed / Duelist weapon is fine in the off hand. I just prefer tome.

Gadget is the only talisman that generates overdrive with its attacks. Zealous weapon, two tower cards, and the forced crits from Lucky Rabbit Feet will generate overdrive faster than you can spend it. Gadget will almost last long enough (with the oak card) to generate energy to use it again. Brutality and Speed buffs most likely fill in the 2 second gap, but you might have to use Smash from hammer to get the lifesteal condition to refresh Gadget from time to time.

Spam Death Machine when it's off cooldown. Fully maxed out, it hits hard, especially with two of them going at the same time. They ignore armor which makes them helpful against crit immune, high armor monsters.

Barbarian card will reset Lucky Rabbit Feet every 10 seconds. Oak makes them both combine to last 13 seconds, which means it's theoretically possible to keep it up 100% of the time. This doesn't happen in application however. Try to pop both cooldowns at the beginning of the fight, but save one of them (after the 1st refresh) for the next fight. Most fights won't last longer than 10 seconds anyway.

[Venuminostrates]

Also, if you like Guitars, there's a good way to deal a lot of damage with one. Use the Bard[3] card with any guitar (I like Solo the Legendary one, since it can heal you and has the lowest cooldowns of any guitar). Use the Wicked Solo over a group of enemies, and then swap to a Cursed / Devastating / Duelist Hammer and watch them melt in the trail left behind (it does damage on the currently held weapon, just like most things in the game). If you're fast, you can place a death machine right on top of the trail to pull the surrounding monsters right on top of it.

[webmetalreese]

Yeah I finally managed to get Solo! I'm not letting that one go.

I actually read about all of your builds, they look incredible - but I'm lacking what it seems as a lot of items that are common with each build, namely the rabbits foot and the talisman.

I'm assuming you have to craft these items, but my question is let's say I have 3 "gadget" recipes - can I throw them into the crafter and get one of the next level up? Or do I have to wait until a legendary recipe drops?

So when I get home tonight I'll equip Spark and Solo with Heartbreaker and Death Machine card up Wicked Lightning/Bard and we'll see where that gets me.

Actually I'll probably just farm the fire elemental outside of the vault, heh

[evil]

Nice thread going on here, glad to see that you enjoy the game with its quirks and twists.

@webmetalreese
I am sure you are using armor penetration but I have to note, that you need at least 100+ and maybe that's why you have difficulty in disposing of the enemies.

Also, you mentioned several times that you could not see where the energy from the talisman is collected. It is displayed visually in a little orb above the Overdrive bar, on the right side of your HUD, the orb gets filled when you gain energy.


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Originally posted by Venuminostrates:

The Queen can be one shot with a good Ember build (Charge talisman + Singularity Orb + Lucky Rabbit Foot + Swap to Hammer + Activate Ember), but it might be hard for you to do that at this stage unless you've been lucky with your drops and happen to be sitting on a Brute Ember talisman.

Indeed there are many different and extremely versatile builds out there, some of them we haven't even conceived which is the most fun and best part - to see what people come up with the given options and make their own unique builds. Another player of the community here "VI" also had really cool builds but I haven't checked if he is still around or if he made any guides which explained the skill rotations and item combinations.

[webmetalreese]

Originally posted by evil:

Nice thread going on here, glad to see that you enjoy the game with its quirks and twists.

@webmetalreese
I am sure you are using armor penetration but I have to note, that you need at least 100+ and maybe that's why you have difficulty in disposing of the enemies.

Also you mentioned several times that you could not see where the energy from the talisman is collected. It is displayed visually in a little orb above the Overdrive bar on your HUD, the orb gets filled when you gain energy.

Good to see a Dev on here! Great game, I'm over 100 hours into it and recently have been getting some really good drops. I acutally joined a MP game with Venom and while he crushed me in kills and I died a lot - we both had electro guns and heartbreaker equipped it was just complete chaos in Bottomless Pit - GREAT FUN.

I started another character just so I could complete all the objectives and its faaar easier now with the right equipment. I switched over to using a legendary sword and indeed have focus on AP - over 100 now thanks for the tip!

It's a shame that your team is onto something else. Would like to see a Victor Vran II come along some day and with it - improvements from your original concept. Of course there are some things like greens and yellows being better than actual legendaries, but hey I still use them because they are cool as hel l , espeically the guitars. You had me hooked instantly when you can rock out and do power slides with an axe. Great idea, awesome implementation.

Solid work on a great ARPG. I'm sorted now with Venoms help - he helped me so much I gifted him a game, honestly without his help I would of rage/frustrated quit a long time ago.

Honestly one of the better ARPG's out there with an endless mode. Cool and original concepts for a somewhat stale genre. I really hope to see more from your team. Thanks again for the tips and I'll keep plugging away - but at this point, I'm kinda played out. Endless is cool but other than just waves and waves there should be a boss or something every 5 or 10 levels. Fractured I haven't put too much time in, I'm not really sure what the DLC was supposed to acoomplish. I might be missing the bigger picture.

OH and THANK YOU for the talisman icon! I had NO IDEA it was even there until I looked. Also, greatly appreciate the color blind mode.

Applause to you and your team. Money well spent. I wrote an honest review with a thumbs up. Hope to get more players involved, but let's be honest here. Most people want to jump in hack hundreds of mobs at one time and get awesome loot. Perhaps focusing on things like set builds would do wonders to satisfy that lot.

But again, looking forward to the future and what your team brings to the table.