From looking at your ideas, i like them in general. The direction you are heading is definitely an interesting one. But i do not agree with all of them.

One of the ideas i do not agree with is the curse vial. I feel it should instead modify the player then summon an npc. Something like an undead ghost possessing the player giving him higher shadow defense, and chance to cause curse on charge attacks. But also makes him vulnerable to attacks from his teamates. Something like that.

Another idea i do not agree with is the oil essence. I agree that the player can spread oil everywhere for a limited amount of time, but oil disapeears if not use right away. So i think it be oil, but the oil will automatically be ignited after 3 seconds of spreading it around the place.

I completely like the ice breath.

Nuclear disater was not bad.

Electric catalyst was not bad, but i feel monster attacks should be able to break this net so that it does not last the full time it suppose to last.

I completely disagree with the sandman. It sounds cool, but the player should not become the monsters and do undercover activities because we do not have smart enough a.i. so i feel the sandman should summon a friendly gremlin instead or recon that can use invisibility and attack monsters when they have death mark. Then goes back invisible and attacks again. This would last only 30 seconds. very similar to the item we have now, but i feel a gremlin shadow stalker would be more interesting to summon. Especially sense there on our side.

Well that is all the modifications i can think of for now. Good luck.

For many reasons, we have stuck accessories as only a visual thing because they can unbalance the game. So i am thinking, why not make some accessories that we can wear in our knight as a trinket we can wear on any armor. So for example, the vial belt you mention can be an accessory and a trinket at the same time. So this way, you would equip that accessory in the trinket slot, but still be able to see it on your knight.

About the labcoat, that can be a costume accessory that can boost the effects of these actions like: longer duration of good effects, negative effects last shorter, maybe easier to find these special items and be able to use em, and some other things i can't think of.

You yelled at me in-game so I guess I should actually post here.

I don't like the suggestion.
I was just pulling a game master and not posting in the thread because all of you here seem to be discussing things and I didn't want to really bother your thoughts.

Reasoning behind it is that changing your attack up, even for a split second, can completely throw off a player. Vials should be used to inflict status at long range when you don't have a weapon to fill that role, and barriers are the same for close range. Deciding to make vials suddenly be some sort of power fluid seems rather unnecessary and completely throws off the game in both flow and function.

Consumables are here to debuff monsters, not to buff our knights. That's why all the pure damage consumables are so rare (mecha knight kit, recon flare, turret).
If I want to freeze an enemy, I want them frozen so I can keep attacking as normal. If I want those gremlins poisoned I'll use a poison vial/barrier. If I want that healer cursed I throw a curse vial at it. These instructions are very easy to follow, and very easy for new players to get a hold of. This also allows new players to understand the value of each status effect.
Consumables aren't here to change you, they're to fill in for what you don't have but are customized to your needs. You don't need to carry a health/remedy capsule, but many knights opt to do so.

As the suggestion has gone further, it seems to sort of fall off the deep end more in my view. Armors specifically created to enhance an RNG-dropping item that can only have 3 carried at max and are not only situational, but completely useless in some levels (and if you pull a dumb and make the armors resist the vial they use, then the armors are completely useless in the levels the vials are useful in), and making a cosmetic item affect gameplay is always a big no-no. This entire thread just doesn't click with any sort of game design already set in place. It might totally be okay in another game, but in Spiral Knights? Big no stamp from me.

Overall, in my eyes, the suggestion seems very out of place with what we currently have in the game. It's not something that makes or breaks the game but it's completely unnecessary and it doesn't fill any specific role other than the cool factor... And honestly, consumables aren't something to really try to make "cool".

There, those are my thoughts.

You know fangel, after i read your reply, i realy felt like we were on a chopping block as if being judged by the spiral knights developers. But after i have thought about it for a bit, we are all just players chatting away in these forums and have no real actual power to make changes in the game qhether we could make a petition or what not to get the developers to look our way. It does not mean anything we do will have the intended result where looking for. Remember that i said i felt this way, i did not accuse you of being a developer or anything else.

