bring back merchants to "master of casting" challenge

[Xazmadan]

it is strange, what there are no merchants, cause of fact what noone level up low tier equipment, and upgrades are mostly saved to t4/5 equipment, and this challenge i think didnt exception

[egoal]

hi.

so i didnt understand, what;s your point?

in case, you can use gold to upgrade items in 'master of casting' mode.

[Xazmadan]

i know, but no any merchants in the dungeon. this is disturbing fact, in situations when equipped cursed arts, or need ankh, or something to heal pressure damage, or have a useless for now scroll and want to exchange with bartermans help merchant is just necessary

[Xazmadan]

and here is some interesting random fact, in 1 run i didnt find any remove curse scroll for 22 floors, and all this way i was with equipped cursed heart of evil and golden statue. In a master of casting. Just eternal suffering

[egoal]

Well, i mean, you can just disable the challenge if you don like the cost 'no merchants' of 'Master of Casting'. as we know, in Darkest PD, all challenges comes with 'pros' and 'cons' (except 'Lasting Quiet').

btw, 'Master of Casting' is one of most popular challenges actullay.. since we can always equip upgraded items, and can easily get +9 weapons.

And yes, the RNG sometimes sucks. Darkest does not polish the 'pseudo random' as in Shattered. It is one of my plan, to make the generator looks 'more random' in human sense.

[Xazmadan]

ugh, thaths stupid, so where the challenge, while anyone can obtain +9 equipment very easily? i though what it is must be in hard decisions, upgrade for 1050 or ankh & bag, or etc in that way, but now... so i think it is no any challenge in master of casting, just changing upgrading mechanic

[Xazmadan]

btw no any rc scrolls sounds funny, maybe do a another challenge? all items are cursed, no any upgrade scrolls, but there can appear items up to +4, but there is only 2 scrolls of rc per chapter, so there player must decide on what situation armor and weapon found, should he/she safe rc for found rings & artefacts, or change equipment in any way and forget about shiny shackles

[MexicanBoi2002]

btw no any rc scrolls sounds funny, maybe do a another challenge? all items are cursed, no any upgrade scrolls, but there can appear items up to +4, but there is only 2 scrolls of rc per chapter, so there player must decide on what situation armor and weapon found, should he/she safe rc for found rings & artefacts, or change equipment in any way and forget about shiny shackles

ugh, thaths stupid, so where the challenge, while anyone can obtain +9 equipment very easily? i though what it is must be in hard decisions, upgrade for 1050 or ankh & bag, or etc in that way, but now... so i think it is no any challenge in master of casting, just changing upgrading mechanic

The challenge in Master of Casting is the fact that you are not given any anhks, you can't buy the really helpful consumables, and that you need to upgrade decent gear to survive. It is brutal, especially when the unfair scorpions just give pressure in absurd amounts. But the challenge is the best balanced. It costs 100 gold for +1, 200ish for +2, 400ish for +3, and grows from there. this removes the limit of SoUs, and makes is easy to have all +2 gear by tengu, which could never happen in a normal run. Probably the best challenge, and to be fair the only challenge I have problems with is talented. If we were given 2 perk points per 5 levels it'd be perfect.

[egoal]

Talented changed in 0.6.1: 1 random perk per 2 levels.