Hey everybody, I am looking for some general advice as well as help with some more specific questions. I really appreciate anybody taking the time, forgive me the post got rather long...
At this moment I am making my way through Underworld Hard as well as Battlefield Madness and while the first nodes are rather easy I struggle about 4 and 5 nodes in - and struggling actually means I hit a wall. While Troopers help, my Team on its own gets either killed off by Gunner Bomber Boys or Trolls.
So my first rather broad question is regarding Team building and how to improve my current Characters: Where do you see room for improvement?
Getting what I consider some really really lucky pulls from souls my current team looks like this:
Samurai Eddie (5 Stars/Level 69): Two Health - Overwhelming (4/23 and 3/30), three Strength - Fierce (4/23,3/28,3/28), one Strength - Safeguard (4/27).
Speed of Light Eddie (4/80): Two Health - Ward (3/25,3/10), one Health - Mystical (4/23), one Holy - Power (4/22), one Holy - Arcane (3/10).
Wicker Man (4/77): two Guardian - Safeguard (3/28), two Strength - Fierce (4/27,3/28), one Energy - Overwhelming (4/23).
Masked Harpy (4/76): one Holy - Power (4/31), two Boost - Bulwark (4/22,3/25), two Shock - Arcane (3/27,3/23).
Warrior Golden Son (4/62): two Energy - Overwhelming (3/14,3/18), one Energy - Mystical (3/20), two Burning - Fierce (3/20).
As the third Eddie I prefer Fear of the Dark over Soldier at the moment due to my lack in decent Sentinel Characters. He wears two Iron and three Health Talismans which are all mid three Stars since I have switching around a bit lately making it difficult for me to judge him - he was interesting with an Energy Set.
Up until recently I used a team of SE, Wickerman and Masked Harpy which focused excusively on damage (and the occasional buff) and switched to SoL whenever the damage taken got to great or to prohibit enemy buffs. Worked great up unto the Point where the damage gets too much to heal it or the enemy team is able to heal themselves when my only burst damager remains the Wickerman.
Now I got the idea to try Energy Set on the Golden Son and what should I say: The damage is incredible. Devastate and either Ronin Slash or Furious Charge nearly every round blows much of what I encountered away. The questions would be if this is valid later on or too easy to counter. Since I am still experimenting the Talismans on the Golden Son aren't really leveled which makes him kinda squishy and once he is gone the fun is over. The probably even more severe problem might be the actual really boring strategy of doing the same thing basically every single round with only slight adjustments...
Alternative Characters I have gotten so far (and I consider worth to mention): Desert Warrior (had quite some fun with his dot-depending true damage before I pulled other characters), Magus Allied Soldier (pulled today, yay), Wickerdog Queen, Undead Axis Gunner, Sentinel Corrupt Rescuer, Pharao Sun Spirit, Assassin and Warrior Soulless Demon (having absolutely no problem getting red characters from Souls as you might see...)
Alternative Talismans: Several Blind Sets, a Stone Sets (only Ward), Ascension Set, Freezing Set (considered putting it on the Harpy), several Assassin Sets, a Void Set, another Energy Set.
Going form there I'd also be grateful for suggestions where to spend Ironite and especially Trooper points. I consider buying Winter Souls, not because of the event characters but because of the possibilty to get Gunner/Asssassins and right now I would spend my Trooper points mainly on blue Souls since from what I've seen the Magi are preferrable over most Sentinels and the price for yellow/purple Souls seems rather steep to me at this point.
I hope the background wasn't too specific and you got some advice for me. I read quite a lot on the forums while I was locked out from the game for 10 days so I hope I got the basics covered but you never know - great thanks by the way to anybody contributing here.
I'll end with some more specific questions just thrown out there:
1) What should be my priority for leveling and evolving Talismans?
2) Is it possible to acquire Guardian - Fierce Talismans at the moment?
3) Where can I get Guard Talismans?
4) Is there some more or less reliable place to get Talisman XP-Runes?
5) Is Roulette the main reason most here consider Soldier Eddie pretty great? I feel I am missing something about him
6) Is a team relying on burning procs headed by Wicker Man Eddie viable?
7) Last but not least I would welcome suggestions where to spend Skillshard. Considering their price I am kinda hesitant to spend them without knowing their acutal use on a character