I just got jump-scared by a defense nucleus. Truly a new low for me

Fun fact about the Charged Perforator: Its log file is a 1:1 copy of the Molten Perforator, except with lightning instead of fire, and the researcher pauses for a dance break at the end. This is because it's the Perforator 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I've never noticed Planula had a little Parent inside of it. I always thought it was just a gemstone like thing not an egg with a Parent inside.

Knurl is weird just because it feels like it'd be extremely easy to make this item better. Just have it increase HP by a percentage instead of a flat 40. Like a 25% increase or something would instantly turn it into one of the better health items in the game. Edit: or even a 10% like pearl on top of the regeneration

Titanic Knurl should give you an armor boost. The Colossal Knurl did this in RoR1, I have no idea why they removed it in RoR2.

4:37 FYI it is pronounced "hal-see-on " Also the bleed from Shatterspleen counts as a separate debuff from Tri-tipped Daggers making it PERFECT for Deathmark.

Are we sure the aphelian sanctuary not spawning lunar buds is a bug? I thought it was a lore reason. The sanctuary was a place created by providence as a place to rid creatures of afflictions, with his brother's lunar items also being an unwelcomed influence on the planet.

Aurelionite is NOT a time sink, unless you're specifically a speedrunner that cares about real time, not about in-game time, which is what actually matters in the game, because time doesn't move in the Gilded Coast. Which means, if you have the money and you CAN get it, it's Aurelionite plus 4 chests for free. If you had to farm money for the portal, it's 4 chests and Aurelionite for the price of 8 chests and time needed to get the money.

you forgot artifact key

I remember going for the memes on stage 1 once and picking up Egocentrism then on stage 2 I found a Lunar Cleansing Pool, which was basically an Irradiant Pearl farm at that point, since I was careful to not pick up Irradiant Pearls until they were all that was on the ground and until I stopped farming for them.

8:54 Empathy Cores? nah bro its called "The Twins" from Terraria dont lie to me

Aurelionite is also more worth it the more players there are I find, since Halcyon seed scales from all players inventory just like Lepton Daisies, playing 4 player the boss drops 1 item per player on defeat, getting 4 Halcyons per gilded coast tends to make one boss of an Aurelionite. But that is a niche that multiplayer really brings.

> open video > not planula

11:44 Irradiant pearl is the only way you can permanently have both crit rate>16% and the instakill glasses.

The thing is with Pearls, they boost ALL hp gains by 10%. So, if you have 2 pearls and pick up an Infusion, that’s 120 hp per stack instead of 100, or 48 hp on a Knurl. It’s even more bonkers on the irradiant because you apply that logic to EVERYTHING. Move speed, attack speed, jump height… whenever an item gives you any stats, irradiant pearl makes it give you even more value.

Your channel (along with Race's) has been awesome as I've jumped headfirst into playing this game the past couple months. Just beat my first E8 this morning thanks to y'all! Keep up the great work

The cool down for genesis loop is correct. It says every 30/(2+1 per stack). 30/2 is 15 and if you get another it becomes 30/3 which is 10. The +1 per stack is for the denominator of the devision.

4:10 Rare footage of Gramps using lunar items

Really nice vid,i love your tierlist Not even for info,i know it all,but you just make it so entertaining

Aphelion Sanctuary not spawning lunar pods almost makes sense from a lore perspective. Since it has the most cleansing pools, the denizens there probably cared a lot about removing Mithrix's influence from the area. One could imagine them quickly opening every lunar pod and cleansing the item whenever one landed, hence why you don't see any.

I'm shocked that Genesis Loop landed above Knurl, given that Knurl can actually be used on the whole cast

DO's delivery with jokes is 10/10 imo.

hello grandpa disputed i would like to tell you that i have told my little sister about you and now she is a big fan of risk of rain races and has been very motivated in getting every character to eclipse 8 despite being a console player and i would like to thank you for creating yet another certified risk of rain gamer

This video is somehow the way I learned that railgunner can shoot multiple times if you have backup mags, I thought they were just a complete waste of a white item. Thanks I guess?