Anyway as we are all plauers just throwing out suggestions, all of the power to make changes lie in the hopefully watchful hands of the all mighty developers. This means just because you disagree about what fit into spiral knights, doesn't mean we have to suddenly ride your wave of thought and agree with you. So this means you really can just say what you believe in like "i don't agree with the course this idea has taken". While if you were to say " this idea does not fit into sk", it makes me feel as if you can actually judge what content can be in spiral knights. I mean who ever thought the developers would add a goat reskin for the maskeraith pet. Did sk ever had a goat like animal before? No! And yet randomly and suddenly, we now have goat reskin maskeraith pets all over the place. I mean if we had our say in it, wouldn't that goat be a much better addition as a rare monster then a pet reskin? I think most players would agree to that, but nope, we just gotta live with a reskin goat pet. Anyway, i'm not going to kick you off your high horse if you do believe that you have that power, just keep on with that mentality. But what i am going to do is request to agree to disagree. Cause were not all made the same way and we all think differently from each other. So i completely disagree with your reply and will continue to try my best to aid figh-beetle when i can to improve on his idea.

Well hope to see you fangel in other threads which we as powerless players can chat our time away and hopefully the almighty hands of the developers will look our way.

I would greatly enjoy some more variation to the pickups we have in the game already. Vials have a lot of use in the game as support items being able to supplement gunfire with a supporting status.

I don't think this needs to be replaced but I would like some more things to use. A pickup that can temporarily buff a stat on command would be useful.

Right now we have attack, defense, and speed ORBS which you character can walk over to gain a short boost to those stats. I think that being able to get boosts like this on command (but for a shorter time) would be nice.

A level inspired by a consumable? That's... That's not likely, honestly. We aren't given a tutorial on a recon flare, it's the description of the item that we have the option to read that gives us an insight to how it works, but if we use it we'll know what it does, hopefully. Same with artillery strikes and auto-turret kits, and to some extent, mecha-knight kits.

If your consumables are so complex we need levels made in order to teach players how to use them, then perhaps they're too complex to be a consumable. Stat-up orbs are obvious what they do because of their icon (sword = damage, got it. Shield = defense, got it. Runny person? What's that do walks on it, gets super speed, oh that's what it does), and vials/barriers are color coded the same way status levels and enemies are. The extra items are a fair bit complex to new players, and you often see people making posts asking "what is this and why can't I pick it up?" while looking at an artillery strike.

If we do get new consumables, I would rather we not have a level to go with them... Scenario rooms, totally. You could have clockwork tunnel, deconstruction zones, and compounds all have little science rooms with a new consumable or two inside, perhaps with a few of Herex's goons lurking around. But full levels and tutorials on how to use the things? That item is too complex to be a consumable - perhaps it should be tagged on a battle sprite instead.

The whole idea that more consumables is going to change the game is about as faulty as saying new weapons will. The gunner update added a bunch of new weapons, but it doesn't change how I play the game. If I wanted to go full gunner before the gunner update I'd just have less choices, but it'd still be completely do-able. Similarly, more consumables won't change the game. Sure, you may now carry around a poison tonic instead of a poison vial, but honestly, you're probably not going to use it unless the time calls for it.

I see that as having a niche and being rather easy to learn. It also isn't anything huge (you could just wait a little while for the things to move), and the color-coded icon would be easy to identify.

The traps would still deal damage, just not the status. Pretty sure a freeze one of those would be amazingly helpful in later games (silversap no silversapping), and a fire one would make Vanaduke's mace much less of a threat for a limited time. Technically you could have it be given as a player "buff", much like status and power-up orb icons, and have them be applied by battle sprites (buff drakon's fire barrier to give this effect, or make firestorm give players fire immunity if they walk through it, but not as long as the consumable would give).

Best of all you can pretty much do what the consumables do already with the right equipment, which has been a pattern with consumables outside of damage ones (recon/artillery strike/mecha and turret kits).

Health capsules and remedy capsules don't really scale on anything, I'd say just make salves give you immunity to status and call it a day. The time it lasts should be at max 30 seconds (tier 3) and at minimum 10 seconds (tier 1).

The only question is if these items would remove the status from you if you have it, or just prevent future infliction. I would say keep remedy capsules for removing statuses, but use these to prevent them.