#prismatic-trials

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cyan stratus
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because if i got a run where it happened people would complain i was only able to do it because i got a drop

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i can't really win in this situation unless i uploaded 2 videos

karmic thorn
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Did you just jumped through textures via shift and R? 😳

cyan stratus
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different keybinds but yes it's pretty easy to do as merc

karmic thorn
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That is high level of merc gameplay I ve been hearing a lot Void_Fiend

delicate grove
unreal lance
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So you don’t kill the greater wisp then?

delicate grove
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Nope

hidden pulsar
indigo snow
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Cabbage up at 4am grinding pris trials

terse musk
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Who made the garden fresh role

scenic surge
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cabbage

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Acquired it for being garden fresh, idk maybe the mod who pins cabbage videos?

rapid acorn
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O

solid gust
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P

scenic surge
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E

delicate grove
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N

wary ruin
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this one is so hard fml

scenic surge
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Merc slicing winds focused assault dps

snow lotus
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Could anyone point me towards how to beat the current Prismatic Trial? I haven't played since they took away my Scythe, and I really want it back.

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I figure with Artifact of Command, I should be able to make it happen, but I keep dying to the boss in the first area.

teal panther
# snow lotus Could anyone point me towards how to beat the current Prismatic Trial? I haven't...

check pins, cabbage makes a trial video every time

also iirc in this particular trial, a few lemurians spawn sometime around when you decide to deal with the greater wisp; with some luck you can get a white and a green to spawn. take brooch to lower your chances of dying, and kjaro's on your green

also ALSO you can always wait for another trial since cabbage posts their routings for each trial; you can watch and judge whether the current trial is suitable for you

snow lotus
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Thank you 🙂

teal panther
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welcome

lilac perch
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Thanks to the suggestions here i managed to do the trial with merc and unlock his 2nd special.
So thank 👍

sterile fossil
lean drift
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Pain

bright meteor
quiet warren
delicate grove
scenic surge
delicate grove
fleet crow
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Cap viable? Or just Loader

scenic surge
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i mean you can try

fleet crow
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I'm bad with Loader

scenic surge
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captain can get ~2:00 max I think

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Loader is farming sacrifice drop

sacred obsidian
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honestly I just entered prismatic trials one day on glass and kinda just winged it

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needless to say it worked and I got ethereal

teal panther
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lmao that's so pog

scenic surge
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@delicate grove ethereal in 3:39 Acrid

cyan stratus
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are we doing this now

delicate grove
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you two have fun

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ethereal is kind of lame anyway tbh

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pacifist ethereal is where its at

scenic surge
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😳

soft acorn
delicate grove
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killing the crystals invalidates your run too

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crystals are sentient beings and should not be harmed

scenic surge
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wouldn't you be able to fall damage the enemies to one then make them crystal kill themselves?

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theoreticallly?

delicate grove
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probably

scenic surge
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Boss 2 with a swarm of wisps MonsoonSaiyan

scenic surge
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incredibly bad boss 2

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@cyan stratus

delicate grove
scenic surge
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huh

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why is this happening

delicate grove
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because im not going to the artifact portal like a scrub

scenic surge
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ah

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imma boutta sub 1 minute you as a scrub

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(or not)

fleet crow
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Is it a new trial?

scenic surge
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yep

fleet crow
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What's the S1 boss?

scenic surge
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ez double beelte with swarms

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beetle queen

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s2 idk i instantly went scrub mode

cyan stratus
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is new trial good

scenic surge
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FREE

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comparatively

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boss 1 is double beetle queen with swarms, two is artifact portal

cyan stratus
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ok i'll go do it asap

scenic surge
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wig suddenly became scrub

cyan stratus
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suddenly became?

fleet crow
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Second trial I've actually done an attempt for

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

scenic surge
scenic surge
fleet crow
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Yeah

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Thunderslam or Pylon?

scenic surge
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i like slam

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pylon can probably get you to the generator faster

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but slam is consistent boss 1 kill fast

fleet crow
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I also like the Thunderslam for this one, but I can't seem to figure out how to get to the generator fast enough

scenic surge
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i'll shw you a bit

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but i think i'm going to go pylon

fleet crow
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Yeah, I'm nowhere near that fast

scenic surge
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and pylon is faster too 😦

fleet crow
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Even with my scuffed S1, pylon was faster by a lot

scenic surge
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at the start of the run you were 1:05.18

fleet crow
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Cabbage is running Ethereal now I see

delicate grove
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this trial sucks

scenic surge
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sub 1 seems entirely doable

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also what makes this trial suck. compound generator?

delicate grove
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the buttons

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pressing them is the worst thing imaginable

fleet crow
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I agree

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I must have a way different S1 strategy than you two, since I have a much worse time

scenic surge
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ngl i'm relatively bad at buttons

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use tincture on two crystals, punch the one near where you spawn

fleet crow
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I was using Tincture on the bosses

scenic surge
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& bosses

fleet crow
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I messed up S1 but I think I found a strategy that I can manage

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I'm not too great with Loader grapples

scenic surge
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s1 grapples are pretty ez

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once again relatively

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no pylon swings or angle changing required

fleet crow
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Artifact portal takes so insanely long to activate

scenic surge
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around 13 seconds to go through its pain

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i think it's 1 per thing as well as teleport animation or smth like that

fleet crow
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I have been managing to shave time off with basically each run

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I've taken over a full 30 seconds off I think

scenic surge
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good b1 bad buttons

cyan stratus
fleet crow
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Is there a different artifact code that can be put in even faster?

scenic surge
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i do honor

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easy to remember happiesttroll

fleet crow
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Dissonance would be the exact same number of presses I believe

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But instead of a triple press it's two double presses

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Glass would be the fastest happiesttroll

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I find Dissonance is faster and harder to mess up

scenic surge
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checks pins to see what dissonance is

