(Important note: as this skill is not weapon based, Backstab won't kick in here. The obvious choice for any of your casters (Cleric, Mage, Warlock, Psion) with the 3 in Mind, which ensures they'll have enough MP to blanket the world of Paperos in spells. Or level Stealth so your basic attacks are critical a third of the time. And "kind of" is a pretty good way of thinking about this guy. Isn't that nice? Except, of course, for the "1 point ward" build - which makes everything hunky dory, because then the toughness issue isn't an issue when you can ward yourself from all damage over half the time. Option 2, the SAKA way, has you make your Barbarian a Surfer, ideally, or failing that invite that Cleric to purge purge purge, and also maybe be a Rocker or Hipster or something that'll bring that Mind up so he can shake off the Rage a little better. It hits any row, and the damage is equivalent to the Mage's Frostbite. Knights of Pen and Paper 2. Don't let the 20 extra MP fool you, this is your specialist class. So you might think: "Ooooo, yay! But with this skill in mind, that might make sense then - except it doesn't because this skill hits the back row anyway. Seeing as this is the Monk's only genuine attack skill, it's unlikely you'll leave this one entirely unleveled. Another good skill for the Hunter! So then he's not just an MP hog, but a healing hog, distracting your other players from getting on with the enemy pulverizing as they struggle just to keep the Druid in the fight. (Although the Mage can boost his with Arcane Flow - just saying you know, who the real master is.) Energy is very useful, but killing your enemies faster is still doing the same thing as you mostly use energy to kill them anyway. The Knight would block 13.12 of the damage, which I'm assuming with standard math means 13. The ability to harness the power of Chi and blow down small straw houses in one blow? But that fits the feel of the game really, so I can't complain. I mean, ivy! Inflicting conditions on criticals, added threat or range or whatnot. The only caveat here is that if you level this and Shadow Chain, you've got nothing left for stunning with your Smoke Bomb. I'm going to number the players 1 through 5, because why not, although this would also be the order in which you should accumulate players. I don't mean that they will necessarily blow your mind, but it's a very different and very difficult kind of fight. If you do one of those mid-size teams, let me know how it works out. So it's pretty much a given you're going to max out his one active attack skill, but then you have free reign to spread the points around his 3 support skills. So what this actually does, it's ultimate tactical benefit, is to nullify whatever attack comes his way. I'll take Frostbite over that, thank you, even with the resistance roll. In any game you're likely to find only about 9 of these, so 3 charms total (Note, i am editing this in to point out that, it is posible and in fact in all of my games i do, find alot more). And as you level up, and item up, this gets to be pretty respectable (130% weapon damage at its most vicious). This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator. He takes advantage of damage reduction in a way I didn't even know was possible before he showed up, he uses energy as health but intelligently for once, and he can build himself up to be the most threatening fighter on the field and take all the agro away from your casters and specialists. Also less attractive as a 3 point skill because they can resist this, and at level 3 it's only -2 to their roll. In practice you'll get up to around 85% to 95% critical. But most of the time the majority of the group in any battle is gonna get hit with this. Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. Put 1 point into Armor of Faith early and max it after you're done with Smite or Guiding Strike. Also note this is pretty much completely worthless against bosses by itself, although you might get a solid squeeze in on them with someone else causing an irresistible Condition like Fire or the Warlock and Psion skills. Which isn't that far. But this can work really well if you combine it with Touch of Blight. Toss a bunch of arrows in the air, and they fall down for up to 56 damage, to a specific number of enemies. Let's see what they're all packing: Oh boy, is it hard to not take this guy along in any party. Knights of Pen & Paper is a role-playing video game developed by Behold Studios and published by Paradox Interactive and Seaven Studio.It was released on October 30, 2012, for iOS and Android, and on June 18, 2013, for Windows, OS X and Linux (the latter under the name Knights of Pen & Paper: +1 Edition).A Nintendo Switch version, entitled Knights of Pen & Paper: +1 Deluxier Edition, was . IN THIS STORY: Rumors Stats Roster. The point is, the best weapons and armor in the game are ones you craft yourself. I don't know what it is, but Druids just have this thing with vines. It's a little weaker well, sort of. And really that's the best case scenario here and a solid build. 