I LOVED these changes. About time Poison Resistance got a legitimate use.
any way
1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?
I thought that this round was just right save for a few instances, but that would change if I went with a full party instead of me and a friend. A decent bombing strategy with teamwork could prolly make this a really fun set of levels
2. How many revives did you use?
6, but I think that's because I didn't wait for my friend to revive me and that I was being reckless what with the unlimited revives.
3. What did you like about the level?
The redisign is quite nice, and the random moments where snarby pops out and stuns you are brilliant, along with the "boss fight" where you kill everything but snarby.
4. What needs improvement?
I'd have to say that all the sick puppies in the level should be changed to howlitzers, as keeping everything generaly weak to what the boss is weak to creates a sense of continuity. Keep the Vilewoods though, them inflicting stun also keep the Snarby theme together. Also being a bit friendlier with heart boxes would be nice, although this may change as I plan on trying again tomorrow with what I think to be the perfect gear for it.
5. Anything else you want to add in?
There isn't really as much of a reward for doing this one as there seems there should be, and I feel as though there were no hidden areas like FSC and IMC had (albeit very small bonuses). That and I'm hoping if/when this gets fully implemented, more gear will come out that will help with these, as the only armor set that would excel in this is the Deadly Virulisk stuff, which doesn't grant any shadow resistance and has a rather unfitting slime bonus. (although it's still quite doable).

"as the only armor set that would excel in this is the Deadly Virulisk stuff, which doesn't grant any shadow resistance and has a rather unfitting slime bonus. (although it's still quite doable)."

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Radiant_Silvermail

Pierce resist, check. Shadow resist, check. Poison resist, check. Damage against undead, check.

Technically not an armor set but it is useful if you really need to gear up for ultimate snarby (hint: you don't need to gear for ultimate snarby).

Holy crap how did I miss that, I even looked up and down the wiki for something like that. derp on my part.

But in a game focused solely around gear, I feel like if they aren't aiming to make people make gear for specific situations, I'm not entirely sure where to go with it.

1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?
Great for the most part. Fix the bells not working since as it stands this is an issue with regular Snarby and these guys, but otherwise I really enjoyed it. Probably my favourite boss battle in all of SK.

2. How many revives did you use?
I didn't count exactly since with infinite mist I find it difficult to play cautiously since I can just explore at my leisure, but I would probably say around 4 or 5, 2 of which were at Snarby due to the bells refusing to do as I wanted em too.

3. What did you like about the level?
More or less everything. The foreboding atmosphere, the well constructed difficulty that didn't really on cheap shots like UFSC, the creative parts of it and the fact that similarly to how UFSC makes curse resistance worthwhile, this stratum has actually given poison resistance a reason to exist.

4. What needs improvement?
Not a lot, Snarby needs tweaking slightly since the bell picks and chooses when it works although that's also an issue with regular Snarby, and I think the final fight before the boss depth itself needs to be bit more climatic. Otherwise though these were great, kudos to OOO.

5. Anything else you want to add in?
Nothing. As far as I'm concerned this level is easily the best 'Ultimate' level so far and they really need to go back and rethink how they did UIMF and UFSC, since is so much better by comparison.

"Nothing. As far as I'm concerned this level is easily the best 'Ultimate' level so far and they really need to go back and rethink how they did UIMF and UFSC, since is so much better by comparison."

I second this.

1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?
It was a nice challenge. I found the danger rooms a bit annoying with mobs and all the spikes. But all I need is some practice to get use to it. Snarby is probably one of my favorite bosses. I fight him a lot even if I am t3 but I tend to go solo to avoid t1 kids.

2. How many revives did you use?
I didn’t bother counting. Unlimited rez lets be a little reckless. : )
I will probably fight correctly next time and whenever the update becomes official.

3. What did you like about the level?
How Snarby appears to help his minions fight you. Along with the twins at the boss level. I do like how when you stun him then he goes underground Snarby will still come up to take some beating before recovering.

4. What needs improvement?
I know there called danger rooms for a reason but (about to over exaggerate here) I think the 15 Kats, 20 Wolvers, 3 Trees, 5 GunPups, and 50 Zombies. Is a bit too much and I know that some computers can’t handle that much stuff on the screen at once without lagging. This isn’t fair for the players when such lag causes their death. I went out and bought a top of the line computer for this game (and it was about time to update anyways) but I know that many people can’t afford to do that. Maybe have more rounds and less monsters appear at once instead of fewer founds with a million monsters hitting the screen at once. Just to help reduce some lagging issues once this becomes official.
Snarby bell needs some tweaking I think. Sometimes you will hit the bell and Snarby will be right next to it and nothing will happen.

