Since we are posting our successes/failures…
Difficult is not kind to me.
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Here is what I simply do not understand:
I’ve got my arcanist completely maxed, which means I’ve got the extra campfire. I finally just beat difficult using a chain build. Out of curiosity, I tried the next difficulty using the same build and didn’t make it past the first zone. And there is still an even higher difficulty!
I know runs can depend on luck, but it seems to me that there are difficulties in this game that are literally impossible. What is the point of that?
Ok, so I gave the game another chance on difficult mode.
And another chance, and another. Turns out this games pretty hard to put down
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I appreciate how certain story moments and opportunities change based on your character and build. For example, I’ve “found shelter” from the storm dozens of times to cull a shield from my deck. For the first time ever I am playing as a hunter with a storm axe and on the storm opportunity I had the option to raise my axe to the sky. I didn’t do it because I needed to get rid of that shield but it is a good example of the little touches added to this game that show the developer cares…
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Agreed. I forget which character it is, but when you get to the fallen tree you can lift it out of the way and find a rare card, instead of going around and getting ambushed.
I finally won with a Poison deck! Rogue with the Poison special weapon power (which also cleansed all my Poison each turn), along with enchantments that let me do 3 Poison with every melee hit, do damage equal to poison with every hit, and the card that added 3 damage (plus 3 per upgrade) each time The enemy played a card rather than just 1 point.
I used the Cutlass as my Basic Attack too
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Some great talents there!!!
There’s even more that didn’t fit in the pic.
Emporium Discount
Fire Resistance
Trovan’s Blessing
Battle Prowess
Devotion
Fortuitous
Once I got Avatar of Blight (gain one green energy when you inflict Poison) and Poison Coating imbued, it wasn’t much of a contest
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Normal, of course. I can’t win often on Normal (only 4-5 wins right now out of almost 100 plays), so there’s no way I’m going to try Difficult. 
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It’s a roguelike, you’re not supposed to win 
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Had a fun souls-heavy run … only needed them to revive me once, but the harvester and spirit barrier talents made this deck a beast. Soulbolt is incredibly good for a common card.
I need to try Souls next.
Learned the hard way that if you have a super-buffed Greatsword (critical hit if you used Divine energy), don’t make it free to play.
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haha, did the same thing once. See ya, crits…
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I also messed that up…
I think I swapped the cost with something that was 1 red and I couldn’t grit anymore.
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I had a great run with the greatsword and the apothesis talent - probably my best run on difficult. Obviously I died to the final boss, but it was fun until then.
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Dawncaster updated last night to add new levels to each character - 4 to be exact. I had my arcanist and hunter maxed but now it seems I need to get back to work…
The patch notes also said that character unlocks are faster now.
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Anyone try Gilded Staff with Fleeting Thoughts? I just started a new arcanist run, thinking to use the staff to trigger the thoughts, and it didn’t do anything.
Did you trigger the yellow energy requirement?
Yup.