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vague lintel
merry karma
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yes

sharp radish
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Glacial overloading blazing malachite squibbos

mellow mango
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it do be like that sometime

merry karma
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umbra of warden tarborne poisonous blightborne glacial overloading blazing lemdog

fluid notch
mellow mango
visual oar
stuck canopy
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🕳️

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🥖

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Found the bread

robust tangle
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nice

rancid remnant
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with this bread, we now can begin our conquest of the realms!

zinc kernel
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still waiting for random stage artifact

tawny plaza
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Todays fun combination

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Soulbound catalyst and forgive me please

mossy garden
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today's used to be gamebreaking but was patched and people keep reporting it as bugged

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Soulbound catalyst and forgive me please

fast oracle
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Yer killin me

quartz trail
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You're killin' me!

tawny plaza
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Your really killing me

dull ingot
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@supple pumice

supple pumice
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@dull ingot

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@gray ore

dull ingot
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@gray ore

supple pumice
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@nimble tree

languid yarrow
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Don't do that, please.

upper briar
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good evening gd2

gray ore
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no

supple pumice
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jude stop @ing people

gray ore
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ok

nimble tree
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Wait why

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@supple pumice

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Why you @ me

supple pumice
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what ars you takoinf abour

winged briar
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good afternoon gd2 how we doin

ruby wren
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Can I just say to the devs that this game is absolutely amazing. Not that the 1.0 update is on the switch, it feels so much more like a game. There's SO much to explore and learn. Although no devs may see this, I just needed to say something. You guys/gals have struck gold with this game. GREAT job.

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I'm looking forward to content to come for sure

warm coyote
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for the record im almost certain all the (main) devs are dudes with he/him pronouns

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but yes. i agree. good game

ruby wren
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aight good to know. Just wanted to cover all the bases 😄

dull ingot
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Question was aegis nerfed with with bungus

mossy garden
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no?

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Aegis is bugged and just doesn't work on consoles, if you play on that

dull ingot
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That explains it

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That was a waste of a red item

mossy garden
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a hotfix will probably come together with the Sundered Grove patch

dull ingot
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When is that gonna happen

mossy garden
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i have no idea

rancid remnant
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Likely: tuesday

dull ingot
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ok so

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devs said 30 days for stadia sundered grove exclusivity

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Ok its been 30 fucking days where is it

languid yarrow
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that's not exact at all

vague lintel
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It’s 31 days Brainstalks Brainstalks

winged briar
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how's gd2 since general is on some fuck shit rn

fluid notch
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Gd2 is better than gd1, as usual

winged briar
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well, yeah

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i haven't even bothered to look in gd1

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oh, i already see gesture talk as soon as i click on the channel

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i'm out of there lmao

blazing sky
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lmao just came from gd1 cause it died.
we were talking about the worst possible gesture equips

pine iris
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devs said 30 days for stadia sundered grove exclusivity
@dull ingot he said to not quote him on that which means it might not be true he said that it might not be true so please go back to your .io den

swift badge
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Just did my first S6MM with Huntress! HuntressThumbsUp

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No artifacts for once

hexed socket
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nice

brisk gale
plain viper
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9fps
Rip

devout gulch
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yes code

upper briar
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🍵

inland kraken
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sssssssip

upper briar
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ah, its so nice and quiet here
no difficulty/new player bullying, no arguments, just gd2

inland kraken
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Yup

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Explain?

brisk gale
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superior??

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wha

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but can chat everywhere on this server

vague lintel
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This chat is better

dull ingot
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yep

vague lintel
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How is everyone’s day so far

dull ingot
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good

vague lintel
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Nice

polar anvil
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considering that right now
probably normal

brisk gale
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im doing fine

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what about you??

vague lintel
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Good

dull warren
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sd

winged briar
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how’s gd2 doing on this fine afternoon

fluid notch
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Not too bad

vague lintel
devout gulch
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but do i respect the win?

vague lintel
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perhaps

devout gulch
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maybe

upper briar
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ramen always asks how is gd2 but we never ask "how is ramen"

devout gulch
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depends on your actions

fluid notch
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😔

upper briar
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@winged briar how are ya

winged briar
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p good

upper briar
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pog

winged briar
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how bout u

upper briar
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im vibin, tiny bit worried about andro, havent seen them in a bit

winged briar
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oh, ye, andro’s fine, relatively

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i’ll just dm u

vague lintel
umbral glen
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Imagine using gd 2 😎

vague lintel
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46 stacks of affliction

fluid notch
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Damn

winged briar
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too much drog

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dont do tonic

robust gyro
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Is there still obliterating ?

tired axle
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yes

robust gyro
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Hell yeah

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Cuz its really difficult to do mithrix on monsoon as captain

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Or I bad

tired axle
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yeah, obliterating is a lot easier

summer terrace
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meh t2 elites and void reavers can fuck u up

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depends how fast you get to mith, sometimes can be easier than surviving until 8

polar anvil
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T2 appear only after second loop tho right?

summer terrace
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they start stage 6 I think

tired axle
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yeah, they start appearing on stage 6

polar anvil
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Huh

dull ingot
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does pyre have a discord server?

summer terrace
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oh yeah I can't post links

dull ingot
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dm me it

summer terrace
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cheers

winged briar
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bro it's been so long since i've played ror2 multiplayer i forgot pyre existed

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they have proven that ror2 was not meant for high player limits

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the server screams in pain every time

fluid notch
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I've only done multiplayer with friends

winged briar
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good

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you're not missing much

edgy basalt
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This is a cry for help

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I can’t stop playing ror

summer terrace
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1 or 2

edgy basalt
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1

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So many mods.... SO MUCH CONTENT

summer terrace
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nice

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i only use starstorm/captain/gore/vfx+

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all the neik mods

edgy basalt
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I’ve modded it so much it’s basically 2d ror2 now

summer terrace
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using rts?

edgy basalt
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Yes

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The 3 ror2 mods

summer terrace
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that shit keeps breaking my game

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i gave up on it

edgy basalt
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that shit keeps breaking my game
Ye, crashes happen a lot

summer terrace
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that and it breaks the logbook

chilly meteor
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So is there any word on a patch for all these crashes and bugs?

summer terrace
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Friendly reminder that rts will never be fixed
stop making me want to cry

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it's okay starstorm real and good

dull ingot
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😎

dull ingot
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Man... i played my firat game yesterday and almost beat it apparently but now i cant get past the second level🤣

mellow mango
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whoa color filter mod really freshens things up
thanks @wicked condor for the continually good mod suggestions

limpid briar
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What mod is that?
I need that for Halloween event.

mellow mango
abstract abyss
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I like how artificer can become the most op character in the game just by having the lightning jump equipped

dull ingot
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What do ya think o' that, Mr. monsoon playan, woolie watchan, tri-tip stackan, item stealan, gesture worshippan, polyp scrappan, corpsebloom trashan, glass avoidan, mithrix killan, huntress simpan, void fields farman, quickplay leavan, bazaar visitan, cally-breek-tattie?

timber spruce
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What the fuck is lightning jump

mellow mango
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ion surge I would guess

winged briar
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ion surge is pretty underrated

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makes the early game super consistent

polar anvil
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its underrated because "it takes off all damage" and "gives no benefit and makes you an easy target" which firstly its a tradeoff secondly it definitely doesnt

swift badge
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Flamethrower has serious early stopping power, Ion Surge is pretty safe throughout most the game

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Only wish it scaled better

lament escarp
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Easy target? For lesser whisps maybe but nothing else can hit you as long as you keep moving.

