putting vampire for ransacked town after you pass the town to get a free loop of not ghoul vampire house is like taking a stinky poop at a restaurant bathroom so you don't stink up your own house
Hey NL, a couple tips (if you'd like them) for the Necromancer: 1. Attack speed is super useful, it affects how quickly you summon new skellys 2. If you do a few runs as another class to collect some resources and unlock the forest cards, they have insanely good synergy with the necromancer. I won't spoil beyond that but it's pretty nuts. 3. You're right on necromancers not doing well against a lot of enemies (in most cases), pretty much any enemies with high speed will cut him down fast as you can't usually keep up the summoning. Also just a general tip for the game that I've found useful, if you have some patience with placing the enemy spawning tiles (like groves and such), rather than placing them as soon as you pick them up, the early loops are much easier and allow you to build up some solid loot without getting overwhelmed by large packs before you've established some good stats from your gear. Really enjoying the content so far btw, love this game!
@@maxmillian8375 it's hugely important, it lets you summon your skeletons much more quickly. so you take less and deal more damage, and once the skeletons die you can summon a replacement sooner
@@maxmillian8375 it’s pretty important as it makes max skeletons more valuable by reducing the amount of time between summons, and skeletons are pretty fragile so summoning them faster mid combat against stronger enemies really helps. He died to the boss last video because he wasn’t able to summon skeletons fast enough.
The worst is when the character decides to focus the quest enemy first, regardless of HP amount. Focusing an 800 hp bloodclot that dodges every 3rd attack instead of the 3 spiders or ratwolfs that have 120hp and do more damage grinds my gears so hard. I get that it's an auto battler, but c'mon man - you always kill the ads first! That's like, adventuring 101!
Got a couple of tips if you're interested, free of spoilers: - The hero has a Stamina bar which depletes slightly whenever you attack or evade. If it fully runs out, you get a debuff which ruins your bonus attack speed and evasion until it fully recharges again. If you have a very high evasion build and fight against a large number of fast-attack enemies (spiders or worms) you'll probably end up noticing how hard this debuff can hinder you. - Don't be afraid to retreat to camp when you have found good stuff (supplies you like, or large amount of resources), I've died an embarrassing number of times in encounters where I had full hp and potions because the enemies surprised me with how much of a fight they put back. If a village quest (or multiple quests!) lands on a very tough fight (tanky enemy, or a very large fight) its usually a good signal to maybe retreat. - If you wanna farm resources, I recommend playing chapter 2 over chapter 1 because of the doubled resource cap and increased resource gains, even if you've no plan to fight the boss. - If you wanna maximize the HP gain from mountains, use only rocks for making the 3x3 Mountain Peak and save the mountain tiles to put around it. - Most enemy types can't walk onto a normal village tile. If you put a Blood Grove adjacent to a village you can still benefit from the aura effect without the flesh golems being able to spawn on that tile. This is especially relevant directly before the campfire tile, because a quest target flesh golem can halve your HP and consume your potions before a bossfight if you lack the DPS. - The above village tip also works for making Goblin Camps a non-issue, meaning you can save your Oblivion cards for other stuff. - You can Obliviate a vampire mansion after it turns a village into ransacked village, it doesn't mess with the village but makes the fights against the ghouls easier. - If the game is too slow for your liking, you can edit a textfile in the installation folder to bump up the FPS cap (gameplay speed is tied to game framerate, which is capped to 60 by default). This affects the combat speed too!
@@TheDilla Starting in chapter 2 you can spawn a vampire mage when the area for a depleted bookery and vampire mansion overlap. Those vampire mage's can drop the shards for the cosmic orbs.
As a YT watcher I'm really loving the addition of twitch streams. The chat keeps the cometary super dynamic and I imagine they just enjoy being a bigger part of the content in general. I know you've mentioned liking the progressive addition of twitch over time and just yeah, it's working out absurdly well. Also I've been thoroughly enjoying your content for a while and Loop Hero still stands out as one of my favorite segments!
@@chacecampbell2697 the BS would be calling out subs, back seating in general but especially back seating that’s wrong, silly comments from chat. I get that with chat it’s easier for NL to commentate, but without a doubt it degrades the quality of commentary as a result.
If your going for an infinite run remember to obliterate your skeleton camps once you hit around the 20th loop. I had a run where I had a 5k magic health shield, because it would take me around 5-10 minutes to kill 1 skeleton camp. While spider camps would take at most 20 seconds.
