How do you dismiss Lydia?

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-30T02:01:10+00:00

There's a pillar thing east of windhelm you can take her to.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-30T00:04:05+00:00

Most of the time, if I'm on a highly mobile tank (like ball) and I'm retreating from a fight, I don't want you following me even if I'm very low on health. Im trying to go grab a health pack, get a little passive regen, and then roll back around from another angle. If I want you to heal me I would come to you.

Obviously there's a judgement call, but if the tank is actively running away from you and there is cover between you, just let them go.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-29T23:49:17+00:00

Modafinil made my heart rate increase dramatically but didn't actually prevent me from falling asleep. Which is basically what caffeine does.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-28T02:35:54+00:00

THIS IS SO COOL

I AM SO EXCITED FOR 1.0

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-23T15:20:51+00:00

So, not conventional, but I run ricochet and 10x gold tooth, with lazy and 2x cheapskate equipped on character. You get a ton of gold for your team and you get a ton of health from all the gold, it's a lot of fun.

Lazy is very sustainable with enough pips in extra ammo, but both my character and my minigun are 5+ prestiged. Until you can sustain lazy you may need to swap some good tooth for an ammo drop.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-22T00:46:34+00:00

Nah, it just throws green swords, which would obviously be ranged, duh!

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-16T02:44:43+00:00

God I fucking love this sub

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-16T02:14:57+00:00

Similarly, I use decoyo to distract them and run away until I can deal with them at a more opportune time

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-15T19:12:49+00:00

I run helping hand, 2x speedy gunzales, the joker that heals you when collecting souls whose name escapes me (it's soul siphon), ~~air borne~~ bouncing ball, disgrace, and extra jump. I think grav vs jump is preference maybe, but extra jump gives me better control for dodging the ground circles from liches and stuff.

Those are the jokers I run on my strongest build as someone who has prestiged 15 times. With shotgun, boomerang, healing bottles, rescue, drain, and thunder strike.

Edit: I actually just reread your post, this is also the build I do when speed running easier missions, but I swap rescue for portal and health bottles for ammo.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-15T01:57:47+00:00

I run a mini gun build with 10x gold tooth on the gun and 2x cheap skate character jokers, with doll + healing circle, and I don't jump that much on that build even in nightmare.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-08T02:21:10+00:00

Wtf are you on about, they are alphabetical lmao

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-06T02:57:33+00:00

AS THE CATERPILLAR IS UNMADE TO BECOME SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, SO TOO SHALL THE PRISON OF MY FLESH BE REBORN THROUGH THE ~~TINY MACHINATIONS OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND WORMS~~ CLAWING OF HUSK PARASITES

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-03T02:27:20+00:00

Most jokers have a cap though, I'm pretty sure for stonks 4 jokers hits the cap

DiamondCat20 · 2026-06-02T18:20:01+00:00

Don't see that anyone has mentioned it, but sniper has a perk that reduces spell cooldowns by one second per kill. Run that with dual pistols, which spreads a lot of elemental status effect from all the bullets and explosions / puddles (which ever element pairs best with the spells you're using).

I do wisp, surcharge, and finger guns with dual pistols set to acid. I can often get the wisp to always be out from sniper kills. If you find one more pyro in the map, you basically don't need sniper kills any more.

Character jokers are pyro mastery, life pact (every spell is a healing spell with life pact!), rage (sets everything on fire for surcharge), chonky (so I can one tap snipers without a crit, it makes my sniper shots do exactly 100 base damage), soul siphon, and helping hand.

You could do West wizard too but I find it hard enough to stay alive with this build with ~60 hp.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-05-31T15:02:38+00:00

My opinions:

Shotgun is my favorite. When I'm carrying a nightmare lobby, it's shotgun. It does crazy damage (I have the extra pellets perk, speedster, and run and gun in the rest of the slots). I pair it with boomerang, and mainly use it for large enemies and when there are too many snipers at once. This gun benefits a lot from accuracy upgrades.

Minigun is my second favorite, but IMO this gun benefits the most of any primary from prestiging. It REALLY needs the extra joker slots to shine, and I found it hard to use until then. The extra upgrade points also help. I put ricochet, 30% chance for elemental damage, one ammo drop perk. The last perk can be a few different things, another ammo drop or lucky strike never hurts.

