you see Mr.streamer, the bauble slows enemies on hit making them easier to hit multiple more times, therefore increasing your DPS substancially, making it the best damage oriented item on the tier 2 slot. . . . . Kappa
57 leaf clover is actually overrated because it needs other items to be any good. This makes it very situational, and a better choice for the number one spot would be the happiest mask.
Edit: Note, the following two paragraphs are mega cringe made by yours truly. I understand that Dorky was almost certainly being sarcastic, but I lacked the context to truly understand and made the wrong assumption along with a few others here since the written word sucks at giving enough tone and clues on it's own to understand sarcasm in such a short amount of words. That being said, enjoy my passionate rambling about game mechanics if you want to and maybe laugh with me on how seriously I'm taking Dorkly's post. It's situational condition isn't negative enough and just about every item in the game is conditional. What it effects is incredibly abundant and the effect is so exponential that no other red comes close to it's power. Sure, you might have a single run with clover that ends because you didn't have anything to proc it with, but you can essentially say the same or something similar for every single item in this game. Additionally, having bad luck with item rolls after getting a single good one will kill any run you play; it's not unique to 57-leaf Clover. Thus, it's the fact that it exponentially increases the conditional effect of all but 1 item in the game that makes it far, far greater than any red. For example, Happiest Mask's conditional requirement is to kill things so if you already lack damage it won't save your run. Not to mention the game's friendly AI needs some work since they get stuck on everything and can't prioritize bigger threats. Also, the specific type enemy ghost you get may not be that great. Finally, the things you want as a ghost are likely the tankiest enemies around.
@@axolot12345 I have, it's just that text doesn't translate sarcasm well at all. You need to add something to it to give the context of humor, something that's not present in Dorky's post. Or, just simply know the person and I don't know Dorkly. Woolie's post also wasn't there for me when I was making my response to add the context either. Therefore, I assumed it was a geniune response and I do apologize for giving them an earful.
I'm always surprised the disposal missle launcher doesn't get more love...hits for a total of 3600% damage and each missle hit has a proc coefficient of 1. With just 1 gesture and few fuel cells you can fire them basically non stop. Plus they're homing so you don't even have to do anything as they just kill everything on and off screen while you collect loot...
IIRC, missiles of any kind will dissipate if they hit a ceiling. So while missiles are great damage sources, if you’re flying around a lot in enclosed spaces or go into areas with very low ceilings, you can accidentally neuter your damage output. Still, they’re superior crowd control to cap, so I’d take missiles any day.
@@romannasuti25 actually missiles don't have collision with walls or ceilings or really anything other than enemies. riskofrain.fandom.com/wiki/Disposable_Missile_Launcher_(Risk_of_Rain_2) And if there aren't any enemies they just circle until some appear or they respawn after like 20 or 30 seconds
Brook Meade I've found that they actually do explode on ceilings or overhangs, and that if there's no enemies around it doesn't take too long for them to rocket back into the ground (about 20 seconds, as you said)
I’ll never forget finding a Clover printer on a god run I was doing with a friend. We both had plenty of rare items, so we gave up 10 rare items each for 10 clovers and it was glorious chaos
And it slows enemies down by a LOT so I actually really like it. I combine it with mul-t's blast canister,ukeleles, brilliant behemoth and shatterspleen with 10 crit glasses for maximum crowd destruction
As somebody who’s seen some crazy death mark runs, having just one stack of chronobauble makes procing death mark much easier as it’s a reliable source of one debuff.
@@romannasuti25 I think this easily classifies it as " not the worst item in the game ", so while I appretiate Woolie's jokes, (because stacking chronobauble is worthless), it also deserves its place as one of the first green items i get on a command run.
@@contentiouscritic yeah, if you had to introduce a borderline broken item that is activated by a shitty item, that shitty item is still shitty, it's just enabling something better.
OMalleyTheMaggot nah right? It’s just a two piece item in some sense because otherwise they’re both “bad” / not as good. Plus chronobauble has a decent effect actually in some instances. Admittedly it’s only use is really as a one stack. It’s still not the last item I get on command
Note to anyone who sees this: As of the 1.0 update one shot protection does NOT work with shaped glass. You can die from fall damage with shaped glass now too.
For anyone watching this video now the irradient pearl drop chance has been buffed from 4% to 20% so still unlikely to get one in a run but definitely an improvement
@@Woolie I would expect nothing less from someone who doesn't put the Chronobauble at #1. Like, who even does that? What, next you'll tell me that Red Whip isn't the best right after it?
The most heartbreaking moment for me in this game was when I found and atg cauldron AND a 57 leaf clover cauldron in the bazaar at the same time, and it was a command run
@michaelbarcena1695 I just figured out artifacts earlier! I've only had the game for a day. I just got the command one, having a blast with the game so far
I don’t play monsoon so maybe this is an incorrect statement but I think the head stomper legendary is really underrated. You can use about 4 or more wax quails on a slope, fly stupidly high in the air and one shot the teleporter boss.
No it really is underrated. The potential damage of it is massive, a single band then multiplies it by 300% and there's just nothing that survives that 300000% total damage or whatever insane number it is. It's not better than a clover but it deserves a high spot on the list of good reds.
For the boss items, I would say that Little Disciple would be right with Genesis Loop due to the fact that it's incredibly similar to N'Kahuna's Opinion except healing isn't required. I've gotten tons of runs where I've gotten one or two disciples and all I had to do was sprint next to enemies and they were instantly melted.
@@freefalling4271 To be fair, while Genesis Loop is good, and don't get me wrong I think it's a fantastic item, I feel that Little Disciple is better on the majority of Survivors, where Genesis Loop only really shines on Engineer.
6:55 I myself would have voted for Little Disciple because despite not knowing what its proc coefficient IS I know it is higher than 0 and getting free attacks while sprinting is useful on anyone as it gives strafing characters more opportunities to sprint without stopping their attacks completely and it gives characters with sprint attacks even more attacks.
yea bro, the very first item i got on a run the other day was a clover. By the time the run was finished, 330 minutes later, stage 32, it was glorious.
