So, after 13 turns I am a blind Barbarian who likes to take long naps in dank dungeons.
I can RP that.
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See, that's a unique experience no other game can offer :p
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Nice game though.
Is there any way to cure my blindness? The FAQ isn't giving me a lot to go on here.
Spam trades for eye drops? Wait it out? Walk in random directions?
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Bump for the win! Could have finished the game in a lot less steps, but first encountered a bug and made three round trips through the dungeon before realizing this is really a bug, and then wrongly assumed that I need to go in a certain place. Had tons of fun anyway, thank you very much for the awesome quest!
UPD: just saw that I performed 666 checks during the game. I am the devil! :)
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Well, I do not like playing for XP: if I can finish the game, I do it asap. Also, at first I was developing my character very fast. I played as mage, so I made a great use of explosives. But when I got stuck, I traveled the same dungeon multiple times, so I did not have new places to perform checks and find new items. I sold gems for like 8000 gold and bought a lot of supplies, however that walking in circles resulted in total exhaustion of potions and explosives. I could not fight effeciently any longer. Basically, I ran away from anything higher than 300 HP. When I received level 13 I had probably something like 18k XP, and at the end of the game only less than 2k left because you lose a lot of XP when running away from your enemies. So, I do not think it was really possible for me to advance towards level 25. I am glad I managed to finish the game before it became unplayable for me :)
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Congrats !!!
I have no idea how you were able do it so fast ! I am resting and resting and resting .... :P
Now you have to wait the whole week for gibs to end :D
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I made a good decision to make contribution and buy everything available at the market. Then, I read FAQ carefully and applied experienced obtained during the previous GosW to this one :)
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I don't remember who it was, but thanks to the person that gave me an antidote! :)
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This is great! Whoever designed this did a great job. I am having a blast!
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Bump for #2! Way too easy with the contributor items, if I wasn't busy yesterday I could've just completed the game in a few hours without having to rest a single time. Though it's lucky that I got started early because now people seem to be just killing each other at the main floor and slowing each other down. I kept getting more potions than I could ever use and beat down everything so I guess I could've stayed to farm or help others but I'd rather finish fast. Now I can go to bed :)
Thanks for another nice sWords!
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Congratulations, Dan! Hope you enjoyed this little adventure :)
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Where do you go near the end where its all pitfalls?
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I'm not sure I'd be allowed to help with that. But I found that section fairly simple, as long as you keep searching the area you should easily find what you're looking for. It's a very small boxed area so I doubt you'll have too much trouble with it.
Remember to Exit through the same spot you started the game in.
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How are people converting coins to energy? Is it ok to ask or is it too much of a spoiler.
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it's a special skill that the thief class can use, the mage equivalent is absorbing energy from nearby adventurers
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dang, my energy absorption goes mostly unused since nobody is near me
Thanks for the info
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i'm also a mage so i also feel very envious of the thieve's skill, but that also means the thief winner spots will be filled up quickest i think
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i don't know exactly, but they seem to be attacking other players and throwing demoralising roars at people(big meanies)
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The same, i am guessing we lower the moral of others to gain EP, but to be good the place would need to have at least 3 people. It has been ages since the last time i used it, because the second floor is enormous and i can't find anyone.
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Same here, at first it was useful, Bloodthirst was super useful because it gave me a tonne of life, but now there's nobody here and I just get smashed by monsters and lose all EP on disorientation. This game is a lot harder than previous ones.
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Is it a little bug in the global stats? It says:
Winners: 2
Barbarians: 0/10
Mages: 1/10
Thieves: 2/10
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Does Defending still recover Concentation? I am a mage trying to use a magic weapon, but I seem to be unable to gain any concentration, or at least at a noticeable rate. On the contrary, before it increased around 20% every two or tree turns; ironically, now I am supposed to have the "Concentrated Defence" talent. By comparison, I acquire energy much more quickly!
By the way, I am always low on concentration... It takes a lot of energy the charge it up and it gets burned really quickly! And defending during combat is not really helping anymore, so I can rarely use magic weapons. :/
EDIT: I rectify, I do recover concentration, but it happens veeery infrequently, whereas I remember it was relatively quick before.
