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I don't think Impalement (Carmilla's ult 1) should have been nerfed

• with Impalement it knocks you out of Winged Form every time you use it, which makes it really punishing for both newer players and in the heat of combat
• proper trait activation > Impalement rewarded skillful play, it being no longer possible removes an avenue for skill expression :(
• it's much more awkward to build blood with Impalement taking all blood away, and makes Nibel Ring an indirect nerf on Carmilla as a result too
• Blood Lash is already strong with how Mass Punishment + Cruel Strikes is one of the strongest builds across the entire game

Would love to get some clarity on why Impalement needed a nerf, or revert the change.

I have my thoughts on Kintaro's starting talents. I am curious to hear other people's opinions.

• Hearty Aura (ranked #3 for solo, #2 for group play)
  • As with any character, time is money. The faster you are, the more points of interest you have a chance to clear. Clearing more pois = more gems, stats, items, etc. Moving faster is nice. However, if you are playing very efficiently, the time you save between poi's does not surpass the kill speed you get with unchained beast or stampede. I would choose this talent if it is offered at a high rarity and everything else is common. I value this talent more in group play. Your team will appreciate the movement speed. This may also incentivize the group to stay together, which will increase survivability and reduce early ended runs by blowing through feathers. Although movement speed is very nice, this talent does not inherently synergize with other talents as well as some of the others.
• Stampede (ranked #2 for solo, #3 for group play)
  • This talent is by far the wonkiest of the 4 and requires the most experience to use effectively. For this talent to be worthwhile, you will need to reliably be able to guide Kuma through multiple enemies while also keeping yourself out of harm. The damage is nice early on but is held back by requiring power scaling. If played efficiently, this talent should reliably allow for quick clears. However, if played inefficiently, this talent will likely result in more deaths than the others. I do not recommend this talent when learning to use this character. You need to spend time learning to move both characters independently. The cooldown time of this ability makes it difficult to utilize. There may be times when you want to simply move Kuma out of harms way, but moving him wastes his stampede and he charges off without hitting anything. If you take this talent, obviously prioritize other power talents when available.
• Unchained Beast (ranked #1 solo, #1 for group play)
  • The damage is undeniable. At level 1, Kintaro on foot with unchained beast deals an incredible amount of damage. I firmly believe that Kintaro with unchained beast at level 1 has top 3 hero damage output. Because this ability does not require that you focus on stacking power or special, it grants more flexibility in how your build comes together. This talent is maximized when you can increase attack speed through talents or stacking ace of spades. Prioritize talents such as beserk, frenzy, and strong willed. If you can also incorporate increased dashes and dash cooldown, rush strikes is icing on the cake. As you will be spending a lot of time off of Kuma, you need to be mindful of the damage you are taking. If you can play tight or stack just a bit of life gain or armor, you should be fine. Taking this ability is always a good decision. I would take common unchained beast over legendary Raijin axe.
• Raijin Axe (ranked #4 solo, #4 for group play)
  • Don't take this talent. Seriously, don't take this talent. As stated earlier, time = money. This talent is a flat do nothing when you first select it. It requires that you spend a ton of gems before it does anything of consequence. This talent is also heavily dependent on the map layout. If you don't have green gems available early on, you are playing with one arm tied behind your back. Taking this talent will result in longer clear times and fewer poi's completed, which obviously results in a weaker build. A single crit chance for 100 gems is simply not worth it. It is not uncommon to not spend 1000 gems before leaving act 1. By the time you "complete" this talent, any other synergistic build you are working on can outperform the damage provided by the lightning strikes. As with any character and any talent, you can absolutely make this talent "work". However, I strongly believe this talent is firmly in the basement and will likely see rebalancing in the near future.

Curious to hear the thoughts of others.

im a mel main, and i love her, but i found recently that the friends i play with use her as a sustain crutch, to the point where whenever i dont play her they die and insist i should keep playing her. shes maxed out, i have her entire story, and i really like playing her. i just dont like not being able to play *any* other character. any advice?

I’ve just done my first couple of runs today since the big update, one major thing I noticed that I couldn’t find in the patch notes is that the crabs bubbles in Act 2 can no longer be popped by AoE abilities? Or at least much more inconsistently, I played both Wukong and a Merlin in duo with a friend who was trying it while the game is on free weekend, both runs we got absolutely stumped fighting the crab optional boss simply because the bubbles were such a problem. In the past, the boss was never a hassle but even on Adventure the bubbles weren’t just destroying our health but basically forced us to reposition entirely as he did the attack, where as in the past I would have simply used AoE abilities to clear them as a threat. I’m unsure if this is an intentional change or just a bug, I haven’t seen anything posted on here or in the discord about it.

