I will say that although I don't catch every single episode of... well, anything you produce, I do appreciate that you do make it. Regardless of using the same strat. It is a very interesting strat that, although (from my point of view) easy to execute, is very interesting that you figured out, it was really cool to see it. Thanks for showing off the discovery of that strat, even if others didn't like it after a while.
Sepi i agree. It was a good build! Just frustrated to see it failed too much by the same enemies (cough taskmasters) and lost too much resources by doing so. For that build, if he had alternating strats (like his good old "NOoo stress build" which uses half of his party anyway) or at least scouted the elites beforehand to substitute his minions, it would been better i guess.
Also, the shade is the physical version of this party. The liches ultimate does 30%max hp trap, you use Brides stance, a mummy to move them around and you can do anything from there.
As much as I love watching this game no matter what, something about stress builds is so much more satisfying. Watching the heart attacks domino chain themselves is amazing
Yay more Iratus!!! It’s great to see you trying out a new build especially with stress damage as well as a new direction with the graveyard. There might be some less constructive criticism in the comments sometimes but know that we all appreciate you very much!
After watching you start playing this game, it looked like too much fun not to play myself. The main comp I like running is very similar to the one you have in this video. The difference being that instead of a Dark Knight in the front, I have a Skeleton and instead of a second Lich I have a Mummy. The Skeleton I have so they can tank hits, and fear the entire group once I have enough Wrath. They're also pretty good at smashing buffed characters. As an added bonus, they are immune to the negative aspect of the Lost Soul's ward. The mummy is there to yank specific targets from the back line through the death clouds and also give a crit debuff. Additionally, they have the added bonus of stripping debuffs from your party which is super handy in later encounters. And as for the Lich, I went with the other version of poison cloud as after the fleshies are dead, it strips the armor from the golems.
Hey rhaps I left a semi angry and not friendly comment, but I want you to know that I respect you and the amazing content you produce and I only felt comfortable being rude because I look at you like I do a close friend, but I realize that's not cool and I formally apologise for potentially hurting your feelings! Keep up the great work!!
I was one of the people that kinda gave up on this series but returned, here is why: 1)idk i like u 2)thats terror 3) attractive Voice 4) nice commentary 5) i like supporting smaller channels
Glad you're still covering the game and sorry to hear about the insulting criticism, you're a fantastic creator and it brings a smile to my face every time I see one of your videos pop up in my feed. I'd love to see you attempt some theory crafting and try to run a build with physical traps somewhere down the line. That sounds like super interesting and engaging content!
The skele and dk strat was p smart and interesting and I enjoyed watching those episodes! But I am looking forward to all the parties you'll create now :3
The party had it's moments where it was truly crushing but some times I was frustrated it was always the same. Respect for seeing it's flaws and adjusting in a new run. Lich strat is hilarious
There we go, that's much better! It will get repetitive sometimes anyway, i guess that's the nature of this game. Looking foward for the next episodes ;)
Well, that's a terrifying partying. I was going to suggest checking out shades as a way to convert lots of sanity damage into dead, but this set-up seems to jumps strait into AoE dead. I'm also really glad to see you recognizing the Colosseum as a way to build up a back line with at least an initial upgrade. If I understand things correctly, it should only take a single battle to get a unit's first level, which should be great for prepping replacements or setting up a second party that uses an alternate strategy. Also, depending on how long it lasts, I think getting out a third cloud will usually be better than reapplying an old one, since it'll result in at least one extra hit on shuffle as you send enemies into and out of a space that would otherwise be clear. One question though: I get that a chance of instant death is always attractive, but 5% seems relatively low, especially with how quickly and frequently you start rolling against heart attacks. Wouldn't going with the upgrade that reduces defense give you a lot more resilience against enemies you can't kill with stress? Additionally, wouldn't it also make your stress attacks more effective once you start encountering enemies with resistance?
Really enjoying the series Raps! I have no experience in the game so this has very much been a learning experience for me as well. Thoroughly enjoyable, you are one of the only people whose content I watch entire episodes of. Keep up the great work
Congratulations on the win! (Not actually a win yet, no spoilers or anything) This party is absolutely insane. Glad you've taken a break from DK and Skele. Hope to see how far you can make it! It still won't be easy!
