TWO VEILED MASKS?? IS THIS VIABLE AFTER THE BUFF?? | Skul the Hero Slayer 1.9.1

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In this episode of Skul the Hero Slayer, I'll be using the Minotaur with a Strike focused run, using one of the most notorious items...Veiled Mask. Minotaur is a skull I always have and always will enjoy a lot. He's a very standard power skull, and has a very simple playstyle: big hits. He has high base damage, and has very powerful skills that give him a nice AoE after he casts them underneath his feet. Minotaur is also good at every archetype I like using, such as Crit Items, Ability Spam Items, and Dash Items, so he perfectly fits around my playstyle. All of these positives, however, today I will be using him for a playstyle I tend to avoid: Strike 4. I find Strike 4 runs to be very difficult to build around, as they require so much out of the player. You have to hold your Strike inscription items, so that's minus item slots, then you need to hold crit% items to give yourself decent crit rate, so that's more item slots being taken up, and then once that's taken care of whatever item slots you have remaining need to go towards damage% scaling, since Strike is meaningless without a decent damage% backing it, and this is quite the juggling act that can leave the player feeling underwhelmed at the end of a run. However, recently one of the most notorious items in the entire game, Veiled Mask, got buffed. Before the item gave you a whopping 70% increased critical damage, but at the cost of -30% crit rate, so you had to climb out of that hole with the hope that it eventually pays off. Since 1.9.1, the -30% got changed to -20%, which at first glance isn't a humongous difference, but 10% goes a long way in Skul, and having a positive crit rate with Veiled Mask is as simple as having Misfortune if your Witch scaling is maxed. This makes Veiled Mask significantly less burdensome...so what if I took TWO Veiled Masks? Sure, it's -40%, which is worse than the old -30%, but you have a whopping 140% extra crit damage, and before this would have been -60% crit, an absolutely impossible number to overcome. If you can get past the -40%, you can theoretically make something very powerful happen here, but how does it work in practice? That's what we're here to test today, Minotaur and two Veiled Masks. Joined by Samurai, can we take an old, near impossible scenario and turn it into a winning strategy?

[@artoriuslima]

"GOD WHY ARE YOU SENDING ME YOUR TOUGHEST BATTLES"
"You are our toughest door low-roller"

[@user-re1kg5rr5s]

That was so suspenseful! I have only seen Ws from you, that ending was crazy! I really enjoyed this video.

[@Squaztip]

I feel like the manatech cudgel would have actually been really good for this run

[@PlaguedByEarth]

You invite me to call you crazy, I will do it, Haxa! I must become the Great Bow of Truth truther now! It is not too hard to proc, that is a skill issue!

[@HaxaPlays]

I don't remember what I said about it, but I think it's a good item. It was more the flow of gameplay created by having to swap constantly to keep up the Proof of Fellowship and keeping up the Great Bow of Truth skill casting creating too much chaos that turned me away from it, and I eventually chose the Great Bow over the Fellowship.

[@spohg2887]

That’s true it’s very good

[@spohg2887]

25:40
It also works with rare pikeman, but that was on a dupe pikeman run. Also, with the infinite dash but take damage skill, it allowed infinite dashes still but you remained invulnerable

[@Senorgato029]

~41:20. I think the reason you pick up the wrong item a lot is because u see something interesting, you think about it, then you move around while thinking, then very quickly go to grab the item without checking what you are highlighting. Because you were on the wrong item when you clicked there

[@HaxaPlays]

That's a great point, it's not something I ever really thought about. I'll try and be more still in the next run if I can remember.

[@spohg2887]

Every time Haxa said heads or tails sucks, I always thought about double veiled mask

[@Xylon777Silver]

Would love to see a BONE run I did one with bomber and living armor and it popped off

[@GojiraWook]

Good run sad that it was doomed to begin with

[@rossettifilippo1]

What are the best magic run skul? I wanted to do some becouse i do only phisical

[@L0Fi1337]

Day 6 Asking for a thor run 😊

[@Deathstroke2666]

I have arrived