5. Anything else you want to add in?
These are just little things I would like added/changed. But you don’t have to take it seriously. At the second level when you have to get the two keys if it would be a split off area instead of a party button. Maybe a color difference between the two bosses to help us keep track on which Snarby we want to focus on.

1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?

I like the difficulty, its more difficult then FSC x.x (in my opinion :P). Unlike the T1 Snarby, its not very "solo-friendly" D:. If you combine: respawning Silks+poison+2 Snarby, and only 1 person its an "lost-fight" ._.
For 4 people it must be sure a fun and a challenge :P.

2. How many revives did you use?
For the Pre-Depth about 7-8, but if I had seen the Silks and the 2! Snarbys I've given up...x.x

3. What did you like about the level?
The atmosphere was pretty cool :P, that gloomy, dark background, and the rabid Snarby fit perfectly with the music :P

4. What needs improvement?
Perhaps the respawning Silks... on the next-to-last arena with 20 Wolvers, 20 Zombies, 8 Alphas, 10 Cats and the spawning Silks, i've often died x.x
This also applies to Snarby...

5. Anything else you want to add in?

No, otherwise it was pretty cool :)

I found this level pretty easy, except for Snarbolax.

\\since there's two of em their health should be nerfed, and there should only be one healer. Other than that I actually liked this challenge,

1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?
Perfect. It was a fun boss battle that, with some specialized piercing equipment, felt perfect.

2. How many revives did you use?
Two, almost three.

One at the arena pit with one snarbolax thrown in, with turrets and massive amounts of Kats.
One at the spawn pad room before we figured out that thing were spawning indefinitely and we needed to clear the bushes. Room was balanced, we just didn't connect the dots fast enough.
The final wolver room with 2 bells in it nearly killed me after draining all my pills

3. What did you like about the level?
First, I love new content in all forms. I like the game and I like these levels simply because they're made of the SK experience. That said, I came here to focus on the flaws, to give constructive criticism so things could be improved. Things I liked were:
- The many wolvers
- the fact that poison resist gear has a place in our inventories now
- that some mechanics really surprised me (like the spawn pads, which forced us to think for the first time in months of playing)
- that we can have some variation in T3 even if they are recycled levels
- that the levels just felt fun. They're simply enjoyable.
- Stun traps, it makes for nice terrain hazards without actually killing you, very well thought of!

4. What needs improvement?
- Wolvers teleport a split second before they attack, which feels incredibly cheap. You see one charge up, so since you're charging something up yourself you simply walk out of range. Then it teleports behind you and hits you unavoidably. You simply cannot charge anything if there's 5 wolvers in the room, because the more there are the higher the chance of one teleporting mid attack, which will hit you 100% of the time unless you're shielding (yes, even while running they can hit you).
- Alpha Wolvers usually charge, then attack three times forward with enough damage that no shield can stand it (an ironmight, which is plate and has pierce resist broke in one combo). This would be fine, but sometimes they simply lock onto you like a heat seeking missile, turning if you try to sidestep them. In small arena's here you're forced through bramble bush this way, or into a howlitzer since they clear a LOT of space just dashing forward.

I know these previous two are enemy related, but since this is a dungeon themed after them it really stood out.

- Like Mister-Chilled mentioned, the hue/color is bothersome. I'm not colorblind at the least, but I had trouble seeing some enemies or keeping track. That also adds to my next point:
- The first arena with snarby felt a little too hard. His green spikes are hardly visible enough to dodge (ties to previous point), he doesn't always seem to 'walk' places when underground (instead teleporting to the other side instantly, sometimes under a knight who's standing there spiking him), he can trap you with his body against enemies removing every defense you have except your shield (pray that it won't break), two or three kinds of projectile sources is too chaotic (kats, howlitzers and snarby shooting spikes) without some sense of crowd control like a shivermist bomb and even then snarby is immune and will probably spike you out of charging.
- The heart dispensers in front of the boss room were small hearts, which just means unnecessary waiting. Upgrading them to ones similar to the 3 heart dispensers at Crossroads or Royall jelly/Vanaduke boss rooms will speed things up.
- 3 T1 Tokens for such hard levels and boss seems frugal, I know these items make valuable 5* additions to any arsenal, but T3 token items start at 4* (Blackened crest) but mostly 5* (ancient set, fang of vog). So a suggestion would be new items to trade for these tokens, different coins or simply more coins.

