*SPOILERS* Dailies Thread

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Prepped Binlor and got PM and Drac. With Platemail, Vampiric Blade and plenty of piety for Drac, I played a pseudo-vampire run. I took Spirit Pact--not sure if that provides more XP than Alchemist's Pact as a Goblin or not.

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[Tinker]

[Darvin]

Human Wizard in Eastern Tundra
With HALPMEH on the field to provide a good glyph against the boss, and JJ within a few steps of the dungeon entrance, this already easy dungeon was a breeze. Default gods were JJ, Taurog, and Pactmaker. Glyph pool was BLUDTUPOWA, WONAFYT, WEYTWUT, BYSSEPS, and HALPMEH.

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EM replaces JJ. Brandonn sub.

No way to access secret sub. Perhaps with extra altar or glyph?

[William]

With Conjunction I had JJ, Taurog, PM and MA. Extra glyphs apparently added ENDISWAL which gave access to the blacksmith sub.

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Default gods: Taurog, PM, JJ
Prep EM (Slot 1): EM, Taurog, PM
Prep Conjunction (Slot 3): MA, Taurog, PM, JJ
Prep EM (Slot 1) + Conjunction (Slot 3): EM, MA, Taurog, PM

Ok, so it seems the theory that prepping Conjunction will give you the 4th altar in the default list for sure is more or less correct. And the order does not matter (in the sense that Conjunction can be in any slot and having another god prepped before or after it does not make any difference).

[Tinker]

Just to round things out, I went with Tikki Tooki (slot #1) + Conjunction (slot #3). I got the altars you predicted, namely TT, Mystera, Pactmaker, Taurog.

I guess, you're right about how it works: Conjunction basically just gives you a random (pre-selected) altar, without taking away any of the default ones.

I could only barely take top XP spot today, I think your skill with The Earthmother is surpassing my skill with Tikki Tooki, I couldn't've done it without the Pactmaker + Brandonnn sub...

Anyway, have fun everyone, if I miss tomorrow's Daily, I probably had a very good party tonight...

[Darvin]

Gnome Berserker in Doubledoom
Annoyingly when I prepped JJ, he was blocked by a level 4 and level 9 so I had to explore quite a bit to reach him. I would have just taken the transmutation seal (since there was no other way to access the secret subdungeon) instead. The bosses are Tower of Goo and Iron Man. That 75% physical resist is a bit daunting for a Berserker, but there were lots of options available today to deal with it. BYSSEPS is in the glyph pool to erode his resistances, Glowing Guardian spawns naturally so you have cleansing as an option, and if you did take JJ then there's the good old catch-all in chaos avatar. Just make sure to remember to convert your vampiric blade if you join up with GG! Pactmaker was the last of the deities.

Bit of trivia: Saturday January 2nd will be the 300th daily.

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To add on, I will give a little analysis and tons of spoilers for today's daily:

Preps:
Slot 1: You are better off taking Martyr Wraps (see spoilers below for boss positions) or Compression Seal, Elite Items only gave a notable Wicked Guitar (but you don't really need this unless you are going for top XP)

Slot 2: JJ, Transmutation Seal and Blue Bead - all of these are useful, JJ obviously for boosts and CA (to top XP), Blue Bead might be handy with you need extra mana for the fireball against Tower of Goo, Transmutation Seal lets you access the Secret Sub full of gold
Slot 3: Mage Plate (by far the best for obvious reasons), Attack Boosters, Shield (least useful)

Slot 4: Vampiric Blade, Extra Glyphs and RBS - I can't evaluate Extra Glyphs, it might give you something useful to access the Secret Sub but otherwise, the other 2 preps are much better. Vampiric Blade lets you steal life and is overall useful for conserving resources (just be careful if you are going to worship GG), whereas RBS is mostly only good for Tower of Goo

Default Glyphs: Default Bosses: Default Altars: Notable Shop Items With Elite Items, Mage Plate and Vampiric Blade Prepped:

As for my run, I don't even recommend for people to follow in my footsteps, pretty risky. Wicked Guitar was close and I managed to use it for every single mob. But I was already level 6 when I found Binlor's altar first and joined him then. Later, I messed up a little and took PM's Consensus and Alchemist Pact (to gain XP from drinking potions), so I wasn't able to convert to GG. In fact, as I had converted off Mage Plate and Wonafyt pretty early, I had a "tough" time going through the bosses and had no way to align monsters to knock them through walls (they were all in corners or the edge of the map). For anyone interested, you can Pisorf and align Tower of Goo to knock it through walls but not Iron Man - for him, to leverage on Knockback bonus, you need to Wonafyt a monster to it. Also, since I had no way of gaining Piety, I lost the potential XP from 9 potions (roughly).

So, my top XP spot can be easily beaten by someone worshipping JJ (he has no issues with you drinking potions, but be careful if you want to do Chaos Avatar since you pretty much can't desecrate GG for piety boost and there's no Agnostic's Collar, at least not with Elite Items, Mage Plate and Vampiric Blade prepped).