I'm really glad you're doing new things, the skeleton and dark knight tactic did work in some situations, and didn't in others, and I love this stress build in this episode, though it will have issues against golems and the like, still, its great to see you branching out, even if it ends up being failures, experimentation and taking your time theory crafting and reading skills to make unseen combos is infinitely more fun than just trying to see you beat the game if that makes sense, best of luck in smiting the living!
So cool the new composition, the funniest part of this game is to discover new ways of cheesing mobs with different ways. LostSouls are so great for their many synergistics. And lately i've been studying builds with shades (so cool design :D )
Interesting way to get purple gear, if you have crap legendary parts, toss them in a sacrificial creature the part quality and type determines the equipment gained.
That looks like a really impressive stress strat, I think one of the liches should have taken corrosive cloud since it removes all armor and resistance from whomever is in that position and that is just so useful to have but the extra dread the instakill option gave was indeed very tempting...
Yay ^w^ there we go, this game seems really cool and i love your enthusiasm playing~ but not gonna lie i did have to skip some episodes when you got hard stuck on the one strat. But now that that's behind i cant wait for more episodes and hope you have a great day~!
First of all i'm really glad you're changing your builds, both because it was getting a chore to watch and also because early on the omnipresent taskmaster was destroying your party, i want to try to give an advice but i didn't play the game yet, so this is just based on what i have seen so far, maybe it might be a good idea to keep the brains you receive instead of using them immediately, that way you can have a sort of failsafe to rely on and level up a new party, i think it could really help you against bosses, as it really does suck to lose your high level minions against a boss and then having to use low level ones that can't use the same strategies you were previously using.
Really loving the long play through. I have been thinking about your second group how about a mass damage build. A bride, a lich, death knight and maybe a banshee. This gives you the ability to tag everyone with attacks and still be able to hit single targets hard.
By the way Ryan, you don't have to avoid the DK and Skeleton like the plague! We all agree, they are useful at times. It's just when you use them exclusively that's when it gets tedious! Good luck have fun!
The physical equivalent is a dance comp I believe. From front to back: colossus, headhunter, wraith, and a bride. Have the bride in overwatch, and proc all move based abilities
If youre trying out new builds I just won with a hecka fun stress build (with options to pivot to really solid damage for golems) : bride of iratus, lost soul , banshee and the red dude whos name escapes me, get them all purple parted up and the right upgrades and you wont even need backup minions just heal up on the last enemy and mow through the game.
Stress based parties do tend to perform a lot better than physical ones in this game, particularly when it comes to sniping bosses. I'm currently running Banshee, Lich, Wraith and Shade as my main party, subbing out the Lich for a second Shade in Boss battles because Lichs tend to be a little too vulnerable in longer battles. Banshee sets up with Noo! Lich uses the Cloud (I feel the upgrade to Corrosive Cloud is a better option because it still works on Bosses and Golems). Shade uses Black Light to move foes into the Cloud (and also get an attack from Banshee), and the big hit comes from the Wraith using Terrorwave as often as possible (the upgraded Necrotic Wind, Wind of Oblivion, is also very useful in Boss battles). The Banshee is almost useless against enemies who can't be stressed, so for that I'm checking out a physical damage party: Lost Soul, Mummy, Vampire, Head Hunter. I haven't really done much with it yet, but the testing I've done so far is promising.
I don't know what's that shadow that exist on the map is, but it's flickering, is that the dhampire??? it seems to spawn on random corridor in every game
If you can afford it, we would all love to see like a cycle of different parties. Shuffle party is fine as long as we get some sprinkles. Lich party looks hyper dope though.
The Colosseum could go a long way to making that affordable, but having the spare parts to actually build the units might be an issue, particularly if he wants them all in greens or better. As good as it might be, I suspect that artifact is going to come back to bite him eventually.
I think with the way the game is balanced at the moment it only hurts your chances to try to diversify your party within a run(meaning the 3-4 hours it takes to finish the game at this point). The winning strategy with what is available now(part scarcity, artifacts that let you run with the same lineup) involves investing heavily into a group of 4 units that will carry you through to the end. Thematically it doesn't make much sense with the concept of "hordes of undead" that I feel like the devs wanted to go for so it will probably change.
As much as you’ve improved, there’s one problem with this stress build plan, which has the name of golems. Also, I suggest corrosive over plague so that later enemies take full damage, and I don’t like relying on small chances of instant kill
Interesting question. Targets who are immune to stress... can they still die in the cloud with a 4 percent chance? As the death is not a heart attack right?