Early game Red Whips are deceptively strong in how they work for you. You can clear early stages substantially faster (and open more chests in less time) getting more items and wasting less time. The faster clear times and more items early on has a multiplicative effect where by the time you make it to your 2nd or 3rd loop, you are stronger with more items, and the enemy are weaker due to a faster clear time and less enemy scaling over time.
i dunno about razor wire, it only really becomes incredibly strong on certain survivors (rex) or with certain setups (hellfire tincture) this is the same case for the bustling fungus (engineer), which didn't make the list because of its niche usage
Rose Bucklers have grown on me for the same reason Elephant has grown on you. One of the few items in the game that can protect you from a Scavenger with Ceremonial Daggers.
acrids poison, rex's weaken and root, artificers freesze, merc/mul-t blast canister/stun grenade stun and there are 3 different strength slows that can be used from huntress arrow rain, chronobauble and runalds band (in order of strength) that count as different debuffs. Last but not least there's shattering justice before and after the 5 hits to proc it
Woolie: There are very few things in Risk of Rain 2 that can increase your damage Focusing Crystal: Am I a joke to you? And yeah Focusing Crystals can actually be very powerful in giving you increased damage, I got lucky one time with a Shrine of Order and it gave me 162 Focusing Crystals and I was either killing enemies in one or two shots but with the disadvantage of always having to be 13m close to enemies to make use of the effect. But it does work very good with Mercenary, Mul-T, and GoodB0iPoisonDoggo.
Chronobauble is now a semi-okay item if you have deathmark. Not for its effect, just that it has a guaranteed one in hit and pretty much the only fully 100% reliable debuff in the game and really just lowers deathmark's requirmentfrom 4 to 3 debuffs on an enemy.
Unless they add 56 leaf clover, 57 is staying top tier. And they'd have to make 56 a legendary. They wont add it because it let you completely break the game in the original, but its effect is even better than the 57.
I once got genesis loop on engineer, the turrets copy over your stats, they constantly died and so there was a spam of 6000% damage explosion killing everything nearby, best run I have ever had.
Id even argue that the meathooks are tied with the clover. There are only 3 items that do true proc chains: Atg, Uke and the Meathook. A raw clover and a raw meathook don't do to much, they both scale very well with on hits though. Without the meathook you can only can some chains with the atgs proccing ukes or vice versa, the meathook significantly increases the ammount and the lenght of your proc chains.
Something I've found with MUL-T, Tri-Tip Dagger, Stun Grenade, and Lens-Maker's Glasses is that they are all *broken* together, especially with the Nailgun, as it's starting attack speed is higher than the starting attack speed of the Commando. The Nailgun's high attack speed allows you to get really high bleed stack on an enemy and stun lock them, allowing you to quickly focus to another enemy.
I actually keep an eye out for the Chronobauble for one thing: Mithrix. My first time killing him, he could hardly move, let alone reach me, and I realized it was due to the Baubles I had. Actually for real, if you aren't on a character/item setup that has an "oh shit, gotta move" contingency, it is helpful as hell on a boss that can obliterate you if he gets close.
For shaped glass, I think there's a pretty fair argument to "Kill them before they kill you." We're all human, we make dumb mistakes, stacking glass takes away our ability to make mistakes.
Nah, once you get past two Shaped Glass then you're powerful enough to just grab some healing and constantly abuse one-shot protection. I had 7 once in a run and it was CAKE after I got the third. I ended up with single digit HP and any time I took damage I would trigger one shot protection and instantly heal back to full. It's broken as hell tbh.
Just a random tidbit, but I use this item combo to obliterate on Monsoon easy. Get 9 lens makers glasses, 1 predator instinct and then stack Harvester’s Scythe. You do double damage and heal on every hit. That can be doubled by using Rejuvenation Rack, which you can stack as well! I do it a lot and become a tank every run on any character. Hopefully it helps the new players!
Brainstalks is my favorite red. Its definitely not as good as the clover, but it has the best feedback of any item. Especially playing on someone like merc, everytime you kill an elite you go super sayin and can dash around infinity while invulnerable. Unless your really paying attention, you tend to not even notice that your have a clever after a while, but the games makes sure you know you have a brainstalkes because it tints your screen on activation.
On mercenary, had a altar of order, items after that were 2 times glass, 2 times sacrafical daggers, aaand 17 times the jump boost item, that leaps ya forward. Trust me, ain't a pleasant experience
Chronobauble has its place in hit-and-run playstyles. Add crowd control items to an incomplete proc build, and although you can’t outright kill an enemy, their inability to move efficiently is a boon, especially where Elder Lemurians are concerned.
Ngl, would have thought you'd at least mention the fact that gnarled woodsprite has some pretty dope synergy with warhorn, having about 50% uptime of +70% att speed with just those two items. I'd have thought it'd be worth noting, but yeah.
I would have rated fuel cell as strong, with a bunch of fuel cells and a royal capacitor and a gesture your gaze becomes a ridiculously powerful weapon constantly calling down lightning bolts
Problem with fuel is that its not really strong unless you have 8+ of each. Might as well say Lens-maker is just as strong because "if you have enough" you basically have double damage.
With that combo Rocket Launcher is even better IMO. You constantly spam rockets without end and it requires no targeting on your behalf. Your rockets just fly out and automatically obliterate everything.
MUL-T can technically also attack while sprinting with the Sawblade. You can activate and hold it down and then start sprinting to deal damage to enemies while moving faster and a little extra damage to enemies you hit or pass by while ramming. He can also just have a rebar shot charged up and ready to fire while sprinting.
i think i understand proc chains now: you proc some stuff with a coefficient which procs some more stuff which procs some more stuff... and you end up nuking everything
Stun grenade, while it can't proc other items, can stop you from taking damage because it interrupts attacks and is essentially what the community wants the chronobauble to be (slowing down the attacks of the monsters in addition to their movement speed) but a complete stun instead.
