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@@mr_dndScrapping Iradiant Pearls isn't really an option. Sure you can technically still do it, but losing out on a lot of its other benefits is rough.
I love Egocentrism. Its an item you take once every 100 runs knowing that it'll be 100% of the purpose of the run, hoping it doesn't take all your movement speed items. And then you're satisfied enough to not take it again for the next 99 runs.
I will say that my friend absolutely LOVES doing a build with stone flux, esp as mul t. He stacked it so his health was 20000+ and just used 3-5 wax quails as movement. Basically bypassed the need for hooves and drinks. He was the only one who survived our run, even survived a pizza attack from mithrix
Stoneflux's description leaves out crucial info. It should read "Double your health. Half your speed. Reduce your traction". That last bit is what ironically turns this into a movespeed item on loader. You can use it to slide across the map at mach 10 by maintianing your momentum.
Purity is fun, but only powerful if you know how and when to fit it into your build. A few of my friends tend to pick it up without much thought, then wonder why they deal so little damage. At least 5 times I’ve watched these friends stack purity on mercenary with eviscerate, then be relegated to the role of immortal mosquito.
The best use for Purity, in my opinion, is playing Acrid on Co-op. I just leave all of the proc related items for my friends, and become a jumping poison machine. Basically no damage loss for Acrid, and a HUGE damage boost for my friends, because they are stacking so many proc items. Best part is that the venom spit on M2 looses all cooldown, so ou can finally spam it on those pesky flying monsters.
i hate that stridesr of heresy doesnt make you inmune, it just removes your hitbox, so status effects like collapse, DoT or even an overloading elite bomb will deal damage, same as fall damage and certain area of effects which just take into consideration if you are inside the area
@@crangejo hoppo has stated multiple times in Q&A's that they just believe the game needs to feel fun and from that you can see they are in no rush to provide buffs for weak abilities or survivors and vice versa buffs for what is too effective. If you don't believe me based on that you can believe me based on actions as the only time I'm aware of hoppo touching up an already existing ability in game was to try and make commandos grenade feel better (tbh it made it worse).
@@lesliejacoby9137 hopoo doesn't even own the game anymore so it's pointless to really blame them for this. And those "weak" abilities are just those you don't like basically. I stick with regular Blink for Huntress, cause I get good value out of the vertical mobility I use all base Engineer abilities, specifically the Shield, cause I have bought into the "set up" playstyle I exclusively go with MUL-T's Rocket gun, never again using neither Nail Gun nor Power Mode, and I don't feel like I suffer from that All those choices would be reprimanded, and I do get a friend of mine to tell me to switch them up cause "they're shit". Literally all abilities are different instead of worse or better. Barely anything ever is worse or better. It can just do things the rest doesn't Also also, there is an increasing amount of people that realize they prefer games where balance lends itself to fun over competitiveness, tho I don't consider myself there, not exactly
When I take the Egocentrism, it’s always a gamble whether or not I’m gonna encounter a lunar pool. If I do, then all I need to do next is to turn all my items into iridescent pearls.
The ONLY real noteworthy thing about Strides of Heresy, is that it completely removes your hitbox for Shadowfade's duration. Which means that not even the Void Capture attacks that the Void Reaver/Jailer/Devastator use on death will hit you if you Shadowfade. At least, from my experience with the reavers pre-DLC. Can't begin to count how many bird runs were saved because of that.
If you don't convert the entire stack, and only pick up the pearls, leaving the irradiant pearls on the ground, you can eventually convert your entire inventory (except the last one, no guarantees) into irradiant pearls. It just completely blows out the clock.
Egocentrism is a beautifully designed item that puts the value of items in Ror2 through a unique perspective, an effect unlike anything else the game has to offer. And of course, with enough items, ego statistically has ZERO downside. It's just hard damage, that scales in range, frequency, and even more damage. And of course, cleansing pools are a thing. And because of those, ego is just a win win like 99% of the time. I have a hard time seeing why anyone could consider it NOT in the top 10 (at the very least) of the best items in the game. Im extremely biased probably but im just saying, it is unbelievably powerful and fun
The fact that several of these "worst" items are still quite powerful really shows just how insane most lunar items are, especially when played around properly
YES THANK YOU! hitting every bomb feels so good, maybe he is not the best character to have such a close range move with a long charge up but who cares!!! i hate this one beetle in particular!!
notable meme build is light flux stacking on merc. you pick up an attacking active item (sawblade is best for this purpose imo), take a few light flux with legitimately obtained lunar coins, and you take eviscerate. you will never ever have a hurtbox on the map when you fight enemies with this build, making you literally unkillable.
