@@aldenpotamus I'm an engineer and a cybersecurity professional so I've seen alot of tools. And I must say your tool is amazingly functional and the UI/UX is dope. Thanks again for responding!
@nickstoltz8817 thank you! It still has some bugs to work out (that tooltip loves wandering off the page), and I have a few more enhancements designed for it... but it was a super fun project and I'm really happy with the result (and thrilled to hear that others like it too)! If you're curious about any of the code, we have a channel on the discord where I will occasionally discuss some of the stuff I'm up to and also field questions people have about my various repos. Everything I make is open source and I'm always curious to see what people think! Discord: discord.gg/9zy6C8vSEH
The timing is perfect! Literally, just watched your old hero builds guide and was thinking: Ahhh, i wish he would make a new guide, like he did with weapons and perks. And BOOM, here it is ! :)) Thank you for your work!
I recently discovered your channel and have been blown away at how thoughtful, informative, and enjoyable your content is. I get the sense you are a coder by trade and don't "need" to be here, spending so much time on creating such masterful work. This seems to be a pure passion project and we are all the better for it. Outstanding.
@brightonrock59007 thank you so much! Sorry for the slow reply, this last week we've been moving and the comments have been simmering. Can't thank you enough for your generosity! You are indeed correct that I'm a coder my trade, I worked as a Tech Lead at Google most recently and took these last 4-ish years off to try something completely different. My dream is to make this a full time gig that supports me, and donations like this always remind me that it's more than possible. So glad you enjoyed the content, I've got plenty more ideas and there's certainly more to come!
@@aldenpotamus You are making the internet I want to have possible. Data collection, ads, etc - I hate this business model (but understand it). I rather content consumers (like myself) set aside a certain amount of money per month to use to support content creators they enjoy. I think there are enough of us with the financial means to support content creators while still allowing those less fortunate to consume content for free. Good luck in your journey! I am on the cusp of finally beating Glintfien because of your well presented ideas. Thanks again!
@brightonrock59007 thank you truly! I 100% agree with that you're saying... the place I find my greatest joys is in enjoying amazing things that others have created, and strangely not from ads :) As for me I do believe that if I keep putting out high quality stuff the rest will follow. So here's hoping!
@bumbibjorne thank you for the donation and kind words! Means the world to me, and we're gonna keep on making videos of as high a quality as we can muster and hopefully the subs continue to flow! :)
I was really excited for this video and you delivered in spades. Some really interesting builds, the standouts for me are: 1. Hedgehog - it's been really interesting watching your opinion on this type of build change over time. One fun thing I want to add is that once a hero with berserk gets about 50 resistance and block, you can pretty reliably buff them with catapults. 2. Stoutpire - fascinating idea. Hadn't realized how much mana you can get from stouts. I'm definitely using this one going forward. 3. Baneful dodger - incredibly fun looking build, with bonus points for making poisonous viable. 4. Market Gardener - Interesting build, it's really a standout for the name. A reference to the Operation Market Garden from WWII. The build does a very good job of bringing the idea of a paratrooper to The Last Spell. Finally, I'm really glad you had a good laugh with the Gun Fu build. Part of the credit goes to SevenOfHearts, because the idea for the build came from a question they had in the discord and the following discussion. The original idea came from the question "How to make flexibility and specialist work at the same time?". That said, I agree with dropping Specialist in favor of Adrenaline Rush. It fits the Gun Fu theme better and makes the build a tiny bit more viable.
@ZealotOfSteal heck yeah, thank you :) 1) I need to try HH + Catapults... which would mean building catapults, something I'm loathe to do, but for you I'll give it a try. I think the major inflection point for HH builds was definitely the War Shield. 2) Stout is a shocking amount of mana for sure :) 3) Baneful Dodger, I was going for a riff on The Artful Dodger with Abigail providing the inspiration. I' not sure it's a great build, but I think it could be fun. 4) Apparently it's also a reference to a weapon in TF2 for the soldier that made Rocket Jumps do something special. And I assume that that was referring to the WWII operation! So more lore :) Gun-fu was super fun to talk about, I totally get why specialist was in there now... you need to tell me when you've watched Equilibrium though... you have homework!
I absolutely love this content. It's easy to understand and really entertaining. I appreciate all the hard work and dedication you put into it. Thanks a ton!