To me Blast Shower is a hell of a good equipment to have. I can't count how many times it saved my ass from Elites and Scanvengy bois. You can cleanse Fire, bleed, freeze, slow, anti-heal and even the after effect of the overloading elites. Add to that the extremely low 20 sec cooldown (meaning you don't even need any gesture or cell) and you got yourself the swiss knife of equipments. Only down side to me if we compare it with the jade elephant is that scavengers with daggers will always end your life and break your back.
One thing I will say in defense of the bauble: It's good at keeping Engineer Gauss turrets alive against melee enemies. The slow effect prevents them from closing in on your turrets before your turrets can kill them.
Sticky bombs are a non diminishing 9% dps increase (glasses are 10% up to 10 stacks assuming no other crit sources) but if you have 100% crit they are 18% non diminishing dps increase. Stickies can spawn on every non damaging hit (not dot tick) and it will always be the final hit of a proc chain. It benefits the most of any item from damage items because of this. For instance, atgm missiles is 300% total damage per stack (but at a static 5% proc chance) but a sticky can proc of a missile, but a missile cannot proc itself. What this means is that every sticky bomb up to 20 stacks will add 1/20 of 180% aditional total damage on every hit (1/20 of 360% if you have crit) per stack. If you have 100% crit and 100% proc on stickies, a 5k hit from an ability, atgm proc, wisp explosion etc can spawn a sticky that will do an aditional hit of 180% of that damage, which can crit. It's like having an overcrit that can overcrit. Proc a stacked atgm off a royal capacitor that then procs a sticky and all hits in the chain were crits can produce hits in the millions, and this can happen really early in a run.
head stomper's underrated. one shotting bosses on lvl 99 difficulty on monsoon is pretty damn op. get a few extra jumps/wax quails and one shot ANYthing. get brillian behemoth and one shot EVERYthing.
Important note! the Transcendance is best when you use Plasma Shrimp as it guarantees that you always have plasma shimp available (if you are using plasma shrimp actively pls take ICBM even if it costs you a ton of greenies as the thing makes plasma WAY stronger than what they are)
I think the Stun grenades should have an honorable mention. You can just spray a little of mul-t autonailgun on it and it stops its laser attack. Same with wisps.
They can be good, but they're not THAT good. Like I'd never see a shop with Stun Grenade, Hoof, Syringe and even for a second consider taking the Grenade.
i had a run with 4 people, where 3 died in a mountain boss run, he dropped fuel cells gesture and the only survivor had the gesture of the drowned + backup, the moment he went through the portal the game suddenly spawned like 3 charges worth of drones which crashed the game
No mention of Hardlight Afterburner makes me a sad panda. So many characters get such a huge buff from just 1- Engineer has 100% uptime bubble shield, Loader can chain Falcon Punches, Huntress gets absolutely bonkers mobility. I love it so much.
The most impressive thing about Chronobauble is, that it is so useless on players, but so strong on enemies. This slowdown makes you an easy target for any enemy.
When you're one man fighting an endless stream of alien monsters slowly a few isn't going to do much of anything. When your the monsters it is invaluable. This is what we get for ridiculing chronobauble it will have its revenge.
The most powerful item in ror2 is by far will-o-the-wisp. with 20~45 (u just need like 10 of them and 4 crowbars to completly breake ur game btw) of this items u can clear an ENTIRE map with a single kill, AND if u have the corrupted version of it u can clear an entire map with a SINGLE SHOT. EXTREMELY powerful with crowbar. summarising , if u are looking for the perfect build that works on EVERY character the build is Will-o-the-wisp + Crowbar for damage + Infusion + Topaz Brooch for survivability
dont forget Fireworks. I had a Run where i had nearly 40 Fireworks and everytime i would open a chest, or activate a shrine, i would have dmg support during the Teleporter event. They went on for Hours and Hours
i would actually argue that attack speed is good on artificer too as it charges nano bomb faster paired with backup mags for quick huge damage but i agree its not as important as on other characters
I primarily play Ror2 with my friends in private games, but every now and then i play a solo run and i find that stage 8 monsoon is such a huge hurdle to get over. Even with good items its like the stage where the power ramps up and i usually wipe at 8 or 9 bc of that
Disposable Missile Launcher is arguably the strongest equipment in the game for the same reason the ATG is so good, it has a proc coefficient of 1 and in combination with Gesture and Fuel Cells you can literally get infinitely firing missiles that just spam the map with nonstop proc chances while you can just stand there and laugh. Not that Royal Capacitor is bad though, I'd definitely take it over the crowdfunder
I don't know, I like the fact that I don't need to manage it, it works on it's own. Enough gestures and catalysts and it's always going off, and it wins my fights for me so I can loot.
It's not as good by itself. However, the relatively low CD and the fact that missiles require no targeting make it an absolute monster for fuel cell/gesture combos.
If you have the spinel tonic with a jester and just 2 cells the time that the tonic is off is just 2 seconds so in that condition taking it is worth it
I'm a big fan of sentient meathooks if you can get a couple of ukeleles or a bazooka (although getting multiple reds doesn't often give you good ones). Didn't know the guided missile proc'ed other items though, just went up a notch.
It's one of my favorite items, but it runs the risk of causing massive lag and even outright crashes if you go into or near god run territory due to sheer projectile count.
Nah, the best item in the game is personal shield generator, especially when paired with shaped glass, there’s honestly no competing with that magical combo
Funnily enough, the clover in Enter the Gungeon is ALSO the best item in the game. It removes a hidden mechanic that prevents you from getting too many A or S tier items, so essentially removes all balance in the game.
