It's called Electron Vortex and Combuster with maxed uv's.

Riding a 2x Very High CTR is still significantly cheaper than a mixer.

@Ze-Epik

As someone who's mainly done swords for most of the time I've played the game, (although now I'm working on becoming a sword-gun hybrid), I can say that they really do need improvements. Just like bombers, swordies have a miserable choice of armor compared to gunners, only two easy sets to get and use, and only Freeze and Fire resist. We have no choices for CTR to just swords or easy Shadow defense.

And that's just armor. Niches like heavy Pierce swords, fast swords in general, special damage Leviathan Blades, and long-range swords are currently empty. Some swords are just plain awful or outdone by similar weapons. Normal-type swords are almost never used.

I think giving swordies and bombers more armor choices is priority one, before they do any Sword Update or Bomb Update. After that, they can work on fixing the actual weapons and adding new ones.

Yeah. I really don't like it how the only bomber set you have is elemental resist, and the Mad Bomber set is far inferior to the Chaos set.
Speaking of which, NERF CHAOS PLZ.

I'm talking about how it's basically a flat-out better choice than most other things.
Actually, scratch that. What we really need is a defense buff.
Right now even if you have good defense basic monsters still 3-shot you. I think it's time to amend that: it gives glass cannon armours a much needed nerf and it gives guardians a little bit of love.

@Faris

If you play with a blindfold on, all of your fingers broken, and were sitting in an active electric chair, then using chaos in FSC might be a challenge.

If the majority of people who play this game are like you Faris, and really don't think Chaos/BK sets are broken AF, then that explains some of GH's responses. Nothing wrong with the game having a very low average player skill level, but that finally explains some questions.

Remember that Firestorm Citadel is an end-game dungeon. There is a lot of player variance by the time they get there. Some may not be able to avoid enemies due to connection, skill, or experience. Others don't follow all enemies on the screen and get overwhelmed by not noticing the leaping or breathing zombie in the swarm.

Chaos is OP, but I feel like the problem is that it's as good as class armors while being able to fulfill the role of every class armor. I would personally change chaos to having damage: high and CTR: high overall, and would do it so that the hood has DMG: med, CTR: low, and the armor has DMG: low, CTR med.

This makes the helmet the "damage" part and the armor the "charge time" part. Now chaos is "slightly worse" than class sets (wolver, gunslinger, bomber), but is still a really good hybrid set.
I would also nerf black kat damage bonus down to medium per piece, but that's a bit easier to do.

@Jessecho

I didn't mean perfecting suggestions should be anyone's job. I'm sorry if I sounded like that. I'm just against people screaming "DIS ISSH BR0KEN, FIX IT NAO" without even a lick of detail.

I understand what you're saying, although I don't entirely agree with it. If developers magically understand all our needs, then why do they ask for feedback? Why do forums exist? I think customers' feedback does need a little detail to it, at least a little to understand what's wrong and what direction to take when fixing something. Something vague like: "you need to fix this, ok" isn't much help.

edit: i fix typo xD

I honestly think Chaos needs to have a change in the buffs. Now I am not talking about change in the amount of buffs or the power of the buffs I am talking about changing what weapons they effect. So with that being said I was thinking that they should change the ctr for all weapons and dmg for all weapons to ctr for swords and dmg for swords.

Now there are good reasons to do this and some kinda sticky after effects. The first reason to do this is that it is flat out OP and needs to get a nerf (which is obvious). The second reason is that there is already an armor that has similar stats just for bombs. Noe we get to the after effects that would be kinda hard to cover up. If they did switch the bonuses to sword only they would have to make another armor with the same bonuses for guns. The only problem with that is that there are already the gunning armors which give bonuses that are close to chaos but are still worse than chaos. So they would have to rework the gunning armors to keep everything balanced, but if they decided not to add a gunning "chaos" set then they would still have to rework the gunning armors. If they didn't they would hear about them more than the devs have heard about chaos.

So while I would really like them to switch chaos to sword only buffs they would have to rework a bunch of armors no matter what but I think it would be worth taking the time to so that things can be balanced again.

Now I have a few questions if the devs are still taking questions.

@Cronus: What is your opinion on shard bombs, Acheron, Mixmasters, Chaos and other weapons or armors that are completely unbalanced?

I really like that idea. It gives a lot of room to work with on choosing armors (and not just using chaos for anything and everything) and still gives chaos that all round armor set while not being OP.

That is a pretty good idea for chaos as well. The only thing I don't like about it is that it does give a reason to use the mad bomber set but it still wouldn't give any reason to use any armors other than chaos and mad bomber(if you can dodge).

