New Patch dropped a few hours after this video. D30 is Significantly easier which means more fun themed builds on the way =)

Really wish the God gifts did slightly different things for each character. Like Blades on Gront moved out from him instead. Really feels like it's the same builds regardless of character

@Dribin

7 ай бұрын

That's someone that I loved about Halls of Torment, each character had unique boons that only they could use. But in DMD at least each character has 5 signs to pick from and for me it makes the runs feel fairly different from each character. My only complaint is Merris is currently the only ranged character and the other 4 feel pretty similar all being melee, especially Knight and Warrior.

I haven't yet played this myself? But the thing I feel like I keep seeing that undoes people when they're playing is indecision. They start with a skill, and then rather than stick with that, they start going, '...well, THIS is good too... and THIS might be good... and THIS... and maybe THIS...' and their builds end up all over the place. Often it seems like they *know* what they actually need, but skip it for some unfathomable reason for other stuff that *might* be good... if they could focus on leveling it up and improving it. But just a couple levels later, they're adding another level 1 skill that *might* be good eventually... and then they die because All they really had that was good was that one skill that kept coming up over and over relentlessly, so they took it; everything else is low level and basically useless.

Im fairly convinced that its just me being bad at this but I invested fairly heavily into spell speed gear to try and make meteors, lightning orbs and Blight viable and they still underperform heavily. Even with additional spell projectiles I cant see them clearing D30.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

Its not you, Meteor Swarm and Blight are VERY bad atm. They might show good numbers at the end screen but they don't solve any problems. They are bad at dealing with bosses and oddly also swarms.

Malady with those gloves is redonk, I love it

These nerfs were to much.. Was already limited to what was viable in darkness 30.. Now this limits it even further.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

They reversed most of it today, haven't tested yet but d30 should be much easier

Sounds like you're being protected by a choir of angeles.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

Lol yeah, the reprisal proc effect is like that

Honestly very shocked they didn't nerf soulstealers, it's an EXTREMELY consistent and high damage dealer for mobs and if you get lucky it can also absolutely shatter bosses that are surrounded by mobs.

I feel like less things are viable now and that's bad for the game imo. Had a blast playing over the weekend. Played last night and it was horrible.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

They dropped a new patch today, a lot more things should be viable. Time somehow got better though lol

Watching this vid late today but dev released a patch a few hours ago upping the exp again, kinda funny :D i guess they received a lot of feedback about exp nerf not being fun I hope they add a crafting system, such that you can add a random affix to any item you have, and the crafting reagent only drops from the end-boss of a stage, would be pretty cool and would enable you to hunt for items more than the "oh it dropped, now i have it forever", im still rocking my awesome 2 items that gives onyx dragons, they weren't hit by the nerf it seems even tho they are summons, they deal between 80-250 (if they crit) and usually deal quite a lot of dmg during an entire run. I don't think i will ever part with my current boots i have on Merris which gives me: 5 armor, 18 Life, 20 movespeed -10% dash cooldown, it's so awesome with dash cd that i usually don't pick up a dash unless it's morts lifedrain dash which is great or if i get justive since it helps with the lower penalty on movespeed, sets my default dash cd at 2.5s, if i get an extra 3% from the goblin house it says in "b" that it's down to 2.4s which i manage to get on most runs :D The Lusty Orc is great lore haha

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

People were not happy in the discord lol.

I wonder if the exp nerf is going to make Times attack and Morts execution mandatory just to get a little more xp

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

Little bit concerned about that myself

@ErathornIx

8 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff hadn't got to your last run when I made that comment but seems to prove the point. Probably giving summer and winter ways to generate XP would make them more competitive. "when you kill a burning enemy chance to drop bonus XP" or "when an enemy unfreezes drop XP shard"

@Quxer0721

8 ай бұрын

@@ErathornIx This isn't bad idea, but it would kill the purpose of unique trait per god. I think Time just need better speciality or just replace generating shards to chance to upgrade shard to bigger one for example. We have red which is the best, next orange and green and blue, so they can try it. As for Execution they could change it to: Whenever you kill an enemy, there is a chance that it spawns a weak pick-up. Cursed enemies have a higher chance of dropping pick-ups. Weak pick-ups has shorted duration of X% (here savely they could do 30-50% of normal duration). Then after those changes just buff experience a little, not exactly to original values before patch.

@ErathornIx

8 ай бұрын

@@Quxer0721 yeah I agree they should all have a good niche but I think XP gain is just too good to leave as the exclusive niche of any one god. Will make them almost always the top pick.

