Is There Any Advantage to Choosing Harder Levels?

[Deyvson]

Like, is there any advantage of choosing the Sewers instead of Promenade or Rampart? I think that they are a part of advancing in the game, but I see no reason to choose a harder level. I even thought they ere shortcuts, but I guess I was wrong. Even so short cuts would make no sense, since we need the stats upgrades.

[JustABaziKDude]

Advantage: diversity and making the game harder to yourself.
After you've made the tour of the content and mastered it, going the long way feels a bit boring.

[Done25]

Faster runs basically.

[sirkipalot]

Apart from short cut routes. To make life easier cells,promenade,toxic serwers,ossary,balckbridge,graveyard,watcher . I actually went ossary,forgotten spulcher only because i had amassed enough stats to get me through the darkness. I was awaiting a mightmare fight with the two elites in spulcher but my trusdty shovel battered the granny out of them :) Nice first time pass after 300 hours lols

[pop pop]

harder levels spawn more scrolls and give hier level items. also this levels at least challenging

[Z_Raven]

It makes the early game slighly harder until you get your hands on the higher lever gear from the harder enemies.

Going Ossuary > Prison Depths > Bridge gave much better gear than anything else at the cost of being harder for the first level (I don't count Cells as a level).

[76561198055122557]

Originally posted by pop pop:

harder levels spawn more scrolls and give hier level items. also this levels at least challenging

Not true - at least not after the recent patches. A run through Toxic Sewer/Ossuary gives you the same amount as Promenade/Toxic Sewer/Ossuary. After several runs through the different paths my average is like 10 Strength when fighting the Watcher.
At first I thought that the easy and longest path Promenade/Sewer/Ossuary/Sepulchre/Graveyard will give the most scrolls, but it appears they just get spread among all of the levels and if you choose another path you will get the same or very close to the same amount, but with 1 or 2 more per that area.
I only noticed significantly less scrolls when I went on the hardest path Ossuary/Sepulchre.

Basically if you want to flawless the Watcher never go the most scroll starved route which is also the shortest.

[Deyvson]

Originally posted by pop pop:

harder levels spawn more scrolls and give hier level items. also this levels at least challenging

If so they may be really a good choice.

[Deyvson]

Originally posted by Lucky_mole:

Originally posted by pop pop:

harder levels spawn more scrolls and give hier level items. also this levels at least challenging

Not true - at least not after the recent patches. A run through Toxic Sewer/Ossuary gives you the same amount as Promenade/Toxic Sewer/Ossuary. After several runs through the different paths my average is like 10 Strength when fighting the Watcher.
At first I thought that the easy and longest path Promenade/Sewer/Ossuary/Sepulchre/Graveyard will give the most scrolls, but it appears they just get spread among all of the levels and if you choose another path you will get the same or very close to the same amount, but with 1 or 2 more per that area.
I only noticed significantly less scrolls when I went on the hardest path Ossuary/Sepulchre.

Basically if you want to flawless the Watcher never go the most scroll starved route which is also the shortest.

I think that the scrolls may be similar in every route, but today I will test if item level increase with difficulty.

[zgillet]

No.

[Pacino]

It depends. I see it as a way of controlling the game's difficulty. If you're not happy with your weapons in the starting area then you can choose easier routes until you're set up is more to your tastes. However if you get decent weapons to start with then you can go for the harder areas to progress faster and get more powerful items quicker. That's just my experience though, your mileage may vary.

[76561198055122557]

"I only noticed significantly less scrolls when I went on the hardest path Ossuary/Sepulchre." - said that earlier and I might've been wrong with this statement.
After a few more speed runs that were executed better I ended up with 10 Strength on the Watcher, again. The path was Ossuary and Sepulchre and when I got both Timed doors the stat distribution ended as in my average runs.

So if you are going Ossuary first, you better speed run for both timed doors or you might be weaker in the end.

However since I didn't have time for gold gathering and secrets in the end I was 30k gold minus, because of the items/scrolls that had to be bought and whatever gems were behind the timed doors couldn't compensate the difference.

So basically you can speed run it through the harder levels and get the same amount of power, but every run you will be actively losing gold and it will be a large enough sum to annoy you haha

[THANKS OBAMA]

That's how it works?

So I can get way more cells just jumping into higher tiers? Because I haven't seen it so far. Speed running gives me 10 for succeeding at speeding, but I can get about 20-25 more by just slowly inching my way through any level and might find a scroll in the wall.

I thought speed running always had a blueprint, it doesn't, obviously to you guys. After the fourth attempt between me and my friend playing it when we pass controllers we said screw speed running and just went for the powerups and better leveled items.

[Deyvson]

It's a shame we have those scrolls to take, I would prefer they were not necessary. It’s becoming really boring to run the game all over again searching for it just to die. I would prefer speed running to be the norm in a rogue like game.

[MaximumSquid]

Blueprints, faster clear time, more cells if you're farming