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[Aklyon]

The Cutter is awesomely fast.

[Duke 2.0]

The Cutter is awesomely fast.

Hunters Blade looks fucking amazing, there is no way the other 5-star items can hope to match that. Especially with the five-hit combo.

[Acperience]

The Cutter is awesomely fast.

Hunters Blade looks fucking amazing, there is no way the other 5-star items can hope to match that. Especially with the five-hit combo.

I've found that I REALLY dislike the cutter class of swords. Mainly because it has low knockback and higher tier enemies will continue attack animations without getting flinched by the cutter's blows.

Heavy swords are actually the practical weapons for the higher tiers. Attacks are slower and there are less hits, but the hits that you DO land do great spike damage and have huge knockback.

Charged attacks from heavy swords also usually shoot projectiles.

[Duke 2.0]

 The hordes of t2 enemies require a weapon that is highly mobile. I really can't use charge attacks, and cornering enemies just wrecks them. I suppose I'll have to try out more heavy weapons and t3 stuff to judge, but comeon. That thing looks brutal.

[Paul]

I tried a cutter, didn't like it. I got rid of it and went back to 3 swing swords.

I use two swords from the Brandish line. The shadow variant (Silent Nightblade) and the ice elemental variant (Blizzbrand). The shadow does bonus damage against slimes and gremlins, and normal damage against beasts. The elemental one does bonus vs constructs and undead, and the one I have is a medium UV vs Fiends so has a bonus on them too.

Constructs and gremlins seem to be some of the more annoying creatures to fight, so having swords that do bonus damage against both is really handy.

The charge attack from the nightblade isn't that great, but the freeze from the blizzbrand's charge attack can really be useful. I was solo on the last part of one of those arena levels where it spawns a ton of those constructs all around you with several healer gremlins to keep them alive, and the charge attack from that sent out the two little freeze bursts and let me freeze the majority of the robots and maneuver around to kill the gremlin healers (using the nightblade, but eh damage types). The healers didn't even move, they just sat there throwing heals at all the robots I had damaged in the charge attack. Sometimes the charge attack and bursts damages them so much that the thaw damage finishes them off.

[AlStar]

Well, I just earned the Dauntless Delver achievement (go from level 1 to level 29 without dying.)

Highlights include - Seeing a monster I'd never seen before (the Wiki identifies it as a "Sloom" - a sleep inflicting lichen.) It popped out of one of those monster cages that litter some levels.

Getting down to 1/2 a pip of health in a wolver den, immediately followed by an arena (interesting note: if you're below 3 pips of health, you're healed up to 3 on the elevator.)

Having such idiotic teammates that one of them managed to die on each of the three parts of said arena.

Getting down to the new scarlet castle level, and having all three of my teammates die in the first room (it was at this point that I went solo and locked my team.)

When I got down to the core, I had 3 super-health pills and 3 normal health pills left in my inventory (because you can never be too careful.)

Overall though, it wasn't too very difficult (the final levels were all beast, and even tier 3 wolvers and chromalisks arn't too tough, compared to some of the more nasty critters you can run into down there.

The only achievements I'm still missing are the high-level miner ones, which I'm in no rush to get.

[kcwong]

Anyone want to play right now, so I can eat up my Mist Energy?
Preferably a T2 run of some sort. I'm cool with Jelly.
I'll also try T1 if we're gonna do one of those first tier bosses, as I've yet to see them. I've heard due to the game's balancing though, 5* weapons will actually end up being weaker than tier appropriate weapons so.. Yeah, that'd be kind of lame.
Add Tazurin on Steam and message me, or post here. [The latter might get a slower response.]

I missed you by 2 hours... and I had some work to do so I didn't start playing until 2 more hours later. Though at this point I don't think I can avoid dying for a full T2 run though. I too have never met the T1 boss.

Well, I just earned the Dauntless Delver achievement (go from level 1 to level 29 without dying.)

I saw you playing last night with 2 people not on my friends list, so I figured you were playing with your pals and didn't join you.
I'd just be one of those idiotic teammates anyway

[kcwong]

If you want to fight bosses, this is the time to do it.  The Dark King Gate is spawning lots of boss... I just killed Snarbolax with 2 new players (1 stars).

Also energy price is soaring... over 5700 now...

[Wolf Tengu]

Anyone up for an adventure?
I don't care what so long as I profite energy wise.

[AlStar]

Update!

There's a new T2 boss!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

New Boss Stratum:

Within the depths of Tier 2 a new gremlin weapons facility has been discovered, The Ironclaw Munitions Factory. Intel from Spiral HQ has confirmed that under a direct mandate from the Crimson Order, gremlin engineers have begun developing a weapon of incredible power. Known only as 'Project Roarmulus,' this weapon has been designed with the sole purpose of destroying Haven!

