The new blobs

[Shneekey]

So, ran into the new blobs today. I personally encountered them in the Void, don't know if they can be encountered elsewhere or not. But if so, that's kinda cheap as you only get a half an act to play with them then the boss eats them.

I got offered a choice between physical blobs, elemental blobs, and mystic blobs. Picked the Elemental Blobs because I had the lightning caster in the party, and was using Gustav as my DPS so physical isn't really a thing my party does much.

All four elemental pets do AoE application of status effects: Spark, Burn, Wet, and Chill, every turn. Which means the water blob is a straight upgrade from the beaver brother that does Downpour every other turn, and the lightning blob just applies Spark (I had some gear and perks, so he was applying 10 spark per turn to all enemies!) which means he doesn't proc thorns and retribution strikes and such, which is a much welcome change from the lightning damage plus spark pet you unlock in the swamp.

Unfortunately, they didn't 'unlock' and don't show up in the store as pets, which is disappointing. I'd have really liked to get my hands on those pets more consistently, or at least gotten hold of them earlier in the run so they were useful for more than four encounters.

So yea, they're nice, but by the time you gain access to them, you've already passed the point where they might be helpful. And only found in a rare encounter in the void no less. Oh well.

[Ahoge-dono]

There's a Green event in the forge area that talks about lava blobs and needing to be a fisherman to get one. Whatever that means.

[Shneekey]

Originally posted by Ahoge-dono:

There's a Green event in the forge area that talks about lava blobs and needing to be a fisherman to get one. Whatever that means.

There's a fishing thing in the first act, it's how you unlock the bleed tank guy. There's also fishing rod items you can get, maybe you need one equipped?

[The Odd Peculiar™]

Originally posted by Ahoge-dono:

There's a Green event in the forge area that talks about lava blobs and needing to be a fisherman to get one. Whatever that means.

You need a steel rod equipped on one of your characters. Just did it as a test.

[The Odd Peculiar™]

Sadly though, the new blobs are not pets you can get from the town vendor, you can only get them on the map.

[Shneekey]

Yea, pretty much makes them effectively useless. Either that or you have to hard-roll for the steel rod if you want the lava blob, *hope* that particular event pops, and be a character which would like to be able to apply Burn stacks, which also hard-locks you into a specific route. And worse, you won't know if it will actually pay off until you get there.

It's a shame, really. The blobs are quite interesting, I just wish we could get more time with them.

[FreeDoM]

I got them a couple of nodes before the twins fight. Not sure what proc'd them. I used the bleed inflicting 1 because I had a character with a bleed build. They look fun. Dissapointed that they arnt full fledged pets.

[LurkerintheVoid]

I'm guess there's more ways to interact with that fishing event besides just the steel fishing rod. I just passed that today with the only option being to move on but I noticed it said 106 dialog options were hidden. I'm not sure if that's a glitch or if there are that many but I can see perhaps multiple things interacting with that even. Probably have the berserker, fishing rods, and fish would be some to test.

[Lunatic Angel]

Originally posted by LurkerintheVoid:

I'm guess there's more ways to interact with that fishing event besides just the steel fishing rod. I just passed that today with the only option being to move on but I noticed it said 106 dialog options were hidden. I'm not sure if that's a glitch or if there are that many but I can see perhaps multiple things interacting with that even. Probably have the berserker, fishing rods, and fish would be some to test.

If theres a large number of hidden events it's usually something that every character can do in different ways, because its already 17 options for each individual character.

Best example off the top of my head is the pet upgrade one, theres is one option for every pet + character combination which is a ridiculous amount of hidden events (i believe 300+).

So yeah theres probably different options for each character that has the steel rod or maybe the normal fishing rod or some other item/requirement?

[Nordos/atord]

The Blobs would be way, waaay too strong for them to be regular pets. If you compare the Water Blob with the Chumpy (or which of these casts Downpour), or just the plain fact of having holy/darkness/blood blobs (which have no equivalent). A poison blob would also be a strict upgrade to the slime pet...

That said, I can understand where you are coming from personally. The blobs are only ever encounterable wvery late, at which point you have about 6 fights with them.
If they would ever add the blobs to the shop, IMO they would need to be nerfed. I could imagine it as follows:
- blobs are added to the pet shop are weaker - only giving 1 Status effect AoE.
- the corrupted version would be equivalent to the current blob
- the event would give corrupted versions.
There would still be some kind of overlap, though. Mainly Slime and Rain one, especially the slime. It would also be making blunt builds far, faaar stronger... Maybe there would need to be a slash blob that would instead buff your team with sharp