@nawe6 so glad you enjoyed it. Making these approachable and standalone was my number one goal so if I managed to do that even a little I'm thrilled. Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for reviewing my Sniper build! I should have left a note that this build is all about having fun and using watchtowers to control the battlefield with longbow and thats why i noted emergency tunnel cause diagonally all you need is two watchtowers and you basically cover the entire map, even better with 2 snipers they kinda polish your other 4 heroes cleaning up the map.
@markodespotov1455 heck yeah, thank you for submitting it! I totally see the vision, and have been thinking hard about how some game changes (mods) could make sniper type builds more on par with some of their AoE brethren. Either way super cool build and thank you!
Great to see you put all those builds on the site. Curious to see if more builds will get added over time. One thing I think might be fun if is there's a weapon-based search function added. (as in: if I want to play with a certain weapon, what kind of build would play most to its strengths or cover its weaknesses) I mean, we don't need that for the hand crossbow, but it'd be nifty for some of the less OP weapons.
@ErpyAGDI I'd like more builds to be added over time, so as I discover them or others submit them perhaps we can do a part two, but in the meantime I'll definitely add them to the website! Weapon based search is interesting, I think the reason I haven't is that the "right" way to play is decide what your hero should be and then get the weapons that support it, not the other way around. So it's an interesting idea, but the use case might be a little niche.
I've found your channel recently and have been binging all your content and loving it, great job! As a feedback, it would be nice if we had links leading to the wiki for things such as perks and gear. Noobs like me can't recognize icons from the picture yet and I feel this content is targeting newish players.
It's a great callout. Thank you for taking the time to share the @darkkronus -- I do realize that with this second edition of the build guide I made things a little harder for the newer players in the interest of making something pretty. Links would be a great next step, I'll add it to my every expanding to-do list :) Thanks @darkkronus
No one asked, but for my acronym (initialism?) abbreviation in the character name, I go with weapon name/type instead of build. So instead of MH|Carlos who will be using hand crossbow and wand, I would name them HxBW|Carlos who will be using maybe multihit, isolation and crits. (Yes, I am rewatching the vid)
@MeanKno seems like a smart system... I find that conceptually my builds have implicit weapon selections behind them so I think functionally we end up in the same place, but I can totally see why you'd do it that way. I will never complain when someone sees enough value in my videos that they decide to watch them again :)
The new format looks cool, but are new players going to recognize perks by just the icon? I suppose the build matching tool helps with that a bit. That’s also really cool as well. However, the percentages I’m not sold on. Is there a weight given to key perks vs bonus perks? You looked at a momentum build in the demo that had the holy trio, but showed 78% I think. If another build had all of the extras but was missing a key perk that drives it would that get a higher recommendation than the momentum build that has the full core? I like that you included lesser effective builds for some variety. I don’t appreciate you recommending the hand crossbow over the tome on the build that the whole point is seemingly to play with the damned tome! Lol. Blaze is awesome though, no doubt. I didn’t watch 100% of each build overview but I did notice a few spelling errors. I think target was traget in the momentum build and one of the poison builds had plague as plauge. Might be worth having your proof readers take another glance through. Great work on another excellent video! It might be worth making a series of slightly longer videos focused on a single strong build. Like 5-10 minutes, or however long it takes. This is a great resource and pretty comprehensive, but even with the time stamps it might not be as digestible for some people. Personally, I love the preamble and getting your thoughts on how and why everything is the way it is. Shorter, bite sized videos could allow more focus on each build and expand on them a bit. Lastly, a buddy of mine turned me on to Stolen Realm recently. It is a really fun rpg that reminds me of a low budget Baldur’s Gate 3. It is extremely fun and there are basically no good resources for it as far as guides go. I keep thinking it would be something you’d enjoy playing. It has a campaign and a rogue lite mode, and the campaign can be played in what they call endless mode, which adds modifiers kind of like Slay the Spire difficulty. You can play with 1-6 characters and the difficulty will scale depending on that as well.
The match percentage needs to be improved 100%... perfect is the enemy of good enough etc etc. Right now I think the critical perks are 3x more valuable than secondary ones, but after using the tool the real issues seems to be that critical perks really need to be actually manditory, and there aren't always 3 of those. Agreed losing the perk names is a piece of feedback i've gotten and I agree, I may add a tooltip to the website that shows them. I'm planning to make TH-cam shorts on all the builds so there will be a rapid 1min version of each. Also the guide builds now link to the TH-cam timestamp which may help. BG3-like you say? Hmm right now I might be a little gunshy toward things like BG3 I loved it, but the audience did not :) But who knows, perhaps I'll take a gander. As always thanks for the comment!
