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Who has less than 10K by the time they get to the first boss? Seriously, who? Unless I get kicked to the start because I died, I never drop below 10K Gold after the first boss I fight. Of course, in a deathless run, it might be an issue, but why would you turn your hair gray doing that?
@@Ohimeshinso Sometimes it's nice to reroll modifiers a couple extra times if you find a weapon you think can carry you pretty far, or want a very specific modifier to synergize with another item you have. Though, I tend to save that for later in the run, I will sometimes reroll a few times on some weapons or skills early on. But I do that with the intent my current setup will carry me nearly to the end until I find a really sick high level weapon or skill I like a lot.
5:19 There's a guy who uses YOLO to get rid of malaise, instead of using it for the revive 7:15 I think the point of alienation+acceptance is that food curses you so you get free heals from those too 10:36 you should mention that the giant's crystals are considered traps so another situational use is defending from those
I never took Emergency Triage until I was really struggling on 4BC HotK and researched it properly. I always thought the 45% healing meant 45% of the usual healing, as in 27% of max health. In reality of course, it heals 45% of max, which is 75% of normal healing. Also, great video mate.
Now it's only a little over half of normal healing which is unfortunate, but on late game bosses it can always be paired with Extended Healing to buff it up to 85% of total health regardless of what color you use.
YOLO is good when you're learning and haven't unlocked a lot of mutations, and disengagement is one that isn't available right away. I took YOLO my first handful of runs when I wouldn't even be getting to Hand of the King. After I stopped dying so much and started unlocking more options, I stopped using it
As someone with a fair amount of experience in dead cells (around 400 hours total and many 5bc wins), I think that both velocity and recovery are a little underrated. One of the things ive been thinking about recently is what I like to call "roll conservation", and its essentially a way of playing that says: "if there is any possible way to avoid an attack without using a roll, don't use a roll". The effect of this in-game is to minimise the amount of times you are ever caught in a situation where you just have to take a hit, and following this rule is the main reason I don't take shields any more, because I only need to parry enemies roughly once or twice a run. This is why I would say velocity deserves at least a "situational" tier, because when you know how to use it right it can be an extremely powerful tool for escaping combat without wasting roll invincibility. Admittedly if you kill enough enemies fast enough velocity may become obsolete but i just find its nice to have as a backup, especially since, with a speed boost, you can just run right past most enemies and they cant hit you (I've done this with knife dancers before, just run right at them and by the time they start shooting your out the other side). More useful in melee builds but it still has its uses, especially with swift sword. As for recovery, I think this is at least deserving of situational, and personally I would put it as very viable if gastronomy wasn't so damn good. Compare the footage at 20:49 to the footage at 22:18. In the first clip, hand of the king hits for roughly 40% of your health but you rally about 30% of that back. That's a 75% damage reduction alone, with unmodified rally. In the second clip, hand of the king hits for around 70% of your health, and your forced to use a health flask to heal back 60% of that, but even if you were able to heal back just 30% of your health, like in the first clip, you would have been sitting at around 50% health instead of 20%, without needing to use any health flasks. You can still be whittled down slowly by attacks if your not careful but the rally mechanic can turn game-changing hits into just minor blemishes, and recovery is the perfect mutation to capitalise on that. I will admit its difficult to build around recovery, because its not a mutation you can force. With many builds, trying to go for a really aggressive playstyle when your already at low health will just get you killed instantly; but if your in a run and you notice that your already reclaiming huge reservoirs of health back from rally then recovery might be worth considering, especially in boss fights where you need healing without immobilisation. One of my old favourite builds that carried me all the way through to 4bc was the quick bow paired with recovery, because the high and stable DPS of the quick bow turns a flimsy tactics build into something as tanky as survival; but I think that recovery can work really well with all colours. For tactics you want stable, preferably ranged, DPS. For brutality, it works best on what I like to call Hyper Aggressive Melee (lit. going HAM) where no matter what the encounter you just go balls out into it and hope for the best (and its a ton of fun if you can do it). And for survival its probably best for "counter" builds where you can afford to take a hit because you know your going to rally it right back up. Its a mutation that needs to be treated with care, but is probably the best damage reduction option in the game if you have nothing better to take.
I guess I need to experiment a bit more. I find trying to get rally back in bosses to be risky since they can still hit you back, I usually just find the first safe instance to heal up. Gotta admit recovery can be useful in fast builds tho
It takes 2 slots, but if you run healing with parry and the armadillopack, dodging attacks essentially gives you heals for days, and getting the effects from the backpack parry on top of that is massive
I find it very difficult to land parries on anything other than ranged attacks tbh. Reflecting ranged attacks is helpful but I'm not sure it's really worth a mutation slot. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong idk.
I was very surprised when he said parry skills weren’t viable Cuz I’m usually running phaser, armadillo, counterattack, and scheme and the extra dmg is just so nice
@@Sh1ranu1 maybe he more means not as effective as other strategies, because you need to wait for an attack and land the parry for it to actually get its use. And yea, extra damage is very fun.
And now, Porcupack is desirable sometimes as well. Usually if i find Queens Rapier I'll put it in my backpack, now though i've found that starfury can be legitimately *really* good, especially with the "Releases Toxic Cloud on hit". Legitimately amazing with Porcupack especially if you are running something like Snake Fangs, and even if not, especially if it is legendary. This is because you'll hit the enemy with a roll, and the stars will rain down like a bombing run with a bunch of toxic clouds appearing and adding a bunch of poison stacks. Which is great for biome clearing and passive damage when dodging about in a boss fight, (the lighthouse, as an example)
15:22 I wouldn’t really pick open wounds if I don’t have bleed synergy. The damage boost it actually provides is basically worthless compared to Brutality's other damage boosting mutations, so I see zero reason to take it in such a scenario, so I think it would make more sense to call it situational.
If paired with Sadist Stilleto, it's very good overall. If you have the colorless or L-grade one. Then you can be sure that you can commit to that run because it leaves other skills to be picked freely while you can crit on every hit
I would write a full paragraph about this, but I'll get straight to the point. You deserve 10 milion subs, and I'll join the discord server as soon as I can Edit: I've been watching the channel since the second or third video but never really commented, this doesen't mean you aren't an amazing and talented content creator.
Since it got buffed since this video, Recovery actually synergizes really well with affixes that increase damage dealt and taken. I had a run recently that went to HOTK that had recovery and a 4x damage increase weapon. Even though I'd lose a ton of health in one hit, I'd make almost all of it back just as fast.
