Thanks so much for the kind words Grabeck, I always try to create content that is useful and as well composed as I can! Cheers and welcome to the channel!
Hellow, I just wanted to say that I looked a bunch of your videos on the last spell. I've had some difficulties with a level and your advices and explications helped me a lot, with being very clear. Thanks for your videos :D
Watching your videos way out of order but man no matter what you pick to watch it’s so well put together. Your overlay graphics always impress me! You didn’t “have to” do that but you chose to and your effort shows consistently. Very entertaining as usual too, edutational I suppose ❤️
Thank you so much @Jameston - that was some incredibly kind words and I appreciate you watching the videos! The recent videos I've been doing are very "how quick can I get them out the door", but soon as the initial hype calms down we'll get into some more high production value guides, as I just love making them! :)
Thank you for the kind words Mr Drajil! Next installment is coming this Sunday I hope! In the meantime I suspect I'll be making a 1.0 patch notes video! So excited!
Great video! I understand that numbers may have changed in 7 months, but it is much more efficient to fully upgrade a gold mine by day 2 then it is to build 3 goldmines with no upgrades. Each day with 2 workers it's pumping out 120 gold which makes you a profit so much faster and lets you really snowball into other things that help by having them earlier. At 40g per worker they are much more efficient in terms of gold than salvaging, piles, etc
Hey @nezix, it's a great point you're making about the max output of gold mines, but I do think that you need to really normalize those calculations around value per worker, because the 120g has an opportunity cost of 2 works that could be generating gold from corpse piles or being used to salvage ruins. Generally speaking if I'm going for a non-corpse pile strat workers are best spent in the early night on ruins so that you get the non-renewable burst of resources without the upfront cost. Building your second gold mine early can be a good plan rather than upgrading simply because you get passive income from it, gold mines pay for themselves even when not upgraded after just a few nights and then they're complete profit. To your final point, I think the issue is really just the upfront cost. That 40g / worker number doesn't have the cost to get it up and running baked in... unfortunately it takes a while to get to the point where you're running pure profit after spending on upgrading a gold mine. Generally speaking I find that increasing # of workers (even if you're getting less than 40g per) is unusually more of an accelerant on your economy than getting to that max production but with a upfront investment that could be used on second weapons or more houses. Also once you get to the point where you're getting 4-5 mountains in a night the items you sell actually give more than 40g per, if you sell 3 items (~60g per) at the cost of 2 workers that comes out to 90g per worker which is conservative as you can technically get items worth 80-100g, which would put you at 135g per worker in the late game with 3 epic lvl 5 items. Either way, one of the things that I love about this game is that there are so many ways to play, and while I generally choose to play slightly differently that doesn't invalidate the way you choose to play or disprove your very true claim that fully upgraded gold mines with a surplus of workers is a very good place to be. Thanks for the comment and welcome to the channel!
Soon™ But seriously, right now I think combat is just 2 videos away and then we'll finish with enemies! (not that we're ever done 😂) Thanks for watching!
I'm totally brand new to The Last Spell and not only did I learn from you that you can upgrade houses, I also spotted the hero portraits in the top-right corner so I don't need to scroll through my heroes to see their status. So hurray for the power of observation I guess!
Amazing! If you're curious in more of those little things I find that watching some gameplay can be really helpful... I have a few runs on the channel if you're curious ;) Cheers!
There's certainly a lot of it... recent streams have been modding related, but there's a lot, and I try to narrate the why as much as possible! Good luck!
Hiya Bruhder, plan is to make a whole video on corpse piles in the future, but the TL;DW is this. The possibility of a corpse spawning is based on how many and what type of enemies died on a particular tile. This is coupled with how close he enemy was to your base / magic circle and a wave / map specific spawn modifier. All this combined determines how many corpses of what type you get. Right now it's not easy to force corpse spawns, but letting enemies get close to your walls can be a really effective strategy for getting more. Risk vs reward type of thing. Hope this helps, thanks for the comment!
I build inn as late as possible to accelerate level progression for heroes. Forth hero steals 25% XP from every initial 3 heroes. Plus I might squeeze extra max level in for new recruits selection in the inn.
It's a good strategy to push off extra heroes as much as your can... I think this goes double for the Wanderer Omen that has a tendency to really stunt your late game. Good advices to be sure.