I love you man, thank you for this guide, it's extremely helpful eh..but i'm having a concern, could you tell me what is the end game goal stat, like 90% physical dmg bonus, 80% crit rate or something like that (move, action, heath,..) because somethime i think i'm taking too much stat of a kind and it's likely doesnt worth it, i wonder how many stat should i take each to maximize proficiency
Hey @vinhpui7893 ! So there's no hard and fast rules... if you're really curious about exactly when particular stats start falling off based on diminishing returns here's the video for you th-cam.com/video/3qEyhk0ce3o/w-d-xo.html -- the short version of this is that it's very hard to say exactly when one stat will get better than another. The spreadsheet linked in that video though will tell you exactly when, but it's a bit of work to track. Generally speaking though 1% of a relevant damage stat is normally worth the same, so if you have 20% physical and 80% damage then physical will be better assuming you're using physical weapons. Hope this helps!
Making the screenshot tool is very impressive ! It still need 200% UI to be reconized. If i may drop this idea : why not adding a mod that read your team composition and open the web page with this input ? You don't need an interface, just a keybind to trigger the script.
So I love the idea of doing this more reliably with a mod, the issue is 1) people would have to install a mod and that mod would be incompatible with other mods because of the way modding goes... but 2) and perhaps more importantly I haven't had great luck with actual code changes to the game, they're a little fiddly, so mostly my modding has been XML and sadly perks don't show up in the XML. At the moment I support 200%, 175% and 100% UI scale for 1440p, 1080p & 720p... I realize it doesn't cover all the bases, but it's good enough for the moment I think. Great feedback though, and perhaps in the future we can do something more advanced! Cheers @Indeeeex
@Indeeeex it seemed like an interesting challenge, but like I said code modifications have been hit or miss for me with The Last Spell so it felt the most accessible. Also because all I needed was screenshots for development it was a great project for my recent plane ride :)
I’m curious how you decide when to reroll. I’m still spending essence on meta progression so my rolls frequently only offer common level ups. Are you happy taking an uncommon level up in a useful but non essential stat over a common level up in an essential stat?
So generally I'm I'm really try-harding I have a 2 pass approach. First pass is to grab everything I'm going to use. Then I'll spend my rerolls on the lowest sell-value sets of items trying to increase their average value. Hope this helps @ZeRedSpy
@@aldenpotamus thanks for the reply! I do usually go through items twice, once for taking and once for selling (though I’m not comfy with corpse strats yet, I want more meta upgrades first so my items are much more RNG dependent). I was however specifically wondering about Hero Level Ups, not item rerolls. Do you take Common (grey) level ups in important stats on heroes? If I don’t see an uncommon (green) level up in a stat I like I’ve been rerolling for them but this often means I miss completely and get stuck with something useless like defense stats on a back line hero. I was curious what your methodology/straregy on hero level ups. Do I take the grey momentum boost on my momentum hero? Or do I reroll and risk getting stuck choosing between three generally bad options on the hero like reliability, health regen, or healing received.
Ohh gotcha, sorry for the confusion @ZeRedSpy ... So that's a more complex question as you can imagine. I think that it really has two factors, the first is that if I'm running Advanced Training (meta-unlocked) then I'm much more likely to reroll gray looking for better... but it really depends on the build. For instance on crit heavy builds like multi-hit I'll often take the gray crit because having more rerolls for secondary stats is more beneficial. It's very situational, though it's really important to check primary and secondary and decide where your rerolls are best spent.
@@aldenpotamus Thank you! That helps me a lot. I’ll develop my own weights for stats on various builds as I go: but this was a good example. There isn’t really a substitute for crit% on crit builds - so eating the grey level up makes sense given how important it to building up a critical mass of critical chance. That gives me a good way to think about rerolling! PS: I’d love an Omen tier list! I’ve watched your updated perk and weapon tier lists. Both of them and this video all have helped me improve a lot.
If I may make a suggestion, instead of "worst stats" how about "most changed stats"? Like relative to your stat ranking tier list, what stats are most surprisingly good or bad for a build? For instance if we just select the worst stats on levelup, it'll be Dodge, Reliability, Health Regen, Block, all the usual suspects. The best stats will be (theme of the build) then Damage, Crit, Crit power, etc. How about instead surprising stats? For instance for a Blood Mage I've found Healing Received to be shockingly good. Not like S tier, but compared to the usual Z tier garbage I view that stat, it's actually quite exciting to see. Similarly for a Dwarf with the damage to reliability perk, I've been shocked what a 10% resilience boost can actually do. I don't want it every levelup, but going from 70% to 80% is MASSIVE. I've quite happily taken two, and sat in the middle of everything with the AOE poison perk, spiky carapace, and just ignored damage completely. Even boomers going off on you is like... whatever. I'm sure you've found even more that I can't think of, things where you find yourself taking an unusual pick and finding it quite acceptable, or conversely finding an "old reliable" stat to just not mean that much.
