Hardest species!?!?
Posted: Sunday, 11th March 2012, 18:14
What's the hardest species to all-clear the game with as a:
1) Melee-damager
2) Ranged-damager
3) Overall ???
1) Melee-damager
2) Ranged-damager
3) Overall ???
KoboldLord wrote:Generally speaking, species is a much smaller contributor to success than background. Backgrounds range from wildly overpowered to chaos knight, while species tend to range from vanilla to quirky. If you pick a power background suitable for your species and learn the quirks of your species' gameplay, you should do all right. Pick a wretched background and even picking one of the stronger species won't really compensate.
KoboldLord wrote:Generally speaking, species is a much smaller contributor to success than background. Backgrounds range from wildly overpowered to chaos knight, while species tend to range from vanilla to quirky. If you pick a power background suitable for your species and learn the quirks of your species' gameplay, you should do all right. Pick a wretched background and even picking one of the stronger species won't really compensate.
tormodpwns wrote:Really? I've always heard the exact opposite. The background is simply some items and skills, while racial mutations and stats are things that can never be changed.
KoboldLord wrote:tormodpwns wrote:Really? I've always heard the exact opposite. The background is simply some items and skills, while racial mutations and stats are things that can never be changed.
Species changes the method of play, but ultimately almost all of the game's difficulty is packed into the pre-Lair section. Starting equipment greatly affects the pre-Lair section's difficulty. A spriggan winner and an ogre winner will look, play, and feel entirely different, but the vast majority of the dead spriggans and ogres on the way to those winners will be in the early game where background still has a major impact.
Compare a berserker to a chaos knight. They're both melee-biased starts, but they're respectively the strongest and weakest melee-biased starts in the game, for any species except demigods.
tormodpwns wrote:Really? I've always heard the exact opposite. The background is simply some items and skills, while racial mutations and stats are things that can never be changed.