I really do like Lightflux on Artificer, because even if ice spear takes a while to charge, sometimes the longer charge lets me hold onto it for longer and more carefully consider which enemy to chuck it at. And it still has good damage only briefly charged. Small con for the pros of being able to let off 12 or so flame orbs quickly. It does also affect the ice wall casting time but you can sprint cancel that anyway
@@creativelibertiesweretaken3366 and make sure to pick it up if you have the red that doubles all healing, as it works in the same way eclipse 5 works. Doubling your healing at 3 seperate times, before corpsebloom when you first heal, after Corpsebloom doubles its, and after corpsbloom gives it to you. This makes it so you have 800% more healing
I was doing a Heratic run the other day and my goodness is she absurdly strong. There also no longer is the issue with skills feeling like they don't fit, as her entire kit works perfectly together.
i remember picking up a stone flux in my 2nd game cause it looked like a mask and was cool and then suddenly i was so slow and i just could not figure out what happened XD i died the very next stage
As someone who does a lot of Simulacrum runs, I'd be interested in your item tiering with that in mind. For example, looping and final bosses are irrelevant and while scrappers/printers do exist, you have limited (sometimes time-limited) access to them and instead are often choosing an item with two other choices to compare against. My personal goal is to get to wave 60-80 with each attempt as there's a mod that lets you end your run for lunar coins at those points. The same mod adds a TON of additional worthwhile content to Simulacrum which would be stale without it.
purity is probably one of the most character dependent items in the game. On Commando or huntress its pretty horrible 9/10 times but on Loader or Artificer its game breaking,
I think it would be awesome to see guides for individual survivors. I know there are a ton out there but most of them blow and don’t really cover much other than just reading off their abilities.
I like going silly mode on bandit with desperado with command, 2 purities, and a shit ton of lysate cells, and a few clovers if I want to actual proc stuff.
For new content ideas, I would love tips & tricks for specific scenarios. For example, I always struggle to avoid the Stone Titan teleport boss’s laser beam attack. A video addressing how to overcome this would be great.
I may be wrong but doesn’t clover and purity also effect chance for enemy effects to proc, with purity increasing the chance and clover decreasing the chance.
Egocentrism sucks cause it takes over your run, once you use it once, that's it. Combos and synergies are impossible, except for equipment. It's ok if your run absolutely sucks, but that is so damn rare.
Amazing video!! I love your videos because of the calm energy you bring. Idea! Items ranked from a NEW player’s perspective! Idk how possible that is tho. Another idea!! Secrets! Or hardest things to unlock.
Shout out to light flux on merc using Focussed Assault + Slicing Winds. 3x pauldron turns you into a helicopter raining down constant winds, and even though the wind up for focussed assault is long, you are invincible for the whole animation.
I played a multiplayer game with an Engineer that actually made Stone Flux Pauldron look good. They were running it with Bungus turrets (of course) to increase the healing their turrets were outputting, then using Volcanic Egg to move around. Mind you, this was a Command run, so they were giving themself everything they needed to support this playstyle; but I couldn't help but watch them cook and feel impressed with what people come up with in this game.
For new video ideas, I really enjoy the streams and the competitive speedrun videos. Edited versions of those have the potential to be big. Also maybe when the dlc drops like item/stage/survivor breakdown vids
Im almost positive the flux pauldrons are made for deep loopers who have 500× move and attack speed and need somethig to slow them down without scrapping items.
only thing about lightflux: it completely breaks merc. Because merc's moves have I-frames, by making his animations longer, you get all of that extra time, all into I-frames, basically making you immortal, as you can now just spam his I-frame moves as much as you want and just never be hit ever again
im fairly sure light flux pauldron is okay on acrid for spamming caustic leap and epidemic since im pretty sure neither of them care about attack speed at all, i think the poison spit also stays pretty quick.
To prevent spoils for people looking at the comment section before seeing the whole video VVVV I still won't get putting Stoneflux at #1 when something like Lightflux barely works on most characters while technically every character in the game moving at Mach 7 with 30 Goat Hooves and 10 Energy Drinks can have 1 Stoneflux and get pulled back to reasonable levels and you get double your max health which under other certain circumstances helps even more(Any %Heal is stronger, Gold Barriers are larger if you can manage filling it, general survivability with barely any downside besides stacking it more to actually hit a point where you're too slow to dodge) for you. Its definitely horrid if you just pick it up as your second item in a run but its not really built for it being a casual item, its a self-imposed throttle with a benefit attached.