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Plus eliminating the threat of all grounded attacks without having to endanger yourself with flamethrower it’s pretty good.

tired axle
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i feel like both are equally good, ion gives you some pretty good mobility, and flamethrower is 4295% damage on a 8s cooldown

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also the 7 procs/second are pretty good

mellow mango
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wait, does flamethrower average out to be 7 procs per sec counting cd?

tired axle
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no, it's just 7 procs a scond for the duration

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plus 1 extra tick

mellow mango
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oh, ok
thought flamethrower had better procs per sec than commando m1 for a sec there haha

tired axle
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it's only 2.75 procs per second id you consider duration

mellow mango
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is that considering it not starting cd till after the flamethrower ends too?

tired axle
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yes

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the actual cd is 5s, but i also accounted for the 3s cast time

mellow mango
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hmm, thats not too bad then
although that doesnt stop me from dying whenever I use it 😔

tired axle
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i personally prefer ion as well

summer terrace
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ion is pretty boring though imo

lament escarp
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Vault way above the enemies and send a rain of destruction. Can see why it wouldn’t be for everyone but once you get the right items you feel like a flying battleship.

forest fog
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lmao

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loot goblin hours

polar anvil
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@forest fog rude

queen pollen
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I mean he is playin captain

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That’s just how it works

mossy garden
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when im playing captain with a friend of mine we both get one beacon of loot

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communism

fierce epoch
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only one ?

mossy garden
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i can only carry two beacons

vague lintel
lament escarp
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Eyy got ‘chunked’ achievement and it was totally unintentional

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Nice surprise

vague lintel
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my 48 tonic afflictions are telling me no

summer terrace
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BUT MY BODYY

dull ingot
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My ⒷⓄⒹⓎ𝗂𝗌 𝗍𝖾𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗇 𝗆𝖾 Yᗴᔕ

short veldt
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@north sequoia @novel sorrel Clovers do not work with bears on PS4. After grabbing 20 bears and 2 clovers, I was hit regularly. I can upload video evidence if needed

novel sorrel
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Good to know that console isnt THAT broken at least

short veldt
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Hah, yep! And I was so excited too... At the point I was at, I would’ve been invulnerable!

tawny plaza
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@short veldt
Bears were never affected by luck

short veldt
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I understand that. There was a whole debacle a while ago about how it’s different on console, and they are affected by luck on the switch apparently. I had to test to double check. Especially because a throwaway line on the wiki said they are affected by luck on PS4

tawny plaza
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big if true

short veldt
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Though it’s not. Not for PS4 at least.

novel sorrel
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Someone had video proof of them only having 10 teddies but a few clover stacks on switch and they blocked every single hit for like 30 seconds straight which would be almost statistically impossible if bears werent effected by luck on switch. This was pre console 1.0 though so it could have been fixed by now

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@tawny plaza

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So i asked kuze to test if luck affected them on ps4 whenever he had the chance. Good to know that they dont

gray gazelle
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So SML + opinion is busted or is that just me

upper briar
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good afternoon gd2

gray gazelle
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infinitely increasing 2.5x damage multiplier which is also lifesteal

tepid wolf
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You can say the same about fruit as well

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It's just a massive burst of skulls

worldly birch
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F u n g u s

pine iris
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You can say the same about fruit as well
stack fuel cells and gesture with fruit for constant skull novas

night wharf
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Man the new meta of this game is getting weirder and weirder

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Not saying that in a bad way tho

tepid wolf
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I mean it is still based on healing/mobility/proc chains as it always has been

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The meta didn't really change much over the years

night wharf
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But the ways to break this game are infinite and that’s awesome

tepid wolf
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I mean past stage 8 it really stops being about balance

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Since at that point you usually cascade into a god run

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For obliterations and killing mythrix it is pretty balanced though

night wharf
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Sad but true

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I just like to feel like a god is all

tepid wolf
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Yep looped runs become basically a dopamine rush

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Well the meta changed slightly with the nerfing of shaped glass

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Since it was pretty based on glass stacking

night wharf
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Rip glass 201?-2020

tepid wolf
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Nah it is still really good but it actually has a risk now

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You can still break the game by stacking it but you also get oneshot as a risk

pine iris
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stack infusions for so long that you overflow your max health and die

tepid wolf
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Old glass was basically like the current gesture by it's downside being an advantage in most cases

night wharf
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Well it’s new for me
I feel like the more i play this game the more it shows me

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Including ways to break it too ofcorse

split vigil
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gesture isnt that good dont @ me

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at least when going for mithrix kill runs

tepid wolf
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It is still really good even in Mythrix kill runs

inland kraken
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Finally a non-dead chat

tepid wolf
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Cutting the equipment CD in half can give you a lot more DPS is a solid amount of cases

inland kraken
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cough crowdfunder cough

night wharf
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cough brittle crown cough

inland kraken
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cough glass cough

forest crag
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oh you're a risk of rain fan

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you're the risk of rain fan

pine iris
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scrapper is THE only actual risk of rain fan

inland kraken
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Yes? And?

forest crag
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i will not say it

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but you're insane

inland kraken
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ok

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so?

noble beacon
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the enemies got unstable tesla coil in void fields again :(

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seriously is it weighted towards the enemies getting that item

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its been happening fairly consistently

tepid wolf
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You can run out of the void if they get it

noble beacon
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yeah i couldnt get out in time and i miss out on a red item that way though :(

fluid notch
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I don't know if I've ever seen tesla coil in void fields

noble beacon
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very lucky

spare valve
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they get tesla way more than they should for me

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it's probably 3/10 voids for me

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I survived it ONCE as a really stacked merc

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I usually just leave the second I see it though

lament escarp
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Never seen Tesla coil in void fields.

merry karma
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new meta is corpsebloom purity stacking on mando + hitting all blood shrines with crown

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hmmm

tired axle
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wanted to share this here as well; the dps for mult's primaries with cancelling:

double rebar is 1200% dps with 2 procs per second
double nailgun is 1516% dps with 13 procs per second
nailgun/rebar is 1372% dps with 8 procs per second

as a comparison captain has 960% dps with 6 procs per second without canceling

abstract abyss
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And captain also has a stun and orbital strikes as well as near immunity to projectiles and free items/healing

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Utility is just as important as damage, keep that in mind.

daring solstice
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any tips on using merc?

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kinda struggling with the melee bois

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and girls

tired axle
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i wasn't trying to make a point or anything; caps damage output would be way higher anyway with perfect canceling

abstract abyss
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Hm. I getcha- also, mercenary requires careful use of his exposed mechanic in order to use his other abilities often to deal damage.

daring solstice
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acrid is fine since it can chip away health, but with merc its just click dependant

abstract abyss
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Merc really relies on his abilities to not get hit, and they also happen to deal damage.