The Little Disciples Yellow item is, in my opinion, the best yellow in the game, hands down. The fire rate increases with move speed, and it has a 1.0 proc coefficent. It can just constantly kill things, even without you attacking.
Irradiant pearls are pretty easy to accumulate with egocentrism if you're into a build centered around it, had 6 the other day! Then died right before mythrix with corrupted dios, had an army of void creatures though lol
Imo the only item that comes anywhere near the power of the clover is sentient meat hook Being an on hit aoe that improves other aoe effects is definitely a great thing to aquire in any run and it tends to grow in effectiveness as well increasing your proc potential the same way ukulele does but better in almost every way Additionally id like to add that while chronobauble is nowhere neat the strength of many other items of its class (and even some in the lower class) it has its purpose. It works amazingly with characters who need some way to get enemies away from them especially default commando with his phase rounds knockback which the bubble helps with. If you cant seem to rack up enough damage to deal with the early malachite wisps, lemurians, and beetles than a couple phase rounds with a single bubble sends those away and often off cliffs/into terrain for massive damage.
ok but does the clover SLOW ON HIT? didn't think so mr streamer
you tell em
Woolie
Fucking garbage clover fuck you woolie I only take chronobaubles and you’re wrong and gay
you see Mr.streamer, the bauble slows enemies on hit making them easier to hit multiple more times, therefore increasing your DPS substancially, making it the best damage oriented item on the tier 2 slot.
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Kappa
Ok but what is transcendence d tier on your list?
@@sadbanana5896 won't be for long :)
So you said movement speed increases your survivability a lot.
But if everything is slowed.......
Words Words no, no, NOOOOOOOO!
Checkmate Mr. Streamer
Words Words ZA WARUDO
@@infinite6860 NANI, Time Seeker's Secret isn't in the second game
The problem comes in that chronobauble only slows movement.
57 leaf clover is actually overrated because it needs other items to be any good. This makes it very situational, and a better choice for the number one spot would be the happiest mask.
you almost got me
Edit: Note, the following two paragraphs are mega cringe made by yours truly. I understand that Dorky was almost certainly being sarcastic, but I lacked the context to truly understand and made the wrong assumption along with a few others here since the written word sucks at giving enough tone and clues on it's own to understand sarcasm in such a short amount of words. That being said, enjoy my passionate rambling about game mechanics if you want to and maybe laugh with me on how seriously I'm taking Dorkly's post.
It's situational condition isn't negative enough and just about every item in the game is conditional. What it effects is incredibly abundant and the effect is so exponential that no other red comes close to it's power. Sure, you might have a single run with clover that ends because you didn't have anything to proc it with, but you can essentially say the same or something similar for every single item in this game. Additionally, having bad luck with item rolls after getting a single good one will kill any run you play; it's not unique to 57-leaf Clover. Thus, it's the fact that it exponentially increases the conditional effect of all but 1 item in the game that makes it far, far greater than any red.
For example, Happiest Mask's conditional requirement is to kill things so if you already lack damage it won't save your run. Not to mention the game's friendly AI needs some work since they get stuck on everything and can't prioritize bigger threats. Also, the specific type enemy ghost you get may not be that great. Finally, the things you want as a ghost are likely the tankiest enemies around.
@@Crazykidthree33 Have you ever heard about sarcasm?
@@axolot12345 I have, it's just that text doesn't translate sarcasm well at all. You need to add something to it to give the context of humor, something that's not present in Dorky's post. Or, just simply know the person and I don't know Dorkly. Woolie's post also wasn't there for me when I was making my response to add the context either. Therefore, I assumed it was a geniune response and I do apologize for giving them an earful.
@@Crazykidthree33 holy moly chill dude
“After all the items you receive are determined by RNGesus and nothing else.”
Artifact of Command: *Why hello*
I became addicted to that artifact in Risk of Rain 1, I don't want that to happen again xD
@@beastrelmhd5312 The joys of having 200 barbed wires
Artifact of Command + Artifact of Sacrifice + Artifact of Swarms = Easy Monsoon Mode
@@CaecusYT 100 will o wisps. Explosiweed
WEAKLINGS
I'm always surprised the disposal missle launcher doesn't get more love...hits for a total of 3600% damage and each missle hit has a proc coefficient of 1. With just 1 gesture and few fuel cells you can fire them basically non stop. Plus they're homing so you don't even have to do anything as they just kill everything on and off screen while you collect loot...
Its my go to equipment these days. I was looking for this comment
was about to comment the same thing. soulbound catalyst pushes the missiles into overdrive
IIRC, missiles of any kind will dissipate if they hit a ceiling. So while missiles are great damage sources, if you’re flying around a lot in enclosed spaces or go into areas with very low ceilings, you can accidentally neuter your damage output. Still, they’re superior crowd control to cap, so I’d take missiles any day.
@@romannasuti25 actually missiles don't have collision with walls or ceilings or really anything other than enemies. riskofrain.fandom.com/wiki/Disposable_Missile_Launcher_(Risk_of_Rain_2)
And if there aren't any enemies they just circle until some appear or they respawn after like 20 or 30 seconds
Brook Meade I've found that they actually do explode on ceilings or overhangs, and that if there's no enemies around it doesn't take too long for them to rocket back into the ground (about 20 seconds, as you said)
You make good points, but honestly speaking, none of these can give me a squid turret so I don't know what you really want me to look for here.
Squid polyp best item
squid turret > the literal entire universe
I’ll never forget finding a Clover printer on a god run I was doing with a friend. We both had plenty of rare items, so we gave up 10 rare items each for 10 clovers and it was glorious chaos
that's almost not fair
Mithrix sweating as he watched two people seemingly on crack unleash full, godlike, power on every action they make.
Fast track to crashing your game right there
I had a run with 23 polylute, 3 clovers, 3 atg, and an icbm.
lets just say I became the US arsenal the instant I hit an enemy
Bauble: what is my purpose?
