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TLDR: tank builds revolve around making offensive options equally defensive options

how come i heard ?
jade elephant + soulbound
you know
i played poison doggo earlier
and i got the frost relic early
and i was like omg melee acrid could actually be pretty good.
when i died 2 stages later i realised that he's still useless against enemies you can't actually reach.
i.e. greater wisps
meh
if you play Acrid well enough (aka spam buttons) you shouldn't have much trouble with wisps in the first place
Just jump up and bite them
now imagine you don't have the feathers to jump that high
add in brass contraption and a magma worm and a crap ton of lesser wisps
you can leap onto them
it's a bit tricky to aim, but they'll take the leap damage and it'll leave you next to them for a good second or two
it's not like i didn't try
i tried
and died as a result
generally speaking brass and greater wisps are the reason melee acrid bad
the normal ones are manageable
but the elites just murder you
whenever i decide to melee acrid director throws the glacial greater wisp/glacial brass contraption squad at me on stage 4 teleporter
And then i accept ded
really is the only thing you can do at that point
I still think mobs as teleporter boss is lame
me: Run is looking good.
director: Hold my credits.
If all rarities can only be one item. what item would you choose for each rarity to ensure a win?
also worth considering different builds for different survivors.
Note:
crit and bleed can be capped with green/boss items.
Clover may not be the best red
shatterspleen, harvester's scythe, and predatory instincts only give crit chance on the first stack
I have been oblivious for a while then.
though I haven't frequently stacked scythes/instincts beyond 2 or three anyways.
Well I had originally chosen Syringe, Scythe, Shatter, and Ageis/IDP but I guess thats not an option anymore
uhh, void fields brass contraptions with 5 crowbars
i'm assuming getting hit is gonna be the same experience as normally getting hit by one
Sounds right.
true
Yeah but blazing or shock elites will obliterate you.
In those situations I lower the music and max out SfX because they always spawn right fucking behind me
it was like that in ror1 tho
Did not play much of it.
Regardless, it makes sense in terms of design.
Crit glasses are whites, whites are designed to be stacking power.
conclusion
A green that stacked crit like that would defeat the purpose
brass contraption= death
Way back when there were only four stages, Brass contraptions were the mid-game run enders.
I say this as if they aren't still run enders.
scythe, instinct and spleen all give 5% extra crit chance but it doesnt stack the more you get
that rule only applies to glasses
so in that case you want scythe and spleen, but also clover stacks.
reffering to this idea
Hey guys, any way to quickly unlock thenew abilities? Like the lunar coins edit
As in tips to unlock each or a button that unlocks it for you? @fiery wedge
No, as in some pastebin that unlocks MULT's new ability
Or some edit like with the lunar coins one.
just go on drizzle
Lick the slab in the middle
Only hope for you
Unless there’s a cap to the zone size. Is that a mechanic that exists?
this is what void fields look like on stage 23
it's night time but i feel like seen enough sun for today
yeah i'm like 90% sure diablo strike is bugged and won't hit other players
just had my run ended because i launched a solus probe out of bounds and it wouldnt come back to let me kill it
If it affected other players in multiplayer, it would be the trolliest ability. Rather than saying it's bugged, I think it's more likely that the description of what the skill does didn't account for multiplayer.
it doesn't do friendly fire
He was saying it's a bug that it doesn't. I'm saying it's probably not a bug.
yeah it's intentional
That moment when alloy vultures get crowbars in the void fields when you have a glass shard
run
When you're engineer
Excellent
Anything in void fields with a crowbar is scary.
You either drop your OSP or your osp gets used
Wisps aren't much of a problem with crowbars
Haven’t ever seen a wisp in the VF
Clay Templars are fine
But jellies, vultures, golems, parents, etc
Wisps, clay templars, anything else that has a rapid attack
Parents are easy to fight anyways
This is true
Aside from maybe on the tops of hills, they can teleport upwards from there
but parents have been nerfed in terms of hp as of late, so it’s probably fine now
I found myself standing still against a glacial parent at one point, he teleported to me, and missed
they usually try to predict where you move, they are often really wrong.
Yeah, that AI is bad
I’ve died to em now and then though, so maybe they’re just easy to dodge at this point.
they miss a lot due to their short delay between attacks
The only thing remotely dangerous about them is they don't telegraph their attack much unlike literally everything else aside from vultures
that was... uhh... a run
Interesting mods
Pff, there's mods that allows you to play as worms?
Thing is every AI in game runs like clockwork.
So you can basically estimate the time they attack.
This is not possible with monsters that have just spawned, so those are generally the most dangerous, but for every other AI in game, there’s like 2 attacks available for em.
As anything. Every enemy in game has a kind of cooldown and set of abilities.
That's pretty neat. How does the worms work though? Do you still swim through the ground?
