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Originally Posted by ckdamascus
Thanks for the tips! By the way, you do NOT need to equip the Raven to scribe Wanderer Scrolls (unlike Armored Princess).
Cost is 5 crystals per scroll and you can feed it thorns to speed up the scribing. I think it takes about 10 battles (without thorns sprouts).
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Ah. Did not know that. Well damn, that's a silly wasted exp/1k leadership+morale. Meh, first playthrough isn't meant to be perfect anyway.
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Originally Posted by Xargon
Good to know about feeding the raven thorn sprouts 
About Loki: Berserk is very effective here; I found that it gives a big damage boost (far greater than using offensive spells), and defense is not really a problem with Loki. Of course, you have to be using lvl 4 (or below) units, and will probably want to include some archers which get parked on the side and shoot the spawning vikings (so the berserking unit in front of Loki does not get distracted). Teleporting may be necessary as well.
The berserker talent (15% chance for double damage) would probably be nice here as well. In my current playthrough, I got it after maxing out the entire magic talent tree, trading runes with that dwarf, buying some runes and breaking down items (i.e. on Iceland), but it might be nice to get this earlier, if possible. |
Berserk I don't think is worth it compared to good old heroism or frenzy if you're a mage and short on might runes. +6 attack is +20% damage, and much more reliable. But it's great for a viking who's got plenty. In particular, that and absolute rage lets berserk berserkers with berserker proc (oh Katauri, you need to come up with some more diverse names) hit upwards of 40k on Loki (it'd be 50k if Valhalla's messenger actually worked...), so with some luck you can have him dead after about 5 turns. However there's no reason to waste turns hitting the summoned stacks. Using Mista's ability you can control berserk units, and honestly it's much more useful than any of the others (christa's and regina's are only useful for the medal, you can get rage from potions or chaining from a previous fight, and speed and initiative aren't very good when the arena's full of traps), and the summons will kill themselves through retal if loki doesn't.
Loki seems to have extremely high defence (my berserkers weren't reaching their 3x damage until a few frenzy boosts kicked in, and I had something like 46 attack from my hero), so I don't think tier 1's are a great idea. Berserkers and ancient/polar bears (they'll just about always have their attack boost) are probably the best choices offensively to take him down quickly.