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Survival is really first priority when playing merc.
At least, that’s how I play him

daring solstice
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even with command artifact I'm still kinda struggling...
which build you usually start with

abstract abyss
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I know he has good procs in his base and alt r

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I haven’t tried a specific build just yet, however bleeds, Crits and on hit effects work nicely with him

tired axle
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if you talking about command you should probably go for crit glasses and harvester's first

abstract abyss
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Crowbar is kind of a trap, as his damage comes from sustained attacks

daring solstice
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I've been trying to build will o wisp + ceremonial daggers, since I've cleared acrid with that

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but I think merc has different playstyle

tired axle
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proc chains are probably the better choice

abstract abyss
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Chains are super good

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Especially with him

daring solstice
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ah ofc, since his R has proc

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bleeding and crit might be good

tired axle
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so atgs, ukuleles, clovers and meathooks

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also molten preferator

abstract abyss
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The molten perforator

tired axle
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lol

abstract abyss
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Yeah that one is NASTY on merc

daring solstice
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is that better than the one from imp?

abstract abyss
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What’s that one again?

tired axle
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imp is better early game

daring solstice
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the crit = bleed = explode

tired axle
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the one that bleeds on crits

abstract abyss
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Oh, right. It’s alright if you have a crit setup going

tired axle
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but don't get multiple stacks, it just scales the explosion

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another good boss item can be little disciple when you have good movespeed

daring solstice
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yeah my acrid game build around that haha

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its just so broken with will o wisp and cere daggers

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sprinty boi

tired axle
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it can also be really good in a proc build tho, because of the high firerate

abstract abyss
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Yeah, on kill effects are often on the back burner with those builds though

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Your main dps comes from sustained attacks

tired axle
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oh, another thing you should try is helfire tincture with a lot of gestures/fuel cells and razor wire stacking

abstract abyss
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👀

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Why did I never think to do that

tired axle
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it's really fun

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it's technically 4000% dps with just one wire if your hitting 5 enemies

abstract abyss
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Oh damn

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Uhhh why would I get hit as merc though

tired axle
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because of helfire tinctures selfdamage

daring solstice
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thats kinda risky tho

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gonna need infusions

tired axle
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just get a couple repulsion armor plates

abstract abyss
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Hm. Yeah, taking damage is risky, but it does sound neat

tired axle
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you basically take no damage if you get just one repulsion armor

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i tried it before, trust me

abstract abyss
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If I wanted to take damage I’d just play captain CaptainHopoo

tired axle
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well the damage doesn't matter if it's just 5/s

daring solstice
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captain's fireworks is the only thing that matters

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killed monsoon mith with 25 fireworks

abstract abyss
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Tf

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How

tired axle
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you mean his utility?

daring solstice
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yeah, use resupp beacon

abstract abyss
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Oh lmao

umbral glen
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Hello gd 2

abstract abyss
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Clever bastard you are

tired axle
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hey

daring solstice
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yo

abstract abyss
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Oh

umbral glen
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Is this place superior to gd1 and why?

abstract abyss
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Yes and it’s because we stay on topic

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We talk about playing captain effectively

tired axle
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didn't we talkg about merc just a couple minutes ago?

abstract abyss
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Shush

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Merc is irrelevant

daring solstice
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does cap's microbots on the drones also kills projectile that aims toward the cap

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never noticed that

abstract abyss
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Yeah, because they target any projectile

umbral glen
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does cap's microbots on the drones also kills projectile that aims toward the cap
wrong

tired axle
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it kills any projectiles in a radius

abstract abyss
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If a projectile is there, it’ll destroy it

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So technically yeah.

quartz saffron
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captain vs umbra captain fights are so FUN totally

umbral glen
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Mine doesn't shot the projectile that is targeting me

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Most of the time

abstract abyss
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Well yours is a fucking sellout then

umbral glen
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Agree

abstract abyss
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A massive deadweight sonivabitch

umbral glen
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Yes

abstract abyss
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BUT
Mine seem to work

umbral glen
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Let's say there's a greater wisp and I'm standing to the right

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When he shoots me the bot shoots the left projectile and i get hit by the right one

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Happens most of the time

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What a sellout

abstract abyss
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Oh yeah, the bot just shoots one because it’s on a timer and can only zoop one projectile

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Idk why it shoots the wrong one but that sucks for you I guess

daring solstice
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even with syringes it still cant shot 2 smh

umbral glen
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He's a sellout

inland kraken
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flat petrichor society
flat petrichor society

abstract abyss
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👺

umbral glen
lament escarp
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Lol

inland kraken
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Dead chat

When no one is chatting on a forum/server, such as a Discord server.
Server is silent for 15 mins.
Person: dead chat, sigh

daring solstice
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Ima try polishing my merc

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that thing pissing me off

inland kraken
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what is

lament escarp
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ethereal, perhaps?

inland kraken
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like a billion potatoeys Today at 10:32 AM
flat petrichor society

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ethereal is ez

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got it 2nd try

lament escarp
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Not ez but not as hard as I thought it’d be either

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Just gotta pray to get a good seed and you’re set

inland kraken
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ChiflaGoodluckToday at 2:54 AM
Doubt it. Aside from the fact this Trial will disappear in a few days, it isn’t a cakewalk. It’s easy, sure (thank you Glass DrizzleHype), but not effortless to get done.

Lies

umbral glen
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ethereal is ez
@inland kraken no

inland kraken
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yes

umbral glen
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It's not ez but this seed is

inland kraken
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today at least

umbral glen
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You couldn't do the previous one

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I did it tho

inland kraken
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yeah b/c the seed was okay but not too great

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ok, but do you know every single item in the game and its uses?

umbral glen
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Yes except lunar items

inland kraken
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ha

opal vortex
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Yo are there speedruns of Risk of Rain?

inland kraken
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yes

opal vortex
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Cuz that would be awesome to watch

umbral glen
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Watch cabbage

abstract abyss
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Monsoon mithrix speedrun 6’42.33”

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When

umbral glen
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Ask cabbage

abstract abyss
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Where’s the vegetable

umbral glen
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@ Cabbage#2356

abstract abyss
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CABBAGE PATCH KID

visual oar
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rex < cabbage

abstract abyss
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Rex is not better than flabbage

fluid notch
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This implies rex is worse than cabbage

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rex = cabbage

young orbit
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we need another creature as survivor
whos with me

fluid notch
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Ok

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More robot survivors

coarse crater
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like what would've been the paladin?

tacit phoenix
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The what

fluid notch
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Something

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Paladin was a concept idea for the new survivor

coarse crater
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It was a survivor from the contest which would have been from the planet

abstract abyss
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Think mithrix but playable

fierce epoch
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this is actually a mod

tacit phoenix
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Isn't that just loader with visions and head-5vt

abstract abyss
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Well maybe

tacit phoenix
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or headstompers, whatever you call em

fluid notch
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I'd say weaver & chemist were the more interesting ideas given out

rotund bronze
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if youre polishing your merc youve failed nnn

abstract abyss
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Chemist sounds cool

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I polished my merc for three hours yesterday

umbral glen
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I polished my merc for three hours yesterday
?

abstract abyss
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Yeah

inland kraken
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I polished my merc for three hours yesterday
@abstract abyss ?

winged briar
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polishe

fluid notch
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Polish

merry karma
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🇵🇱🤮

opal vortex
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Whats wrong with Poland

merry karma
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a lot

vague comet
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basically with double nailgun retooling it really fast and getting the spread shot everytime means it has the best dps and procs per sec of any mult m1 combo
but you have to manually release m1 between every retool, so it is really difficult to get any use out of it without a macro
@mellow mango
I have a mouse profile specifically for playing as MUL-T which includes binds specifically for macroing rapid retooling or auto-retool-and-one-frame-clicking; even though I might take advantage of this way of playing MUL-T sometimes, I honestly feel a bit cheesy about it.
I don't know if the devs have acknowledged macro use, but if they haven't, I wish they would one way or the other. Or maybe like, make some changes so that macros aren't required to "optimally" play MUL-T -- like by letting you hold R for automatically retooling rapidly, and/or making the nailgun burst happen upon Retool if you were firing as you swapped.