Empathy Cores is bonkers if you're adamant about picking up drones as you play the game. And they can solo mithrix if you happen upon a spare drone parts. My only gripe about em is that they constantly boop you while standing still/scrapping >.

That marble blast ultra music though. Enjoyed you're vid as always

2:35 Good thing is, when you get it, you have a bunch of useless yellow items to replace with anything that is not a knurl or a defense nucleus when you find a printer.

Mmm, ost from Night in the Woods! Great video by the way, really useful. Thank you!

these tip videos are so good for helping improve rapidly

talked to my friends and we couldnt all agree on a SURVIVOR tierlist, would love to hear your thoughts on it.

3:25 yooo night in the woods music? Damn disputed I didn't know you were chill like that

gotta love how he has no intro, just jumps straight into the video

I really liked the background footage for this video. Not sure what mods you're using, but the game looks very pretty!

Beetle guard has killed me and my brother on two sperate runs. Never again. That little shit gets fed through the shredder asap.

I really like seeing the item with the boss in the background like that

How dare you try to manipulate us into engaging, Grandpa!

Listen grandpa I know it’s hard to pronounce things without your dentures but for future reference “halcyon” is pronounced “Hal-see-on”. Thanks for the content Gramps

One thing about titanic knurl is that since it boosts life regen, it boosts acrid self healing from the third hit of the primary fire and the bite secondary, since those count as regeneration and not actual healing

AYYYYY NEW DIO VIDEO!!! Good luck on your races by the way, they're so tough but you're an absolute soldier

i find the grandparent more difficult than the xi construct. yes, the gap has closed as i learned how to deal with them but you're WAY more likely to be put in a situation where you're just fucked than with xi construct.

Hearing marble blast ultra music in the background legit let me relive a childhood memory 😂

Good ranking, would agree overall with most of the placings. One question though, where would you place newly hatched Zoa in this list if you were to include it. While it’s not a yellow item, I’d consider it a boss item since it corrupts all yellow items.

Something I feel you missed with Shatterspleen was that the Crit bleed it applies is counted as separate from Tri-Tip Needle bleeds. So, on proc builds on characters like Commando and Captain can apply 2 stacks of bleed per hit, instead of 1. Not huge or anything, but it does just make it even stronger than you described for those sorts of characters. Also, yeah, it can take a while to get the Halcyon Seed in real time (especially if you're unlucky have get bad items), but while you're in the Gilded Coast, the timer doesn't move, so you effectively get a free boss enemy to aid you for teleporters and 4 chests for free, in terms of the in-game timer.

commenting for the algorithm because i appreciate your honesty

Bruh how could you not mention that the shatterspleen synergizes with needle tick? Shatterspleen lets you get back the ability to bleed, so you can have both collapse and bleed potential.

Once on a run I got two drone parts on stage one, empathy cores on stage four, and defense nucleus on stage five. Combine that with a bunch of drones and my army was unstoppable

Molten Perforator is a funny one, because ot can literally be a run ender if your machine (or Switch) can't handle it. I was having one of those lv +20 runs and accidently picked it up and ended up quitting out of it when I was now periodically going a dozen seconds or more per frame thanks to all the additional visual clutter that wasn't even hitting anything.

night in the woods ost in the background, very epic

I've always felt that knurl and defense nucleus are bad because they do not provide the player with the special attack of the boss they just killed, you know, like every other boss item does? Knurl could easily be made viable in the early game if it shot out a golem laser (the burst damage kind) at random nearby enemies on a 10 second cooldown, which reduces hyperbolically with each additional stack. This on top of the health boosts. Nucleus could be fixed in a similar way by making it more consistent. Remove the on-kill shengai spawns, put it on a timer. If you tank a hit that wipes out more than 25% of your health in a single damage instance, you gain a shield similar to the xi ping, which provides jade elephant damage reduction for 3 seconds and overrides the shengai spawn time to only 1 second for 5 seconds. This 25% hp lost in one instance of damage thing can also be applied to penis loop, so that it is useable at theoretically every point of your hp bar as long as it is not below 25%. This makes it not reward bad gaming, but mistakes that humans would eventually make, like walking into a blazing elite mushrum's acid pool because you were curious if the acid and fire would stack (they obviously would you fucking idiot why did I do that ruined such a good run)

marble blast ultra ost is crazy

Where is artifact key gramps? Is the dementia kicking up again?