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i don't like it, I just tend to circle the buttons, then finish wiht the center so it makes sense to do honor for me

fleet crow
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I do a zig-zag like shape

fleet crow
scenic surge
fleet crow
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Ah, that would've been very useful when I was getting all the artifacts

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Pressing buttons is the worst part

scenic surge
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yep

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and the boss 1 punch isn't fully free

fleet crow
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I improved my time by 1 second

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Would've been more but I messed up the buttons

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This has been my S1 route

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Though usually it goes better than that

fleet crow
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@scenic surge how are you managing to go so much faster?

scenic surge
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speeed

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Uh I’ll make video in a bit

fleet crow
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Dangit

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I had a new best.. then I royally screwed up both the landing and the buttons

scenic surge
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rip

scenic surge
fleet crow
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That makes sense

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Though now that I've been pushed back to 6th, and will probably be unable to take over 3rd, I don't think I'll do more on this trial

cunning niche
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sorry for taking 4th from you

fleet crow
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I don't mind at all

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Hey Zinq and Wig, how possible do you think sub-1 will be for you?

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You're only 3 seconds off or so

scenic surge
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possible?

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I had suboptimal code placement in my run

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And a crit on the boss1 punch can save ~3 seconds

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not that it’s worth farming

fleet crow
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There should totally be a prismatic player role

scenic surge
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As a reward for top 10%, potentially

fleet crow
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I wonder what that reward will be

scenic surge
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I mean preferably it’d be something that you can cheat in, so that cheating for higher scores doesn’t matter

fleet crow
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I wouldn't want anything that makes trials competitive and toxic

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Maybe a void currency if something like that gets added

upper maple
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How in the heck do I beat that stupid mercenary challenge

quiet warren
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For some general tips
I have a guide covering the general playstyle of Mercenary if it helps, but
Practice with Mercenary. The achievement is fairly skill-based, so the better you are with Merc, the easier it becomes to complete the trial.
Watch the trial closely. Try to find your own paths through. Cabbage is great for finding one path, but that's not the only way.
Topaz Brooch and barrier in general is your friend. Barrier doesn't count as getting hit, so Topaz Brooches can really save you. Shield does count as getting hit however

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Oh, since you're on console Cabbage's vids won't apply

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(Or most of the Ethereal vids you see here tbh)

upper maple
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I appreciate the help still, I'll have to start using Merc more

quiet warren
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The guide is on my profile if it'll help nail down his playstyle more

cyan stratus
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somehow got a double punch crit on the s1 boss, not on this run though

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1/10000 moment

cyan stratus
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sub 1 impossible gg

fleet crow
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Who's in first and second?

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I can't see the top 3 from my place on the board

soft acorn
scenic surge
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if there’s pits sure

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But I was thinking of abyssal depths

delicate grove
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sub 59 impossible gg

scenic surge
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nice

delicate grove
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sub 58 impossible gg

scenic surge
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58.97 😳

delicate grove
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also pretty sure that if you crit on a punch it will crit everything that it hits

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so not 1/10000

scenic surge
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these buttons are pain

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one day, I wish to be as good as moving object

twilit pendant
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How does he do it

crimson coral
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FAST

zenith plinth
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FINALLY

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Top 10

gusty spire
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hey is this prismatic trial in general simple or nah?
friend needs scythe unlock

scenic surge
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very

cyan stratus
zenith plinth
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True

dull spoke
scenic surge
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i just removed and entire hundreth of a second from my time

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🥳

cyan stratus
delicate grove
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as if i would tell you that

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i dont want to have to run this again

cyan stratus
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i mean i can beat a 59 pretty easily but just wondering how low you got it

delicate grove
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ill upload a video at the end of the trial assuming you havent beaten it by then

cyan stratus
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that's not very competitive of you

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anyways my s1 pb is 32.5

delicate grove
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im competitive enough to lab different routes, not my problem if your route isnt as fast

cyan stratus
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but there's only 1 route on s2 so it's not like your s1 time gives any information

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just tells me how good you are at buttons

delicate grove
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i suck at buttons, which is why i dont care for more competition during this trial

cyan stratus
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good opportunity to get better at them then

jagged dust
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Why does console not have the same seed man

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This merc unlock is killing me

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We need a console cabbage

shut harbor
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I'm also trying to unlock merc's alt special

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but jesus I'm not seeing a way to unlock it on this seed

jagged dust
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This seed is literally godsend

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On pc… of course… :(

shut harbor
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oh?

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oh ok

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so literally on the second stage you can skip the teleporter and still win

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I never knew that

shut harbor
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I DID IT!!

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finally

scenic surge
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nice!

scenic surge
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ooh cool s1

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if only I could do buttons

fleet crow
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Buttons were my least favourite part

delicate grove
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hopoo pls patch buttons in trials

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make it so going in artifact portal deletes your profile

scenic surge
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alternatively i get good at buttons

cyan stratus
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buttons are so much easier than the obnoxious punch on the s1 boss

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get it like 1/10 times

scenic surge
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go inside the first boss

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makes it much easier

cyan stratus
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half the time i don't go far enough other half i don't actually hit the 1st one

delicate grove
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buttons hardest thing in existence

cyan stratus
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annoying trial

scenic surge
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finally managed to use dynamic grapples

cyan stratus
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wait what

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if you combined that s1 with my s2 we'd have a 56

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my pb is 32.3

scenic surge
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yea

delicate grove
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stop sharing strats

scenic surge
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i'm suboptimal at s2

delicate grove
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no one likes this trial

cyan stratus
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i thought about doing something like that for s1 but decided it wasn't possible

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so technically i came up with the strat myself

scenic surge
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i didn't think it was possible til wig acheived a 55.88 time

cyan stratus
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oh i thought it was still 57

bright meteor
tender silo
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@delicate grove can you name 1 Speedrun community where sharing strats is discouraged? Why play prismatics if you don't like the competition?