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I'm pretty sure that, before any items are acquired, of all the characters, MUL-T easily has the highest DPS by far of the characters, given his Retool shenanigans, right?

mellow mango
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yeah nailgun burst automatically happening on the retool would be nice
no, cap has more base dps with m1 cancelling shenanigans

vague comet
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M1 cancelling shenanigans?

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I'm aware that with the taser shot he can refire M1 again, but that's only when M2 is off cooldown

mellow mango
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you can cancel his m1 with the beacon menu
it is also theoretically insane with macros, the difference is even with suboptimal human performance it is still insane

vague comet
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That's nuts

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Yeah idk if it'd be considered a "high priority" relative to other work on the game, but I feel the devs might want to consider some sort of acknowledgment of how macro usage can make certain characters wildly more powerful than can possibly be intentional

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By making the exploits less effective and/or more humanly plausible

mellow mango
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anyway, I dont know if double nailgun with macro would be the "perfect" mult loadout
rebar/nail with a macro would probably be better for trials, and saw/something might be better in normal games still because it would scale with attack speed and has a 1.0 proc co, proc cos less than one like nailguns really get messed up by total damage

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and ye, I dunno how I feel about exploits like that either
I have feeling caps will definitely be changed soon though, either made easier or just removed
and I hope they make some changes to nailgun/retool interactions

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pff, thats a lot of text I just typed

vague comet
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I think one thing we can definitely agree on is

Scrap Launcher is trash 😂

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I think it needs a little somethin-somethin to be a viable M1 at all
Maybe homing kinda like Huntress, or having utility like by letting you rocket jump with it like TF2's Soldier

mellow mango
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add rocket jumping as a super fun utility option, reduce AoE falloff to make it a viable AoE option
boom

sharp radish
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rn scrap launcher is pretty much arti m1 with extra damage from what i've seen. Does it have a longer cd?

warm coyote
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i think it has a 2s cooldown or smth

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but you have to keep in mind that scrapgun has to carry its own weight in mulT's kit - its not designed to weave into mulT's other skills like artificer's bolts are

sharp radish
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good point

tepid wolf
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The scrpa launcher is similar to the rebar that you usually just quickswitch to it while using the nailgun if you need to deal with groups

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Similar to how you quickswitch to the rebar for quick shots

true sinew
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What do you guys think is better. Mobile or stationary turrets? I’m trying to do monsoon engie

tepid wolf
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I would say that they are both viable

true sinew
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Mobile turrets seem to be a lot less durable

tepid wolf
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Use thermal harpoons with mobile turrets

true sinew
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Don’t have those yet

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What’s the easiest way to get them

tepid wolf
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Glass command and get a capacitor and stack crowbars

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Then you can just oneshot the boss on stage 1

true sinew
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Oh

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Alright then

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I’ll try to get command

tepid wolf
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Bubble shield does literally nothing with mobile turrets mainly

true sinew
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I’ll just put it on drizzle and grab that real quick

tepid wolf
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Thermal harpoons give a lot more offensive power

true sinew
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Yeah I noticed.

tepid wolf
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And makes you able to deal with flying enemies yourself instead of relying on turrets

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Mobile turrets usually get HP from leech seeds and scythes with their high attack speed

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Also medkits are great since they get hit less often that stationary turrets

true sinew
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Yeah I got unlucky last run

tepid wolf
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Also mobile turrets inflict a slow which means death mark is easier to proc

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Since it is the same slow that is caused by arrow rain

true sinew
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I got 10 soldiers syringes last run but barely any other damage or healing items

tepid wolf
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Mobile turrets are beastly with bleeds as well

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You need 12 daggers for 99% mobile turret bleed but the payout is good

true sinew
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Damn

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Yeah I’m gonna go for command real quick and do those challenges

tepid wolf
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Well they attack 5 times per second compared to 3 times per second of normal turrets

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Spider mines are also recommended

true sinew
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Spider mines?

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What does that do?

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Never even heard of those

tepid wolf
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They have no wind up and run to the enemies

true sinew
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Oh god

tepid wolf
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Oh wait harpoons require to just clear the stage without any enemies left

true sinew
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Oh

tepid wolf
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You just charge the tele to 99% and things stop spawning

true sinew
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Oh alright

tepid wolf
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Then you just kill everything and walk in

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Drizzle is recommende for the super small spawns

true sinew
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Gotcha

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Well thank you for the advice friend

tepid wolf
true sinew
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I’ll get that alt skin in no time I’m sure

tepid wolf
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It has less damage than max charged mines but they have a much larger trigger radius

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Most of the time you use mines as basically grenades anyway

true sinew
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Yeah I barely notice them doing anything

tepid wolf
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Well old mines were basically grenades since they had up to 10 charges with no wind up

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Harpoons and mobile turrets come down to personal preference though

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Spider mines are an exception with them being basically a direct upgrade

mental pike
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inf shifts

dull warren
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sdssdsds

timber rover
zinc kernel
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you misspelled gesture-discussion-1

topaz owl
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Oh word someone brought up gesture

fluid notch
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Gesture is a hoax

zinc kernel
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Gesture actually doesn't exist

rancid remnant
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what is a woolie classic?

zinc kernel
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oops

mental pike
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double purity, just fly above mithrax and he cant do anything against you basically

rancid remnant
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bahahaha

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gotta try that

zinc kernel
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everyone talking about how squid polyp needs a buff what really needs a buff is quickplay randoms

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and also their artifact variety

topaz owl
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b r u h just use lfg’s that’s the buff

south egret
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is poison or blight better for acrid?

stiff cape
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Bruh I just got to stage 15 and died. (Going for 52 leaf clover)

stray kernel
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Yo I just played some survivors that I don’t play as often. Man mul-t is cool as heck. I love just switching between weapons mid-fight to go from mowing down a large enemy with the nail gun and then swatting down rows of wisps with the rebar puncher

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Like, his kit in general isn’t something I play often because it just doesn’t fit with my own playstyle, but he’s still fun to pick up and play every once in a while.

vast umbra
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@south egret Generally poison...
But if you're struggling early game Blight is actually a lot better than people give it credit

echo girder
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sorry but I just want to say I got all the steam achievements on Risk of Rain 2

fluid notch
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Ok

mellow mango
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Ok

cinder crag
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grats

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she is top tier

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@south egret blight for solo play
poison for group play or if you go for drones

tepid wolf
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I would say only 1 to 2 people need to go poison since it does not stack with multiple players

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While blight does

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Meaning with blight several acrids you can get really high stack counts

sharp radish
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I got commando’s alt m2 and special yay

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Now I just need to get piercing wind and cap’s beacons

abstract abyss
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Cap’s beacons are easy to get tbh

nocturne lily
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any tips on how to get piercing winds? i need that one too

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i figured to just get command and stack stuff like will o wisp, get a voodoo doll and let it do the work for me but im not sure

tepid wolf
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@nocturne lily just use artifact of glass it works just fine

nocturne lily
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ooh ok noted. does aegis help too? or does that not work

tepid wolf
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Barrier does not indeed count as HP but Aegis needs a lot of healing to get going

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Topaz brooch will be a much easier way to get barrier

nocturne lily
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yeah alright, ill probably get command and stack those then

tepid wolf
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Nah just artifact of glass without command also does just fine

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You start with 9 HP anyway so even a single brooch is enough to get full barrier

dull ingot
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Ok so earlier I posted a character tier list based on how much I liked the characters

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Now I'm going to post something more controversial, something based on my view of how objectively good the contents are

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I'm going to post...

