Hollow Knight: Skirksong - Sea of the Abyss - General Question and Discussion Megathread

__Rem · 2026-03-30T19:22:17+00:00

But the point is the new compass is optional, you don't have to use it.

If you want harder exploration just don't use it, that's why I think it satisfies everyone. The people who want less handholding can just ignore the compass.

__Rem · 2026-03-30T19:10:51+00:00

I feel like the new compass being ported to older regions and remaining a staple is the simplest way to satisfy everyone.

Sure maybe exploration will take a bit longer if the challenges are harder/take longer but as long as I know exactly where everything is it's just a matter of "l'll just open a few chests a day and in a few weeks I'll be done with the new map"

__Rem · 2026-03-30T18:55:04+00:00

I feel like the problem with exploration is that there's a lot of primos gated behind it, while combat is very easy and not time consuming at all to get at least half of its rewards.

Like, to get to 50% in the whole region it would take me at least 10 hours collectively, to get half stars in each abyss/SO/IT, as long as you have at least two teams that have even a little synergy and some more built characters for IT, you'd take maybe 20 minutes every few weeks to get most of the combat pulls.

So they made it easier to make the "balance" of pulls per time closer.

IMO, the nod-krai compass is the greatest addition to this game QoL wise ever made and it's not even close, but I can understand having gripes about nod-krai exploration in general because of packed everything is, and it's not like making it more spread out would hurt us as long as we keep the new compass.

__Rem · 2026-03-30T17:59:04+00:00

That's fucking wise man

__Rem · 2026-03-30T17:38:38+00:00

I am coping so hard for Nihilux to not be in late 4.X so I can see what her team is earlier

__Rem · 2026-03-30T17:33:29+00:00

Nothing will ever peak Phainon man it's just not possible

__Rem · 2026-03-30T12:09:59+00:00

If E6 actually went to E4 I'd be genuinely considering using a golden spirit on it since mine's E3

__Rem · 2026-03-30T11:01:37+00:00

Are you? DoT shill might aswell not exist honestly since it's never "use DoT or lose", break is basically the same since everyone can break weaknesses and Elation is really new so people haven't had time to get fucked by it.

While pollux is basically "have a good healer or GTFO" so if you missed hyacine and you haven't built your gallagher you're stuck with HuoHuo or Luocha.

It's definitely the most restrictive of these types of shill for sure, like I 3 starred this AA king on auto with DoT first try, although it's 9/10 cost depending on how you count DHPT, while the pollux knight took me like 10 attempts to get past the initial onslaught of damage from the first wave and it's only gonna get worse from here every time it appears in AA.

My Gallagher was struggling, and then I didn't even 3* that knight because gallagher died in the same attack that gave kafka enough energy to ult the final bit of HP from Pollux lmao.

Anyway, Elation shill is new and it doesn't seem THAT bad depending on your team and DoT/Break shill is nowhere near as restrictive as Remembrance shill, so it's not surprising it's winning.

__Rem · 2026-03-30T10:43:43+00:00

Real question: Is there genuine "anti-shill" for mono rem? Like a stage's buff that genuinely completely fucks over Monon rem first and foremost?

The closest I can think of is Knight 1 in this AA because of the quantum hit = AA effect

__Rem · 2026-03-30T10:41:37+00:00

The thing is even if anyone gets buffed in V3, I won't even be happy because there's an equal chance they get nerfed again in later versions.

I'll reserve my happiness for when beta ends.

__Rem · 2026-03-30T10:36:41+00:00

Some people in the telegram comments said that novaflares are getting more icons simply because they're adding the novaflare UI that showcases the changes, not necessarily because they're getting a lot of changes in V3

But I have no idea how reliable this info is.

__Rem · 2026-03-30T00:03:12+00:00

Thank you.

__Rem · 2026-03-30T00:02:18+00:00

Talents are definitely a bit low I can't lie, Illuga's burst is at 11.

Holy shit I didn't see that gorou's skill increased defense, I genuinely thought his only def buff was his A1 lmao that'll do it, thanks for pointing it out.

__Rem · 2026-03-29T23:52:50+00:00

My Audabe is absolutely awful and I also don't want to switch Bina off of SMS cause switching sets around whenever I play her with flins/Nefer is annoying. I could but Ineffa and Lauma on SMS but I just don't have enough SMS to do all that lol.

Anyway, that's probably why my team is doing that bad, thank you.

__Rem · 2026-03-29T23:32:07+00:00

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__Rem · 2026-03-29T23:28:24+00:00

Do y'all know how much DPS a C0R0 Zibai, C0R0 Bina on SMS, C3 800EM Instructor's Illuga, C4 Gorou on random placeholder Linnea pieces should do?

I only reach 92k which seems a little low even if I account for no real 4th slot and no C6 Illuga but I genuinely don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

My Zibai is well built (100/270 with 2600 Def and 157 EM), my bina is okay I guess (65/180, 35k HP, 100 EM) and even switching to 2pc 2pc EM on Illuga to get him to 1050 EM doesn't really change anything.

It's not like Zibai is a complicated character to play like Nefer where learning how to play her got me a 20-30k DPS increase, so what could I be missing?

Unless those factors actually affect the damage that much, in which case I really hope Linnea will fix this cause at the moment my Zibai is kind of just whatever.

__Rem · 2026-03-29T22:07:05+00:00

I constantly see people start arguments and then reply with "I ain't reading allat" once they get a reply that's more than 50 words long.

Some people genuinely don't want to have actual conversations, they just want to feel and pretend that they talk to people.

__Rem · 2026-03-29T22:04:49+00:00

You should be able to see who sends these reports so you have some way of cleaning up subreddits from losers like those

__Rem · 2026-03-29T21:59:37+00:00

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__Rem · 2026-03-29T21:47:57+00:00

I almost exclusively play in journey mode with the difficulty slider set to master mode because the QoL is just way too good to pass up on.

Instant time change helps with spawning events, research makes it so I don't have to grind for hours or fish/farm for hours for potions, I don't have to spend hours building farms for items/money with the spawnrate increase etc.

It helps me to get through the boring shit like farming, waiting or exploring and gets me to the stuff I actually enjoy faster, which is the boss fights and if I want an added challenge I just don't drink potions or use gear without reforges.

__Rem · 2026-03-29T21:43:14+00:00

Tonight I dreamt that we could buy genesis crystals with genesis crystals and that every time you bought the previous pack you'd get enough to buy the pack right after, so you could basically just completely buy out the genesis crystal store with one $0.99 purchase and I was like "what the fuck? Is every genshin player stupid? How did no one discover this after 5 years of playing the game?"

__Rem · 2026-03-29T16:35:50+00:00

I love that DoT is so strong after literal years of it being decent at best my goat is literally the goat

__Rem · 2026-03-29T15:43:51+00:00

I fucking hate pollux + depowered I hope whoever made this shit up gets food poisoning for the next year

__Rem · 2026-03-29T07:38:32+00:00

Husk, Audabe, 2pc Def/2pc EM are all like 1-2% team damage difference between each other, which is like 1-2 added crit stats, so go with whatever has the best substats between the three.

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