Arcane Odyssey Hot Takes?

increase poison jaws spawn rate pls

@ThatOneGuy

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Glad to be here, and in honor of my first post, i shall deliver a second Hot Take. KING CALVUS DOESNā€™T NEED A FUCKING POCKET NUKE, ESPECIALLY NOT IN THE FIRST FUCKING PHASE.
I know you can interrupt him, but like, if you donā€™t see him/lag/miss a with a slow magic you just take 1500 damage (or 750 if you hold block) and theres a pretty big chance heā€™ll just do it again right after, or one of his stupidly large AOE attacks, and even if you try to punish, heā€™ll just zap out of the way. If you have metal magic, and youā€™re not basically oneshotting him, youā€™re kinda fucked.

P.S. i will say, i love this game, and 0 hate directed at the devs, but like, calvus is so shitty to fight, pls get rid of his 1500 damage bs move. And luckily, I got carried through the required fight, and am just trying to get his gear, but havenā€™t been able to beat him. idk, prolly a skill issue, but like still, fight is not fun

itā€™s possible to dodge it entirely but i usually just hold block, also ā€œdistance tempoā€ is an important skill in boss fights, where youā€™re not too close or far away from the boss

lag is gonna be fixed inā€¦i think a month from now when vetex drops an update thatā€™ll fix the memory leak or add auto-server-shutdown?

Is it possible to block a fully charged nuke? Iā€™ve tried but its just too fast, also I understand the concept of ā€œdistance tempoā€ Iā€™m just bad (especially since I donā€™t like blocking because of how slow it feels, so I tend to use it far too sparingly). Also, I really hope they fix the lag. I was just fighting him, and I ended up getting really good rng and didnā€™t get nuked at all (he reset his health for no reason tho, so that sucked) and tbh, it was still challenging, and didnā€™t feel like absolute bullshit, so I personally donā€™t think that removing it would be a bad idea (not that its probably gonna happen, but like, a man can dream).

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Also, and i know im harping on this a bit, but Iā€™ve only ever died to Calvusā€™ nuke move, and it just feels bullshit every time, so like, pls remove, or like, make it have a lower chance/damage or more charge time or something please.

For the nuke move, the best way to deal with it is to hit him as soon as he charges it and then parry/dodge it. Damaging him while he charges it makes him fire it immediately, which can greatly reduce the damage it does

Elius should have his healing move removed in his first phase ngl

the second phase is fine but it should cap at 50% of his max HP because when I was fighting him one time he got me super low so I went to recover on the side of his arena but when I came back HE WAS FULL HP solely from healing.

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everyone is spoiled by the actually good(moderate budget) games on steam

Yeah, I know, the issue is that Iā€™m using Metal+magma (honestly, worst mistake of my life, i shouldā€™ve chosen something fast, ima reset it whenever i can, and i dont even use magma that much, not worth it, but that was my mistake not the gameā€™s) but most times hes too far away for me to use a Blast on (which, because Metal is so slow, ā€œtoo farā€ is only a little bit farther than ā€œbreathing down his neckā€), and then i miss my beam attack by 4 cm. and i basically just lose instantly.

My brother in christ is it that hard to land a single projectile on him when he starts charging it

King calvus when heā€™s in the ground and when lagspike

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The issue isnā€™t landing it (other than with the beam, because i have a serious case of Skill Issue) its the travel time, because of how slow Metal is, hes basically fully charged by the time it gets to him. That, and sometimes it feels like he just instantly charges it (probably because of lag+me not seeing him, but like, still sucks to instantly lose because you miss one projectile)

Use your beam attack?

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Hmm, never tried that before, maybe i should, thats a good idea. In all seriousness, I have, and that does work (when i dont skill issue and miss) but even without my serious skill issue, i shouldnā€™t lose the entire fight when i miss 1 attack by 1 millimeter, thats just not good design.

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I fought him with metal and have been grinding him for a while. Iā€™ve had plenty of time to hit him when he starts charging it up, itā€™s mostly just free damage at this point

yea, the thing with me is that i dont notice him, or is too far away for my attacks to hit him in time, still, poorly designed attack. (at least, in my opinion)

Honestly?
Might not be a hot take butā€¦

Fishing is REALLY good for XP late game in my opinion -
It scales to be 10% of your XP cap for your current level - and you get XP per unique fish VARIATION. So for most fish theres 4 variations [normal, golden, small, giant]

Treasure charts are very fun and worthwhile
Probably because I run constantly at 1 graphics and whilst I ADORE naval warfare, I cant do it with enjoyable FPS at the moment. Treasure charting is fun to me, especially when I find a legendary chart. Not to mention its 1k+ XP per chart section completed which I think is epic

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lady carina has the most annoying movement/attack pattern

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