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[@DadsGamingAddiction]

Note: There is some question as to whether or not Soul Shaper scales with WP or SP. The tooltip specifically says Main hand damage, which is commonly associated with WD. There's also no SPELL tag, just PASSIVE, yet it's common that all skills scale off SP. I did try to remove gear and I noticed a decrease in damage as I lost SP. Yet, the math seems to favor WD unless I'm calculating incorrectly. Until further notice, treat the part about Soul Shaper as SP. Since you're aiming to get SP anyway, it's a win-win. This is yet another example of misleading tooltips that don't explain how the math is supposed to work. The devs need to do better with this...I shouldn't need to pull out EXCEL to calculate where damage is really coming from.

[@jeremyhicks4517]

Yeah I thought it was weird that Soul Shaper scales off spell power. Since the discription says Soul Shapers scales off the damage of your main hand. There are a few bugs they need to work out. Also no worries on your orginal description of the scaling. You read everything correctly. I appreciate all the information you put out. Very helpful!

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

It's cool, thanks for bringing that to my attention!

[@silverwolf2761]

So. are you saying you get more damage from both WP & SP?

[@pofruin]

What is this SLANDER?. Everything is better if you add EXCEL to it!

[@jeremyhicks4517]

@@silverwolf2761 your Soulshaper damage goes up with spell power. Not weapon power.

[@robertvogt9287]

Pro Tip - its easy to stash all of your equipped gear to share between all your characters or at least same archetypes. Saves a Ton on the Enchanter and nice boost to new ones.

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

That's what my fiance' does...I just don't want to deal with the hassle lol. You're right tho, much cheaper.

[@silverwolf2761]

Can't wait for guides for all!

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

Working on Ranger next!

[@AbstractGaze]

In fact, this is a big problem for almost all games - to understand where what is calculated from. I have seen only a few games where the mechanics are described and in examples like in Torchlight the damage is indicated and what it is calculated from, including the formula itself in the game itself in the form of a hint (this is the only game where everything is transparent and clear that I have seen). And a few more roguelikes where it is more or less clear. In most games, nothing is clear. And if you take the path of exile, there are more exceptions than rules, and tags on skills are sometimes useless and do not work, even in the second part. Thank you for your small analysis of the mechanics. It is nice that someone else understands this and I will not have to draw my own tables before starting to play and understand the game. In general, it is very annoying that you are given a game, but they do not give you clear rules on how to play it. I think that if a game developer does not give rules for games, this is a dull developer and does not understand what games are for. Unfortunately, most developers rarely play the games themselves, and they don't have this problem, since they come up with everything themselves - for them, everything is intuitively clear (in fact, it is not)

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

Have you seen my "mathing damage" video?

[@sazaat7]

Just one note: The melee tag on Chaos Blade allows the skill to drain essence from enemies so you could use a rod or staff instead of a melee weapon for a chaos warlock.

[@MeareX]

Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you!!!

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

That's clever. You'd need to decrease your cool-downs significantly to get stacks quickly.

[@marcotat710]

You'll still want to use a melee weapon to gain essence as quickly as possible, and dirk is still beneficial from its parry chance for that extra survivability.

[@Matt-kh6te]

Is there a set amount of secret areas for each map? Seems like it from my play of the game but maybe it was coincidental.

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

It's random, mostly 0, 1, or 2.

[@thewretchedtv]

ok so... at least this is the info I have, there was a vod I watched a few days ago that said it's set as: Forest - 0 Dark Cave - 2 Temple - 1 Crypt - 1 Dungeon - 1? Barracks - 2 Court - 1 Dark Halls - 2? With my testing in the last few runs I done, I can confirm that the ones without interrogation are correct, in Dark Halls sometimes I get only one and other times I get two but maybe I just didn't noticed the last one (all the credits about the info to CerealOnBread)

[@silverwolf2761]

When you do Sorc, would appreciate any advice on survivability. Feels tough comparatively to everyone else. Plus, how you deal with the final area given elementral resistances!

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

We'll see! Views are starting to drop off on the recent videos so unless I see more activity on the HOH2 series I'll probably hold off for a while. Share the vids, sub to the channel, and help make it grow to guarantee the vids you want. Thanks!

[@ripcord6721]

@@DadsGamingAddiction Those of us here are very appreciative for your work!