No way, 33 seconds and already in my recommended. Wow. Algorithm putting in work.

Coming from your other vids most of your commentary was pretty clean so to hear the plain, deadpan delivery of “…if ya like fuckin’ and suckin’ mirred urn is for you” caught me totally off guard.

thank you for just jumping into the content

I was laughing at some guy getting jumpscared by a defense nucleus, and then I got jumpscared by tartar sauce.

Holy fuck, ancient memories are flooding back into my brain after hearing the Marble Blast Ultra soundtrack lmaooooo

Is it a mod or different config that gives you such crips lighting on those stages? See at 5:45 or 9:20

So glad you mentioned gloop on engineer.

10/10 would comment on again (to help out the epic ROR2 youtuber of all time)

another good combo for the empathy core is the the drones that you can give the equipments to if you give one the reincorcement equipment it just summons abunch of drones with boosts empathy core i believe i might be wrong but i believe thats how that works.

came for the tier list, stayed for the Night in the Woods music

Commenting to poke the algorithm and to show appreciation for the video.

nah as a engineer main, my favorite and the yellow which im always looking to get is the jellyfish yellow and it just feels good when it happens and can help in times of need. Also its very op on the turrets you can make (for engineer)

Just realized the background music from a game I played, Marble Blast Ultra. Otherwise, epic video

I love the little shots of each boss standing next to their item, they're so cute. Like kids in art class proudly showing off a thing they made

Aurelionite has actually gotten me killed before. During the final phase of Mithrix where he steals all ypur items, not getting hit is rypically best to avoid things like ATGs or ukes. Aureltionate got hit, Mithrix activated uke I believe, and I died for it.

This helped a lot, i only have like 35 hours in the game and i thought the knurl and drfense nucleus were rly good and that the charged perforator was bad bc of how i had experienced the game

4:38 It's pronounced "hal-see-uhn". It's a real word that's also a genus of bird :D

i remember one time getting a yellow to lunar printer on the same stage as a cleansing pool, walked out that stage with 30 irradiant pearls.

Thanks for the video

He never misses! The absolute legend!

I’m commenting to help the video and the algorithm 👍

I've found myself happy to pick up Titanic Knurl on early stage as I'm currently on Eclipse 11. Can't say no to any form of regeneration that isn't halved

ngl I have a newfound love for the Halcyon seed recently. a couple days ago I had a godlike monsoon run where the game, for some reason, gave me around 4 chances to go to gold coast. combined with my run where I had a mod that added an item called the "Relic of Termination" (Tldr, spawn a buffed enemy that guaranteed drops an item if you kill it fast enough) that triggered on Aurelionite which tripled the drop of the Halcyon seed on my first trip(but just killing her when she was buffed up like that was pain)... by the time I got to Mitherix, I had 7 of them and when she showed up in phase 3... I actually forgot I had 7 of them, barely processed she spawned, and then watched as she kicked Mitherix's teeth in as I die of laughter. Doubt I'll get a run like that in a long time.

3:41 for this item I’d also recommend the item that doubles healing. The red item I believe. I think it works great as a combination.

shatter spleen plus needle tick is amazing can still do bleeds and the collapse damage super fun combo

I'm gonna mention this for genesis loop real quick; it's fantastic in simulacrum, I'd argue one of the best yellows for that mode void damage allows you to get below the threshold with significantly more control, it's on your terms when you'd like to activate it, and due to the much tighter enemy density, you essentially wipe the entire map at the low cost of playing inside the void for a bit the anti-synergy with watches and the like is less prominent too since, until you stack enough barrier gain, void runs are going to get you below 25% hp fairly frequently if you intend on minmaxxing (dependent on character though) tl;dr, much more control, much more reward, highly recommend

great video

Hey, not sure if you were making a joke, but Halcyon seed is pronounced Hal-see-uhn. If you were making a joke i apologize.