@TheoreticalString I actually misspoke (and clarified in text) it's not worst stats it's actually split primary and secondary, as called out in the template. So you get 3 primary stats and 3 secondary stats to shop for. Sorry for the confusion!
@@aldenpotamus No worries! I watched the entire thing though, and I noticed pretty much every character had damage because pretty much every character likes damage. Unless you're pure poison or some weird buffer, moar damage = moar good. Maybe what it is is I need to mod in some complexity. I can already think of adding critical weight to the damage formula, and adding some new weapon abilities to balance things...
Hey @TheoreticalStringI made the call early on to generally not include AP as a primary stat for exactly the reason you're describing. For damage I felt like there were a handful of builds that didn't need it (though they are few and far between), and I like the stat list to be like a shopping list so excluding damage felt a little off. But I hear you, it's a good point. I'm not sure what you mean by "Critical Weight" maybe you're referring to Critical Power? The damage formula in the game isn't particularly complex, though it took me a while to fully appreciate it. The way that diminishing returns operate on stats is far from unique, but still makes it non-trivial to choose stats. Damage is not always king after all! Thanks for the comment!
@@aldenpotamus I mean give weapons different crit numbers, rather then them all critting for the same multiplier. It's a common trope in RPG stats, some weapons do 3x or 5x crit type of thing. For The Last Spell, I think 1.25x,1.5x, and 1.75x/2x would give an interesting spread. Then you set the base critical damage multiplier to 1, and crits do [Base Damage]*[Crit Weight]*[Crit Damage Multiplier] (Right now it's just [Base Damage]*[Crit Damage Multiplier]). Adjust the amount of crit damage multiplier you get slightly, and 1.5 weapons remain about the same, 1.25 weapons become kinda pointless to build crit on, and 2x weapon become crit gods. Then do things like swap Hand Crossbow to 1.25x and Two Handed Sword to 2x to make them crit weapons. That makes Crit more than "generic damage good" talent, instead it pushes you towards wanting certain weapons and not wanting others the same way Momentum and Opportunist do right now. Also could give a role to some weapons that don't really have one. In particular the Hammer really suffers from being a weapon that's not really good at anything, but there's a few others that do so too - Shortbow could become a crit weapon, for instance. And it nerfs Handcrossbow/Multishot/Crit very naturally without just cratering the Hand Crossbow's damage.
Got it, so it would be the analogue of current weapons having 1.4x opportunism damage but for crit causing your crit power to scale differently on different weapons or skills. I realize you were describing per weapon multiplier, but since the game already has something like this per skill (for opportunism and isolation) I suspect it would be easier to implement in the same way they did those two. Interesting idea!
I gotta say, you're one of my favorite youtubers for the work put into the tool alone. Thank you for your service.
Cheers @nickstoltz8817 ! I do it because it's fun, and comments like this make it feel that much better!
@@aldenpotamus I'm an engineer and a cybersecurity professional so I've seen alot of tools. And I must say your tool is amazingly functional and the UI/UX is dope. Thanks again for responding!
@nickstoltz8817 thank you! It still has some bugs to work out (that tooltip loves wandering off the page), and I have a few more enhancements designed for it... but it was a super fun project and I'm really happy with the result (and thrilled to hear that others like it too)!
If you're curious about any of the code, we have a channel on the discord where I will occasionally discuss some of the stuff I'm up to and also field questions people have about my various repos. Everything I make is open source and I'm always curious to see what people think!
Discord: discord.gg/9zy6C8vSEH
The timing is perfect! Literally, just watched your old hero builds guide and was thinking: Ahhh, i wish he would make a new guide, like he did with weapons and perks. And BOOM, here it is ! :)) Thank you for your work!
Sometimes the stars align @ShabasheR ! Thanks for the comment and hope these are as helpful (or more) than the last!
Thanks for this really in depth guide! Didn't play for over a year and I barely remember my old go to builds haha. So this is a nice refresh!
@Rizz3n welcome back & cheers!
I recently discovered your channel and have been blown away at how thoughtful, informative, and enjoyable your content is. I get the sense you are a coder by trade and don't "need" to be here, spending so much time on creating such masterful work.