@Quxer0721

8 ай бұрын

@@ErathornIx That is true, but not entirely. Mainly experience is OP, because of stacking it with Gem High. Then it is just self-propelling mechanism. Remove movement speed from this skill and this won't be mandatory. The problem I see here is that developers try to make skills universal or strongly synergistic. It is ok, but it makes harder to balance. I'm trying to play double Onyx Dragon Avoron right now and I had got Inferno from Summer. I have little to no alternations so I took it. But other fire skills didn't work with me, so I died on 16-17 minute mark. Before that I took Time, Mort and Justice and completed darkness 30. What I'm saying is, too much synergy between gods make it harder to choose other options. To get those 3 gods I restarted run for 3-5 times. For me generation gems should be removed from the game and replaced with something else, maybe chance to get upgraded shards like I mentioned before. In that way time would still be good as complementary god and just normalise XP for the rest of the game. It is better to noone has than everyone.

Don't those Heavy Metal Boots allow rarity to go straight from novice > master as an upgrade?

@5illyMe

8 ай бұрын

I think it allows you to upgrade from expert > master. Which I hadn't even realized I've never seen.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

this is correct, you cannot go front expert to master normally

Feels like soulstealer is the only "viable" attack spell after the nerf. Hoping for a rebalance patch soon.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

They dropped it today lol

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

Already happened, the patch that is

Just booted up the game and I feel that Time is now necessary to beat the higher difficulties. Managed to achieve lvl 32 with Time and Mort on Darkness 30 but it was a perfect run, more or less and the summons shred dracula in seconds. Definitely needs tweaking if we are supposed to have some build diversity. edit: leaned even more into xp gains with items and achieved lvl 47 by the end with Merris xD

hi, what version is this?

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

This was a prior version than current

That was interesting. It is sad, that only Soul Stealers are good right now. Other builds need too much setup to get going and probably won't be good at bosses. Let's hope today they fixed some things up.

I’ve been trying to get a triple dragon run going. They hit crazy hard now

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

I have double dragons on my knight, planning on trying that out later today

@Ragnell123

8 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff I’ve been somewhat foolishly also trying to get the fire and ice dragons. But taking both Summer and Winter makes my build…not the strongest, lol. The damage/DPS numbers for the dragons are always very impressive though

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

@@Ragnell123 Well the patch today did make the game quite a bit easier, so Summer/Winter/Time might be viable

@Ragnell123

8 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff what the heck. I can’t keep up with these patches. My ass is still at work xD

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

@@Ragnell123 lol, I think this will be the last one for a bit. Too much listening to the community can be a bad thing

DAYMAN AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

idk if i missed anything, but it seems like they destroyed necromancy even more than the patch notes says. watched a run just before this one and while fighting dracula none of the skeletons dracula summoned spawned any skeletons from necromancy, so maybe summoned mobs don't count anymore. which would make necromancy trash since it can't even do 1 dmg to dracula. wasn't worded great but there it is :p

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

Hmm, that sounds like a bug.I figured the entire purpose of dracula summoning was for things like Necromancy to work

the shop can sell uniques

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

I'm very unlucky then lol

@xo_plasm9507

8 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff i'm 94% sure O_O

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

@@xo_plasm9507 lol several people in the discord have said its possible so I believe it. Probably about the odds of gambling a Shako though =p

They coulda not fixed double map objectives it was fun getting them so often 😢

@dragoncpu2226

8 ай бұрын

also I appreciate balance changes but I feel likeAdding things would be better for the game than fixing old things. Unless it was broken or completely op then I do not think changes are necessary.

You have zéro pick up range, you left so many levels on thé Battlefield in the second run whitout force.

Ooof, we should probably avoid the "best/hottest god" discussion. Also, it's a tie between Mort and the Fate triplets, and I will not be taking notes at this time.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

It's obviously Summer 🔥🔥🔥

@bearnaff9387

8 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff I also have an discerning eye for redheads, but look at it this way: Summer would get with a mortal because she enjoys the attention. Mort would do it because she genuinely liked you. (The Fate sisters would jump you as a group because you walked up, gave your best cheesy pickup line, then pilled out a die and rolled a Nat 20 right in front of them.)

This game doesn't have enough content to be nerfing shit already

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

The discord is crazy with balance suggestions. I obviously don't know the teams workload, so I'm thinking one of the devs is doing community/ balance stuff while the others are working on the content, at least I hope

I’ve seen this bait-and-switch with a number of games. Just means I won’t play as much because I’m not dealing with autistic game developers.

Can I suggest you don't put the timestamps for the runs in the seek bar? Maybe in the description. Cause spoilers. It ruins the sense of tension if we know you win, or makes us invest less if we know you die. And it's hard for your eyes to avoid it there.

@gamingwithjeff

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. I was trying it out cause of the patch notes section, but I agree with you.