Knights are ordered to infiltrate this harrowing complex of devious destructive devices and put an end to 'Project Roarmulus' as well as recover a recon module of the Alpha Squad. Take heed though, gremlins don’t exactly believe in a ‘safe’ work environment.

Survive this deadly complex and earn your Bark Modules as you'll find that Brinks has a new selection of 2* items available for trade. These include:

- The Pulsar, an experimental energy gun that shoots bullets that grow stronger as they travel
- The Catalyzer, a gun whose regular shots can be combined with its charge shots to create a powerful explosion
- Quicksilver Mail and Helm, armor created from the mercurial quicksilvers, capable of resisting shock
- The Static Capacitor, a bomb that creates a shocking field of electricity

All of these items can be further upgraded through 5* provided you acquire their recipes from Basil.

New Items:

Handguns:
2* Pulsar (token reward only, has two upgrade paths)
3* Heavy Pulsar
4* Radiant Pulsar
5* Supernova

Alternate Pulsar path:
3* Kilowatt Pulsar
4* Gigawatt Pulsar
5* Polaris

2* Catalyzer (token reward only, has two upgrade paths)
3* Industrial Catalyzer
4* Volatile Catalyzer
5* Neutralizer

Alternate Catalyzer path:
3* Toxic Catalyzer
4* Virulent Catalyzer
5* Biohazard

Bombs:
2* Static Capacitor (token reward only)
3* Lightning Capacitor
4* Plasma Capacitor
5* Voltaic Tempest

Armor:
3* Quicksilver Mail (token reward only)
4* Charged Quicksilver Mail
5* Mercurial Mail

Helms:
3* Quicksilver Helm (token reward only)
4* Charged Quicksilver Helm
5* Mercurial Helm

Additional Changes:

Items
- All handgun charge times have been reduced.
- Most handguns have had their charge attack animation speed increased by 33%
- Two-Shot heavy style handguns and Autogun style handguns can now move while reloading at 55% run speed.
- Prismatech and Shadowtech Alchemer damage increased.
- 2*-4* 'Vaporizer' style bombs have an increased cloud radius and duration.
- The Ash of Agni, Shivermist Buster and Venom Veiler have a slightly reduced cloud radius and duration.
- New inventory icons for Relic and Chemical bomb families.
- New sounds for Coldsnap.
- New sounds for Fang of Vog.
- New art for 3* and 5* chemical bombs.

Monsters
- Lumbers now do split elemental damage.
- Lumbers now have a attack flash notification.

Merchants
- Basil is now guaranteed to have at least one of the highest star recipe in each tier.
- Vatel is now guaranteed to have at least one 2* recipe
- Brinks the Token Trader has had his boss token catalogs revamped. Material rewards are no longer available for boss tokens, and many existing equipment rewards are now cheaper to obtain.

Levels
- Replaced the corner pillars in Vanaduke's throne room with water wells.

Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue where a rare love puppy spawn would prevent players from progressing in the Clockworks
- Fixed an invisible pitfall in the first Clockworks Terminal
- Fixed an issue that was causing the Freezing Atomizer to apply the wrong tier of Freeze.

[Wolf Tengu]

Ooh.
Mercurial eh?

[LASD]

Woooo, It really paid to invest in Firecrackers, I've made 35 000 crowns and counting. The ones without buy prices are just climbing up the first page now, some of them already at 3000 crowns.

[Wolf Tengu]

huh.
So can you make them and sell them at a profit, or did you make/buy/whatever tham when mats were cheap?

[LASD]

Well the market is way too full now, but I put most of my bombs for sale in the last two days, so the end time would be closer to the time the achievement went up.

But the materials still don't cost much (red shard 25-50, brimstone 10-25), so with mist energy crafting they'll likely go for a profit still.

EDIT: Started with 2000 crowns today, bought 3 different 4-star recipes and the materials for crafting them and I still have 72000 left. I've now sold 39 Firecrackers for approximately 3000 crowns a piece. There's only 6 more to be sold. Twas a pretty good day.

[AlStar]

The new boss is certainly quite a trip. The levels down remind me a lot about Vanaduke - lots of environmental problems that try to kill you.

The boss(es) themselves are a lot of fun. You've got to get the two turrets to slam each other with their attacks while keeping off all the trash mobs that keep respawning on you.

I managed it solo (not intentially, the rest of my guild had their own instance, and surprisingly, no pubbies joined me.)

It's quite a bit more intense than the Jelly King. I wonder if they'll bring in some new Jelly Palace levels to make up for the fact that they're much easier than the new boss levels.