Descent to the Core and those @&$%ing Geomancers

I am new to Card Hunter and I am having a great time playing the game. My account is 5 days old and I have been following the rumors of the loot fairy. The last few days have been easy because she has been located at my level or even lower.

Yesterday I followed a rumor that she was located in the Citrine Demon Portal. A 14-15 level challenge and my party was 7th level and had just completed Melvelous the Magnificent.

It was time for a for a thunder run!

Without going into boring detail I failed in my quest. After a very enjoyable all nighter, I was decisively engaged with undead in The Tomb of Tvericus as the clock clicked past midnight (UTC time of course). I missed my goal by one dungeon!

I decided to take my now 13th level party back threw some of the content I passed by in my failed rush to power and glory. Next in line Descent to the Core. Great Geomancers again!

I fought my way through Map one and was endlessly frustrated by map two. My party quickly died in the Lava Pool no matter what I tried. On my third try I decided to give Brother Arum and his Geomancers a taste of their own disruption medicine.

I loaded my Priestess with
St. Aaron's Armor
Cleansing Diamond
Pol's Prayer Beads

I loaded my Fire Wizard with
Puce Diadem
Chartwell's Ring
Stookster's Amulet
Tempest Robes

My Warrior kept his Spiked Platemail since it already had Shimmer Aura. Lucky Skunk!

My plan was to teleport over the Dangerous Terrain or plow a path thru it. If that failed I would throw caution to the wind and use Whirlwind and Firestorm and hope for the best.

It ended up being one of the best times I have had so far. Needless to say plan A and Plan B did not work so I had to go with the Hail Mary. I still laugh thinking about the look on Brother Arum's face when the room was ignited with Firestorm and Whirlwind dumped him at my Warriors Feet. Adventures note: Geomancers do not cast so much Lava Pool when they are riding a tornado with their hair on fire. It was over in moments.

Great Game

MadMacx

 

I don't have time to weigh in on the strategy elements, but I wanted to say, your post was very entertaining and engaging! Thanks for sharing

 

Those geomancers are a pain. Firestorm isn't a bad plan and can be hilarious (as you noted).

The computer won't put terrain under someone that is sitting on terrain. So go stand on the rockfalls and it wont cast lava on you.

 

Flaxative, thanks although I don't know if there is a lot of strategy with screw it I am losing I will just blow everything up and hope I land on top. LOL

PDXTai, thanks for the insight on the Geomancers. I did notice the moment I stepped off the rockfall and got moving I was in lava.
I just figured they are waiting for me to play all my movement cards.
Although since I have to eventually get across the rockfalls - I cannot stay on them forever.

MadMacx

 

Packing a lot of step attacks helps on the Geomancer maps. Spears also do well, they don't often run away if you're at range 2. Hover on wizards works well. Scuttle cards help deal with the rockfalls and acid. Flight and teleport cards are a possibility.

 

The time doesn't matter btw unless you close the game. Even if the clock goes 5 hours over the reset time while you are logged in you are still in the previous day unless you restart your game in browser.
So you could have still gotten that fairy