I've been playing Spiral Knights since 2013 and have accumulated an astounding (quite sad too) 8857 hours, according to steam. Prestige missions is something I've never missed out since I became a Vanguard in the game. I even have my own team of 3 other knights, all 4 of us are usually online when the prestige mission renews. Besides missing out the oddball release of Black Kat and cake missions, and that one month of moving, it's a daily grind I and the several other people perform religiously.

Spiral Knights is a great game, which is why I'm still here 7 years after I originally started playing.

We've had ups, we've had downs, but overall is an enjoyable experience. Building an arsenal of weapons to use in the clockwork fields to battle out many different types of enemies. I've played with every weapon line, and there are some problems evident with balancing.

Please I want to be myself

What if, when you would normally hit the damage bonus cap, monster-family damage bonuses still boosted your damage against monsters?

Say you wear the Black Kat set, Barbarous Thorn Shield, and wield a Wild Hunting Blade. Your damage bonuses with guns, bombs, and swords against most enemies would still be capped at +6, but against beasts you would have an effective +9 when using the Wild Hunting Blade.

Electron Vortex inflicts shock which keeps enemies in place after the vortex ends
Obsidian Crusher throws them out of the vortex but inflicts poison which is very powerful

Graviton Vortex just throws them out and gets no compensation

My suggestion:

How about making Graviton Vortex' radius 10% larger, essentially making it suck in more enemies. That might give it the power it needs to be a worthy alternative to electron vortex and obsidian crusher

Basically, we have a legion of tryhard LD players and they want their thing and the casual side needs a gentle entry point to their world.

Beginner Mode:
-All tiers of gear, played at depth 13
-Same buyin as current LD
-Auto Aim allowed
-Hazardous Mode/No Auto Aim weekends available
-4 to 8 players = less impact on team
-Aimed at T2 and early T3 players

Expert Mode:
-All tiers of gear, played at depth 26
-10K crowns to buy into a game; 20K crowns to the winners; you can make and lose real money here

Suggestion:

Catalyzers aren't the greatest weapons and in Lockdown they got nerfed a ton by the gunner update which made their normal shots deal 1 damage on hit. Maybe the normal shots should deal damage equal to a detonated orb on hit (but not AoE). That way you can deal damage while you apply orbs and then once more when you detonate them.

Alchemers are a pretty fun weapon to use, however, the current state of the weapon line is either hit or miss, both figuratively and literally.

The gimmick of Alchemers is for fired shots to ricochet on hitting objects, walls or enemies, however you are also able to have a fired shot ricochet up to three times within an enemy, if you hit to the left of the enemy, doing excellent damage.

If you guys don't remember, shard bombs used to function very differently. Why did you guys remove them from the game? You could have introduced the new version in a separate line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFmj557BH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiY2p4A-5-k

Please bring back these weapons in a new bomb line. I suggest we call it the Photon Bomb. However, let's not completely copy old shard bombs, we can try different stats for these lines.

Elemental Photon Bomb Line
2* Photon Bomb - Normal Damage

Currently the risk and reward of some shields have led to some shields being a bit redundant, my aim is to fix that.

Here is a list of ideas me and a friend came up with.

-Aegis/ crest of Almire/ swiftstrike lines= faster movement while shielding.(stock standard shields to move faster)

-Plate lines= when a shield breaks you can still directional guard reducing the damage taken from the direction the knight is facing(we were thinking to recycling arkus's defense code)