Dungeon Raid Strategies, Tips and Tricks

Dungeon Raid is not your typical match-3 game, it's Puzzle Quest meets Rogue like dungeon crawling.

Strategies

One stat that you can focus on above all others is Weapon Damage. Anytime you have to pick two skills or an item, always select one that improves Weapon Damage if available.You'll  want to maintain Weapon Damage so that you only use two swords to defeat any skull group.

The next key is the Enchant spell that gives you an instant item upgrade. This spell is a bit broken as it winds up giving you too many upgrades. Make sure to keep an open spell spot until Enchant finally rolls around.

Next pick other spells that focus on clearing the entire board of skulls. So pick Explosive Potion, Teleport, and the one that turns skulls into swords. You may need these spells occasionally in the early part of the game but can pretty much do without them now.

That's about it. For the other skills after Weapon Damage, focus on Regeneration, Defense, and Base Damage. Ignore Blunt and Spike. You don't want skulls to hit you for more than one turn, so you may find Blunt and Spike useless.

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How to Unlock All Classes


If you are looking to unlock all of the classes first and foremost, play as the Adventurer (basically playing the game classless with all unlocked skills available but no cool race or class bonuses/penalties) since any trophies found will have to be for new classes since you can never level the Adventurer class.

This is also nice since once all classes are unlocked, playing as any given class will then guarantee any unlocks will be further levels in the class you're playing (thus allowing you to direct which races and skills you unlock first).

Coin Trick

Any skill that clears the board of a certain item (Heal, Repair, Skill Elixir, Gem..thing, whatever) + Treasure Chamber. Treasure chamber makes it so that all new tiles are coins for 1 turn. Except using a board-clear skill doesn't count as a turn. So if you've been stocking up potions on the board, then turn on Treasure Chamber and use Heal, you'll get a board full of coins. Now collect all those coins in the normal way (using up your turn), and you'll get another board full of coins.


Here's how to be virtually invincible for a while:
Dazzle and/or Disarm + Scavenge (swords to shields) + Boost Armor (double shields).

How to Beat the Special Monsters

An easy way to deal with Spikey special monster if you don't have any skills to get rid of him is to just keep your shields up and let blunt take his damage down to 1, the minimum. Then you can let your spikes wear him down until its safe to kill him.


Some Basic Tips

1) Clear the maximum number of tiles every time, more or less regardless of anything else. The chief exceptions being to link two big groups by a smaller clear, dangerous bosses, meaningful numbers of skulls or really low health;

2) Learn to accept your durability being at 0/4, unless shields are the thing you can clear the most of;

3) Clear all (or perhaps nearly all) swords you can with abandon, if that is the thing you can clear the most of;

4) Expect to have 1 or 2 skulls hitting you for their pathetic damage, and don't think about killing such a small number of skulls unless it will help link groups for a bigger clear.

What this does is sharply increase your gold and exp achieved over the initial easy turns, because you will be collecting more coins and fighting more skulls. You are turning over more tiles per turn, so clearly you are seeing and collecting more total gold, killing more skulls and getting more shields. While you will be at 0/4 or 0/5 when you grab that big group of shields, the strategy probably also increases your net upgrades as well, because you will get a lot more total shields, a lot more bonus shields, and will be "protected" from further shield loss when at 0/4 or 0/5.

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Spell List

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Best Spells Combo: Dazzle, Teleport, Skill Elixir, Repair

Skill Elixir and Repair: They instantly collect all the tiles without using a turn. Since enemies get stronger each turn, this can drastically reduce the amount of turns you use throughout the game. IMO collecting large amounts of XP early is the best thing you can possibly do, so Skill Elixir is quite useful. Repair is also amazing because it can help you in sticky situations plus getting item enhancements is the second best thing. Be aware though that if you use these in tight situations, you run the risk of getting even more skulls on the board so do so with caution. If you have a clean or easily manageable board, use these every time they are off cool down

Dazzle is incredibly useful in two situations:

1) You are in a lot of trouble and have a decent amount of coins on the board, even 4-5 coins can create an epic sword/skull chain and save you from a certain death.

2)  Coins arguably are the least important thing to collect and so sacrificing your coins in order to get more kills is always great. Even if you are not immediately threatened, Dazzle can be great to give you a board full of Swords to take on tough bosses or when you get to late game and enemies start hitting like trucks. Use Dazzle preemptively for best results.

The only thing being possibly better than Dazzle is Disarm, although Disarm has a longer cool down I believe and you can lose lots of exp this way, which can be detrimental in the long run.

Teleport:

Arguably the best skill in the game, always take this if it is available to you. Some bosses are much more difficult than others and can be extremely annoying if not dealt with properly. For instance, try to teleport every time you see a Spike boss (returns damage on attack), a Fire Boss (damages you when you attack around it), or the boss that makes your Cool downs not refresh. This skill is just amazing.

Stats:

Early game your primary focus should be on getting as much EXP as possible while making sure to keep your damage upgraded. Here's a brief overview of what are the most important stats.

+Str should generally always be taken early game if it is an option for you. It is probably the best stat in the game

+EXP So amazing early game. If you can get large amounts of +EXP and damage with a good skill set, you will easily make it to late game.

+Durability: Generally an overlooked Stat. Insanely powerful into late game, even after the nerf you should ALWAYS get this stat if it is available as an upgrade.

+Dext: Dext is great as it not only gives you extra shields on collection, but the chance of getting bonus shield as well.

+Life Leech: Generally avoid this early game as there are other stats that should take priority. However, once your damage becomes more significant (lvl 15+) life leech should take priority over everything except Durability. It is incredibly powerful.

+Vita: Always make sure you have a decent HP pool, do not overlook vita at any point in the game. Vita should be prioritized over +HP because vita gives the extra potion as well.

+Luck: Decent stat, the +potion is excellent for late game.

+Blunting: Not a bad stat combined with high durability, although with the nerf to Durability, blunting is not as powerful. Generally avoid this as it doesn't help much late game anymore.

Spikes: Honestly, just completely avoid this stat all together.

+Base Damage: Only take this if none of the other stats are available.

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