EDIT: I can confirm it was a bug in the session I was in with my friend, bubbles pop fine in solo. Strange bug though

Não consigo terminar uma partida com randoms porque alguém sai no começo ou alguém joga muito errado e ferra a run, fazendo todo mundo desistir. Se tiver algum grupo no Discord ou similar, ajudem com o link por favor ou me add na PSN

i previously loved playing around with this skill because it made chill application early game a breeze and keeps your chill modifier damage up. honestly felt it was kinda secret OP. with defense cancel nerfs, and increased reliance on special, this has become much harder to manage early game.

keeping this in mind and the DOT damage addition, the skill is a beast early game. you can skate through an entire poi, chill all the enemies, pop trait, enemies refreeze, and auto them to death while the DOT ticks away. clean up with power/special.

this makes her early game clear even better than before and gives her SO much free level 1-3 damage.

it synergies with SO many of her skills in unexpected ways. you can pop 2 traits and everything is still frozen at the end. you can pop trait then remediated go into special and not have to worry about reapplying freeze.

definitely give it a try if you’ve slept on it in the past!

Since Kintaro update Switch 2 performance is unplayable. Extremely blurry with Black lines all over screen. Any update on when we can expect a fix?

Hello friends! I'm a fairly new player around 10 hours and I've been trying to unlock scarlet signature outfit. I finished a Twilight run with 150 stacks but it didn't unlock. One quick look at the wiki shows the Devourer talent used to be a Completion quest at 40 not Repeatable.

I'm assuming since it can't be "completed" anymore there is no chance to unlock the skin.

Any insight from the Devs or a way to let them know would be appreciated.

Whatever your top 5 are they are all free with the game.

Been playing the game since early access, specifically the Avalon chapter debut on pc, and love it so much I got it on release for ps5 also! 🐦‍⬛

Just wanted to thank the devs for making Kintaro because WOW… Usually I’m more of a ranged person, and prefer characters like Melusine or Piper, but Kintaro rly changed the game for me as far as Melee heroes go! I only learnt how op the new dragon skin is cause of him, since I don’t tend to focus on armour much for my ranged.

I hope he sticks around in public matches, cause I feel like I rarely ever see a Merlin or Romeo in the wild nowadays (only Juliet’s for obvious reasons 💔)

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Not tagging it as a bug since I'm not sure it is one, but recently did a few runs with my friends wkth the new Hero in the party, and noticed none of the heroes talked to each other? I know Romeo and Juliet only talk to Merlin, but these were normal non-dlc characters with the new one, Mesuline and Wukong I know dont shut up, and they never once shouted "leave Aladdin alone!" At each other.

I have been trying to do some solo runs and I don't know if it's just bad RNG or what, but even on Twilight, the enemy density is actually unbearable at times, especially on the pig quests. Is anyone noticing this or am is it just bad RNG/skill issue stuff?

Anyone else notice this? Is this a bug or a change to the game? Or am I just crazy and remember there being music when there wasn't.

I don't know if they are aware of this bug already and/or if a lot of people are dying to it, but when I'm not riding Kuma and I use Kintaro's special, I don't get the i-frames. It is pretty annoying and makes finishing a nightmare run very difficult (on top of the character already being pretty difficult to learn ^^).

-> Not sure, but: if there are a lot of attacks around you, pressing Special with this bug basically makes you take 2x damage (you + Kuma), which results in a death.

Also to be clear, I do get the "intangible" tag when I use the special on foot, but it doesn't really work.
Hope it gets fixed soon...

Can we talk about this folks? Zero mention of it in the official design notes, but seems to be a fairly brutal blow to the character - both indirectly, in its general capacity to support a number of builds - and also obviously to the quite unique Pirouette based build. Seems a shame to nerf this so hard… did it really need this done to it???

Can anyone confirm whether the 5sec minimum cd now is a hard floor? Or whether Raven’s Skulls can still decrease the cd? I suspect it’s the latter but don’t have the game in front of me to check.

Build power with damage from armor.

I experienced a funny bug trying out Kintaro for the first time.

I had a curse on my special and when I got to master nightmare number 1 at some point the bear completely vanished. I checked the whole arena and all of my (nonspecial) buttons, and nothing lol. He was gone for almost a minute, final tried special when it came of curse and boom, he was back. Funny little interaction I thought I would share with everyone :) 🐻

couldn't get the video uploaded, here is the screenshot

The game internally sorts enemies into tribes. Two of those tribes are Roc Birds and Jinns.

While one would expect Simurgh to be a Roc Bird, internally he's assigned as a Jinn, which I thought was silly and almost definitely a mistake lol.

The whole definition file for reference -

EntitySettings → Enemies\Roc_Birds\Boss_Roc_Bird.entity.ot

Flag → Boss

Label → Boss_Roc

Definitions → EnemyTribes\Jinns.enemytribedef.ot

Just capybaras.

Hi, passtech. Maybe you can make a modifier without thieves/melodies?

Sometimes I wanna just skip them and maybe it would be some better POI in such cases

I recall PassTech mentioning there would be a switch 2 QoL update sometime in autumn, any news on when that will happen?