#solomon's keep

Solomon’s Keep (not Key) is a free-to-play¹ Action RPG/Rogue-like dungeon crawl for iOS and Android.² Think Diablo if it were procedurally generated, but also if several of your build options were linked to a pseudo-RNG. Although the game’s “plot” doesn’t really fit this blog, the mechanics do and I’ma take a tangent for one of my favorite games of all time.

...but not right now. I found a method of looking at the skill tree in-game³ and want to write a better guide than the wiki, which is incomplete.

Anyway, tonight’s success is largely due to the RNG (two rings of +25% walking speed each and a staff of with +2 damage dealt and -45% damage taken) and making some choices I wouldn’t ordinarily make (specializing in fireball, not taking so many survivability skills [stat bumps], and “bribing destiny”³ a couple of times). Prior to this, I hadn’t made it through the Student (entry-level) difficulty without dying at least a dozen times (and that’s a conservative estimate). S’yeah, this is kinda a big deal for me. Well, as far as video games are concerned.