My absolute pleasure! And I couldn't agree more, TLS has such massive potential, the fact that the base game was this good is amazing, but the DLC and maybe some mod support could put it up there with the greats!
great and detailed for beginners! btw, when you said that barricades are useless, I remembered a good strategy (which I use): put a barricade in front of every wall. In this case, the melee enemies spend 1 extra turn to get to the wall, to destroy the barricade. Think about it, it might prevent a bit of panic😜
Very interesting concept, I see two issues though that's I'd be curious about. Biggest one is mobility, you basically need leapfrog to enter / exit your base and it's going to impede movement pretty significantly I think. Second that's a lot to spend in terms of mats... if barricades were free it might be a different story... but at 8(?) materials each that's adds up quick 🤔 Interesting idea though for sure
@@aldenpotamus If you take the omen of leaps and put ballista through 1 - it's not so difficult to jump in and jump out. Plus, I always leave a couple of doors for the passage) As for the materials, they may not be enough. Therefore, the strategy is not for the first few nights. But later, instead of upgrading to stone walls, I put barricades in front of the wooden ones. And if you build a quarry early (and I try not to spend the first money on items from the shop, but build the economy), then there will be a lot of materials. And I mostly talk about Elderlicht, because I often play only on it. In general, of course, this is not a victory strategy, but an option for using barricades :)
@@xeen_gaming sounds good to me you can keep building them out even I imagine . you just need to keep a path for your dudes. this is pretty good idea once you get your walls reinforced and your ballistas up.
One thing I've never tested, but if you put a barricade next to the mist does that block enemies entering through that tile 🤔 I think some enemies spawn in the mist and would likely break them, but I'm wondering if you can manipulate wave generation with them.
@@aldenpotamus I once left a hero next to the mist where the enemies were spawning. They just attacked he from the mist and didn't enter the map until I left. With barricades will be the same story İ think)
I like how you put out the comparative of the ruins of levels vs corpse piles. Imo corpse piles duri g the first 1-2 production phases are king, bc your heros can handle most of the burden by themselves and that gold helps majorly boost economy over the whole run.
So 4 ruins still out perform piles... but it's way closer than I realized. I generally agree, the flexibility of being able to get max value for 1 worker is unparalleled. Thanks for the comment Grossmond!
the thing i hate about lakeburg is that upper part, because there's water there and then 2 narrow walkways and enemies like to try to sneak around that side, but it's hard for your heroes to reach them, and ghen some nights, flyiners will just fly across the water there and then sometimes stop over the water. i made a mistake of building a building next to the edge and a flyer flew over the water and attacked my building and my melee hero was the only one nearby and couldn't reach it. . and then later, on like night 7 or 8 i forget, an elite ripper appeared and it had mist around it and enemies were in the mist it was creating and nobody could target to enemies because it said "not in line of soght" not even with third eye we still couldn't target them and they tried to get in the town on that side walkway, but them , maybe that was good, because it did slow them down. i just maybe should not have built buildings up there.
Yup, the lake in Lakeburg can be a real pain in the butt!!! Those walkways are also the bane of my existence, and I've never had an elite ripper wander out of them... that's some truly awful RNG, but quite the memory!
Thanks MMK, it's something I've noticed as well through the editing process. Nothing will key you into your little ticks and habits more than watching a 20 minute video 300 times 😂 The current IEMs that I'm using don't have a good fit to them unfortunately. Their seal breaks which in turn changes the audio on my end. I generally don't love the look of large headphones, so I've been sticking with them, but I need a pair that fit my ears more securely. I always appreciate feedback and this in particular is a great reminder. Thank you, and there was never any perception of trolling. Cheers!
Just a tiny point about the corpse piles being "tied" with 4-tile ruins: the rewards aren't the same, so I wouldn't call them tied. If you want both gold *and* materials, the wells might still be a favorable choice- especially after you've already accrued all the tainted essence that you need. No?
It's absolutely true that materials are more abundant in ruins, though very few of my strategies hinge on getting a larger influx of materials early... generally speaking I focus pretty heavily on gold as that's usually the limits factor in most of the early milestones like getting your inn etc. That being said you're 100% correct, the numbers are different if you're looking for materials as your primary goal. Good clarification, thanks for chiming in!
