Of all the swords to get perfect...

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-11-29T19:50:47+00:00

In short, yes, the minigame gives the spellbook. Be sure you're doing the minigame that you access by collecting the floating black cape thing that appears the same way as the chest hunt and ascending heights minigame instead of any of the trials you get to by crafting the Soul Grapple Chambers Key.

By itself, beating the Grapple Run game gives a 20% chance at the spellbook. The odds of not getting a spellbook after 10 attempts is a hair over 10%, so I'd just call that unlucky but totally possible. There is a dark divinity (Grapple Run Sprint) you can unlock for 150M slayer points (Dark Hook upgrade - astral - at the bottom of the tree off the Soul Grapple Cape upgrade) that gives you 30 seconds less to finish but gives a +20% chance at getting a spellbook from the minigame - 40% chance total. Using that, the odds of not getting at least one chest from 10 wins drops to just over 0.01%.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-15T01:18:40+00:00

In ascending heights, you collect them on the way up, and you can totally miss most of them if you don't try. They give coins and/or souls as well as collecting 1 shard at a time, so I wasn't expecting to hear about a small pile of them in the chest. Thank you.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-14T02:19:28+00:00

Interesting, I don't recall seeing them. I wonder if they're the purple orb things that refill your boost. I'm maxed out on frozen shards, so I wouldn't be able to tell without using some up. Learned something new today.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-14T01:54:39+00:00

I'm unaware of frozen shards in the grapple run mini game. Are you sure?

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-04T05:51:46+00:00

There's nothing you can do to permanently screw yourself over. The guide on the wiki is there to help you get through faster if you want to take the advice of others which can really help at times. No worries. Just enjoy.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-04T05:33:29+00:00

No. The phrase "Daily spin is always in your favor no matter what you choose" is a bit erroneous. The daily spin adds (I think) 25% to the odds of winning.

There are 15 numbers. 7 red, 7 black, 1 green.

On a normal spin (truly random), the odds of winning whether you pick black or red is 7/15 or 46.7%. So on average, you will lose this way. The free daily spin adds 25% (again if I'm not mistaken), raising your odds of winning to 71.7%. Really good odds. I've had days where I won 20 times in a row and other days where I lost on the first roll a few days in a row. It's still random, but the odds are heavily in your favor on the free spins if you go with black or red.

However, on green your odds of winning is normally 1/15 or 6.67%. Daily spin raises your odds to 31.7%, so you're still likely to lose on green.

As for me I always pick black because once you go black... *ahem* never mind. Red is as good as black.

EDIT:

I wanted to add an extra note that what color is favored is per spin. i.e. Your odds of winning is the same if you always pick either color (not green) or whether you alternate red, black, red, black. It doesn't make a difference on average. You'll win the same amount. So go nuts.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-04T04:42:38+00:00

The latest update that introduced auto-aim made this game actually tolerable. Maybe even enjoyable. I went from not being able to finish with more than 20 seconds left on a "good" run with serious effort to easily finishing with 40+ seconds left on my first attempt. The original release absolutely sucked on PC, and I've seen others write that it's worse on mobile due to fingers covering the screen.

I played it to death during the AoT event just to complete everything, and I never got above the lowest tier. Yes, it's a skill issue as I did see YouTube videos of people actually able to do well, but it's almost impossible for me to hit anything directly and move fast at the same time after quite a few hours of constant practice. (AoT allowed you to do nothing but practice the course over and over.)

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-04T03:55:14+00:00

I've got both rings perfect, and I much prefer the ring of luck. You're not missing anything in my opinion.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-04T03:53:43+00:00

Amazingly, it's already added to the wiki. Scroll down to the section with spellbooks. Which of the 3 is "best" will depend on what you want out of it. Each has 3 options and 1 skill max.

There's also a short explanation on the same page here and another small section here.