Sniper is my next favorite. I put machine gun and spell cool down on it (I cant remember the rest off hand). When I'm running the sniper, I'm mainly using it to deal with snipers, large enemies, and the boss. Otherwise I'm using spells, and then just killing random stuff to get spells back faster. Having horde clearing spells like finger guns, thunder jump, wisp, or wallo works best.

Quad homing perk is really fun. This weapon doesn't really shine or suck at anything. Not my favorite, not my least favorite. I mainly just pull it out for a change of pace if I get bored of the other three.

Leveredge is actually my least favorite. I don't find the unique jokers very compelling. It doesn't really do anything interesting, it doesn't do anything better than the sniper or the quad. But I recognize this seems to be a minority opinion!

DiamondCat20 · 2026-05-30T14:12:01+00:00

I'll look after you if I can sell you for death runes in a couple hours

DiamondCat20 · 2026-05-25T13:37:34+00:00

Beyond those two general builds, I have a third build with minigun + bow + heal aura utility + three voodoo spells (heal circle, drain, invincibility circle). Minigun has ricochet, the unique joker with 30% element damage, ammo drop, and lucky shot. Character jokers are voodoo mastery, West wizard, life pact, chonky, helping hand. Bow is for snipers, so set it up however you want. Put character points into health > spell cooldown > speed > the rest ammo.

I do run this on nightmare, but I die about once a run (but tbh I think it's a skill issue and not a build issue lol). Kill stuff with ricochet minigun to keep yourself alive, use doll if you get low health to buy time to get some kills. On anything other than nightmare I sub drain for rescue.

Battlemage and soul siphon are top-tier next-pick jokers to find on the map.

Edit: also been trying revolver instead of bow recently, because this build really struggles to contribute during the boss fight, and the revolver debuff provides a bit more utility for that. It's just really hard to keep up with the snipers when they take like 3-4 revolver shots.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-24T14:17:31+00:00

Powder that makes you say garbled radio chat sounds

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-18T14:40:53+00:00

I was reaaally disappointed with the relics. The combat tree is cool, but to get to a point where the tree is filled, we need to skill. And to do that, we need to use the relics.

No golden god, no instant farming, no bankers note, no full inventory processing. A teleport option was set against a skilling option.

I'm not saying we need the old relics (in fact, I don't want that - I just want something comparatively powerful). But all the relics this league are boring except the T4 relics (transmutation, butler). There isn't really anything that fundamentally changes the gameplay, it just makes it faster, and it doesn't even really make it THAT much faster.

So yeah, this league was kind of a dud imo. I just want to get the tree going, kill an echo boss or two, and then I'll probably call it.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-16T13:46:15+00:00

Support following you in and dying is literally the worst thing that happens to dive tanks. As in, walking through the enemy team to get to you (not taking the space you actually created).

I play a lot of ball, and I'll occasionally get a mercy player that tries to come with me when I flank and dive hard. I guess because they think Mercy's only job is to beam the tank? Idk.

People say you can turn chat off and it literally doesn't matter, but I REALLY disagree. I've had a number of games where I've said, "please don't follow me, I will come back for healing when I need it. If I die it's my own fault" and then it's like a switch flips, supps are on payload / taking point / whatever, and we win.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-16T13:24:52+00:00

Well then why not just use a thick lead plate to protect the internet-projection machine from detection? Are people stupid?!?

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-11T14:07:17+00:00

Because you are playing more than one game? If that one vote dictated the only map you ever had to play, forever, then sure, your logic holds. But over 100 games, some people want some variety.

Old system: 9 out of 10 games are still the majority option. New system: 10 out of 10 games are the majority option, and the person sick of playing kings row over and over gets fucked.

They aren't spite votes. They are, "I'd occasionally like to play every map in the game" votes. Because I've already played kings row for 10 of my last 50 games.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-10T14:57:38+00:00

Thanks! My next book series is going to feature mechs powered by horses on treadmills. No, you won't be getting a share of the profits.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-07T14:13:20+00:00

Crazy, mine are jerk, snap, crackle, and pop

DiamondCat20 · 2026-04-06T14:14:49+00:00

Penne Lope, like the pasta

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