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Feel free to fight me

novel sorrel
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D TIER TRI TIP?

tepid wolf
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Right off the bat the tri tips

wanton axle
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tritips in D tier?

tepid wolf
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And the medkits

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Glass is not S tier anymore really

novel sorrel
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Happiest mask and snowflake above literally any other red?

tepid wolf
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Halcyon seed in the same tier as shatterspleen

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Shatterspleen is an absolute S tier

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In what realm is recycler D tier with radar?

keen flame
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how is it objective in your view? thats an opinion

novel sorrel
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You could remove a whole part of shatterspleen’s effect and it’d still be S tier. Remove the bonus 5% crit and it’d be s tier, remove the bleed on crit but keep the double 1.0 proc coefficient explosions and the bonus crit and its s tier. Remove the explosion but keep the bonus crit and bleed on crit and its still s tier

tepid wolf
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Urn could maybe even go into A tier

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The healing it provides is extremely high

novel sorrel
tepid wolf
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Transcendence is basically S tier if you do Eclipse which is nice

keen flame
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bandolier really does fit into that category i never thought of it like that

raven summit
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That's a much better list

tepid wolf
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Brainstalks really depend on the character

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Since with huntress, acrid, artificer or slicing winds merc it does extremely well

novel sorrel
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Drill rex aswell

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Its insane on drill rex

tepid wolf
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Oh and suppressive fire commando

novel sorrel
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Did you know loader can have 3 pylons active at once by no more? This post was brought to you by brainstalks

tepid wolf
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Yep

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Brainstalks is pretty solid with thunder gauntlet

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Not as good as afterburner but still pretty useful

floral sundial
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head set on loader is a great combo

tepid wolf
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It is okay still such a mediocre item

floral sundial
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thats cause you havent seen 10,000% super drops

tepid wolf
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The main upside of the headstomer the fall damage immunity is negated on loader

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Well that only really works if you use the base utility

novel sorrel
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I dont really like brainstalks overall but it definetly has its moments. It scales really poorly for super long runs or multitudes since you end up getting global capped cooldowns without it anyway. Its also not only reliant on killing an elite but also reliant on you being in a good position to gain something from ability spamming directly after killing an elite

tepid wolf
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Since you can punch upwards with it

floral sundial
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you can also punch downwards with it

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using the extra speed early game to power up the punch

tepid wolf
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Well the upwards is the main part with headstomers

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Since it uses up tons of time to use a grapple into a stomp

novel sorrel
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Headstompers definetly has its moments aswell cuz its the strongest single hit in the game outside of really high stacks of other items

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You need 34 atgs for the atg to do more damage than headstompers

floral sundial
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i mean... yes? but kinda no

tepid wolf
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Mainly not everyone can get a great use of them

floral sundial
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if you deal 10,000% damage, that means you probably got a 100M range impact

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so you decimated the area

tepid wolf
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Mainly their lock on is really dumb

floral sundial
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that said, its got a 1.0 proc, so you could fire off missles from 10K% drops

tepid wolf
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Yes thanks headstomp I want to stomp this one wisp and not the damn boss

floral sundial
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grapple as you do it?

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and i mean, if you are doing it right, you should be able to ballpark a hit that has a lot of range, which means the boss should be in range as well

tepid wolf
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Like I only really got some mileage with it as loader on other characters it just takes a lot of time to get high up

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As said I use it with charged punch to punch upwards and then stomp down dealing 2 extremely high bursts of damage

novel sorrel
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Stompers are definetly not a late game item doe. Enemies die before you can even stomp on them after a few loops

tepid wolf
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Early game you don't have the mobility to use them

dull ingot
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Ok I know I'm late to comment on anything but I just want to say two things

novel sorrel
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Super late game i just use it to cancel momentum lmao. Force myself to actually fall after getting launched towards the skybox

tepid wolf
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The higher jump height is often even a downside

dull ingot
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My opinions are trash

tepid wolf
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The fall damage immunity does matter on eclipse 3 though

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The high jumps are pretty nice to dodge mithrix

dull ingot
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how is it objective in your view? thats an opinion
I screwed up my wording and I sounded way too confident, I'm a dummy

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Ok bye

keen flame
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understandable have a nice day

tepid wolf
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Also headstompers stack awfully

floral sundial
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i wanna do a stupid run, specifically i wanna do a stupid run where i end up with 50+ irradiant pearls

tepid wolf
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So only 2 characters can really use the stomp for early game advantage

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Which are loader and artificer with ion surge

floral sundial
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you mean 3?

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cause acrids leap can go pretty high

novel sorrel
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Merc can definetly get some altitude

floral sundial
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thats too

tepid wolf
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Merc takes a bit but he can with rising thunder get some altitude

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Then you must hope everything on the ground is dead

floral sundial
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huntress can warp straight up as well, though i guess thats not very high

tepid wolf
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Since it is quite likely your R and utility are on cooldown

floral sundial
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though, i guess anyone with strides of heresy can just go straight up and use it

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it shouldnt be too hard to get one of those if you do get a headset

tepid wolf
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Depends on when you get it

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Most likely it will be at stage 4 and every shop has strides immediatelly

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So you might get it on stage 5 or 6 where it starts being a bit pointless

floral sundial
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ive gone multiple shops without strides

plain viper
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I'd like headstomper more if i could hold space to go higher instead of being stuck with it

tepid wolf
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The low gravity jumps are a downside basically

plain viper
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Can't believe they turned a lunar item into a red

tepid wolf
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The low gravity jumps only really help against mithrix

floral sundial
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their not a downside, but they are not the default jump so its jarring to switch

tepid wolf
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Well it is because it takes forever to go back down

plain viper
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Its too floaty for my liking

floral sundial
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stomp?

tepid wolf
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It wastes time

plain viper
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Makes it easier to get hit

tepid wolf
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No the regular jumps

floral sundial
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yeah, stomp

tepid wolf
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Having to stomp every 15 seconds to have a better jump is a bit dumb though

plain viper
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Got both stomper and mask on my last run, ran around with 2 scrap i found no printer for

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Waste of 2 reds getting those pansive

floral sundial
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what? no i mean just stomp to land soonder

plain viper
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Cooldown tho

tepid wolf
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The low gravity regular jumps waste a bit of time

floral sundial
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while on cooldown you have standard jumps

plain viper
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It does?

tepid wolf
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Yes but having to do a stomp every 15 seconds is annoying

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The floaty jumps could honestly be removed for it

floral sundial
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i mean, thats you, dont start blaming things you dont like about an item to make it seem like its just bad

tepid wolf
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Well it is in the best tier in the game

plain viper
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I'd rather get desk plant tbh

tepid wolf
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So it can be critisized when it is in such a tier

floral sundial
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otherwise id start saying things like tougher times are bad

tepid wolf
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Tougher times are a white

floral sundial
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whats your point?

