Antiquarians are a support and loot class. They have a lot of great buffs for combat and they really boost your loot.
Antiquarians have generally poor combat skills, but get more and more valuable loot (and you need to have the antiquarian selected when you search, it’s not enough to have them in the party) and can stack more loot in a single inventory slot.
I don’t even bother hiring antiquarians. But keep those highwaymen and houndmasters coming!
Antiquarians can hugely speed the ‘grind’. But they do require care as they are pretty useless in direct damage.
When I want to get a big pile of money in a hurry I take an antiquarian on a low level dungeon. I don’t keep them past level 2 because on harder levels I don’t want to compromise my chances in combat, and I already find more treasure than I can carry in lower level quests, so I don’t see the point. I know there are ways to make them pull their weight in combat, but there are always classes that are more directly useful.
Wow. I don’t have one right now but does it say somewhere on their card they do that?
I might have asked, but does having an antiquarian mean you can skip using keys or do you still get better loot opening chests with a key and antiquarian?
I’m not sure it does.
You still need to bring keys, in fact the antiquarian bring a free key along when you bring her.
Finding a secret treasure room with an antiquarian in the party is such a good thing.
EA is released.
I have to say, first impression is not good actually. Great atmosphere, sound and graphical design, not surprisingly. The mechanics and balancing however…
Coach travel is a really slow slog for no reason.
Hope you enjoy having your party hate each other a bit more for “stealing my kill” each time someone lands a killing blow.
90% of trinkets and items are +10% resist to something. yawn
Hot tip: use your starting skill upgrade on the Plague Doctor “Ounce of Prevention” skill to reduce stress on all units.
How do you find a secret treasure room? I want to try and do that now just so I can experience it.
Secret treasure rooms are secret! You’ll find one eventually.
This is the thread you want:
I thought that post was in reference to the first game. I love the voice overs so much. Just amazing.
Ups, my bad. That explains the lack of DD2 feedback here at least. :P
Here’s the source i use for curios, i like it because i can just ctrl-f to find what i encounter, and the descriptions are very detailed. Ugh, though it looks like they made the central table fit to what, 1000 px?
Hehe yes, very hard to use on an iPad too. Scrolling for centuries.
Meh, that thread is also bogged down i DD1 talk.
Bring someone with a good scouting ability! (This is generally a good idea anyway.)
They will appear on the dungeon map with a gold star. Move to the tile next to the star and click on the up arrow key to enter. You need a key to access the treasure. Secret rooms appear randomly and not in every dungeon. The down arrow key exits the room.
Watch out for The Collector that can appear between rooms, the more loot you have the higher chance it will appear. Stun it early and often.
Hmmm I don’t have an up or down arrow cause I’m on iPad.
It’s funny how incredibly stressed out I get on these dungeon runs even if I’m just going for some loot. I can’t do more than a run or two before having to put it down.