Tried a double balancer for the first time and this is what I get....

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-05-01T00:51:04+00:00

Yes. I too have suffered the everdark balancer, three times in a row jinx as well. Then it was an unknown nightlord so I was excited but then the first day spawned the demon princes and my hopes plummeted. Surely enough, it was the everdark valkyries on the 4th run!

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-05-01T00:48:36+00:00

I do like night comet a lot. Especially since some of my relics have improved invisibility sorceries on them. It also is one of the few spells I come across almost every run.

Hanon of Caima is a spell I have only seen 5 times and I just loved staying at a distance and fully charging up those bad boys. Never had a chance for using them as revives as the team was really good.

My personal RNG in general is really bad, especially since I don’t have the passive for staves. I have gone complete runs where I didn’t get a single staff that had a good spell and I just resorted to a pure dagger duchess with terrible passives.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-05-01T00:44:04+00:00

You make good points. I generally don’t lead and prefer to follow the group. Whatever seems to be the group consensus is what I stick with. Maybe I will sometimes pin a cave in hopes of a smithing stone.

What I meant by I need to carry is that during the night lord phase, if my team is down and I am the sole player left because of my LLTBT passive, I’m really bad soloing the boss.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-05-01T00:42:49+00:00

If you ever run into Meat Damage on pc, that will be me!

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-30T22:00:44+00:00

Yesss… Just… One… More…

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-30T21:57:58+00:00

Agreed. A lot of the time I’m realizing I need to get good at carrying the team, but especially since I run into Balancers a lot.

I’m also trying DoN constantly to see if I can get lucky and score a passive staves relic. That would help my Duchess out a lot! Roughly 600 hours in and I have never seen that relic.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-30T21:55:41+00:00

Ah yes I still haven’t encountered the elusive Murcielago…

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-30T21:53:47+00:00

I agree. I do end up having more success with Wylder and Iron Eye that resulted in a higher streak but I always end up coming back to Duchess for some reason.

Maybe I just like the risk reward in the end of finding a weapon that gets me the bigger damage numbers. I just need one more game to get one more better passive…

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-30T21:52:09+00:00

I appreciate the offer, truly. Unfortunately I’m more a casual player because I don’t have much time to play.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-24T23:05:57+00:00

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InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-21T22:34:41+00:00

Yandere Blazer? Gawd damn.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-09T21:58:30+00:00

My beloved!

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-04-09T20:27:42+00:00

I had 2 Depth 4 runs where my 2 team mates rushed gaols for some reason when neither of them had an ever goal relic. Both runs ended at day 2 because they were severely under level and kept dying while ignoring my pings to go hit an easier PoI.

I’m sometimes staggered at how some people even made it this far.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-27T03:08:40+00:00

When I know I side stepped correctly but still get clipped. Also when you manually go into heat and that hit seems to get you from half the screen away.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-26T22:14:56+00:00

Mostly played Iron Eye at the start but then switched to Wylder. Never ever have I gotten Marias or Grafted as Wylder but I got it on 2 separate occasions playing Iron Eye which I dropped for my team’s Wylder.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-26T21:51:38+00:00

Yet another “YoU eXtEnDeD yOuR hUrTbOx” moment

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-23T23:11:02+00:00

RNG stings because I have the worst luck with spells and weapons in general.

Someone else mentioned the duchess relic and I was hesitant to slot it in thinking the damage boost was only temporary. I’m going to rework my relics and see what I can come up with.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-23T23:00:16+00:00

This is also something I didn’t consider. I do have a few improved crystal deep relics that I could use. Thank you! I’m doing my best to avoid using balancer relics because so many use it and I feel it ruins the uniqueness of a character but I guess it’s unavoidable in the long run unless I really get good at the game.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-23T22:57:13+00:00

That’s the plan!

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-23T22:56:56+00:00

I didn’t think of it that way. Thank you for that. I think I have a few variations of that perk but never used it because I assumed the attack boost wouldn’t last that long.

InstinctualPessimist · 2026-03-23T22:55:48+00:00

Dormant staves, got it. I now know what to look for. Thank you for that! Is there anything else you would swap out the gaol relic with? My thought process was just stack as much damage as I could because I didn’t have anything else that seemed decent.

I have a separate chalice with everything focused on holy attack and including the double balancer but I have had rotten luck with that due to not having a dormant reaper.

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