My favourite party for stress (mind you, I didn't unlock almost anything yet, but got to the 3rd floor) is 2 wraiths in the back (extreme dmg and possible with a curse), banshee/skeleton, dank knight. It got me all the way there. If I felt I would face golems then skelington is more reliable then banshee, but still, THEY CAN BE BEATEN, THEY CAN BE!!! :D
Bluedragon094 like two weeks ago: _"Stress teams don't seem to be that powerful. You should go HP dmg all the way, Rhap!"_ *This video gets uploaded* Bluedragon094: _"... Oh."_ Well, I mean you proved me wrong and then some, Rhap! Nice going!
since you read the comments it might be worth to point out the little things: do your upgrading 1 after the other, like: i got my 4 things green .. confirm my stuff by upgrading my unit .. yaay it worked .. next one .. handling it all at once is too confusing and you are likely to make mistakes
OK, I tried this strat and I breezed through the more pain campaign. I went from struggling to get to the second floor, to flying all the way to the end without a single death. This might be a tad OP
One thing I've noticed, is when you hit the condition for acquiring extra parts in battle, it doesn't say it in battle, it doesn't list it as a "perk" and I don't like that, I'm not sure if it's actually happening...And I'd also like to be able to track how many times a conditional has activated.
That still has you burning resources and it would get tedious real quickly. If the Devs actually want you scouting like that, they should have a mechanic that's explicitly focused on scouting. There are a number of ways they could do it that would be a lot more interesting and a lot less painful than having players manually use trash minions.
@@EpsilonRosePersonal I specify elite squads specifically because they aren't littering the bored. Keep in mind he's still focusing one party and not multiple. If he runs into an all golem party his options will be limited.
Hey Rhapsody, I would like to comment about the straight effect and conditional effects on items. The straight effect I find is good if I want my units to be consistently doing something, like adding armor and resistance for dark knights. Buuuuttt, for my debuffing banshee, for example, where most of those stats dont matter, i only need her to be accurately debuffing everything, then a good conditional (like heal 6 hp when i debuff an enemy or starting turn at 3rd position do sth for me), those effects usually have a chance to do more for me than any other straight stats do.
My dude this start was amazing, but you may want to build a second party (bride/banshee/skeleton/Dk) there are some encounters in the next floors that are gonna reck this party
Love this series and you’re in the top two of my favorite tubers! Have you thought about upgrading parts less and using units like the Lich and bone giant more together with maybe something for aoe to scout and damage while boosting down the wrath tree. Then you can deal a lot of damage heal easily and take down wards right? Keep tubing and ignore the haters you brighten my day and life!!
I'm convinced Rhapsody is gonna get the banner nerfed also if you ever feel the need to tell a boss how much you hate it one of the mummy's attacks upgrades to infinitely stack -10 luck on enemies which if you haven't forgotten negative luck = crit me sign stuck to their back PS I recommend running a cakewalk run to unlock Dahmpir I find their unlock a bit more of a pain than Vampires and a 3rd edit cause i forgot I recommend the endless battle spell of the ire tree if you don't intend to use mana often
18 episodes , 30+ minutes duration , my bet was almost right , i missed by 2 episodes ("when will ryan learn how to play the game?" "i bet its episode 20 or more!"{you're better than i thought you were ma boi})
I destroyed the game with a Bride/Wraith/Banshee/ Lich build. Lich clouded, Banshee crescendos, wraith made people dance and the bride was for breaking stances
I prefer for you to play the game and enjoy it above all else, but it was pretty rough watching that same party over and over again, especially since it was a pretty dull party format. It was kind of neat when it'd work, and I wouldn't mind seeing it as a niche party in the future, but sorry had to skip the last episode, don't know if I could've kept watching with that one. This lost soul double lich party is pretty awesome, I've been doing something similar with double brides in the back line but this is just strictly better. Going to be hard to take down golems I bet though.
Rhap, I'm worried this comp will get its ass handed by berserker in the second floor, especially the elite ones Got any way get around that? Also got anything for the inventor?
And the inventro is super killable with stress. I went with mummies since they can remove up to 100+ stress damage with their ult. My team consisted of a mummy front, two wraiths and one time I took a sacrificial bansee and the other just a second mummy
Wow this build is fairly broken. I would assume any full construct army would be a complete wall. Maybe still more manageable than the Dk skelly build against a trap.