Hey dude, great video. In my opinion as a survival 5bc main, What Doesn't Kill You (heal on parry) is really overpowered right now, definitely a must pick if you're running shields. At max scaling it's 6% of your health per parry, on no cooldown or limit per enemy. In the mid to late game, you can literally full-heal for free in a matter of seconds on some easy parry enemies. Even in early biomes, enemies like rampagers and the red flyers are just free sustain, and in bosses like hotk or time keeper, you can literally just face-tank since you heal so much. In terms of the 5bc endgame boss though, I don't think it's great since they use mostly ranged attacks. Otherwise, I find it much more broken than gastronomy, since it's essentially on-demand healing. A very interesting build I've found is to keep hunter's grenade the entire game (3 multi scrolls gives you crazy max hp for most of the game), take no mercy first for early damage, then take What Doesn't Kill You for the infinite sustain, and then finish with Soldier's Resistance (now that its 40% max hp), and laugh as you can now never die. I misplayed pretty hard in the final biome, going down to around 20% hp, but easily just found 2 bombers and a failed experiment and freely healed to 80% or so, then topped up before leaving. I haven't had to use my flask a single time until the last boss or I misplay hard in the 2nd biome. Even if you play slowly to farm parries instead of just killing the enemies instantly, it's extremely fast to heal up, and you don't even rack up malaise that fast. I've done this build like 5 games in a row and never gone past 5 malaise bars! It honestly lets you play even faster arguably as survival since you can facetank enemies essentially. You should definitely try it!
Here's a little synergy you might not be aware of: when you get to the 5BC boss or the Queen, switch your mutations to include Emergency Triage and Extended Healing. Then because you've still got 5 flasks (because of What Doesn't Kill You) you can keep your Extended Healing buff going for 50(!) seconds, that's ~60% more damage and a constant heal going for nearly the entire fight.
Tainted Flask is actually a great thing to throw on your final boss mutation lineup if you're also running Emergency Triage. If you're going into the 5BC boss with like 4 flasks you will have, in total, 48 seconds of over double damage, that is more damage than any other mutation will give you and there's nothing special you need to do to activate it besides holding a button for a split second. I believe this should also work with Extended Healing but I've never tried that. According to the wiki using both mutations should give you the speed and shield of Emergency Triage but you still get the full 85% healing from Extended Healing over the course of 10 seconds. This might not be that great because of how slow the healing is but you only need the first 3 or 4 seconds to get to the point where Emergency Triage would have gotten you without Extended (you can also pop a flask _before_ you get too low and then you'll have the healing going if you get hit during those 10 seconds). This is also giving you around 50-60% bonus damage during that duration as well, which is still quite helpful.
The buff suggestions were really interesting and almost looks balanced p.s. the equips you have in the footage for open wounds is my dream bleed build that i havent gotten in a Normal run lol
I think acceptance combo is actually pretty good it will heal up to 100% with only one food so if you are low on health and you can't or don't want to use potion charges it is a pretty valid choice
Wouldn't it require 7 kills, which would only give you an additional 35% on top of the food healing? So you could turn a 15% heal into 50% and a 50% into 85%
I actually just found a use for Extended Healing (though I doubt it's anything new). Since I had tons of gold leftover, I reset my skills before HotK on 4BC just to get fully healed for the fight. Then I reset back to my original skills and FINALLY SURVIVED. Glad I thought of that, otherwise he would've got me again 😆. Onward to 5BC...
I use recovery when I’m trying playing tactics sometimes, being a glass cannon makes it so some enemies can bring you down to 1hp in a single hit. But depending on how much health you had when you were hit, you can stay above 20% which in turn can let you take another hit
It's funny to be playing this game for several months and making it to the highest difficulty, when deliberately staying away from guide videos such as these, only to arrive at pretty much the same conclusions regarding mutations and weapons. Great minds think alike, and all that.
What @relyea is for Hollow Knight, you are for Dead Cells. After playing over 200 hrs (struggling to get 2BC, as I get to the hand of the king easily enough, but don't last) you constantly inspire me to improve my playing.
Pseychie, you’re making such genuine and pure content! I am so happy I discovered your channel, for your videos are always a bliss! Sometimes I don’t enjoy it, sometimes I see flaws, but it is always so high-quality and with a pure and good intention behind! This video, though, was absolutely amazing! The background clips fit, the editing is nice, the screenshot option is mindful, the little sound effects and highlights, etc. show how detailed you can get. Your voice is nice, you speak quite clearly, your equipment seems to be decent, ... bravo, bravo! Please, keep going, and I’ll keep commenting, as well as others, I believe, to make this channel and your videos better and better. :)
great video, but here's some notes I'd like to make: recovery is situational, it's an absolute beast when doing spite sword runs, and can help a lot in heavy builds. allegation and acceptance: people used to take it because malaise worked differently, and those two together were incredible together for clearing it. masochist: forgot to mention it gives you a speed boost. no mercy: I would say it's very viable, it's useful with every build type, but gets more milage with heavy builds in case you done one shot. melee: very viable should have been it's placement. affix damage is insanely useful, free damage. tactical retreat: hard disagree. it slows EVERY enemy on screen, and is insanely easy to proc. one of the best mutations against 5bc boss. parting gift: hard disagree. I don't really know where you're coming from here, lots of enemies aren't grouped together. soldiers resistance (typo) blind faith: large CD removal, but not the greatest, would say its situational necromancy: 50% is quite a lot, I don't think it needs the buff, would say it's situational gastronomy: forgot to mention recycling food gives you a damage boost frostbite: extremely hard disagree. frostbite actively works against itself (it breaks freezing!!!!!), and doesn't even fit survivals niche of heavy weapons. hell, the damage isn't even that good. heart of ice: forgot to mention that slowing procs it.
About the alienation and acceptance combo: it provides fantastic healing in biomes, whenever you eat a piece of food and get rid of the curse you recover %55 or %90 (depending on the food) of your max health. I ALWAYS take this combo whenever I'm playing tactics on 4 or 5 bc because you don't have any other healing method with tactics build. I believe they are exceptionally good in this scenario
True In higher BC they are some of the best "free" sustains thanks to some moron (probably whoever works at the food shop) who broke all health fountains wich forces you to sell a kidney to heal
Alienation and asceptance was good when alienation removed malaise, you could get rid very easily with this because each food would curse you and by that, you would reduce the maise
Dead Inside is situational mutation. As a bad Dead Cells player I manage to beat 5BC with Dead Inside, Soldiers Resistance, Necromancy setup. You basically always play on half life and nothing can really kill you accept curse's. I manage to have 69k life on last boss but I cary Hunter's grenade for stats all the time.
