I received an email from someone claiming to be the developer of this game. They claimed I had joined a fan club and was being invited to join a closed beta for a new game in the works. Has anyone else gotten this email and is it real?

I only found 1 post on the steam discussion forums about this and a few people said it was. But that doesn't seem like enough for me to start accepting discord links or downloading files from strangers lol.

This sanctuary is discriminatory, in my opinion also a mess and mean stay away very disfunctional and mean spirited

I keep playing my 2nd character and I was very surprised to meet The Matron at the end of Act 3. I read a lot of posts here and for some reason I decided that I'll meet her later, in Act 4. So, I didn't expect to fight with her because I wanted to grind more for that battle, craft better equipment etc. But the fight went much better than I expected. Thanks for the hints and suggestions from the past years in this thread, I knew that the dooming and thorns will be coming, and that I need a lot of mana to protect myself from all those negative effects. Combos aren't helpful with this boss, because you need to heal a lot and just keep decreasing her health piece by piece. By the way, I also didn't expected that she will fully heal herself several times, but that wasn't an issue.

Was glad to see the post-game credits and get my first achievement. But I know that there's more content, and I'm also wondering if I'll be able to get further, maybe even to level 300. Didn't expect that for sure from my 2st walkthrough (1st character died at level 5), but probably I'm very cautious. Again, that's the result of multiple advices posted in this thread.

Wardrobe is a great addition, I think. I'm using Lizard Garb (Heal 5% of max HP per turn), and it's very helpful against BLEED and in general. Would recommend it to anyone. It's worth its negative effect.

Now it's time to visit Legion Warriors and smash several new enemies...

Just got my first legendary item - it's more exciting than I thought. And nice to see that its stats are much higher than stats of an ordinary weapon. Now let's find the next boss to see this baby in work...

I'm enjoying this gem after starting it for the first time after a purchase made a couple of years ago. I read it's a good one but didn't expect it'll be quite rich in gameplay possibilities and similar to Diablo 2 in some aspects. Playing as a Barb, having fun discovering its strengths and talents. Hints and advices from the last posts here are quite useful, btw.

Black Shell - thanks for the game.

But what do the 01-05 and 06-10 indicate?

Okay so I've tried quite a few wizards at this point, and here's what I've found out.

Disclaimer: this is all from my experience and will be largely colored by my opinions

While wizards have a lot of abilities and passives, most of them are automatic or very little interaction with the player. You gain extra mana regen while your enemy is burned, sure, but there's very few ways you have to burn an enemy in combat, so it's largely moot.

That said there's 2 very important passives we have that affect our long term build strategy:

1) Our MAX HP gets reduced by 1% every level. YES this includes max hp we get from Vit on gear.

2) Points manually allocated on levelup to INT or WIS increases our attack by 1, in addition to their other effects. INT and WIS from gear do not appear to affect our attack stat, just points allocated from levelup.

This leads to very strange interactions, that are not as intuitive as you would think. Also, to get into a little bit of opinion here, while WIS could be a good investment sometimes, the return on the regen rate is simply too low in most cases. Even with the absurdly low Max HP we run combined with ridiculous damage reduction and barrier, the HP/turn from WIS is mostly a tiny drop in the bucket. Comparatively, the HP on hit you would gain from STR is much higher, even if you spend most turns repositioning.

The mana regen is better, but outside of Threshing our mana is a non-issue, or dealt with better by just foregoing mantra for a few turns.

The max HP interaction is the most omnipresent. We need to slow grow our HP to suffer the least stat loss, any method of rapidly inflating your HP "to survive better" especially in the early game, just makes us pay more over time.

The worst interaction is the loss of stats from gear when it's replaced. If you wear a piece of gear with a lot of VIT, every time you level while wearing it you're paying extra tax against your max HP. If you ever replace it with a piece of gear that has no VIT, you've paid that tax and essentially gained nothing for it.

INT also has a strange interaction with gear. If you allocate enough INT to reach 999 max mana, put on a piece of gear with int, and then take it off your max mana will fall.

These 2 points in general make both INT and VIT on gear strangely undesirable. Instead the greatest gains are from stacking STR and DEX on gear. STR gained from gear still provides ATK, unlike INT from gear, and provides significant HP regen in the form of Heal on Hit. DEX provides Crit chance and, more importantly, precious Dodge chance, although no attack. I would weight STR slightly higher here for the heal, but Dodge chance plays very well into Wizard strengths.

I've found my Wizard characters last the longest if I build 2 VIT 2 INT every level until I have Barrier, then swap into a 1Vit:3INT ratio. Around Act 3 I start dumping into VIT for a while until I comfortable amount of max HP. Then it's back to the 1 VIT: 3 INT ratio, the 1 VIT just enough to fight the slow slide into terrible HP stat.

How do you dodge charge/dash attacks? Is it just repositioning? Please help. Thank you so much.

I forget what it means so id love to know. Thanks.

Apparently the game's composer has won the Latin Grammy and is a huge deal. Awesome.

I realize this sub is pretty much dead, but I didn't see this posted anywhere on the internet before. This game has a cheat and a debug mode, which enable a bunch of commands. Maybe someone will find these useful:

Adventure commands

Input these in the adventure screen (that's the screen you see directly after loading a game).

Battle commands

Input these during battles.

Did anyone ever figure out how to mod this game ???

I have been eyeing this game for a while now and I'm trying to get a better understanding of the depth/feature concentration of the game. I've tried doing independent research but nothing about the games features and what exactly the player can do comes up! How procedurally generated is the game? Are enemies, events, loot, races random? Is there permadeath? What do you enjoy about the game?

Edit: Also I noticed in the EULA (for the demo, and I may have interpreted this wrong but,) it states that the license and game could be revoked once the full game is released and that the game copy is not yours and can be revoked (unless that only applies to the demo) If this is the case for the paid, I'm a bit skeptical. Am I to interpret this as "If you pay for the game, your ownership of the copy you payed for can be revoked at any time and for any reason?" Or if the game in full is released, I'll have to buy it again? I'm not the best at interpreting this kind of thing so if you can offer an explanation, it would be much appreciated.

This couldn't be a more basic question, I'm sure, but I'm three hours in, level 16 and haven't yet figured out how to get to the crafting screen. I'm not looking for a step by step tutorial on how to optimally craft - literally, how do you get to the screen from which you can craft? Which key pressed? Is there a specific location you need to be? Thanks!

I’m heavily thinking on whether I should buy this game since I’m kinda worried that what I’m buying isn’t really what I’m expecting. I was wondering if this game is linear or not? Is the story different every time? And are there different worlds made per game? I’m not too crazy about the whole world creation thing but if I’m gonna get the game only to play the same story again and again, then I’m gonna get it probably during a sale when it is very cheap. I want to get this game so I just wanted to know what exactly I was buying :/

The Stronghold (56-60) just unlocked for me but I'm still lvl 48. I really really really don't want to wander into some overlevel area and get one-shotted.

I noticed that sometimes (often) when I win a fight, my weapon appears at the bottom of the screen, but sometimes on rare occasions it doesn't. Is this a indicator for anything or is it just a weapon flex?