@@barban534 If you run skeleton camps late you should take storm temples. They do damage based on defence, so they fuck up skeletons and barely hurt classes that aren't Warrior. Hell - Necromancer even has magic HP to soften the blows haha
Those “hungry groves” is because they do damage to you when you don’t put a grove directly adjacent to a blood grove even if it connects to another blood grove, so that is also hurting you when fighting the boss
since he wants backseeting: - having higher level loot equiped gives you higher level loot from monsters etc. (faster scaling) - having a long line of villages before the campfire for a stacked heal seems better, because you get the healing before the boss - as long as you have a high evade stat the lich boss should be no problem in any run - you dont really need the lanturn as the necromancer if you just space the monster camps a little bit - if you stack farms and villages put the farms at the end because they are more common - you can put treasuries on the corner of the trail so you save some cards that being said love the content and the game
Hey NL, I've found that getting Blood Groves on the inside of bends (like just north of the ruins a 6:35) is good as you can then get it to affect a lot of enemies. Also I found out recently that you want to spend rocks to make your Mountain Peak rather than mountains as the 9 tiles all turn into the same thing no matter the composition, this lets you use the mountains after and you will end up with more HP from the cards.
Yeah I'm pretty confident that Skeleton Quality is the Necromancer's "god stat". For instance, in the Lich fight: once he targets you he won't untarget, and will continue to attack you instead of your skellies until you die... unless you summon a Skeleton Guard, which will FORCE him to re-target onto it until it dies. After the guard dies, he might target you again, but he might target one of the other skellies instead, and either way you've got another chance to summon another Guard. Once you've got 3 quality-boosting items, you want max number up to at least 3 and ideally 4+, and only then do you want attack speed and skeleton level. (I like to make the Grimoire my non-quality item, because being able to swap that freely lets my Skeleton Level scale better).
NL, I've found that attack speed is CRAZY powerful. I'd try to mainline building construction until you can build a forest (and then get Forest/Thicket cards). I've had some builds where I'm running around with 200% attack speed and can just steamroll any group of enemies before they can get a hit or two off.
Road lanterns and leaving an empty square between groves really helped me. Less enemies per square = win. This is especially true for necromancer who does not have attack all.
You can get up to 6 Meadows around each Treasury if you put the two [any other tile]s directly next to the Treasury, so that the three form a horizontal or vertical line. In addition to getting those Meadows out faster, it lets you keep more of your Rocks by your Mountains or your Forests by your Rivers or whatever.
Honestly rock/mountain synergy doesnt matter much. At most it will earn you 100 more max Hp. What matters in this game is time management. BEWARE SPOILER AHEAD ON HOW TO WIN EZ. You want to have as many fight as possible per loop (weaker monsters and weaker boss on low loop). For that you want to spend as many day as possible/loop. So walking slowly = killing monsters slowly. Often the best strat is to not wield a weapon on firsts loops and only focuse on vampirism/regen/defense to make fight last longer so that day passes. As day passes more monsters spawn, yielding more cards/loop and more experience. Cemetery and spiders are especially goood : spiders to get a lot of cards on first and second loop, skeletons to get good gear on loop 2. Speeding up spawn with chrono crystals and time tower will allow you to fight boss on loop 4. Late game towns will make you lvl up at lightspeed. And oasis will make the fights easy. Basically with enough oasis it makes your own attack speed get double the effect. (dunes areX2 by the rivers, everyone base speed gets to 0.5. So relatively à +10% speed boost becomes 20%) and the oasis itself gives you magic damage. GG EZ game. ^^
Summon quality is very crucial as necro, it determines what skeletons you spawn, the normal skeletons were the reason you lost the fight, a combo of tanks and warriors would have made short work of skull man
You should start by letting him know that there are skeleton quality and skeleton strength and that both do different things. I think that he still hasn't realized it.
You gotta balance it out with level. Once you get a few more loops they will just die in one hit. And if you don't get quality, you just get the basic skeles and those are no good.
@@RazalasTrebla true but having a good quality is a little bit more important than level in bossing or against strong enemies like harpies. I've died plenty of times because my roster only has 4 normal skeletons and the enemy just bursts my summoner
It takes all excitement out of me when he starts playing like he doesnt care because theres a time restriction. Like dude you had everything for that treasury, it could have saved you.
Necromancer is an interesting class as you relied on your summoning which depends on the skeleton level to get stronger. I found that using the arsenal is better bcs you can put extra slot which can give bonus to max skeleton. The problem with this class tho for me is that if I dont get the right skills (like 20% chance to summon two skeletons) I died at higher loop :(
you really need to get the ancestral home if you want the necromancer to be any good, the hp is just too low without it. maybe take the warrior and grind up to it for a couple more runs along with the library for some sweet lore and info and you'll be stomping with the necromancer in no time.