Wait, so is this a new run? Do all unlocked minions stay unlocked for future runs? Huh. Not sure how to feel about that. I guess it's a way to keep the complexity manageable over time for new players, but I thought there was an element of progression in unlocking *within* a run, so you had to make decisions based on what units you want to unlock then and there. I guess you still kind of have that for Iratus's talents, but still, might be something to think about. Oh, well. Looking forward to seeing what you come up, Rhaps, and what else changes in the game.
Minion unlocks carry over, which is good because some of them take quite a bit of time to unlock. A lot of roguelites have new options that unlock on subsequent runs, both to help keep things fresh and, as you said, to keep complexity manageable for new players. As things stand, the talent tree is what's meant to create run level decisions that shape your strategy, so I'm not sure they need two versions of it. That said, having to pick which unlocks you'll shoot for on a run and plan around them *could* be interesting, though they'd need to drastically change the requirements. That said, I think it would also make it a lot harder to experiment with new builds, given how complex each unit can be and what goes into making them. Having different classes for Iratus, that change up what's available and the specifics of how different abilities work or unlock, to suit different play styles, might be a better way to get similar results.
@@EpsilonRosePersonal Yeah, I see your point. Hadn't thought about the general rogue-like features there, probably because I've not played games with it much myself. The talent tree for Iratus would be a good focus to create diverging paths by upgrading units instead of unlocking them. There's already some talents that upgrade skeleton health and bride damage, maybe having more variety in that would add to replay value. If it's needed, of course, it might be fine as-is.
He might have addressed this in a latter episode, but its because sacking a skeleton and creating a skellyboi takes an action, his first turn he wont have enough wrath (I love how he prononuces it wroth) second create, third heal 40 for how long it took then deal 1/2 Stress damage for all of those rounds and have 1/2 magic damage to deal with golems for 3 rounds when he could have stressed all dead by then. When sacking took no action Id think that would be a great plan, also if you meant to gain skeletons summoned minions die after combat
I'm still not American, so I still don't pronounce it that way. The British English pronunciation is what I'm using, because Australia is a Commonwealth country and we take more linguistics cues from Britain than from America.
Oh, it's the British pronounciation? You win this time, Rhaps. It was getting me because we have people writing past-tense wrath as 'wroth' here in America and it's incrediblyyyy wrong. Thanks for replying.
Also to add in: I actually didn't know you weren't American. Please forgive me, I am completely deaf to most accents, so I'd never be able to guess. Thanks for letting me know about why.
Thanks for hearing the constructive criticism and taking a stance against the insulting criticism. I'd really like to see that vampire mechanic.
40:36 A moment of silence for our fallen skulls.
I will say that although I don't catch every single episode of... well, anything you produce, I do appreciate that you do make it. Regardless of using the same strat. It is a very interesting strat that, although (from my point of view) easy to execute, is very interesting that you figured out, it was really cool to see it. Thanks for showing off the discovery of that strat, even if others didn't like it after a while.
Sepi i agree. It was a good build! Just frustrated to see it failed too much by the same enemies (cough taskmasters) and lost too much resources by doing so. For that build, if he had alternating strats (like his good old "NOoo stress build" which uses half of his party anyway) or at least scouted the elites beforehand to substitute his minions, it would been better i guess.
Also, the shade is the physical version of this party. The liches ultimate does 30%max hp trap, you use Brides stance, a mummy to move them around and you can do anything from there.
As much as I love watching this game no matter what, something about stress builds is so much more satisfying. Watching the heart attacks domino chain themselves is amazing
Yay more Iratus!!! It’s great to see you trying out a new build especially with stress damage as well as a new direction with the graveyard. There might be some less constructive criticism in the comments sometimes but know that we all appreciate you very much!
After watching you start playing this game, it looked like too much fun not to play myself. The main comp I like running is very similar to the one you have in this video. The difference being that instead of a Dark Knight in the front, I have a Skeleton and instead of a second Lich I have a Mummy. The Skeleton I have so they can tank hits, and fear the entire group once I have enough Wrath. They're also pretty good at smashing buffed characters. As an added bonus, they are immune to the negative aspect of the Lost Soul's ward. The mummy is there to yank specific targets from the back line through the death clouds and also give a crit debuff. Additionally, they have the added bonus of stripping debuffs from your party which is super handy in later encounters. And as for the Lich, I went with the other version of poison cloud as after the fleshies are dead, it strips the armor from the golems.