Me: you proc Death Mark
Bauble: oh my god 😞
hey, it's not that bad of a job, at least they're picked with artifact of command for the death mark, unlike the squid polyp
And it slows enemies down by a LOT so I actually really like it. I combine it with mul-t's blast canister,ukeleles, brilliant behemoth and shatterspleen with 10 crit glasses for maximum crowd destruction
If they made it so the Chronobauble affected enemies' attack and animation speeds as well, it would be sooo much better
It would be red tier, so broken
As somebody who’s seen some crazy death mark runs, having just one stack of chronobauble makes procing death mark much easier as it’s a reliable source of one debuff.
@@romannasuti25 I think this easily classifies it as " not the worst item in the game ", so while I appretiate Woolie's jokes, (because stacking chronobauble is worthless), it also deserves its place as one of the first green items i get on a command run.
@@contentiouscritic yeah, if you had to introduce a borderline broken item that is activated by a shitty item, that shitty item is still shitty, it's just enabling something better.
OMalleyTheMaggot nah right? It’s just a two piece item in some sense because otherwise they’re both “bad” / not as good. Plus chronobauble has a decent effect actually in some instances. Admittedly it’s only use is really as a one stack. It’s still not the last item I get on command
Note to anyone who sees this: As of the 1.0 update one shot protection does NOT work with shaped glass. You can die from fall damage with shaped glass now too.
Laughs in loader
You cannot die with fall damage from glass unless you are playing in eclipse or arti of frailty
With enough glass you can get less than 1 hp and die to
fall damage
@@TheRealK287 yeee ik but the comment emplied that even with 1 you could die
Laughs in 50+ feathers + using huntress blink
For anyone watching this video now the irradient pearl drop chance has been buffed from 4% to 20% so still unlikely to get one in a run but definitely an improvement
"Ghors Tome equals more Damage"
Woolie, 03.12.2020
if u gonna go technical at it, more money means more damage, bcs money converts to xp at the tp...
but I still use it at the scrapper
Attack speed is still insanely important on Artificer, as it reduces the charge time of her secondary
5:08 there is no video Mr. Streamer. I'm calling Hopoo.
oh my geez oh no (actually forgot it tho rip)
@@Woolie I would expect nothing less from someone who doesn't put the Chronobauble at #1. Like, who even does that? What, next you'll tell me that Red Whip isn't the best right after it?
@@RealFrinata then obviously brittle crown and transcendence on rex, op combo
if u see any "first" comments, they're lying cuz woolie is always first get rekt scrubs
7th comment c: SADBOYS here what's up woolie
*he used the chronobauble*
The most heartbreaking moment for me in this game was when I found and atg cauldron AND a 57 leaf clover cauldron in the bazaar at the same time, and it was a command run
Wtf is a command run
@@bigboicremeHaving the artifact of command active, meaning you can freely choose your items anyway
@michaelbarcena1695 I just figured out artifacts earlier! I've only had the game for a day. I just got the command one, having a blast with the game so far
I don’t play monsoon so maybe this is an incorrect statement but I think the head stomper legendary is really underrated. You can use about 4 or more wax quails on a slope, fly stupidly high in the air and one shot the teleporter boss.
Limited use
No it really is underrated. The potential damage of it is massive, a single band then multiplies it by 300% and there's just nothing that survives that 300000% total damage or whatever insane number it is.
It's not better than a clover but it deserves a high spot on the list of good reds.
For the boss items, I would say that Little Disciple would be right with Genesis Loop due to the fact that it's incredibly similar to N'Kahuna's Opinion except healing isn't required. I've gotten tons of runs where I've gotten one or two disciples and all I had to do was sprint next to enemies and they were instantly melted.
Especially on a survivor who can attack while sprinting, then throw on some Rose Bucklers and movement speed? Just run them all down!
True, but I prefer genesis loop over little disciple since my turrets are often pretty squishy.
@@freefalling4271 To be fair, while Genesis Loop is good, and don't get me wrong I think it's a fantastic item, I feel that Little Disciple is better on the majority of Survivors, where Genesis Loop only really shines on Engineer.
Izaak Skillman yup I get what you’re saying and I agree to it, just wanted to share that GL shines better on engineer.
Especially on huntress i think Little disciple feels more useful than genesis loop in my experience
6:55 I myself would have voted for Little Disciple because despite not knowing what its proc coefficient IS I know it is higher than 0 and getting free attacks while sprinting is useful on anyone as it gives strafing characters more opportunities to sprint without stopping their attacks completely and it gives characters with sprint attacks even more attacks.
huntress + little disciple = god run
I think this video was made b4 little disciple came out
>strongest items in the game
>no headstompers smh smh
well atleast i dont get them every run in risk of rain 2
@@deus8133 yeah, that would be too op
@@MJelly-yj8kp imagine you wanna play a normal round of the original risk of rain
but risk of rain said
headstompers
@@deus8133 well i get them every run so... no solution
"Your items in a run depend on RNGsus and nothing else"
*laughs in artifact of command*
*wheezes in artifact of sacrifice*
@@ByMorraDiabo why not both
*laughs in no reds stage 5*
I got 3 clovers in a run yesterday, the first one on stage 1
yea bro, the very first item i got on a run the other day was a clover. By the time the run was finished, 330 minutes later, stage 32, it was glorious.
poggers bro
Got a clover as my first item and got no good on-hit items after that and died early in the run and I was pissed
I literally haven’t seen the light of a clover for a month
So it’s good to stack them? Awesome. I’m actually here right now because I’m playing as the captain 147 minutes in wondering what I should pick. 😁
I just found out the hard way what happens when you get Genesis Loop as Engineer while Artifact of Chaos (friendly fire) is active
Uh oh.
