equipment questions

[Dixon Sider]

What does the 1+ mean at the bottom right of some of my pieces of gear? some say 1, some say 1+, what is the difference?

also, what are the grey squares at the top left when inspecting gear? some pieces have 1, 2, 3, or no grey squares.

I am at the very beginning of the second floor. I am skipping all dialogue so spoilers are welcome if needed. I assume either one or both of these stats have to do with the item forge. I am playing on epic so im trying to min max, and dont understand the 2 stats mentioned above

If these were mentioned in the game already i must have skipped them. The story doesnt have me very interested.

Thanks!!!

[Event Horizon]

So I, I+, II... etc. are item tiers -- I and I+ is steel then you get access to higher materials. In principal jump between I and I+ is medium, jump between I+ and II is a bit higher. As you get access to IV and V - you can roll pretty interesting items - exceptionally good positive stats but also a chance for a negative.

Gray boxes - number of upgrade counters for item forge.

Its semi-random but within ranges - e.g. greens have 2 or 3, blues 1 or 2 (you can later roll 3 too), purple 1 or 2.

Unique items (gold) have no slots.

You can end up with purples 5 too but using different event in game.

How is epic difficulty on 1 ?

Care to join our discord server to share the feedback?

[Dixon Sider]

Thanks for the info. and to answer your questions

1) Level 1 was very difficult, but fair. pretty good difficulty for learning the mechanics. I had to cheese some fights by kiting the 2-handed skeletons, baiting and abusing line of sight, blocking spawns with walls, and im sure im missing some things. the first floor took me maybe 10 hours on epic. But i also had to learn the mechanics so it would take a lot less for someone who just finished the game on normal. maybe 25% of the fights i was able to finish on my first attempt. and there were like 3 or 4 that took me 5+ attempts. 2 fights that i had to leave and come back after i killed the final boss. The 2 i had to leave were the hidden room fight, and the fight where i threw a rock down the well. And i had to use many different strategies for the different fights, some were not so obvious to figure out. It was sort of like solving a puzzle

2) I just got the 4th character and im going to take a short break, because the fight where i had to chose to break the statue with a sword or not took a lot out of me. I couldnt beat it with the magic route (which i wanted) so i broke it with the sword just to get past it. im getting pretty deep in the negatives with the elf companion now lol. I will continue again in a little while, if you still want to talk on discord i will.

[Event Horizon]

I would be interested in your builds - mostly i am curious if you went weapon-way or skill-way (maxing Mastery) on Kane and Maeve. Whenever you have few minutes for chat on Discord - or you could send us your saves via Report Issue so i can study your champ lineup

[Dixon Sider]

ok im on discord. can i get a link to the channel?