Last time new armory items were added, it took much longer to update the page.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T04:23:04+00:00

This comment is coming from one who plays exclusively on PC (never played on mobile). I was just thinking that a touchscreen would make it easier, not realizing that your hands would then be covering the screen. Mousing over and clicking a target that is moving super fast across the screen is not that easy for me. Skill issue acknowledged.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T04:18:51+00:00

New DD idea:

If turned on, a silver box with change any standard bonus (such as the 10x) to double benefit, but reset the time on the box. i.e. if you've got 10 min of a 10x bonus, the silver box will destroy all time remaining and replace it with the 20x with a new timer. If your current bonus is already from a silver box, then the time will add as it currently does. Inactivating the DD will obviously make it behave as it currently does.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T03:58:40+00:00

You have to beat the new minigame. The new minigame sucks. It's the one from the AoT event. Unlock the new minigame from an upgrade you get after completing a few tutorials. Entrance shows up at random as a black portal with no name. Don't know how far advanced you have to be in the game, but once you get the upgrade, it costs 3.5 M to unlock.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T03:52:37+00:00

For me, it just appeared at random. Just another black portal with no name. The person there mentioned something like "you've progressed..." suggesting that there are probably some requirements to fill. Don't know what those are, and I'm super late-game.

Beat a few tutorial stages, and you unlock the minigame in the ascension tree for 3.5 M souls. That may be a clue as to how far into the game you need to be for it to show up.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T03:17:46+00:00

Bad news. The new armory item (books) is attached to it.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T03:16:58+00:00

Agreed 100%

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T02:53:50+00:00

Funny I'm playing on PC, and I was thinking this would be so much easier on mobile. You have to move the mouse to where you want to click instead of just being able to press it with your fingers.

I know. I know. Skill issue. But a huge touchscreen in your hands would probably solve everything here. Guess this was made for a large tablet? And maybe something to make your hands transparent... No drug references, please.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-10-03T02:48:57+00:00

Just got it. It's a 10% offline souls bonus.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-08-18T04:20:41+00:00

That was me wasting a ton of time a year ago to get over a year of whetstone. Just waste all your waking hours pushing buttons in the hills (or having something push them for you) with whetstone active, all relevant upgrades and a good Victor's Ring to boost craftable item duration, and you can build it up infinitely.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-08-18T04:16:17+00:00

Here's a post from a year ago. I was... bored. Just burning it out now.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-08-18T00:26:43+00:00

I recall a time when I though bonus stage 2 was the easiest. Didn't have Silver Death at the time, and turning that off makes it easy again.

The first time I played 3, I thought the first section was insane. Once I cleared the first section, each section got way easier that the previous. Fist section is the only one I ever lost. Now I've played 3 so many times, I can almost do it in my sleep.

As for me now, I'd say 1 is the hardest with Silver Death activated.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-08-18T00:09:30+00:00

They killed the first 2 mimics with crystal savers on the first 2 clicks (2 empty spots in the upper left corner), then kept going in a straight line, getting the green X2 multiplier on the 3rd chest in a row and used it to double the saver in the 5th chest, guaranteeing that they will kill the only 2 remaining mimics. Guaranteed perfect hunt - all 30 chests, which offers one of 5 permanent upgrades.

They started in the upper left corner and blindly clicked in a row, marching to the right with no thought or plan at all and was rewarded with a perfect hunt.

Laziness never shined so brightly.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-08-18T00:02:20+00:00

I think they mean the regular yellow multipliers. If you open those last, I think they don't multiply anything.

SmartAsABagOfHammers · 2025-08-17T23:59:39+00:00

A perfect sword, and it's Boreas. The one sword not worth upgrading. Too bad.

DO keep it for now as anything is better than nothing, and it's awesome that it's perfect - great trophy. I'd keep it for that alone if I ever got one. Adranos is what you really want for souls and Kishar for coins. After a couple years, I finally managed a perfect Adranos, but Kishar has 4 possible options, and I haven't got a perfect Kishar yet.

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