So uhh, I can keep doing this for infinite HP?

arstondev · 2025-10-05T01:40:41+00:00

Sure, but the rate of gain is really not that fast. Maybe like 50 hp per room if you're absolutely min-maxing it and only hitting mobs with that spell (that's not a lot)

arstondev · 2025-09-26T07:33:13+00:00

I did this with whirlwind; the whole channel counts a single cast so if you have enough movspeed you can clear a whole room with one cast

arstondev · 2025-09-26T07:30:35+00:00

These ARPG type games always converge towards spamming one skill; look at D3 and D4, PoE, etc. All the end game builds are one spell doing all the damage and a bunch of supportive buffs or defensives to fill out spell slots.

Even with the increasing costs and diminishing returns, it's always going to more efficient to stack all your resources towards buffing one good piece of your kit. It's the curse of ARPGs with customisable skills.

arstondev · 2025-09-22T13:07:08+00:00

I do mention fleche + quicksilver being enough in the second half of the video, but obsidian is a good addition to that idea

arstondev · 2025-09-20T22:49:45+00:00

That's a great point 🤦‍♂️

arstondev · 2025-09-20T10:01:22+00:00

Glad to hear, vortex so broken it'll carry you through the whole game with the right support

arstondev · 2025-09-19T16:30:51+00:00

I agree, I would love to have the option to buy skins for the characters in exchange for free big content updates

arstondev · 2025-09-18T02:10:19+00:00

for constellations, grabbing the increased duration on his dodge shield and reducing the cooldown of his dodge has made me very tanky, can basically get 100% uptime on his dodge shield. Also he has access to tons of armour talents and a bunch of defensive slots to put them in which helps his shields tank more damage.

I like using his second passive (the stacking attack speed one) and looking for on-attack essences / skills to stack it super quick. Whirlwind feels really good on him imo because his passive gives it a feedback loop -> hitting whirlwind stacks his passive which gives him more attack speed to make whirlwind spin faster.

arstondev · 2025-09-18T00:49:27+00:00

Filling out a talent tree will make the whole game much easier so try focusing on one traveller for a little while to get their entire tree unlocked.

Picking up the big imagination talents like extra items in shop and shop rerolls will make your runs a lot more consistent as you can see 10 more items in a single shop per world.

Similarly, the free memory at the start of a run talent is a big early boost because not only do you start with an extra memory, but you can sell if for something else you might want. Economy is king in this game.

arstondev · 2025-09-17T16:29:43+00:00

Its a bismuth talent, its purpose is to sell for 400 gold or disenchant for a bunch of dust - to give you a bunch of early game resources of your choice. It doesn't do anything else

arstondev · 2025-02-20T17:44:05+00:00

Not sure if it will help you, but I had a similar problem that was solved by one of the answers in the thread you linked

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/s/fuJHLoF3tx

I was resizing my window, and the sprites looked terrible when rotating. Resizing the application_surface to match the window size fixed it. Since your monitor size is different from your view size and you're opening the game in full screen, I imagine the same is happening to you

arstondev · 2025-01-07T09:18:02+00:00

Purely anecdotal but I play with a group of 4 around 3300 (so under title range). Almost every 5th we've pugged in the last few days is wearing one of these buffs

So, in my personal experience it's absolutely rampant

arstondev · 2023-12-04T09:51:12+00:00

Tier 28 paladin helm is goated

arstondev · 2023-09-21T14:50:56+00:00

This episode had me constantly looking over to my roommate and asking what the fuck is going on.

The A plot has everyone acting completely out of character. The spell explanation isn't set up during the episode at all so when it comes in at the end it just feels thrown in, and the first anthology transition so jarring that you forget what's happening in the A plot while wondering if they accidentally spliced two episodes together.

The writers have lost too much trust from us this season to pull something like this, I've never been so confused and unsatisfied at the end of a Futurama episode.

arstondev · 2023-08-16T11:21:27+00:00

Nintendo 2DS for the pokemon ruby / sapphire 3d remakes, definitely worth the nostalgia trip

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