Lootun Deep Dive #5: Building Upgrades & Professions
Welcome to Lootun Deep Dive #5. This week we will be looking at the Building Upgrades and Profession systems in Lootun.
Building Upgrades:
As you progress through Lootun you will unlock the ability to construct and upgrade certain buildings. Constructing these building will require many different types of crafting materials and currencies. Constructing these buildings will unlock new gameplay features and upgrade existing features to be more powerful.
Scrapper:
The Scrapper is a very important building that you will want to construct as soon as possible. The Scrapper will unlock the ability to salvage your spare equipment, which in turn will provide materials that you can use to construct more buildings. Further upgrades into the Scrapper will grant the ability to automatically salvage items of a lower quality.
Blacksmith:
The Blacksmith is a key building for those wishing to craft or upgrade equipment. As you upgrade the Blacksmith to higher ranks you will unlock powerful tools for upgrading your equipment.
Barracks:
The Barracks is a very important building for players intending to make full use of Lootun’s automation features. Upgrading the Barracks will grant the ability to automatically cast all of your skills and select the auto targeting priority for each character.
Professions:
The professions system in Lootun provides a way to passively obtain crafting materials. Once you have constructed the Profession Hall you will be able to upgrade the profession specific buildings Mine, Forest and Farm. Upgrading these buildings will grant additional worker slots and provide the ability to gather higher tier materials.
Harvesting:
Once you have unlocked a profession you will begin to automatically acquire materials based on what tier you have set your workers to harvest. By default each harvest will take 20 seconds to complete but this can be sped up with upgrades.
Tools:
Once you have unlocked a profession you will begin to occasionally receive profession tools from slaying monsters. These tools follow the standard rarity system in Lootun but have their own set of tool specific attributes. Tool attributes can grant significant bonuses to your material gathering rate.
Rare Materials:
As you harvest materials you will have a small chance to obtain rare materials. These rare materials can be used to craft gems and flasks. The chance to find rare materials can be improved by finding tools with the right attributes.
Material Donations:
Once you have constructed the Community Project building you will be able to donate spare materials in exchange for a new currency, Donation Credits.
Donation Passives:
Donation Credits can be used to upgrade a variety of material and profession related passives. Allowing you to acquire more materials and higher quality tools.
Wrap Up:
Thank you for reading this weeks Deep Dive, next week we will be taking a look at the Flask and Gem system in Lootun.
As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord or Subreddit.
Welcome to Lootun Deep Dive #4. This week we will be looking at the missions and combat system that Lootun has to offer.
Missions:
Missions in Lootun are a collection of Monsters and Bosses that you can send your adventurers to go face alone or in a team of up to 3. Lootun currently offers 15 campaign missions and several post campaign missions that offer greater difficulty and rewards.
Mission Expertise:
Most missions in Lootun are comprised of 15 stages, culminating in 1 Boss stage. As you complete these stages you will gain Mission Expertise which can be spent on passive upgrades allowing you to augment the challenge and rewards granted by each mission.
Adventurers:
You may select a team of up to 3 adventurers to tackle each mission. In addition, with enough building upgrades constructed, you may take up to 4 flasks to each mission to aid you in combat. Adventurer and flask loadouts can be saved, allowing for you to easily send your favourite teams off to run new missions.
Monsters:
Each Mission stage will pit you against a number of monsters that you must defeat in order to progress to the next stage. The number of monsters you face will be determined by the number of adventurers you have sent to clear the mission.
Lootun currently has over 80 different monsters each with their own set of abilities and item drops providing a large variety of combat possibilities.
Monster Rarity:
As you progress through Lootun you will begin to encounter Magic, Rare or even Nemesis monsters. These monsters have more hp and deal more damage than their regular counterparts but provide extra rewards for defeating them including exclusive item drops. Nemesis monsters in particular are very challenging to defeat but reward very powerful items that will roll with higher than normal attribute ranks.
Monster Empowerments:
In addition to monster rarity, monsters can be Empowered meaning all of their skills will deal a specific damage type corresponding to their empowerment. Empowered monsters also gain a new skill based off their empowerment type and can drop exclusive elemental themed equipment.
Bosses:
Upon reaching the final stage of a mission you will be faced with a Boss. Bosses are challenging monsters with a high hp pool and a variety of powerful abilities. Should you be successful in defeating a boss however you will be well rewarded in the form of a Reward Chest.
Reward Chests:
Reward Chests provide an item of a certain quality based on the quality of the chest. Reward chests typically reward weapons but also have a high chance to reward monster exclusive drops. Reward chests also have a high chance to provide a bonus Class / Ascendancy Relic.
Combat:
Combat is Lootun is a mostly automated battle between your adventurers and the mission monsters.
Buffs / Debuffs:
As you progress through a mission you will likely find that abilities used by your adventurers or the monsters are granting buffs and debuffs. Buffs and Debuffs are generally temporary increases or reductions to attributes.
Auto Casting:
By default your adventurers will charge up and use their default attacks automatically allowing you to progress through missions with limited or no interaction required. As you unlock Cooldown Skills you will gain the ability to manually cast these skills at strategic moments providing the ability to push further into a mission than you might otherwise have been able to. Alternatively with some early game upgrades you will be able to set these Cooldown Skills to be automatically cast allowing you to focus your efforts on managing your incoming equipment, or even leaving the game running on it’s own should you wish to.
Auto Restarting:
In addition to automated casting Lootun offers a number of options for automatically restarting missions should you be defeated. This is exceptionally useful once you have multiple missions running at once as each team of adventurers will be capable of looking after themselves.
Wrap Up:
Thank you for reading this weeks Deep Dive, next week we will be taking a look at the Building Upgrades and Profession systems in Lootun.
As always feel free to leave any suggestions or comments here, or on the Discord or Subreddit.
