Spoiler: The Encounter Shards Guide for Lazybones

[LE_MALEM]

I'm making this topic in order to avoid any flood in the Hand of Fate 2 forums. READ THE GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK! This will be for Encounter Cards only, not Weapon Cards:

Arm Wresling: Beat the Gambit Dice of 22+ (High Priestess is perfect to finish this challenge)
Bitter Winter: Give 8 Food then get a Huge Success in Harvest (Better be done in Endless Mode)
Cunning Man: Make sure you have 2 Curses and 2 Blessings. Ask to remove a Specific Curse and pay with 2 Blessings. (Emperor Map is AMAZING for this!)
Duel: Keep winning the Duel until you fight a Brimstone Knight of Steel.
Empire Contracts: Depends on the map and the challenge (For example if you're in the Emperor Map, request a Vs Thieves equipment)
Fabled Beast: Get a Huge Success and win the Dice Gambit for good measure.
Fallen Treasure: Take the treasure and succeed the Pendulum Check.
Fetid Fens: Succeed the Pendulum Check.
Forgotten Dreams: Make sure you have a Platinum Card encounter already encountered then encounter this card and get the Platinum Card encounter again.
Healer: Get yourself 2 Curses and have 20+ Fame. Ask for Specific Curse removal.
Hired Hand: Make sure you put expensive Equipment in your deck then choose an Equipment
more expensive than 40 Gold, not the Gold itself then help him by winning the fight.
Interception: Lose all your gold and succeed the Pendulum check.
Joust: Make sure that you are witnessed by the Nobleman (Final Joust). In the 3 matches, get a Success, Huge Failure and another Success. A tie breaker will ensue where you must win to get the shard and the prize money. (This changed due to patch 1.3.5: You just have to win the Final Joust)
Little Devil: Give him a Curse.
Lost Boy: Save him then win the Gambit dice.
Mage Workshop: Also depends on the challenge (For example if you're on The Tower, request a Food equipment since Tower is Food-based)
Mystery Chest: Guess correctly TWICE!
Mystical Island: Pay the cartographer and earn a Success in the Wheel Gambit.
One Drunken Night: DO NOT TAKE DAMAGE!
Pauper Dilemma: Help the Villagers!
Purgatory: DO IT! JUST DO IT!
Raider Prevention: Kill ALL 10 Notheners in 45 Seconds!
Soothsayer: Just pay the fortune teller.
Spyglass: Don't explore too much of the map and give him the helmet permenantly (Emperor Map)
The Arae Demon: Get 3 Curses then win the Gambit Dice (Emperor Map)
The Black Cauldron: Trade, just trade your weapons for a blessing!
Toshers: Just succeed all gambits while having the Diadem equipped!
Wandering Tracker: Ask for everything then pay her for the last one.
Watch Tower: Sneak in and succeed the Card Gambit. Do it on a big map and make sure that you don't reveal too much of it before discovering this card!
Wine of the Gods: Win the prize, duh!
Winter Solace: Give her blessings![/spoilers]





I hope you enjoy!

[Cheeseness]

This is close! There are a couple (like Watch Tower and Toshers) that aren't quite right, though.

[LE_MALEM]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

This is close! There are a couple (like Watch Tower and Toshers) that aren't quite right, though.

I'm writing these by memory! I didn't take note of everything.
I think in Watch Tower you need to be able to explore both vertically and horizontally[/spoilers]

[Cheeseness]

Originally posted by LE_MALEM:

I think in Watch Tower you need to be able to explore both vertically and horizontally

It's not that specifically, but you're close :)

[AlienFromBeyond]

Hired Hand is definitely incorrect, I just picked an equipment when I got it and lost my chance at the token. Are you sure it isn't the opposite, take the gold specifically?

EDIT: I think it's pick the "correct" equipment, the one that he forces you to take if you try to take the gold. I'm guessing the lowest cost of the items offered?

Mage's Workshop is also incorrect, pretty easy to see because when you fail to get the shard it says "Equipment traits do not match the current Challenge." So it's not about getting a Food equipment, it's about getting a Food equipment in a challenge that cares about Food (likewise for gold etc.). This is also true for Empite Contacts.

[_G_]

In case anyone is working on the Item Shards as well and needs a hand;

One of the easiest ones is the Ram Shield shard, it can be achieved after one single combat round, just make sure it is just you against one or more Frost Tyrants (preferably without a Companion to accidentally kill the opponent), their regenerating ice armour can be bashed off to achieve the first step, then, don't hit them anymore, just dodge, let them regenerate the armour and repeat the destruction of their armour 49 more times, then kill them and done, shard acquired!

[TARDIS]

Raider Prevention.
If you find it difficult to win this battle even with good weapons, then you will help blessing " Sacrificial Ties." You can sacrifice a companion and remove 1 monster card. Then you will have only 5 opponents for 45 seconds.

[_G_]

Originally posted by TARDIS:

Raider Prevention.
If you find it difficult to win this battle even with good weapons, then you will help blessing " Sacrificial Ties." You can sacrifice a companion and remove 1 monster card. Then you will have only 5 opponents for 45 seconds.

That's a very good tip if you don't have that though, the artifact that causes knockdown will also allow you to kill all ten extremely easily. The Meteor artifact is also useful, but not as effective as the other one.

[Halser, the]

Originally posted by TARDIS:

Raider Prevention.
If you find it difficult to win this battle even with good weapons, then you will help blessing " Sacrificial Ties." You can sacrifice a companion and remove 1 monster card. Then you will have only 5 opponents for 45 seconds.

a rather rare combination, but Dionysius' Revenge and Absolved Plight obliterates this encounter. Get and AoE freeze before using the artifact and you'll bring pretty much every enemy to near death instantly.

[kalec.gos]

for cunning man, you need 2 or more curses in order to get the shard, otherwise you wont get the "remove a specific curse" option

[LE_MALEM]

Originally posted by kalec.gos:

for cunning man, you need 2 or more curses in order to get the shard, otherwise you wont get the "remove a specific curse" option

I'll correct everything now!

[UltimateChaos]

I'm still interested in hired hand and watch tower. I think choosing the cheapest thing for hired hand is correct (need to test) and watch tower may have to explore at least one time to the north, east, west, and south.

[UltimateChaos]

Oh, and I'm till trying to get toshers. I think it depends on which equipment you have. There's a comment about how you're "princess" then the shard reattaches for me.

[LE_MALEM]

Originally posted by UltimateChaos:

Oh, and I'm till trying to get toshers. I think it depends on which equipment you have. There's a comment about how you're "princess" then the shard reattaches for me.

The only thing that makes you look like a princess in the game is the Diadem, which is also helpful in Pendulum checks!

[kalec.gos]

Originally posted by UltimateChaos:

I'm still interested in hired hand and watch tower. I think choosing the cheapest thing for hired hand is correct (need to test) and watch tower may have to explore at least one time to the north, east, west, and south.

*hint for tower*
it is not about cardinal directions, its about the amount of cards that get revealed
(emperor)

[LE_MALEM]

Originally posted by kalec.gos:

Originally posted by UltimateChaos:

I'm still interested in hired hand and watch tower. I think choosing the cheapest thing for hired hand is correct (need to test) and watch tower may have to explore at least one time to the north, east, west, and south.

*hint for tower*
it is not about cardinal directions, its about the amount of cards that get revealed
(emperor)

So it's the same as Spyglass You have to not reveal too much of the map and it has to be big enough too.