Hey rhaps I left a semi angry and not friendly comment, but I want you to know that I respect you and the amazing content you produce and I only felt comfortable being rude because I look at you like I do a close friend, but I realize that's not cool and I formally apologise for potentially hurting your feelings! Keep up the great work!!
Looks like a good start. Thanks for more Iratus.
love u rhaps you're great at listening to us 💜 and I appreciate that 💜
I was one of the people that kinda gave up on this series but returned, here is why:
1)idk i like u
2)thats terror
3) attractive Voice
4) nice commentary
5) i like supporting smaller channels
Glad you're still covering the game and sorry to hear about the insulting criticism, you're a fantastic creator and it brings a smile to my face every time I see one of your videos pop up in my feed. I'd love to see you attempt some theory crafting and try to run a build with physical traps somewhere down the line. That sounds like super interesting and engaging content!
The skele and dk strat was p smart and interesting and I enjoyed watching those episodes! But I am looking forward to all the parties you'll create now :3
So many uploads! Me so happy
The party had it's moments where it was truly crushing but some times I was frustrated it was always the same. Respect for seeing it's flaws and adjusting in a new run.
Lich strat is hilarious
Probably the best episode :D , Strategy, nice banter, cute clumsy mistake that wasn't fatal... love it
There we go, that's much better! It will get repetitive sometimes anyway, i guess that's the nature of this game. Looking foward for the next episodes ;)
Well, that's a terrifying partying. I was going to suggest checking out shades as a way to convert lots of sanity damage into dead, but this set-up seems to jumps strait into AoE dead. I'm also really glad to see you recognizing the Colosseum as a way to build up a back line with at least an initial upgrade. If I understand things correctly, it should only take a single battle to get a unit's first level, which should be great for prepping replacements or setting up a second party that uses an alternate strategy.
Also, depending on how long it lasts, I think getting out a third cloud will usually be better than reapplying an old one, since it'll result in at least one extra hit on shuffle as you send enemies into and out of a space that would otherwise be clear.
One question though: I get that a chance of instant death is always attractive, but 5% seems relatively low, especially with how quickly and frequently you start rolling against heart attacks. Wouldn't going with the upgrade that reduces defense give you a lot more resilience against enemies you can't kill with stress? Additionally, wouldn't it also make your stress attacks more effective once you start encountering enemies with resistance?
The 5% is like rolling a Crit (20) on D20.
This was a crazy start! Looking foward to you tackling the elite
Really enjoying the series Raps! I have no experience in the game so this has very much been a learning experience for me as well. Thoroughly enjoyable, you are one of the only people whose content I watch entire episodes of. Keep up the great work
Congratulations on the win! (Not actually a win yet, no spoilers or anything)
This party is absolutely insane. Glad you've taken a break from DK and Skele. Hope to see how far you can make it! It still won't be easy!
I'm really glad you're doing new things, the skeleton and dark knight tactic did work in some situations, and didn't in others, and I love this stress build in this episode, though it will have issues against golems and the like, still, its great to see you branching out, even if it ends up being failures, experimentation and taking your time theory crafting and reading skills to make unseen combos is infinitely more fun than just trying to see you beat the game if that makes sense, best of luck in smiting the living!
So cool the new composition, the funniest part of this game is to discover new ways of cheesing mobs with different ways. LostSouls are so great for their many synergistics. And lately i've been studying builds with shades (so cool design :D )
Hey Rhapsody!
Happy to see you listen to your community! Plus it seems like a lot of fun this comp! Keep it up!
ohh I really like this build
My husband and I love all your content Rhaps! Thank you!
the dark knight gained some health but he lost armor and resistance, was 8 and 8 before. so he might be doing less damage
Interesting way to get purple gear, if you have crap legendary parts, toss them in a sacrificial creature the part quality and type determines the equipment gained.
That looks like a really impressive stress strat, I think one of the liches should have taken corrosive cloud since it removes all armor and resistance from whomever is in that position and that is just so useful to have but the extra dread the instakill option gave was indeed very tempting...