5. Anything else you want to add in?
- Will the stun traps get other graphics? We avoided them like the plague, because normal spikes hurt so much and they look identical. The fun with stun traps is that you can pick between taking damage from an enemy while being cornered or letting yourself being stunned, it's a nice tactical consideration since the stun can be better or worse. You can only make those considerations when stun traps have a unique look though.
- I felt that I got lucky with the amount of health and pills that dropped. My Firestorm Citadel runs don't always drop this much health to keep me going (then again since I'm more experienced at that dungeon, I don't tend to need it).

1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?
WOW it was sow Darn challenging and hard... i just could not stop playing it, i hope they make it official in to the game.
This is what SK should be Fun, Exiting and Challenging if you ask me.... because if i want to play a kiddy game i play Nintendo Wii

2. How many revives did you use?
sow many time that i just forgot to count them all, i hit the 1000 revive more than you can count to a million =O)

3. What did you like about the level?
I Love Everything about the new Level

4. What needs improvement?
The Darn Bell Never work for me..... i say the Bell needs to be fix

5. Anything else you want to add in?
Superb Job Three Rings! A++ Two Thumbs Up!!

1. What did you think of the difficulty level of The Snarby?
Very good. This is what you guys should be aiming for (or above) for T3 content difficulty level.

2. How many revives did you use?
A lot. I went solo and lost count after the count maxed at 1000; probably around 15 or so.

3. What did you like about the level?
Let's see.

The first arena area was AMAZING―innovative and difficult. I think Snarby should have been present in ALL locked rooms in these levels. The mix of damage types was great, too. You had Kats, Zombies, and Howlitzers (shadow), Lumbers and the occasional Gun Puppy (elemental), and then a bunch of Beasts (piercing). The respawning Silkwings was also amazing and innovative; really liked it.

4. What needs improvement?
The problem with Poison status is that it doesn't prevent you from running away, and it's not a threat if you do run away. There need to be more points of no return/locked rooms in order for poison to be a constant threat.

Adding to the above problem, because Wolvers are so mobile, I could just run away to wherever I wanted, then summon the Wolvers to me with Argent Peacemaker, completely ignoring any threats from turrets or hazards. So, again, more PONR's and locked rooms.

An exploit that must be addressed before launch are the Silkwings during the boss battle dropping crowns, heat, materials, and health capsules. They should drop hearts and vitapods only.

More Gun Puppies would be nice. While the Lumbers would break any non-elemental shield in one hit, they're not that easy to get hit by, so Elemental damage was a little weak. Someone also mentioned (I forget where) that monsters are dealing split normal damage; this should be fixed, as well.

The stun spikes are not nearly threatening enough. First of all, they do no damage, and second, you can just run away into one of the button-locked rooms and snipe enemies from outside (Silkwings/Lumbers) or call them to you (Wolvers).

The spinning wheel things, like in UFSC, are not threatening enough either. I assume they can cause poison, but I had no poison resist and can't remember an instance of them doing so. The poison chance should be 100% because they aren't hard to shield/avoid in the first place. They could also use to be a little faster.

The final room with the keys would be more interesting if you had to kill the first "wave" of monsters (those that spawn when you get there) before you could progress (perhaps add a pink gate in front of the key gates); as it is you can just run like hell and open the gates, and use the arena ahead as a barracks.

5. Anything else you want to add in?
I'll just use this section to summarize:
a. More Snarbolax in "arena" style rooms.
b. More points of no return/locked rooms.
c. More threatening hazards.
d. More elemental damage monsters.
e. No infinitely farmable Silkwings.

Unfortuantely, I wasn't able to participate this time around (living in the other side of the world and test server times given in an unfamiliar timezone didn't help much) but I just wanted to clarify the "bell bug": From my observations with normal Snarby, I found that it's not a bug, it's a (kind of) feature: THE BELL DOESN'T WORK DURING THE ATTACK SEQUENCE (capitalazied for emphasis). It took me 3 runs to figure it out, but after that, and when not in a PUG, I was able to use it only when it was effective and it performed consistently.

You can add it as a suggestion (bell to interrupt them/just work and get him stunned as soon as they finish attacking), but that would make the fight too easy, right?