Stone flux is great for loader since she still has amazing mobility with her secondary and utility. I always grab atleast 1 with loader. Also a great way to increase survivability in late stages where you are uncomfortably fast.
it's almost important to note for purity that it has less effect the higher chance you have. if you have 3 tri tip daggers and pick up 1 purity your 30% chance goes to 9%. basically kills it. on the other hand, if you have 9 tri tip daggers and pick up 1 purity your 90% chance goes to 81%. very small effect.
I've been playing Risk of Rain 2 for a few days now and the first two lunar items I've gotten were stone flux pauldron and egocentrism. I was just waiting for stone flux to get eaten so I could continue playing. Good to hear the rest of the lunar items aren't as bad.
Video idea: Monocolor Challenge Turn on artifact of command, and try to beat the game but you only get to stack one type of item for every color. For example - a commando might want Tri-Tips (white), leeches (green), Antlers (red), draconic egg (orange), and wunguses (purple). You can stack these all you want, but you should only have 1 item type for each color. I love this challenge run. I thought of it myself and I got hooked on it for months. I personally don't use lunars, but you can if you want.
I’ve actually done a few runs grabbing every stone pauldron I could find for memes, I’ve found that the movement penalty isn’t actually applied to wax quail, making stone pauldron if not viable then at least bearable.
5:01 while having the range for loader is good, you lose out on your best weapon, your fist, which gives you over heal (I think that's what it is called) every time you attack an enemy.
Strides could’ve been at least decent had they implemented one feature, the ability to sprint out of your ethereal form, then you wouldn’t be stuck waiting so long especially if you stack the item and possibly be setting yourself up to be surrounded as soon as you get out. Then it could be use in a pinch if you’re going to get hit by something deadly such as brass contraptions, or scavenger bullets then immediately sprint out of it to start attacking again
Glowing Meteorite suffers from the success it had in RoR1. It was the best use item, because it always chose a target it could hit. Meaning, you could hope on a rope and pop it and it would clear fast for you.
Stone flux is good if you hit the alignment shrine and turn all your whites into goat hooves, making the game unplayable by the overwhelming speed you have and becoming uncontrollable. In that case cutting your speed in half is actually quite nice since you can play the game again.
the only upside for stoneflux pauldron is if you are super late looping and you are just going too fast to properly navigate the stage it is a good way to slow down without needing to scrap your movement items. thats it. thats the best use. if you get too op you can nerf yourself.
I feel like stone flux would be useful on someone like huntress. Maybe not in early game but mid game, cause she has agile so she can shoot while sprinting and just generally has a lot of movement anyways. It *could* be useful on merc or loader (mostly loader) but the problem with merc is that once your dashes run out… then what? 2/3 of loader’s non-primary abilities are movement, unless you count thunderslam or whatever its called. I don’t consider the electric dome ability a mobility ability cause you require another ability for it to be useful.
I was doing a big looped run with a friend of mine and I had ended up with a gesture blast shower bands build. Once we got tired of the run (we got all the aspects) we went back to the bazaar and I took a meteorite to troll him. Because I had polylutes and a ton of gestures/fuel cells, the meteorites killed him through the 50+ stacks of safer spaces he had printed across 4 printers. I died too once I landed to try and leave the bazaar (was Loader)
@@Xeconis I wasn't being rude, it just really surprised me since they are literally like 1/4000 chance or lower. Even with luck enhancements, it is crazy to get "all of them" on one, single run
@@crangejo With stacked clovers, they show up more often than you'd expect, especially considering the increasing enemy credits and higher density of elites when looping.
Purity is undeniably good on desperado bandit where proc items are not as important and instead it Will let you stack tokens and one shot enemies constantly
I love Ego with all my heart. It is not a good item per say, but you can make a build aroind it. My favorite way of using it is to go acrid and search for movement item printers and jusy convert all my items to movement. Having a giant stack of one item decreases egos effect on you and also allows you to get up to enemies faster to really melt them. Throw in a good healing equipment with some gestures and youve got a killer meme build. I also love ego on moving sentry engineer. Three times the ego :)
Man I hate Egocentrism so much. I took that thing once and spent my entire run scrambling and panicking like it was going to eat my soul next once I ran out of items. By contrast, I've had genuine fun with Light Flux Pauldron. It is absolutely not for everyone, but being able to spam skills is fun. Stone Flux on the other hand, UGH. Fixing it would be so incredibly simple too: just invert the effects. Fatten myself up so I can die faster making myself an easy target? Cringe. Cut off half my body weight to become speed manifest? Yes please, I'm pretty sure those organs were superfluous anyways.