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the % of concentration you can replenish depends on your health and energy, if your health is at 1/2 max and your energy is at 1/2 max then your maximum concentration is 50%
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I see, my health was really low when I posted this... Thanks for the info :)
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In addition, you have to succesfully block or dodge on the turn that you Defend for the recovery process to actually work. This took me a very long time to figure out.
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Napping simulator has been resumed thanks to energy drain trap(vile, vile creations that must be destroyed)
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at least you don't need to pass over it again to progress and had to use a big energy potion before that :'(
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I just had a Small HP Potion replenish my Energy Points, instead of HP in a battle. It was my last HP potion, I was also poisoned and bleeding, if that matters. Of course, I died soon after that. :D
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I have a feeling it's game over for me.
Lvl 3 still with starting weapons, so I do around 10(mostly less) dmg and enemies have 100+ hp and do 20+ dmg on me.
edit: partly saved by check.(new weapon)
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I'm a lot further along but yeah, enemies seem overwhelmingly strong this time around, almost out of potions and running away taxes you a lot in morale and xp.
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The weapons you find early are huge (necessary) power spikes, you just have to be patient until you can find some upgrades.
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The weapon I found was a bow, but was almost out of arrows before finding something new.
Found a unique staff, bonus effect of +50% monster gold drop, still not easy to use it easily, but the talents do help.
But I'm dead now, so going to be a while before I can continue.
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I hate disorientation so much, especially since there's no way to fix it, still the worst thing in the game after all this time :P. How do you become invisible without scrolls? You know, for that thing that's related to this thing I really hate.
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Haven't really found a way to do that. I guess you're out of luck if you're not able to reach that level of Wizardry :/
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I'm a barbarian, I need other stats. Also at this point it takes a ton of xp to level up and I just keep losing xp by running for my life.
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At the global stats page it says there are 2 winners, below that 0/10 barbarians, 1/10 mages and 2/10 thieves.
Something doesn't add up there or Dan counts for 2?
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I logged in after a death to find myself in darkness and a weird word that i forgot what it is so i refresh the page and had all the debuff applied to me. Is this a bug or a feature because i died many times and i just revive with full health and no debuff. I was killed by a bird while trying to run away.
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I know that bird tend to scratch you and make you bleed until you die or use a bandage or one of those healing all scrolls
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I've reached a point where the enemies are far too strong, they block almost everything and do tons of damage, I just can't beat them and I keep losing morale and xp by running, I don't think I'm gonna be able to finish this one which is really disappointing since I loved the older ones.
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I am barely getting by, but I know what you mean.
I'm having an issue where I have so many arrows, it's weight is slowing me down and i cant get rid of them.
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You can try trading some, I've been in a cinch a couple of times so I can imagine others might be running out of them too.
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Depending on where you are, I'll buy them.
edit: never mind, don't think I can trade while being dead.
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You can trade for my arrows? I'm on the second floor X4 Y5, but moving around. I have 43 arrows atm
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Not that far yet, but you can just trade them in chat, maybe someone around will buy them.
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Im so deep in this dungeon, I haven't seen another person since Day 1
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Yeah, chat only has a range of 3 and the top looks pretty lonely atm.
edit: you can also walk around overencumbered and get the talent for extra carrying weight, if you don't have it already, but needs to be 5kg over the limit.
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got that once, am i able to get it multiple times? not that i want to do that
where did you learn about that 5kg limit
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ah forgot to look at that, Im an idiot
yeah weight limit can increases multiple times, Im overweight due to armor that weighs 10kg, but its probably the best armor in the game
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The encounters are fairly random, if you just wander the starting area you should eventually be able to find enough easy opponents to at least recover morale and items/weapons, then you should be able to progress again.
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I'm on the second level and just trying to get back to the first one would get me killed. I haven't had much luck with weapons, my magic damage item is unusable because it uses concentration for some reason, I'm out of arrows for my ranged, and my melee weapon rarely hits the tough opponents. I keep finding freaking useless scrolls that nobody wants, nothing useful.
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Magic weapons always use concentration 30% at start(was 35% before server changed it).
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I'll have to check if it still uses concentration for every attack instead of once per battle.
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Yes it does use it for every attack(25% in my case).
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Well that makes them kinda useless if you can only strike 1-2 per battle with them.
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Defending recovers concentration, but there is a max concentration depending on current hp and ep.
Also Concentration affects your accuracy, agility and critical hit chance in a battle and chance to find items by performing checks.
