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“I think the Dragon Factory sounds like a good bet. We always get good treasure from fighting those lizards and things.”
“In that regard, you’re probably right. I just hope you know what you’re doing.”
“We’ll be careful.”
“Sure. Just bear in mind that a lot of the best treasure is gonna be behind those big fights.”
“So who are you planning to take with you, anyway?”
“Ah, I see I’ve returned at just the right time.”
You can now choose which three characters will join Ricki at the Dragon Factory.
Kamau: The Muscle. If we are gonna fight dragons, we want the guy that can either protect us from them or just kill them on his own. Also we want his bond.
Macadamia: The Nerd. We have lots of money so that means its ring time. Our new Shocktail weapon means Mac can deal damage relatively safely from a range too, so he wont be that difficult to use outside of smiffing. Also we want his bond.
Lohk: The Mending Wand. Her healing abilities are rivalled by none other. She can keep Kamau up to a safe health between him wearing the Salveshell and her pumping him with mends. We also just got a bunch of sick loot for her. Also we want her bond.
We have 3 people with 3 bond points left to max, Kamau, Mac … and Amad. Wow. Lohk needs a lot. If that’s even a thing, Mac has some chance of bonus points in this style of dungeon I think. Kamau and Lohk probably not, but I still think that’s a good choice. Kamau for tanking, Lohk for mending the tank. We just need to be sure to not rely solely on this. Kamau has only 1 Dauntless charge.
If, by some miracle, we find that mac gets a bonus bond from this dungeon, then we can pray there is a lhok dungeon in the cue so we can max both her and amad.
Kamau: our tank, time to max his bond, also i want to see cleave with our deadly enhancement and mob of 1 hp minions.
Mac: Our best passive dmg dealer, when he create rings, everyone get huge bonuses even when this guy stay at home, time to work on his bond and create more rings.
Lara: With Kamau interpose we need dmg, lots of it, she can also carry lots of heavy treasures and thats important when mac is on our party as well. I know we maxed her bond, but with only 6 dungeons left its too late to start working on our other guys. 3 points of bond for Kamau and Mac, then 3 for Amand. Anyone else we want to max bond, will be instead of maxing Amand, and I think we should max him.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but isn’t the final point of bond from the bond dungeon? So it should be 2 bond points for Kamau and Mac, 2 for Amad and then 2 dungeons left over.
Only reason I don’t want lara is because if we bring her again instead of someone who needs bond, we should do it for drow temple.
It is possible more dungeons unlock after this one so if so, we can delay temple until Kamau is max bond and then bring amad and lara to drow temple.
Lara has no use for Bond.
Here’s a suggestiong for Bond planning to max out characters. I think we should skip Amadeusz because he’s too expensive in bond points. Bond is really strong, we got an amazing Lara upgrade and REALLY good loot from her dungeon, plus they count as Rescues. So here’s my suggestion:
A3D1 Dragons: Kam Mac Lohk
A3D2 Spiders: Kam Mac Bot
Kam Bond Dungeon
Mac Bond Dungeon
A3D3 ???: Lohk Bot Ix?
A3D4 ???: Lohk Bot Ix?
Botanya Bond Dungeon
A3D5 ???: Lohk, Ix?, ???
Lohk Bond
A3D6 FINAL DUNGEON. Ix, ???, ???
Ix Bond? Do we get bond points in the final dungeon?
Kamau, Mac, Ix
Cmon we gotta go for badass new elemental. Same bond as as lohk anywyas
Kamau, Mac, Botanya. Her summons are really strong AND expendable. Good Dragon fodder.
Isn’t Botania weak vs fire? And dragons…
Well, there’s more elements/dragon types than just fire. So I guess we’re really hoping that Fire Dragons won’t be the majority of our fights if we do go with that.
Nowhere on her sheet does it say she’s weak to dragons. We have more reason to believe she’s either strong or neutral vs. them based on Sally and the Shocktail Lizard fights.
She takes +2 damage from fire, sure. But we have the Magma Shield and Heavy Duty Oven Mitts. We’re not struggling to protect ourselves from fire.
Just seems an unnecessary handicap. Especially since we don’t want to remorse kamau.
Her debuff aura works best vs swarms and dragons are solo fights. (I’ll admit kobolds do group a lot though.) Also her pets would probably die to AOE easily.
I’m all for taking Botania into dungeons again, just seems this is a weird choice
Kamau, Macadamia, Coccyx.
I think it’d be really funny if we put Coccyx in the Salveshell armor and have him infinitely expend his hitpoints to fire arrows. Come on guys.
Amadeusz, Lara, Cordy.
The hero we don’t need or deserve.
Is that a fancy way of saying the hero we don’t HAVE