I also like light flux on engineer. I hate the primary anyways so just getting twice the mines and harpoons as well as half cooldown on turrets is easily a trade I’ll take for losing the primary
The Stone Flux Pauldron IS useful, you just need to look for it on loops. There's this pretty recent video from Darth Squishy, he goes MUL-T and loops some, starts stacking Stone Pauldrons,and fast forward to the end of the run he is literally fighting the Voidling point blank, without needing to move
I honestly like Glowing Metoerite because it will kill enemies that I didn't even know existed from across the map and I get some money from it. It's way better in Returns though.
Top 10 silliest ways to die? Or how abount top 10 worst/best feelings you get when playing (#1 being haveing the best run and ultimately dying in one shot in mithrixs pizza attack)
I actually would love to see hp stacking to be a thing. Just increase hp gained by items. Steak 25-->60 Infusion 100-->250 Knurl 40-->90 + 16 per level . This numbers might be a little to high, but if we consider how bad hp is right now, it doesnt look that bad. It would also make you invincible early game but who cares.
While stone flux sucks usually, It has my begrudging respect because I had a run where my movement speed went a bit too high, and it allowed me to survive even pressing shift and not slam into a wall and die instantly.
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The one thing Stoneflux is good for is when you're deep in a looping run and you're going Too Fast.
See also: scrappers ;)
So it's the worst option in a run at the point where nothing matters anymore.
Yeah just scrap the movement speed and get more damage
One of my friends like to stack it with shaped glass
@@mr_dndScrapping Iradiant Pearls isn't really an option. Sure you can technically still do it, but losing out on a lot of its other benefits is rough.
I love Egocentrism. Its an item you take once every 100 runs knowing that it'll be 100% of the purpose of the run, hoping it doesn't take all your movement speed items. And then you're satisfied enough to not take it again for the next 99 runs.
Don’t forget it’s insane synergy with egocentrism
Plus you can cash them all in at a cleansing pool.
You love Egocentrism because it's fun.
I love Egocentrism because it's pretty.
We are the same.
@@hansj4832I never thought of that actually, it does sound like a decent way to get the irradiant pearl for journal completion
I ate a purity, needletick proced on the back of my throat
I hate it when my needletick procs in my mouth and down my throat 😩😩
I will say that my friend absolutely LOVES doing a build with stone flux, esp as mul t. He stacked it so his health was 20000+ and just used 3-5 wax quails as movement. Basically bypassed the need for hooves and drinks. He was the only one who survived our run, even survived a pizza attack from mithrix
Your friend knows how to have fun.
Stoneflux's description leaves out crucial info.
It should read "Double your health. Half your speed. Reduce your traction".
That last bit is what ironically turns this into a movespeed item on loader. You can use it to slide across the map at mach 10 by maintianing your momentum.
Remember when the devs teased the pauldrons saying we'd be spending all of our lunar coins on them? Good times
What??? That was a thing???
Purity is fun, but only powerful if you know how and when to fit it into your build. A few of my friends tend to pick it up without much thought, then wonder why they deal so little damage. At least 5 times I’ve watched these friends stack purity on mercenary with eviscerate, then be relegated to the role of immortal mosquito.
That's so funny actually
i feel the role of immortal mosquito while playing engi with my friends with bungus only build
The best use for Purity, in my opinion, is playing Acrid on Co-op. I just leave all of the proc related items for my friends, and become a jumping poison machine. Basically no damage loss for Acrid, and a HUGE damage boost for my friends, because they are stacking so many proc items. Best part is that the venom spit on M2 looses all cooldown, so ou can finally spam it on those pesky flying monsters.
i hate that stridesr of heresy doesnt make you inmune, it just removes your hitbox, so status effects like collapse, DoT or even an overloading elite bomb will deal damage, same as fall damage and certain area of effects which just take into consideration if you are inside the area
Imo it would be too strong but hoppo doesn't care for balance like that.
... But you're actively healing almost 20% max hp/s
@@lesliejacoby9137that's interesting did they email you to tell you that or smth?
@@crangejo hoppo has stated multiple times in Q&A's that they just believe the game needs to feel fun and from that you can see they are in no rush to provide buffs for weak abilities or survivors and vice versa buffs for what is too effective.