This seems to be a pure passion project and we are all the better for it.
Outstanding.
@brightonrock59007 thank you so much! Sorry for the slow reply, this last week we've been moving and the comments have been simmering. Can't thank you enough for your generosity!
You are indeed correct that I'm a coder my trade, I worked as a Tech Lead at Google most recently and took these last 4-ish years off to try something completely different. My dream is to make this a full time gig that supports me, and donations like this always remind me that it's more than possible.
So glad you enjoyed the content, I've got plenty more ideas and there's certainly more to come!
@@aldenpotamus You are making the internet I want to have possible. Data collection, ads, etc - I hate this business model (but understand it). I rather content consumers (like myself) set aside a certain amount of money per month to use to support content creators they enjoy.
I think there are enough of us with the financial means to support content creators while still allowing those less fortunate to consume content for free.
Good luck in your journey! I am on the cusp of finally beating Glintfien because of your well presented ideas. Thanks again!
@brightonrock59007 thank you truly! I 100% agree with that you're saying... the place I find my greatest joys is in enjoying amazing things that others have created, and strangely not from ads :) As for me I do believe that if I keep putting out high quality stuff the rest will follow. So here's hoping!
The amount of respect I have for you getting out these guides (and vids in general) with such high quality is massive. You deserve more subs!
@bumbibjorne thank you for the donation and kind words! Means the world to me, and we're gonna keep on making videos of as high a quality as we can muster and hopefully the subs continue to flow! :)
I was really excited for this video and you delivered in spades.
Some really interesting builds, the standouts for me are:
1. Hedgehog - it's been really interesting watching your opinion on this type of build change over time. One fun thing I want to add is that once a hero with berserk gets about 50 resistance and block, you can pretty reliably buff them with catapults.
2. Stoutpire - fascinating idea. Hadn't realized how much mana you can get from stouts. I'm definitely using this one going forward.
3. Baneful dodger - incredibly fun looking build, with bonus points for making poisonous viable.
4. Market Gardener - Interesting build, it's really a standout for the name. A reference to the Operation Market Garden from WWII. The build does a very good job of bringing the idea of a paratrooper to The Last Spell.
Finally, I'm really glad you had a good laugh with the Gun Fu build. Part of the credit goes to SevenOfHearts, because the idea for the build came from a question they had in the discord and the following discussion. The original idea came from the question "How to make flexibility and specialist work at the same time?". That said, I agree with dropping Specialist in favor of Adrenaline Rush. It fits the Gun Fu theme better and makes the build a tiny bit more viable.
@ZealotOfSteal heck yeah, thank you :)
1) I need to try HH + Catapults... which would mean building catapults, something I'm loathe to do, but for you I'll give it a try. I think the major inflection point for HH builds was definitely the War Shield.
2) Stout is a shocking amount of mana for sure :)
3) Baneful Dodger, I was going for a riff on The Artful Dodger with Abigail providing the inspiration. I' not sure it's a great build, but I think it could be fun.
4) Apparently it's also a reference to a weapon in TF2 for the soldier that made Rocket Jumps do something special. And I assume that that was referring to the WWII operation! So more lore :)
Gun-fu was super fun to talk about, I totally get why specialist was in there now... you need to tell me when you've watched Equilibrium though... you have homework!
Super well presented/insightful and much appreciated to you/community for the builds.
@Crypt0Band1t cheers! Thanks for the donation and kind words, thanks for letting me know the video was helpful!
amazingly helpful, love the guides and it's clear you're having fun with this! thanks for making the internet a better place!
@ke1oc positive cool comments like yours are also making the internet a better place, so thank you for that. Cheers!
I absolutely love this content. It's easy to understand and really entertaining. I appreciate all the hard work and dedication you put into it. Thanks a ton!
@nawe6 so glad you enjoyed it. Making these approachable and standalone was my number one goal so if I managed to do that even a little I'm thrilled. Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for reviewing my Sniper build! I should have left a note that this build is all about having fun and using watchtowers to control the battlefield with longbow and thats why i noted emergency tunnel cause diagonally all you need is two watchtowers and you basically cover the entire map, even better with 2 snipers they kinda polish your other 4 heroes cleaning up the map.
@markodespotov1455 heck yeah, thank you for submitting it! I totally see the vision, and have been thinking hard about how some game changes (mods) could make sniper type builds more on par with some of their AoE brethren.
Either way super cool build and thank you!
Alden you are the GOAT, thanks ❤
@densr1177 no you! :) Cheers
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Thanks!
