-Oh. Oops. THAT Magic something or other game. Yeah, I've seen some videos of it, but never played it.

-...Just because you're wearing Volcanic doesn't mean you have to use fire. It just resists it. Snort.

-I've always thought class-based gear should have slightly lower defense than everything else. It's true that it'd still be inferior without other changes, but hey, you just asked me about Chroma gear, so...

-Way too heavy of a nerf. I was thinking something more among the lines of cutting its CTR down a level, making a two-piece set give Medium instead of Very High, while keeping the VH damage bonus.

The thing with Chaos is that it's intended to be a glass-cannon/kamikaze/etc. set. CTR inadvertently makes it way safer than it should be, since many popular charge-attack weapons have large AoE (alongside the pure-damage charges). I'm not even gonna bring bombs into this, that stuff's too obvious.

If the CTR has to stay, I figure ASD Low on each piece would be enough.

Thing is, though, is this is just theorycrafting. If I were in charge of balancing and balance testing, I'd avoid making extremely heavy nerfs unless I was sure something was blatantly overpowered. Chaos shouldn't go from "top tier" to "trash tier", it should go to "sidegrade".

The entire point of different equipment is to promote different styles/approaches to play, anyway.. and Chaos doesn't strike me as the "safe, sweeping bonus" kind of gear.

-Massive team-wide buffs should be something Sprites do, honestly.

-The reason why I made Valkyrie and Fallen flip-sides of each other is... well, it's fitting. Yeah.

What, do you see any safe/not-in-Haven water sources?

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-No, they should actually do something threatening that you need to dodge (more reasonably than a single tile), not just lower your stats for no reason.

-I can't "D'awwww!" at that, because it's a silkwing.

I hate healers.

This was pretty rad, though.

Whoa whoa whoa, let's not get too crazy with the on-hit stuff here! Debuffs are one thing, but auto-bumping is another, much more powerful mechanic. Can't just let the game play itself for you, right?

Jelly might be better suited for doing something more interesting and practical... like increasing the knockback you deal and take.

-I just posted something about that again in this same thread..

I dunno, man.

-Sword: Rocket Hammer. No argument.
Gun: Obsidian Carbine, or if it was actually good, Biohazard.
Bomb: Electron Vortex, or the old Shards which don't exist anymore and that makes me sad.

Cobalt = Azure. Har har haaaarrrr.

Forget that stupid arrow!

I'd explore it, of course.

-That's only assuming you're constantly in something's face. You just can't do that with every enemy; and the ones that let you are likely easy enough that you're just wasting your cooldowns.

Having Backfire Barrier lets you do some very strange things, like dashing to the backline of a wave of enemies to murder a healer, avoid damage you should have taken otherwise, or other movement-based gimmicky tricks. It amps your defense by the same amount, too; all you're losing out on is orb-damage.

And I'll say again: that damage is too situational, and such situations aren't worth cooldowns.

-More shadow bombs would be great! I'd also like the current Shadow bombs to get tweaks too, though. All vortex bombs should lose their explosion knockback, and Shards are... well, they're Shards.

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-I don't blame them for their choices, but it makes me sad there are so few "top tier" sets to choose from.

I don't want to talk about Lockdown, ever. It's an evil place, but perhaps a necessary evil.

I can't take videos. Sorry.

I can tell you, however, that I'm pretty sure the MSI from Backfire and a pickup doesn't stack. I might be wrong, but... yeah.

I've tried VH MSI with Backfire before, and it's absolutely hilarious what stupid things you can pull off, like charging a Vortex at more-than-regular movespeed. It's that fast.

Speaking of which, I almost never use anything but an MSI perk on my Sprite. I've never used health trinkets or perks.

Like I personally said earlier in the thread, I use Sword ASI and Bomb CTR. I'd probably use another ASI trinket if I didn't need the CTR.

I've done extensive testing for the sake of a megathread on Sprites and what I would like them to be as opposed to what they are now. You can see a multi-month thread here with a lot of relevant discussion.

I pretty much found out that it's almost better to just keep whacking things with hammers/more vortexes/other AoE than it is to stop and cast Explosive Firestorm.

Explosive Firestorm is only better than actual attacks when it's too dangerous to do anything with the vortex yourself, and those moments are few and far between... since, y'know, there are times where vortexing isn't the best idea anyway.

Have you ever tried playing UFSC with curse weakness?

You get all your weapons and items locked for around 60 seconds.

Yes. Those Deadnaughts are always the source of everyone's problems in a coordinated team.

I don't like them, either.