If you don't believe me based on that you can believe me based on actions as the only time I'm aware of hoppo touching up an already existing ability in game was to try and make commandos grenade feel better (tbh it made it worse).
@@lesliejacoby9137 hopoo doesn't even own the game anymore so it's pointless to really blame them for this. And those "weak" abilities are just those you don't like basically.
I stick with regular Blink for Huntress, cause I get good value out of the vertical mobility
I use all base Engineer abilities, specifically the Shield, cause I have bought into the "set up" playstyle
I exclusively go with MUL-T's Rocket gun, never again using neither Nail Gun nor Power Mode, and I don't feel like I suffer from that
All those choices would be reprimanded, and I do get a friend of mine to tell me to switch them up cause "they're shit". Literally all abilities are different instead of worse or better. Barely anything ever is worse or better. It can just do things the rest doesn't
Also also, there is an increasing amount of people that realize they prefer games where balance lends itself to fun over competitiveness, tho I don't consider myself there, not exactly
When I take the Egocentrism, it’s always a gamble whether or not I’m gonna encounter a lunar pool. If I do, then all I need to do next is to turn all my items into iridescent pearls.
hey it's irradiant
I think Race should do a challenge run with both pauldronds.
This wouldn't even be fun to watch
It’d be funny to watch
"There are two voices inside you."
I have a soft spot for glowing meteorite, because it makes me the most dangerous thing on the stage in multiplayer
The ONLY real noteworthy thing about Strides of Heresy, is that it completely removes your hitbox for Shadowfade's duration. Which means that not even the Void Capture attacks that the Void Reaver/Jailer/Devastator use on death will hit you if you Shadowfade. At least, from my experience with the reavers pre-DLC. Can't begin to count how many bird runs were saved because of that.
It also grants flight, which can matter on Survivors with poor mobility.
ego is goated if you loop back to a cleansing pool. say hello to 20 pearls and 4 irradiant pearls
If you don't convert the entire stack, and only pick up the pearls, leaving the irradiant pearls on the ground, you can eventually convert your entire inventory (except the last one, no guarantees) into irradiant pearls. It just completely blows out the clock.
Egocentrism is a beautifully designed item that puts the value of items in Ror2 through a unique perspective, an effect unlike anything else the game has to offer. And of course, with enough items, ego statistically has ZERO downside. It's just hard damage, that scales in range, frequency, and even more damage. And of course, cleansing pools are a thing. And because of those, ego is just a win win like 99% of the time. I have a hard time seeing why anyone could consider it NOT in the top 10 (at the very least) of the best items in the game. Im extremely biased probably but im just saying, it is unbelievably powerful and fun
The fact that several of these "worst" items are still quite powerful really shows just how insane most lunar items are, especially when played around properly
I actually love engi's M1, i fucking love hitting every single one of those bombs on an elite beetle and absolutely obliterating it its so satisfying
It's fantastic when you stack Glasses and Instincts, and in general I like it, but it kind of is the primary that FEELS the worst on early game
YES THANK YOU! hitting every bomb feels so good, maybe he is not the best character to have such a close range move with a long charge up but who cares!!! i hate this one beetle in particular!!
@@caitily Glad i aint the only one
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Yeah lol
Egocentrism can deal quite a bit of damage, but having it risks every build you could possibly have, which could lead to a net loss in general damage
notable meme build is light flux stacking on merc. you pick up an attacking active item (sawblade is best for this purpose imo), take a few light flux with legitimately obtained lunar coins, and you take eviscerate. you will never ever have a hurtbox on the map when you fight enemies with this build, making you literally unkillable.
I really do like Lightflux on Artificer, because even if ice spear takes a while to charge, sometimes the longer charge lets me hold onto it for longer and more carefully consider which enemy to chuck it at. And it still has good damage only briefly charged. Small con for the pros of being able to let off 12 or so flame orbs quickly. It does also affect the ice wall casting time but you can sprint cancel that anyway
What if you get magazines and are able to just throw ice spears basicly all the time
Thank you for making a video that explains what Corpsebloom is in a comprehensive way I'll start picking it up if I ever play the game again
Yeah, just make sure you never pick up more than one! They get worse the more you stack them.
