How to use secret orb?

[crawlers]

I collected all 3 of them and crafted them together. It said to use them at the end so I equipped it during the final boss fight but nothing special seemed to occur, giving an ordinary victory. Am I missing something here?

[Foreman Fecal Freak]

Pretty sure it causes a 19th night. Secret boss fight if you will.

[crawlers]

That is neat but how do I actually gain this once acquiring the orb? Did equipping it cause it to glitch out and fail?

[Foreman Fecal Freak]

I don't know. I did the same thing as you by equipping the orb on the 18th night in my final trinket slot.

[Serpentarius]

To use the orb, first fuse all 3 of them by going into trinket merging in the merge menu (easily missed as it's a grey tab on a grey background) This will result in an orb that says to use it at the end of your journey. Simply have it equipped and you can keep going.

Please note, Act 4 is completely overturned at the moment, and I only lived because Blood builds on a character that specializes in crits are completely broken. (had an 87% crit chance and 70% dodge chance at the end, and I still barely squeaked by.

[crawlers]

Originally posted by Serpentarius:

To use the orb, first fuse all 3 of them by going into trinket merging in the merge menu (easily missed as it's a grey tab on a grey background) This will result in an orb that says to use it at the end of your journey. Simply have it equipped and you can keep going.

Please note, Act 4 is completely overturned at the moment, and I only lived because Blood builds on a character that specializes in crits are completely broken. (had an 87% crit chance and 70% dodge chance at the end, and I still barely squeaked by.

That is what I did - I fused all 3 of them and had the resulting item equipped at the final boss fight, but nothing special occurred.

[Serpentarius]

Originally posted by crawlers:

That is what I did - I fused all 3 of them and had the resulting item equipped at the final boss fight, but nothing special occurred.

Weird. Did you have it in the first trinket slot? as I used the secret orb in trinket slot 1 just before writing that comment and it worked for me.

I also fought the arch angel as the last boss of the run, and once I beat her I just went right to Act IV, Night 19. Honestly though you're not missing out on much. All enemies in Act IV only drop 100 gold and, as mentioned, are overtuned as hell. So the only reason you'd want to would be for the "new Day" heritage rewards.

To put into perspective HOW overtuned:

The first Act IV fight are 4 Veteran Mounted Knights and the Ascended Boss all together and all of them with 2500+ HP.

[crawlers]

Nah, mine was in the 4th trinket slot. Perhaps that was the difference.

Considering I was killing most things in 1-2 turns, bosses included (except those who had invulnerability mechanics), it seems manageable from what you mentioned so far.

[Serpentarius]

thats a bummer that it bugged out in the 4th slot, good to know for future attempts where you actually get 3 rivals though.

[CrabNicholson]

Do you have to keep the secret orb equipped as you go through the bonus nights?

I equipped the merged orb and got a bonus wave. After clearing it I unequipped the orb, and got another bonus wave, then got a victory screen after beating it. I had to fight the high synod cornelius guy (act 3 final boss). So I am not sure if that is the intended ending or act 4 was cut short because I took off the orb.

Edit: Yeah he was indeed the final boss, I just did another run and kept the orb the whole time.