scenic surge
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clicked exit to desktop instead of menu again guess that's it for today

cyan stratus
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i mean part of the fun is coming up with a strat in a limited amount of time, since trials are time gated, it's all just fun anyways nobody's actually mad at each other lol

delicate grove
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i play prismatics mainly to crush zinqs dreams

scenic surge
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consider them only partially crushed

delicate grove
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grinding prismatics at a high level usually isnt fun and comes down to high reliance on RNG

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considering ive spent over 2500 hours speedrunning the game i think i have a right to not want to do that more than i have to

cyan stratus
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wow that's 1000 more hours than me, no wonder i'm bad

scenic surge
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thats 2000 more than me Drizzle

delicate grove
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@scenic surge submit one any% run

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you can do it

scenic surge
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any% seeded pls

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rng speedrunning is pain

delicate grove
scenic surge
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Top 100 seems doable

delicate grove
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if you beat cabbage in any% ill never hide a trial strat from you again

tender silo
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What a generous offer

delicate grove
errant birch
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this took way too much tries

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👨‍🦲

jagged dust
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Pls lord give us a good console seed next

zenith plinth
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I have mercenary ethereal but I don’t know when I got it lol

delicate grove
velvet matrix
velvet matrix
inland jasper
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I FINALLY DID PRISMATIC TRIALS

fiery raft
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i did it

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i finally fucking did it

sick ember
scenic surge
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This trial is nice because no s2, and brooch

wicked kiln
delicate grove
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the seed is a random number that determines what the trial will be

sick ember
sinful sorrel
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I'm new to Risk, and the prismatic trial seed that was on recently when I first tried it was shiiiit

opal swallow
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Anyone know how to get ethereal for this trial?

fleet crow
opal swallow
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Oh sorry

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Hey I did it

fleet crow
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People have been going crazy with this trial, I'm down to 32nd from 3rd

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Or I guess from 6th but I was 3rd at the beginning

opal swallow
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It’s pretty easy not gonna lie

scenic surge
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It ends tonight, right?

zenith plinth
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Yessir

scenic surge
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@delicate grove y’all got a vid of 55.88?

delicate grove
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fine since you asked

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was funny when cabbage said about the punch being annoying hehe

scenic surge
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Every time I threw pylon in generally decided to kill a beeble when I was about to teleport

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And the punch wasn’t that annoying, buttons screwed the runs for me

scenic surge
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this trial is pain

delicate grove
scenic surge
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gaming

delicate grove
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wtf

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theres two chests right ontop of each other next to s2 teleporter

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i thought i got 2 items out of the same chest for a second

static anchor
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Is that a different trial?

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My trial is different

scenic surge
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console is different from pc

static anchor
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Ah i see

scenic surge
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i don't think loader can go sub 1:25

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at least with headset route

cyan stratus
delicate grove
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but its an rng grind

scenic surge
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Rng grind

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sounds like… “fun”

delicate grove
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i mean the headset route is also rng

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pretty much every possible route is improved at the cost of rng

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no glass fun

scenic surge
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headset route CAN be rng

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should you add rng

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Sticky bomb is always 100% rng relient

delicate grove
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not if you have 20 of them

scenic surge
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Also ocular HUD slows you down

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just rely on the 1% base crit ez

delicate grove
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only 1/4000 chance of success over both stages

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not as bad as i thought it would be

jagged dust
solemn fiber
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The number is how many times I've posted this in regard to cabbage posting a new prism trial

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Its been 2 years

craggy crown
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that's very interesting

solemn fiber
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3 times 249 is roughly how long its been

solemn fiber
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Why not

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Dont question it

vital oxide
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Fair enough

weary creek
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there no way to like go back to the last prismatic right?

teal pendant
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can hoopoo make the prismatic trial honor and command next i want my marc acheivement

solemn fractal
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I FUCKING HATE IT

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Why is it every time I reset I have to select the trial THEN MY SURVIVIVOR THEN I CAN PLAY

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So fucking annoying man Sadge

scenic surge
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If your fast enough on the reset you can skip the trial page by spam clicking where the survivor select is

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and then also predict where the survivor is

cyan stratus
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if you're good enough you can start the trial again without seeing anything, just having muscle memory for where the buttons are

bitter cove
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Anyone got any Merc: Ethereal tips for the current seed?

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Oh damn it's a pin

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10/10

scenic surge
cyan stratus
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you can still click it, and if your loading time is long enough it sometimes won't appear at all

delicate grove
solemn fractal
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God the best I can get is 2:36

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Sadge so bad OMEGALULiguess

cyan stratus
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that would be true if there wasn't rng in trials

cyan stratus
scenic surge
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I mean i got 1:32 as loader

solemn fractal
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Screen shots or fake

scenic surge
solemn fractal
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Wtf

delicate grove
scenic surge
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you should

delicate grove
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i tried sticky bomb strats on a modded client and it can get around 1:20 but trial boring

scenic surge
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huh

solemn fractal
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Yeah what

delicate grove
fleet crow
solemn fractal
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I was trolling mostly lol

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I always see their names at the top

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I just said it so he'd post his items EZ

scenic surge
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😳

solemn fractal
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Trying to do a run with stuff people haven't used and it works very well I just die before I get over the first stage lol

scenic surge
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one shot build is most effective for trials

solemn fractal
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Yeah yeah

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Just trying to make brain stalks work, had it work 2 times, and cut the time in half but die on stage 1

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I've killed the boss prob 10 times but die to his fire lmao

mental jacinth
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Hey

scenic surge
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also I realize my s2 in that run was sort of bad

solemn fractal
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s2?

scenic surge
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stage 2

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this is the route (I did), please ignore the stage 2 grapples

solemn fractal
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That makes me just want to stop lmfao

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You're like a pro and I'm a noob, wtf is that movment

scenic surge
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The s1 was nice, with the crystal jump

delicate grove
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the route is bad tbh

scenic surge
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im not doing sticky

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nor proposing anyone else do sticky

solemn fractal
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Discord is so fucking annoying sometimes, sticky as who tho

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Loader and just pray that your hs procs?