@@TheRezignator Plus the enemies that the forests spawn get completely bodied by the necromancer. Meadows are actually so trash even with all the weird synergies you can do to try and make them good.
How to beat the game while min maxing and using 2/4 of your brain: Spam warrior with chrono crystal plus mountain and meadows to farm materials for unlocking forest. The other two classes aren't really viable until you get forest unless your gear is beyond amazing. Necro just flat out isn't that good until you get forest + river (their good for rushing bosses, but trash mobs can obliterate you). Slow summoning speed means your gonna take way too long to loop compared to a warrior with retaliate and a regen build. While rogue require very specific decks to make them shine when you don't have forest. And thin out your deck a lot of the monster tiles in the game currently aren't viable in ch 2+ too much RNG based abilities and crits that could instantly ruin your run if your unlucky. Btw this is all based on the assumption you have unlocked Arsenal. And your running a max health build with your camp supply. I won against the final boss with around 2k+ health on necromancer (you need the skeletons deaths heal you and share your damage) and rogue (1-5% chance of dealing 1k damage + revive with 85% of your health from cemetery) I would recommend having at least that amount of health before even fighting him. TIPS: Remember to obliterate the ?villages? when your on a rogue or warrior. Forge is also an amazing card if you have the camp upgrade that makes crossbowmen join you in fight taking place next to your campfire. Makes bosses easier and gives you a free lot bag every few loops.
By far the strongest Necro build I've had was 4 Max skeles, 40-60% Attack Speed, 80+% Summon quality; with the 15% skeleton counter attack and heal on skeleton death talents. I could summon skeletons slightly faster than the boss could kill them and every time he killed them I healed. Worked out loverly. You can also stack up some pretty ludicrous regen (I topped out at 10/sec before regearing). Pair it with a decent bubble and you're pretty much unkillable.
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NL, try to pop the treasures at the beginning of loops so you get better gear for your hero. Also I tried to min-max the deck like you did, more often than not you don't get enough monster spawning cards to get more kills and better loot, so bringing the minimum number of cards might not be a good strat for this game
Kinda spoilers for necromancer class but does anyone know what causes necromancer to spawn skeleton mages? It happened to me once I think when summon quality was over 100%, but then it never really happened again
Summon quality is your chance to summon a special skeleton. The mage is the special version of the archer, so you'll need to be able to get out 5 at once and then have the quality trigger. That said, if you do it right, you shouldn't need any ranged ones before most fights end.
I wish someone could tell NL that it is more efficient to create a super mountain from just rocks than it is from mountains. Super mountain provides the same amount no matter what was used to construct it.
For the last 5+ minutes of the video, NL keeps talking about how he should be playing something other than this game and the game should end faster. That's not great content for a Loop Hero video.
You shouldn't feel too bad about getting the warrior loot you can't use at the start. When you have too much loot to hold, the excess isn't just discarded, it gets recycled into resources. That means the free starting loot, even if you can't use it, is just free resources. That also means you should be more careful about swapping out equipment for things that aren't meaningfully different (i.e. a same level amulet that just gives 1 extra magic hp), because swapping out equipment isn't free - it effectively costs you resources every time you do it.
The Necromanser is actually good vs a lot of enemies (vampire with ghouls for example), BUT he is bad vs Spiders, because they slow your attack speed making you spawn skeletons slower.
An actual tip: stop cramming your mountain into the corner, leave at least a bit of space around it. The mega mountain gives a good adjacency bonus and the whole ring around it is a good place to put normal rocks for stacking HP. Putting it in the corner wastes half of the opportunity.
Have you ever heard or "Streamer Camp" it is a thing. Fuslie and Boxbox host it, not sure they do it anymore, due to covid. but some huge steamers have been there.
Using grey Items with Necromancer even higher level doesn't benefit him as much as other classes, All other classes can specialize into something since grey item on evasion will be like +20%, same orange item will be like 10% + other stats . BUT Necromancer is benefiting with going wide since his skills hardly scale with item level. Skeleton Quality is top at 29%, so most of the time ring level 5 and ring level 10 will have 1% difference between them. Same goes for other stats since Necromancer doesn't have big boosts for stats from items, like maximum evasion bonus is 10%, maximum bonus skeleton level is like 1.5... the only one Exception then Grey can be better is books.
I don’t really know anything about the game - but if you can place wheat fields on either sides of villages shouldn’t you place villages with two tiles between them? (For more wheat fields)
Feel spiders should always be in deck for items/cards/generally easy to kill. That second run had no monsters spawning which is why it was so slow and not much scaling.
