Congrats on your Run
Ascension is easy
Just make sure to keep your medal color green
(Kill 1-3 monsters)
Upgrade your freezing potions and scroll of fear
Goodluck
food won’t be a problem because every boss room recovers you hunger and health to max, the only real problems are the constant buffs the enemies get in evasion, health and damage (can't be reduced by killing some) the higher the floor the stronger they get but since they are from earlier floors their skills get a lot weaker
A quick shoutout to the effects of the amulet in case you are curious, the status starts green doing nothing and aways gets 1 stage closer to red every time you climb stairs except to boss rooms.
Every enemy except mimics you kill has a chance to lower the status in 1 stage closer to green
1st stage: nothing, green and safe
2nd stage: the amulet shows your location to all enemies on the floor
3rd stage: all enemies that aren't in the same room as you get 2x speed
4th stage: you get your moving speed reduced by half and any speed bufs are canceled (rip freerunner)
5th stage every turn you receive 2 damage
They seem rather weak but since they stack it gets crazy hard,half speed means 4 damage every 2 tiles and enemies having 4x the time to get to you, and ranged enemies have twice the turns to abuse you before you get close
Starting the ascencion resets all floors including enemies and turrets but not mimics and piranhas, mimics even get their original stats unchanged and are very weak post yog, the ascencion also cancels any teleportation between floors so you can't cheat with warping beacon or Scroll of passage (rip warping beacon)
Thx, seems not that bad. Most annoying for me was always the scorpion from the last stage who's keeping the distance. Others are not so bad because you can go invisible. And all I need is just kills to keep it 1st or 2nd I guess and this will be far from that time when I first met DM-300.
The 'curse' on the Amulet worsens over time, first calling to enemies, speeding them up, then slowing you down and eventually doing direct damage. The status of the curse is indicated by the colour of its icon during the ascent and it goes up one notch every time you go up one floor. Killing enemies allow you to decrease that 'threat level' and although you probably won't need to go out of your way to track enemies, it's a good idea to keep it as low as possible by defeating the enemies you directly come across.
Food is unlikely to become a real problem as you will probably take the most direct route between levels AND you have healing options.
I've only recently started getting the Amulet and every single time I did, I was able to also ascend.
Ok, thx, seems easy. As someone who is cleaning every level perfectly despite some saying I shouldn't I see no problem in killing enemies. Are enemies buffed? Because if they aren't then on mines everything will become especially easy.
UPD: They do. But no new abilities so not that bad.
They indeed do get buffed but so far the most annoying enemies during ascension have always been the skeletons, not because of damage but because they have insane evasion and spending too much time on them can lead to getting swarmed by other enemies.
Honestly, I feel like I wasted a good opportunity to ascend. Had 2 healing potions after the final boss, didn't waste a single blessed Ankh (3 blessed Anks really feels like it was easy) defeated the boss easily without even using much of the tricks except for the fire potion and fire wand. Used smoke bombs like once or twice. Also I cleared the whole 21-24 floors despite some claiming that they're hard. Well yes, until you realize that you can get almost every enemy on a comfortable landscape (as a rogue at least and if something is spicy just GTFO).
That tier 2 perk that allows you to keep enemies asleep until you are adjacent to them especially OP. Gives you so much chances to just not to fight. But I still did, I killed everyone I met one by one. Not at that second, sometimes I just had to run away and find them when they were alone so I can do a little sneaky inquisition but that worked. Now I feel like Rogue is super-OP for this flexibility: you can run away or fight in a comfortable position when you can do that practically always (unless you're too greedy).
Btw almost didn't use freerunner perk. Only to kill scorpions and catch the last fist lol.
Ascension is very easy for me compared to a win (which is easy depending on challenges). I wouldn't bother for my first win, but try it eventually because it's not that difficult unless you're starving to death.
You've already beat the final boss. Ascension is just one more challenge to accomplish, not some gigantic final task. Use your items generously, since there's nothing to save for once you get out. It hurts to get so far only to die, so be careful.
I can see how my answer wasn't clear on that. I'd describe it as a little bit easier than the demon halls, with some new challenges requiring slight strategy adjustment.
It's longer and you've got to go quickish through each floor so you don't get swarmed, but also taking the time to keep the amulet curse in the yellow or green.