Thank you for making this it's a great and very helpful video, also I respect the fact that you had the foresight to not want to spoil the five BC boss, so you just said five BC boss rather than calling it by name.
24:39 “Extended healing” is actually good, the only time i take it is after finishing a biome or boss. I reset my mutations on the safe area before level transitions. Drink a potion and heal back my health, and after that i reset my mutations again and choose my desired mutations It costs you 3k for reseting twice but to me its still worth it, so id say its situational, i never used extended healing while in biome or fighting bosses.
Hello Pseychie ! Good video, it was very helpful. Just wanted to correct something : the mutation reroll cost caps at 8'000 Gold Keep us the good work !
Grappling hook and point blank+scheme make a good brutality infantry bow build. Using grappling hook often gives a pretty high bonus to your damage +496% then you have the +40% from point blank + the high bonus from scheme. There might be better synergy but as far as I know the damage bonus from grappling hook stacks with brutality levels. If it doesn't then I would make it a tactics build instead for more bonus on point blank. And swap out scheme.
One of the most whacky and fun builds I do is going caltrops, tactical retreat and frostbite, and then just relying on my roll for slow dot, its not very powerful, but the fact that it's even possible is a testament to how creative one can be.
For the armadillopack I’ll always get it if I’m doing a survival run since there is no way I’m going to be able to parry anything otherwise, so either backpack shield or no shield
Emergency Triage is what got me through HOTK in 1BC. I still suck at the game but that gave me a huge confidence boost since I was also running tactics at the time.
How to use extended healing: 1.Pick it up 2.Use flask 3.Wait 15 seconds for the healing to finish 4.Reset mutations and pick something better Boom , you healed 25% more for 1000 or 2000 gold
16:13 I really like predator mutation, the thing with it's invisibility is that it not only stops monsters from seeing you but also resets agro on mobs that already saw you, that's why I would often pick it on bioms. If you kill just one mob with it, almost all other mobs would cease their attacks allowing you to pick next mob you can quickly kill and repeat.
Thanks for the info, I thought Mutations had to be the same category of your build. Like red skills, red mutations. Your video's are made excellent and your grammar is very easy to understand. Keep at it and I'm betting you will achieve greatness on TH-cam.
Recovery is fantastic with dmg over time builds. Since you constantly have dmgy even if minor on opponents, it gets you back a significant ammount of hp, and over the course of a run, that can save you a couple potion uses.
I like mixing crows foot with frostbite, sure its color mixing but its fun having enemies basically poison themselves with damaging slowness anytime they follow me when I roll. If im trying to flee from something the damage can wrack up p quickly, tho this does work better on lower bc counts when enemies dont teleport as much
update 2.3 came on NS and I beat 2BC shortly after (stuck for ~30h before!) One health flask after each biome is much better than only two throughout the run. Now it's time to grind 3BC...
armadillo pack's main draw (at least for me) is that it is a mobile parry that comes out when you would have needed one anyways. Dodging through a projectile? Free damage. Panic roll near a bomb spamming enemy? Free damage to everyone. As an added plus, you get a whole extra hand while keeping all of your shield's on parry effects.
I've had good runs using porcupack on bosses using brutality build, bleed synergy, and sadist stilletto in the pack. Just added another layer of damage while I was ducking and weaving. And with enough points in brutality you can get porcupack doing over 70% of base damage, which is pretty neat when you've got guaranteed criticals from it.
very accurate like you said, I did get some fun from using "What doesn't Kill me", but the others are pretty lame... the damage output should be slightly higher for the damaging shield mutations, and not sure Blind faith is even worth it conceptualy(?) pretty much told me those I use most, though I should give parting gift a chance ^^
Personally I pick armadillopack almost every single run, just because it basically invalidates most projectile based while giving you lots of AoE. It also works really well with the parry shield or bastion for example
Try using lightning bolt in acrobatipack. Personal favorite as you can move while lightning bolt is active this way and once activated it stays active til it would normally turn red
Not sure if this was a thing back then, but lightning in your backpack with acrobatipack gives a full channel that goes to the crits for a few hits, not just one arrow. It’s almost like having two weapons since you’re dodging constantly anyway, it’s extremely strong
My favorite use I got out of Networking was absolutely roasting The Giant with it. I had Tesla Coil and Multiple Knocks Bow, and mutations were Networking, Barbed Tips and I think Parting Gift from the biome (i constantly forget i can reset mutations). Shoot some arrows into both hands, pop down tesla coil next to one and watch the giant never get an attack off.
I like using scheme, combo, and killer instinct with the phaser skill. Either corrupt power or the war owl. Usually needle, and a freeze bow or shield if needed.
I started the game anew a week ago... I watched your videos, and yesterday i beat both 2 and 3 boss cells! I played gastronomy to help me during biomes to keep my health up so that i could learn more during my runs. Beat 2 BS with brutality assassin dagger and 3 BS with tactics duel binding the electric whip and the ice shards thing xD
So for the recovery, they can combo with vampirism which will turn all your green bar and some lost health (blank bar) to the orange bar at late-game for brutal and survival play style when you use this you could recover from like 1 health to 80-90% of your health and took like 2 second or so if there is a a lot of enemy or tanky one to deal damage with. Very very situational one but very good for hit trader or one who try to reserve flask for big fight
I have some interesting takea on certain mutations that thia video didn't cover for aome reason: No mercy procs on dot ticks, meaning it effectively reduces enemy hp by 15% instead if you rely on dot, so for any build which does it's immensely useful. It usefullness only becomes more apperent when you realize mixing with frostbite, barbed tips, or anything else with no mercy makea it viable, so if you use arrows or have the slow on kill affix and don't know what to do for mutations, these aynergies will both effectively reduce all enemy max health and now you have some extra damage. Vengence is mostly kind of bad, but instantly becomes a no-brainer if you use face flask. Only really viable if you have the apite sword too, but having the spite sword, the face flask, and the vengence mutation is makes for very high damage, and if you mix with corrupted power and scheme it a winning build, with room for a shield or a ranged option as well as a mutation of your choice. If you wanna be a dufus and play for the theme instead you can go masochist and frenzy to make a build that just loves pain. Crows feet may seem like a bad pick, and most of the time it is, but if you alreaddy have frostbite, then it goes from being bad to being delightful. Covering anywhere you roll with both imideate damage and dot while not even having to hit the attack button means you winn just by surviving long enough, but obviously the best is to use this supplementary. And finally, I want to just highlight frostbite, even though I alreaddy mentioned it. Slow is arguably the easiest status effect to apply, which is why its damage bonus affix only gives a 30% bonus, but with frostbite all that changes, and it becomes both dot AND a debuff, making the easiest status to inflict also the best, save for the stacking bursts. Sadly it takes a survival build to truly benefit, but if you are going survival, look for the slows nearby enemies on kill affix and pick up frostbite, it's wonderful.