Is a negative downside of using them.
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Run away from strong enemies and defeat weaker ones: don't worry about losing exp as upgrading your hero to the highest level is not the aim of this game. If you can't reach the next level, then you don't need to at the current moment - loss of exp just delays reaching the next level which would bring even more troubles if you are still weak.
Weak enemies can drop the same loot as strong ones, so you might get a new powerful weapon from weaker foes which would then help you defeat the stronger guys.
Also, enemies' level is capped at each map level, so at some point you'll stop encountering enemies that would be too strong for you.
Just don't give up and you will make it :)
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Oh I'm not giving up but progress is very slow at this point, morale is low because I keep encountering strong enemies that force me to run. Also I'm basically out of life potions and it doesn't regenerate so no idea what to do about that.
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Ask someone to heal you, maybe someone wants to get positive karma. A lot of people don't yet know/realise that by sharing potions with others they can develop a useful talent which will make potions restore more Health and Energy. So far only Dan has developed it, and maybe it is one of the reasons he progressed so quickly ;)
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I know it exists and given some at the start, but further inwards, not really in a position to give them to others. and you need to be full yourself I usually don't fully heal.
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There's no one ever around anymore, I can't even use my abilities to get life or energy or whatever. Bloodthirsty was great a couple of times, then I stopped being around people and when I was it barely gave me anything.
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Battle drains EP too fast
I was cursed, bleeding, blinded, poisoned after revived... wat happened?
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You got revived by a Mage's special ability with all negative effects.
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Every time I try to use the skill it says "No one can be revived here.", when the marker says there is 1 dead adventurer and I'm able to search a body.
Also thanks for the res. :)
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I see, I've made a few adjustments, it should work each time now.
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I'm level 2 thief and wonder if carrying 5kg overweight cost more ep on moves. If so how much?
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I finally make my way back to the shop and then they don't sell energy potions... :D
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does sleeping at the shelter replenish your health, i was at full hp so i have no idea?
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wow, good to know
several new things and events in this one, making me delay my quick finish. Currently mining for gold?!
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Upon entering the shelter it will show the option to sleep, and it will remove 3 gold for every 5 energy it will give to you. You can "wake up" and it will stop doing that
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I'm in a really bad place right now - deep in the second dungeon, no HP potions and keep getting killed by strong enemies. I've already died 4 times (one of which, because my last HP potion restored Enerdy, instead of HP O_o) and I'll probably die 3 more times until I can return to the first dungeon. Most of this is because of a goddamn secret wall, which put me in a really bad position 2 deaths ago. This is going to take a while... :)
Is there any way out of a concussion? It seems to prevent quite a lot of things.
Also, is it possible to run away from an enemy that is 1 step away?
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no way out besides getting concussion resistance from my experience.
You can run away from enemies 1 step away but its harder
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Get concussion resistance early, there are no items to cure it and you'll want it to go away as fast as possible during fights since it's one of the most dangerous status ailments (although it always disappears outside of combat I suppose)
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So yesterday was a blind day (3 blinds in a row), today is a disorientation day (3 disorientations in a row), i also seem to hit a swarm of fiery fairies which i can't kill with current weapons so bye morale. I also keep "wasting" energy pots (drinking one and getting into fight which eats all my energy even though i could easily win while exhausted). Well at least i had some progress.
How much fighting i need to do to get a wizard weapons talent, i keep sacrificing my health to get a couple of hits with it but still no talent.
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I have no idea, but I've already gotten it twice in 31 battles of which at least 15 not using magic weapon.
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Thanks Serv, those reg scrolls were VERY handy, i would die to a lizardman who spawned 1 step from me.
Hmm, Dead Revival ability is useable, there's a dead guy nearby (sorry) and when i try to resurrect him it says that i already used that ability.
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Introduction
Game of sWords is a text RPG Adventure where you can explore dungeons, upgrade your hero, find useful items, weapons and artifacts, avoid deadly traps, fight dangerous monsters and interact with other players while searching for treasures (private SteamGifts giveaways links) on your way and trying to complete a quest to get access to a huge amount of private giveaways! Each quest has a limited number of winners split between 3 available classes - Barbarian, Wizard and Thief, so the chances in each giveaway will always be great.
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You hero has Energy Points and Health Points.
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