@ImDanielK sorry for the slow reply, we were moving this last week! Doubly thank you so much for your generosity. Cheers!!
Lets go! Nice surpise! I was hoping that tool would become available one day im excited to use it
Sorry it took so long... a lot of hours went into making all the builds, but I'm super happy with the result! Enjoy!!!!
Great to see you put all those builds on the site. Curious to see if more builds will get added over time. One thing I think might be fun if is there's a weapon-based search function added. (as in: if I want to play with a certain weapon, what kind of build would play most to its strengths or cover its weaknesses) I mean, we don't need that for the hand crossbow, but it'd be nifty for some of the less OP weapons.
@ErpyAGDI I'd like more builds to be added over time, so as I discover them or others submit them perhaps we can do a part two, but in the meantime I'll definitely add them to the website!
Weapon based search is interesting, I think the reason I haven't is that the "right" way to play is decide what your hero should be and then get the weapons that support it, not the other way around. So it's an interesting idea, but the use case might be a little niche.
Thx for the guide!
@Alexandragon1 likewise for the comment!
@@aldenpotamus :)
I was waiting for it :)
The wait is over!
I've found your channel recently and have been binging all your content and loving it, great job! As a feedback, it would be nice if we had links leading to the wiki for things such as perks and gear. Noobs like me can't recognize icons from the picture yet and I feel this content is targeting newish players.
It's a great callout. Thank you for taking the time to share the @darkkronus -- I do realize that with this second edition of the build guide I made things a little harder for the newer players in the interest of making something pretty. Links would be a great next step, I'll add it to my every expanding to-do list :) Thanks @darkkronus
I love this!
Hell yeah @SoonerMike211 , so glad to hear it!
No one asked, but for my acronym (initialism?) abbreviation in the character name, I go with weapon name/type instead of build. So instead of MH|Carlos who will be using hand crossbow and wand, I would name them HxBW|Carlos who will be using maybe multihit, isolation and crits.
(Yes, I am rewatching the vid)
@MeanKno seems like a smart system... I find that conceptually my builds have implicit weapon selections behind them so I think functionally we end up in the same place, but I can totally see why you'd do it that way.
I will never complain when someone sees enough value in my videos that they decide to watch them again :)
The new format looks cool, but are new players going to recognize perks by just the icon?
I suppose the build matching tool helps with that a bit. That’s also really cool as well. However, the percentages I’m not sold on. Is there a weight given to key perks vs bonus perks? You looked at a momentum build in the demo that had the holy trio, but showed 78% I think. If another build had all of the extras but was missing a key perk that drives it would that get a higher recommendation than the momentum build that has the full core?
I like that you included lesser effective builds for some variety. I don’t appreciate you recommending the hand crossbow over the tome on the build that the whole point is seemingly to play with the damned tome! Lol. Blaze is awesome though, no doubt.
I didn’t watch 100% of each build overview but I did notice a few spelling errors. I think target was traget in the momentum build and one of the poison builds had plague as plauge. Might be worth having your proof readers take another glance through.
Great work on another excellent video! It might be worth making a series of slightly longer videos focused on a single strong build. Like 5-10 minutes, or however long it takes. This is a great resource and pretty comprehensive, but even with the time stamps it might not be as digestible for some people. Personally, I love the preamble and getting your thoughts on how and why everything is the way it is. Shorter, bite sized videos could allow more focus on each build and expand on them a bit.
Lastly, a buddy of mine turned me on to Stolen Realm recently. It is a really fun rpg that reminds me of a low budget Baldur’s Gate 3. It is extremely fun and there are basically no good resources for it as far as guides go. I keep thinking it would be something you’d enjoy playing. It has a campaign and a rogue lite mode, and the campaign can be played in what they call endless mode, which adds modifiers kind of like Slay the Spire difficulty. You can play with 1-6 characters and the difficulty will scale depending on that as well.
The match percentage needs to be improved 100%... perfect is the enemy of good enough etc etc. Right now I think the critical perks are 3x more valuable than secondary ones, but after using the tool the real issues seems to be that critical perks really need to be actually manditory, and there aren't always 3 of those.
Agreed losing the perk names is a piece of feedback i've gotten and I agree, I may add a tooltip to the website that shows them.
I'm planning to make TH-cam shorts on all the builds so there will be a rapid 1min version of each. Also the guide builds now link to the TH-cam timestamp which may help.
BG3-like you say? Hmm right now I might be a little gunshy toward things like BG3 I loved it, but the audience did not :) But who knows, perhaps I'll take a gander.