A favorite tactics combo of mine is nerves of steel as my weapon, then pairing point blank and rangers gear and using phaser and I can one shot pretty much anything, add hunters instinct and it can be chained in quick succesion
Vengeance as not viable is criminal. Vengeance face flask combo is pretty much a guaranteed win, even off-colour. If I see a face flask anywhere in the game there is a 70% chance I’ll take it just for vengeance, even with no spite sword
been playing for years and never thought to do this. would be extremely situational, but i bet i could have benefitted from doing this a several different times.
i like to take alienation when i'm at low health when going to the prison depths or corrupted prison. allows for 75% healing guarenteed. (if you don't die that is)
Yo, running Instinct of the Master of Arms with Toxic cloud + Cleaver/knife dance + Sadist’s Stiletto is super fun, beat 3bsc for the first time running that with the mutation that gives you high defense near deployables using cleaver and the vampire prefix on the stiletto. Most broken setup I think I’ve ever had, tanked HotK
The first time I beat 0BC was with your broadsword build, but with improvised bits. I used a tonic and soldiers resistance, which let me tank through attacks to get the 2nd and 3rd hits. Also SR goes up to 40% now, so it’s a lot more viable. I’d say it’s ok for beginners or builds where you’re going to get hit a lot. Other than that yeah not the best.
So, If anyone wants an example of how to use No Mercy, I just ran a pretty OP build that utilized it. It used: Blowgun Quick Bow Beartrap Knife Dance (any grenade works as well, but this really needs the arrow return affix! Don't make the mistake I made!) No mercy Barbed Tips Networking (can be switched out) For Amulet, I would choose something with dexterity in mind.
One thing that's always been bugging me, was the limit of mutations per run! I feel, that having only three to choose is too low of a number, and makes deciding, on what mutations to take extremely difficult! Rather than having three, and able to reselect them, it should be limitless, without rerolling! I believe that would encourage more experimentation, and justify the lower tier mutations more!
@@SuperZeap I don't know, your loadout may change several times through a run, thus needing to switch up your mutations! I feel at this point, the mutations are heavily imbalanced! There are a few, that are so good, you'd want to always take them, like Armadillopack for example! The benefit of having a shield in your backpack at all times, and being able to parry, when you dodge(good on them for putting a small cooldown on the parry, as parrying with every dodge was busted) makes it a no-brainer. I feel they should either remove the limit and rerolls, or rework a lot of the mutations to make them more worth the low ammount!
Extended Healing and Emergency Triage combo is pretty interesting to run since you have 2 seconds of invulnerability for EH to heal but of course its not good since you have to sacrifice 1 mutation slot for this weird niche.
No mercy also procs on dot effects, leading to faster kills if you rely in that, for me it's a musthave for poison, bleed, and slow + frostbite oriented builds,
Thank you for your videos! Because of them(especially tips on how to beat 2bc) I was able to get 5bc pretty fast. Though I'm struggling very hard with 5bc boss(
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_fooken dies_
If would say the amount of times you said those words is "very substantial"!
Nope, not doing that again🤣🍻
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Do giant + networking. It is very good.
I can't believe I never realized before this video that the revive mutation is an abbreviation for YOLO
@NuffsedHey, man. I just realized that as well.
@Nuffsed its not like we pay attention to the names that much YOLOL
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The achievement is literally called "YOLO! Or not?" and I still didn't notice the abbreviation
Just a minor correction: reroll price actually caps at 8k.
Keep up the good work, man. Very much appreciated =)
Who has less than 10K by the time they get to the first boss? Seriously, who?
Unless I get kicked to the start because I died, I never drop below 10K Gold after the first boss I fight. Of course, in a deathless run, it might be an issue, but why would you turn your hair gray doing that?
@@Ohimeshinso Sometimes it's nice to reroll modifiers a couple extra times if you find a weapon you think can carry you pretty far, or want a very specific modifier to synergize with another item you have. Though, I tend to save that for later in the run, I will sometimes reroll a few times on some weapons or skills early on. But I do that with the intent my current setup will carry me nearly to the end until I find a really sick high level weapon or skill I like a lot.
5:19 There's a guy who uses YOLO to get rid of malaise, instead of using it for the revive
7:15 I think the point of alienation+acceptance is that food curses you so you get free heals from those too
10:36 you should mention that the giant's crystals are considered traps so another situational use is defending from those
Finally someone else that recognizes how good frostbite is.
Easily one of my favorite mutations in any build.
it's so good if your weapon has slow all nearby enemies
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MHHHMMMM 100% agree
Frostbite + Frost Burst = ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
I never took Emergency Triage until I was really struggling on 4BC HotK and researched it properly. I always thought the 45% healing meant 45% of the usual healing, as in 27% of max health. In reality of course, it heals 45% of max, which is 75% of normal healing. Also, great video mate.
Now it's only a little over half of normal healing which is unfortunate, but on late game bosses it can always be paired with Extended Healing to buff it up to 85% of total health regardless of what color you use.
YOLO is good when you're learning and haven't unlocked a lot of mutations, and disengagement is one that isn't available right away. I took YOLO my first handful of runs when I wouldn't even be getting to Hand of the King. After I stopped dying so much and started unlocking more options, I stopped using it
As someone with a fair amount of experience in dead cells (around 400 hours total and many 5bc wins), I think that both velocity and recovery are a little underrated. One of the things ive been thinking about recently is what I like to call "roll conservation", and its essentially a way of playing that says: "if there is any possible way to avoid an attack without using a roll, don't use a roll". The effect of this in-game is to minimise the amount of times you are ever caught in a situation where you just have to take a hit, and following this rule is the main reason I don't take shields any more, because I only need to parry enemies roughly once or twice a run. This is why I would say velocity deserves at least a "situational" tier, because when you know how to use it right it can be an extremely powerful tool for escaping combat without wasting roll invincibility. Admittedly if you kill enough enemies fast enough velocity may become obsolete but i just find its nice to have as a backup, especially since, with a speed boost, you can just run right past most enemies and they cant hit you (I've done this with knife dancers before, just run right at them and by the time they start shooting your out the other side). More useful in melee builds but it still has its uses, especially with swift sword.
