Spiral Knights - List of valid yet somewhat game breaking unique weapon combinations that could go in prize boxes

List of valid yet somewhat game breaking unique weapon combinations that could go in prize boxes

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Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:09

Fehzor

Want to sell prize boxes with weapons in them? Here are some suggestions that would show the F2Pers who is boss and make you incredibly rich in the process-

Weapons:

Irontech destroyer: replace stun with freeze or shock
Dread venom striker: Specialize its damage; change poison to freeze or shock
Obsidian Edge: Replace poison with fire or shock
Plague Needle: Replace poison with freeze or shock
Haze bomb: Curse; really curse anything would sell so do that for the lols
Electron vortex: replace shock with freeze
Overcharged mixmaster: Change to piercing, shock becomes stun -or- change to shadow, add fire

Shields:

Omega shell, but with any status resistance added
Swift strike buckler, but not ugly
Dragon scale shield, but with different statuses and different damage types

Armor:

Anything balanced with black kat/chaos

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 13:23

Dibsville

How are these?

Weapons:

Fire/Shock Troika
Elemental Magnus with Shock damage
Elemental + Freeze Shard Bomb, make the initial explosion not cause Freeze damage, only the eight shards.
Specialized Winmillion -or- just a 5* Winmillion. Doesn't matter what damage and/or status you give it.
We already have Obsidian Carbine, why not make an Elemental + Fire/Shock Antigua?

Shields:

Royal Jelly Shield, replace Sleep with Freeze, preferably make it match Ice Queen.
Barbarous Thorn Shield reskins. That is all.

Armors:

Freeze + Shock defensive armor.
Helmet to match Radiant Silvermail.

Trinkets:

MSI Trinkets you know you want them. But only comes in 5* and only gives MSI Low.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 14:25

Fehzor

Fire/shock troika would be cool and desired but I'm not sure they'd be strong enough.

Elemental magnus would be great! Possibly with fire though, so that it pushes them back for all of the hits since people care a ton about that.

Five star winmillions would be great to make prize box exclusive.

Fire/shock argent peacemaker would be kind of underwhelming and on par with other weapons, though I could see them working out if they went on a stretch and took away tons of damage but gave it fire AND shock. So it'd have negative max damage bonus vs undead/construct, but would deal fire + shock + stun + freeze + poison. Basically-

Damage high vs effective monster = one extra status effect; therefore taking away 5 damage highs should get it to just do all of the status effects.

The MSI trinket is excellent, as are the armor suggestions.

Royal jelly shield with JUST ice+stun instead of sleep seems a bit underwhelming to me. Why not give it MSI +1 and no shield bash as well? This combination would also work very well for a swiftstrike and barb thorn shield variant. In fact, for shields you could easily go as far as to manipulate barb thorn shield into something absurd-

Barb thorn shield (no shield bash) = +2 sword damage, +1 MSI
+2 sword damage = +2 MSI (Sprite perks)
New Barb thorn shield (no shield bash) = MSI high
Then swap the piercing to status resistance and you've got profits beyond compare!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 14:35

Midnight-Violet

Well...

"show the F2Pers who is boss and make you incredibly rich in the process-"

I'm really iffy about this entire situation in weapons in Prize Boxes. I'm okay with reskins and I'm happy weapons with new status/damage combos in their lines, or just, new weapons entirely added, but I am completely against them being in Prize Boxes. Considering the last few boxes, the chances for those weapons are horrendous, even worse for the players that wish to not pay for the boxes.

Something like the Celestial Blade promotes players to buy the boxes rather than spend the effort working on the Calibur early on in missions. Celestial Blade isn't just a Leviathan reskin, it's a standalone Leviathan upgrade. Adding Stun to the charge makes it much more reliable on the field than the Levi's charge, which just flings enemies. It defeats the purpose of crafting, which is a mechanic the game emphasises upon to progress through the game. Why spend time when you know the weapon you make is worse than the one you get for throwing $5 or more at the devolpers.

I'm liking some of the ideas listed, namely the Mixmaster weapons (another weapon I have dislikes from promos), Elemental + Fire Antigua, and Elemental + Freeze Clusterbomb, but I cannot agree on it being behind essentially another paywall for free users.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 14:48

Vohtarak-Forum

@mid

this is probably sarcasm
they wont give us free content, so we suggest pay only content
(they did accept a suggestion with the pillow sword, its not the same as suggested but they did it)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 15:24

Dibsville

Some more? Don't mind if I do.

Weapons:
Fang of Vog, but Freeze/Shock damage. Maybe make it Shadow.
Flourish line with Freeze/Shock.
Shadow + Poison Alchemer. Make it green, yo.
Elemental + Fire/Shock Catalyzer line. Always thought an elemental Catalyzer would be pretty OP so hey, why not.
Elemental Blast Bomb, for once.

Armors:
More triple-resistance armors such as Tri-Guard. Lower status resistance overall, but more statuses.
Armor of the Fallen but with different resistances and a different negative family bonus. Go nuts.

Trinkets:
Grand Solstice Ring except Fire + Shock.
Grand Solstice Ring except Fire + Poison.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 15:35

Fehzor

@Midnight-Violet

Strange, I still see you playing the game and I'd go as far as to say that when you see someone with a prize box only weapon, you'd like to try it out-- you desire to get the weapon due to its effects. Soon, the taboo of prize box weaponry will be gone and all of the whiners will have left, and you will start to consider spending money on the game. Eventually, all endgame players will buy prize boxes to gamble for all new content and OOO will open an in game casino so that all progress and everything is done via gambling. The gambling will make so much money, that we'll be able to get more content updates and the game will become perfect.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:28

Fangel

jezums

I'm reading this thread and coming up with an item reskin of my own. I call it the "sign".

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:42

Fehzor

The sign is a great idea Fangel. I can see it being a pure damage reskin of combuster.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:45

Dibsville

"I'm reading this thread and coming up with an item reskin of my own. I call it the "sign"."

So it's a Triglav reskin?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 16:56

#10

Falminar

^ Looks to me like a Sudaruska reskin.

I keep calling the Sudaruska a "Sudarsuka".

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 17:06

#11

Dibsville

Ahh

But the sign says Stop! Surely it would be a Triglav.

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List of valid yet somewhat game breaking unique weapon combinations that could go in prize boxes