As touched on here, here and here I too think there is an issue with the drop rates of the mats and/or the recipe costs.

1) Abandoning the mission at the first set of loot boxes essentially gives you next to no material rewards - whats the point of it?
2) Playing on normal difficulty appears to make 5* giftwrap inaccessible - so without the 5* material then all the others serve no purpose.

I was sort of expecting more exploding Grinchlin "lemonade" snowballs and tick-tocking giftboxes (or ribboned-up Deconstructors) from those green-furred child-haters. Maybe the Demo's "Catch!" attack would still cause Stun, while covering the unlucky target in a yellow snowman, like the snowballs in LD's Avenue map. And maybe Poison for extra sadistic fun. For the Grinchlins, that is. Just throwing this out here for fun.

I wanna see how long I can retain my sanity.

Definition of cruel mode:

Zombies get their disjointed hitboxes back.
Make enemies track and lead on their melee and ranged.
Make melee attacks not be telegraphed or have charge up times.
Nerf Acheron. (1k damage on the charge slash!?)
Give knockers bansticks.

This is my humble request.

I have beat the mission many times and have tons of materials I will never use (such as for the bombs). I sure wish we could have a vendor to exchange the different material types.

For those of you un-familiar with 3D printing, this is why we have Google. Otherwise, read away;

The concept is simple. Say you've invested hours upon hours of time, money and happiness into your knight's grind. You've finally adorned the top-tier armour, obtained the weapons of mass digital destruction and generally maximized your potential as far as the current update will allow.

Pls ! put back the radiant crystals ! i cant lvl up my 5 star equipments to lvl10 ! the radiant are just on fsc on d28 . U can only get 3-12 radiant so when its lvl5 up u need 50 + like that . so please put back the radiant ! thank you
plus.
when u become defender elite and finish all missions and u get 5* to get to champion , what is the use of shining in 5* equipment , u're already champion or vanguard but before fsc the mission give shining too . so it's useless . right ? what is the use of the rarity crafting ? when u can craft shining crystals using radiant
thanks
EDITED

Basically, there's a point where everyone is overpowered now. Even at a point, Nick contradicted his own words saying that the reason why Movement Speed was very slight was (not exact quote but) "not to disrupt everyone, or rather to keep everyone within a group."

Now the problem here is that Movement Speed Booster is... well... insanely fast. Near enough that it's basically Movement Speed: Maximum. This not only disrupts the flow of gameplay but basically made everyone insanely overpowered. In fact, the Attack Booster doubles damage, this shouldn't be the case, ever.

Its hard to aim with the guns. (Even with the aim assist)
I think you should add a different crosshair for each type of weapon!
If you don't like this idea or don't want to do it. Don't.
Thanks for your interest!
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*EDIT*
This isn't really a problem for me anymore. I've actually been playing for multiple hours at a time and getting more practice. You can ignore this discussion now!

I wanted to balance weapons at spiral knights.

I would like to make a sugestion related to reskined weapons. But first, I think it's very lame what you're doing, OOO. SK has been gradualy becoming a boring game you cannot denny it, you're not doing a good work with it, it does not matter if you give us new content every 2 months if that content is not good. I'm talking about this reskin weapon ideia, we see it as a merly way to suck more money from us, belive me you're ruining this game. You are not being smart, just greedy and that is really annoying i must say...