As for recovery, I think this is at least deserving of situational, and personally I would put it as very viable if gastronomy wasn't so damn good. Compare the footage at 20:49 to the footage at 22:18. In the first clip, hand of the king hits for roughly 40% of your health but you rally about 30% of that back. That's a 75% damage reduction alone, with unmodified rally. In the second clip, hand of the king hits for around 70% of your health, and your forced to use a health flask to heal back 60% of that, but even if you were able to heal back just 30% of your health, like in the first clip, you would have been sitting at around 50% health instead of 20%, without needing to use any health flasks. You can still be whittled down slowly by attacks if your not careful but the rally mechanic can turn game-changing hits into just minor blemishes, and recovery is the perfect mutation to capitalise on that.
I will admit its difficult to build around recovery, because its not a mutation you can force. With many builds, trying to go for a really aggressive playstyle when your already at low health will just get you killed instantly; but if your in a run and you notice that your already reclaiming huge reservoirs of health back from rally then recovery might be worth considering, especially in boss fights where you need healing without immobilisation. One of my old favourite builds that carried me all the way through to 4bc was the quick bow paired with recovery, because the high and stable DPS of the quick bow turns a flimsy tactics build into something as tanky as survival; but I think that recovery can work really well with all colours. For tactics you want stable, preferably ranged, DPS. For brutality, it works best on what I like to call Hyper Aggressive Melee (lit. going HAM) where no matter what the encounter you just go balls out into it and hope for the best (and its a ton of fun if you can do it). And for survival its probably best for "counter" builds where you can afford to take a hit because you know your going to rally it right back up. Its a mutation that needs to be treated with care, but is probably the best damage reduction option in the game if you have nothing better to take.
I guess I need to experiment a bit more. I find trying to get rally back in bosses to be risky since they can still hit you back, I usually just find the first safe instance to heal up. Gotta admit recovery can be useful in fast builds tho
I will try recover with phaser and assassin dagger plus the one that reduces cd on crit... Ty for the tips!
What if you combine recovery and vampirism? Is it good?
It takes 2 slots, but if you run healing with parry and the armadillopack, dodging attacks essentially gives you heals for days, and getting the effects from the backpack parry on top of that is massive
I almost always take the armadillo pack, I find the ability to parry with a roll incredibly useful.
I find it very difficult to land parries on anything other than ranged attacks tbh. Reflecting ranged attacks is helpful but I'm not sure it's really worth a mutation slot. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong idk.
I was very surprised when he said parry skills weren’t viable
Cuz I’m usually running phaser, armadillo, counterattack, and scheme and the extra dmg is just so nice
@@Sh1ranu1 maybe he more means not as effective as other strategies, because you need to wait for an attack and land the parry for it to actually get its use. And yea, extra damage is very fun.
And now, Porcupack is desirable sometimes as well. Usually if i find Queens Rapier I'll put it in my backpack, now though i've found that starfury can be legitimately *really* good, especially with the "Releases Toxic Cloud on hit". Legitimately amazing with Porcupack especially if you are running something like Snake Fangs, and even if not, especially if it is legendary.
This is because you'll hit the enemy with a roll, and the stars will rain down like a bombing run with a bunch of toxic clouds appearing and adding a bunch of poison stacks. Which is great for biome clearing and passive damage when dodging about in a boss fight, (the lighthouse, as an example)
I love how comprehensive and organized this video is. Incredibly helpful and visually coherent for a somewhat newbie 1 BC player like myself.
Problem is he’s talking from a 5bc perspective. That’s a different game, so different things are good and bad
15:22
I wouldn’t really pick open wounds if I don’t have bleed synergy. The damage boost it actually provides is basically worthless compared to Brutality's other damage boosting mutations, so I see zero reason to take it in such a scenario, so I think it would make more sense to call it situational.
The 60% damage boost against bleeding enemies makes open wounds very viable by itself it’s not even rare to get either
that sti would mean it's situational. melee mutation is better
If paired with Sadist Stilleto, it's very good overall. If you have the colorless or L-grade one. Then you can be sure that you can commit to that run because it leaves other skills to be picked freely while you can crit on every hit
Great use with sadist sword thou😏🥵
@@otobakashvili705 I consider every run situational though, so when the situation calls for it the situational ones can be better. Just how RNG works.
I would write a full paragraph about this, but I'll get straight to the point. You deserve 10 milion subs, and I'll join the discord server as soon as I can
Edit: I've been watching the channel since the second or third video but never really commented, this doesen't mean you aren't an amazing and talented content creator.
You did write a full paragraph.
@@nickbarlow4270 Two sentences is not a paragraph 😩
Since it got buffed since this video, Recovery actually synergizes really well with affixes that increase damage dealt and taken. I had a run recently that went to HOTK that had recovery and a 4x damage increase weapon. Even though I'd lose a ton of health in one hit, I'd make almost all of it back just as fast.
Yeah, recovery is so good for bosses, it’s like adding several healing flasks if you’re able to deal damage
Hey dude, great video. In my opinion as a survival 5bc main, What Doesn't Kill You (heal on parry) is really overpowered right now, definitely a must pick if you're running shields.
At max scaling it's 6% of your health per parry, on no cooldown or limit per enemy. In the mid to late game, you can literally full-heal for free in a matter of seconds on some easy parry enemies. Even in early biomes, enemies like rampagers and the red flyers are just free sustain, and in bosses like hotk or time keeper, you can literally just face-tank since you heal so much. In terms of the 5bc endgame boss though, I don't think it's great since they use mostly ranged attacks. Otherwise, I find it much more broken than gastronomy, since it's essentially on-demand healing.
A very interesting build I've found is to keep hunter's grenade the entire game (3 multi scrolls gives you crazy max hp for most of the game), take no mercy first for early damage, then take What Doesn't Kill You for the infinite sustain, and then finish with Soldier's Resistance (now that its 40% max hp), and laugh as you can now never die. I misplayed pretty hard in the final biome, going down to around 20% hp, but easily just found 2 bombers and a failed experiment and freely healed to 80% or so, then topped up before leaving. I haven't had to use my flask a single time until the last boss or I misplay hard in the 2nd biome. Even if you play slowly to farm parries instead of just killing the enemies instantly, it's extremely fast to heal up, and you don't even rack up malaise that fast. I've done this build like 5 games in a row and never gone past 5 malaise bars! It honestly lets you play even faster arguably as survival since you can facetank enemies essentially. You should definitely try it!
