Guides/Tips & Tricks

This page is dedicated to various tips covering different aspects of the game Roguelands.

## Getting started

* Invest a lot of your money in ship droids and buy storage upgrads.
* Get 2 additional droids to loot faster (you can create new characters and take their droids)
* Don't be afraid to give common loot to the trasher. Trashing T1 loot is a nice way to get some extra credits and you can farm these items.
* The Healing Ward is a valuable Combat Chip if you have a bit of FTH -- it regens your HP while you wait, reducing the need for health potions.

## Planets

* You always start on the left.
* The portals are in the highest room on the right.
* Lenny will warn you at the beginning of the level about random events (glitterbug, pirates, meteors). Events can spawn when teleporting to a planet and only once per planet.
* Play planets that you enjoy, most of all.
* In the Desolate Canyon, hit the rock worms as soon as you hatch their pods. If your timing is right, you can hit all the segments at once, instantly killing the worm.
* Harvest EVERYTHING. Kill the monsters, harvest the nodes -- BOTH have a chance of dropping shards and Mods.
* Always check the Towns -- higher level challenges have more chance of Mods being sold.

## Enemies

* Enemies start to attack when you get to close. It is possible to hit enemies without being in range and without being attacked. (e.g. wasp)
* Some enemies have a high range (e.g. Tyrannog) and might even attack you from the room below / while falling to that room.
* Some enemies stop all attacks on death and some don't. Be careful.

## Random Number Generator

* There might be "no limits" to the RNG regarding how many mini-bosses you can get per level. (e.g. 3 Tyrannogs in a level, 2 in the same room, ...)
* It seems that it does not matter whether you play on challenge mode 0 or 2.
* An area can have 0 to 3 relics.

## Allegiance

* After you retrieve the Aethercrystal from the Tyrannog kill, Atlas will tell you to go to the Ancient Lands.
* DO NOT try to kill the Destroyer -- RUN through. (The Destroyer is invincible). Make sure you equip your Swiftness Combat Chip, and Bubble to help escape.
* When you choose to Kill the Destroyer in the later part of the quest, take: Anti-Frost, Anti-Heat, Andti-Poison potions... the Destroyer causes ALL 3 debuffs!
* You will need to hit the Destroyer in the head with the Ultimate Weapon, and then SWAP to your main weapon to do damage. (The Ultimate Weapon does little damage to him). The debuff wears off soon enough, so you may need to go back to the Ultimate Weapon and rinse & repeat.

## Leveling

* To get to level 100 without being hit you might use about 2 stacks of Glob of Aether.
* You could use the quest rewards too.
* The Cathedral has the highest experience output.
* Leveling your character is best done by wearing Level-Up Gear (gear with +XP Boost), and choosing the hardest Challenge Level you can easily defeat. Kill EVERY monster, and summon easy-to-kill bosses. (Personally, I spend a LOT of time in Desolate Canyon!)
* Leveling your gear is most quickly done by going to a high challenge level and running through, not stopping to kill stuff if possible. Just make it out safely, and grab the XP font in the Town.
* Choosing Ring XP in the a Town's font will give XP to both of your rings
* Want to level up a piece of armor that's in your box? Not a problem: equip it before you hit the Town XP font, then put it safely back in the chest.

## Quests

* A quest on challenge level x can not be completed on a different challenge level.
* Give you some XP.

## Challenge Level

* Have "high costs" and a higher risk, but it's worth the credits spent (Enemies deal more damage per hit and they have more hp / You get more XP, credits, mods, ...)
* You need about 2-3 areas to cover the entry fee.
* Always check the Towns -- higher level challenges have more chance of Mods being sold.
* Kill the monsters, harvest the nodes -- BOTH have a chance of dropping shards and Mods.