@@creativelibertiesweretaken3366 and make sure to pick it up if you have the red that doubles all healing, as it works in the same way eclipse 5 works. Doubling your healing at 3 seperate times, before corpsebloom when you first heal, after Corpsebloom doubles its, and after corpsbloom gives it to you. This makes it so you have 800% more healing
I was doing a Heratic run the other day and my goodness is she absurdly strong. There also no longer is the issue with skills feeling like they don't fit, as her entire kit works perfectly together.
i remember picking up a stone flux in my 2nd game cause it looked like a mask and was cool and then suddenly i was so slow and i just could not figure out what happened XD
i died the very next stage
Man dispute I always get so excited seeing a new vid. Don’t know how u do it but it’s amazing
You can actually use Volcanic Egg to escape Strides of Heresy.
Glad someone said it.
Stoneflux is great if you're flying off the stage when you press w into a slope. But that is very late game
As someone who does a lot of Simulacrum runs, I'd be interested in your item tiering with that in mind. For example, looping and final bosses are irrelevant and while scrappers/printers do exist, you have limited (sometimes time-limited) access to them and instead are often choosing an item with two other choices to compare against.
My personal goal is to get to wave 60-80 with each attempt as there's a mod that lets you end your run for lunar coins at those points. The same mod adds a TON of additional worthwhile content to Simulacrum which would be stale without it.
7:09 its very funny though, like it is pretty much jokes, fr fr on god. Coop with this is a hillarious laugh out loud
Glowing Meteorite is even worse because it has falloff, so it only does the full damage if it hits YOU and it can't hit flying enemies
It's crazy how a lot of these decisions change in simulacrum
The only use for stone flux I've found is when you have too many movement items
Lightflux + Purity on Acrid turns his Epidemic into your primary.
gouge is really funny when you have artifact of sacrifice enabled
purity is probably one of the most character dependent items in the game. On Commando or huntress its pretty horrible 9/10 times but on Loader or Artificer its game breaking,
I think it would be awesome to see guides for individual survivors. I know there are a ton out there but most of them blow and don’t really cover much other than just reading off their abilities.
I like going silly mode on bandit with desperado with command, 2 purities, and a shit ton of lysate cells, and a few clovers if I want to actual proc stuff.
Love purity! Can even work as a pillar skip on some survivors with just 1
Technically Sticky Bombs should’ve been included in the guaranteed proc section, although that’s far more rare.
All the problems with the last on this list can easily be summed up by a quote from a certain someone:
"Speed is war."
Defiant Gouge is insanely fun imo just cause I love stacking it to force my PC to start chugging due to enemy density in late game runs lmao
For new content ideas, I would love tips & tricks for specific scenarios. For example, I always struggle to avoid the Stone Titan teleport boss’s laser beam attack. A video addressing how to overcome this would be great.
I may be wrong but doesn’t clover and purity also effect chance for enemy effects to proc, with purity increasing the chance and clover decreasing the chance.
remember stoneflux can be good when you loop so you can get back to a manageable speed
TRUE, great comment
Egocentrism sucks cause it takes over your run, once you use it once, that's it. Combos and synergies are impossible, except for equipment. It's ok if your run absolutely sucks, but that is so damn rare.
Hear me out, cleansing pool.
@@ThunderShock7 still just takes over your run.
@@ceddavis7441 the pearls doe
@@ThunderShock7 but I do not like the pearls. They're boring.
Amazing video!! I love your videos because of the calm energy you bring.
Idea! Items ranked from a NEW player’s perspective! Idk how possible that is tho. Another idea!! Secrets! Or hardest things to unlock.
Spamming the bazinga out of my abilities rn
Straight up spamming it right now. And by it I mean. Bazoinga
Shout out to light flux on merc using Focussed Assault + Slicing Winds. 3x pauldron turns you into a helicopter raining down constant winds, and even though the wind up for focussed assault is long, you are invincible for the whole animation.
I played a multiplayer game with an Engineer that actually made Stone Flux Pauldron look good. They were running it with Bungus turrets (of course) to increase the healing their turrets were outputting, then using Volcanic Egg to move around. Mind you, this was a Command run, so they were giving themself everything they needed to support this playstyle; but I couldn't help but watch them cook and feel impressed with what people come up with in this game.
Egocentrism basically makes you Melodie from brawl stars
For new video ideas, I really enjoy the streams and the competitive speedrun videos. Edited versions of those have the potential to be big. Also maybe when the dlc drops like item/stage/survivor breakdown vids
Im almost positive the flux pauldrons are made for deep loopers who have 500× move and attack speed and need somethig to slow them down without scrapping items.