Rip
XD
haha
Early game Red Whips are deceptively strong in how they work for you. You can clear early stages substantially faster (and open more chests in less time) getting more items and wasting less time. The faster clear times and more items early on has a multiplicative effect where by the time you make it to your 2nd or 3rd loop, you are stronger with more items, and the enemy are weaker due to a faster clear time and less enemy scaling over time.
Woolie: " your items are only determined by RNGesus himself"
Hopoo: **releases artifact of command** "ARE U SURE ABOUT THAT?"
I think Razor Wire, Hellfire Tincture, and Little Disciple deserve spots as "strong" items, but I agree with your picks for the strongest items.
i dunno about razor wire, it only really becomes incredibly strong on certain survivors (rex) or with certain setups (hellfire tincture)
this is the same case for the bustling fungus (engineer), which didn't make the list because of its niche usage
Razor wire is incredibly good for early game imo
One time I took my tonic off and got hit from 67 stacks on tonic.
Rose Bucklers have grown on me for the same reason Elephant has grown on you. One of the few items in the game that can protect you from a Scavenger with Ceremonial Daggers.
Woolie:" Chronobauble is completely useless"
Artifact 2.0 Update: *Laughs in Death Mark*
Death mark is very strong 💪
Yeah but it needs four debuffs, I can reliably get bleed fire slow then what?
acrids poison, rex's weaken and root, artificers freesze, merc/mul-t blast canister/stun grenade stun and there are 3 different strength slows that can be used from huntress arrow rain, chronobauble and runalds band (in order of strength) that count as different debuffs. Last but not least there's shattering justice before and after the 5 hits to proc it
Woolie: There are very few things in Risk of Rain 2 that can increase your damage
Focusing Crystal: Am I a joke to you?
And yeah Focusing Crystals can actually be very powerful in giving you increased damage, I got lucky one time with a Shrine of Order and it gave me 162 Focusing Crystals and I was either killing enemies in one or two shots but with the disadvantage of always having to be 13m close to enemies to make use of the effect. But it does work very good with Mercenary, Mul-T, and GoodB0iPoisonDoggo.
And loader. The ultimate one punch item. Pair with crowbars for M A X I M U M P O W E R
@@morganpriest7726 Oh yeah, how could I forget Miss Falcon Punch
Loader + 162 Focus crystal = 2430% more damage, now thats some V A L U E
What's really interesting is watching this 3 years later and seeing how the meta has changed without them rebalancing anything (other than SoTV)
Joke's on you mr streamer, chronobauble god tier now because of death mark. I bet you are the feeling silly right now
when chronobauble's only purpose is contributing towards death mark
"preon accumulator has the longest cooldown"
Glowing Meteorite: Am I a joke to you?
yes glowing meteorite IS a joke i remember getting it + gesture in a multiplayer run
lets just say my two engineers were not happy
Chronobauble is now a semi-okay item if you have deathmark. Not for its effect, just that it has a guaranteed one in hit and pretty much the only fully 100% reliable debuff in the game and really just lowers deathmark's requirmentfrom 4 to 3 debuffs on an enemy.
Unless they add 56 leaf clover, 57 is staying top tier. And they'd have to make 56 a legendary. They wont add it because it let you completely break the game in the original, but its effect is even better than the 57.
What's the 56 clover?
@@Amirifiz killing elites have a chance to drop items
Isn't that literally just.. Artifact of Sacrifice?
I once got genesis loop on engineer, the turrets copy over your stats, they constantly died and so there was a spam of 6000% damage explosion killing everything nearby, best run I have ever had.
bro i never even thought of that. Genesis loop on engi sounds broken
@@mdnght5592 _because it is_
Id even argue that the meathooks are tied with the clover. There are only 3 items that do true proc chains: Atg, Uke and the Meathook.
A raw clover and a raw meathook don't do to much, they both scale very well with on hits though. Without the meathook you can only can some chains with the atgs proccing ukes or vice versa, the meathook significantly increases the ammount and the lenght of your proc chains.
Hardlight afterburners is also a very good red item especially for characters like captain or loader
Are we going to talk about how gesture can be combined with drugs to infa drug, this has saved low rng runs on so many occasions for me
Something I've found with MUL-T, Tri-Tip Dagger, Stun Grenade, and Lens-Maker's Glasses is that they are all *broken* together, especially with the Nailgun, as it's starting attack speed is higher than the starting attack speed of the Commando. The Nailgun's high attack speed allows you to get really high bleed stack on an enemy and stun lock them, allowing you to quickly focus to another enemy.
Woolie: Kjaros band can't proc any other items.
Runalds Band: Am I some sort of joke to you?
I actually keep an eye out for the Chronobauble for one thing: Mithrix. My first time killing him, he could hardly move, let alone reach me, and I realized it was due to the Baubles I had. Actually for real, if you aren't on a character/item setup that has an "oh shit, gotta move" contingency, it is helpful as hell on a boss that can obliterate you if he gets close.
For shaped glass, I think there's a pretty fair argument to "Kill them before they kill you." We're all human, we make dumb mistakes, stacking glass takes away our ability to make mistakes.
Nah, once you get past two Shaped Glass then you're powerful enough to just grab some healing and constantly abuse one-shot protection. I had 7 once in a run and it was CAKE after I got the third. I ended up with single digit HP and any time I took damage I would trigger one shot protection and instantly heal back to full. It's broken as hell tbh.
Hi orb
Clover decreases chance of spinel debuff exponentially
I never thought of that. Man that'd be a good strat. Take a couple of clover and then some tonic to go
@@LuminousLead Still not worth the risk, desu, and gestures+fuel cells are a hell of a lot more reliable to find than clovers.
@@OMalleyTheMaggot You're right. Increase the frequency of the uptime and the downtime disappears.
Just a random tidbit, but I use this item combo to obliterate on Monsoon easy. Get 9 lens makers glasses, 1 predator instinct and then stack Harvester’s Scythe. You do double damage and heal on every hit. That can be doubled by using Rejuvenation Rack, which you can stack as well! I do it a lot and become a tank every run on any character. Hopefully it helps the new players!