## Ironman

* Highly recommend choosing a character class/race with Vitality stat.
* To pre-level your character before going out, have other characters do quests, but not pick up the rewards. Your Ironman character can pick them up to gain the xp and resources.
* Grab a duplicate card or two off the wall and sell them for 700 gold each, allowing you to buy stuff at the very first Town.
* Unlock all the Alchemy/Smithing recipes on your main characters to make it easier on your character.
* Make sure you craft plenty of Health Potioms as you go along.
* As soon as possible, craft a shield and install at least one Health Regen Mod. Perceval (Mr. Meow in the Hollow Caverns) will often give you one early on.
* Find out which ingredients you need for the Armor/Ultimate Armor you've chosen for your character, and buy those ingredients/emblems at every shop. Avoid buying anything you don't absolutely need.
* Buy health potions, etc. when you can so as to cut down on farming ingredients.
* Inventory management is pretty important. Recycle/throw out anything you don't need. (Only cards are of decent value. Recycle stacks of Scrap Metal, but you can throw out 1s and 2s of other materials).
* Another way to recycle is to fill Questbot Quest slots with items that you don't need -- it accepts partial stacks.
* When you require ingredients for potions -- go out and specifically farm them. Craft, then sell the excess materials.
* Travel to Mech City and install Mods on your armor whenever convenient. (Remember, portals are shared with your other characters, so THEY can spend cash to open them!)
* Recycle World Fragments into Mech City Tickets.
* Extra cards can be stored inside and outside your ship. (Any empty square works). Use this as a backup source of funding for your Ironman character.
* If you have even a little Faith, purchase & use a Bubble Combat Chip -- it can save you in dangerous situations. (A Healing Ward is also very helpful!)
* Caution is advised -- go to more dangerous areas only when you feel prepared. If in doubt, rush to the exit!

See Challenge Level

## Currencies

* Credits can be used to buy ship droids, storage tabs and trophies and to start challenge mode. After you have bought all ship droids and storage tabs you will have no use for your credits other than starting challenge mode on a high level - which will flood your storage with credits.
* So in the end (most of the) credits will only be used to buy trophies to buy end game items.
* You get more credits for trashing 10x loot than for trashing 1 emblem. (10x2 vs 15) Don't trade all your loot for emblems!

See Currency

* Combat Trophies are earned for every level you gain above level 100. Use them to buy rare items in the Old Earth market.

## Building

* On your ship, enter build mode by pressing B.
* You can store cards on any square, either inside or outside the ship... handy for a surreptitious trandfer of money to or from an Ironman chracter from the rest of your toons.
* If you accidentally put an item out of range, simply remove the outer blocks with build mode, and retrieve it. Luckily, our characters, being two-dimensional, don't need to breathe air! (In other words, space doesn't bother them!)

## Damage

* Stacked status effects deal more damage (e.g. If you have stacked fire damage to 100% you receive 6 damage per tick. While you would only receive 2 damage per tick when fire is only stacked to 10%)

## Gear

* The best weapons are those with AOE or piercing shots - since some enemies have multiple hit boxes and some bosses hide behind adds. Be careful with eyepods and other things you don't want to hit.
* Improve your crafting chance: use the Forgeblade (Ultimate Weapon) +7%, on a character wearing a Blacksmith uniform (+1% every 20 player levels).

## Death

* Might have a max number of items (Just got rid of my main character @ about 1M XP and I got only 15 items of "almost all items that the death of a lvl 100+ character could get me".)

## Unlocks

* To unlock the Necro Race, ("Reach level 100 without taking any damage"), you can either play in multiplayer VERY carefully... or if you are solo, take a character to Demon's Rift, Challenge Level 3. You can run straight through, collecting all three gift huts on each run. No enemies means no damage.
* This takes a few hours to do, and a significant amount of Credits since the exit portals don't always end in another Demon's Rift.
* To boost your chracter through thr first few levels, have other characters complete Questbot Quests, and your no-damage character pick up the prize.. and the XP!
* Ironman unlocks: follow tips in my Ironman section. Instead of risking yourself in the questline, do it once you have reached level 100. All ironman unlocks are 100%, so there's nothing to lose by getting stronger before you have to beat the boss!
* If there are particular level unlocks you are missing, boost a martyr character with level-up armor, then send him naked to die off and hopefuly get the unlocks. This way, you will not lose your gear.