I've found spiders aren't good to fight as the necromancer due to their high dps. Same goes for the ratwolves, plus the blood grove is a nonbo with necromancer since the grove tries to eat the skeletons. Enemy skeletons however work well, as do the enemies that spawn from placing forest.
I dont own the game so i dont really know if what im saying makes any sense, but putting villages 2 apart instead of one would be better right? so you can get 2 farm for each village instead of one?
Villages gain max benefit even from sharing a field. Less fields mean less scarecrows and less stuff on the board so it takes longer for the boss to come
Yo, Northernlion please try a rogue or warrior build with ruins and villages. Enemies cant spawn on villages so you can basically ensure ruin worms wont trash you in a fight in the third row. Also you can always save oblivion to kill off bandit camps straight away.
I mean, yeah, being honest can sound mean, sometimes, but sometimes you gotta be mean to be nice, y'know? It may not "sound nice", but it may be something that they need to hear. Possible exponential channel growth is typically worth a few hours (worst case scenario) of hurt feelings, in my opinion.
"I apologize for my mountain placements and misplays in advance." = the new tinted rock
putting vampire for ransacked town after you pass the town to get a free loop of not ghoul vampire house is like taking a stinky poop at a restaurant bathroom so you don't stink up your own house
Yooo wtf that's BIG BRAIN brother!
now this is pog
Hey NL, a couple tips (if you'd like them) for the Necromancer:
1. Attack speed is super useful, it affects how quickly you summon new skellys
2. If you do a few runs as another class to collect some resources and unlock the forest cards, they have insanely good synergy with the necromancer. I won't spoil beyond that but it's pretty nuts.
3. You're right on necromancers not doing well against a lot of enemies (in most cases), pretty much any enemies with high speed will cut him down fast as you can't usually keep up the summoning.
Also just a general tip for the game that I've found useful, if you have some patience with placing the enemy spawning tiles (like groves and such), rather than placing them as soon as you pick them up, the early loops are much easier and allow you to build up some solid loot without getting overwhelmed by large packs before you've established some good stats from your gear.
Really enjoying the content so far btw, love this game!
Every community needs more ppl like you
I'm pretty sure attack speed does nothing for Necromancer.
@@maxmillian8375 it's hugely important, it lets you summon your skeletons much more quickly. so you take less and deal more damage, and once the skeletons die you can summon a replacement sooner
@@maxmillian8375 I thought so as well but it does reduce the time in between skeleton summons
@@maxmillian8375 it’s pretty important as it makes max skeletons more valuable by reducing the amount of time between summons, and skeletons are pretty fragile so summoning them faster mid combat against stronger enemies really helps.
He died to the boss last video because he wasn’t able to summon skeletons fast enough.
Humility is the noun form of humble, you egg.
It does grind my gears when the characters don't stay on the same target, especially when its a golem or vampire... now when the enemy does it though-
The worst is when the character decides to focus the quest enemy first, regardless of HP amount. Focusing an 800 hp bloodclot that dodges every 3rd attack instead of the 3 spiders or ratwolfs that have 120hp and do more damage grinds my gears so hard. I get that it's an auto battler, but c'mon man - you always kill the ads first! That's like, adventuring 101!
@@THEDONKAGE just have dmg to all smh
NL, I gotta say, this Loop Hero content is overwhelmingly pogular and I enjoy it very much.
If goblins ever give you trouble and you don't have any oblivions, you can place a village beside their camp and they won't be able to spawn.
Got a couple of tips if you're interested, free of spoilers:
- The hero has a Stamina bar which depletes slightly whenever you attack or evade. If it fully runs out, you get a debuff which ruins your bonus attack speed and evasion until it fully recharges again. If you have a very high evasion build and fight against a large number of fast-attack enemies (spiders or worms) you'll probably end up noticing how hard this debuff can hinder you.
- Don't be afraid to retreat to camp when you have found good stuff (supplies you like, or large amount of resources), I've died an embarrassing number of times in encounters where I had full hp and potions because the enemies surprised me with how much of a fight they put back. If a village quest (or multiple quests!) lands on a very tough fight (tanky enemy, or a very large fight) its usually a good signal to maybe retreat.
- If you wanna farm resources, I recommend playing chapter 2 over chapter 1 because of the doubled resource cap and increased resource gains, even if you've no plan to fight the boss.
- If you wanna maximize the HP gain from mountains, use only rocks for making the 3x3 Mountain Peak and save the mountain tiles to put around it.
- Most enemy types can't walk onto a normal village tile. If you put a Blood Grove adjacent to a village you can still benefit from the aura effect without the flesh golems being able to spawn on that tile. This is especially relevant directly before the campfire tile, because a quest target flesh golem can halve your HP and consume your potions before a bossfight if you lack the DPS.