Yay ^w^ there we go, this game seems really cool and i love your enthusiasm playing~ but not gonna lie i did have to skip some episodes when you got hard stuck on the one strat. But now that that's behind i cant wait for more episodes and hope you have a great day~!
First of all i'm really glad you're changing your builds, both because it was getting a chore to watch and also because early on the omnipresent taskmaster was destroying your party, i want to try to give an advice but i didn't play the game yet, so this is just based on what i have seen so far, maybe it might be a good idea to keep the brains you receive instead of using them immediately, that way you can have a sort of failsafe to rely on and level up a new party, i think it could really help you against bosses, as it really does suck to lose your high level minions against a boss and then having to use low level ones that can't use the same strategies you were previously using.
Really loving the long play through. I have been thinking about your second group how about a mass damage build. A bride, a lich, death knight and maybe a banshee. This gives you the ability to tag everyone with attacks and still be able to hit single targets hard.
Hi Rhaps, you should definitely try going down the magic talent tree to generate tons of vampires on a different save file
Can't live a day without Rhapsody uploading THE LORD OF THE DEAD!
i do not core what party you play, you do you, and you are doing you really great, loving the content
By the way Ryan, you don't have to avoid the DK and Skeleton like the plague! We all agree, they are useful at times. It's just when you use them exclusively that's when it gets tedious! Good luck have fun!
The physical equivalent is a dance comp I believe. From front to back: colossus, headhunter, wraith, and a bride. Have the bride in overwatch, and proc all move based abilities
If youre trying out new builds I just won with a hecka fun stress build (with options to pivot to really solid damage for golems) : bride of iratus, lost soul , banshee and the red dude whos name escapes me, get them all purple parted up and the right upgrades and you wont even need backup minions just heal up on the last enemy and mow through the game.
Stress based parties do tend to perform a lot better than physical ones in this game, particularly when it comes to sniping bosses. I'm currently running Banshee, Lich, Wraith and Shade as my main party, subbing out the Lich for a second Shade in Boss battles because Lichs tend to be a little too vulnerable in longer battles. Banshee sets up with Noo! Lich uses the Cloud (I feel the upgrade to Corrosive Cloud is a better option because it still works on Bosses and Golems). Shade uses Black Light to move foes into the Cloud (and also get an attack from Banshee), and the big hit comes from the Wraith using Terrorwave as often as possible (the upgraded Necrotic Wind, Wind of Oblivion, is also very useful in Boss battles).
The Banshee is almost useless against enemies who can't be stressed, so for that I'm checking out a physical damage party: Lost Soul, Mummy, Vampire, Head Hunter. I haven't really done much with it yet, but the testing I've done so far is promising.
Lich and a bone golem, sack the bone golem leaving a slot for the skeletons and the lich to get full utilization.
14:41 Wow I was just thinking that the Shackles would be really helpful for this party... XD
this is great that you heard the voice of the masses
great gameplay yay
I don't know what's that shadow that exist on the map is, but it's flickering, is that the dhampire??? it seems to spawn on random corridor in every game
If you can afford it, we would all love to see like a cycle of different parties. Shuffle party is fine as long as we get some sprinkles. Lich party looks hyper dope though.
The Colosseum could go a long way to making that affordable, but having the spare parts to actually build the units might be an issue, particularly if he wants them all in greens or better. As good as it might be, I suspect that artifact is going to come back to bite him eventually.
I think with the way the game is balanced at the moment it only hurts your chances to try to diversify your party within a run(meaning the 3-4 hours it takes to finish the game at this point). The winning strategy with what is available now(part scarcity, artifacts that let you run with the same lineup) involves investing heavily into a group of 4 units that will carry you through to the end. Thematically it doesn't make much sense with the concept of "hordes of undead" that I feel like the devs wanted to go for so it will probably change.
hey man its a learning experience, you've done probably a lot better than i would have so far so /shrug keep it up tho love the content.
As much as you’ve improved, there’s one problem with this stress build plan, which has the name of golems. Also, I suggest corrosive over plague so that later enemies take full damage, and I don’t like relying on small chances of instant kill
Interesting question. Targets who are immune to stress... can they still die in the cloud with a 4 percent chance? As the death is not a heart attack right?
Larzarus Yes. Also, most stress parties have a bit of magic or physical damage, and spells can supplement that.
A new dawn for the dead, a new sunset for the living.