I'll add a link to the playlist... the guides playlist should be recommended at the end of the video, but I'll make sure it's also linked in the description. @jonathanb3667 thanks for pointing this out!
So glad to hear it! Thanks for watching, the next installment is coming out tomorrow, focused on heroes and hopefully Sunday I'll get a guide out for all the weapons!
I find that it's hard to say one is categorically better. Level 5 items are a huge jump up from level 1-4, but modifiers from Green+ can be far more important. Multi-hit on an item is far more.umportabt than levels. But level is important too! Thanks for the comment!
There was one minor tweak to the production upgrades (removing one), but I'd say other than that almost nothing in this guide changed. 1.0 was a massive balance patch to weapons with some changes to perks but the production phase was mostly untouched. Thanks for asking Ben, and happy Last Spelling!
If you put focus on armor and trinket production, does that improve the value of the perk which gives you two trinket slots? I know you didn't value that perk very highly in your tier list, so I was wondering - is the prospect of two epic tier V trinkets worth a perk slot?
Yeah that perk (Runic Gift) is one that I've come around to in a big way. An extra trinket slot has big value, and the mana that comes with it is generally great for the final night being able to cast aggressively. In my current thinking Runic Gift is an easy A rank with S rank potential.
So I haven't played TaB, but I know some people love it and I've also been told TLS borrows a bit from it. Personally, for me X-Com was a favorite of mine and TLS scratches the same itch (Line of Sight, Grid Based, RPG elements, and a very different setting).
@@aldenpotamus it takes one to know one i used to do coding after college i have a minor and a bs in info tech mgmt . i worked on a few projects but wasn't making much so now im a retail manager. it still comes in handy a lot tho keeping all those machines running.
This game has a good idea, just an acceptable grind, but a terrible interface. God this is so tiring to picking second attributes due level-up or second necklace as you always need to exit, swap to char, look at thing, go back (repeat 500000 times for every character). And interface is so slooooow for some don't-know-why reason. I want total redesign of it.
I could definitely see them streamlining some of the interfaces... shop and characters (as you mentioned) would be amazing if they were combined. Maybe when modding is added to the game some QoL changes can be made!
Your guides are very in-depth, comprehensive, and well thought out. Keep it up
Thank you! I just put the finishing touches on the Heroes overview and I think it's gonna be like 1.5 hours... So much to say, so little time!
Holy damn. I wish every guide on youtube would have such great quality.
Thanks so much for the kind words Grabeck, I always try to create content that is useful and as well composed as I can! Cheers and welcome to the channel!
Commenting for the algorithm and the nice videos man. I came back to play the last spell again and your videos are great. Thank you
Cheers man! Glad I could help!
Good idea getting these videos out before 1.0, this content could explode if TLS picks up a lot of traction after release.
Fingers crossed! Either way I hope they're helpful!
Love the guide! Thanks for the depth, the clarity, and warm tone. Please keep them coming!
Taylor, thank you so much! Very kind words, I appreciate it! Another one this Sunday I hope, assuming 1.0 doesn't consume me completely!
Hellow, I just wanted to say that I looked a bunch of your videos on the last spell. I've had some difficulties with a level and your advices and explications helped me a lot, with being very clear. Thanks for your videos :D
@ChaussetteHumide so glad to hear they helped! Feedback like this makes me so happy that I've found this community and this forum to share my work!
@@aldenpotamus Well it's really a good work, and I would 100% recommand your channel for this kind of game to someone struggling :)
Cheers @ChaussetteHumide - thanks for the kind words!
Watching your videos way out of order but man no matter what you pick to watch it’s so well put together. Your overlay graphics always impress me! You didn’t “have to” do that but you chose to and your effort shows consistently. Very entertaining as usual too, edutational I suppose ❤️
Thank you so much @Jameston - that was some incredibly kind words and I appreciate you watching the videos! The recent videos I've been doing are very "how quick can I get them out the door", but soon as the initial hype calms down we'll get into some more high production value guides, as I just love making them! :)
Thank you for this video. Explaining your first turns build orders is really helpfull. Like Shteven said, keep it up 😀
Thank you Chris!
