Deep Sky Derelicts – Basic Starting Guide

Here are the classes and how a beginner team can be built:

• Tracker: Weaponry based, good dmg both ranged and melee, has critical synergies.
• Bruiser: Weaponry based, has good taunt and protective abilities, but can also deal good dmg but only melee.
• Tech: Tech based, focuses on repairing and boosting shields but also spawning various bots (heal, taunt, attack, etc.), has also a variety of skills meant to disturb mechanical units.
• Medic: Medic based, okay let me say this: There is no heal but the hospital, it’s not a healer. He focuses on boosting your crew dmg/crit/initiative, removing negative status, etc. He also has skills meant to disturb biological units.
• Leader: Mental based, he has various buffs to taunt, draw, protect, apply negative effects, etc.
• Scrapper scagenging based: He uses bombs and traps, good spread dmg and control, uses recycle for him and his team (the card isn’t discarded when played) and can do nice combo with it.

What you want to beggin in this game is one defensive support (Tech/medic) one controller and money earner (Leader/scrapper) and finally a damage dealer (Tracker/bruiser)

For the following chapter we are going to use an example:

• Medic + Tracker + Scrapper

The perks can be chosen depending on what you prefer, but first i’ll suggest recycle on everyone, as it’s always nice to have card advantage (or evasion for sustain).

Okay so I’ll be using our example to talk about this because there are so many options.

So here are some things I found out :

• A – Classes have 1 really strong stat, and the others not so much, so use this one.
• B – Even though there are pre-chosen equipement slot (you cannot equip a power glove to a tracker for instance)
• A+B = DO NOT be afraid to unequip things to get a smaller and more consistent deck. It’s unefficient to equip your medic a weapon and he’ll do 15 dmg within a turn when your tracker would do 50 unbuffed. With our example, the medic was equipped ONLY a shield during the whole game, so his deck was really consistent.
• C – Every class has a defense mechanism in its talent tree (evasion, dmg resistance, invisibility), so I do not think it is worth it to dedicate someone to being a tank. Moreover if you deal enough damage you won’t have to tank alot.

Generally I think it is better to specialize your team so everyone has a role and you always have the cards you need in hand.

Let’s with our team tracker + medic + scrapper how it goes:

Tracker: will do heavy single target dmg, both ranged and melee.
So it has equipped Precision weapon + Energy blade + weapon booster + shield

Scrapper: will throw bombs at groups with little HP and otherwise set traps which will stun and interrupt the enemy. He will also have recycle boosting cards for his team. Do not think he is useless because he does less dmg, he is the one bringing you tons of loot.
Equipement: Scavenging tool: Shield

Medic: Will buff the tracker (or the scrapper if it’s a group of ennemy) and stay in invisibility
Equipement: Shield

Choose wisely your class cards and do not hesitate to deactivate the ones you don’t like (for instance mark target on your tracker if you feel it’s a loss of tempo)

You also have, at level 4, a second class to choose. I suggest choosing something related to your main stat (i.e. tinker for scrapper because both use scavenging stat). You won’t need everything, but even 1 or 2 excellent perks for your build are enough to choose this specialization.

The fight looks like:

• Medic: Throwing adrenaline and dmg booster at everyone, then vanishing.
• Scrapper: Trapping and bombing the way.
• Tracker: Has so much buffs it deals 500 dmg a hit, can play 5 cards a turn and has over 100% evasion.

Obviously if you use a Bruise, because the bruiser cannot be the only dmg dealer as he is only melee, so you would have to use a scrapper and his bombs for instance (which rely on scavenging skill to get boosted instead of weaponry, so it’s fine)