KBDS Normal/Hard/Impossible No-loss thread

[MattCaspermeyer]

Originally Posted by MattCaspermeyer

These next two are pretty dicey, but they have a shot at working:

Ball of Lightning (I have gotten this from the Ore Cart so I'm going to try this game and see if I can do it for real). You need to get this spell to level 2 and so that means 1 point in Meditation and 2 Points in Order. I had two points in Concentration in my test and so I think you're going to need to be level 5 so that you can get Concentration to level 2. The Human stack is very easy with this spell, but the Elven stack is really hard. The trick here is only use level 2 of this spell if you need to (for example, the Fauns are killed with a level 1 Ball of Lightning). You should have just enough and I think you need to be Daert Level 5 do the Elven stack. Mana is very important here, level 1 Ball of Lightning is 8 Mana and level 2 is 14. I had 42 Mana in my experiment, which allowed 3 casts @level 2 and I also had Concentration level 2. This might not be doable in reality and I used every point of Mana on the Elven stack.

Yes! This one works! I couldn't get my Concentration to Level 2 because I ended up being 2 Magic Runes short, so I decided to go the Spirit Tree Diversion route and was able to do it.

I had "small" stacks of everybody including Werewolf stacks of 8 and 9 units and so I used Ball of Lightning Level 2 on a stack of 80 Sprites and 9 Werewolves and it easily took them out.

The Fauns ran into the trap that Impy pointed out and with a fortuitous strike I was able to take the stack of 8 Werewolves out with Ball of Lighting Level 1 and my Vamps.

I was down to 1 Vamp at that point due to 7 Elves, but the Sprite death had left an Eviln and I was able to get back up to 2 Vamps and then the Vamps + a Level 1 Poison skull took down the 7 Elves!

I was very fortunate in this battle and had to adapt to the fact that I couldn't get Concentration up to level 2. I'm not sure if Level 2 Concentration would have been better than Diversion, but it would have given me a third Ball of Lightning Level 2 cast on round 5 if I made it that far, but the Diversion Trap took out those Fauns so maybe Diversion is better if you get Ball of Lightning in the Ore Cart than Concentration Level 2.

I posted pictures of the battle, to give you a feel for how it went down and how fortunate I was! You can see by the second to last picture that I've got him!

By the way, Ball of Lightning Level 2 can handle up to 99 Sprites and 12 Werewolves, but I really think you need a third cast of Ball of Lightning @level 2 if your second Werewolf stack is 11 units. Then there's still probably 8 Elves and 11 Fauns to deal with and so that just might be too much for this setup.

Nonetheless, it can work if you have an Elven stack on the smaller side (and the Human stack is way easier and I was level 4 when I did them and 5 when I did the Elven stack).

Note that I did have to kill one of the easy Catacombs stacks because when I skipped all those fights I was 14 exp short of level 5 when facing the Elven stack - ugghhh!

So I went back to my Catacombs save and took out an easy stack that was worth a whopping 23 exp! Just enough to get me to level 5 after I defeated the Human stack in the Shelter!

Whew! Very close battle!

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