Hi everyone,
I’m not great at shattered and haven’t played much since the duelist was introduced.
This run got me an early RoF and then a recent RoW. I haven’t used any upgrade scrolls yet. Not a ton of great equipment. How do I play this? Brawler’s stance seems pretty great, especially if I find a weapon with a lame special attack.
It usually will bite you. Skeletons in the Prison will destroy you if you don’t use upgraded armour. The explosion damage is doubly-reduced by armour, so you don’t need many upgrades to neutralize it, but +0 armour is not good enough.
Also note that upgrades to armour reduce the strength requirement like this +1, +3, +6, +10 for -1 to -4 strength requirement respectively. As an aside, this sequence is known as the triangular numbers:
This checks out, because -5 and -6 reduction is at 15 and 21.