Is anybody pushing the "God of the Arena" or "True God of the Arena" achievements on Nightmare difficulty?

[Canti]

I'm interested in discussing strategies you've found success with.

A strategy I have found to be moderately reliable early on is abusing Grapple with a Monk 1 (choosing Improved Grapple) strength focus transitioning into Fighter 1 for Plate Armor. If the enemy attacks first (instead of enemy defending and I grapple) it makes combat much more likely I will lose.

[Universal Gamer]

I started a Forum post in regards to Arena,

https://steamcommunity.com/app/576770/discussions/0/3194745319517131255/

Currently (again) I have been idle with the progress, though I am around 800 waves in.

-Universal Gamer

[Canti]

What difficulty have you been playing on?

[Universal Gamer]

This one has been on Hard from the first encounter.

It should be in the forum, you could achieve it the easy way and do it on the easiest setting.

-Universal Gamer

[Canti]

One problem I run into is never having a enough glory points.

I am not sure how glory points work, i.e. is it a percent chance after every encounter to get one, is it some hidden value that gets added to every encounter and given to you after a threshold?

Do you have any insight into how glory points work or strategies for getting more?

[Universal Gamer]

I do recall on the 'Hard' option you received more GP than on easy, so it does scale with difficulty.

And yes it is a grind to get them for the upgrades, and the upgrades increase accordingly or exponentially, depending on what your upgrading.

The options purchased with GP are nothing that will overbalance your party, but give you better lifestyle things, such as map shadow/sunlight cover, store item limits etc.

Don't over stress on the GP element as you will earn it through the game play.

-Universal Gamer

[Winter Wolf]

Hrmm I decided to try this (on easy because meh) and am finding the gold not the bottleneck but the items that appear in the store.

[Canti]

> The options purchased with GP are nothing that will overbalance your party, but give you better lifestyle things, such as map shadow/sunlight cover, store item limits etc.

I have found at a minimum that upgrading blue items is a must otherwise you are at the whim of the store and drops.

[Canti]

> Hrmm I decided to try this (on easy because meh) and am finding the gold not the bottleneck but the items that appear in the store.

GP is glory points not gold points. Gold points can be a bit of a bottle neck when you go to upgrade your items as it can get fairly expensive.

[Canti]

Is there a way to increase force damage, specifically for Magic Missile. It drops off fairly quickly in power because it's capped at 5 missiles and is not affected by bonuses to elemental damage.

[MsB]

I think there might be something I am missing - new to game. I tried to create a party for arena using races that give level adjustments. It seems you can do that since this thread suggests some. However, when I tried to play them the game says, "The high level character cannot be added now. Please level up your party in game before doing so." What am I missing? Do I have to use the characters in adventure mode? How much leveling do they need?

[Universal Gamer]

You need to adjust the settings to set ECL to 0 (can not recall how to do it).
At present the ECL characters enter the game at the ECL level, so an ECL +2 you can only introduce conce the party is level 2

-Universal Gamer

[MsB]

Thanks. I found a house rule in the long list that says, "Remove racial level adjustment." It looks like that is what was needed.

[Canti]

> Thanks. I found a house rule in the long list that says, "Remove racial level adjustment." It looks like that is what was needed.

100%. This is a really fun way to play, especially if you want to start as a melee character on Nightmare where the bonuses are not in your favor early on.