0-30 at skill level 3, 0-240 at full glory. And 8 Burn doesn't stack up to much. That is right, Knights of Pen & Paper 2 has gone completely free. In which case you'll want that Grappling Hook. Download the game for free: http://get.gameinfluencer.com/SHW6This video is a paid promotion by Paradox Interactive for Knights of Pen & Paper 2, free to dow. But the percentage of a level each side quest gives is about the same. You'll encounter another group of monsters (often not the one(s) your looking for), but it's better than wandering through all the traps and empty rooms on the one level those elusive beasts you're hunting are found. So here's a cool one that can be devastating with the right build. What it does is fill up the details in your Bestiary twice as fast. Meaning, you're gonna level the skills you're gonna level, and every so often an enemy will take more damage from them, but at least this way you'll know which of your skills will be most effective in any particular fight. Which is huge, and would be totally Solid as far as that goes, but becomes Clutch when you realize that, thanks to this sofa, Bulwark then becomes a largely wasted skill, even with the loss of the minor group regen, and so you can put your skill points into his two defensive skills making him just unconscionably tough while also delivering Critical hits 90% of the time with True Strike right out of the gate without having to prep with Bulwark. Granted, it would be a little peculiar of you to bring a Druid with Grappling Vines just so you can do 50% more damage to Beetles. This adds 4/5 status on a single enemy. Second, attributes are a little off, as he's clearly magic oriented (2 Mind), but your weak magey guys are hardly ever going to be hitting anything. DLC Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition Upgrade-75% $9.99 $2.49. Unlike the Ninja who specializes in Criticals or the Thief who still has the best group damage skill, the Druid (being super neutral about it all) tries to be too many things at once: caster, fighter, healer, speed demon - stacking up to a lesser version in all categories than several of the other classes here. . Just a bow. So the Hunter plops his hat on the table, gains up to 56 Threat (which is massive even at high levels), takes a hit for absolutely no damage, and then counter-attacks for up to 220% weapon damage. As boring as the Paladin is, seeing as this is the only build of the Paladin worth playing, there is simply no substitute for spamming Weakness all the time. Very straightforward. Just lets you attack the back row (and be more threatening and stuff). I wanna say thorns, but it looks a little more like ivy. Anyway, you'll be doing this pretty exclusively for the satisfaction of getting another 5-15 levels out of your game (depending on the number of players in your team). Why'd you do that to him!? Kind of like the Druid, the Psion has some truly original skills that look and act cool, but they are ultimately less impressive in practice than in theory. Because while the Thief's barrage does indeed need conditions on the enemy to be super kick ass, you can get up to max damage by level 25 or so because that's two different players using skills, so maxing them out in half the time it takes the Psion to max both of these out. Meaning that, if you're in a fight and your Psion is one hit from death, there are any number of actions (an offensive spell to end the fight, a heal from someone else, a potion, a warding spell, even escaping to come back to the fight at full health) that would be better than taking cover, which doesn't even guarantee that the Psion won't get hit. Shaking off Poison 4 is pretty pointless though, and if you do have that Cleric purging maybe Surfer isn't the best way to go. it can still do 600-1000 (numbers vary) and it's crit is the lowest of 1500! So there are two ways to use this skill, one which is really effective and one which pretty much makes your Barbarian immortal. Her skill is actually pretty good, but you have to know how to use it. So yeah, I'd definitely take Stun over Confuse, or risk whatever you get with the Warlock, over this skill. But quests work differently here, in that (and it took me a while to figure this out) when you complete a quest, the XP you receive is not related directly to your level. The Knight has two active skills, which we'll cover shortly, and they're both pretty low in energy cost, not that it matters terribly as, kind of weirdly (seeing as you'd think the Mage or Warlock would have this) the Knight is the only class that can up his base energy with a skill. It's narcissistic members are not going to dish out the best damage, heal the best, or really handle anything in Paperos with an abundance of ease. What makes this decent is that you regain up to 24 energy when this does happen. And that's not even the end of it. But largely you'll be maxing out Na Palm for it's excellent damage and burning-itude. Except, you know, it like totally obviously isn't because this skill is only good. In fact, this skill qualifies as SAKA as far as I'm concerned if (and only if) you pair with the Rocker. While this Hunter will be a little disappointing in the early game thanks to Hail of Arrows' weird target restriction mechanic, and the slow to improve and not-always-kicking-in skill that is Ambush, she'll truly shine come the mid to late game. About this game. The bonus to Initiative, while nice, doesn't make too great a deal of difference in your average battle. This is the druid's "1 point Ward" build mentioned in his title, and it is by far the best use of the Druid and makes him just as valuable as the