I'm going to try to share my experience so maybe it will help somebody. I'd appreciate it if you refrained from calling me names for enjoying this game. I didn't invent this pricing model nor do I normally support it. All your mothers who dump hundreds on candy crush and hay day have created profit numbers that are seemingly unpassable by normal game pricing. Anyways... Health is the most important stat in this game. Health regeneration and Life Leech gems and skills have made the game very enjoyable and should be your number one objective. I dont even use potions anymore. I have a level 16 ranger who ive taken past the third co-op level. If you think warmage is tough, wait till you get to the second solo boss in the Goblin Caves! I did a couple Tapjoy offers and bought the $4.99 gem pack after having a few hours of fun with the game. Shoot, I spend that on this forums "Best game evars!" almost every week, and they usually don't stick around for long. My plan was to spend it on things that will help long term and not some over priced weapon that will quickly be useless. I upgraded the backpack a few times, unlocked the passive slots. I then bought the cheapest xp ring, which opens up some higher tier rings. There is a 200 gem ring that grants 2.5% life leech on top of the 21% xp and gold boost. Then I early unlocked the rangers Lifesteal arrows so I could start putting points into it. Let me just say its the best passive in the game, and I think all characters have something similar. I put 5 points into it and it returns 1.5% of damage dealt as health! This makes you very survivable and the more damage you do the more you heal.. A few fun coop matches and you're swimming gold. I bought a 60,000g bow and equipped my 2% life leech gem. It's awesome, all your increased damage special attacks turn into healing spells. I'm almost always at full health. I know, how dare I have fun....I should be complaining, or boasting about my video game morals and how I'm "IAP negative", ladies
Lolz. Can I tell you guys I dropped a blue tier 25 weapon. Exactly the same as the one in shop worth 500 gems. Beat the goblin dungeon with great ease. But the buttons are not responding!! That's really frustrating.
This has 3/5 in UK store and apparently US is 2.5, but unfortunately gameloft will still draw tonnes of money from this game and motivate them to make more free games I just hope they see sense and don't get too greedy
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/ip_review.asp?c=50051&see=all%23body One of the few PG reviews that is spot on. I would've given it a slighly lower score, however.
Completely agree with this assessment, I've already spent more time on this then most of the games I've downloaded. My experiences have basically mirrored JagerBombSs, I've got a level 16 "ranger", have crafted all of the black iron items I can and maxed them out on upgrades, put a lot into lifesteal items and am having a blast. My items aren't way overpowered but the challenge is what makes it fun. Another massive pro; All of the loot that drops stays around for awhile, I hate running around trying to pick up gold before it magically blinks out of existence while dodging attacks.
I appreciate opinions, but if I have to follow a set of rules to get fun out of a game, it's doing something wrong. Also... "I'm almost always at full health" doesn't sound terribly fun to me anyway. The balance in DH4 seems ridiculous.
What is the point of this post? Isn't every game coded to follow a certain set of rules? Download it, try it and form your own opinion. Don't nitpick someone else's semantics.
I don't totally approve of everything being iap in this game but I'm having a great time, especially using the icontrolpad to get around the touchscreen. Even if you die, you stay with the same amount of experience without any penalty so it's pretty playable. I've only made a $2.00 gem purchase to get more inventory slots (annoying that they made gems take up inventory space), which I don't mind since I actually did that for far more in Guild Wars 2. Still they really should have just came out with a premium version, as a lot of people would've bought the game without the times for $20 easy.
I need people to play coop cos it sounds the way to go in this game. Unfortunately I don't have any GL live friends any one Intrested please add me. sloanyc thanks.
It is fun, I guess I should have said "I'm almost always at full health until I get charged and smashed by a giant effing demon, requiring me to attack instead of running away to return my health". I'm sure other approaches could work too, like pure dps. The balance is off, trying to get people to spend gems on weapons, which will make it easy for a while until you will need another one. I just feel I found a little more permanent buff. Again, just trying to help dude.
Appreciated the tips. I, too, play a ranger. At level 9, I have not yet to find a better bow than the one I started with at level 1. I find the whole IAP system in this game pretty appalling and have not felt inclined to support the developer due to this. You mentioned spending $4.99 on IAP and finding it to be an adequate amount for you. What happens, however, when you want to start another character, though? The whole process starts over again. Also bear in mind that rangers inherantly tend to have better survivability in these types of games.
Exactly. This could cost boatloads if you wanted it too. I'm not trying to sound like I support this games pricing decision at all. I personally just felt I was having enough fun to spend a little on it to see where it would take me and thought I would share. Grind some co-op for a better weapon and gold!
I'm also at level 9 (ranger) go to the castle/town area to meet the dealer & buy a better bow. I just purchased a bow that does over 200 damage with gem slots for 4000 gold.
I appreciate the tips too, I fully intend on playing this game a good amount with the 2 melee classes at least. The ranged classes in games like these are just not my thing but you never know.
Also if you have to gem slots and I add two poison dmg charmes for 5% each do they stack? Also I have lightning and ice dmg charms do they stack on top the poison charmes?
