Dual wielding and the Doggo.

[Pie Eater]

So i just started using the dog, and just haven't been getting into his kit as much as the cat. I feel punished for using a heavy weapon while dual wielding unless I take 3 other skills for survive-ability; something which I don't feel was as necessary with the Cat's skills, as the cat doesn't revolve around utilizing explosive weapons, or remaining in a state for damage like the dog seems to be.

Anyone feeling the same or have suggestions?

[Beekay]

I tried heavy weapons with him, but had a similar experience. But he is super fun when you use 2 laser weapons (shock/fire or double shock). You have to build some ammo regen or it won't work, but if you have enough you will melt enemies.
I like to start the run with shock laser and dagger until I have enough ammo regen.

[-Golden Armor-]

Originally posted by Henry from Skalitz:

So i just started using the dog, and just haven't been getting into his kit as much as the cat. I feel punished for using a heavy weapon while dual wielding unless I take 3 other skills for survive-ability; something which I don't feel was as necessary with the Cat's skills, as the cat doesn't revolve around utilizing explosive weapons, or remaining in a state for damage like the dog seems to be.

Anyone feeling the same or have suggestions?

Ao Bai only gets competitive when you get his 4th passive upgrade (+1 HP per second while dual wielding) his best (and arguably the only good one) skill tree is the one that makes your explosives deal stupid ammounts of damage, having infinite grenades that deal +900% damage and throwing 2 for the price of one that also have an 10m AoE radius is stupidly good against mobs later in the game, but you need to be extremely lucky to get the correct skillpoints or else you are pretty much ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

He has a different approach to combat in comparison to the prince,the problem is that while explosion damage is good, crits and status are king and Ao Bai doesn't excel in status procs nor critical damage (you can make it work but you would be handicapping yourself)

He totally needs a buff, making his dual wielding so that you don't need to reload (if it's a gun like the prism just give it innate multishot) and/or giving every weapon deal innate explosive damage (so every weapon can benefit from maining the explosive skill tree and not lock your character into being forced to use weapons you might not like) would benefit him greatly.

[Mystic Gremblin]

He is definitely harder to build well than The Prince; personally, I really like the grenade pistols with him so he stays mobile but dishes out heavy damage, though I really wish the fire pistols worked with his explosion radius and damage buffs; the description of the pistols makes it sound like they should be affected but, at least from my testing, don't get any increases from his skills. The only real suggestion, without some tweaks to him from the developers, is the usual "hope for a great set of drops and equipment". I feel like he's way more reliant on very specific artifacts than Prince.

As a side note, the Golden Bow has a unique inscription which says "Arrows can explode" and it would be awesome if those worked with the explosion buffs as well; if it does work, then the base damage of said explosion is just quite low so scales very poorly, even going max explosive damage and radius.