Might work like strides of heresy but you go through the ground and you have to go through the ground to gain momentum
You move an invisible player on the ground, and a worm entity kinda jumps at it.
lots of enemies have this kind of thing. You may notice how wisps and solus control units sometimes take ramps up to the player, as opposed to flying there.
the only “real” flying enemies are probably jellyfish
Ah yeah. Thought it was some sort of pathing thing.
As if there's a "road" an enemy may take.
rift!!! nice
Were the lunar pools changed to only give either irradiant or radiant pearls?
Basically like a normal printer
It's bugged.
Oh ok thank you
why wouldn't it be a bug? meteorite, tincture, and effigy all affect other players and the description is of the same vein, saying ALL characters. besides, i'd hardly call it the trolliest ability when it has a big red targeting circle and takes 20 seconds to hit, while with meteorite everyone has to actively dodge for 20 seconds
where is it stated that it's intentional
went off
Gotta love when the game gives you a crit build...
...Only to not give you any crit glasses at all. :^)
It's official:
Mercenary is cursed for me.
Meanwhile, I had a run end in complete failure once...
Both my teammates were dead, and I was pretty weak.
KipKip makes me want to throw up my dinner
just dodge 😏
Captain easy
Yeah captain won’t be too big an issue
im not that good at captain tbh
or any low mobility survivors really
nothing a little dream luck cant solve though
1 wax quail and you’ll be fine
His m1 is great. His utility is also great. His m2 is eh, his special gives you a free red item and dictates the early game.
Don’t worry about it
doing this is probably super duper easy for ppl but im happy i ran it (kinda wack i got huntress 3 out of the 5 stages + 1 death tho :/)
Any tips for monsoon mercenary? My most recent run I made it to stage 6. I have been using the alt R ability
don't die
😎
im gonna assume you know how to play monsoon and general gofast stuff, so the two things i'd recommend is switching to eviscerate to gain a really potent survival tool (along with huge damage - it's proven effective since all the way back in ror1!), and finally reconsidering the items you prioritise. some items aren't as good on merc as other items - i mean it's obvious most of the time but you never know. Oh, and since you have alt r you probably already know how to not get hit, but evasion is super good in ror2
eviscerate and huge damage is just funniest pun i ever seen
well okay, so it's not THAT huge
but i believe its better than slicing wind and scales hilariously well with attack speed

Eeh I would say slicing winds is better unless you have a ton of attack speed where eviscerate catches up
Also eviscerate is better for killing Mithrix though
if you have this much attack speed you could just hold m1
did they ever fix the m2 bug where if you attack fast enough merc moves so fast he forgets to actually swing his sword
damn if only SW had aoe and expose to buff its damage output
yeah, sw is just eviscerate with wacky aim
perfected elites immune to execute: bug or nah
intended
ok
Sounds like u were living life on the edge
Lol
true
...
i love katana's
but that son of b*** is to weak
merc needs more hp
or speed
Not really
Just might be a case of "git gud" here. Mercenary just requires some skill to use with his high skill floor/skill ceiling
Like he is really good once you learn how to use him well
i know they intended him to be this way
Might be your loadout too
He honestly got buffed with that 1.0 rework
Not really for merc it doesn't matter what you pick
I thought "merc does no fucking damage" until I put away rising thunder and eviscerate
All abilities are pretty good
Default merc is less DPS but extremely mobile and has a lot of i frames
Winds with FA is a ton of DPS with riskier gameplay
Though eviscerate is pretty good with the new utility and m1 extensions
my inner weeb wants to master merc
It's worth it lol
Just use the default M2
but at the same time he kinda requires specific items to be good
Trimping is so useful. Also no he doesn't
i imagine atleast
He's my favorite when you get good at
He has slamming, dash cancels, trimping, M1 extensions, comboes and everything in between
Merc doesn't need specific items
Some will really help
And some will win for you (razorwire tincture)
But you don't need much more than other characters
A win item for mercenary is brilliant behemoth
but how does one play merc
Makes attacks apply 2 expose debuff stacks
is it just as simple as slash at the enemies and hope you don't die
No it is not
than how
you know what
i'll just keep playing merc until i get the god run
and then i will call myself a merc main
Trying to get gud with artifcer and running a two person run. Who is the next best hero to go along side him?
I can’t take it anymore
yeah sometimes i just want to end it all too bro
I’m talking about gd1 bro
ah shit lmao
So I recently got my risk of rain 2 working and bandit is amazing 🥺
What's the better primary attack, shotgun or rifle.
Rifle is alright because it one taps if not two taps very basic rank and file enemies
Imma be honest I don't know how they'll get this update to Xbox one
It can barely handle the frames right now, it craters while getting into serious fights and it's hard to survive with long runs
Honestly the bad frames is the number one reason why I couldn't get commando 20 round finished
You had that many frame drops on a 20 round?