One of the few youtube channels with very informative and entertaining videos. You're doing an amazing job my man. Keep it up!

Return of the king

I’m adding on to this since technically I’m not wrong #16: Newly hatched zoea On its own it could make its way to somewhere around roughly #10, but the fact it locks you out of EVERY other yellow item, even pearls completely kills its viability. Thankfully it’s very far out of your way, since the only way to get it is to die with a larva, use trophy hunters on a void devastator, or get a incredibly unlucky by getting: 1: Void Event (only happens after stage 5) 2: Devastator as the boss (I think, I’m not familiar enough with the void event to know if devastator is guaranteed, but I assume not) 3: Yellow drop after boss is dead This along with void bands is one of 2 non-lunars that I will NEVER take willingly. You effectively only get it after a handful of loops, but if you’re looping there is a very high chance you already have a better yellow item or will get a better yellow item by the time your run ends. Oh yeah also the explosion from your dead void allies can kill you and your other allies, so keep your distance, especially from chain reactions they can cause by killing eachother #15: Artifact key I guess it’s technically a yellow item? All I really have to say is thank god it can’t be corrupted by zoea. If you want to say it’s #1 since it unlocks artifacts (and we know how busted those can get) I can kinda see where you’re coming from, but at that point it’s really just putting artifacts on a tier list they have no purpose being on

Love the videos like always, love the ranking videos (would love some more survivor based ones) also next livestream you should link people to the spiffingbrit vid where he discusses the youtube exploit where if you just open the same stream in a new window, it counts as two views (and so on for however many windows your computer can handle running the stream on lmao)

Tier list videos help a ton

11:23 its a bug? I always thought that it was intentional. That lorewise the residents of petrichor V have cleansed all traces of Mithrix and items he throws down to the ground

I've not had a visit to gilded cost take 20 minutes, it is normally 5-10 and the difficulty timer doesn't advance during it. Since there is 4 free chests there it halves the cost to 4 regular chests to enter practically speaking, but the yellow item which is a great anti-boss tool in most cases is at least worth a chest or two making it only practically cost 1-2 chests.

I would hate on Defense Nucleus more, but spare drone parts makes them so much fun lol

I love your ranking videos, even when I disagree with you!

yes man do more videos like this very cool hope the algorithm sees this and thinks daaaamn nice comment gonna boost this video no punctuation needed

Gotta love him showcasing Molten Perforator being second best, and the footage shown looks like it does ZERO damage to anything lol

Hal-See-On lol, hearing “Hal-coin” made me laugh

Summon big chungus baby. Nice list!

What was the mod that made sundered grove look this good at 5:35 ?

Egocentrism x Cleansing Pool crossover of the century.

gotta say, you did planula dirty. It is basically an anti bleed/fire effect and has saved me many times when I just wasn't fast enough with school bag or coat was on cool down, or I just didn't have them. Also if your going to make it's rank lower by when you get the item then I don't see why Charge Perforator gets a pass there as Overloading Worm is a rarest boss in the game and requires a high difficulty while also having the chance of not dropping a boss item.

Bro got that NitW ost in the background. Amen, brother.

I am commenting to manipulate the video in the algorithm!

actually the genesis loop can be a great tool for late game considering with everything happening on screen, it can destroy every enemy around you and let you survive for alot longer

love you uncle!!!! showing this to my grandson

Pre-dlc (on xbox) I was playing bandit and on my second loop, molten and charged perforator caused a proc chain that was a bit buggy, so it spawned an infinite loop of lightning strikes, fireballs and ATG missiles that crashed my game because 10 of each spawned about every frame, causing damage number of 20,000,000 and frame rates of -20,000,000. My xbox crashed.