Fafnir
Level: Smiter
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Registered: 11-05-2004
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Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (+3)
First off, the game is divided into two halves, and your stats are reset in the interval between them. So that limits the possible damage - even if you're totally stuffed, you'll only have to replay half the game.
Also, the official hold is generally far less cruel than ToTS. One bad decision won't render it unwinnable unless it's an immediately obvious catastrophe or it's the last in a long string of bad decisions. And it will generally be pretty obvious quite soon after the decision. I've been working on an optimal playthrough for the last few days, and I've just finished Rule 7 with about 11000 HP, nine keys, and thousands of greckles. In my first playthrough, admittedly doing the endgame the incredibly wimpy way, I finished the second half with over 22000 HP leftt (although I forget how many keys and greckles). That's a lot of leeway.
My general approach when I'm not sure what to do is to make a temporary save, then blindly hack my way through the level to get the lay of the land. Once you know where the gems are and where the level's sword or shield is, you plan a more efficient route through. If there's an enemy in the way, it's also helpful to know how much ATK you would have to gain to take less damage from him so you can gauge whether it's worth powering up first - there's a useful spreadsheet for that in the optimisation thread. I didn't bother with that in my first playthrough, though, so it's hardly necessary.
There are two things I probably should warn you about though. The first is not to kill monsters in the second half of the game when you can avoid it - even if you can instakill them. You'll find a sword called the lucky blade which will give you double the greckles if you leave them for later. The second is that it's possible to lock yourself out of the good ending without realising it - I did on my first playthrough. When you find the hand bomb in the second half of the game, don't use it on the adder - trust me on that one!
tl;dr: Don't worry about it - it it happens, you won't have to repeat that much.
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Stupidity kills.
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Optimising that one's going to be tricky...
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