- The above village tip also works for making Goblin Camps a non-issue, meaning you can save your Oblivion cards for other stuff.
- You can Obliviate a vampire mansion after it turns a village into ransacked village, it doesn't mess with the village but makes the fights against the ghouls easier.
- If the game is too slow for your liking, you can edit a textfile in the installation folder to bump up the FPS cap (gameplay speed is tied to game framerate, which is capped to 60 by default). This affects the combat speed too!
primed and ready for the cosmic orb waiting room
I fought like 100 of those damn mages and I still didn't get an orb. not poggy.
@@TheDilla Starting in chapter 2 you can spawn a vampire mage when the area for a depleted bookery and vampire mansion overlap. Those vampire mage's can drop the shards for the cosmic orbs.
@@TheRezignator oooh it has to be chapter 2? damn okay
Yoooo, surprised you watch NL. Nice memes my dude
Seeing him skip the Take All on the previous run hurts
i know man, the extra healing on the potion is sooo good.
I... Have played the game for hours and literally have only just seen that's an option... So many lost resources...
It requires the orb that looks like a skull. You only get it from killing the boss.
I scrolled down to see if anyone saw this and, of course, the first comment I see about it is from someone I'm subbed to. Cheers!
"Give the people what they don't want"
*Laughs in behaviour interactive*
The antonym for hubris is hubrisn't
As a YT watcher I'm really loving the addition of twitch streams. The chat keeps the cometary super dynamic and I imagine they just enjoy being a bigger part of the content in general. I know you've mentioned liking the progressive addition of twitch over time and just yeah, it's working out absurdly well. Also I've been thoroughly enjoying your content for a while and Loop Hero still stands out as one of my favorite segments!
I have the exact opposite thought as you on the subject of streams but I respect your opinion on it! 👍
@@SahiPie I have the exact opposite opinion as you but I also respect it. 👍🏽
Hard disagree, I’d just watch twitch if I wanted to hear nonstop BS from chat.
@@danblew3030 Not sure what non stop bs you're talking about but I enjoy with or without. Some games really bring out some great responses though imo.
@@chacecampbell2697 the BS would be calling out subs, back seating in general but especially back seating that’s wrong, silly comments from chat.
I get that with chat it’s easier for NL to commentate, but without a doubt it degrades the quality of commentary as a result.
Not since new Isaac expansions or Enter the Gungeon have I been more hyped for a series. Great content
Please use the cemetery card when playing with necromancer, skeletons attack slowly giving you time to summon.
Wow, great tip! I didn't know
Plus, what kind of necromancer wouldn't want to have some handy cemeteries around?
If your going for an infinite run remember to obliterate your skeleton camps once you hit around the 20th loop. I had a run where I had a 5k magic health shield, because it would take me around 5-10 minutes to kill 1 skeleton camp. While spider camps would take at most 20 seconds.
@@barban534 If you run skeleton camps late you should take storm temples. They do damage based on defence, so they fuck up skeletons and barely hurt classes that aren't Warrior. Hell - Necromancer even has magic HP to soften the blows haha
@@THEDONKAGE They burn your forests though if you're going to an attack speed/summon speed build, which is very nice for infinite.
i have loved NLs content since middle school im a sophomore in college. he is a legend
Started playing this game myself. It's even more pog than I thought. Thank you, egg.
Unlocking forest really helps the necromancer a lot, partially because you can finally get rid of meadows since you need 2 lands minimum
Those “hungry groves” is because they do damage to you when you don’t put a grove directly adjacent to a blood grove even if it connects to another blood grove, so that is also hurting you when fighting the boss
since he wants backseeting:
- having higher level loot equiped gives you higher level loot from monsters etc. (faster scaling)
- having a long line of villages before the campfire for a stacked heal seems better, because you get the healing before the boss
- as long as you have a high evade stat the lich boss should be no problem in any run
- you dont really need the lanturn as the necromancer if you just space the monster camps a little bit
- if you stack farms and villages put the farms at the end because they are more common
- you can put treasuries on the corner of the trail so you save some cards
that being said love the content and the game
Where does the game say that higher loot level makes better loot drop? I thought it was only bases on the loop level
Hey NL, I've found that getting Blood Groves on the inside of bends (like just north of the ruins a 6:35) is good as you can then get it to affect a lot of enemies.
Also I found out recently that you want to spend rocks to make your Mountain Peak rather than mountains as the 9 tiles all turn into the same thing no matter the composition, this lets you use the mountains after and you will end up with more HP from the cards.
The first point is so obvious that it’s painful he doesn’t think like this!