My favourite party for stress (mind you, I didn't unlock almost anything yet, but got to the 3rd floor) is 2 wraiths in the back (extreme dmg and possible with a curse), banshee/skeleton, dank knight. It got me all the way there. If I felt I would face golems then skelington is more reliable then banshee, but still, THEY CAN BE BEATEN, THEY CAN BE!!! :D
Bluedragon094 like two weeks ago: _"Stress teams don't seem to be that powerful. You should go HP dmg all the way, Rhap!"_
*This video gets uploaded*
Bluedragon094: _"... Oh."_
Well, I mean you proved me wrong and then some, Rhap! Nice going!
since you read the comments it might be worth to point out the little things: do your upgrading 1 after the other, like: i got my 4 things green .. confirm my stuff by upgrading my unit .. yaay it worked .. next one .. handling it all at once is too confusing and you are likely to make mistakes
OK, I tried this strat and I breezed through the more pain campaign. I went from struggling to get to the second floor, to flying all the way to the end without a single death. This might be a tad OP
One thing I've noticed, is when you hit the condition for acquiring extra parts in battle, it doesn't say it in battle, it doesn't list it as a "perk" and I don't like that, I'm not sure if it's actually happening...And I'd also like to be able to track how many times a conditional has activated.
Hey Ryan, how about a showcase of each minion esp. the less used ones if you manage to finish the game. Enjoying the series! Thanks
Haven't watched vid yet coming out of ep 17. Use a sacrifice minion to scout out elite squads
That still has you burning resources and it would get tedious real quickly. If the Devs actually want you scouting like that, they should have a mechanic that's explicitly focused on scouting. There are a number of ways they could do it that would be a lot more interesting and a lot less painful than having players manually use trash minions.
@@EpsilonRosePersonal I specify elite squads specifically because they aren't littering the bored. Keep in mind he's still focusing one party and not multiple. If he runs into an all golem party his options will be limited.
nice to see they are actively patching the game trying to get it right as new problems come to thier attention, shows they care about the game.
Hey Rhapsody, I would like to comment about the straight effect and conditional effects on items.
The straight effect I find is good if I want my units to be consistently doing something, like adding armor and resistance for dark knights.
Buuuuttt, for my debuffing banshee, for example, where most of those stats dont matter, i only need her to be accurately debuffing everything, then a good conditional (like heal 6 hp when i debuff an enemy or starting turn at 3rd position do sth for me), those effects usually have a chance to do more for me than any other straight stats do.
Ryan, I would love to see you use your spells more often but you do you.
My dude this start was amazing, but you may want to build a second party (bride/banshee/skeleton/Dk) there are some encounters in the next floors that are gonna reck this party
Love this series and you’re in the top two of my favorite tubers! Have you thought about upgrading parts less and using units like the Lich and bone giant more together with maybe something for aoe to scout and damage while boosting down the wrath tree. Then you can deal a lot of damage heal easily and take down wards right? Keep tubing and ignore the haters you brighten my day and life!!
I'm convinced Rhapsody is gonna get the banner nerfed also if you ever feel the need to tell a boss how much you hate it one of the mummy's attacks upgrades to infinitely stack -10 luck on enemies which if you haven't forgotten negative luck = crit me sign stuck to their back PS I recommend running a cakewalk run to unlock Dahmpir I find their unlock a bit more of a pain than Vampires
and a 3rd edit cause i forgot I recommend the endless battle spell of the ire tree if you don't intend to use mana often
18 episodes , 30+ minutes duration , my bet was almost right , i missed by 2 episodes ("when will ryan learn how to play the game?" "i bet its episode 20 or more!"{you're better than i thought you were ma boi})
Can you read the patch notes when they come out? I don't know if they include the notes like they do with Slay the Spire.
I destroyed the game with a Bride/Wraith/Banshee/ Lich build. Lich clouded, Banshee crescendos, wraith made people dance and the bride was for breaking stances
1 lich 3 skeletons. Usually it used like that. You doing great ^_^
Sacrifice a bone golem on the altar. You will like the item you get.
Was wondering: aren't you too fast to go for uncommon undead, than just bigger number of troops?
The lich clouds are probably going to be nerfed.
