We just soloed the game as a Warrior.

[Endarire]

Greetings, all!

A friend encouraged me to try soloing the game as a Warrior since Dreamers had already been done and watched and advised me as I controlled the game. Copious use of the airship glitch*, collecting all 55 goblins for the Armor of the Elements, looting the world before reenabling random encounters, and heavy use of Icefyre were large parts that made this possible. The Pot of Fate greatly expedited the level grind from 23ish to 50!

Gear Worn by Level 50 Warrior for the Winged King Fight (0 Tower Bosses Beaten):
-Icefyre (switched mid-fight to Darkblade): Very handy.
-Lightshield
-Circlet: Vital!
-Armor of the Elements: Vital!
-Crystals of Life

Then we killed a fully-powered Swamp King by spamming attack with Darkblade and occasionally using Light of Rebirth for full healing.

Interestingly, the life steal from Darkblade was less important than the Circlet's healing every round. The extra offense compared to Icefyre helped though.

*Airship Glich Explained: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=757783397

[Terrivel]

Cool! This game has a lot of potential for solo challenges, but I heard only of Dreamers being done so far.

Solo Warrior sounds fun! Lemme think:
* Without the starting artifact/Wonder Herb, it is basically a(n almost) no artifact run, due to zero MP. Makes a lot of decisions far easier to take :)
* So, which artifacts did you took?
* Since he still have access to most of the best designed gear in the game (Icefyre is a no brainer with 0 MP) it kinda .
* Its godly defense/HP might make this a less painful solo challenge than most classes, but I confess that I have avoided Dreamer for a long time, so I really don't know.
* I have been using the Airship glitch but, so far, it only speed up my access to gears and chests on first floors of everywhere - I haven't found nothing very mind/game breaking in particular. Or am I missing something here?

I will eventually do a Solo Dreamer first, since I am a item hoarder, and go for the Adjudicator just cause I heard someone around here say it was done.

[Endarire]

We used plenty of Artifacts. We used the Wonder Herb for 50 max MP, Icefyre for 45 max MP, and 10 Elixirs of Magic fo 50 max MP total. Even then, that was more than enough since the most important artifact was Light of Rebirth (single target full heal).

Despite my initial hesitance toward the Circlet, it eventually became a wonderful pick due to its HP regen and negative status effect prevention.

A significant downside of this run was that the combat was reduced to 4 actions: Flee, attack, use Icefyre's special from the Item menu, or use Light of Rebirth. It was simple, but still effective.

The airship glitch allows glitching into Key of Time shrines, facing The Hellbeast without the Dispel Scroll, and, very importantly, lets you toggle off ALL random encounters (including via Thrill of Victory) until you toggle them on again by having the knight free you from the trapped chest room in the Temple of Light. If you wanted, you could theoretically get all 55 jar goblins and the Armor of the Elements and loot the Gold Temple at level 1.

It also helped tremendously that I relied on the Steam guides for this game, including mine.

[Terrivel]

Thanks for the insight on the airships. Just tested it. Sadly, The Sword is out of reach even with this glitch.

And I have been using your guides. For this game, they became vital.

[Endarire]

Thankee for your high regard of my guides. I made them in part for me, but refined them for publishing. Making them also prepared me for speedrunning.

I too was a bit disappointed that Newb Castle was entered via another initial map (Newb Town). Were it not, the airship could have been used to get ALL the starting gifts!

However, regarding soloing with non-Warrior, non-Dreamer characters, I currently advise the Artifacts as a starting gift due to critical hit immunity.

[Terrivel]

Not only that, but the extra chance to escape battles makes the whole "key item town teleportation" far more useful. I agree with artifacts for soloes.