Hi. Are your enemies to over-powered? Are your troops week and ineffective? Do you want to be unbeatable? Then you are on the right track, (Disclaimer, though I cant guarantee that everything that I do will work for you, I can only show you what works for me.)

In this guide I will cover the following:

• Some basic tools and functions.
  
• What you can do before a fight.
  
• What you can do while in a fight to prepare for the next one.
  
• And some tactics that work for me.

If you have any questions, send me a message and I will try to answer as best I can.

In this section I will go over some tools that are available to the player to make their life easier.

• Character skill field, empty combat.
  
• Keys.
  
• Supplies.
  
• Healing Shrines.
  
• Bag Customization.
  
• Character Customization.

So what is the character skill field, and how can I use it?
Well, the CSF(character skill field) is a field that doesn't have any enemies on it, an "empty" battle field. It enables you to use your characters abilities (i.e. healing) without being attacked, the drawback being you don't generate power for your skills, so you have a very limited amount of actions you can take. The skills you use do stay with you until your next fight. The CFS is accessible through the down arrow icon in the bottom left of your screen as shown below.






How come I can only use one characters skills?
Well, you have to manually select which characters skills you want to use, you do this by selecting their icon in the upper right corner.





Keys open locked chests that can be found in dungeons that you visit. You earn keys by defeating enemies, and you can't take the keys with you when you leave the dungeon. The number of keys that you have are displayed in the top right corner under the character icons.




Supplies are really important early in the game, they can heal and revive downed troops for free, though you only have three. Supplies can also open locked chests, though that is of secondary importance. To activate the healing, you click on the sparkly bandage in the lower left corner of the screen.

Healing Shrines are scattered randomly through the dungeon, like supplies, they heal and revive your troops, but unlike supplies you have to make a monetary "offering," you pay for it. The base cost is around 500 gold (in game currency) (False, it is 100 gold/level, thank you Immortalits) that scales upward with your troops level, adding another 100 gold for every level above 5 they are.

Bag customization is a very convenient way to organize your loot, the link to the customization screen is located in the upper left corner of your inventory (the inventory icon is along the top of your screen),


from the customization screen you can change everything from what kind of items are sorted into it to what color the bag icon is.




Sometimes you want a team that kicks tons of a** and looks good. That is where character customization comes in. To get to character customization, you click on the hood along the top of your screen, select the character you want to work on, and to customize the appearance, click on the gear icon.




There are four tabs in the character screen, they are: Statistics, Assign Skills, and two skill trees that are unique to each of the five classes. Statistics shows you all the data on the character, as well as the amount of points are in the four columns, strength, dexterity, endurance, and intellect.

In this section, I will cover:

• Recommended equipment.
  
• Farming for Health.
  
• Potions.

So, you have four level 1 fighters and you’re on your first mission, good for you! So, how do you prepare for a hostile encounter? Well, what I like to do is wander around the dungeon first, to try to find some good loot. And if you do find some good stuff go to your inventory, see that trophy icon to the far right? Clicking on that icon will show recommended equipment for the character, and then you cycle through your troops, easy!


The recommended items are usually the best choice for the character, though not always. I will try to cover the exceptions later.




Ok, your troops are on low health, the last foe stands with a fraction of health remaining, now it's time to finish him off right? Wrong! You use the opportunity to heal up! Cause at this point you can out heal any damage he can throw at you. Having your troops at optimal health at the start of a fight is more important then quickly finishing off the last foe.



There are potions available in the game, they offer different buffs that can be really handy in a fight, though you have to ration yourself as you have a limited number of them. You have a chance before the fight starts to give your troops some potions if you so desire, but I personally, rarely think it’s a necessary action. But, if you think it's necessary, then here is what I recommend you give to each character.

In this section I will cover:

• How to Distribute Stat Points on Your Troops.
  
• Tanking Strategy.
  
• Focus Fire.
  
• Skills That I Like and Use a LOT.

Stat Points are received when you level up, like skill points. But stat points are a bit more vague on what they do. There is a description for each of the four stats, but it is unclear how much they actually affect the character. Here are their names and descriptions.



This is how I recomend the stats to be dispersed.




If you like your troops to have matching stats, then this tactic isn't for you. Tanking is a strategy that specializes your troops, one guy is really good at taking a beating, there are a few healers, a few damage dealers, and one well-rounded team. So, how do you pull this off? Well, you have to consider what each of the classes are good at. Warriors are the damage sponge, clerics are the emergency healers, rangers are the long term healers, and the damage dealers are the mages. The warriors have a skill called ShieldWall, this skill demands enemy attention, meaning they can't directly attack anyone else. Make sure that the warriors default fighting style is adrenalin, adrenalin prevents the character from being stunned (except the vampires, and the mummies, which still have a chance to stun you), which will remove the skill, also, don't use any other skills while it is active, it will remove the skill, and don't attack with the warrior for the same reason.

As soon as the skill is active use the ranger skill Natures Balm, and change the cleric's fighting style to radiance if you have it. Then you heal the warrior as needed.
(Note: this tactic is only worth it if there are more than three enemies, or less, if you are playing in a higher difficulty.)

This tactic isnt as effective since update 1.05 because shield wall was nerffed. Shield Wall only lasts one turn now. An alternative method is to specialize you warrior into the Command skill tree, this enables him/her to use and learn skill books for that class, specificaly the Bodyguard skill book. The Bodyguard skill alowes your commander to apoint a bodyguard that demands enemy attention, this skill would be particularily affective on the sorcerers Golem.



Also try to focus all of your attacks on one foe, preferably the weakest one you can attack, this can help a lot because if they go down faster there are less things to worry about.



Ok this is a list of skills by class that I use with great regularity.