Very nice and detailed guide overall :) waiting for more keep it going :)
Thank you for the kind words Mr Drajil! Next installment is coming this Sunday I hope!
In the meantime I suspect I'll be making a 1.0 patch notes video! So excited!
Super helpful. Great video. Your room looks like mine.
So glad it was helpful! Yeah I haven't been much for the streamer background... mostly just focused on content and laundry at the moment :) Cheers!
Amazing! Thanks for the valuable info!
My absolute pleasure, so glad you liked it!
"lake, could be.... scary or something, who knows." LOL :D
No spoilers right? 😂
Great video! I understand that numbers may have changed in 7 months, but it is much more efficient to fully upgrade a gold mine by day 2 then it is to build 3 goldmines with no upgrades. Each day with 2 workers it's pumping out 120 gold which makes you a profit so much faster and lets you really snowball into other things that help by having them earlier. At 40g per worker they are much more efficient in terms of gold than salvaging, piles, etc
Hey @nezix, it's a great point you're making about the max output of gold mines, but I do think that you need to really normalize those calculations around value per worker, because the 120g has an opportunity cost of 2 works that could be generating gold from corpse piles or being used to salvage ruins. Generally speaking if I'm going for a non-corpse pile strat workers are best spent in the early night on ruins so that you get the non-renewable burst of resources without the upfront cost. Building your second gold mine early can be a good plan rather than upgrading simply because you get passive income from it, gold mines pay for themselves even when not upgraded after just a few nights and then they're complete profit.
To your final point, I think the issue is really just the upfront cost. That 40g / worker number doesn't have the cost to get it up and running baked in... unfortunately it takes a while to get to the point where you're running pure profit after spending on upgrading a gold mine. Generally speaking I find that increasing # of workers (even if you're getting less than 40g per) is unusually more of an accelerant on your economy than getting to that max production but with a upfront investment that could be used on second weapons or more houses. Also once you get to the point where you're getting 4-5 mountains in a night the items you sell actually give more than 40g per, if you sell 3 items (~60g per) at the cost of 2 workers that comes out to 90g per worker which is conservative as you can technically get items worth 80-100g, which would put you at 135g per worker in the late game with 3 epic lvl 5 items.
Either way, one of the things that I love about this game is that there are so many ways to play, and while I generally choose to play slightly differently that doesn't invalidate the way you choose to play or disprove your very true claim that fully upgraded gold mines with a surplus of workers is a very good place to be. Thanks for the comment and welcome to the channel!
very nice video i cant wait for the battle one
Soon™
But seriously, right now I think combat is just 2 videos away and then we'll finish with enemies! (not that we're ever done 😂)
Thanks for watching!
I'm totally brand new to The Last Spell and not only did I learn from you that you can upgrade houses, I also spotted the hero portraits in the top-right corner so I don't need to scroll through my heroes to see their status. So hurray for the power of observation I guess!
Amazing! If you're curious in more of those little things I find that watching some gameplay can be really helpful... I have a few runs on the channel if you're curious ;) Cheers!
@@aldenpotamus I just might have to watch some! I've gone through all of your guides and there's a lot I need to learn about the early game.
There's certainly a lot of it... recent streams have been modding related, but there's a lot, and I try to narrate the why as much as possible! Good luck!
13:56 could you explain a bit about these strategies for getting better corpse piles?
Hiya Bruhder, plan is to make a whole video on corpse piles in the future, but the TL;DW is this.
The possibility of a corpse spawning is based on how many and what type of enemies died on a particular tile. This is coupled with how close he enemy was to your base / magic circle and a wave / map specific spawn modifier. All this combined determines how many corpses of what type you get.
Right now it's not easy to force corpse spawns, but letting enemies get close to your walls can be a really effective strategy for getting more. Risk vs reward type of thing.
Hope this helps, thanks for the comment!
thx a lot for the guide i hope the 1.0 is coming soon :)
Thursday can't come soon enough!!!
I build inn as late as possible to accelerate level progression for heroes. Forth hero steals 25% XP from every initial 3 heroes. Plus I might squeeze extra max level in for new recruits selection in the inn.
It's a good strategy to push off extra heroes as much as your can... I think this goes double for the Wanderer Omen that has a tendency to really stunt your late game. Good advices to be sure.
