Shadow lairs are extremely hard, endgame dungeons that offer, by far, the most challenging environment in the game (especially due to the update). The rewards for completing each SL are materials that build into several armor sets. This is a fairly sound design, but the VAST MAJORITY of these armor sets are, quite literally, BOTTOM TIER.

For example, the last, longest, and perhaps hardest level in the game, Dark Fire Vanaduke, has a material that crafts into the Almirian Crusader set.

That is to say, Arenas, Treasure Vault/Trove rotations, and perhaps a few mini boss levels, like the boss from heart of ice, could be placed so that they fall on depth 28, as well as before each terminal/subtown, with plenty of boxes as a reward.

This, along with designing levels based on where they will fall, only feels natural and would promote healthy runs. You wouldn't place Vanaduke on depth 26, would you? Of course not.

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What are clockwork camps? Well they are a way to make exploring arcade a lot more interesting and fun! I'll be going over how they work in this post.

Clockwork camps are an encampment you can create at any depth in the clockworks! These camps are similar to clockwork terminals. Once a camp is created you can visit it at anytime to begin exploring the clockworks from that point! You can also customize your camp for various benefits.

Starting a Camp

Today I am calling for a protest on the oppression that the shock debuff puts knights through. I am sick and tired of shock always oppressing my movement rights. Every day, I try to have fun, but constantly deal with shock making me stand helpless at the worst times. Shock has also offended my friends and I by referring to my friends with various slurs. I do not condone the behavior of Mr. Shock and would like them removed.

Dear Grey Havens,

Please make the already existing E-Class Battle sprite ( https://wiki.spiralknights.com/A_Visit_to_the_Lab#Gallery ) and Parma's Scout ( https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Parma%27s_Scout ) available as Drakon reskins, ideally as a Supply Depot Special.
Please don't make their appearance and size change much. They are already perfect as is. It would be a shame to have them become ugly on level up, like some other Battle Sprites.
Other Battle Sprites are already a bit too big to have them equipped in Haven. They can cover up another player almost entirely.

Return of the Dragons Promotion
Costumes:
Revamped/Reskinned variants of the various chroma suits already existing
Variety of scale helms and scale mails
Accessories:
Chinese Dragon Whiskers(a facial accessory in the form of wavey streamer like whiskers)
Dragon Wings(existing dragon wings with potently some new variants)
Dragon Tails(reptilian themed tails with spike like protrusions)
Welp Tails(just an accessory form of the small tails on chroma suits)
Long Horns(Accessory where horns affix in the helmet and go backwards)

So Shadow Lairs are kinda in a bad place right now, one of the main reasons is the price of the Shadow Key, I have an idea. How about we add 4 new Shadow Keys, one for each of the Boss Lairs. These specific shadow keys will only be able to open that boss lair. How to obtain them you might ask? Simple, you get them from brinks: The keys will come unbound.

Gloaming Wildwoods Shadow Key: 30 Frumious Fangs
Royal Jelly Palace Shadow Key: 30 Jelly Gems
Ironclaw Munitions Factory Shadow Key: 30 Bark Modules
Firestorm Citadel Shadow Key: 40 Almirian Seals.

I think we could create a new questing format without adding any new content. This will serve to add some interesting flavor to the game.

Essentially these daily list quests will have requirements a player to run a series of rank missions like 5-1a, then 7-3b, then 3-2a etc. After you finish all the required rank missions, you could either get a reward, or get access to a unknown passage mission followed by a reward. The reward can just be a nice chunk of Cr or alchemy orbs or whatever. or it could be a room full of prize boxes. Whatever.

Some ideas for making shields more fun and interesting to use, as well as making each choice an actual choice. As it stands right now, defensively shields are not used much. We generally dont need to bring the proper damage resistance on a shield becsuse we dont block all the time. Which is why shields like Barbarous Thorn Shield and Swiftstrike Buckler are meta. I think we should give each unique shield a shield bash effect unique to it, making every shield have an interesting purpose

Swiftstrike Buckler