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Also why ice band

scenic surge
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yeah some weird route idk just grab a sticky bomb white item

scenic surge
solemn fractal
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Lol fair

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But yeah I can not get the gem jump to work wtf am I doing wrong

scenic surge
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you gotta hit charge punch exactly after you punch

solemn fractal
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Why do I sometimes miss my m2 when doing the tech

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I don't fucking understand

scenic surge
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pylon swing?

solemn fractal
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Yeah

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Like sometimes my guy will just miss m2

scenic surge
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I find it works best if you are falling down while aiming up at a 45 degree angle

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or anything near-ish to that

solemn fractal
scenic surge
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lol

solemn fractal
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Going to take a break

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Just did the exact same fucking thing lmfao

delicate grove
tepid island
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How would anyone even get ethereal in this one

bronze leaf
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206rank 7:22,14 😎

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Going to bazzar for purities is op

fleet crow
serene niche
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got 4:52,42 with cap'n

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could be improved tho

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got 3:13,33 😎

scenic surge
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Captain Diablo is the way to go

delicate grove
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no rng btw

delicate grove
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H3AD5T_v2

scenic surge
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headset is not rng btw

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Chance shrine full of crowbars with HUD is that enough to kill?

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no

stiff rapids
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only reason i even do these lmao

terse musk
scenic surge
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because it's smiling

zenith plinth
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hehe

bronze leaf
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Why do you even need to do it in under 2min

delicate grove
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didnt say headset was rng

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just meant that im not using it

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because bad

bronze leaf
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Yea, leg red item is bad

delicate grove
scenic surge
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new strat

bronze leaf
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I went full guillotines and armor piercing Bullets on first stage + BB, then went to the bazzar bought purities, and Air striked down the Crystals on the Second stage and spammed boss

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As captain

ivory moat
vernal hollow
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yes? i mean every enemy is elite which makes it hard for merc

ivory moat
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fair

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imma still try tho, i wanna see if that ability you get is cool

vernal hollow
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i never finished it because it was pretty hard but the ability is good

scenic surge
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I got a smoother run, but forgot to record

ivory moat
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it is sorta tough to get that merc achievement wowzers

vernal hollow
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true

bronze leaf
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Dang then i could pulloff it all in like 4 minutes

scenic surge
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you have to break 3

ivory moat
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man that was tough asf

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hate those wisps more than anything EVER

fleet crow
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Spite and Honor.. not great for Merc

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Do Shrines of Luck always drop the same items on the same attempts? Or always rng?

scenic surge
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same

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Only thing that’s rng are: Crits, Procs, Order of sacrifice drops, Enemy attack patterns

bronze leaf
fleet crow
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A wisp dropped that equipment while I was playing.. it isn't Sacrifice at all

scenic surge
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ASPECT MOMENT

fleet crow
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Ohhhhhhhh right

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I died shortly after since I took a Windows-shift-s screenshot and didn't pay attention

bronze leaf
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Imagine not using lightshot, also best if u got safety first

fleet crow
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I was running the trial for speed

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I was too low for safety

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I hate how accurate you have to be on this trial with beacon placements

scenic surge
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You hacking the chance shrine or the crystals?

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Because then I could say jump before beacon placement for sure

fleet crow
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Both are annoying

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And the DIABLO strike is difficult for me as well

scenic surge
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Diablo is generally harder than the beacons

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Diablo is also much more impactful if you miss the shot

fleet crow
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I'm trying your strategy and I can't reach the tp in time

scenic surge
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That Is very much a common issue

fleet crow
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I'm off by .5-1 seconds usually

scenic surge
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Alternatively, open the chest while walking forward, hit the tp then turn back for the command essence

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It’s slightly slower because you have to walk back to the teleported

fleet crow
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I had it in time this attempt.. but I didn't notice that I missed a crystal

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I messed up timing AND DIABLO placement

scenic surge
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That’s a more precise route btw

fleet crow
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Map broke this time

scenic surge
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Slightly slower

fleet crow
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How are you in 12th? That run seems very difficult to beat

scenic surge
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I’m assuming hacking

fleet crow
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Is Wig running this one much? I can see them from 32nd place

scenic surge
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They don’t run captain

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much

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Generally just loader

fleet crow
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Are there any characters that you can run trials with other than Cap, Loader, and Merc?

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It seems that even out of the 3, Loader and Cap are better

scenic surge
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Huntress

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very very rarely something else (with enigma luck)

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but merc is slower huntress without enigma

delicate grove
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Maybe ill run captain now that loader has no more competition hehe

scenic surge
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Maybe I’ll run loader now because it’s only 1:26😈

delicate grove
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Please do, cabbage seems to be struggling a bit

cyan stratus
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i haven't done more than like 10 runs

delicate grove
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@scenic surge nvm captain just realised id have to completely change my keybinds to be able to charge primary and sprint/strafe

real socket
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how the hell am I supposed to beat the prismatic trial with mercenary without taking damage

fleet crow
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Cabbage

real socket
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ahh

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but, like, any strats? I've seen his vids before, and while they are good, whenever I try, I always get screwed over by wisps, so I was wondering if there were any specific strats I could use to perhaps counter the wisps

quiet warren
# real socket but, like, any strats? I've seen his vids before, and while they are good, whene...