As always thanks for the comment!
Niiiiice, I’ve been waiting for this :)
Me too, thank goodness I finally got around to making it :) Thanks for watching @user-ln1uo6kq1j
I use Poison-Pogate. I call them "Druid" when I'm in a serious mood and "Beeeeeees" when not.
Bees bees bees.
I love you man, thank you for this guide, it's extremely helpful
eh..but i'm having a concern, could you tell me what is the end game goal stat, like 90% physical dmg bonus, 80% crit rate or something like that (move, action, heath,..) because somethime i think i'm taking too much stat of a kind and it's likely doesnt worth it, i wonder how many stat should i take each to maximize proficiency
Hey @vinhpui7893 ! So there's no hard and fast rules... if you're really curious about exactly when particular stats start falling off based on diminishing returns here's the video for you th-cam.com/video/3qEyhk0ce3o/w-d-xo.html -- the short version of this is that it's very hard to say exactly when one stat will get better than another. The spreadsheet linked in that video though will tell you exactly when, but it's a bit of work to track. Generally speaking though 1% of a relevant damage stat is normally worth the same, so if you have 20% physical and 80% damage then physical will be better assuming you're using physical weapons.
Hope this helps!
You didn't have to make a video just for me. I know my builds are sub par hehehe.
@MeanKno I got you :)
Making the screenshot tool is very impressive !
It still need 200% UI to be reconized.
If i may drop this idea : why not adding a mod that read your team composition and open the web page with this input ? You don't need an interface, just a keybind to trigger the script.
So I love the idea of doing this more reliably with a mod, the issue is 1) people would have to install a mod and that mod would be incompatible with other mods because of the way modding goes... but 2) and perhaps more importantly I haven't had great luck with actual code changes to the game, they're a little fiddly, so mostly my modding has been XML and sadly perks don't show up in the XML.
At the moment I support 200%, 175% and 100% UI scale for 1440p, 1080p & 720p... I realize it doesn't cover all the bases, but it's good enough for the moment I think.
Great feedback though, and perhaps in the future we can do something more advanced! Cheers
@Indeeeex
@@aldenpotamus the thing you did is already quite advanced and impressive ! I was wondering why going for something so difficult.
@Indeeeex it seemed like an interesting challenge, but like I said code modifications have been hit or miss for me with The Last Spell so it felt the most accessible. Also because all I needed was screenshots for development it was a great project for my recent plane ride :)
good video
@mug224 cheers!
Oh God, what's a Wicker Man reference doing in my strategy guide?
You got your strategy guide in my wicker man reference... NO! you got your wickerman reference in my strategy guide!!! But seriously, THE BEES!!!!
By the way, your Momentum-build picture misspelled "target". Probably too late for the video, but can still be altered on the site.
@ErpyAGDI if that's the only typo, that's rather remarkable, and yes I can (and will) fix it on the website :)
Low mana on Market Gardener? Make it a Market Beer-gardener!
I'll meet you at the Beer Garden... where we will rocket jump and plant flowers?
I’m curious how you decide when to reroll. I’m still spending essence on meta progression so my rolls frequently only offer common level ups.
Are you happy taking an uncommon level up in a useful but non essential stat over a common level up in an essential stat?
So generally I'm I'm really try-harding I have a 2 pass approach. First pass is to grab everything I'm going to use. Then I'll spend my rerolls on the lowest sell-value sets of items trying to increase their average value.
Hope this helps @ZeRedSpy
@@aldenpotamus thanks for the reply!
I do usually go through items twice, once for taking and once for selling (though I’m not comfy with corpse strats yet, I want more meta upgrades first so my items are much more RNG dependent).
I was however specifically wondering about Hero Level Ups, not item rerolls. Do you take Common (grey) level ups in important stats on heroes? If I don’t see an uncommon (green) level up in a stat I like I’ve been rerolling for them but this often means I miss completely and get stuck with something useless like defense stats on a back line hero.
I was curious what your methodology/straregy on hero level ups. Do I take the grey momentum boost on my momentum hero? Or do I reroll and risk getting stuck choosing between three generally bad options on the hero like reliability, health regen, or healing received.
Ohh gotcha, sorry for the confusion @ZeRedSpy ...
So that's a more complex question as you can imagine. I think that it really has two factors, the first is that if I'm running Advanced Training (meta-unlocked) then I'm much more likely to reroll gray looking for better... but it really depends on the build. For instance on crit heavy builds like multi-hit I'll often take the gray crit because having more rerolls for secondary stats is more beneficial. It's very situational, though it's really important to check primary and secondary and decide where your rerolls are best spent.