I lost it at the one minute mark :p
I prefer for you to play the game and enjoy it above all else, but it was pretty rough watching that same party over and over again, especially since it was a pretty dull party format. It was kind of neat when it'd work, and I wouldn't mind seeing it as a niche party in the future, but sorry had to skip the last episode, don't know if I could've kept watching with that one. This lost soul double lich party is pretty awesome, I've been doing something similar with double brides in the back line but this is just strictly better. Going to be hard to take down golems I bet though.
Just a suggestion why not try and unlock the locked characters it would give you more options for ur party
XD you where there, lol
Finaly you might have a chance xD
Rhap, I'm worried this comp will get its ass handed by berserker in the second floor, especially the elite ones
Got any way get around that?
Also got anything for the inventor?
He could use a shade vs the bresrtkers, since they have low hp considering thier floor, you just claw them twice and they die
And the inventro is super killable with stress. I went with mummies since they can remove up to 100+ stress damage with their ult. My team consisted of a mummy front, two wraiths and one time I took a sacrificial bansee and the other just a second mummy
Wow this build is fairly broken. I would assume any full construct army would be a complete wall. Maybe still more manageable than the Dk skelly build against a trap.
Spoiler
Totally not relevant right now but
38:40
Rhapsody: Physical damage is a problem
Me: laugh in pyromancy*
Wait, so is this a new run? Do all unlocked minions stay unlocked for future runs?
Huh. Not sure how to feel about that. I guess it's a way to keep the complexity manageable over time for new players, but I thought there was an element of progression in unlocking *within* a run, so you had to make decisions based on what units you want to unlock then and there. I guess you still kind of have that for Iratus's talents, but still, might be something to think about.
Oh, well. Looking forward to seeing what you come up, Rhaps, and what else changes in the game.
Minion unlocks carry over, which is good because some of them take quite a bit of time to unlock. A lot of roguelites have new options that unlock on subsequent runs, both to help keep things fresh and, as you said, to keep complexity manageable for new players. As things stand, the talent tree is what's meant to create run level decisions that shape your strategy, so I'm not sure they need two versions of it.
That said, having to pick which unlocks you'll shoot for on a run and plan around them *could* be interesting, though they'd need to drastically change the requirements. That said, I think it would also make it a lot harder to experiment with new builds, given how complex each unit can be and what goes into making them. Having different classes for Iratus, that change up what's available and the specifics of how different abilities work or unlock, to suit different play styles, might be a better way to get similar results.
@@EpsilonRosePersonal Yeah, I see your point. Hadn't thought about the general rogue-like features there, probably because I've not played games with it much myself.
The talent tree for Iratus would be a good focus to create diverging paths by upgrading units instead of unlocking them. There's already some talents that upgrade skeleton health and bride damage, maybe having more variety in that would add to replay value. If it's needed, of course, it might be fine as-is.
I managed to finish lvl 1-3 with a physical damage combo. 4) Bride, 3) Mummy, 2+1) Bone golem.
Heart attack squad!
Stele is pronounced Stee-lee.
Why not just make a singel lich buff him out and just summon a bunch of skeleyboiz useing his abilitys
He might have addressed this in a latter episode, but its because sacking a skeleton and creating a skellyboi takes an action, his first turn he wont have enough wrath (I love how he prononuces it wroth) second create, third heal 40 for how long it took then deal 1/2 Stress damage for all of those rounds and have 1/2 magic damage to deal with golems for 3 rounds when he could have stressed all dead by then. When sacking took no action Id think that would be a great plan, also if you meant to gain skeletons summoned minions die after combat
@@justnobody5527 oof i didnt see that summoning a sans/papyrus needed "wroth" my bad
That cloud is too op it's gonna get nerfed... Youre not suffering im not enjoying this... Hahahahaha
16 videos later, still calling it 'wroth' instead of wrath. Come on, Rhaps!
Abode of Wroth x100000 when it's Wrath.
I'm still not American, so I still don't pronounce it that way. The British English pronunciation is what I'm using, because Australia is a Commonwealth country and we take more linguistics cues from Britain than from America.
Oh, it's the British pronounciation? You win this time, Rhaps.
It was getting me because we have people writing past-tense wrath as 'wroth' here in America and it's incrediblyyyy wrong. Thanks for replying.
Also to add in: I actually didn't know you weren't American. Please forgive me, I am completely deaf to most accents, so I'd never be able to guess. Thanks for letting me know about why.