For some general tips
I have a guide covering the general playstyle of Mercenary if it helps, but
Practice with Mercenary. The achievement is fairly skill-based, so the better you are with Merc, the easier it becomes to complete the trial.
Watch the trial closely. Try to find your own paths through. Cabbage is great for finding one path, but that's not the only way.
Topaz Brooch and barrier in general is your friend. Barrier doesn't count as getting hit, so Topaz Brooches can really save you. Shield does count as getting hit however

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The guide in question is on my profile

ivory moat
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he did trimping once or twice, and did the 3rd m1 cancel with dashes/m2/r a few times

wicked kiln
bronze leaf
real socket
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so, practice.

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seems doable

real socket
scenic surge
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what keybinds don’t allow you to shoot and sprint

zenith plinth
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What’s the new trial like?

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Still not sure if I’m gonna do it

scenic surge
scenic surge
high ivy
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Facts

delicate grove
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I can do it but its very awkward and not enough fingers left for strafing

quiet warren
ivory moat
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Which is why they mess with one shot protection, cuz they regen differently from regular health

cyan stratus
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you're probably used to it if you use keybinds like that in the 1st place

scenic surge
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especially control for shoot

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I generally enjoy m1 to shoot

delicate grove
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the keybinds are good for loader, and that is all i need

scenic surge
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What’s m1 then?

delicate grove
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grapple

stiff rapids
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1 ticket to chernobyl please

scenic surge
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nvm

delicate grove
vocal shell
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i keep on doing the merc trial with only taking broach hits why am i net getting the achievment

delicate grove
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do you already have the achievement

vocal shell
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no

delicate grove
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ignore terrible stage 2

scenic surge
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how does one ice band with crit do enough damage Monsoon

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I was using preon with two ice bands and crowbars

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also that green item not all the way across the stage helps why am I blind in my multiple searches

delicate grove
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that punch is probably over 4000% damage

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idk though

scenic surge
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I would say crit but...

delicate grove
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preon also has to be right up close to the titan

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crit is very good

scenic surge
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Crowbars are actually not effective there though I don't think

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because ice band procs a seperate hit, so original hit has to leave them above 90% hp

delicate grove
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yeah maybe

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seemed like that when i tried crowbars

scenic surge
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great start: immediatly crit punched a crytal and killed myself

cyan stratus
scenic surge
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I seem to have encountered a skill issue

fleet crow
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This is a good Loader trial

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However, I'm bad at Loader

zenith dew
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Instead of an Overloading Wandering Vagrant, I have a blazing one spawn. Is it because I'm one console?

quiet warren
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Yes
Console trials are different from PC

zenith dew
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Dang, I guess I'll rely on i-frames from Merc's third ability to hopefully get Ethereal. Thanks.

crystal gate
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Today's prismatic trial is quite easy

unreal hawk
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Merc viable?

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I'm gonna try cabbages video

scenic surge
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Viable for speed? Not too much. Ethereal viable? Definitely!

unreal hawk
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Nice that's what I need

delicate grove
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Pls add ethereal achievments for every character

fleet crow
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Ethereal on REX

scenic surge
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Merc is one of the hardest for ethereal

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Potentially

tough belfry
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why do you think that

scenic surge
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Melee only

fleet crow
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He has more immunity than the other characters

delicate grove
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Arti and rex probably quite hard

fleet crow
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REX wouldn't be able to use any self-harm abilities

delicate grove
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Oh yeah lmao

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Ranged character have the advantage of being able to stand out of bounds and kill the boss

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But its getting the crystals thats the hard part

fleet crow
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Railgunner would probably be easy

delicate grove
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Maybe

fleet crow
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Now that I think about it, Railgunner might be very good for trials

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Good mobility, a one-shot attack, and range

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So you could snipe the crystals and insta kill the boss

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While using the bomb/mine things to speed around

cyan stratus
scenic surge
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Most good runs don’t involve getting hit, save for Diablo/crystal jumping

cyan stratus
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??

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you usually tank a lot of hits from stuff like lemurians/wisps because you're just trying to kill the boss, and back when rex was meta it was constant self damage

scenic surge
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very true

cyan stratus
scenic surge
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that is way back in the day wow

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did the overloading spawn with half hp?

cyan stratus
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yes, they were broken back then, something to do with damaging it when it spawned caused its shields not to generate

scenic surge
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oldest game I played was sundred grove update

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looks so different Drizzle

cyan stratus
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trials were much different back in the day

scenic surge
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No loader, was artificier highest dps?

cyan stratus
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mult and artificer were used

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usually mult was better, but arti had some advantages b/c it could kill hordes pretty easily while mult couldn't

scenic surge
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and no artifacts

cyan stratus
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yeah, those were much later

scenic surge
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so almost always same survivors I guess

cyan stratus
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mult and arti until rex came out, then always rex, no exception

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most people stopped playing since rex was always the same every trial and was boring

scenic surge
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oh boy

delicate grove
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nice timesave

scenic surge
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turns out doing the same mistake is equally fast

delicate grove
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you should do an any% run hehe

scenic surge
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I did

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my oh my I just keep on improving

scenic surge
delicate grove
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something something scrap barrier

river berry
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finally

bitter cove
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Dude same holy hell

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So glad I managed before the dlc comes out

real socket
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this prismatic trial is impossible

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well, for mercenary no damage

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I get to second stage, final boss and the two wandering vagrants are blazing

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how

quiet warren
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Console?

real socket
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yeah.