Dang I don't get really bad frame drops until like 25ish and I'm on Switch
That's a newer hardware though
The One s I believe was either discontinued or it just sucks
It's not made to run games of this capacity tho
Xbox & Playstation were made for that sort of intensity
Well I don't know if it's just me or the console but some of my games get frame lag sometimes some of them understandable but
I think I still have a clip of my dying to frame lagging or nearly dying atleast
Yeah it's a pain with Void Reavers but other than that frame drops shouldn't be killing you on a 20 run at least
It got kinda bad at some points
Besides the point imma have to regrind all of my stuff for PC which'll be fun so
I mean that's not too hard if you wanna run Command, Sac, Swarms
command is boring
and stupid
it wastes so mush time
you need to wait untill you see, analyse and pick the item you need rather than just run through and take all that lays down
Couldn't you plan what you want
Yeah if you play a lot you have a good idea of what you want
What artificer special is better?
Either or are fine, I prefer flame thrower
I think the other one is better honestly
they both good
Its cooldown is low enough so that you can infinity be in the air but it isn't as high of dps as flamethrower
Try both and see which one you like better tho
Ok thx for the feedback
flame thrower is great for proccing items
and you can rotate cooldowns with it because it takes so long
but the other one is good mobility
and whatnot
Yeah my problem with it is that flamethrower is super slow
I'd rather have the faster one and keep rotating my cooldowns
note you cannot sprint with flame thrower so you are pretty vunerable
Until it ends
sprinting will cancel it though so you can just escape
still need to find and pick
too boring
especially in larger quantities
I guess it's not for everyone
gd2 cringer
Gd1 cringest
gd
oh
Epic gaymer gd2 chungus moment
this is all I’m tryna send :(
they look cool
showcased like this
I thought at least
daaamn that's badass
still never found one of these in 180 hours lol
only time i did my friend got it
this is dope. any chance you could do one with the new elite item as well?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I STOLE IT FROM THE WIKI
oh oh i see
maybe there’s one somewhere tho lol
I don't think the perfected elite aspect changes anything besides color
yeah it’s not there in the wiki like these were... I think
is there a skin mod using those models?
the perfected aspect appears to be broken, when i spawned it in with rorcheats it used the default debug icon and didn't change anything that I'd noticed
ive gotten the perfected aspect i think but annoyingly i dont remember if it changes the model and i then put it back down as i wanted my previous equipment
i do remember my health being fully shields and applying cripple however
perfected doesn't give shields i don't think?
frankly it should have been explained better. theres no indication for what it actually does outside of the games code, and rn everyones busy finding every bug under the sun
dam this join bussin
perfected gives a 25% health boost and converts all health into shield, increases movement speed by 30%, makes you apply cripple on hit, and causes you to fire 5 projectiles that fire every 10 seconds while in combat that deal 30% damage
that was honestly unexpected to happen, sadly theres no more phase
I love casually getting alien head out of a shrine of chance
on fucking captain
merc unlock is hell
i just wanna obliterate the dude
oof
no
with an effective cooldown of under 0.1ms, can a gesture of the drowned keep up?
Or is there a build in delay
I actually don't know
I like just unlocked Gesture a few days ago and haven't used it
Only one way to find out
My dps is over 50 million. I don't know if it's able to keep up as the restricting factor is the enemies health. They die too quickly to see a difference.
Is there a mod that can spawn in a target with infinite health?
Woah i didn't know about the speeeed yet
Thats cool
Hey, quick question: does artifact of glass on the prismatic trials negate the merc challenge, or is it still possible?
it does not negate the merc challenge
Awesome. Thanks.
bro
YO my fellow gentlemen does the red bowl thingy in the bazaar use scrap?
Yea
Just did it. Sweet.
I think the lowest cooldown that any skill can get is .5 seconds
Indeed.
has anyone else seen any weird cauldrons like this?
500 hours in and this is the first ive seen offering a WHITE item
that is a new cauldron
it gives you 3 white items for the cost of 1 red item
so don't use it
haha really? that sounds awful xd
Depending on what it is, I'd imagine its handy.
it can be useful if you scrap some reds before mithrix, stuff that wouldn't be very useful on the moon anyway, like brainstalks
fair
though a rusty key one is just pointless lmao
Trade all your legendary items to increase your chance to get a legendary from a chest :^)
Do locked chest still spawn in the new final stage?
nah
yeah, exactly 1 spawns per player carrying key
but stacking it doesn't increase rarity anymore
ohh word, where is it at I still havnt found that one lol
moon's pretty big so that's not much of a surprise
Question: If you could have one item from ROR1 or ROR2, what would it be? The item would have its in game effects as well as it's practical uses.
What are good items to grab for captain?? I jus unlocked him lol
the backup can be goofy with projectile deleting
Isn't his M2 buggy as crap?
I heard tri-tip dagger is nutty on Captain.
Oh yeah it is
Honestly i would take the shield generator from ror2. Just reading the logbook makes it pretty simple to understand it‘s handyness
Burning Witness
What practicality does a burning eyeball that does something when you kill someone have?
Yes
Sticks eye in forehead
kills bug
M O N E Y
infusion
Im mildly upset
Why?