@@aldenpotamus Thank you! That helps me a lot. I’ll develop my own weights for stats on various builds as I go: but this was a good example. There isn’t really a substitute for crit% on crit builds - so eating the grey level up makes sense given how important it to building up a critical mass of critical chance.
That gives me a good way to think about rerolling!
PS: I’d love an Omen tier list! I’ve watched your updated perk and weapon tier lists. Both of them and this video all have helped me improve a lot.
So it's a bit older, but the omens haven't changed that much... th-cam.com/video/stEdnWxEoB4/w-d-xo.html
Glad it helped @ZeRedSpy -- cheers!
If I may make a suggestion, instead of "worst stats" how about "most changed stats"? Like relative to your stat ranking tier list, what stats are most surprisingly good or bad for a build? For instance if we just select the worst stats on levelup, it'll be Dodge, Reliability, Health Regen, Block, all the usual suspects. The best stats will be (theme of the build) then Damage, Crit, Crit power, etc. How about instead surprising stats?
For instance for a Blood Mage I've found Healing Received to be shockingly good. Not like S tier, but compared to the usual Z tier garbage I view that stat, it's actually quite exciting to see. Similarly for a Dwarf with the damage to reliability perk, I've been shocked what a 10% resilience boost can actually do. I don't want it every levelup, but going from 70% to 80% is MASSIVE. I've quite happily taken two, and sat in the middle of everything with the AOE poison perk, spiky carapace, and just ignored damage completely. Even boomers going off on you is like... whatever.
I'm sure you've found even more that I can't think of, things where you find yourself taking an unusual pick and finding it quite acceptable, or conversely finding an "old reliable" stat to just not mean that much.
@TheoreticalString I actually misspoke (and clarified in text) it's not worst stats it's actually split primary and secondary, as called out in the template. So you get 3 primary stats and 3 secondary stats to shop for.
Sorry for the confusion!
@@aldenpotamus No worries! I watched the entire thing though, and I noticed pretty much every character had damage because pretty much every character likes damage. Unless you're pure poison or some weird buffer, moar damage = moar good.
Maybe what it is is I need to mod in some complexity. I can already think of adding critical weight to the damage formula, and adding some new weapon abilities to balance things...
Hey @TheoreticalStringI made the call early on to generally not include AP as a primary stat for exactly the reason you're describing. For damage I felt like there were a handful of builds that didn't need it (though they are few and far between), and I like the stat list to be like a shopping list so excluding damage felt a little off. But I hear you, it's a good point.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Critical Weight" maybe you're referring to Critical Power? The damage formula in the game isn't particularly complex, though it took me a while to fully appreciate it. The way that diminishing returns operate on stats is far from unique, but still makes it non-trivial to choose stats. Damage is not always king after all!
Thanks for the comment!
@@aldenpotamus I mean give weapons different crit numbers, rather then them all critting for the same multiplier. It's a common trope in RPG stats, some weapons do 3x or 5x crit type of thing. For The Last Spell, I think 1.25x,1.5x, and 1.75x/2x would give an interesting spread. Then you set the base critical damage multiplier to 1, and crits do [Base Damage]*[Crit Weight]*[Crit Damage Multiplier] (Right now it's just [Base Damage]*[Crit Damage Multiplier]). Adjust the amount of crit damage multiplier you get slightly, and 1.5 weapons remain about the same, 1.25 weapons become kinda pointless to build crit on, and 2x weapon become crit gods. Then do things like swap Hand Crossbow to 1.25x and Two Handed Sword to 2x to make them crit weapons.
That makes Crit more than "generic damage good" talent, instead it pushes you towards wanting certain weapons and not wanting others the same way Momentum and Opportunist do right now. Also could give a role to some weapons that don't really have one. In particular the Hammer really suffers from being a weapon that's not really good at anything, but there's a few others that do so too - Shortbow could become a crit weapon, for instance. And it nerfs Handcrossbow/Multishot/Crit very naturally without just cratering the Hand Crossbow's damage.
Got it, so it would be the analogue of current weapons having 1.4x opportunism damage but for crit causing your crit power to scale differently on different weapons or skills. I realize you were describing per weapon multiplier, but since the game already has something like this per skill (for opportunism and isolation) I suspect it would be easier to implement in the same way they did those two.
Interesting idea!
Thanks daddy
No problem progeny.