tepid wolf
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That it is a mediocre item in a tier where the best items are located

floral sundial
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their not the best items

tepid wolf
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They are

plain viper
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Can't only have bangers in the red tier

floral sundial
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only the rarest

tepid wolf
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Well there are many extremely powerful items there

plain viper
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Need some bleh items to balance it out

floral sundial
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yeah, and then you have things like frost relic that pretty much everyone would trade for things like soldiers syringe

tepid wolf
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Relic is at least pretty good on melees and does a lot of damage

floral sundial
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just because its red doesnt mean its the greatest thing since elvis

tepid wolf
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And doesn't have something that makes it annoying to have

plain viper
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Stomper and mask deffo are on my instascrap list

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Snowflake hasnt killed me yet somehow

floral sundial
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what? frost relic is constantly zooming the camera in and out, what an awful effect

tepid wolf
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I never really minded the FOV change to be honest

floral sundial
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yes, see here you go, you just said it yourself, the items effect doesnt bother you

tepid wolf
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I mean it at least doesn't make me easier to hit or waste time like stomper moon jumps

floral sundial
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no, it just sucks in general

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atleast with a head set i have additional options to tackle challenges with

tepid wolf
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I mean 600% damage per second is actually a good amount

plain viper
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Bit so is snowflake, it gives a melee option for ranged survivors doesn't it

floral sundial
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at point blank? the place that gets you melted?

tepid wolf
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With kills it has a solid range

plain viper
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People play saw mult for some reason

tepid wolf
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Well saw is insane but double saw is not great

floral sundial
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yeah, im one of them, but even then frost relic is not a desirable red, head set is still more desirable

plain viper
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So you can scrap snowflake and we can scrap headstomper 😌

tepid wolf
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Like headstompers are a nice Quality of life on eclipse 3 and upwards or if you use frailty

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Where fall damage is a much larger threat

plain viper
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I just personally prefer the base fall damage over the inconvenience headstomper brings me

floral sundial
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fall damage isnt really a threat ever though, fall damage mitigation is like... its a thing? most practical part of that is not losing money with brittle crown

tepid wolf
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Well on eclipse 3 it can be

floral sundial
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eh, eclipse doesnt intrigue me in any way

plain viper
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Unless you fall off the map fall dmg is generally not an issue

tepid wolf
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Since it is doubled and possibly lethal and sometimes you just don't get a feather as a character without momentum resets

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Mainly mithrix can sometimes launch you with his attacks

plain viper
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Dont you just die post mithrix if you don't have any fall damage negation?

umbral glen
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Good morning

tepid wolf
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Well if you can't stop momentum basically yes

plain viper
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Henlo

tepid wolf
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Also soup island is a lot more dangerous to get to

umbral glen
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Hey

plain viper
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Pray to the teddy gods

tepid wolf
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Basically you are playing with artifact of frailty that only affects you and not the enemies

floral sundial
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i wish armor was a little easier to stack

tepid wolf
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I mean a green that gives passive armor could work

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It would maybe need a hyperbolic stacking though

floral sundial
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i mean we got irradiant pearls

tepid wolf
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They are not reliable to get

floral sundial
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their armor stacking is bonkers, but its too hard to stack reliably

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the only practical way is to get a crazy pearl stack, and hope you sequence into irradiants

tepid wolf
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The pools themselves are extremely rare and the irradiant pearls are extremely rare

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Well jade elephant, tonic and buckler are the only reliable way to get armor

floral sundial
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i dont like the being forced to sprint part though, basically makes me thing "whats the point of that, nothing is gonna hit me anyway"

plain viper
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Perma elephant should have you coverer

floral sundial
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permaphant is only 83%~ damage mitigation

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that doesnt sound like a much nicer 95% damaage mitigation

plain viper
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Mult tonic and elephant and sprint around apartyblobsunglasses

floral sundial
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the sprint part again, makes it kinda moot point

tepid wolf
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The sprint resist comes in handy as mercenary, huntress and saw mul-t

floral sundial
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besides tonic is just 20 armor, at those large numbers thats essentially nothing, not even half a percent

tepid wolf
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Especially saw mul-t though

plain viper
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How much would tonix + ele give you?

tepid wolf
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Armor resists is hyperbolic

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Mul-t actually has 13% damage resist base

floral sundial
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13%?

tepid wolf
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Loader, Merc and Acrid have more armor though

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Some characters have base armor

floral sundial
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yeah

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13%?

tepid wolf
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Mul-t has half the amount of the melees

floral sundial
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multi has 12 armor, everyone else with armor has 20 armor

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12 armor should be bout 11% damage mitigation?

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anyway, irradiant pearls are OP

plain viper
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Gl getting even just one of those reliably

floral sundial
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i mean its not hard, you just grab everything from a lunar shop

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and keep doing that, the more difficult part atleast in solo is getting a cleansing pool to even spawn

tepid wolf
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I mean if you cheated in lunars then you can do it

floral sundial
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cheated lunars? you can just mass produce them in a command run

plain viper
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Believe they only spawn in swamp, floaty platform and alloy unit maps

tepid wolf
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And the spawn rate is extremely small

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Command is not the pinnacle of balance though

plain viper
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Mass produce lunars?

floral sundial
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yeah, so thats why its easy to spawn coins

plain viper
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Clover stacking?

floral sundial
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exactly,

tepid wolf
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Also lunar coin drop chance is halved for every time it drops

floral sundial
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doesnt feel like it

plain viper
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Just edit them in if you're gonna cheese them anyway

tepid wolf
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Oblits, twisted scavs, mithrix kills are much faster

floral sundial
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then again i only stick around for about 5 minutes per stage

tepid wolf
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Every time a lunar coin drops the chance gets halved

floral sundial
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does it reset per stage?

tepid wolf
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No

floral sundial
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hu

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maybe a mod i have installed mucked with that?

plain viper
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Same with natural lunar portal spawns i believe

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Their odds halve for every lunar portal that has spawned that run

tepid wolf
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This even counts for portals spawned by altars btw

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Not just natural portal spawns

floral sundial
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oh i figured that, ive only ever seen it on stage one and two

tepid wolf
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The first lunar coin has a 0.5% drop chance

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The second has 0.25% and so on

floral sundial
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one of these days im gonna get that silly massive stack of irradiant pearls

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then im gonna go fight mithrix, who will have a silly massive stack of irradiant pearls

plain viper
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Time to completely legit get 420691337 lunars

floral sundial
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nah, more like 300 or so

tepid wolf
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Farming twisted scavs, oblits or mithrix is a faster method

floral sundial
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the REAL question though... what character should i play if i wanna get that crazy good stack of irradiant pearls

plain viper
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Assuming you get 3 lunar per portal avg thats 30 items

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Wait im dumb

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42

tepid wolf
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And you will need to spend over 80 lunars

floral sundial
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well, its 1 lunar to access shop, 2 lunars per item, then 3 lunars to force a level that can spawn a pool

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so anywhere from 4 to 14 lunars per shop

plain viper
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If youre gonna dump all your lunars at once you dont need to force a stage

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If you wanna reset for only irridiscent pools

tepid wolf
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Also the downsides of all the lunars will be horrid

plain viper
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Then enjoy going into the thousands of stages

floral sundial
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ive played with all lunars at once, its not so bad

tepid wolf
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I mean with command or on easier difficulties maybe

plain viper
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The secret is sacrificial daggers witj shaped glsss

floral sundial
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no on monsoon without artifacts

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might want to avoid stacking shaped glass super hard but all the others arent a major issue heavily stacked

tepid wolf
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Glass stops mattering if it gets rid of OSP anyway

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At some point you will get oneshot from half HP by everything basically