Here's a little synergy you might not be aware of: when you get to the 5BC boss or the Queen, switch your mutations to include Emergency Triage and Extended Healing. Then because you've still got 5 flasks (because of What Doesn't Kill You) you can keep your Extended Healing buff going for 50(!) seconds, that's ~60% more damage and a constant heal going for nearly the entire fight.
hunters granade what for?
@@user-is2xk5xy1v it used to give +1 of each scroll on 3bc and higher (insane amount of extra health)
kill rhythm is so good with scythe claws and the crossbows! probably my favorite builds of the game are of kill rhythm.
Tainted Flask is actually a great thing to throw on your final boss mutation lineup if you're also running Emergency Triage. If you're going into the 5BC boss with like 4 flasks you will have, in total, 48 seconds of over double damage, that is more damage than any other mutation will give you and there's nothing special you need to do to activate it besides holding a button for a split second.
I believe this should also work with Extended Healing but I've never tried that. According to the wiki using both mutations should give you the speed and shield of Emergency Triage but you still get the full 85% healing from Extended Healing over the course of 10 seconds. This might not be that great because of how slow the healing is but you only need the first 3 or 4 seconds to get to the point where Emergency Triage would have gotten you without Extended (you can also pop a flask _before_ you get too low and then you'll have the healing going if you get hit during those 10 seconds). This is also giving you around 50-60% bonus damage during that duration as well, which is still quite helpful.
Initiative can work really good With Assasins Dagger because if You pair it with Scheme and Phaser you just oneshot every Enemy in a Biom
Useless in a boss fight
The buff suggestions were really interesting and almost looks balanced
p.s. the equips you have in the footage for open wounds is my dream bleed build that i havent gotten in a Normal run lol
It’s footage from an upcoming vid!
I mean networking works really well with the giant
You target the two hands and watch the choas
Barbed tips + hokuto bow + networking + high rate bow/crossbow + 5bc + 30+ scrolls.
Just got this build and ended the giant for like 10 sec
I think acceptance combo is actually pretty good it will heal up to 100% with only one food so if you are low on health and you can't or don't want to use potion charges it is a pretty valid choice
Wouldn't it require 7 kills, which would only give you an additional 35% on top of the food healing? So you could turn a 15% heal into 50% and a 50% into 85%
I actually just found a use for Extended Healing (though I doubt it's anything new).
Since I had tons of gold leftover, I reset my skills before HotK on 4BC just to get fully healed for the fight. Then I reset back to my original skills and FINALLY SURVIVED. Glad I thought of that, otherwise he would've got me again 😆.
Onward to 5BC...
Yeah, I’ve done that once as well, just seems a bit wasteful since you gotta reroll twice, but doable if you got a lot of gold
I use recovery when I’m trying playing tactics sometimes, being a glass cannon makes it so some enemies can bring you down to 1hp in a single hit. But depending on how much health you had when you were hit, you can stay above 20% which in turn can let you take another hit
It's funny to be playing this game for several months and making it to the highest difficulty, when deliberately staying away from guide videos such as these, only to arrive at pretty much the same conclusions regarding mutations and weapons. Great minds think alike, and all that.
What @relyea is for Hollow Knight, you are for Dead Cells. After playing over 200 hrs (struggling to get 2BC, as I get to the hand of the king easily enough, but don't last) you constantly inspire me to improve my playing.
11:03 You have to kill the Time Keeper once for the Instinct of the master of the Arms
it's unlocked by default
Time Keeper unlocks Lightspeed, IotMotA and YOLO are default colourless mutations.
I personally always pick networking when I'm going into the fight with the giant, the damage shared between the hands and eye builds up crazy damage.
This video was actually amazing, I didn't think you would do it and I don't think it was even necessary, but my god you did a great job 10/10
Pseychie, you’re making such genuine and pure content! I am so happy I discovered your channel, for your videos are always a bliss! Sometimes I don’t enjoy it, sometimes I see flaws, but it is always so high-quality and with a pure and good intention behind!
This video, though, was absolutely amazing! The background clips fit, the editing is nice, the screenshot option is mindful, the little sound effects and highlights, etc. show how detailed you can get. Your voice is nice, you speak quite clearly, your equipment seems to be decent, ... bravo, bravo! Please, keep going, and I’ll keep commenting, as well as others, I believe, to make this channel and your videos better and better. :)
My setup really isn’t anything special, it’s just that the standard for YT vids these days are really high. Appreciate the feedback though!
I just meant to say that I haven’t noticed any insufficiencies: no cracking audio, no lags, etc. I hope it hasn’t cost you a fortune.
great video, but here's some notes I'd like to make:
recovery is situational, it's an absolute beast when doing spite sword runs, and can help a lot in heavy builds.
allegation and acceptance: people used to take it because malaise worked differently, and those two together were incredible together for clearing it.
masochist: forgot to mention it gives you a speed boost.
no mercy: I would say it's very viable, it's useful with every build type, but gets more milage with heavy builds in case you done one shot.
melee: very viable should have been it's placement. affix damage is insanely useful, free damage.
tactical retreat: hard disagree. it slows EVERY enemy on screen, and is insanely easy to proc. one of the best mutations against 5bc boss.
parting gift: hard disagree. I don't really know where you're coming from here, lots of enemies aren't grouped together.
soldiers resistance (typo)
blind faith: large CD removal, but not the greatest, would say its situational
necromancy: 50% is quite a lot, I don't think it needs the buff, would say it's situational
gastronomy: forgot to mention recycling food gives you a damage boost
frostbite: extremely hard disagree. frostbite actively works against itself (it breaks freezing!!!!!), and doesn't even fit survivals niche of heavy weapons. hell, the damage isn't even that good.
heart of ice: forgot to mention that slowing procs it.
About the alienation and acceptance combo: it provides fantastic healing in biomes, whenever you eat a piece of food and get rid of the curse you recover %55 or %90 (depending on the food) of your max health. I ALWAYS take this combo whenever I'm playing tactics on 4 or 5 bc because you don't have any other healing method with tactics build. I believe they are exceptionally good in this scenario
True
In higher BC they are some of the best "free" sustains thanks to some moron (probably whoever works at the food shop) who broke all health fountains wich forces you to sell a kidney to heal
Alienation and asceptance was good when alienation removed malaise, you could get rid very easily with this because each food would curse you and by that, you would reduce the maise
That Celeste music...