Thx for the guide!
Thanks for watching!!
Thanks Sir!
Awsome game.
My absolute pleasure! And I couldn't agree more, TLS has such massive potential, the fact that the base game was this good is amazing, but the DLC and maybe some mod support could put it up there with the greats!
great and detailed for beginners!
btw, when you said that barricades are useless, I remembered a good strategy (which I use): put a barricade in front of every wall. In this case, the melee enemies spend 1 extra turn to get to the wall, to destroy the barricade. Think about it, it might prevent a bit of panic😜
Very interesting concept, I see two issues though that's I'd be curious about.
Biggest one is mobility, you basically need leapfrog to enter / exit your base and it's going to impede movement pretty significantly I think.
Second that's a lot to spend in terms of mats... if barricades were free it might be a different story... but at 8(?) materials each that's adds up quick 🤔
Interesting idea though for sure
@@aldenpotamus
If you take the omen of leaps and put ballista through 1 - it's not so difficult to jump in and jump out. Plus, I always leave a couple of doors for the passage)
As for the materials, they may not be enough. Therefore, the strategy is not for the first few nights. But later, instead of upgrading to stone walls, I put barricades in front of the wooden ones. And if you build a quarry early (and I try not to spend the first money on items from the shop, but build the economy), then there will be a lot of materials.
And I mostly talk about Elderlicht, because I often play only on it.
In general, of course, this is not a victory strategy, but an option for using barricades :)
@@xeen_gaming sounds good to me you can keep building them out even I imagine . you just need to keep a path for your dudes. this is pretty good idea once you get your walls reinforced and your ballistas up.
One thing I've never tested, but if you put a barricade next to the mist does that block enemies entering through that tile 🤔 I think some enemies spawn in the mist and would likely break them, but I'm wondering if you can manipulate wave generation with them.
@@aldenpotamus I once left a hero next to the mist where the enemies were spawning. They just attacked he from the mist and didn't enter the map until I left. With barricades will be the same story İ think)
I like how you put out the comparative of the ruins of levels vs corpse piles. Imo corpse piles duri g the first 1-2 production phases are king, bc your heros can handle most of the burden by themselves and that gold helps majorly boost economy over the whole run.
So 4 ruins still out perform piles... but it's way closer than I realized. I generally agree, the flexibility of being able to get max value for 1 worker is unparalleled. Thanks for the comment Grossmond!
the thing i hate about lakeburg is that upper part, because there's water there and then 2 narrow walkways and enemies like to try to sneak around that side, but it's hard for your heroes to reach them, and ghen some nights, flyiners will just fly across the water there and then sometimes stop over the water. i made a mistake of building a building next to the edge and a flyer flew over the water and attacked my building and my melee hero was the only one nearby and couldn't reach it. .
and then later, on like night 7 or 8 i forget, an elite ripper appeared and it had mist around it and enemies were in the mist it was creating and nobody could target to enemies because it said "not in line of soght" not even with third eye we still couldn't target them and they tried to get in the town on that side walkway, but them , maybe that was good, because it did slow them down. i just maybe should not have built buildings up there.
Yup, the lake in Lakeburg can be a real pain in the butt!!! Those walkways are also the bane of my existence, and I've never had an elite ripper wander out of them... that's some truly awful RNG, but quite the memory!
very nice guide
Thanks jow! Glad you liked it!
Huge props for doing this series. Can't wait for 1.0!
The production values with the time you invested in visual overlays and the such like...
Thanks MMK, it's something I've noticed as well through the editing process. Nothing will key you into your little ticks and habits more than watching a 20 minute video 300 times 😂
The current IEMs that I'm using don't have a good fit to them unfortunately. Their seal breaks which in turn changes the audio on my end. I generally don't love the look of large headphones, so I've been sticking with them, but I need a pair that fit my ears more securely.
I always appreciate feedback and this in particular is a great reminder. Thank you, and there was never any perception of trolling. Cheers!
Just a tiny point about the corpse piles being "tied" with 4-tile ruins: the rewards aren't the same, so I wouldn't call them tied. If you want both gold *and* materials, the wells might still be a favorable choice- especially after you've already accrued all the tainted essence that you need. No?