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Might as well stack it at that point

floral sundial
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the difference between getting OS by an elder lemurian, and on shot by a lesser wisp is staggering

tepid wolf
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I mean on stage 5 you can already get oneshot by a celestine or malachite wisp

floral sundial
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those... those dont spawn first loop under normal conditions

tepid wolf
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Well on the first loop you would need to be extremely lucky to find the pool

floral sundial
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infact i dont think they can spawn at all first loop

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three shots of an estimated 13.2%?

plain viper
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Dont think ive seen malachites before stage 6

floral sundial
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not terrible odds, and thats assuming im playing alone

tepid wolf
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You need on average 25 lunars to get one irradiant pearl as well

floral sundial
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yeah so? if im stacking like 60+ lunar items thats not gonna be an issue

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i only need the one anyway

plain viper
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Throwback to that time i saw an irridiscent pool that yeeted the pearl off the map

floral sundial
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ive ALMOST had that happen

pearl hedge
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You need on average 25 lunars to get one irradiant pearl as well
I got unlucky, took me 33

floral sundial
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the pearl got stuck on the side of the wall, had to jump off to get it and take huge fall damage per pearl

tepid wolf
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I mean in the first loop you will get maybe 20 lunars with lunar pods and the shop

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If we take around 3 passive lunars per shop with a few lunar pods sprinkled in

floral sundial
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assuming maximum lunars per shop, with 0 pods in all stages i can get 20 total going into stage 4

tepid wolf
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If everything is passive

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Which is highly unlikely

floral sundial
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well equipment can be allowed once, twice if playing multi

tepid wolf
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You still on average lose 6 lunar items even as mul-t

floral sundial
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yeah, but im also assuming no pods as well

tepid wolf
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You can't carry 8 equipments

floral sundial
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when... well about realistically i can expect pods at about... 0.4-.05ish?

plain viper
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Not with that attitude

floral sundial
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and we also have to consider the real possiblity that i get cleansing pools on multiple stages, letting me clear my equipment slot(s)

tepid wolf
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I mean the chance is 13% per pool 2-3 are extremely unlikely on the first loop

floral sundial
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ive had it happen, and i mean im trying to get a crazy high stack of irradiant pearls

tepid wolf
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It is a 50/50 to even find one

floral sundial
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i think we already know im trying to hedge everything on a lucky run

tepid wolf
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You won't be getting crazy stacks on the first loop

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If the stars align then maybe

floral sundial
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yeah, realistically, a great run would be 5 passives per shop, and 2 passive per stage, and that is NOT likely

plain viper
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34% chance on at least 1 lunar pool in the first loop, if you get the stages that can get it, if you don't accidentally miss them

floral sundial
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so hope gold coast doesnt decide to say hi

tepid wolf
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And 4% for irradiant pearls

floral sundial
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that parts not relevent, i just need the one pearl

plain viper
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Ohye gold cosst can mess it up too

tepid wolf
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I hope you have hundreds of lunar coins

floral sundial
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if im foddering 50+ its likely ill get one

mossy garden
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I hope you have hundreds of lunar coins
@tepid wolf laughs in notepad

plain viper
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Ir you could just not see the pool cuz it somewhere out of the way you forgot to check

tepid wolf
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Liro hasn't edited them in

floral sundial
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though i suspect one of my mods has changed the drop rate

mossy garden
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irradiant pearls are pure evil

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they aren't even that good

tepid wolf
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Currently I have 90 which could maybe last 2 runs

floral sundial
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what? they are bonkers OP

mossy garden
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not really

floral sundial
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okay, why arent they?

mossy garden
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if you stack them, yes absolutely, but a single pearl isn't much

floral sundial
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were talking about getting a stack of 50+

tepid wolf
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How are you planning to get 50 irradiants?

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That's 1000 lunars items

floral sundial
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get one irradiant pearl, shrine of command

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gonna have lots of regular ones after all

plain viper
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Shrine of order?

floral sundial
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yes that, sorry

tepid wolf
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I mean if it doesn't change them into boss items

plain viper
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Is it a 50/50 or are the odds weighted?

mossy garden
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Health is gained via shield gens/infusion
Regen is slug/overshadowed by leech
Movespeed is literally half of a goat hoof
Damage is 1 pair of crit glasses
Attack Speed/Crit, both outclassed by white items
Armor is pretty worthless because your survivor has very low base armor

tepid wolf
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Pearls are technically boss items as well

floral sundial
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stack sizes are not factored in

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its just the amount of different items

plain viper
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Can just not pick up oss items then

floral sundial
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i mean if i get lucky, i can just recycle all the non irradiants to reduce the different item amounts

mossy garden
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i'd argue regular pearls are straight up better than irradiants because they are common enough to stack

tepid wolf
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Don't forget order can change your items into scrap

floral sundial
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i mean if i dont get the pearls first time i use shrine of order.. what are the chances im gonna live long enough to get another irradiant?

tepid wolf
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So you will still have a 50/50

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So you might end up with only yellow scrap

floral sundial
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probably not very high, so in all likelihood that run is dead and id have to try again

mossy garden
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but even then irradiants are just so worthless

tepid wolf
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Not it is a 50/50 you will end up with yellow scrap if you scrap regular pearls

mossy garden
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the trouble of getting them outweighs their effect tenfold

floral sundial
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i dunno, their effect is just so silly strong

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ive had actual stacks from good luck before, not like 50+ but 4 irradiants were massive

tepid wolf
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Eeeh not really when the shatterspleen is in the same tier

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Which is easier to get irradiants even

floral sundial
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so? shatterspleen is good but that in some ways is just as rare to stack

mossy garden
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irradiants are just not worth it when ALL of their effects are outclassed by white items except armor, and 10% armor is nothing

tepid wolf
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Spleen is easier to get your hands on

mossy garden
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regular pearls just boost health. reliable, quick and easy to obtain

floral sundial
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okay, tell me exactly what irradiants do, i want to know if were on the same page here

mossy garden
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the extra stats Irradiants provide are pretty much worthless

tepid wolf
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The 10% to everything is nice but it is basically a regular pearl + some white items

mossy garden
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exactly

floral sundial
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yup, and im looking at that damage

pearl hedge
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the extra stats Irradiants provide are pretty much worthless
finally someone else said it

mossy garden
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the Crit/Atkspd/Movespeed are literally worse than white items

tepid wolf
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Double damage is doable with tonic

floral sundial
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eh, thats all just bonus

tepid wolf
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A single tonic is 10 pearls worth of damage

mossy garden
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Health can be obtained via regular pearls, shield gens, infusion and barrier

floral sundial
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oh god no, tonic is another one of those camera distorters, no thanks

mossy garden
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10% damage is literally nothing

floral sundial
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10% damage that affects everything is not literally nothing

mossy garden
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and 10% armor is completely worthless

plain viper
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Can just get a mod that disables the camera effect

tepid wolf
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Tonic is basically an irradiant pearl but better and needs just a fuel cells a a gesture

floral sundial
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10% armor is not completely worthless when you stack it with an elephant

mossy garden
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if you have elephant you can't die anyway

floral sundial
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besides were not talking a single pearl, were talking stacking

mossy garden
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irradiants are not reliable stacking items

floral sundial
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yes, they are not

pearl hedge
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For how rare they are, irradiants should give a 30/40% bonus

floral sundial
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thats why i want to get a run going where i have 50+

plain viper
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Imagine spending 3 hous finally getting that pearl and then losing the 50/50 on the shrine of order

floral sundial
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3 hours to get the pearl? are you silly? it takes like an hour o so

plain viper
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If you're lucky

mossy garden
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and the armor boost is completely worthless if you don't have bucklers, elephant and/or play merc/loader/acrid/rex/mulT

floral sundial
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and thats assuming BAD luck

tacit phoenix
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Why would you even try for the pearl other than the logbook entry tho?