I killed a scavenger and for the first time in like 20 kills it dropped a red item
Only for it to fall off the map before I could grab it
Rip
L
I feel like the item falling of the map thing should be fixed
especially in the case of printers
Items obeying the laws of gravity is an interesting mechanic.
Should I always go for visions of heresy on mercenary?
Doesn't sound like it would synergize well with his other moves. Except his alt special I guess?
Oh, I absolutely love the sword. I was just wondering if visions of heresy was any better because I enjoy that too. It reminds me of the needler in halo.
visions is good on loader, ranged acrid, engineer, and huntress
dont elite enemies spawn there still so its still useful
kinda, but it's not very useful for the bossfight itself
true but to get to the bossfight you gotta win
brainstalks win every time
i would put a funny image but im too lazy
Bungus

either purity or clover
probably purity since luck is invisible and i'd rather just get better at what i'm good at faster and more reliably
ooh smart
transcendence 😳
wouldn't 57 leaf clover be like free money just play poker?
i dont mind
just spend a bit of time every day with a punching bag or something
and youll have so much money you dont know what to do with it
i like playing poker without looking at my cards to beat people who actually know how to play so id get 57 leaf clover
What if Brittle Crown has to be harm upon a living being?
ooph
uh
Considering in the game, you don't get money for shooting at the wall.
BECOME A PROFESSIONAL BOXER
You better be real good at boxing, otherwise there goes your money.
wait question if i get a clover in real life do i get more clovers in game?
well ill be a professional so thats out of the question
Even pros get hit.
i spose that depends on how real life clovers work still want one
yeah but i feel like that makes it more interesting
now that i think about youd have to go through a lot of loops to make brittle crown worth it in this scenario
Become a dominatrix.
You don't get hit, you hit other people.
I don't know the demand of it, but that's the closest loophole I can think of.
bro?
:)
nah i dont think ill do that
Planula could be an interesting one.
Anything that hurts you makes you stronger (so long as it isn't fatal)
Depending on what a real person's equivalent of an equipment could be, that could also open some options.
radar scanner so I can find my will to live 😔
damn dude
that's deep
after giving it some thought id just take life savings
from ror1
seems like the best bet
ooh i really dont like the last stage right now
||just had a god run on bandit and i had 95% on the ship and died from the planet||
i gtg to work now but i just thought id leave this here
Genesis loop.
Get hit by a car, he's coming with you... alongside the entire neighborhood...
Life Savings is very safe.
$1 every 3 seconds, $28800 per day.
big moneys
Ceremonial Knives moment
that would imply that you’d have to manually kill one person first for the genocide to occur
or if you like stepped on an ant or something
triggers a global genocide
Yes
I mean it's not like I already would have to kill someone for a genocide or anything
Is double saw power-mode multi good?
Powermode on it's own is like absolutely insane, right?
pretty crazy if you'll find a way to deal with aerial enemies
I actually found the best tech, hands down
||Multiplayer||
tru
Sucks that the mithrix fight ends up being such a bitch
i mean it's worth trying to maneuver behind him
Juststay on the high part and let him launch himself into the air
And plummet back down
Nope!
today you die
gl trying to survive this
just d o d g e
the templar is unkillable now
My survivor: Mercenary 😂
Templar with 5x syringes goes brrrr literally
how many do you have?
yes
i didn't want to have to rely on tonic but here i am
I mean he will heal for 930 hp after you hit him
my favorite enemy in the void is def parents because when they get movement speed items they wobble really quickly
It's so menacing
nothing makes me both happier and more traumatized than goat hoof bisons
I still remember a parent walking towards me at insane speeds with hooves and whips
you laugh so hard at them launching themselves into the void that you never see the mach 10 cow right behind you
eh, not really. i find i can dodge them by standing still cause they just overshoot lmao
hoof whip jellies straight up miss you
When I was playing modded I got templars with coffee and syringes
With the void tweaks mod that gives frenzy to enemies.
Shot so fast they broke the games sound
i died
f
just be careful on last stage, you can end up VERY afflicted in phase 4 if you get perma tonic and drop mithrix's phase 3 at the wrong time
when i pick up tonic i always intend on obliterating
i fought mitrix with 100 afflictions once
never again
imagine an alcoholic fighting against a boss with a comically large hammer
the downward swing attack is a metaphor for the hangover that hits you in the morning
oh god
100 afflictions????
THAT IS -500% TO ALL STATS WHAT
what does that even do
@toxic wadi ok
this is nothing
i've once seen someone with over 500
204?
rookie numbers
i guess i'll go play drunk samurai again
gl
tonic afflictions are hyperbolic, so the stat reduction gets smaller every stack
which is why getting 20 won't set your max health to 0
warhorn and perma tonic is a match made in heaven
also
is momentum glitch still a thing
Which momentum glitch?
is corpsebloom good if you already have rejuv rack?