Mage or Ninja in your party - and also the only the second class here (after the Paladin) that effectively marries offense and defense in the same build. Knights of Pen & Paper 2 Deluxiest Edition Party Setup. This mostly comes into play at the end of a full playthrough and you have a couple thousand gold worth of items to sell off to help the next group of adventurers. But in either case, you'd be better off just damaging the enemy to get the fight over with - protect your peeps through offense. opinion) attached. - Level up and get your hands on more gold to unlock epic items and . The Ninja and Barbarian have got the single targets very much handled. Gets points just for that. This (and the Barbarian's version of this) is the most damage you're going to be doing to a single target with a weapon in the game (324% weapon damage), not counting crits. So again if you focus on weak opponents the conditions will likely stack, and that can add up to a lot. That's close to Frostbite damage and totally worth the MP it costs to cast. However, until you max both skills out, you're not always first, you're not getting the damage bonus to all your targets, and you're not hitting everything out there. Assuming you give him the 3 trinkets he needs to inflict Poison, Fire and Rage - and combine that with his Wound perk and a nice big hammer for Stunning and he's inflicting 5 conditions most likely every turn. Also a decent choice for the specialists. See, it's based on your Senses attribute. This is the OP attack in the game. All Reviews: You can bring the Paladin or Warrior if you want, but they're all going to be competing for agro attention which is less efficient than letting the Knight do his thing. Okay, so 1 point for Body and 2 for Senses. So this is good, but not great like Touch of Blight or Frostbite, and certainly nowhere near SAKA like Lightning. So use this on bosses, enrage them, and (after a failed second resist roll, one hopes) watch that 200 damage hit do totally squat to the Monk. I am not sure that the surfer on the barbarian would be a wise choice, however. Without the Bookworm it takes 28 kills to learn all there is to know about a beast. So, depending on the situation, this can be pretty devastating. Now, if you build your team around a Tank with 4 very low Threat companions, the difference the Kawaii Sofa makes is around 10% increased Threat Percentage for the tank. Fully maxed out (level 24, for a skill, is the max, by the way), he gets +32 Body and +16 Senses. "Gain +1 bonus to Escape rolls per level" - up to +5. So, this skill is about as simple as they get. But True Strike needs Bulwark to have that Critical/Threat swap mean anything, and the damage here is unspectacular as is the healing. If you spend your diamonds here, you could probably directly purchase gold. At what point are skills maxed out? This is the obvious active skill choice. ", then the Druid is for you. Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. You set this skill up right and, honestly, it almost feels like cheating. Furthermore, as you start picking off the enemy, one by one, this skill gradually becomes fairy useless even maxed out. You can and will, at least once per battle and often much more, shuffle your intended target right back to where they started, in which case: no damage. This, it goes without saying, is pretty fracking badass. Paired with the Ninja Elf you get the highest possible Senses score, you know, for all those resistance rolls and maxed out Criticals. Nor are there any bad skills. "Meh" items are the pretty pointless ones, and largely qualify as such because there is no scaling - like Damage Reduction +2, which is significant for your first 10 levels or so, and pretty meaningless after that - but still it's a bonus. Well, not exactly every time, not even close, hence the loss of awesome. The biggest damage dealers, the Ninja and Barbarian, built well and strong with the Criticals (and the Druid what with the two bear attacks per turn - so long as he can keep the frenzy up), are going to be delivering a punishing 300-400 damage each turn. But let's look at each separately: Weapons can be upgraded, up to +5 (as a category), which varies a little in what it actually provides. And for our final entry, a welcome third lady friend. And all weapons come with perks that your fists don't. I'll admit, I have a soft spot for Paladins. Source: www.key4you.cz. With this skill maxed and two turns of using it, your Knight will have around 200-300 Threat (hilarious, right?). Preserver of nature, lover of beasts (no, not in that way! A minor problem is that the target is random, so not much strategy there. So I'm realizing I might have lied back when I said there were no bad skills. With one major exception, he doesn't get tougher, and that's the problem here. Or a Druid or Mage or Warrior or Ninja Stunning away and, well you get the idea. Which means that you're statistically more likely to score a critical hit on every attack than not - with the not wholly unlikely chance of 3 critical hits. Second thing: "Does this mean I have a Thief who can't actually Backstab?" One good aspect though is that unlike any other skill but the Hunter's (and Burn from anyone), there is no resistance roll to what you inflict. Once again, kind of like the Warlock, if there were twice as many skill points to go around