Brainstalks is my favorite red. Its definitely not as good as the clover, but it has the best feedback of any item. Especially playing on someone like merc, everytime you kill an elite you go super sayin and can dash around infinity while invulnerable. Unless your really paying attention, you tend to not even notice that your have a clever after a while, but the games makes sure you know you have a brainstalkes because it tints your screen on activation.
Tesla coil is the best legendary in the game because theres no feeling better than removing lesser wisps entirely from the game
bruh
On mercenary, had a altar of order, items after that were 2 times glass, 2 times sacrafical daggers, aaand 17 times the jump boost item, that leaps ya forward. Trust me, ain't a pleasant experience
Chronobauble has its place in hit-and-run playstyles. Add crowd control items to an incomplete proc build, and although you can’t outright kill an enemy, their inability to move efficiently is a boon, especially where Elder Lemurians are concerned.
Ngl, would have thought you'd at least mention the fact that gnarled woodsprite has some pretty dope synergy with warhorn, having about 50% uptime of +70% att speed with just those two items. I'd have thought it'd be worth noting, but yeah.
I would have rated fuel cell as strong, with a bunch of fuel cells and a royal capacitor and a gesture your gaze becomes a ridiculously powerful weapon constantly calling down lightning bolts
Problem with fuel is that its not really strong unless you have 8+ of each. Might as well say Lens-maker is just as strong because "if you have enough" you basically have double damage.
With that combo Rocket Launcher is even better IMO. You constantly spam rockets without end and it requires no targeting on your behalf. Your rockets just fly out and automatically obliterate everything.
MUL-T can technically also attack while sprinting with the Sawblade. You can activate and hold it down and then start sprinting to deal damage to enemies while moving faster and a little extra damage to enemies you hit or pass by while ramming. He can also just have a rebar shot charged up and ready to fire while sprinting.
Chronobauble is top tier if you take it with Glowing Meteorite and make your teammates cry. That slow is LONG.
i think i understand proc chains now: you proc some stuff with a coefficient which procs some more stuff which procs some more stuff... and you end up nuking everything
Stun grenade, while it can't proc other items, can stop you from taking damage because it interrupts attacks and is essentially what the community wants the chronobauble to be (slowing down the attacks of the monsters in addition to their movement speed) but a complete stun instead.
To me Blast Shower is a hell of a good equipment to have. I can't count how many times it saved my ass from Elites and Scanvengy bois. You can cleanse Fire, bleed, freeze, slow, anti-heal and even the after effect of the overloading elites. Add to that the extremely low 20 sec cooldown (meaning you don't even need any gesture or cell) and you got yourself the swiss knife of equipments. Only down side to me if we compare it with the jade elephant is that scavengers with daggers will always end your life and break your back.
Video idea, give a build order for Artifact of Control runs. It would be nice to know what order to get each item.
One thing I will say in defense of the bauble: It's good at keeping Engineer Gauss turrets alive against melee enemies. The slow effect prevents them from closing in on your turrets before your turrets can kill them.
Sticky bombs are a non diminishing 9% dps increase (glasses are 10% up to 10 stacks assuming no other crit sources) but if you have 100% crit they are 18% non diminishing dps increase.
Stickies can spawn on every non damaging hit (not dot tick) and it will always be the final hit of a proc chain. It benefits the most of any item from damage items because of this. For instance, atgm missiles is 300% total damage per stack (but at a static 5% proc chance) but a sticky can proc of a missile, but a missile cannot proc itself.
What this means is that every sticky bomb up to 20 stacks will add 1/20 of 180% aditional total damage on every hit (1/20 of 360% if you have crit) per stack.
If you have 100% crit and 100% proc on stickies, a 5k hit from an ability, atgm proc, wisp explosion etc can spawn a sticky that will do an aditional hit of 180% of that damage, which can crit. It's like having an overcrit that can overcrit. Proc a stacked atgm off a royal capacitor that then procs a sticky and all hits in the chain were crits can produce hits in the millions, and this can happen really early in a run.
head stomper's underrated.
one shotting bosses on lvl 99 difficulty on monsoon is pretty damn op.
get a few extra jumps/wax quails and one shot ANYthing. get brillian behemoth and one shot EVERYthing.
about 10 gestures or so and an elephant: congrats you are now invincible until your second loop (good luck getting that without command tho)
Important note! the Transcendance is best when you use Plasma Shrimp as it guarantees that you always have plasma shimp available
(if you are using plasma shrimp actively pls take ICBM even if it costs you a ton of greenies as the thing makes plasma WAY stronger than what they are)
3:57 uhm. ACKCHUALLY Mr streamer.. that’s streamer loot. Crit googs are so rare for me.
RNJESUS 👏
Is there anyway you could do a video on item distribution in multiplayer, ya know, which item should be going to who.
I think the Stun grenades should have an honorable mention. You can just spray a little of mul-t autonailgun on it and it stops its laser attack. Same with wisps.
Blade1185 not really good on artificer, huntress, merc, loader, and doggie boi
They can be good, but they're not THAT good. Like I'd never see a shop with Stun Grenade, Hoof, Syringe and even for a second consider taking the Grenade.
Dan lorett that's a good point. If I had no stun grenades tho, I would get it, but generally I would prefer the hoof
i had a run with 4 people, where 3 died in a mountain boss run, he dropped fuel cells gesture and the only survivor had the gesture of the drowned + backup, the moment he went through the portal the game suddenly spawned like 3 charges worth of drones which crashed the game
No red whip mention smh.
No mention of Hardlight Afterburner makes me a sad panda. So many characters get such a huge buff from just 1- Engineer has 100% uptime bubble shield, Loader can chain Falcon Punches, Huntress gets absolutely bonkers mobility. I love it so much.
