Nice! Thanks for addressing the lack of Piercing damage! Now Piercing armor can actually be useful!

Hah, now I don't feel like a sucker for working on my Valkyrie line of equipment..

"Be careful what you wish for, I've been checking out the T3 jelly cubes and they're pretty nasty in groups!"

Like my old man once taught me... "Never underestimate the power of stupid cubes in large groups."

I can't help thinking the design decision went something like this...
"Had a bit of a brain wave. There I was, smashing some jellycubes together, and I thought, 'yes, it's deadly. But what's missing? What's missing?' And I thought lots of sharp bits welded onto the flat bits."

Maybe they'll shoot fire or something just before they crush us.

But I had just got my ancient set!

Well done though, this balance was much needed.

Thanks, nick! Now the coolest-looking armor types will actually be useful as well. :)

wait so all jellies have a mid range attack 0.o
will the mini one have the range attack? - that may cause me certain death...it shall be epic.

also i'd like to see how this will turn out bomber wise...(majority of mob types have range atts now)...will jellies still get destroyed by everything? mwahaha can't wait for it anyway.

I don't like jellies having spikes; their simplicity was what made them perfect..

Oilers were dangerous enough without spikes and I'm going to miss the cute jiggly pink cubes in Tiers 2 and 3, but otherwise I think these are good changes.

Yeah! They just want hugs!

Wouldn't it be great if they released it when the new jelly king gate opened up? I haven't looked myself but a previous post made it seem that the JK gate would be out of commission for a day or two.

I can see it now-

The Royal Jelly has returned from a short respite! It looks like both the Royal Jelly and its minions have come back stronger than ever!

A big event is underway and is in need of many participants.

Simply read, supply, or ignore. http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/10565

This will help freshen up the Jelly Palace a little, give a much needed buff to Slimes and Beasts, and make the Snarby shield more useful. :D

Jelly King with spikes anyone? :P

EDIT: "Since oilers are getting spikey and thus more difficult, it would be awesome if there were a way to put them out after they catch fire. Logically, ice would be a good way to do that."

Ice already does put them out. But you need to put them all out at once or else their friends will reignite them. Because of that, Shivermist is best for putting them out. :P

I think the changes to the Slime Family were necessary, not only because there was a lack of Piercing damage in the game, but because of Danger Rooms as well.

One of the possible Danger Rooms is getting a room full of Slime-type monsters, yet this room is ridiculously easy regardless of Tier because they remain relatively the same throughout the entire game (Until after this sweet update that is). I can literally finish a full Slime Danger Room in a minute or so, because they're slow, close-range, and not threatening whatsoever, again, regardless of Tier.

With this upcoming update it'll add more difficulty to fighting Slime-types, which is necessary since you need a difficulty difference between Tiers. So, good work guys, now work on Scuttlebots, they don't change whatsoever no matter the Tier. They're been one of the easiest monsters you can possibly run into.

Slooms

Personally, I'd love to see the return of these things. I'd love to see something deal sleep..

I am dreadful afeared. D:

But at least it will encourage people to go for something other than the Owlite Shield series. And... oh hey, my Mighty Defender and Ash Tail set are actually pretty good for this. Maybe I'm not quite so afeared after all. :D

Things is, ice puts out oilers, but if they just charged at you they will ignite oil before getting frozen, and then reignite themselves in the fire, while still frozen, and heal.
So you have to freeze them while they can't catch fire again.

Maybe it's a bug? Easiest way to reproduce is just dropping a shivermist and have a fired oiler charge attack you a few times.

Also, could be more interesting if intead of having spikes, jellys attacked by "spiking" parts of themselves.

Freeze puts out oilers, but it doesn't extinguish the flames from oil slicks. If an oiler drops an oil slick into the freeze mist and then gets stuck right on top of it, it'll ignite the oil slick, then get frozen, then get re-ignited and heal from the oil slick, then get frozen, and so on. In order for freeze to be effective against oilers, it needs to also do something about the oil slicks.

Spiky Jelly armor set, splitting off the base jelly set (probably at 5*?).

Make it happen.

I have to ask: Does the change of attack for Chromalisk apply to -all- of the Chromalisk ''species'', or just the regular Chromalisk?

I find that the ''elemental'' Chromalisks' ''elemental spit'' attacks are rather... pathetic. It's incredibly easy to dodge, and it would make more sense if they also had the tongue attack, so not only could they be able to ''lay traps'' on the ground with their spit, but they could also try to give you a tongue-lashing, literally.

the need for skelly will soon come... i was really ticked at how few use them....

None of this means anything as long as gun puppies are the only meaningful non-boss enemy in the game.

I knew they would do an epic change like this I cant wait to see what those cookie cutter players will start using luckily for me I have a very great arsenal of options =).