Chapter 2 – Salem (2)
1. Salem (2)
The Long Terror is basically a turn-based roguelike game. Even if you pack the combination with the same class every time, the name of the hero (character) changes every time, the structure of the dungeon changes, and the treasures (items) and artifacts that are dropped also change. Even if you get really lucky and recruit a character with the same class and the same name, the 4 basic skills granted are also different.
That’s why I’m expressing that I’m lucky.
In fact, whether or not you can clear it depends on which class you organize the combination, the arrangement of the warriors, the proper use of skills and consumable items, and how properly you pack and transport the items.
The maximum number of people in the warriors’ corps is 4 people.
The standard combination was tank, dealer, healer plus alpha.
Of course, at low difficulty, you don’t need all of that, and even if you hit with a deal or use a 4-tank muscle combination like pervert, you could play no-death until the final boss unless you’re really unlucky.
However, even on normal difficulty, it was almost impossible to play no-death with shit combinations such as 4-tank combinations or 4-deal combinations, needless to say on hard difficulty.
In other words, in the current situation, which is higher than the Hard difficulty, it meant that 3 out of 4 players would be forced to have one tank, one dealer, and one healer unconditionally.
Here, the 4th mate is different depending on the player’s inclination, but in my case, I was more stable-oriented, so I put a damage tank or a secondary healer in the alpha position.
But there was one important difference.
Here, I am not a player beyond the 4th wall who only clicks the mouse, but I am a warrior who must fight myself.
In other words, before recruiting fellow warriors, I had to decide my class.
‘First of all, whether this is a dream or not, I have to proceed. The three-day time limit is terribly nerve-wracking. After that… Let’s go and think about it then.’
Since the game itself was hardcore, I shouldn’t have overlooked any trivial things, much less openly written a time limit, so ignoring it was truly a retard certification.
For at least three days, I decided to focus exclusively on the tutorial and this world.
“What would you name the corps of warriors? It would be best to avoid duplication if possible.”
“I will do HAT.”
“Hmm. It doesn’t overlap. Approved. If you submit this paper to the Heroes Support Center, we will support one fellow warrior for free.”
“Thank you.”
‘It’s a single game, but what about duplicates?’
Dog-like difficulty.
In the game, you just need to scribble down the team name, but here, I forgot 5 silver coins for the registration fee. It has no meaning except when registering. Possessed money is downgraded to 3 gold coins and 9 silver coins in an instant.
Considering the price of miscellaneous goods, it still seems sufficient, but thinking about what happened after that, it was really tight.
‘Let’s think of it as the value of the first mate.’
Before that, I had to decide my class first.
“This is a warrior training camp. What business did you come for?”
“I’m here to decide on a class.”
“I can give you a brief explanation if you’d like, what would you do?”
“Please.”
The existing 13 classes were memorizing all the correction values, but with the addition of the DLC this time, three new classes were added, so I decided to listen to the explanation calmly.
〈 close series 〉
Heavy KnightKnight/Guardian/CrusaderPaladin/Berserk Berserk
〈 Ranged and Rogue 〉
Plunderer/Bounty Hunter/Bounty Hunter/Treasure Hunter/Assassin/Crossbowman
〈 Aid and Healer 〉
Imprecator/Battle SisterBattle Vestal/Curing SisterCuring Vestal/Bard
〈 special series 〉
Werewolf/Black Merchant/Reinforced Human
The three new classes added as DLC this time are the special classes at the bottom. I listened to the explanation properly because there could have been changes to other existing classes. Once there was no change.
‘Tang is not for the first time. A clown like me is at the forefront.’
More than 80% of tanks stood in the first row (front line), but of course not all monsters attacked one after another from the front. However, it was true that most monsters often attacked the first or second row. If the aggro was random, there would be no meaning as a tanker.
So, the tanker is dismissed for now.
‘Hill also dismissed. The 2-heal system has good blood retention, but it has a problem with poor combat ability. If you’re unlucky and get consecutive critical hits, the front row will be swept away before you even heal. It’s not uncommon on hard difficulty, but it’s a 2-heal system here that’s even more difficult than that.’
In terms of simple maximum healing, the witch doctor was one-top, but the problem was that all of his skills were ‘curse’, so his healing skills were also treated as a curse. In addition, the minimum healing amount went through 0 and went down to negative. So, if you are unlucky, you will be cursed and you will not be able to heal, that is, it is also a lottery character in the worst condition where you blow one turn for free.
‘The steady heel is a healing nun… Only women can do this.’
Even in this game, even in the same class, the ability level correction was different depending on whether it was a man or a woman, and a racial correction value was added separately depending on the race. (This was really luck.)
Anyway, in order to roll stably with a 1-heal party, the healer must pick a healing nun unconditionally, but the healing nun and combat nun are unconditionally female. I didn’t even want to be a man. Therefore, in the 4th row (rearmost), the healer is also dismissed.
Only rows 2 and 3 remain.
Assuming that it was decided as a 1-heel party, it was either a secondary dealer to the main dealer or a dealer to the main dealer.
In terms of combat power, of course, the latter was much better, but… Unfortunately, as the difficulty level increased, the need for thief-type characters skyrocketed.