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blazing enemies affect players nearby it, so if you even get close to those jellyfish bastards you're done

alpine skiff
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can confirm

ivory moat
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your welcome for the advice

soft estuary
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is there a brooch today

real socket
ivory moat
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and pick up purity no matter the survivor/run

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that too

vale slate
cerulean vigil
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Best seed so far

alpine crown
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Me too, glad to finally have ethereal

zenith plinth
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Cabbage thank you for everything you've done for the ror 2 community.
i finally did it.

fleet crow
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That is a lot

tepid island
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got ethereal ohyea

fleet crow
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Is it possible for one of the stages to be Commencement

scenic surge
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no

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You can go if it’s meadow s1 and you forget to realign prongs though

mellow kraken
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hasnt cabbage done merc:ethereal on commencement before?

fleet crow
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It would probably be easy

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Due to Mithrix not being a very hard fight with low health and no items

mellow kraken
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old commencement tho Think

fleet crow
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Wait.. Razorwire?

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Why Razorwire

mellow kraken
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just to flex? 🤷

fleet crow
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I woulda taken a chronobauble

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And why the armour..

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I'd never seen old Commencement before.. ew

craggy crown
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ethereal isnt "no damage" it's not to fall below 100%
topaz brooch means you can take hits and reducing those hits for safety is good

cyan stratus
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i also did it on the new moon though, that's an old video

next leaf
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yo is there any way to see the whole leaderboard for prismatic trials?

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I'm 53rd right now but I don't see how I can go much faster with merc, but I can't see which survivor people above me are using

next leaf
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28th now

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1:28.37 as merc, idk if it's possible to go more than like 1-2s faster

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everyone seems to be using huntress/acrid

next leaf
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oooooOOOOOOOO 1:26.19

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1:25.37

next leaf
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1:23.57

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death

scenic surge
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Loader is best

delicate grove
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loader is best even when loader isnt fastest

craggy crown
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that's
technically true

delicate grove
hollow nexus
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Finally got that alt special of Merc bruh 💀 I despise this game now (/s)

scenic surge
fleet crow
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Sub-1 moment

real socket
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has anyone done the ethereal achievement on console

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for today

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or yesterday

delicate grove
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interesting strategy

real socket
tepid island
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Gaming

real socket
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how did you beat the 2nd teleporter boss

tepid island
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I focused on one and then went to the other, plus i was playing from pc so idk if it's the same rn

real socket
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ahh, that's why

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on PS4 the second teleporter boss is blazing, not overloading

tepid island
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Oh hell nah

real socket
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so it's impossible, and I'm just tryna find people who happened to do it on console if it's even possible

tepid island
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With a blazing boss, yeah it's gonna be a pain

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Doesn't mean it's impossible but i'd say better wait for one that doesn't damage you as easy

real socket
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As soon as I start the teleporter, I instantly take damage, so it might be borderline impossible

tepid island
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Can't even spam the special, you just teleport on the fire or something

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Well i'd say you wait for the next one, hoping for artefact of glass or no wisps since those were the bane of my existence on the previous one

real socket
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true, that hitscan is a nightmare

scenic surge
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wait what are you doing?

stiff rapids
#

AAAAAAAAAA

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Keep getting hit while trying to get ethereal

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Help

quiet warren
#

For some general tips
I have a guide covering the general playstyle of Mercenary if it helps, but
Practice with Mercenary. The achievement is fairly skill-based, so the better you are with Merc, the easier it becomes to complete the trial.
Watch the trial closely. Try to find your own paths through. Cabbage is great for finding one path, but that's not the only way.
Topaz Brooch and barrier in general is your friend. Barrier doesn't count as getting hit, so Topaz Brooches can really save you. Shield does count as getting hit however

delicate grove
quiet warren
stiff rapids
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I got it!!!

quiet warren
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Noice

delicate grove
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@scenic surge nice 11:50

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beat cabbage soon easy

scenic surge
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easy

scenic surge
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idk what would be much more effective though

sick ember
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What’s today’s trial like

scenic surge
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swarms and glass

real socket
cyan stratus
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people keep talking about console blazing jellyfish, i don't have console but why can't you just use eviscerate for iframe+dash out until they die or even grab fireworks from 1st stage and kill them by printing at the teleporter?

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i'd check it out but i don't own a console

fleet crow
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New trial soon

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I didn't even try on this one

fleet crow
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Hm

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S2 boss is Overloading Clay Dumpster

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Sticky Bomb

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There's an S1 Runald's you can get

delicate grove
fleet crow
scenic surge
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EPIC

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you don't have the 12345690 at the end

fleet crow
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I have absolutely no idea how Wig is going this fast

cyan stratus
scenic surge
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fun fact: if you do trial of honor, the artifact reliquary is secretly overloading!

fleet crow
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Yup

cyan stratus
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2nd boss is always elite, it's not because of artifact of honor

scenic surge
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yeah I realize now

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didn’t know the core counted as a boss

unreal hawk
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im never gonna get this shit

real socket
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what's the trial artifacts

scenic surge
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evolution and spite, so no real effects

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Would the DLC be launched mid-trial?

real socket
fleet crow
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And it's DLC so Idk how that'll even work with the trials

stiff rapids
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imma drop my 2 cents on how the dlc will work with the trials here

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My thought is that they will do something similar to dead cells and their daily runs, you'll probably be able to use dlc items on trials, but if you dont own the dlc then thats the only place you can get those items

soft acorn
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@proven cobalt how does the DLC interact with PT?

proven cobalt
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ive never done it so i guess you'll find out tomorrow

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well thats a lie i unlocked crit scythe

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then never done it again

soft acorn
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you haven't experienced the Ethereal grind Mercenary :' )

soft acorn
#

Acc now I want to know which of the devs earned ethereal the Chad way

proud kindle
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i feel for 99% of players they did the scythe then maybe ethereal and that's it

tough belfry
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surely the devs have played prismatic trials :clueless:

soft acorn
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Make the normies sweat a little for once

worthy zealot
#

This is kinda unrelated to getting top time, but I'm trying to get the achievement of not getting hurt during a prismatic trial. any tips you could tell me to make it better?