Always take corpsebloom if you're going for stage 6 mithrix
If you're not, it's still okay to take
Who are you getting mastery for?
captain
Yeah, take corpsebloom
The only survivor who might not be good with corpsebloom is REX because he usually needs healing immediately
But it's still a solid pickup
got it
momentum glitch with mercenary
Oh slamming? Yeah that's still a thing
The devs have said they're not going to remove it because it's cool advanced tech
The only change they made to it was increasing the difficulty of performing it in 1.0
Although the new merc utility apparently makes slamming easier
well, rip my pacifist run
how do you do a pacifist run?
at the least, you should not kill any enemies
thats the minimum requirement
and you either oblitirate or beat the last stage
you have to the bosses to proceed. so can you kill those?
It just had to be brass contraption too
trying to do this without command and lunar items is pain
Are you allowed to deal damage at all
Are you allowed to use stuff like Primodial Cube to kill enemies with fall damage
or get an equipment drone to kill things for you with the preon
or any drone for that matter
im gonna cry
i just got to stage 8 celestial portal
died to frozen elite aoe
Pain, agony even
is it possible to unlock items you dont have with the artefact that grants you the right to chose which item you pick ?
no
Nope
:/ thanks
improved pathfinding my ass
if the item doesnt require an unlock though, you can get the logbook entry through command at least
Should I grab trancendence on MUL-T?
oh, what "command" are you referring to ?
oh ok thanks 🙂
I think
is good on MUL-T?
how do you unlock items tho, actually, at first i thought they only could be unlocked through RNG (like you open a chest and rng does the rest) - is that the only way ? or are there particular achievements like characters ?
Some items can be unlocked through completing achievements.
Some are unlocked from the start.
yeah, then once you unlock that you can get them from chests
Example:
You want to get
?
ok thank you (those who aren't obtainable through achievemnts, you get from rng in the chests, so ?)
(currently in party so i'm not hyper focus atm, i'll read you guys when i'm done, thanks for taking the time to reply 🙂 )
No problem!
so, i eventually died (for the 3rd time) gosh its hard, i'm not used to Lacrid yet - so ! you told me some items were obtainable through particular achievements (which is good to know, cause i hadn't the info) but can items be unlocked through chests (random regualr chests)
so I found this, and look up for some guide
Will this fix my server lagging for my friend problem or just nah
Are you allowed to deal damage at all
@shy vale for me, a true pacifist run means you shouldnt do any damage at all, but its up to you if you want to damage the enemies to get them as low as possible
The cube is allowed cause it doesnt really cause any damage at all lol
Drone kills still count as kills tho
I'm finally doing it
as a whole depends on your playstyle
If you want to have many bonuses like abusing shrine of blood, 1 hp fall dmg, independence from healing items and focusing on tanking/dmg related once, little easier time against malachites -
is love
If you want to remain in combat and basically be sustain, you better with 
Thats so unfortunate
me too
Yeah, they're my nemesis too.
same
took me 3 days but i finally got a godrun on that god forsaken mercenary
@silk spoke Jesus wtf you were stacked
that's why it's a god run
@silk spoke you could have killed mithrix instead lol
and instantly die to phase 4
drunkard gonna get smacked by mitrix
you get hit by one shockwave and fucking die
yea, full health and everything and I get touched by one of those waves and die instantly
this would have been a good stationary turrets but I had fun
Yo, does essence of heresey have a proc chance? I'm not seeing it anywhere on the wiki
Its multiple hits sadly
Osp has obly saved me a couple of times and god I wish it would save me from shockwaves
Hey, guys. About to go to Mithrix with double shaped glass mercenary, and I'm at soup island with 5 green scrap. Do I take the hardlight afterburner, or the 57 leaf clover?
I'd pick hardlight
mercenary with double shaped glass would require as much iframes as possible but thats imo
I should probably mention I have about 50% crit chance with 3 harvester's scythes and a rejuv rack.
what luck items do you have
is the real thing we should be asking
and which dash did you pick
how many hopoos do you have
how fast are you
lots of questions to weigh which is better tbh
I have one hopoo, a ukelele, 2 tri-tips, two sticky bombs, both bands, and I'm using default dash.
Current items.
i'd go afterburner still
If you haven't noticed, I'm a lowly console user...
Alright, guess I'll take the afterburner, then.
for a second i was super confused about commencement
and then i saw console
hope yall get the update soon
if you jump up to the boss fight you can skip charging the pillars
I think shockwaves have multiple parts, engi is just too thicc
I still got the achievement.......
Final boss fight spoilers.
I felt like an anime villain with the Afterburner, just becoming invisible and popping out to crit him in the back.
Unfortunately, it took me like 10 minutes to do the final stage so I was horribly underlevelled and got demolished.
i finally dids it :)
11/11 mastery
my tc 280 stuck with me the whole way through, a real one
i played to stage 105 on monsoon and my screen looked like a flipbook
they're sort of straight lines lined up together to make a vague circle and I got hit by a corner of two which just annihilated me I think
the fps drops are part of the risk of rain experience
the best part is i still completed the run
nice dude 👍
Yeah, I think it's like 4 individual shockwaves per group
again, engi thicc

Umbra on the team tho?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend who was my enemy who was me
Bout to attempt a triple mountain shrine, I have a horrible feeling about this
an overloading worm on stage 5 and my reward is ghors tome
Or would that be four?
