How to win?

[sheshin]

well, the title is kinda self explainatory, i've been playing for months and just last week i managed to lower like half of the health of the baron, i simply cannot defeat him, how do i do it?

[Kunges']

Well it's prior to just enjoy the game as you go along. But there are ways that you can cheat the system and earn as much experience as possible through repeated processes.

- Swimming Ho! -
- For the one with leg strength and some time to kill, you could always go for a swim. As you stay in water you occasionally increase your swimming ability which in term leads to EXP and some potentional levels.

- What's this? What's this? -
- For every item you appraise, you have a chance to increase your appraise ability which also means potential EXP. It doesn't matter the difficulty in the item itself, you get the same progress reward for appraising a high class gem as for a mere rock or a piece of cheese. So you could go for a digging spree and appraise every rock that pops out. Keep in mind that too many items lying around on the stage will deteriorate your FPS so keep it moderate or find a hole to deposit the unwanted spoils.

- Gimme that salmon, now have it back -
- Find a food merchant and buy some of his stock, as much as you can afford. Go ahead and appraise the buyings and sell them back, he won't mind. Try to repeat this for as long as your money allows. For every item bought and sold, as for swimming and appraise, you have a chance to raise your barter ability and earn a small amount of EXP for each one. If you repeat this long enough, you fallout money for buying and selling becomes 0 and you can repeat buying and selling food for a very fast way of power levelling.


These ways lessen in quantity depending on what challenges you enable. If you perchance enable hunger, then your time doing these chores are limited and you will have to go for as long as your food allows you. Same thing for the minotaur, don't play chicken with yourself just to see how long you can farm EXP until he arrives.

Hope any of this helps.

[mistersneak]

In addition to leveling exploits, there's a few things you can do to favor yourself in combat against the Baron. Knowing that he shoots magic and summons monsters (which behave just like any monster in the game) - these things may help you figure out some strategies of what items to collect and keep in store for that fight. I could tell you how I do it, but I feel like that would be spoiling, since I'm a dev. Let's just say the right collection of items can really go a long way to helping you succeed.

[sheshin]

Well, somehow i managed to kill the demon boss, but i still cannot kill the baron, at least i killed one boss

[Snipe]

Basically be a Cleric.
Get one of the special high damage weapons, find a bunch of stuff that blesses your special weapon to do something like 13 damage.
Get blessed armor, magic reflection gear, health potions, healing spells, high dexterity to run around and dodge attacks. Magic staff is useful too.

That is how I solo'd the Baron. I got lucky with item drops and blessings. Ended up being level 27, used probably 8 magic staves, got him down to just over half health, got tired of trying to hit him with ranged so I ran up to him with my Excalibur +5 and danced around hitting him. I did have to run away to heal and equip a different magic reflection item a couple times.

[gedet]

ways to get xp: waste green staffs (shoot them at walls etc). find light spell/other low cost mana spells and cast them constantly whenever you have extra mana, go swimming, pick up shields, block enemies with them until they break. train and use ranged as much as possible. pick up all ranged weapons (even cursed) and use them until they break (on enemies). trade with the shopkeepers as much as possible. pick up every item you see to appraise it, recruit humans, attack enemies with said humans. use lock pick on locked doors, chests instead of breaking

if you find the ring of warning kill all the monsters on each level of the map if possible.

huge important finds for the boss fight: anything that makes you levitate, ranged weapons, combat staffs, high (and full) mana, magic reflection items

final boss battle: keep 1 pick axe or staff of digging, make some holes in the walls so you can retreat easily. using boots of levitations lure his spawns (or the boss himself) outside of the main chamber and kill them. do not focus on the boss if minions are walking around unless they aren't attacking you at all (invisibility etc) alternatively you can face the boss by himself if you lured all the minions/the boss outside the main chamber.