
What you do want is to level up efficiently. Since leveling up instantly refills your health and mana, you don't necessarily want to reach the highest possible level before you fight the boss. And what's worse - you won't have any easy to pick up XP powerups to munch on for a refill while you fight the boss! Killing higher-level monsters gives you bonus experience, and you will need it : if you stick to killing monsters who are same level as you, you're not likely to have enough xp to rise higher than level 4 or 5. You can (and should!) do this while you're fighting a different, tougher monster. This means that if you outlevel a monster, and have enough damage, you can kill it without expending any resources. Every +20% damage increase is essentially +1 dmg per level.įirst of all - if you're higher level than a monster you get first strike against it.An increase in your BURNDAYRAZ damage rate.An increase in your health regeneration rate.A wipe of any poison or mana burn effects on the player.Knowing exactly what you get from a level-up is critical to a deeper understanding of the game, as proper timing of level-ups is crucial to your success in a dungeon run. Every level-up makes you stronger and refills you health and mana. There are ways to turn even walls and bloodpools, that monsters leave behind when they die, into a weapon!Ĭonsider monsters as "hard to pick up XP boosters" : killing them adds to your experience bar, and experience allows you to level up. They will drop trophies that you can sell.Īnything else in the game should be considered as resources to prepare the boss fight : unexplored space, glyphs, gold, shops, potions, gods but also monsters (they're XP powerups but they're tricky to pick up!). If there are multiple such monsters, you must defeat all of them. Your objective is to kill the level 10 "boss monster" in the dungeon. Now, you can keep going for some more detailed advice It would be silly not to read that! It also predicts how many hits you will have to give to kill the monster. When hovering a monster the game predicts next blow result.

#GLYPHS MINI GUIDE FULL#

The second most important thing to understand is that everything is a resource.

This is a game that punishes wasted resources. The single most important thing to know is that DD is a game about resource management. The fact that you're here means you are willing to stick with it, though, and that is excellent! This page contains a basic explanation of the game's systems and strategies you can use to help ease you in to the game. Don't fret! Desktop dungeons is an incredibly complex game, with much to offer the human who masters its systems, but as a consequence has a very steep learning curve. Welcome to Desktop Dungeons! You've bought this magnificent game through the avenue of your choice, blazed through the tutorial, and.