_chefs kiss_
Dead Inside is situational mutation. As a bad Dead Cells player I manage to beat 5BC with Dead Inside, Soldiers Resistance, Necromancy setup. You basically always play on half life and nothing can really kill you accept curse's. I manage to have 69k life on last boss but I cary Hunter's grenade for stats all the time.
I appreciate your effort of hiding what the 5bc boss is for new players. Respectable!
I can't believe you got rid of the test section! That was my favorite part.. It hurts my heart...
Thank you for making this it's a great and very helpful video, also I respect the fact that you had the foresight to not want to spoil the five BC boss, so you just said five BC boss rather than calling it by name.
24:39 “Extended healing” is actually good, the only time i take it is after finishing a biome or boss. I reset my mutations on the safe area before level transitions. Drink a potion and heal back my health, and after that i reset my mutations again and choose my desired mutations
It costs you 3k for reseting twice but to me its still worth it, so id say its situational, i never used extended healing while in biome or fighting bosses.
Hello Pseychie ! Good video, it was very helpful.
Just wanted to correct something : the mutation reroll cost caps at 8'000 Gold
Keep us the good work !
Grappling hook and point blank+scheme make a good brutality infantry bow build. Using grappling hook often gives a pretty high bonus to your damage +496% then you have the +40% from point blank + the high bonus from scheme. There might be better synergy but as far as I know the damage bonus from grappling hook stacks with brutality levels. If it doesn't then I would make it a tactics build instead for more bonus on point blank. And swap out scheme.
I love the sound effects that you used, when showing Mutations, etc.
One of the most whacky and fun builds I do is going caltrops, tactical retreat and frostbite, and then just relying on my roll for slow dot, its not very powerful, but the fact that it's even possible is a testament to how creative one can be.
For the armadillopack
I’ll always get it if I’m doing a survival run since there is no way I’m going to be able to parry anything otherwise, so either backpack shield or no shield
Man you really went to town with the background footage spoilers
Emergency Triage is what got me through HOTK in 1BC. I still suck at the game but that gave me a huge confidence boost since I was also running tactics at the time.
How to use extended healing:
1.Pick it up
2.Use flask
3.Wait 15 seconds for the healing to finish
4.Reset mutations and pick something better
Boom , you healed 25% more for 1000 or 2000 gold
16:13 I really like predator mutation, the thing with it's invisibility is that it not only stops monsters from seeing you but also resets agro on mobs that already saw you, that's why I would often pick it on bioms. If you kill just one mob with it, almost all other mobs would cease their attacks allowing you to pick next mob you can quickly kill and repeat.
I love the quality man! You should skyrocket when the algorithm wants you to but until then, thanks for the vid!
YES !!! finally a mutations tier list
I like Vengeance because I feel like it is a weaker version of Disengagement but with the benefit of damage.
I usually take it if I have a good face flask
Thanks for the info, I thought Mutations had to be the same category of your build. Like red skills, red mutations. Your video's are made excellent and your grammar is very easy to understand. Keep at it and I'm betting you will achieve greatness on TH-cam.
Recovery is fantastic with dmg over time builds. Since you constantly have dmgy even if minor on opponents, it gets you back a significant ammount of hp, and over the course of a run, that can save you a couple potion uses.
I like mixing crows foot with frostbite, sure its color mixing but its fun having enemies basically poison themselves with damaging slowness anytime they follow me when I roll. If im trying to flee from something the damage can wrack up p quickly, tho this does work better on lower bc counts when enemies dont teleport as much
0:55 Hades music in a Dead Cells video? That caught me off guard!
These kind of videos make you hit the like button after 10 seconds, because you know what's coming gonna be gooood
update 2.3 came on NS and I beat 2BC shortly after (stuck for ~30h before!) One health flask after each biome is much better than only two throughout the run. Now it's time to grind 3BC...
Bro. Armedelobackpack is a masterpiece man, especially as a player who was never that good at timing with shields, Armedelo saved me a ton of times
is it just me that liked the little quizzes :O
armadillo pack's main draw (at least for me) is that it is a mobile parry that comes out when you would have needed one anyways. Dodging through a projectile? Free damage. Panic roll near a bomb spamming enemy? Free damage to everyone. As an added plus, you get a whole extra hand while keeping all of your shield's on parry effects.
i like to run melee with frostbite when im using a melee build for the extra dps from frostbite
I've had good runs using porcupack on bosses using brutality build, bleed synergy, and sadist stilletto in the pack. Just added another layer of damage while I was ducking and weaving. And with enough points in brutality you can get porcupack doing over 70% of base damage, which is pretty neat when you've got guaranteed criticals from it.
very accurate
like you said, I did get some fun from using "What doesn't Kill me", but the others are pretty lame... the damage output should be slightly higher for the damaging shield mutations, and not sure Blind faith is even worth it conceptualy(?)
pretty much told me those I use most, though I should give parting gift a chance ^^
Personally I pick armadillopack almost every single run, just because it basically invalidates most projectile based while giving you lots of AoE. It also works really well with the parry shield or bastion for example
Try using lightning bolt in acrobatipack. Personal favorite as you can move while lightning bolt is active this way and once activated it stays active til it would normally turn red
Not sure if this was a thing back then, but lightning in your backpack with acrobatipack gives a full channel that goes to the crits for a few hits, not just one arrow. It’s almost like having two weapons since you’re dodging constantly anyway, it’s extremely strong
My favorite use I got out of Networking was absolutely roasting The Giant with it. I had Tesla Coil and Multiple Knocks Bow, and mutations were Networking, Barbed Tips and I think Parting Gift from the biome (i constantly forget i can reset mutations). Shoot some arrows into both hands, pop down tesla coil next to one and watch the giant never get an attack off.
I had no idea the affixes on items in backpack roll mutations. Definitely makes them more interesting in decisions to make
Fun fact: Open Wounds is the melee version of Barbed Tips. Let that sink in...
I like using scheme, combo, and killer instinct with the phaser skill. Either corrupt power or the war owl.
Usually needle, and a freeze bow or shield if needed.
I started the game anew a week ago... I watched your videos, and yesterday i beat both 2 and 3 boss cells! I played gastronomy to help me during biomes to keep my health up so that i could learn more during my runs. Beat 2 BS with brutality assassin dagger and 3 BS with tactics duel binding the electric whip and the ice shards thing xD
frostbite, no mercy, and crows feet with ice shards and another weapon that causes slow is probably one of my favorite builds
HADES OST playing in the backgroud
So for the recovery, they can combo with vampirism which will turn all your green bar and some lost health (blank bar) to the orange bar at late-game for brutal and survival play style when you use this you could recover from like 1 health to 80-90% of your health and took like 2 second or so if there is a a lot of enemy or tanky one to deal damage with. Very very situational one but very good for hit trader or one who try to reserve flask for big fight
Thanks so much for the advice, it's very helpful! Love your content. I hope to conquer 3BC eventually!