mossy garden
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...

floral sundial
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cause fun?

plain viper
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Assuming bad luck you won't get any with your 300 coins

mossy garden
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Pearls are the rarest items in the game period

pearl hedge
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microbots tho

mossy garden
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those dont count

pearl hedge
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u don't count :c

mossy garden
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those Chad Gamers belong to Cap'n only

plain viper
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I mean u csn get microbots on any survivor in mp 😌

tepid wolf
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Tonic quadruples your regen (30 irradiants), doubles your damage (10 irradiants), multiplies you attack speed by 70% (this includes items so 7+ pearls), gives 30% movement speed (3 pearls), gives 20 armor (2 pearls), 50% extra HP (5 pearls)

floral sundial
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you can get it on anyone in single player as well, if you use metamorphsis

tacit phoenix
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Or if you have a 4 captain metamorphosis run

pearl hedge
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if

floral sundial
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uh no pearls increase all armor by 10%, they dont actually give armor if you have no armor to begin with

mossy garden
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Tonic quadruples your regen (30 irradiants), doubles your damage (10 irradiants), multiplies you attack speed by 70% (this includes items so 7+ pearls), gives 30% movement speed (3 pearls), gives 20 armor (2 pearls), 50% extra HP (5 pearls)
@tepid wolf armor is actually a boost %, so if you don't have armor, its worthless

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for pearls, i mean

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Irradiants boost all of your armor by 10%, but half of the cast doesn't have innate armor

floral sundial
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that said, 1 pearl increases armor from elephants by 50

pearl hedge
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Also getting microbots in sp (if not for the logbook) is not a big brain play

tepid wolf
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Yes but elephant needs tons of gestures and fuel cells and you won't have gestures if you go for pearls

floral sundial
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but fuel cells arent unreasonable

mossy garden
tepid wolf
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Well fuel cell printers are not very common

plain viper
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Who knows maybe youll have 200 fuel cells from order

mossy garden
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ah yes because that makes such a huge difference

floral sundial
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yes, now as i said, stack of 50+

pearl hedge
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glhf getting a stack of 50 in vanilla

mossy garden
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you take 1% less damage

novel sorrel
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that said, 1 pearl increases armor from elephants by 50
@floral sundial nope, irradiant only increases base values

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its really cringe

tepid wolf
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If you try to say that pearls are op with 50 stacks you can say that about a lot of items

plain viper
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Gimme 50 stacks of willy wisps

tepid wolf
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Saying something is OP with 50 stacks is dumb

mossy garden
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with 50 pearls, your armor would increase by 500%, aka 6 x 500 = 3000

floral sundial
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really? cause a lot of items arent as eay to get to a stack of 50+

tepid wolf
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They are

plain viper
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Much easier

tepid wolf
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Actually a lot easier

floral sundial
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im trying to imagine a stack of 50 reds

pearl hedge
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a lot of items don't need to be stacked to 50

floral sundial
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i dont see it being easier then 50 irradiants actually

plain viper
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Just use command

novel sorrel
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With 50 pearls on merc your armor would be 120. It only scales base armor

floral sundial
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thats the piont, command disables pearls

plain viper
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Or a printer

mossy garden
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3000 armor grants about a 97% damage reduction, which is barely noticable from the normal 84% Elephant provides

pearl hedge
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command doesn't disable red items

plain viper
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Yeah but were talking about not pearls noe

tepid wolf
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You can get 50 reds with the soup bowls

plain viper
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And how much easier theyd be to get

floral sundial
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no you are comparing getting a stack of 50 pearls to getting a stack of 50 of something else

mossy garden
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yes that is completely logical

tepid wolf
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Because you still seem to act like getting 50 irradiants is trivial

floral sundial
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and under the same conditions you can get a stack of 50 irradiant pearls thats much harder for reds, and probably just as hard for greens

plain viper
tepid wolf
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How are 50 greens are hard to get?

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Green printers are not that hard to find

novel sorrel
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@mossy garden firstly irradiant pearl doesnt stack with non armor and secondly, a 84% to 97% damage reduction results in you taking less than a fifth of the damage you did before

tepid wolf
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And the soup bowl also exists

floral sundial
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im seeing a 13% difference in damage

mossy garden
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the chance for a cleansing pool to spawn WITH an irradiant as its innate drop, aka a 0.53% chance

tepid wolf
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Armor is hyperbolic so it doesn't do much past a certain point

plain viper
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Instead of taking 13% less damage why not stack normal pearls and get 500% extra health

pearl hedge
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I'm gonna put it this way: by the point you can comfortably stack 50 pears your game has either crashed, on the verge of crashing or completely trivialized anyway

mossy garden
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past elephant it becomes pretty worthless tbh

novel sorrel
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If a hit deals 100 damage and you have 84% damage resist it deals 16 damage. If you have 97% damage resist it deals 3 damage. This is less than a fifth as much

floral sundial
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who cares about innate drop? im gonna be feeding over 50 lunars into any pools i see

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i just need THE ONE irradiante to use a shrine of order

mossy garden
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you realise that you just reroll cleansing pools every time you dump a lunar in right?

pearl hedge
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What are you gonna be ordering it with?

floral sundial
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thats how ill be attempting to stack 50 of them!

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im not some idiot thinking hes just gonna roll 50 irradiants from cleansing pools now

mossy garden
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...

tacit phoenix
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Wait, pearls don't turn into any other yellow item?

mossy garden
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your chances for getting an irradiant to even spawn is already stupid low

floral sundial
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well ill have a bunch of regular pearls, and one irradiant

tepid wolf
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It will still be a 50/50

novel sorrel
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Just think of armor as % effective hp. 500 armor is basically 500% damage that can be taken before you die compared to no armor. 3000 armor is basically 3000% more damage that can be taken before you die compared to no armor and so on

tepid wolf
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And you think you can do this on the first loop

novel sorrel
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The math works out almost perfectly for that

floral sundial
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on first loop? hell no

mossy garden
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also Pools can only spawn on 3 stages, so good luck with that

tepid wolf
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You were talking about the pools on the first loop constantly though

floral sundial
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id be lucky to even HAVE ten pearls before stage 3, where i can find a shrine of order

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first loop would be the aquisition of pearls, second loop would be conversion to irradiants

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ideally atleast

mossy garden
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ideally

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aka thats not gonna happen

tepid wolf
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Well you won't be getting 50+ of the intended pearls on the first loop

floral sundial
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thats why the idea of trying it makes it so fun

mossy garden
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also you need to not die with all of those lunars on you

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so good luck with that

pearl hedge
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Best you can hope for is 6-7 lunars per stage, assuming you buy out the shop (and assuming it only has passives) and a few lunar buds spawn

floral sundial
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well i mean if i got all the conditions to align within two loops id be fine with just 25

tepid wolf
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All those stacked corpseblooms will sure be good past the first loop

mossy garden
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i mean, transcendence

floral sundial
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the idea if keep making pearls until my chance for a shrine of order occurs

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but before pearls, accrue silly amounts of lunar items