quiet warren
#

For some general tips
I have a guide covering the general playstyle of Mercenary if it helps, but
Practice with Mercenary. The achievement is fairly skill-based, so the better you are with Merc, the easier it becomes to complete the trial.
Watch the trial closely. Try to find your own paths through. Cabbage is great for finding one path, but that's not the only way.
Topaz Brooch and barrier in general is your friend. Barrier doesn't count as getting hit, so Topaz Brooches can really save you. Shield does count as getting hit however

Guide in question is on my profile

worthy zealot
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Ah, Thank you! I'm still a bit new, got the game a week or 2 ago and have been playing nonstop, so I'm trying to get all the content I can

quiet warren
worthy zealot
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I'll look at it, but I've been learning about the game really fast. Need to catch up somehow!

scenic surge
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@delicate grove are we 11% crit farming here

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no wait nwm crit glasses are a mistake

delicate grove
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i never crit farm

scenic surge
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yep

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neither do I

delicate grove
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that route looks kinda bad

scenic surge
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How so?

delicate grove
#

notenough crit farming

scenic surge
delicate grove
scenic surge
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Is that a more polished up rally point run?

delicate grove
#

No

cinder frost
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I'm not good enough to loader prismatic, but I'd say I did ok for my skill with her

frank sapphire
#

Ok listen, I'm trying to do Mercenary Ethereal on the current seed, strat is:

  • get the turret
  • go to ambry on Command artifact
  • get 70 gold from pods
  • get missile launcher and fuel cell
  • hide like a bitch while missiles or turret kill stuff

Here's the problems:

  • Kin artifact does not work, regular spawns
  • Artifact keys do damage, but it gets healed
  • Dunno if multiple keys (5-6?) will insta-kill the core
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tips appreciated

desert pine
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multiple keys will not do anything more, only one works at a time

frank sapphire
#

So Meadows -> Ambry bypass is no longer doable?

frank sapphire
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Nope no insta-kill, Ambry is not doable as core heals all key damage

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Welp, time to wait again. Shame really, was a cool strat

soft acorn
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The bypass is stage 4->meadows ->ambry instead of tp boss, not meadows -> ambry magic

dawn fox
#

I DID IT

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I cheesed ethereal

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with a topaz brooch

stuck totem
#

Not really cheesing it, that’s the primary method lol

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Otherwise it’s extremely skill required to not get hit at ALL

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But congrats!

dawn fox
#

I spend 4 hours on that shit and I'm happy now

next leaf
#

ethereal is ez money if it's artifact of glass

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since you get one shot anyway xd

sterile fossil
cyan stratus
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does the new trial have the sotv stuff even for people without the dlc?\

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it looks like that's how it works, otherwise there'd be split leaderboards

latent coral
#

Im still still trying to get ethereal what are the best strats for current seed or did it just reset?

scenic surge
#

Console?

zenith plinth
#

DUDE

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does everyone have the same prismatic trial?

tall dawn
#

yes… thats the whole point

zenith plinth
#

well i didn't know

scenic surge
#

anyone else notice one of the tri shops had hoofs and then watch and elixer?

scenic surge
#

It changed between runs

jagged dust
delicate grove
#

teleporter inside a void seed, the ultimate ethereal challenge

zenith plinth
#

do trials change every day, every few days or every week?

frank sapphire
#

72 hours

wicked blaze
#

you can stand on the jellyfish guy!

frank sapphire
nova sentinel
scenic surge
#

Wait s1 is now sulfur pools for all pc players though right?

delicate grove
#

Pc players with the dlc

cyan stratus
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isn't it for players without dlc too

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also @delicate grove have you ran new boss% yet

jovial basin
#

Damn today's seems hard. I should do these more i never do em

jovial basin
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I did it

delicate grove
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pretty fun with loader

cyan stratus
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idk much about how to get there but i think there's a bunch of rng involved for the fastest way

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i posted a 13:03 but i think if beating it counts as any% it could technically be faster than current any% record (?)

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with early portal spawn rng

delicate grove
#

yeah i think so

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i havent tested whether beating that boss counts for the beating the game achievement

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because if it doesnt then its not really any%

ornate lintel
# cyan stratus isn't it for players without dlc too

Prismatic Trials should be the same for everyone, and that means that expansion content is always enabled regardless of whether you own it. That's the intention anyway, so please let me know if that's not the case.

delicate grove
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did people without the dlc get an update aswell?

scenic surge
#

picking up delivery sheet changes the items in one of the normal multishops

tough belfry
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i think you have everything downloaded but don't get the option to enable dlc content, idk though

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so in trials it just has it enabled

cyan stratus
#

ok so you literally spawn inside a void thing on stage 2 for this trial ??

scenic surge
#

blue portal?

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and it doesn't have Iframes

cyan stratus
#

yeah blue portal is the only way to do it, and no you can't use iframes at the start

scenic surge
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bortal dream gets you vagrant, which you can bop easily to hceese both bosses

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also gets you an around 2:30 time

median mortar
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How in the world do you guys do this

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Fire birds insta kill anybody I play

cyan stratus
inland jasper
cyan stratus
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stand at the same spot i do, if it doesn't jump off just move around a bit

inland jasper
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thanks

candid pasture
#

Let's just hope the rng won't put a void at stage 1 of prismatic trial.

dense cipher
#

I am literally unable to complete a prismatic trial due to the bad rng of the artefacts

frank sapphire
urban estuary
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prismatic so hard

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took me 3 hours of grinding on a glass command kin day to unlock slicing winds

frank sapphire
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Took me about 100 coins with the above strat
But finally, sweet video game points

urban estuary
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oh lmfao i didnt even know that was possible

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i just lucked out with some green items and stuff and watching where wisps were

devout hearth
#

man today sucks lmaooo

scenic surge
#

the way I see it there are two viable routes:
Captain speed shoot + Diablo
Mercenary double boss cheese

delicate grove
#

no loader?

