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« on: July 08, 2018, 10:24:06 am »
Dragon flame, even unlimited dragon flame, seems to start falling off pretty hard relatively quickly. It was noticeable even versus the horses (well, in the dream world, where a maxed R flame would one/two shot the dragons at a high score point -- 40s, whatever -- but take like six to eight shots for a horse), and shortly thereafter the bigger critters live through like a dozen volleys. There's a bunch of stuff where it barely strips off blocks whereas other skills will do meaningful damage.
Feline water isn't a bad upgrade, but my currently (just past what the little girl is initially looking for, which looking at the map seems like a third or fourth way through) identified "best" is water head lasers. I was hopeful for the horse rocks, but its targeting makes it kinda' cruddy (most of the shots will just pass through the area the first few clear) even with the R version larger hitbox. Bug shot isn't bad, either. Generally you want stuff with some spread to it, basically, lest most the attack go to waste.
Definitely experiment with the auto-chase/charge tails, though, if you haven't been. The hornets and initial shields are fairly straightforward, but they start introducing interesting projectiles and effects (the octopus tail, ferex, can hit things that have jumped!) fairly quickly. Fish tail is pretty brutal... single volley at 3+ ish will outright kill a lot of small critters. Skeleton tail tears up certain enemies, too.
So far as arms go, I've personally been preferring the heavy ones. Much easier to control, heh. Butterfly wings (or worse, the sickle ones a bit in that give rampage, which basically makes you go faster when you bounce off something) make it real easy to incidentally headbutt a projectile. Can't say all that shows up, though. My level's fairly high, I guess (130 something, last I looked), but I'm not that far in and since I encountered the sickle's rampage, I'm guessing there's more effects to come that might one-up the butterfly (or heavy, or whatever).
Item wise, well... they certainly have an effect, but I couldn't tell breakpoints or anything. I haven't been paying much attention outside grinding up a few tens of thousands of gold at a time (dreamworld ftw) and buying everything out, heh.
E: Oh yeah! It's probably worth noting re: arms, that they're not just for show. The longer ones effect your hitbox when you're attacking, so stuff that initially seems unimpressive (stuff without extra attributes) can be pretty nice anyway. Makes it easier to blow through small or medium sized enemies in one go, basically. Something to remember, heh.