Thanks for tackling the difficult issues
that egocentrism slander hurt my soul
only thing about lightflux: it completely breaks merc. Because merc's moves have I-frames, by making his animations longer, you get all of that extra time, all into I-frames, basically making you immortal, as you can now just spam his I-frame moves as much as you want and just never be hit ever again
im fairly sure light flux pauldron is okay on acrid for spamming caustic leap and epidemic since im pretty sure neither of them care about attack speed at all, i think the poison spit also stays pretty quick.
To prevent spoils for people looking at the comment section before seeing the whole video VVVV
I still won't get putting Stoneflux at #1 when something like Lightflux barely works on most characters while technically every character in the game moving at Mach 7 with 30 Goat Hooves and 10 Energy Drinks can have 1 Stoneflux and get pulled back to reasonable levels and you get double your max health which under other certain circumstances helps even more(Any %Heal is stronger, Gold Barriers are larger if you can manage filling it, general survivability with barely any downside besides stacking it more to actually hit a point where you're too slow to dodge) for you. Its definitely horrid if you just pick it up as your second item in a run but its not really built for it being a casual item, its a self-imposed throttle with a benefit attached.
Stone flux is great for loader since she still has amazing mobility with her secondary and utility. I always grab atleast 1 with loader. Also a great way to increase survivability in late stages where you are uncomfortably fast.
it's almost important to note for purity that it has less effect the higher chance you have. if you have 3 tri tip daggers and pick up 1 purity your 30% chance goes to 9%. basically kills it. on the other hand, if you have 9 tri tip daggers and pick up 1 purity your 90% chance goes to 81%. very small effect.
I've been playing Risk of Rain 2 for a few days now and the first two lunar items I've gotten were stone flux pauldron and egocentrism. I was just waiting for stone flux to get eaten so I could continue playing. Good to hear the rest of the lunar items aren't as bad.
Good vid as usual, love that you just get right into it too, intros are genuinely so unnecessary I skip em most times
Now hear me out, An Ungodly amount of Stone Flux with double Nail Gun Multi.
It's OP, trust.
Video idea:
Monocolor Challenge
Turn on artifact of command, and try to beat the game but you only get to stack one type of item for every color. For example - a commando might want Tri-Tips (white), leeches (green), Antlers (red), draconic egg (orange), and wunguses (purple). You can stack these all you want, but you should only have 1 item type for each color.
I love this challenge run. I thought of it myself and I got hooked on it for months. I personally don't use lunars, but you can if you want.
12:08 I liked this item because it was random quirky fun….. until the day I lost my well earned hard light afterburner.
I’ve actually done a few runs grabbing every stone pauldron I could find for memes, I’ve found that the movement penalty isn’t actually applied to wax quail, making stone pauldron if not viable then at least bearable.
5:01 while having the range for loader is good, you lose out on your best weapon, your fist, which gives you over heal (I think that's what it is called) every time you attack an enemy.
Strides could’ve been at least decent had they implemented one feature, the ability to sprint out of your ethereal form, then you wouldn’t be stuck waiting so long especially if you stack the item and possibly be setting yourself up to be surrounded as soon as you get out. Then it could be use in a pinch if you’re going to get hit by something deadly such as brass contraptions, or scavenger bullets then immediately sprint out of it to start attacking again
Glowing Meteorite suffers from the success it had in RoR1. It was the best use item, because it always chose a target it could hit. Meaning, you could hope on a rope and pop it and it would clear fast for you.
Love the new vid! I agree though that there isn’t much to talk about until the dlc comes out
Stone flux is good if you hit the alignment shrine and turn all your whites into goat hooves, making the game unplayable by the overwhelming speed you have and becoming uncontrollable. In that case cutting your speed in half is actually quite nice since you can play the game again.
the only upside for stoneflux pauldron is if you are super late looping and you are just going too fast to properly navigate the stage it is a good way to slow down without needing to scrap your movement items. thats it. thats the best use. if you get too op you can nerf yourself.
I feel like stone flux would be useful on someone like huntress. Maybe not in early game but mid game, cause she has agile so she can shoot while sprinting and just generally has a lot of movement anyways. It *could* be useful on merc or loader (mostly loader) but the problem with merc is that once your dashes run out… then what? 2/3 of loader’s non-primary abilities are movement, unless you count thunderslam or whatever its called. I don’t consider the electric dome ability a mobility ability cause you require another ability for it to be useful.
I was doing a big looped run with a friend of mine and I had ended up with a gesture blast shower bands build. Once we got tired of the run (we got all the aspects) we went back to the bazaar and I took a meteorite to troll him.
