Spiral Knights - Compound 42

Compound 42

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Thu, 07/12/2012 - 17:37

Dukeplatypus

OHMAIGAWD SO MUCH FIRE!!

At first there was fire, and then there was moar fire, and then I was surrounded by even moar fire, and then I was going down, down, down in a burning ring of fire! And then I'm constantly poisoned, so I can't heal or kill all the things that make all the fire! I even resorted to an ASI max Supernova and CTR max Acheron, still couldn't tame the fire. The thing is, once one thing is on fire, EVERYTHING catches fire faster than Panem after the Hunger Games. And then there're more Lichens spawning than I could carefully kill them. I was so distracted by the screen burning more than London in 1666 that I was blasting 1k revs in the last room and killed the giant Lichen before I really saw what he could do.

Also, where was the Oiled Baron? I know you're hiding him from us, OOO!

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 19:47

Kitty-Softpaws

At one time, I was both

At one time, I was both poisoned and on fire lol. I have Chaos Cloak btw, this is going to be total hell in Tier 3 full parties.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 23:10

The-Rawrcake

You are geared wrong if you

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Try using a pure white laurel with 2 pieces of armor that grant poison resistance. It makes you immune to oil poison!

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 22:17

Thunderskull

Armor Set recommendation

Have a look at the Dragon Scale set it actually looks viable for Compound 42.
Slightly above average piercing and elemental defense with poison and fire resistance.
Sounds good to me except the fact that it offers no normal defense for the other bit of damage monsters and other things dish out.
If you don't like the look of it there is a reason for costume slots you know.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 22:16

The-Rawrcake

It doesn't look viable, it is

It doesn't look viable, it is absolutely viable, and better than wolver.

Attacks that deal normal damage are avoidable.

Fri, 07/13/2012 - 07:07

Dukeplatypus

I rolled with chaos (because

I rolled with chaos (because that's usually what I do on the main server) and a fire max shadowsun slicker I happened to have leftover from the LD preview. It, uh, didn't help much. I expected some status, of course, but I thought it'd be avoidable like LoA. It wasn't. So I switched to a dragon scale helm and shield. Fortunately the normal damage was minimal, so I could actually use that damn shield as a shield for once in the game, but you're constantly getting caught on the oil slicks, so you cannot move as even more things catch fire. Being poisoned and on fire wasn't a rare thing, if you have one status (and about 80% of the time you will), you'll get the other within 5 seconds 60% of the time since the lit oil does both.

I feel one thing they must do is nerf the oil so you don't get poisoned when its unlit. If it lit, fine, make it do both fire and poison, but if it's unlit it's impossible to avoid getting poisoned, and you really cant navigate through it with your shield up.

Fri, 07/13/2012 - 09:14

The-Rawrcake

Yeah, I accidentally lead

Yeah, I accidentally lead people the wrong way in telling them that it made people "immune to oil poison" from 2 pieces of dragon scale etc etc.

I apologize, because it was actually 2 pieces of dragon scale plus a white laurel / poison UV to cause oil poison immunity.

The other issue is that you can do the same with lit oil. Add in a soaking whetstone or a fire UV, and you are immune to lit oil fire. Which is currently going to make this content too easy of course unless it is changed.

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