you could take advantage of this "I can do it all" attitude, but there aren't, so you can't. The difference being the damage is not variable nor affected by weapon or damage bonuses. There are a couple players that really serve no purpose unless you just like their style or need their stats to fill out your team, but every class and each skill they have is perfectly usable, especially when combined with other skills in your team. Red Icosahedron and either spiked rings for a little more damage or Almighty Rings for a little more threat and more reliable Ripostes. I think Warlock, I think a dude in armor black as night perched gloriously on top of a mound of corpses and fending off an army of vile beasts all by himself with those corpses of the fallen and, for some reason, intense lime green living mist at his command. So, along with the Paladin (and the Cleric obviously), this is the only class that has a heal skill. With the ferret-like thing in the mix, this does mean you can spend your time protecting two of your fellows each turn, one for the fighter each turn and one for each other player so, in a long enough fight, you're basically warding the whole party the whole time. Get Radiance maxed, Restoration will be your main heal and you'll want a few points in purge to save you from confused debuffs. Thing is, both Fireball and Lightning are perfectly serviceable even against single targets, so if you're looking to be hyper efficient you'll likely invest in one of those and your boosting skill. 1. And there's no special secret quest, you just have better and better items available to you as you level up. Use your health instead! Doesn't matter. Download and install BlueStacks on your PC. Make this the heart of your Monk's tactics though, and you'll think the enemy forgot their spiked clubs at home and brought over-cooked spaghetti instead. Like, literally, as if nothing had happened. I am editing this article to fix the gross, badly thought out, changing of someone elses work, as someone who owns and actively maintains a (different) wiki, i know. There's no real subtlety here, nor anything in the way of synergy for this team, just fry everything in your path. So, with few exceptions (like the Barbarian and maybe the Monk), any build is going to focus on only 2 skills (not counting 1 point skills for a perk). Level Hail of Arrows and Ambush together so the casting cost stays low, and watch her blossom from a grub-like 3 target wiffle-batter to a full battlefield decimator when she finally gets going. There are good skills, great skills, and S.A.K.A. Okay, so two things. Which won't likely be an issue if that Cleric is at your back, and even if he isn't, one regular 75MP potion gets you back in the fight for a few turns. And here we have our primo A-grade Barbarian build. Note from the author: Hello other user, thank you for adding to this guide. For the evil lord in all of us. Now, I can't tell you how many XP it takes to get from level 1 to 2, but I can tell you that XP works vaguely exponentially here, like almost everywhere else. But amazingly, with the introduction of the Knight class, Sudden death is now highly likely even aginst bosses and dragons! In addition to just being a general all around challenge, you get to see what a Druid with 3 skills plays like, or just how badass the Barbarian can get with points in all of his skills. Critical can be important, depending on your overall strategy, which means it can also be largely or wholly irrelevant if you have a different strategy. This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins. Worse still are the few monsters you only encounter once or twice, like Brass Beetles, and they never show up in quests or random encounters again. Release Date. If you can dig it, though, it is pretty sweet getting to level 84 (my personal best with a 2 man team) with 3 skills maxed and the last still at half mast. But here you can pretend you can, and this mage is everything you'd expect. Knights of Pen and Paper 2 Steam charts, data, update history. I'm gonna skip the basics. With the Bookworm, again just following quest to quest, most of them will be complete. It's just a weaker version of Guiding Strike (212% weapon damage at best) and it doesn't even do group damage. This guy is more like that guy's apprentice. They fixed that now with the Eyeglass, kind of, which takes a weapon slot though and you can't upgrade it so using it reduces Damage (and Threat and Critical) a lot. I've tried a few games and I always start with Jock/Warrior/Dwarf and Lab Rat/Elf/Mage. See, it's all about the criticals. A considerable boost, perhaps the best furniture you can have for a sofa. Max out frenzied strike, pot a point into Rampage and the rest into Anger Management. But even if you add all that bonus-ing up, including the Arcane Flow, that's a +46 damage bonus. Making Life Transfer a little more appealing, but still basically a wasted skill, and only getting Touch of Blight up to 150 Damage, which will start to feel a little weak late game when most everything you encounter has 300 HP or more. The practical problem though is that it's the ones getting hit what need the healing (your Knights and Barbarians) and the ones who aren't getting hit who don't need it (your Mages and Ninjas). Good thing though, as most of the game will be a non-challenging slaughter-palooza - and gratifying as that can be, it can get a little monotonous. Thing is though, since it's the Criticals you're after, you're going to have to use this to attack with (whenever you're done with Bulwark), to get that Critical boost. And this is true, except other classes are better at both of those things. Surfer dwarf as the Chill passive will help a lot in many situations. Except of course if you use his next skill as a 1 point concept, as I've been teasing you with. The Knight's crazy high Threat boost will eclipse the Warrior's regardless, even when using Power Lunge when you're facing bosses and other high HP foes. ), poster child for neutrality - the Druid. But really that's just a gimmick that you won't be using, probably ever, as it would require everyone else to Take Cover in a turn (as if they were, like, sitting down by a tree as a group, pulling out a pipe and sharing it among the four of them while they lay out a picnic, at which point they glance over at the Knight facing 5 Ice Trolls, telling him: "You got this, man"). So this is that lime green mist skill I was talking about. So, at top level, this will hit all enemies (or all "adjacent" enemies if for some reason you forgot to set up your Board Games in the Game Room) for 56 damage. So. "Enemies take 20% extra damage from skills they are vulnerable to per arcade level" - Going to +100% or basically dealing 300% damage with specific skills against specific monsters, a 50% increase in efficiency is not bad at all and can easily be used in some specific battles where you have difficulties. One final note has to do with the sometimes invaluable quality of Criticals, as they are often the only way to inflict Conditions (like the hammer's Stun) on enemies that almost always resist the affliction when they have the chance. This gives a boost, a very substantial boost, to both the Knight's Heath and Energy, +112 each, which together adds up to 224. The most recent departures are Bertuzzi, who made his Red Wings debut during the 2016-17 season, and Hronek, who made his debut during the 2018-19 season. Take the Warrior, strip him down to one active skill and make him a regenerating critical powerhouse and, voila. Use this table. Glorious Weakness is the answer. One tactical element that needs to be mentioned here is that as your team hacks away at the edges of the front row, you'll gain access to the edges of the back row. So, if you love stunning things and you want this skill, probably better to commit all the way and skip Power Lunge. Which will also mean another 3 quests, or 4 maybe can't recall, so more XP. "Resurrection cost -15% per level" - up to -75%. So the upshot is: mushrooms are a shortcut to level up quick at the beginning, in particular - or rather, only - if you don't want to hang around slaying extra cave bats. Thing is, Life Transfer is just a little too weak. And aside from the extra energy the Lab Rat provides, the four trinket slots can be put to good use by filling them with Spell Damage boosters, at least until the end when the exceptional unique trinkets show up. That's up to 560 damage if there's seven unfortunate targets out there. When I read what this skill can do, I was like totally absolutely for sure this was gonna end up being a SAKA skill. Just a quick note on the two kinds of damage you can dish out. And again, if you do a build where you can cast this twice a turn, it's a major MP suck but also something of a waste to cast on the same row twice. "The party gains 10% increased damage range per level" - up to +50%. To be competitive by the higher levels in this game, you really need your skills to be maxed out, and this means each class is always better off focusing on just two skills. But basically, kill things so long as they give you a solid amount of XP. The idea is to clear the back row while the knight and ninja sudden death the enemies in front. Or is he just the most proficient pugilist ever to walk the earth? Seriously great. "Non-boss enemies suffer Sudden Death from 1 or 2 less conditions" - So, you might have noticed earlier, several times during the class descriptions, how I talked about hunting for Sudden Death and building your Knight or Ninja or Barbarian to maximum critical-ness so they can Sudden Death the bejeesus out of everything. Giving your level 20 Mage a mushroom will just give him a little indigestion, but you'll barely even see that XP bar move. There's no real tactical benefit here, it just mitigates the least enjoyable aspect of traveling around Paperos. But even if you level this to just 3, that's 113% weapon damage, but you'll still get the critical, and if you're concerned about his health, put some points in Second Skin and/or Discipline to make him thoroughly undefeatable with only a moderate sacrifice to his potential damage. Most enemies are regular size, and you can fit 7 of them on the screen. If you max this skill you'll have a respectable Critical chance, but the Ninja, Barbarian and Knight are all better at it, and her other skills are definitely worth investing in. Yes, your Warrior will strike a little less hard, have a little less resilience, but he'll be more skillful and have more energy to use those skills. What's awesome and unique about it is that you get a free attack with it, every time you get hit.
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