@Faris

Ignoring your other silly and pointless questions, I think a hint of what's to come is long overdue. It would be cool though, but they have their own agenda. Based on previous replies from Cronus, there is nothing concrete to report.

It should have been very obvious that GH doesn't make concrete promises anymore, since they can't necessarily guarantee a change, for reasons of their own. You should read the thread again. Also, the best thing to do is to leave GH alone and let them do what THEY want. They obviously know the suggestions, having a bunch of children constantly pester them about the same things would likely be counterproductive (Hint hint).

I feel like suggesting things is never in bad faith. Feedback is important for any sort of media, especially interactive media.

However, telling people how to do their jobs is pretty much a huge no-no. This pretty much is applicable anywhere - tell a food service worker to "not fall over" isn't helpful. Demanding an electrician to rewire your house so that you get 4 new outlets in an hour won't be great if you want your house to not be ripped up. Telling a member of a software support team to spill the beans or to implement your new best idea will probably be met with the sound of silence.

That doesn't mean suggestions shouldn't be given. Telling a waitress about a new set of heels that you've found that are much easier to walk in will make her job easier should she have balancing issues while carrying food. Taking measurements beforehand and telling the electrician how much space it'll take for the outlets can help cut down on time spent rewiring everything. Posting about your new great idea for some software in the right area (forums, email, etc) will allow a software support team that looks through said things to pass the idea on silently to those who can do something with it.

I highly urge you to post any suggestions you have for the game over in the suggestions subforum. Doesn't matter if they're good or bad - if an idea sparks some fire in the development team for an idea then it's worth throwing your ideas around. :)

we encountered a bug where we hit the switch but there is still a gate...it took us 30 min and now we cnt finish the game. ty devs for fixing this issue. XD

For the (surprisingly) few people suggesting CE price drops in pages 1/4 of this thread (because I'm too lazy to check pages 2/3) I would like to tell you that the way to make the price drop is to MAGICALLY MAKE EVERYONE POSTING OFFERS LOWER THEIR PRICES BY A LOT. Which would mean every money hungry player posting those offers agree on making the prices lower and losing money. But actually to contradict what I said, doing that would ALSO benefit them in a way.

Lowering their prices would make AH prices go down too to match the market prices. People converting Eng to Crs with their newly bought Eng should not buy anything from the AH but from other players to get a better bargain than the outdated prices in the AH. Doing so would have two possible outcomes. Either the people in the AH update their prices to get more buys or the AH gets abandoned and then removed. Also the conversion for crs to eng would be good because it would be cheaper to buy Supply Depot items such and boosters, weapons, etc. OF COURSE there's always the chance this could somehow backfire if started. Just showing I'm aware

Now... I MUST GO. MY PLANET NEEDS ME.

As someone who does buy into promos I like, I prefer the current system for most boxes. When I buy into a promo, I want to get items from the promo, and I typically dump $20 into each promo. Either I get 5 assorted items (nice) or 2 items and a bit of energy (ehhh).

However, I do believe promos being on an on-off situation (standalone box, bundled box) that swapped every promo would be a nice solution.

Hi, I've been with SK for...*counting on fingers* at least 4 or so years now. and something I've ALWAYS been curious about is lore. especially the Gremlins, those Cute hot tempered fluffy people. we know so little about them, and by that I mean: Herex is probably a traitor, King Tinkinzar may or may not exist (ala 1984, Big brother) and out of the Iron Nine, we know of one warmaster (Seerus) and that's it.

Aside from that we know next to nothing. any lore even if its just codexes or letters or a generic NPC/Terminal that tells us more about them would be incredible.

I really wanna know why not? Why not return old revive system or make a new one becuse this one has 0 teamwork in it, and i loved it how old one required team work ^^
since new system i dont really feel like im playing in a team its more like group of solo people

If you had stuff dropping from every enemy, even with small chances, you'd quickly be flooded with an arsenal of 1* and 2* items that you'll never use.

The "item drops" are fine where they are, especially since the orbs of alchemy exist. Rarities being more normalized would make for a more fair game (assuming they're dropped on elite-rate of drops, since those are the only reasonable ones), however item drops remaining rare and almost unknown is fair when you can simply choose what item you'll be getting with the orbs you find.

That's understandable. Just feel like everything needs a few tweaks and once we have new content it will all be fine.

Yes. We've seen few additions to SK lately, and they were neat, but, we've yet to hear progress updates from Grey Havens since Cronus' previous report over a year ago. There's gotta be some word about that by now.

