Heavy Rains
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Heavy Rains is the Autumn 2014 special challenge path, introduced on August 15, 2014. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "Torrential rains have flooded the Kingdom, making everything extremely difficult. But you can rise to the challenge (seriously, this one is challenging) with the help of some powerful new skills.
NOTE: Limited-time content from prior to 2012 is disallowed on this path."
Restrictions
- You are not permitted to use Mr. Items or limited-time content that became limited before January 1, 2012. The restrictions are shown in the type 69 schedule (or this static external list).
- Attempting to use a restricted familiar gives this message:
- That familiar is too old to be used on this path.
- Clicking the clan VIP pool table (or trying to view the leaderboard) gives:
- That clan thing is too old to be used on this path.
- Attempting to use a restricted skill gives:
- That skill is too old for this path.
- Attempting to pull a restricted item from Hagnk's while in Ronin gives:
- That item is too old to be used on this path.
- Buying restricted items from the Mall:
- You can't afford that item. (With meat from hagnk's)
- Attempting to use a restricted item:
- That item is too old to be used on this path.
- Attempting to use An Awesome Ball Pit in Hardcore or Ronin:
- The ball pit is too old to be used in this path.
- Attempting to use a restricted familiar gives this message:
Divergences
- During combat monsters will be covered by water that increases their monster level the deeper it is. The depth of the water depends on the zone type (indoors, outdoors, underground) and the general difficulty of the zone. A zone is considered "easy" or "challenging" depending on the stat requirement of the zone (what's the threshold?). An easy zone has a base depth of 1, and a challenging zone a base depth of 2. If the zone is outdoors, the rain level is unchanged, indoors is +2, and underground is +4. Nothing can increase the level above 6 or decrease it below (1 or 0?). The monster level increase is equal to 10 times the depth of the water, and the increase is treated as bonus monster level for stats and penalties.
- After combat, some items may be washed away by the water. The chance of losing an item is 5% per level of water depth.
- Each item's chance of washing away is independently rolled. You may lose multiple items in the same combat.
- Items dropped due to yellow ray may still be washed away.
- Wandering monsters will occasionally attack the player. The first monster is met on turn 9-11(?) of the run, and all subsequent monsters are seen 35-45(?) turns after the last. The monster seen depends on the water depth of where you are adventuring:
- Depth 1: giant isopod - drops one freshwater fishbone
- Depth 2: gourmet gourami - drops gourmet gourami oil
- Depth 3: freshwater bonefish - drops two freshwater fishbones
- Depth 4: alley catfish - drops catfish whiskers
- Depth 5: piranhadon - drops three freshwater fishbones
- Depth 6: giant tardigrade - drops thunder thigh
- (Monsters which drop multiple fishbones may not have 100% drop rates on each fishbone.)
- The water inhibits familiars in some way which is not yet fully understood.
- The General Store sells 4 new items during this path:
- water wings for babies - 50 meat - Multi-equippable accessory that raises maximum HP by 10 and lowers monster level by 15.
- miniature life preserver - 100 meat - Familiar equipment that makes your familiar immune to the familiar-blocking effects of the rain.
- heavy duty umbrella - 300 meat - Offhand item that lowers the water level by (?) when equipped.
- pool skimmer - 500 meat - Offhand item that randomly lets you receive items that have been lost in the water by other players after combat.
Bosses
All ascension-required bosses have been replaced with a mass of sentient water. These new rain bosses have bonus drops, and a hard cap on damage that can be dealt to them.
Normal Boss Rain Boss New Item Hard Cap Boss Bat Aquabat neoprene skullcap 12 Knob Goblin King Aquagoblin goblin water 23 Bonerdagon Auqadargon nothing 28 Groar Gurgle liquid water 56 Lord Spookyraven Lord Soggyraven Lord Soggyraven's slippers 39 Protector Spectre Protector Spurt Ancient Protector Soda 21 Dr. Awkward Dr Aquard Sogg-Os ? Ed the Undying ? ? ? The Man ? ? ? The Big Wisniewski ? ? ?
The Aquagoblin does not drop the Cobb's Knob lab key (it is not yet known whether this is intended or a bug).
Skills
A new set of skills may be learned by using thunder thighs which drop from giant tardigrades. These skills are powered by a new resource called Thunder, which is measured in dB.
Skill Type Cost Notes Thunder Clap Combat 40 dB - Banishes the enemy for the rest of the day, or until another foe is banished with the skill
Thundercloud Noncombat 20 dB - Personal Thundercloud (100 adv)
- Deeper water
Thunder bird Combat 1 dB - Combat skill??
Thunderheart Nonombat 20 dB - 100 turns of +100% hp
Thunderstrike Combat 5 dB - Stun??
- Usable once per fight
Thunder Down Underwear Noncombat 60 dB - Can be used once per day
- Summons thunder down underwear (disappears at end of day)
Thunder Thighs Passive N/A - You regain 50 dB every swallowed clap, instead of 30
Thunder caps at 100 dB. (To be determined: what generates it?)
Strategy
- If you are finding adventuring too difficult, particularly at the start of the run, you may wish to buy and equip one (or more) water wings for babies from The General Store.
- While a level 1 charater will likely be one-shot by most things, the Noob Cave offers a good low-level power-leveling zone by having high monster-level monsters that can't hurt you that also drop fruits and booze for cocktails.
- A Maze of Sewer Tunnels leading to hobopolis will always have giant tardigrades and is always available provided you can survive the ~300ml there. (You can get whitelisted into bumcheekcity's Basements to get free access.)
Notes
- The Trendy-type restriction (no use of limited-time content older than 2012) applies only while Heavy Rains is the current challenge path. On November 15, 2014 this restriction will no longer exist.
- While you are on the path, your profile includes a link to the new restricted item list.
References
Rewards
- Finishing a Heavy Rains run that began while it was still the current special challenge path -- that is, between August 15th, 2014, and November 14th, 2014 -- gives players 100 (in Hardcore) or 50 (in Normal) extra karma points the next time they visit Valhalla.
- You receive a ??? for completing a Normal or Hardcore run while this is the current challenge path.
- Players will receive a thwaitgold spider statuette upon defeating the Naughty Sorceress.
