Fastest way to level and/or cheat?

[Livid]

I want to get past the Minotaur Guards but they beat me up, it's not even close. What's the best way to level quickly and get gear that will let me beat them? alternatively is there a save editor or something like that I can just use to make my character stronger?

 

[Alypia]

I want to get past the Minotaur Guards but they beat me up, it's not even close. What's the best way to level quickly and get gear that will let me beat them? alternatively is there a save editor or something like that I can just use to make my character stronger?

The Minotaur Guards will let you through to the Deeprealms without a fight if you prove yourself as a hero/ine. The best way to do this is by tracking down Kasyrra and following her north through the Old Forest and Frostwood.

This is also the direction in which you'll find the higher-level enemies that you need in order to level up and get fat stacks of cash.

 

[WolframL]

There is a save editor but using it will ruin that file for any bug reporting purposes and depending on how much you tweak it has a chance of borking your save in unexpected ways. Much easier to just go through the game as Alypia suggests until you can either get past the guards without fighting or you're strong enough to beat them up.

 

[Livid]

OK well I think I want to have at least one save where I fight my way past them. If I grind up in the Frostwood what's the best stuff/abilities that I can get? Any idea what level I should aim to be?

 

[Wint3rRyd3r]

OK well I think I want to have at least one save where I fight my way past them. If I grind up in the Frostwood what's the best stuff/abilities that I can get? Any idea what level I should aim to be?

They're not quite as strong as they seem. I demolished them as a level 6 warrior so I'd think 4 or 5 would be minimum best with good gear and a healer. As for grinding, if you're still in act 1 then the Hellhound is a pretty good source of exp for a while. Besides her, you've got the right idea with the frostwood. If you want to use the save editor, only tweak stats and you'd be better off waiting till you reach the cap if you still want some balance. I've only tweaked stats that way and it hasn't ruined the save I used it on. Just that eternal warning of save editing. Also the CoC2 save editor has a much different layout from the CoC1 and TiTS ones.

 

[Burnerbro]

As a minor aside, giving yourself ranks in certain stats via save editing doesn't net you any extra points, since you will just get less points to spend on the next level up. But if you tweak the values of your Starting Bonuses perk you can get free points and even break through the current level's stat cap.

 

[wery12345]

Honestly its not worth it to fight past them, cause if you cant handle them you cannot handle whats past them at all.

 

[zagzig]

I want to get past the Minotaur Guards but they beat me up, it's not even close. What's the best way to level quickly and get gear that will let me beat them? alternatively is there a save editor or something like that I can just use to make my character stronger?

Level 1: Grind in the Old Forest
Level 2-3: Grind in the Foothills
Level 4-5: Grind against the Hellhound in the Frostwood. Do not breed her, unless you're sure you won't need her level grinding services in future.
Level 6: You're at the level cap! Congratulations!

And yeah, they're a beef gate (literally). If you can't beat them, you definitely can't beat what's behind them.

 

[Livid]

Ok Thanks guys, my plan for now is to get into the next area and then just get beat up by the encounters in there so I can see the scenes. I actually prefer it if I can lose to them without using the surrender button. Thanks again.

 

[Zbearbear]

There is a save editor but using it will ruin that file for any bug reporting purposes and depending on how much you tweak it has a chance of borking your save in unexpected ways. Much easier to just go through the game as Alypia suggests until you can either get past the guards without fighting or you're strong enough to beat them up.

Ruined a save a while back messing with levels. Luckily had a backup. Besides adding money and editing a couple body parts the save editor can really do some damage lol

 

[Soulskulptor]

There is a save editor but using it will ruin that file for any bug reporting purposes and depending on how much you tweak it has a chance of borking your save in unexpected ways. Much easier to just go through the game as Alypia suggests until you can either get past the guards without fighting or you're strong enough to beat them up.

so tweaking just appearance could bork a save?

 

[WolframL]

Theoretically any messing around can bork your save but some things are more or less likely to do it than others. As a general guideline, the more you stray outside the bounds of what you can do legitimately in the game, the more likely you are to break something.

 

[Burnerbro]

You probably need to change some elements that gets heavily utilized by the game's engine in order to really bork the save to a point where you can't play after loading it. The worst I ever got from playing with various appearance options (body part types, flags, sizes, colors etc.) was the game giving me an in-line error text for the particular type not being valid for this body part.

 

[Wint3rRyd3r]

If you don't know what you're doing, it could easily bork a save. Changing eye color never was an issue, adding items was fine, and giving stats extra levels was fine but only after hitting the cap. Otherwise you may get frozen on the stat boost screen. It may be the engine, but unlike coc1 and tits, this save editor doesn't play well with its respective game.

 

[wery12345]

If you want to change your eye color, simply just sell your soul to a god.

 

[Burnerbro]

Changing eye color never was an issue, adding items was fine, and giving stats extra levels was fine but only after hitting the cap. Otherwise you may get frozen on the stat boost screen.

Since by tweaking stat ranks you are essentially just getting them upfront instead of on level up, I imagine in the situation you describe the game calculates your available stat ranks as being negative if you have spent more than the three you get per level up - and can't handle it as a result. So it is possible that when the next level up becomes available the saves tweaked that way may again become borked.

That's why you tweak the values of your Starting Bonuses perk and proceed without issues.

 

[Wint3rRyd3r]

Yeah pretty much. You have to either reduce the stats you tweaked before hitting the level up, or wait until you hit the cap. Otherwise you'll have to restart the game. The game wants to add stats but can't so it doesn't know what to do and keeps you prisoner. Looking at the consequences of my hubris and need for big number.

That's why you tweak the values of your Starting Bonuses perk and proceed without issues.

I tried that once but it didn't affect it at all. Maybe I did it wrong but I've given up on the save editor now that the salon sells contacts.

If you want to change your eye color, simply just sell your soul to a god.

What a madlad.

 

[mikethor007]

That's why you tweak the values of your Starting Bonuses perk and proceed without issues.

Not necessarily. The game assumes that the champ has <levels>*3 attribute points when clicking level up.

E.g., when leveling to level 6, one can save edit to distibute 18 points to the stats, save, level up, edit again to desired stats.

EDIT: And the game has a stat cap that is around 5 * <levels>, so at level 6 having anything above 30 on any stat will not show in the character screen.

 

[Burnerbro]

I tried that once but it didn't affect it at all.

Weird. A small tweaking of stats is the first thing I do when I create a new character, since i prefer to play on Dark Mode but don't like the way it leads to frontloading the difficulty. Sometimes I use it to make super specialist. This is how I accidentally found out that there is a hard cap for individual stats, that seems to be set to 1.5 times the normal current level max.

As an example, behold Mitzi, the Gobbo Goddess of Gab:

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