[@Victor_in_us]

I came up with 2 gears with 15% spell cool down+25% cool down from the drink. I can pretty much keep the soul storm up all the time. It’s super efficient in farming. However, since soul storm requires you get up close and personal, pushing NG+ could be hard after NG3+.

[@thomas1644]

I look at the importance of warlock and paladin class titles in the opposite way you do... Your entire class title resistance buff gets completely wiped out by a single NG level, so it doesn't really matter at all once you get over NG 4 or 5. Whats really the difference between -1000 armor and -1150 armor?

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

I understand. Did you see the suggestion I left on their Discord last week (under feedback and suggestions)? I argued for the very same case you are making now. Also discussed in our "What's Next for HOH2" video.

[@thomas1644]

@DadsGamingAddiction I did not. I didn't even know that there was an official HOH2 discord. But yeah, late game scaling in general seems like the biggest problem the game has. Both for defences and weapon attack power.

[@mrgreen497]

For soul shaper, when it crits, its based on spell crit and not weapon crit, correct?

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

Without testing I can't confirm it, but based on my latest comment pin we're treating it as SP.

[@Jasper2g]

Is it just me or they nerfed heavily the leech on ritual ? I used to just leech to full hp and now i cant even sustain on ng+6.

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

If I remember right they changed the leech to take more time to work, rather than it being a burst heal. (Patch 118)

[@Jasper2g]

@ yea the heal overtime still was busted I’d say two/three days ago you were able to just put ritual down and do one chaos and see your HP move to full, did one run yesterday and you barely heal.

[@jeremyhicks4517]

No. Soul shaper's damage scales from spirit power. I just put on, and took off a piece of gear that gave me weapon power. Soul shapers damage did not change. I put on and took off a piece of gear that gave spirit power, and saw a damage increase.

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

There's no such thing as spirit power. The math worked out around 14:55. Had it utilized Spell Power the damage would have been much higher than what I hit the dummy for. 70.8 (Mainhand damage at 60%) + 178 (70.8 x 251.5% SP) = 248.86, not counting the 50% extra damage from the tooltip. That's way too high. OR 59 (Mainhand damage at 50%) + 148.38 (59 x 251.5% SP) = 207.38, assuming that the 50% isn't added but actually 50% of MH damage instead of the dirk's 60%. I admit the latter is close to 224, the original value, but that's assuming alot about what the developers are intending. I'd need some confirmation from the devs as to whether or not the 50% in the tooltip is in addition to or takes the place of the damage from the MH weapon. If I’m incorrect I’ll Pin a comment as a correction. The tooltip says main hand so that’s usually weapon power. These tooltips can be a bit vague.

[@janderson9413]

I find activating Summon Fiends over and over again annoying. Chaos is where it's at. Chaos Blade is so much fun. I saw your tier list, and your girl knows what she's talking about.

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

She usually does. :) Chaos is too...Chaos for me. LOL. I'm liking Souls the more I play it.

[@janderson9413]

​@DadsGamingAddiction I don't think you mentioned it, and I haven't tried it yet, but I've been considering trying a wand with Chaos. Chaos Blade is a melee skill. I don't use my weapon much, but I still have no problem getting and staying at 10 essence stacks. I'm only on ng+1, in case that matters.

[@Cleu1231]

Weapon power and using weapon left click is pretty much a joke for most of the good characters, so much better to just spam spells. Fire sorcerer is the most cracked class since he can just dash through stuff spawning fire wall with dash. Try a fire sorcerer with dash recovery options, hale/vit being a slightly higher focus than power/int(though you should still have powerful on items you can't put keen/hale) and dump all your stats into int. You can clear through +0 in under 6 minutes if you get flame dash and decent trinkets in tower skip and ignore trinkets/orbs after that. You can easily get to +6NG and put other classes to shame. The other classes should be raised to match sorcerer to some degree since the only one that i've seen that is slightly comparable is mario warrior with focus on jump talents and damage reduction (his damage is alot less but his tankiness is a crazy amount more even in the +5 range).

[@pofruin]

Doesn't Demo rogue have similar tech with grenade on dash?

[@Linkthestink1]

A shield is better than the tome, I just use a low lvl one. If you get lucky and get one that blocks 40 dmg and has low strength requirement then your set.

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

That's a good idea. Part of me enjoys the stat bonuses on the higher level tomes though.

[@Arielce9]

Hey, where can i download the cracked version?

[@DadsGamingAddiction]

I don't crack games, nor do I support it.