Cannon should be paired with dagger imo. 1) Approach the crowd and open up with armageddon, instantly gaining 7 heat stacks. 2) Finish isolated stragglers with backstab. 3) Approach another crowd. 4) Jump into the crowd with rocket jumps enhanced with additional damage from heat (it procs at the place of landing!) 5) If there are no good places to jump in, create them by using throwing dagger on the minion inside the crowd and then jump into now vacant space. 6) Again - pick th stragglers off with backstab. 7) Use poison daggers with Vampire perk to regen hp which you lost to abuse heat mechanics. And then there's obvious multi-hit synergy between both weapons.

The picture you painted of your gauntlet change idea sounds so fun, I love that concept!

Thx for the Review video!

Haven't been able to jump in yet, but very much looking forward to it!

The warshield doesn't need to scale on a defensive stat, it already scale with the defensive playstyle via taken hits. You stuck them in the corner of the haven where balistas don't reach and the bonus will grow faster than you use it. If there was a thing to change, imho, that would be that the decrease in turn where you're not attacked should be reduced. You can't choose ennemy targeting and it's frustrating to lose a lot of stat because of something out of your control. I usually pair it with a one-handed axe. It give attacks in all shapes and cost, a free hand for a standard shield (more defensive stat), mobility via Moving Wall, and the damage debuff help taking hit from the heavy hitter ennemy. I regularly face-tanked boomer (not elite) with -66% dmg and just get stronger in the process. For build, you go spiky counter, berserk, bless if you can, physical damage and everything else is preference. The gauntlet is just terrible. It is a worst magical opportunist weapon than tome (which isn't an opportunist weapon). It is a melee weapon without built in mobility and no way to reliably kill a basic ennemy in one ability. Geo-reservoir never proc when you need it and isn't that good when you finally manage to get it when you want.

Great overview, Aldenpotamus.

I might have been too harsh on gauntlet! I tried to build it as an opportunistic weapon, and it was great! Paired with the "You are next" perk, the damage was absurd. Also, "Volatile Reaction" and "Thrifty" help a lot to manage mana and debuff spreading. The hero ended up being my top dps with 2 pair of gauntlets (main/off hand), while I also had multihit person. Though I would recommend pairing it with a druid staff, having two pairs of gauntlets was more of an aesthetic choice)

I think Hunters feel so punishing to you because you’re doing corpse strats the majority of the time. It kind off adds a little bit of risk/reward to the strategy. Due to medals being t4/5 only, does that mean they can only show up on certain nights? Or would building a couple production buildings early be a good way to experiment with them? Solid review 👍

Cool review, funny enough that my first momentum hero after the dlc was a dwarf haha. It seems like you can get inertia on anyone, just that humans have a higher chance to do so. Momentum with dwarf was definitely trickier to do, but I found that the dwarf's perk that gives 2 moves every time you drink something + Overload works pretty nicely

A lot of the feedback from the DLC beta was wanting some way to motivate people to not set and forget the weapon selection, as we all thought that there would be a high chance that some people would just stop using some of the weapons

I think the stout is the mana for health? Pilsner is def the strongest with the crit chance for a bit less crit power.

Good game good video. Thanks

On Pick Your Weapons, I think itd be a cool idea if there is a difficulty selection where the game randomly bans x weapons at the start of a run. Might provide some more replayability that way and stops players from always using the same weapons over and over again. (Or I suppose the player can impose this restriction on themselves manually by using a random number generator to pick out the weapons to be banned)

Ishtar didn't include you in the closed beta???? Big mistake. You're a resource (Abigail too) that they are losing out on. Hoping they are eventually made aware of you - if they aren't already.

My smooth brain cant beat the boss of this new map.

For me, the word that really defines the gauntlet is "awkward" It doesn't feel satisfying to use. Not only is the t shape weird, the first square and the 3 behind it have different effects. So the enemies have to be lined up in a particular way, then I have to decide who gets the full blast. It's just awkward

The cannon feels god awful, It hits for like 120dmg with its #1. I can't fathom a worse weapon to use for a range loadout. Unfortunately handcrossbow and shortbow are still king.

SHORT?!

I stopped playing this game entirely after ballistas were nerfed. The game was dope before then, but then I had no interest to keep playing. The game for me was a tower defence game with extra steps, and with nerfed ballistas that aspect of the game was heavily changed.

The info is very useful, but... too much text on screen, a image or gameplay that show what you are saying, or at least, a gameplay of any run, is a video not a podcast...

Did they add more stuff to the meta progression?