Spiral Knights - Poison doesn't work on gremlin menders

Poison doesn't work on gremlin menders

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Sat, 07/09/2011 - 01:52

Matuse

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So, I'm in a T2 arena, and there's a pair of gremlin healers there. Unfortunately while clearing out everything else, I wasn't able to get one of them. This has caused a severe problem with trying to kill either of them when they are the only ones left.

I've been using a mk II venom vaporizer on one of them, cornered and kept constantly poisoned. Unfortunately element vs gremlin isn't fabulous, so it only does 14 damage per hit. But THEORETICALLY, it should kill him eventually, because he can't be healed. Well, turns out he can.

The little plus signs and health don't show up, but he gets healed just fine. I just did 50 consecutive bombs during which he was never -not- poisoned (that's 700 damage), and he isn't dead. The 50 is just when I started counting, I'd been doing it a while before then. The other mender walks up, heals him once per bomb, and then doesn't bother to heal again, since the heal does 108, and he's only being hit for 14.

Gremlin menders are supremely aggravating enough without being immune to the non-heal aspect of being poisoned. Fix please.

Sat, 07/09/2011 - 03:53

CeCeeS

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If that is true, venom bombs

If that is true, venom bombs are even worse than they are considered to be in comparison to the other elemental bombs. Does the damaging effect at least work when the healer is poisoned and he heals another monster?

Sat, 07/09/2011 - 03:57

Boolet

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...huh. take a demo and post

...huh. take a demo and post it?

Sat, 07/09/2011 - 09:50

Captain-Teemo

I'd suggest using fire bombs

I'd suggest using fire bombs against healers - Usually 2-3 placements with full fire ticks is enough to kill them off. Very useful for 3rd room arena final spawns, just circle while charging until the spikes drop then cut to the center, place, shield and circle again.

Sat, 07/09/2011 - 10:04

Eeks

Something about mender heal

Something about mender heal is bugged. It's bugged in T3 as well. I've been in an arena with 2 menders and a lumber and I was bomb juggling between nitronome and TV2. The construct was poisoned the whole time and i was hitting him for 150+ damage in between poison bombs as well as hitting him with the elmental blast but 5 minutes later he was still alive. I sniped out the menders and made quick work of him after but the damages just didn't add up. My suspicion was that it was ground heal that was bugged in my case but you were in T2.

Here is a video that shows that it DOES block heal though, kind of. Maybe it's a mender-mender problem or maybe something else.

>Does the damaging effect at least work when the healer is poisoned and he heals another monster?
There is no "damaging effect". That was removed from the game. See the video above for details.

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Poison doesn't work on gremlin menders