The Legend of Dev Diary: The Diary Begins

Class is now in session!

The new dev diary is out, all about classes and races.

Including the first previewed female playable character.
She looks spritely to me, an Jon says she's sprightly as well. Elven Wizard: magical and acrobatic.

Well, it's an interesting diary for certain. We've discussed deckbuilding and equipment so much that it hardly seems there is anything new to learn, and yet it confirms much that was only speculation before. Plus it has that new diary smell.



I have a little concern about the visual difference between Priests and Warriors; both are wearing fairly heavy armor. Frankly, the Human Warrior, with his white and gold accents, looks more stereotypically holy to me. But I'm sure that will sort itself out with experience.

It's now confirmed that class and race add unique slots for deckbuilding. These slots seem to be the main way that items are restricted to particular characters: Wizards only use staffs and not swords, for example.
Edit: It seems a safe guess that some slots can be the same between classes, viz. the Priest and Warrior both dressed in heavy armor. (Unless that's because he's a Dwarf . . .) Are there items which fit more than one slot? For instance, a Lost Angel's Sword that fits both the "warrior" and "divine" weapon categories?

Perhaps I'm slow today, but I'm a little unclear on how the skill slots work. It sounds like you have pool of potential skills that you choose from when filling your slots, just like gear. But it also sounds like some things are automatic: you have intrinsic racial abilities. And, how does experience/level play into all this? We figured the Superb Tactics origin of the Inspirational Thinking card is a skill; if so, anything "Superb" sounds like it won't be available at the start.

 

She looks to me like she's tired of being propositioned by tavern louts. Few things give a guy second thoughts like a stabbing or two.

 

Perhaps I should elaborate; my previous reference to being a Dwarf was a true parenthetical and not an example. What I was trying to say is that the way the dev diary explains it, there are few, if any, slot types in common between the classes: for weapons, Warriors get all things sharp and/or pointy; Priests get get "divine," whatever that means; Wizards don't have regular weapons but do get a staff. I was wondering if some items could belong to two categories and thus be equipped in "different" slots, such as an angelic sword being a weapon type normally for warriors but in this case with divine properties. Another example could be a Bonecruncher Staff -- it sounds as though Wizard staffs aren't normally much of a weapon, but this one could be three Bash cards and a Block. That might be something equally usable by Warriors and Wizards.

Just another way of asking about cross-class items, really.

 

Awesome update, and now I'm brimming with even more questions:

1. I like how the skills work a lot like equipment--will skills be found like gear in a dungeon, given all together at the start, or chosen at specific intervals?
2. I really dig the classic classes and the flexibility kitting them out appears to give. Does the 3 class/3 race combos mean we have 9 unique heroes to pick from every time we start an adventure, or could I field a team of three dwarven warriors? How will experience be handled within my character pool? Do I as a player level up, or each hero gain xp as I use them?
3. If the thief dosent come out initially, will he be appearing later? What about that barbarian we saw before?

 

I've continued to wonder whether the barbarian were a monster/foe in the first place. Like bandits.

In general, I'm pleased by this diary. All the pieces are coming together and I don't have particularly much to say. Yup. Keep it up!

P.S.: "That new diary smell"?

 

I'd thought the same thing, but this picture seems to indicate otherwise:

 

We have cosmetic variants to pick from? Very interesting...

 

Depending on how easy it is to create classes in their toolset, this could have interesting implications in scripted scenarios. For example, you might be tasked to defend an old dwarf who only has armor slots and a low default movement card. Enemies may or may not follow player class conventions - Goblins might have their own specific slot configuration or classes; and it would up to the player to discover it and figure them out over time, only to find Elite Goblins with enhanced configurations later on!

 

Oooooooooooh!

 

Based on a previous comment, I don't think the devs kit out monsters through an equivalent of the user interface that we'll be using, with specific, labeled slots. It rather sounds like their toolset is able to add anything at will -- which doesn't mean there is no reasonableness in monsters, just that the number of combinations is that much greater. We might be seeing new monster/NPC "classes" on every map.

 

I disagree. It would be nice to select permadeath difficulty setting for my campaign. If I die, all my gear I took with me and on my mule is gone and the character I was leveling is dead as well. It gives may players a challenge in getting to end game besides brute force attempts at every dungeon. I strongly recommend adding it.

 

must have please send download link

 

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