Game News Lords of Xulima Released

Renegen · Nov 18, 2014

I downloaded the game following Scrooge's recommendation, having great fun so far 10 hours in. It's a better game than M&MX and it's way bigger too. I have a feeling my party sucks ass though, in the first Prince's castle I could barely do enough dps to overcome the 20-25 healing per turn from priestesses.

Having played a lot of Civilization V also spoiled me when it comes to RNG. It seems that you can double your accuracy and if you have enough you will only go from 80% to maybe 86%. And even with 80% you will miss like 3 shots in a row, empowered Arcane Soldier attacks obviously. The accuracy curve needs to plateau higher, in the 90%+ so that the RNG can be eliminated, or maybe have it changed to pseudo RNG.

Doctor Sbaitso · Nov 18, 2014

The Prince's hunting range or whatever it is called is a great spot to get some levels. Decent experience, seemingly limitless encounters and those creatures drop decent loot. I got a couple of levels before going into the castle just because I imagined I would get owned. It paid off for me as I managed to clear the place out without having to run back to town for consumables.

Monkeyfinger · Nov 18, 2014

divine summoner any good?

Pope Amole II · Nov 18, 2014

Monkeyfinger said:
divine summoner any good?

He's ok. In my opinion, he works best in a 4-2 setup - he has only 2 tanky summons and both are so-so. Raznet is generic, Kersket is good at tanking, but does crap damage. So a 4-2 setup allows you to take 2 aggressive/buffin summons. Out of those, the only one bad is probably Febret - it has random resistance spells and it's kinda bad at applying the right resistance at the proper time. Alnaet has some buffs & some clerical battle magic, haven't tested him that much, but he should be great against the undead & demons. Valvet is excellent at dealing damage and Taliet is a good disabler. Nalaet is an ok secondary healer - she won't replace the cleric, but at times, one cleric is not enough. Golot is the most interesting ones - he's an economical tool, allowing you to turn your enemies into money and, in lucky cases, in items. He starts slow, but they say you can easily earn 1k per mid-game battle (and even in the early game he brought me first 1k worth of money rather fast - mostly in form of items, though).

The biggest thing to understand about summoner is that he's a skill-starved character and, pre-lvl 35, he must focus on maxing out his 2 primary summons ASAP. Even then, I'm not sure you can allow to develop a third one - he also has useful passives, after all.

Lord Azlan · Nov 18, 2014

Achiman said:
Ok, fuck the mushroom forest part, I'm stuck alt f4'd that shit. Nearly uninstalled. If that is how I have to progress moving through an area of mushrooms where you can't see the aggro radius without hovering and you can't save in that area then... gg.

Apparently there is a path through the forest if you can very specifically control your character and avoid the 'mushroom radius'.

I could not find it myself but eventually through other exploration I was strong enough to beat them all anyway when I came back.

I played on 'normal' difficulty though. If you pay for some blessings and then buy some resistance items - you might be able to beat them.

I know what you mean - those fother muckers made me mad when my entire party went to sleepy bed time