Beat the ArchDemon last night with my rogue, barely. Easily the hardest fight so far and the first time I have been frustrated with the pathed movement - I would often get “stuck” for nonobvious reasons and almost died a couple times as a result. I will be curious to hear how it goes with warrior who presumably is less reliant on spacing.
My loadout is mostly artifacts as well with poison arrow, ice arrow, health potion, and a “get people away from me” spell, although for the archdemon i wish i had a couple more of the latter. A couple of the artifacts I had at level 3, primarily the one that splits every arrow upon hit and is hard to imagine playing without.
Unsure if I will dive further with the archer - I like how it gives you a list of the things left to unlock with a class, including 41! legendaries, good grief - or try another class. If I keep on with the archer I will change loadouts for fun, maybe try more of a spell-based approach.
My only real complaint so far other than the pathing complaint above is that it’s really annoying when gold, goblets etc spawn behind something and are hard to see. I end up backtracking a whole freaking level to get it. So, either make them stand out more, or better, allow you to automatically hoover up all gold if that is the only thing left in a level.
Congrats on beating the ArchDemon! I’m still a couple of large-very big games away from him, but getting there steadily each night.
After I finish, I’m not sure I will have the patience to play through with another class. I may take a break and play something else, then come back if/when they update the game with an expansion or DLC and play another class for that.
Thanks! The upgraded divine potions made it pretty easy as i could just wade in and ignore damage in some of the dangerous parts.
You can continue down, but that game didn’t show up on the leaderboards for me. I’m not sure if it is supposed to. When I started fresh that game showed up on the leaderboards.
Archdemon slain here as well, right around midnight Sunday night coincidentally. =) And yes, the reward is substantial.
As a warrior with pretty beefed up equipment cards the Archdemon wasn’t difficult himself, but his support staff had me in hot water a couple of times, especially the ones that summon. Prior to engaging him I swapped out the Ice Bomb card I had been using for crowd control with an upgraded Divine Potion, and like @robc04 I can attest to their effectiveness. I used all 4 of the charges left on mine, and 8 of 10 charges on my 2x magical healing potion card, along with several Remedy card charges, all in the fight with the Archdemon. I actually town portaled after unlocking the gate to his area just to recharge cards.
One thing I would have done differently as a warrior on the way down to the Archdemon is saved some of my $$$ to unlock the 10th and final card slot. I could never swing the $100K cost as I spent a lot of money upgrading runes to better runes and then using them to upgrade my equipment. With the 10th slot, I could have equipped the Dagger card I found late in Hell. Dagger gives you a base 25% chance to one-hit kill any wounded target with less than 3 hearts. Upgrading it increases the chance (up to 50%) and the heart value (up to 5)…which would make for some seriously effective crowd control in those swarms you find all over the bottom levels of Hell. Ah well, maybe next time.
I think I am done with Book of Demons for now. I don’t have the desire to start over in Freeplay with a different character, and I feel like I “completed” the game by defeating the Archdemon. I will definitely return to the game sometime, probably if it gets a content update or DLC, but for now I want to go back and finish Bard’s Tale IV and then move on to maybe Kingdom Come : Deliverance or Fallout 4, both of which are in my backlog and are unplayed. I really enjoyed Book of Demons though, and kudos to the developers for creating something so fun, engaging and unique.
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That’s how I feel - just that there are better options for spending my gaming time. The journey to beat the arch demon was fun though. I did play one freeplay run and died when I was a little careless, halting my leaderboard climb sooner than I would have liked.
@Konstantyka a minor usability request - given how nice it is to be able to just click on the stair icon to leave when the floor is clear, it’d be great if it automatically used any unused fountains when you left a cleared level also.
There is an achievement for not using fountains so this would have to be optional extra button. This kind of shortcutting QoL stuff would promptly encourage people to ask for “pick up all gold and stuff” buttons ;-). I will add it to the list of QoL stuff to consider.
I went on past the ArchDemon with my ranger a bit and there’s some neat stuff the game does.
There are four difficulty levels for the randomized dungeons below. Once you open the second (doesn’t take long) the game picks two cards for you every session and locks them into specific slots. Then you get to pick the rest of your loadout. In addition, every boss monster disables 3 of your cards; it often picks ones that are not equipped but it can pick anything!
I really liked how these two additions could force a change in my gameplay; it can be too easy to stick with what works. A couple of the boss fights disabled my health potion which led to some tense and fun moments, and I had to mess with some attack skills I hadn’t played with yet. Plus activating multiple bosses at once becomes really exciting.
Ultimately I think I’m done with it as well, however. What got me in the end was the movement, which is a core feature of the game. But it’s just so slow and constrained, and makes me long for a more free wheeling arpg. As a result I finally dove into Path of Exile, and that’s just an unfair comparison for this game. I could see myself diving back into this once in a while for a short burst of slower paced arpg goodness, and I am curious what further difficulties are like.
yeah, that’s fair. Given that you explicitly have stuff to help people find the loot/monsters they missed (which implies that you want to make people do the legwork) it’s probably appropriate to leave that out.