Yeah I'm pretty confident that Skeleton Quality is the Necromancer's "god stat". For instance, in the Lich fight: once he targets you he won't untarget, and will continue to attack you instead of your skellies until you die... unless you summon a Skeleton Guard, which will FORCE him to re-target onto it until it dies. After the guard dies, he might target you again, but he might target one of the other skellies instead, and either way you've got another chance to summon another Guard.
Once you've got 3 quality-boosting items, you want max number up to at least 3 and ideally 4+, and only then do you want attack speed and skeleton level. (I like to make the Grimoire my non-quality item, because being able to swap that freely lets my Skeleton Level scale better).
"They [McDonalds] should start selling trendy food, like they should just start selling Bubble Tea". They did that in Germany and Austria at least.
NL, I've found that attack speed is CRAZY powerful. I'd try to mainline building construction until you can build a forest (and then get Forest/Thicket cards). I've had some builds where I'm running around with 200% attack speed and can just steamroll any group of enemies before they can get a hit or two off.
I have just become an egg and am playing loop hero, while watching another egg play loop hero, and I am loosing all sense of self
"there's gotta be a word for less hubris" Why am I not surprised egg don't know the word "humility" lmao
There is actually no direct antonym for hubris in the english language. The antonym is Sophrosyne in greek.
Road lanterns and leaving an empty square between groves really helped me. Less enemies per square = win. This is especially true for necromancer who does not have attack all.
You can get up to 6 Meadows around each Treasury if you put the two [any other tile]s directly next to the Treasury, so that the three form a horizontal or vertical line. In addition to getting those Meadows out faster, it lets you keep more of your Rocks by your Mountains or your Forests by your Rivers or whatever.
Antonym of hubris is sophrosyne. Hope NL manages to see this! @ 6:40
Also in the settings there are awesome pause times that go automatically for you
@NL just a heads up bandits will break your gear to include equiped stuff they are worth destroying when you can.
Honestly rock/mountain synergy doesnt matter much. At most it will earn you 100 more max Hp.
What matters in this game is time management. BEWARE SPOILER AHEAD ON HOW TO WIN EZ.
You want to have as many fight as possible per loop (weaker monsters and weaker boss on low loop).
For that you want to spend as many day as possible/loop. So walking slowly = killing monsters slowly. Often the best strat is to not wield a weapon on firsts loops and only focuse on vampirism/regen/defense to make fight last longer so that day passes.
As day passes more monsters spawn, yielding more cards/loop and more experience.
Cemetery and spiders are especially goood : spiders to get a lot of cards on first and second loop, skeletons to get good gear on loop 2.
Speeding up spawn with chrono crystals and time tower will allow you to fight boss on loop 4.
Late game towns will make you lvl up at lightspeed. And oasis will make the fights easy. Basically with enough oasis it makes your own attack speed get double the effect. (dunes areX2 by the rivers, everyone base speed gets to 0.5. So relatively à +10% speed boost becomes 20%) and the oasis itself gives you magic damage.
GG EZ game. ^^
Summon quality is very crucial as necro, it determines what skeletons you spawn, the normal skeletons were the reason you lost the fight, a combo of tanks and warriors would have made short work of skull man
You should start by letting him know that there are skeleton quality and skeleton strength and that both do different things. I think that he still hasn't realized it.
Pretty sure the last-minute swap for the raw skeleton level grey ring (losing half his summon quality) threw the run.
You gotta balance it out with level. Once you get a few more loops they will just die in one hit. And if you don't get quality, you just get the basic skeles and those are no good.
@@RazalasTrebla true but having a good quality is a little bit more important than level in bossing or against strong enemies like harpies. I've died plenty of times because my roster only has 4 normal skeletons and the enemy just bursts my summoner
It takes all excitement out of me when he starts playing like he doesnt care because theres a time restriction. Like dude you had everything for that treasury, it could have saved you.
Necromancer is an interesting class as you relied on your summoning which depends on the skeleton level to get stronger. I found that using the arsenal is better bcs you can put extra slot which can give bonus to max skeleton. The problem with this class tho for me is that if I dont get the right skills (like 20% chance to summon two skeletons) I died at higher loop :(
Always happy to see new Loop Hero videos :D
17:25 "Skeletons can't hit to save their lives", well, if the could've they might not be skeletons now xd
Can't fall asleep and a new loop hero isn't gonna help that lol
You need skeleton quality to summon the tanky skeletons, otherwise you will never de-aggro. :)
'Ocular Patdown' would be a stellar band name.
you really need to get the ancestral home if you want the necromancer to be any good, the hp is just too low without it. maybe take the warrior and grind up to it for a couple more runs along with the library for some sweet lore and info and you'll be stomping with the necromancer in no time.