Mapping (map reconnaissance), trap detection, ranged support, weak damage but various utilities, etc.
In the high difficulty level, even trivial things can be fatal, so depending on whether there are thieves or not, the probability of blocking danger in advance has widened.
In other words, the bandits were also necessary.
And the handling of bandits in the game…
“There must be only the main dealer.”
No matter how much I was afraid of fighting directly, I did not want to live as a slave.
‘Assuming the thief is a thun (treasure hunter), it wouldn’t be bad for me to become a crossbowman with a 2-won deal system.’
Crossbowman was a ranged dealer whose strength was steady damage, but his weakness was also ‘steady’ damage. In other words, there was no super-strong skill.
‘But choosing an assassin’s body is a complete piece of paper.’
‘Berserkers have good deals, but almost no utility, and their accuracy is insane.’
Since I erased them one by one in this way,
Bounty hunter/werewolf/enhanced
I was able to narrow it down to these three classes.
‘Oh right. The werewolf and the nun are superstitious.’
In the case of transforming into wolf form, I considered it because it boasts the highest maximum physical strength and maximum attack power of all classes, but when I thought about it, I could not make a team with the nun.
Because of the setting that the nun sincerely rejects werewolves, she says that if she forms a team, she will refuse to go to the dungeon at all, and one of the two will randomly leave the warrior corps. I don’t know how it would have been implemented here, but I didn’t have to risk it.
‘Ah. What. Enhanced human penalty crazy?’
And the class characteristics of enhanced humans that I have not seen before.
Mentality (mental state) destabilization rate is reduced by 50%, but healing effect is also reduced by 50%.
In a game where party maintenance is more important than anything else, no matter how good the basic specs and the excellent modifiers are, the halving of the healing effect was a huge penalty.
‘Shit. I never thought I’d do a pair of Hunters on the highest difficulty level.’
Of course, this is also just a plan, so I decided not to think about the fact that if the class I want doesn’t show up, I’m going to talk about dorumuk.
“Have you decided?”
“Yes. I will be a bounty hunter.”
“Yes. It’s been dealt with, you can complete the bounty hunter skills and get the bounty hunter’s basic equipment from the equipment support center.”
[The class has become a ‘bounty hunter’.]
[Hendrik ‘Eugene’ TerrorHunter]
Race/Gender: Human Male
Class: Bounty Hunter
Level: 1
Max HP: 14 (11+3)
Attack Power: 2~10 (7+3)
Defense: 3 (1+2)
Speed: 7(6+1)
Knight Regeneration/Awakening: 5%
Reconnaissance Probability: 16%
Positive Traits: *Wanderer (Speed +1)
‘And… The stats are really insignificant.’
It was dark before my eyes when I would reach level 10, but that wasn’t the point right now.
While playing this game, there was probably the most important turning point, the first teammate draw.
The Warriors Support Center showed a total of 10 fellow candidates, and the gender, class, characteristics, and race were all random.
So, in the strategy, there is even a saying that if the first colleague is not good enough, delete the data and repeat the process until a useful character is found.
As much as that, it was no exaggeration to say that the first mate selection was the first watershed that would determine the course of the corps of warriors.
Of course, I couldn’t do such artificial repetition.
“Welcome. Are you supportive?”
“No. Recruitment.”
“Give me the certificate of the warriors… Hmm. Take a look and let me know. There is no chance to keep it, so be careful.”
Compared to the courteous staff at the training center, the staff at the support center spoke a bit rudely. I looked at the information of the warriors he offered, thinking that it was quite unbalanced because of his rugged appearance and thin voice.
‘My first ally is a tanker or a healer.’
The first plan was to have a strong tanker like soup in front of me and honestly push forward to the resting place where I could recover my physical strength and mentality.
The advantage of the first method was that I could deal stably without getting hit, and the advantage of the second method was that the level of the healer could be raised quickly from the beginning, so that the party’s maintenance could increase in the future compared to the progress.
2 dealers were out of the question.
[Karlov]
Race/Gender: Human Male
Class: Plunderer
‘Straining.’
The first hero skipped the class as soon as he saw it.
[Yeria]
Race/Gender: Dark Elf Female
Class: Assassin
‘Ah. It’s a pity, really.’
As soon as the second hero sees the class, he filters it right away… I had to, but it was so sad. It was because the Dark Elves were the race that gave the maximum correction value to assassins. It was painful to have the maximum HP, attack power, and defense reduced because of the female modifier, but it was a unique race that was able to cover it with the racial modifier nonetheless…
So, from the 3rd to the 9th hero, all of them were caught in the class, or the class and race were reverse-corrected, or negative characteristics such as dog asshole were caught, so they had to be filtered out.
Even on the hard difficulty, there were about three warriors that could be used, but this was the highest difficulty. Even if it wasn’t until the jackpot, you should never have picked a guy with flaws.
I checked the profile of the 10th hero while trying to hide my nervousness.
[Kaya]
Race/Gender: Half-elf female
Class: Battle Vestal
“What… ? A half-elf nun?”
And after starting this game, I saw a combination of race and class that I had never seen before.
This… How is it going
Ssr? Yippeee