by pushedx » Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:59 pm
When it comes to fighting crickets, 6 YB is fine enough with that much blood as long as you have Backalley Pugilism and understand how the combat system works (i.e., you never miss your attacks). However, raising the YB isn't too hard if you are near an autumn forest.
An alternative to Shrooms-on-a-stick would be Lavender Blewits + Devil's Wort. LB give a lot of B and YB, so they can help build up the base for your YB earlier on. Basically, you will want to get a bunch of them along with the Devils Wort. With your current B, you need about 2-3 Devil's Wort per lavender to counteract the B gains, so you do not further your B levels. You do have to watch your B carefully, so using a client like BDSsalem helps a lot for this. Having to only find those two plants is certainly a lot easier than going for the wortbaked wartbite so early on, but you still want to get wortbaked wartbite for later on, imo. I have been mass producing those pies for later on because of how great they are.
It all comes down to tech and location though. It'd help greatly to find an autumal forest. Your stats aren't so messed up you can't fix them though. I'm currently rerolling my first character because I had 30 blood and the next higest stat was like 12, and lowest was like 9. I had a lot of tech on the character, but everything was just so hard to do. On my new character, I'm at 18 / 17 / 20 / 17 and the difference is just amazing. If you have only been playing for a couple of days, you could also reroll. Having good stats, after you learn how to play the game, is so important that the time you've already spent is worth giving up to get that right set of stats for the entire way.