It's absolutely true that materials are more abundant in ruins, though very few of my strategies hinge on getting a larger influx of materials early... generally speaking I focus pretty heavily on gold as that's usually the limits factor in most of the early milestones like getting your inn etc.
That being said you're 100% correct, the numbers are different if you're looking for materials as your primary goal. Good clarification, thanks for chiming in!
How are the other guides in this series not listed in the description? I've having such a hard time finding and watching them in order
I'll add a link to the playlist... the guides playlist should be recommended at the end of the video, but I'll make sure it's also linked in the description.
@jonathanb3667 thanks for pointing this out!
Enjoyed it thanks!
So glad to hear it! Thanks for watching, the next installment is coming out tomorrow, focused on heroes and hopefully Sunday I'll get a guide out for all the weapons!
Sometimes I don’t think I am smart enough for this game… but it’s so satisfying…. I wanna beat that freakin lake monster!
I am most certainly sure you have what it takes... Nessy will fall if you keep after it, I'm absolutely sure of it! Also my guides might help 😉
When picking items I typically follow Level>color. With the variant being of veriably importance.
I find that it's hard to say one is categorically better. Level 5 items are a huge jump up from level 1-4, but modifiers from Green+ can be far more important. Multi-hit on an item is far more.umportabt than levels.
But level is important too! Thanks for the comment!
How relevant is this guide after the balance changes made in 1.0?
There was one minor tweak to the production upgrades (removing one), but I'd say other than that almost nothing in this guide changed.
1.0 was a massive balance patch to weapons with some changes to perks but the production phase was mostly untouched.
Thanks for asking Ben, and happy Last Spelling!
If you put focus on armor and trinket production, does that improve the value of the perk which gives you two trinket slots? I know you didn't value that perk very highly in your tier list, so I was wondering - is the prospect of two epic tier V trinkets worth a perk slot?
Yeah that perk (Runic Gift) is one that I've come around to in a big way. An extra trinket slot has big value, and the mana that comes with it is generally great for the final night being able to cast aggressively. In my current thinking Runic Gift is an easy A rank with S rank potential.
thank you every much
My absolute pleasure Wencel, welcome to the channel!
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" -Mike Tyson is the quote
Apparently also: Erwin Rommel: “No plan survives contact with the enemy”
But I prefer Mikes! Thanks for the comment!
Do you know any other games that are similar to the last spell?
X-COM
They Are Billions
Final Fantasy Tactics
All have something in common, but to me TLS is a pretty unique combination!
@@aldenpotamus I got all them. I didn't really like they are billions. Or either I didn't understand the game
So I haven't played TaB, but I know some people love it and I've also been told TLS borrows a bit from it. Personally, for me X-Com was a favorite of mine and TLS scratches the same itch (Line of Sight, Grid Based, RPG elements, and a very different setting).
@@aldenpotamus great games i was telling my friends its close to FFT . i may get they are billions at some point as well
I have played They Are Billions so if you get it please report back!
PS5 version doesnt give Epic items for night rewards. Switch version give epic rewards like crazy.
The console ports unfortunately still have some issues... I'm hoping the DLC eventually comes to the consoles and they can fix some of these issues!
5:26 do you work in IT? 😂
Software engineering (management), by trade ... so I've managed a few resources in my day 🙄
@@aldenpotamus thats so funny i assumed the same
😂
@@aldenpotamus it takes one to know one i used to do coding after college i have a minor and a bs in info tech mgmt . i worked on a few projects but wasn't making much so now im a retail manager. it still comes in handy a lot tho keeping all those machines running.
Birds of a feather!
Karl Marx approves of this concept..in the last spell!😤
What a coincidence, that Splitter's name is actually Karl! 😂
@@aldenpotamusverily! it was written!🤣
And so it was! 😂
@@aldenpotamus 😊
This game has a good idea, just an acceptable grind, but a terrible interface. God this is so tiring to picking second attributes due level-up or second necklace as you always need to exit, swap to char, look at thing, go back (repeat 500000 times for every character). And interface is so slooooow for some don't-know-why reason. I want total redesign of it.
I could definitely see them streamlining some of the interfaces... shop and characters (as you mentioned) would be amazing if they were combined. Maybe when modding is added to the game some QoL changes can be made!