Ancestral home + forests
@@sodothehivesonhisleg forests are such a game changer
@@TheRezignator Plus the enemies that the forests spawn get completely bodied by the necromancer. Meadows are actually so trash even with all the weird synergies you can do to try and make them good.
Someone should make a mod so NL doesn't even have to be troubled with clicking since he's just throwing stuff at the map
Hopefully you keep playing this even if its off streams i am really enjoying the series.
How to beat the game while min maxing and using 2/4 of your brain: Spam warrior with chrono crystal plus mountain and meadows to farm materials for unlocking forest. The other two classes aren't really viable until you get forest unless your gear is beyond amazing. Necro just flat out isn't that good until you get forest + river (their good for rushing bosses, but trash mobs can obliterate you). Slow summoning speed means your gonna take way too long to loop compared to a warrior with retaliate and a regen build. While rogue require very specific decks to make them shine when you don't have forest. And thin out your deck a lot of the monster tiles in the game currently aren't viable in ch 2+ too much RNG based abilities and crits that could instantly ruin your run if your unlucky. Btw this is all based on the assumption you have unlocked Arsenal. And your running a max health build with your camp supply. I won against the final boss with around 2k+ health on necromancer (you need the skeletons deaths heal you and share your damage) and rogue (1-5% chance of dealing 1k damage + revive with 85% of your health from cemetery) I would recommend having at least that amount of health before even fighting him. TIPS: Remember to obliterate the ?villages? when your on a rogue or warrior. Forge is also an amazing card if you have the camp upgrade that makes crossbowmen join you in fight taking place next to your campfire. Makes bosses easier and gives you a free lot bag every few loops.
By far the strongest Necro build I've had was 4 Max skeles, 40-60% Attack Speed, 80+% Summon quality; with the 15% skeleton counter attack and heal on skeleton death talents.
I could summon skeletons slightly faster than the boss could kill them and every time he killed them I healed. Worked out loverly.
You can also stack up some pretty ludicrous regen (I topped out at 10/sec before regearing). Pair it with a decent bubble and you're pretty much unkillable.
Him saying 'strictly better' gives me StS flashbacks.
I require more loops father
The second run's loop looked like a heart
I like to think Ryan makes random faces and takes all the pics in one session for all his thumbnails
You need to keep skeleton quality up so you can spawn the shield skeletons with taunt
Holding out that one day chat will tell NL to make an X with the mountains and fill in the spaces with rocks for the most coming out of the mountain
Or just make 3x3's with mountains and keep rocks in your hand to reroll them with the library.
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NL, try to pop the treasures at the beginning of loops so you get better gear for your hero. Also I tried to min-max the deck like you did, more often than not you don't get enough monster spawning cards to get more kills and better loot, so bringing the minimum number of cards might not be a good strat for this game
Kinda spoilers for necromancer class but does anyone know what causes necromancer to spawn skeleton mages? It happened to me once I think when summon quality was over 100%, but then it never really happened again
Summon quality is your chance to summon a special skeleton. The mage is the special version of the archer, so you'll need to be able to get out 5 at once and then have the quality trigger.
That said, if you do it right, you shouldn't need any ranged ones before most fights end.
Think you need to have at least 5 max skeletons and your 5th one should either be an archer or mage. More quality, more chance for mage.
Modesty is the antonym of hubris
I wish someone could tell NL that it is more efficient to create a super mountain from just rocks than it is from mountains. Super mountain provides the same amount no matter what was used to construct it.
For the last 5+ minutes of the video, NL keeps talking about how he should be playing something other than this game and the game should end faster. That's not great content for a Loop Hero video.
Time to eat some Froot Loops while watching this.
NL logic deserves a whole branch of science.
It is better to build the 3×3 out of rocks with a mountain in the middle, bc it upgrades the rocks to mountains.
You shouldn't feel too bad about getting the warrior loot you can't use at the start. When you have too much loot to hold, the excess isn't just discarded, it gets recycled into resources. That means the free starting loot, even if you can't use it, is just free resources. That also means you should be more careful about swapping out equipment for things that aren't meaningfully different (i.e. a same level amulet that just gives 1 extra magic hp), because swapping out equipment isn't free - it effectively costs you resources every time you do it.
The title of this episode lead to my newly found knowledge that Canadians and Americans spell gray differently. Is this commonly known?
Grey and gray are interchangeable everywhere, but gray is a bit more common in the US and grey is more common everywhere else.