The most impressive thing about Chronobauble is, that it is so useless on players, but so strong on enemies. This slowdown makes you an easy target for any enemy.
When you're one man fighting an endless stream of alien monsters slowly a few isn't going to do much of anything.
When your the monsters it is invaluable.
This is what we get for ridiculing chronobauble it will have its revenge.
@@jmanwild87 scavenger with 57 leaf clover,atg and chronobauble is pure hell
@@КрасимирНиков-п9к that's just scavs man
The most powerful item in ror2 is by far will-o-the-wisp. with 20~45 (u just need like 10 of them and 4 crowbars to completly breake ur game btw) of this items u can clear an ENTIRE map with a single kill, AND if u have the corrupted version of it u can clear an entire map with a SINGLE SHOT. EXTREMELY powerful with crowbar. summarising , if u are looking for the perfect build that works on EVERY character the build is Will-o-the-wisp + Crowbar for damage + Infusion + Topaz Brooch for survivability
Okay so whoever thought before you played risk of rain that a goat leg would be useful
dont forget Fireworks.
I had a Run where i had nearly 40 Fireworks and everytime i would open a chest, or activate a shrine, i would have dmg support during the Teleporter event.
They went on for Hours and Hours
i would actually argue that attack speed is good on artificer too as it charges nano bomb faster paired with backup mags for quick huge damage but i agree its not as important as on other characters
Wax quail above hopoo feather is crazy
Wood sprite+n’ukanas is surprisingly powerful and is very good for whittling things down
I primarily play Ror2 with my friends in private games, but every now and then i play a solo run and i find that stage 8 monsoon is such a huge hurdle to get over. Even with good items its like the stage where the power ramps up and i usually wipe at 8 or 9 bc of that
Disposable Missile Launcher is arguably the strongest equipment in the game for the same reason the ATG is so good, it has a proc coefficient of 1 and in combination with Gesture and Fuel Cells you can literally get infinitely firing missiles that just spam the map with nonstop proc chances while you can just stand there and laugh. Not that Royal Capacitor is bad though, I'd definitely take it over the crowdfunder
Engineer stacking fungus and rejuvenation rack makes N'kuhana's Opinion go absolutely nutty.
in general, there are no strong and weak subjects in Ror 2 in different situations, each subject is good in its own way
Why wasn't the Disposable Missile Launcher in here?
Because it is disposable duh. Gotta loot it again after using
Bc its garbo, tonic/helfire/funder/capacitor are all miles better.
It's good enough if you don't have anything better, but not good enough to warrant taking over anything mentioned here
I don't know, I like the fact that I don't need to manage it, it works on it's own. Enough gestures and catalysts and it's always going off, and it wins my fights for me so I can loot.
It's not as good by itself. However, the relatively low CD and the fact that missiles require no targeting make it an absolute monster for fuel cell/gesture combos.
How to make a good build: pick up items. After that, pick up items. When you are almost finished, pick up items.
having ocular hud and teddies is better then having glasses.
change my mind
If you have the spinel tonic with a jester and just 2 cells the time that the tonic is off is just 2 seconds so in that condition taking it is worth it
no he literally said those couple seconds with the debuff will get u killed
I'm a big fan of sentient meathooks if you can get a couple of ukeleles or a bazooka (although getting multiple reds doesn't often give you good ones). Didn't know the guided missile proc'ed other items though, just went up a notch.
Chronobauble is great for deathmark, 100% chance to cause a debuff
I love the ceremonial dagger since it has 100% proc and is pretty strong when you have Alot of ukulele's and firefly jars, plus that hit crits
It's one of my favorite items, but it runs the risk of causing massive lag and even outright crashes if you go into or near god run territory due to sheer projectile count.
I just started playing this game. It's going to take a long time for me to recognize all the items.
Right now I just pick up everything.
Dio's best friend when clover gets nominated
"Sadface"
Nah, the best item in the game is personal shield generator, especially when paired with shaped glass, there’s honestly no competing with that magical combo
Funnily enough, the clover in Enter the Gungeon is ALSO the best item in the game. It removes a hidden mechanic that prevents you from getting too many A or S tier items, so essentially removes all balance in the game.
The Little Disciples Yellow item is, in my opinion, the best yellow in the game, hands down. The fire rate increases with move speed, and it has a 1.0 proc coefficent. It can just constantly kill things, even without you attacking.
My personal favorite ones are the Guitars when you have like 10 of them, and the leech thingy
Irradiant pearls are pretty easy to accumulate with egocentrism if you're into a build centered around it, had 6 the other day! Then died right before mythrix with corrupted dios, had an army of void creatures though lol
A friend of mine showed me the autopilot power of Forgive Me Please and Daggers. I think THAT can beat out a Clover sometimes.
Imo the only item that comes anywhere near the power of the clover is sentient meat hook
Being an on hit aoe that improves other aoe effects is definitely a great thing to aquire in any run and it tends to grow in effectiveness as well increasing your proc potential the same way ukulele does but better in almost every way
Additionally id like to add that while chronobauble is nowhere neat the strength of many other items of its class (and even some in the lower class) it has its purpose. It works amazingly with characters who need some way to get enemies away from them especially default commando with his phase rounds knockback which the bubble helps with. If you cant seem to rack up enough damage to deal with the early malachite wisps, lemurians, and beetles than a couple phase rounds with a single bubble sends those away and often off cliffs/into terrain for massive damage.
baubles slow counts as a debuff, which helps out when trying to stack debuffs for Death Mark
marginally useful, but useful regardless
The chronobauble can stop mythrix from using his item steal. And it's also an essential part of each speedrun :D
yooo i just started playing yesterday and today i unlocked the monsoon skin for my huntress thanks to your guides!! youre EPIC
Thanks for this, I’m learning to get better thanks to your content
IMO the best boss item is shatterspleen when you have 10 glasses.
yea I think Woolie also thinks so nowadays. this video is VERY old within the context of risk of rain