Because I had polylutes and a ton of gestures/fuel cells, the meteorites killed him through the 50+ stacks of safer spaces he had printed across 4 printers. I died too once I landed to try and leave the bazaar (was Loader)
What do you mean you _got ALL the aspects_ ???? That's insane do you mean the Elite things?
@@crangejo Yes? What else would I mean? Their drops are affected by luck, btw
@@Xeconis I wasn't being rude, it just really surprised me since they are literally like 1/4000 chance or lower. Even with luck enhancements, it is crazy to get "all of them" on one, single run
@@crangejo With stacked clovers, they show up more often than you'd expect, especially considering the increasing enemy credits and higher density of elites when looping.
Have you ever thought about making a video on the top 10 most dangerous items for enemies to pick up in the void fields?
I once had 3 Stoneflux on huntress with a stupid amount of speed items. I could leap a mile with Quail but I couldn’t move very fast on foot.
I thought I heard Gregg's theme! Love the Night in The Woods music in the background, man, but might I also recommend Fall of Porcupine's soundtrack?
Purity is undeniably good on desperado bandit where proc items are not as important and instead it Will let you stack tokens and one shot enemies constantly
I love Ego with all my heart. It is not a good item per say, but you can make a build aroind it. My favorite way of using it is to go acrid and search for movement item printers and jusy convert all my items to movement. Having a giant stack of one item decreases egos effect on you and also allows you to get up to enemies faster to really melt them. Throw in a good healing equipment with some gestures and youve got a killer meme build. I also love ego on moving sentry engineer. Three times the ego :)
Since I tend to play with with sacrifice and command on I love Light Flux Pauldron. Can get enough syringes and then some to counter it
would be really cool if you made these kinds of videos for other roguelikes!
Man I hate Egocentrism so much. I took that thing once and spent my entire run scrambling and panicking like it was going to eat my soul next once I ran out of items.
By contrast, I've had genuine fun with Light Flux Pauldron. It is absolutely not for everyone, but being able to spam skills is fun. Stone Flux on the other hand, UGH. Fixing it would be so incredibly simple too: just invert the effects. Fatten myself up so I can die faster making myself an easy target? Cringe. Cut off half my body weight to become speed manifest? Yes please, I'm pretty sure those organs were superfluous anyways.
What I like to do with Egocentrism is t funnel pearls. use items as fuel and find that cleansing pool. pearls for days!
I also like light flux on engineer. I hate the primary anyways so just getting twice the mines and harpoons as well as half cooldown on turrets is easily a trade I’ll take for losing the primary
Love stone flux when doing runs where I get way to many random items (and end up flying off the map)
However, with stacking pauldron you can pick mul-t and become an immortal snail
I love that this man's intro was 0 seconds long.
Lunar items usefulness differ based on character.
Some characters don't need cooldown reduction for normal gameplay, others do.
I'd like to see more "risk of rain 2 is an esport" videos, they're how I got into watching the races and I absolutely love them.
Purity is especially great in multiplayer, let your friends stack proc while you stack bands
The Stone Flux Pauldron IS useful, you just need to look for it on loops. There's this pretty recent video from Darth Squishy, he goes MUL-T and loops some, starts stacking Stone Pauldrons,and fast forward to the end of the run he is literally fighting the Voidling point blank, without needing to move
And with this I'm not saying it's position on the list is misguided
I honestly like Glowing Metoerite because it will kill enemies that I didn't even know existed from across the map and I get some money from it. It's way better in Returns though.
Top 10 silliest ways to die? Or how abount top 10 worst/best feelings you get when playing (#1 being haveing the best run and ultimately dying in one shot in mithrixs pizza attack)
If corpsebloom actually worked in eclipse and kept the rejuv rack combo, would it still be here?
Smh it’s a moment, whole. Cmon grandpa…
I actually would love to see hp stacking to be a thing. Just increase hp gained by items.
Steak 25-->60
Infusion 100-->250
Knurl 40-->90 + 16 per level .
This numbers might be a little to high, but if we consider how bad hp is right now, it doesnt look that bad. It would also make you invincible early game but who cares.
what about the one time i got ego stage 2 and there was a cherf printer next to a cleansing pool on stage 3?
Shadowstride plus tracking wisps on sprint plus +x00% speed is lots of fun.
Ego + loop + cleansing pool.
I had fun that time.
While stone flux sucks usually, It has my begrudging respect because I had a run where my movement speed went a bit too high, and it allowed me to survive even pressing shift and not slam into a wall and die instantly.