Ok, i have 95% of the tree unlocked. Every diamond collected. Enough to know the one guy you get at the end does not have enough diamonds to unlock his reduced damage skill. I have 2 diamonds left, he has 2 skills to get, 1 costs 2 diamonds, one costs 3. I have to restart to get a third and not spend it elsewhere.
I was totally confused for a long time on the mage being me. I was looking for a second unlock. I was looking for the mage. I saw the other comments, I'm not the only one. Another problem this caused me was I did not catch on to the basic upgrades applied to every character. I spent the first couple hours thinking the basic attacks were me, the mage was someone I could not find, so maybe it was bugged? I went to the comments to find out I'm a retard on not figuring out the mage was me.
I also spent most the game looking for an upgrade that would auto pick up stuff. Or a companion who does it. That is trading fire power for convenience like the healer or the resource gathering twit who's gun seems to mostly be there for the get 15 hp per hit cause you get a bunch of them and now he's a good healer too. He has a gun that now that I have the whole tree practically done, he can kill stuff, but he was seriously behind for a lot of it and that was ok.
Maybe on the mage put the mage (you) in the chart some place? Call general damage universal damage to clue us in it affects stuff? I get that it should be obvious, it changes the party numbers on the top right, but I'm usually buying it in the middle and I have a big wide screen and bad eyesight. If I could see the numbers, they would be blury and hard for me to read, it's why I use a large monitor. I hate it, I can't see the corners when I'm looking at the center, but in a reasonable one, I can't read so.... The UI scale here is amazing. You managed to make everything huge and not in the way. I love everything about it except the lack of telling me I was the mage. That was a dumb thing for me to not catch on to.
I think this needs a character whos job it is to pick stuff up so we can go even more hands off idle. The carpenter is a wonderful guy, but more bounces and more splitting on his stuff in a full release? Maybe get someone who does aim at stuff in the full release and not random, but his bounces seem awfully targeted. If you do add a item pick up guy, you will get harassed for an auto restart button too so those of us who like to go afk and let it grind can be happy. A auto restart last map on death/completion. And make sure auto pick up guy does not just auto pick up everything. Maxed out, I'd say shoot for 90% Let chests spam and super nodes overwhelm the pick up guy. Get the farthest left object every x seconds. x can be .01 seconds and get 100 per second. (not this low, unless I'm way off in how many objects are on screen, but this is an example. Made sure x lets some things leak, but gets most. You should always reward active play.)
I played on the browser twice. the first time, I cleared 2-4 and then the second time, I found out the browser didn't keep my game, so I started over and knowing I'm the mage this time helped so much. It was this second time that I caught on that general increases applied to everyone, so maybe I'm too dumb to listen to.
Looking at this, I feel stupid admitting some of this, but f it. I'm 54, I don't care any more. That's the problems I had with it. I love this game, it's great.
There's a lot of info to think about here, thanks! I'll see if I can clarify things a bit more.
There's a character called Druid that helps gather items automatically but he is near the end. I was planning of having some sort of "prestige" system further in the game but I'm still debating it. There would be an auto-restart at that point if I do it.
Does the druid auto gather stuff? I know he boosts the amount you pick up, but I thought it was a modifier to what I picked up. The other poster I was hinting at also was wondering about an auto looter. Something that would actually pick up the stuff on the ground after it's shot up. From what I understand it's only what's in the box around the crosshair. The mouse cursor has the hit box of my loot vacuum. We were looking for something other than that to pick up drops.
I did not see that I missed the Druid, this is perfect. I love the Druid, but now I have to start over again and get the gems to unlock the druid.
I love this game, I just wish it was a bit more obvious. I did figure out how to get the druid pretty fast once I realized I was missing it. That clue in the guild tab was enough for my dumb butt to figure it out.