Egg throwing the last run in the last 10s kekw
The Necromanser is actually good vs a lot of enemies (vampire with ghouls for example), BUT he is bad vs Spiders, because they slow your attack speed making you spawn skeletons slower.
An actual tip: stop cramming your mountain into the corner, leave at least a bit of space around it. The mega mountain gives a good adjacency bonus and the whole ring around it is a good place to put normal rocks for stacking HP. Putting it in the corner wastes half of the opportunity.
Don't berate yourself, don't congradulate yourself too much either. Your choices are half chance, and so is everyone elseS.
The opposite of hubris is modesty, the quality or state of being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities.
Love this game, hope you continue
If you want the lich to attack your skeletons, you might want skeleton quality so you can get the tank that'll get aggro.
He was basically maxed on skele quality my guy. Every decision was made to maximize that stat.
@@xXTheKingEmothXx That was skeleton level.
so grey items are 1 stat up blue are 2 yellow is 3 and orange is 4
Have you ever heard or "Streamer Camp" it is a thing. Fuslie and Boxbox host it, not sure they do it anymore, due to covid. but some huge steamers have been there.
Great work egg man. Loving the content. Might even buy the game.
You have to have skeleton quality at least 50%
Using grey Items with Necromancer even higher level doesn't benefit him as much as other classes, All other classes can specialize into something since grey item on evasion will be like +20%, same orange item will be like 10% + other stats .
BUT Necromancer is benefiting with going wide since his skills hardly scale with item level. Skeleton Quality is top at 29%, so most of the time ring level 5 and ring level 10 will have 1% difference between them. Same goes for other stats since Necromancer doesn't have big boosts for stats from items, like maximum evasion bonus is 10%, maximum bonus skeleton level is like 1.5... the only one Exception then Grey can be better is books.
I don’t really know anything about the game - but if you can place wheat fields on either sides of villages shouldn’t you place villages with two tiles between them? (For more wheat fields)
Not really, cuz if u have 2 villages touching a wheat field, both villages get the benefit. That's even better because u don't flood the Boss meter.
@@Daniel2374 ah yeah didn’t think about spawning the boss faster. Just noticed sometimes he has extra wheat fields he can’t place lol
Also less scarecrows!
they should add an item that lets you pause the game
then resume later with a load/continue run
Do stats like evasion and defense also apply to skeletons?
Feel spiders should always be in deck for items/cards/generally easy to kill. That second run had no monsters spawning which is why it was so slow and not much scaling.
NL noon content! Poggy!
I've found spiders aren't good to fight as the necromancer due to their high dps. Same goes for the ratwolves, plus the blood grove is a nonbo with necromancer since the grove tries to eat the skeletons. Enemy skeletons however work well, as do the enemies that spawn from placing forest.
NL and overconfidence. Name a more iconic duo
Nl choosing his equipment based and color and level is the reason being a doubter is so profitable.
Everyone in unison !.. POGGY
I dont own the game so i dont really know if what im saying makes any sense, but putting villages 2 apart instead of one would be better right? so you can get 2 farm for each village instead of one?
Nah, the way he's doing it is optimal
Villages gain max benefit even from sharing a field. Less fields mean less scarecrows and less stuff on the board so it takes longer for the boss to come
Is vampire+swamp not a good idea with necromancer? I think it's worth exploring.
You can make a mountain top with 3x3 rocks
you should put battlefields near the start of the loop so the gear you get from the chests isn't outdated by the next loop
I'm craving the Loop Hero pogs
Yo, Northernlion please try a rogue or warrior build with ruins and villages. Enemies cant spawn on villages so you can basically ensure ruin worms wont trash you in a fight in the third row. Also you can always save oblivion to kill off bandit camps straight away.
I mean, yeah, being honest can sound mean, sometimes, but sometimes you gotta be mean to be nice, y'know? It may not "sound nice", but it may be something that they need to hear. Possible exponential channel growth is typically worth a few hours (worst case scenario) of hurt feelings, in my opinion.
Do the skelly's all get lost at the end of every battle? So anything that buffs specific skellys is only good for a single battle?
Not all skeletons get lost, but the buffs are only good for one battle anyway
opposite of Hubris is Restraint
necro man would be good if the skeletons could draw agro
23:54 Is a prime example or NL's self awareness
I'm ready. Send it.
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Turn on auto pause at end of combat is useful
Yes, either turn it on in options (which wasn't in the demo) or simply enter planning mode during combat. Best advice for loop newbs, there.
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
Why doesn't he place villages further away from each to place down two wheat fields at a time instead of just one?
I believe so it spawns less scarecrows but still gives extra benefits to the villages
Edit: also that way it takes the boss more time to spawn!