carmine mural
#

reuploaded video due to edit

median mortar
#

I have Honor, Enigma, Dissonance, Evolution and swarms

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Actually impossible

cyan stratus
#

that isn't worse than on pc, pc has sacrifice and no enigma, it also has soul

dense cipher
feral folio
#

Anyone got a strategy for the Prismatic Trial today? I'm having difficulties

scenic surge
#

maybe though if you do chimeras

median mortar
dense cipher
#

It feels really bad

fleet crow
wispy compass
zenith plinth
#

I believe it is

dense cipher
delicate grove
scenic surge
#

Any boss skips?

delicate grove
#

No just cheese the first boss off the cliff

wanton moss
#

whats the trial rn

split pendant
#

Just threw my run when the last boss had like 200 hp left

split pendant
#

Desperados pretty easy to stack with the half health enemies too

weary knoll
#

Is the current trial easy for merc to get his alt special?

scenic surge
#

not too hard, just double boss cheese

terse musk
fleet crow
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Yes, but all PC have the same and all console have the same

small mason
#

Is today a good day for console? The golems keep fucking up ethereal with the tracking Lazer stuff they shouldn't have

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The titans just seem completely unavoidable, especially in the last phase, with two of them

cyan stratus
#

found a funny bug with trials, you can use it to get free ethereal i guess, not sure if it works on console https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA6NwWBj6ak

so i found this bug with prismatic trials, if you enter the prismatic trial start screen, leave, and then create a multiplayer lobby it'll act as a prismatic trial. you can get ethereal for free if you just hide somewhere and have your friends kill everything i guess. it's a pretty funny bug, but it doesn't actually record your time on the leade...

▶ Play video
delicate grove
#

I am currently taking ethereal comissions, $5 per player

quiet warren
#

mone

weary knoll
quiet warren
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Send it to their paypal obviously

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Give them your steam account too

weary knoll
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No chance

delicate grove
#

if you read the post directly above mine you will understand

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people join my multiplayer lobby and i do all the teleporter events while they go and hide, and me get big $$$

quiet warren
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It's all profit

tacit nova
delicate grove
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BuT ThAtS ChEaTiNg

median mortar
#

@dense cipher 3 hours till reroll

dense cipher
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Alright

#

If you set your device’s time forward to a reroll, it will reroll so you can do it until you get good artefacts

dry surge
obsidian harness
#

so apparently you have access to most of the SoTV content in this mode, even if you dont have the dlc

#

that supposed to happen?

cyan stratus
#

yeah, everyone has the same trial

cyan stratus
fleet crow
#

The pins here need to get fixed

cyan stratus
#

i don't know how it works, i just know that it works

limber comet
#

i think that this makes it way more difficult

snow crystal
#

is the trial changed now?

#

i never done one before and the last one was just too difficult PoutyGrill

#

first ever Prismatic Trial, top 500 HYPERS

vivid oxide
#

Is ethereal really hard to get?

#

Or is there another skill that’s harder to obtain?

lime coral
vivid oxide
#

I guess I am really lucky that I got it solo?

lime coral
#

This challenge is honestly shit and makes me want to get it by cheating with mods or so

lime coral
#
  • i Hate mercenary, masochist character
scenic surge
delicate grove
#

oh cool void fields counts as a stage now

scenic surge
#

yep

#

it's a crit farm trial woohoo

weary knoll
frozen slate
#

3 days

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like every other Pris Trial

delicate grove
gray frost
#

Now how do I beat the prismatic trials with mercenary

delicate grove
#

play multiplayer with someone and let them do all the work

scenic surge
#

you can also probably play multiplayer, make them do all the work stage one, and sit in the cell in void fields too this trial

quiet warren
# gray frost Now how do I beat the prismatic trials with mercenary

For some general tips
I have a guide covering the general playstyle of Mercenary if it helps, but
Practice with Mercenary. The achievement is fairly skill-based, so the better you are with Merc, the easier it becomes to complete the trial.
Watch the trial closely. Try to find your own paths through. Cabbage is great for finding one path, but that's not the only way.
Topaz Brooch and barrier in general is your friend. Barrier doesn't count as getting hit, so Topaz Brooches can really save you. Shield does count as getting hit however

Guide in question is on my profile

sweet shell
#

new seed is so fast

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did a terrible run on it and was still just over 2 mins, can probably knock at least 15 seconds off

delicate grove
#

@scenic surge hehe

scenic surge
#

uh oh

sweet shell
#

oof why does the terrain clipping on sniper bullets haev to be so jaaaank

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crystals in crosshair over hill - nope you hit the hill ;s

scenic surge
#

Something about crystal hit boxes

sweet shell
#

also the hill clipping

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cos its hitting the hill before it reaches the crystal

scenic surge
#

1:17

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That number is very low

delicate grove
#

#nocrit

scenic surge
#

REALLY

sweet shell
#

wouldnt be with sniper

scenic surge
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it default punch more dps?

delicate grove
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oh didnt realise you were using thunder gauntlet

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thunder is more dps i think

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i will try using it

scenic surge
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was it #nosticky

delicate grove
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ofc

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nvm thunder not gonna work for my route

sweet shell
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fastest time i can get with sniper is 1:15 to just reach the second tele q.q

scenic surge
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with newt?

sweet shell
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que?

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nailed the path i was aiming for with sniper will upload clip

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1:42.94

scenic surge
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I can't even first boss with normal punch

sweet shell
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idk enough loader to try him in pris trials, ill have to practice him in other modes first

zenith plinth
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boobie

cyan stratus
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this used to not do anything, how did you find it

scenic surge
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void fields supposedly now counts as a stage for normal runs, thought maybe that might effect prismatics

cyan stratus
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interesting

past reef
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Are the Prismatic trials the same for console and PC