4 tomes
a friend and I gave a preon to an equipment drone and it managed to live until phase 4 and it shot mithrix
it also shot him during his death animation
most disrespectful drone I've ever seen
Is there a new hidden stage?
i dont think so? im pretty sure theres a bugged logbook entry for that right now if thats what youre referring to
^
Mercenary tips?
Press all the buttons
I realize I haven't even done the hermit crab challenge yet 
Is there a reason to do it?
to unlock Gesture of the Drowned, the best lunar
you're kidding
its arguably the best lunar in the game as it basically doesn't have a downside
automatically activating equipment is, in a lot of scenerios, strictly beneficial
I can't use it so I don't really have an opinion but neat
Ohh, sowwy I'm new so I didn't know
for mercenary, cancel out of your m1 combo last hit with m2 to proc the expose and get rid of the delay
use R, try to get as many exposes as you can to get the R back and then repeat
use shift more for survivability and getting rid of wisps
if you want to deal max dps on boss you can do m1 combo into shift into m2 cancel and then repeat, using R whenever it's ready and wont make you be unable to cast shift stacks
it ends upo being slightly different depending if you use slicing winds or evis
if you shift at the perfect timing you can take the 3rd hit of m1 with you while you dash exposing all enemies on the way
Wut items would you recommend? Besides syringe and crit glasses
on hit items I guess
ukulele, green missile item, blue band
focus crystals, movement speed
idk standard stuff
Awesome ty :3 now I can maybe get past stage 1 on monsoon lmao
Mercenary I always enjoyed but wasn't gud
tonic is pretty fun on merc
Im on console so I don't have bandit yet, he was really cool in ror1 tho
any close range items like hellfire tincture, frostrelic, focus crystal that dont always work that well on other survivors work specially good on merc
Ohh yeah good point, kinda forgot about those items just bc I'm an artificer main so I never used them
also something I have learned the hard way is that dont tunnel vision to the boss even if you can survive pretty long as merc by just hovering around it and doing your thing, bosses are often the least dangerous enemy around you apart from beetles
is there an updated items.txt?
I got one
thanks
👍
gd2 supremacy
lmao fair
gd1 is talking too fast for my mobile typing fingers
when do you guys think is a good time to do mithrix, right after stage 5 or more like at stage 10? (talking about monsoon difficulty)
just gonna put it out here
talking about the illegal mobile port isnt really allowed
jkjk
Sorry we cant all affort a pc
This game would suck if it was a mobile game
And by that I mean if it was a phone game
how do i unlock the prismatic trial
you dont need to unlock it it should be unlocked by default I think?
well i don't see it
on the title screen, there should be an option saying "other gamemodes", trials is there
unless you're using modded, In which case trials are unavailable
that explains it
can't do it with mods lol
has anyone compiled the ending messages for every survivor and every endgame scenario (dying before ship but winning/winning and escaping) for the new anniversary update yet? My curiosity is killing me but I have been awake for 20 hours and can't allow myself to do another run.
sleep?
That explains nothing where did sleep come from
wha
what does that have to do with anything
what the fuck are you talking about
.
The fuck are you talking about?
the guy said he hadnt slept in 20 hours
aight imma go to sleep see ya nerds
i told him to sleep
Sleep well
gn
it is not yet on the wiki btw, so that's why I'm asking
To what?
to bed
Oh why didnt you just say that 
idk sue me
close your eyes and die for a few hours
aight imma sleep on the floor see ya
imma sleep on the ceiling real quick
This server man istg
lmao
I hate that the portal is in the same color as the terrain.
I just lost because I just couldn't see the portal for 15 minutes.
the portals pretty visibly glow
and no terrain matches their colors
glowing blight blue for lunar
glowing dark black for celestial
glowing yellow for gold
Terrain is blackish, portal is also blackish.
no terrain is so black that you can't see a glowing portal on it
actually no terrain is black at all
its all brown or lighter
haha, guess you meant the teleporter
might have confused him there
though the teleporter is meant to be a little easier to find. They made it emit little particles so you can spot it on maps like . . .
Well I was going to say scorched acres but that's still not exactly a walk in the park to find.

have you guys got any page i could consult to see recommendations as for "builds" for each chars ?
There a few youtube guides you can watch to get a grasp on what is percieved as "optimal"
normally it comes with experience
loadouts or items?