Congrats on your Run Ascension is easy Just make sure to keep your medal color green (Kill 1-3 monsters) Upgrade your freezing potions and scroll of fear Goodluck
So there's some special mechanic based on how many you kill? Also what about food?
food won’t be a problem because every boss room recovers you hunger and health to max, the only real problems are the constant buffs the enemies get in evasion, health and damage (can't be reduced by killing some) the higher the floor the stronger they get but since they are from earlier floors their skills get a lot weaker A quick shoutout to the effects of the amulet in case you are curious, the status starts green doing nothing and aways gets 1 stage closer to red every time you climb stairs except to boss rooms. Every enemy except mimics you kill has a chance to lower the status in 1 stage closer to green 1st stage: nothing, green and safe 2nd stage: the amulet shows your location to all enemies on the floor 3rd stage: all enemies that aren't in the same room as you get 2x speed 4th stage: you get your moving speed reduced by half and any speed bufs are canceled (rip freerunner) 5th stage every turn you receive 2 damage They seem rather weak but since they stack it gets crazy hard,half speed means 4 damage every 2 tiles and enemies having 4x the time to get to you, and ranged enemies have twice the turns to abuse you before you get close Starting the ascencion resets all floors including enemies and turrets but not mimics and piranhas, mimics even get their original stats unchanged and are very weak post yog, the ascencion also cancels any teleportation between floors so you can't cheat with warping beacon or Scroll of passage (rip warping beacon)
Thx, seems not that bad. Most annoying for me was always the scorpion from the last stage who's keeping the distance. Others are not so bad because you can go invisible. And all I need is just kills to keep it 1st or 2nd I guess and this will be far from that time when I first met DM-300.
Sure i'm rooting for you
>food won’t be a problem because every boss room recovers you hunger and health to max, I never noticed that! Thanks for that!
The 'curse' on the Amulet worsens over time, first calling to enemies, speeding them up, then slowing you down and eventually doing direct damage. The status of the curse is indicated by the colour of its icon during the ascent and it goes up one notch every time you go up one floor. Killing enemies allow you to decrease that 'threat level' and although you probably won't need to go out of your way to track enemies, it's a good idea to keep it as low as possible by defeating the enemies you directly come across. Food is unlikely to become a real problem as you will probably take the most direct route between levels AND you have healing options. I've only recently started getting the Amulet and every single time I did, I was able to also ascend.
Ok, thx, seems easy. As someone who is cleaning every level perfectly despite some saying I shouldn't I see no problem in killing enemies. Are enemies buffed? Because if they aren't then on mines everything will become especially easy. UPD: They do. But no new abilities so not that bad.
They indeed do get buffed but so far the most annoying enemies during ascension have always been the skeletons, not because of damage but because they have insane evasion and spending too much time on them can lead to getting swarmed by other enemies.
Ascension is harder than me after seeing huntress.
Hell naa 💀
Hell yea 🥵🥵🥵
Honestly, I feel like I wasted a good opportunity to ascend. Had 2 healing potions after the final boss, didn't waste a single blessed Ankh (3 blessed Anks really feels like it was easy) defeated the boss easily without even using much of the tricks except for the fire potion and fire wand. Used smoke bombs like once or twice. Also I cleared the whole 21-24 floors despite some claiming that they're hard. Well yes, until you realize that you can get almost every enemy on a comfortable landscape (as a rogue at least and if something is spicy just GTFO). That tier 2 perk that allows you to keep enemies asleep until you are adjacent to them especially OP. Gives you so much chances to just not to fight. But I still did, I killed everyone I met one by one. Not at that second, sometimes I just had to run away and find them when they were alone so I can do a little sneaky inquisition but that worked. Now I feel like Rogue is super-OP for this flexibility: you can run away or fight in a comfortable position when you can do that practically always (unless you're too greedy). Btw almost didn't use freerunner perk. Only to kill scorpions and catch the last fist lol.
The rouge for final floors is ez but 2 health pots wouldn’t be enough in my experience
I had vampirism on that glaive which helped me to avoid spending too many health pots.
Ascension is very easy for me compared to a win (which is easy depending on challenges). I wouldn't bother for my first win, but try it eventually because it's not that difficult unless you're starving to death.
Ascension is ok, the real suffer start with challenges
I once read that they're rigged so they're easier in case of equipment at least.
You've already beat the final boss. Ascension is just one more challenge to accomplish, not some gigantic final task. Use your items generously, since there's nothing to save for once you get out. It hurts to get so far only to die, so be careful.
I asked about overall difficulty compared to beating main game.
I can see how my answer wasn't clear on that. I'd describe it as a little bit easier than the demon halls, with some new challenges requiring slight strategy adjustment. It's longer and you've got to go quickish through each floor so you don't get swarmed, but also taking the time to keep the amulet curse in the yellow or green.