This was really useful. I haven't played since 2020, so I didn't know that Necromancy got nerfed.
I have some interesting takea on certain mutations that thia video didn't cover for aome reason:
No mercy procs on dot ticks, meaning it effectively reduces enemy hp by 15% instead if you rely on dot, so for any build which does it's immensely useful. It usefullness only becomes more apperent when you realize mixing with frostbite, barbed tips, or anything else with no mercy makea it viable, so if you use arrows or have the slow on kill affix and don't know what to do for mutations, these aynergies will both effectively reduce all enemy max health and now you have some extra damage.
Vengence is mostly kind of bad, but instantly becomes a no-brainer if you use face flask. Only really viable if you have the apite sword too, but having the spite sword, the face flask, and the vengence mutation is makes for very high damage, and if you mix with corrupted power and scheme it a winning build, with room for a shield or a ranged option as well as a mutation of your choice. If you wanna be a dufus and play for the theme instead you can go masochist and frenzy to make a build that just loves pain.
Crows feet may seem like a bad pick, and most of the time it is, but if you alreaddy have frostbite, then it goes from being bad to being delightful. Covering anywhere you roll with both imideate damage and dot while not even having to hit the attack button means you winn just by surviving long enough, but obviously the best is to use this supplementary.
And finally, I want to just highlight frostbite, even though I alreaddy mentioned it. Slow is arguably the easiest status effect to apply, which is why its damage bonus affix only gives a 30% bonus, but with frostbite all that changes, and it becomes both dot AND a debuff, making the easiest status to inflict also the best, save for the stacking bursts. Sadly it takes a survival build to truly benefit, but if you are going survival, look for the slows nearby enemies on kill affix and pick up frostbite, it's wonderful.
Vengeance goes well with that red flask thingy
A favorite tactics combo of mine is nerves of steel as my weapon, then pairing point blank and rangers gear and using phaser and I can one shot pretty much anything, add hunters instinct and it can be chained in quick succesion
Tranquillity works easily against even hand of the king! You don't need to be so far away.
Vengeance as not viable is criminal. Vengeance face flask combo is pretty much a guaranteed win, even off-colour. If I see a face flask anywhere in the game there is a 70% chance I’ll take it just for vengeance, even with no spite sword
you forgot a massive use for ammo, barbed tips, it allows a massive amount of arrows to be stuck in an enemy
also how did you not mention heavy crossbow during point blank, doesnt heavy crossbow work with it?
I sometimes use extended healing in between biomes and then swap it out when I'm done healing. For me, that's a good situational use of the mutation.
been playing for years and never thought to do this. would be extremely situational, but i bet i could have benefitted from doing this a several different times.
i like to take alienation when i'm at low health when going to the prison depths or corrupted prison. allows for 75% healing guarenteed. (if you don't die that is)
I just tried Acrobatipack with Boomerang and Infantry Bow. Worked pretty well!
love the hades music on the background
Recovery got buffed. It is OP now.
I Just beated 5 bc, but I still randomly chooses mutations
No wonder it took me 20 hours to get thos far.
Thank you for such an enlightening video
Yo, running Instinct of the Master of Arms with Toxic cloud + Cleaver/knife dance + Sadist’s Stiletto is super fun, beat 3bsc for the first time running that with the mutation that gives you high defense near deployables using cleaver and the vampire prefix on the stiletto. Most broken setup I think I’ve ever had, tanked HotK
I know this is probably not going to be seen but a good way to use velocity is with frenzy I use this from time to time and find it quite nice.
The first time I beat 0BC was with your broadsword build, but with improvised bits. I used a tonic and soldiers resistance, which let me tank through attacks to get the 2nd and 3rd hits. Also SR goes up to 40% now, so it’s a lot more viable. I’d say it’s ok for beginners or builds where you’re going to get hit a lot. Other than that yeah not the best.
So, If anyone wants an example of how to use No Mercy, I just ran a pretty OP build that utilized it. It used:
Blowgun
Quick Bow
Beartrap
Knife Dance (any grenade works as well, but this really needs the arrow return affix! Don't make the mistake I made!)
No mercy
Barbed Tips
Networking (can be switched out)
For Amulet, I would choose something with dexterity in mind.
I watched further into the video and I do realize that parting gift would work quite well too.
One thing that's always been bugging me, was the limit of mutations per run! I feel, that having only three to choose is too low of a number, and makes deciding, on what mutations to take extremely difficult! Rather than having three, and able to reselect them, it should be limitless, without rerolling! I believe that would encourage more experimentation, and justify the lower tier mutations more!
Maybe not making them unlimited but raising it by one or two would make a huge difference
@@SuperZeap I don't know, your loadout may change several times through a run, thus needing to switch up your mutations! I feel at this point, the mutations are heavily imbalanced! There are a few, that are so good, you'd want to always take them, like Armadillopack for example! The benefit of having a shield in your backpack at all times, and being able to parry, when you dodge(good on them for putting a small cooldown on the parry, as parrying with every dodge was busted) makes it a no-brainer.
I feel they should either remove the limit and rerolls, or rework a lot of the mutations to make them more worth the low ammount!
Or...hear me out... go on custom mode- you can get up to 11
Extended Healing and Emergency Triage combo is pretty interesting to run since you have 2 seconds of invulnerability for EH to heal but of course its not good since you have to sacrifice 1 mutation slot for this weird niche.
It's very useful for the final Boss or true final boss
Recovery was use full pre 1.9 when skill can recover health when hit
No mercy also procs on dot effects, leading to faster kills if you rely in that, for me it's a musthave for poison, bleed, and slow + frostbite oriented builds,
Had frostbite with a "freezes surrounding enemies on thaw" perk that was so OP
scheme, phaser and assasin dagger is my number 1 playstyle
24:40 you can use extended healing between areas and remove the mutation after to save on potions
14:11 I actually like to use the porcupack with something like the rapier or vorpan in the pack for easy crits while evading or attacking.
Thank you for your videos! Because of them(especially tips on how to beat 2bc) I was able to get 5bc pretty fast. Though I'm struggling very hard with 5bc boss(