Loadouts ? i was thinking about items, yes - though i would appreciate you explain me what you do mean by "loadouts"
different skill combinations
thank you 🙂
but yeah, i've often seen streamers doing massive amount of damage within 30 minutes of playtime, with good survivability, whereas me, on my side, i already have trouble dishing decent amount of damage, and survivability feels like a pain
What characters are you playing
so i must be doing something wrong, yet i don't really know what atm - i do play Bandit/ Lacrid / captain atm, those are my favourite
normal, not even Monsoon lel
It's cool
For Captain, I would suggest a lot of Syringes and a lot of things that increase your movement
Things like Crit Glasses, Syringes, Sprint Cans/Hopoo feathers
however a big way to get damage is through proc chaining
comboing eukele and atg is a classic example of getting good proc combo items
You touch one thing and everything explodes
gasoline up that cloud of wisps
taking notes 😄 have you unlocked every items by the way ? i miss quite a lot of whites and greens - thanks for the help, going to aim ffor that, cause runs were getting quite frustrating lately 🙂
You should definitely aim to unlock all the items
A lot of really good items are locked behind challenged
Such as Kjaro/Runalds Band, Harvesters Scythe, Gesture of the Drowned
However as Captain, the reason you want a lot of syringes is because of your microbots
they'll scale
You should be fine though, it'll come with experience
thanks a lot for all the help 🙂 i'll look for the achievement that i have to do then !
I just unlocked mercenary’s slicing winds and I noticed that my exposes were getting used by bleed tick which in my opinion it shouldn’t use it on Dots because it takes away a lot of burst dmg and makes it a lot harder to proc good bands, and even more weird I was playing with a friend and they could use the expose and I don’t think I got the cool down reduc when they hit the enemy so I wondered if they got they’re cooldowns reduced by using it. I think that teammates either shouldn’t be able to use it or if they can it should still reduce the mercenaries cooldowns because especially if your using both the alternate special and utility his Survivability is decreased significantly by not having his single dash off cooldown. Do other people have other thoughts on it?
I’m also on console so idk if they might have fixed it cause I don’t think we even have sundered grove yet😂
acrid has melee blight build and ranged poison build
dont listen to people who say melee acrid is bad
you just need lunars
But Mr. Twitch himself says that acrid has 0 businesses being in melee range good sir
Me and the best merc player I know both agree its very stupid
Also console lol
Yeah console is tuff
I can’t wait for the new special also the new special is a way that I hadn’t thought of to get better price for bands but it would still be better with the expose buff
Is there a way to better bring it to attention like can I email the devs or something
you mean utility?
Eh i guess it's good if you wanna recycle your abilities asap? so it's prob better for late late game, but at that time I guess your proc chain would proc the expose already
Whichever one replaced blinding assault
damn i just got an irradiant pearl on my first ever try
Focused assault
It’s good and you can run evis or slicing winds really well with it
But you can only do it once instead of it refreshing twice on hit and you can’t cancel the dash with another move
i got 2
I think pools are bugged
So they will always give irradiants if it pays out with one
oh
Was it from the same pool
yep
If it was in a row then yeah that was bugged
so the pools always give irradiants rn?
this was my first ever try
Still pretty lucky
I would go to theory crafting first so they can tell you why you're wrong
@slender sigil
I see
I consider this a blessing
Sundered Grove seems awful
What was Stadia even thinking?
I wrote a thing in feedback and ideas but I didn’t have enough space to get my last thought in
I wanted to add this:
The rework could be something in the lines of making expose add 50% (numbers theoretical) of the dmg the attack that uses the expose dealt, or expose could stay on a target for 3 seconds and add 350% to the first attack and reduce the cooldowns but after that the expose could turn red and add 100% dmg to the enemy for the duration but cannot reduce cooldowns further.
Gd2
Discover the hidden chamber in the Abandoned Aqueduct. ---- can it be unlocked in multiplaya ?
good 🙂 ty
Nice
That run was absolutely crazy.
god i love bandit, and i really REALLY love to play him, hes really fun!
but jesus christ i keep getting overrun everytime
i can barely get passed stage 3
Any1 know how I can open this file so it works? When I open it normally it just makes it a notepad file
I'd say he's fairly dependent on items, and his primary is kinda mediocre late game honestly...
Hotpoo please revert Merc :(
No
Who do you play?
the merc rework was good
it made him overall better and also made him a more interesting character
😂
I'm not meming
Its not worth it monster he obviously does not how to play the game
I will make them learn
expose is very fun to play around and chain skills with, i agree
merc update is my favorite update
hopoo really wrote an announcement that said "yeah we wanted merc to be a skill-intensive character but he's piss easy and we're going to fix that"
and then he did, true legend
the ror2 devs are a bunch of chads
based hopoo
Now make artificer suck less
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Artificer is based
Big damage and ez killing wisps
Hot take: ror2 would be better if you could pause runs
You can! In singleplayer, hit the esc key.
I mean like close the game so my cpu and ram isn’t being killed
Like save a run
I get burned out after like 20-30 mins
I think a lot of people are asking for that so it might become a reality soon
O_O
Really hope so, I haven’t been playing a lot lately cause I get to like stage 8 and I always obliterate cause I get bored at the time and want to do something else
Expose is insane, it allows for so much more dps
Not to mention it actually gives you more survivability
And you want to trade that for a titanic knurl?