1st, through some people's words, the game's storyline has been at a long-standing standstill for a bit over 2 years now, and we're all still waiting for the continuation needed to get the story going once more, but, I have understood that GH still needs time to plan things out before they can commence. These plans tend to change overtime, and I won't stop them. I hope once some things have been settled, we may receive word on how the storyline can continue a bit more frequently.

2nd, while it was nice to see some new levels, we still hope to see many more new missions made soon, not just counting new Rank campaign missions. We've been waiting to see more new Expansion Missions, Danger Missions, & even some new event missions. They have all been amazing, but we still wish to see many more soon.

We have been great adventurers for many years, but, sometimes, we ponder ways to help out GH in whatever way we can, be it through uses of Kickstarter, Patreon, and perhaps others, so that we could give the game more growth it deserves.

Plus, with new, affordable & decent, non-subscribed programs available already, such as Affinity Photo, Affinity Design, Clip Studio Paint, HitFilm Express & Pro, Blender(you all have heard about them, yes? if not, look at them for yourselves. They're all neat to buy&/or try.), & so on, getting stronger & more capable with each new update, that are definite alternatives to some long-standing programs that have their subscription plans that we'd rather not pay for just to use them, such as Photoshop, Adobe Animate, Maya, etc.(I mean, who'd pay money monthly to use these? Big wastes of money, if ya ask me.), along with more powerful computers, equipment, hardware, & technological advancements being made, and more on the way, I feel that helping the people at GH, if needed, should be feasible, even by doing it from our homes.

Purchasing prize boxes, more energy, & so on does help GH, but I think we could do plenty more than just that. We knights may have to help in any way we can.

+1

I'd say either Suggestions or Treasure Vault.
If you're not sure which, post in one and if the mods don't move it you're good.

Really, it's been quite a long time since the last major update (Starlight Cradle, I believe), and we've just been going along picking up promos and events on the way.
Radio silence didn't really work out for the TF2 team, and when they started communicating more in the most recent updates everyone's been happy.

Please?

I like the fact that GH has been doing everything they can for server/technical management, but the issue is that they always leave out details.
If they told us in layman's terms what kinds of things they're working maintenance on it would do wonders to bridge that gap.

Still really think they should give community creators the chance to design levels/weapons/enemies and e-mail the .obj/.fbx/etc files to the company for possible approval. Would be a neat step forward while GH works on internal matters.

Well, that was super harsh, but it's not entirely unwarranted.

We know from years past that the project head of Three Rings Design (Nick) and the lead artist (Ian) voluntarily left the team because of the situation SEGA put them in. There's no getting around the fact that Networks gave OOO/GH a huge beating and left it in a considerable state of disrepair.

Why did SEGA adopt OOO in the first place? It was an easy catch; Rings needed money, even to start out with.

So what we've got is a crippled development team with a moderate lack of money and specialization, a game with no clear source of self-sustaining revenue aside from lootcrate gambling, and a playerbase numbering in the hundreds to <10,000s. The developers obviously need money from somewhere else, and money doesn't just fall out of the sky when you need it. A good majority of the GH staff likely have day jobs to pay for their own families; you can't live off Prize Box revenue, much less pay server upkeep with it at the same time. As such, the Spiral Knights project comes second to their personal well-beings, and it's obvious they don't have as much time for it as they used to.

However, you're right in that new content or at least fixes to old content is easy enough to add. It's obvious that the post-Vanaduke missions were rushed, but the fact that they haven't been at least patched in (about a year? two? I'm losing track) is disappointing. Dreams and Nightmares has a myriad of amazing level designs, but the narration and the beginning sequence just don't hold up to the rest of the mission.

It's also the fault of the GH staff that they steadfastly refuse to reach out to the community. We haven't seen concept art, plot teasers, or even layman's-terms patch note details for the past forever. Forum contests are fun, and I'm glad that those happen, but the only thing that they go towards is promotion for the game. There have been no level editors, no modelling softwares, nothing released to the community, even as test runs. They don't hire anyone new, promotion besides word-of-mouth is nil, (not even on sites that otherwise only host clickbait ads and related trash), and the developers don't give any answers. Part of me thinks they don't have any but are too stubborn to admit it.

Bottom line is, GH is struggling to do anything besides upkeep and maintenance, and there's nothing any of us can do to help them until they ask for it. So remember, Bleyken, you're not entirely wrong, and we're fed up with it too. But there's no good solution, and yelling at it on a forum at this point can only do so much.

There's nothing you can say that they haven't already discussed or read here, but posts like yours, at the very least, serve as a reminder that there are people still invested in this game. So I'm not saying stop, but at least understand the situation first.