Are you sure
Proper save mod, unless you’re on console
Oh you are on pc clearly what am I saying
That’s a weird way to spell huntress
Man I am really on a pinging spree
She also needs less suck
Artificer is the worst good character
Artificer is my favorite character
She is fun to play
Especially with Effigy of Grief v Mithrix
Really nailed the mage feel
She could stand to have a few minor buffs, though
I mean it’s not urgent
I would like it if m1 recharged a bit faster but ehh
I also kinda suck at her, not too great with low mobility survivors
Besides captain but he’s captain
As long as Arti can get a Hopoo Feather, she does great
Or 
in order to unlock OGM-72 'DIABLO' Strike - on which phase does the Orbital Supply Beacon needs to be dropped on ? like the phase where the boss takes away all your bonuses or the "second phase" ?
gotta be phase 4
not official, but the propersave mod saves your progress at the start of every stage so you can come back to the game later or like tomorrow
only issue is using mods doesnt save ur run stats
o..
what would you guys prioritize as for lgd item on captain ?
idk, i using item stats and run stats are saving
my recent runs when I use mods just straight up dissapear when I reboot
I use:
itemstats
betterui
propersave
skipintrocutscene
fadeemptychests
fasterprint
fastershrine
fasterscrap
strange thing
Doesn’t betterui have built in item stats
Although based off of this maybe it’s not the best
I think those are the stats for pre 1.0 bands lol
betterui has a combo with item stats that does the calculations when you hover over
Oh nice
which is what ur image is
Oh right
it annoys me how people dont customise betterui (like I do)
like my dps meter isnt covering health bar and my stats thing is coloured and has mostly useful info
Meh
i've got like 200+ hours now without a single mod lmao idk i feel weird about modding ror2
I literally only use mods for: betterui telling me armor damage reduction and stat/proc calculations
AND PROPERSAVE
if I could only use 1 mod itd be propersave
I wish I had a dps meter I want to test it insane micro with multi double nail gun retool releasing the nailgun to get the 12 shot burst every retool does not dmg that just holding it
I’m Xbox so no mods
I only care about it for testing purposes I probably wouldn’t have one when I’m just playing as long as things are dying I’m good
mm. i play a lot of Loader so DPS meters never really mattered
things either died in 1-hit or they took forever to kill, very little in-between
Well you also do 5 second bursts of thousands of dmg so a dps meter wouldn’t be very accurate
Bursts of dmg every 5 seconds*
mm one thing that sucks about loader/acrid/mercenary is if you're playing with lower-mobility characters in MP (i do this at least) its really hard to resist not buying boxes as you see them lmao
and since they're lower mobi takes longer for them to reach chests than you so just naturally ahead of the curve
Poison acrid good in MP, give everyone else items
But also as those character there are a lot of item that are better suited for other characters that might be on your team that you should be leaving for them
I mean yeah but item good see item take item
For example you wouldn’t take bands as merc if there’s a huntress with ballista unless the huntress already has bands
I once was playing loader and my friend playing captain took them from me
mm i agree. Things like predatory instincts/berserker's pauldrons/actual atkspd modifiers i usually give to my teammates
i feel like Bands are just solid overall
As revenge I took bungus from him when he was using engi
That’s just a bad teammate
Lmao
Lmao
He was like “taking bungus from engi is not the same as taking bands from loader”
And I said nothing back
Bands are solid overall but getting a 900% proc from a ballista will do a lot more than the usual mercenary proc
I’m very conscious about numbers and I try to make it as easy as possible by getting the most use out of items cause me my friends aren’t good enough to just go and do monsoon yet
Whoops
wtf i activated the primordial tp and i tped me all the way back to the beginning... is it random that it gives you access to the final boss or wut ?
if you interact with the prongs surrounding the primordial tp, it sends you to stage 1, this is called looping. if you don't interact with the prongs, it sends you to the final stage. you can tell if you will loop or not based on the dialogue in the chat (if the teleporter is aligned with the moon, you'll fight mithrix, and if it's aligned with the planet, you'll loop)
oh, tahnks for that, thats very good to know ! 😄
no problem
So I did the math on microing multi double nailgun by releasing the 12 shot burst and holding down retool and the dps actually goes up what I noticed is that it shoots one nail then the burst so 13 rounds every .9 seconds which is 910% X 1.1 is 1001% base dps regular nailgun is 840% it shoots 12 rounds a second now this obviously isn’t accounting for user error which if mis-imputed drops the dps to 77% but I thought it was interesting anyways. However because nailgun shoots the 12 round burst on reale as you will mathematically always get more dps by swapping since the total time of retool (the activation time and cooldown) is .9 seconds just some food for thought🙂
you get similar bang for your buck outta rebar launcher
well, arguably better
due to the longer base coolder
oh I didn't mean better DPS




is busted on the character

