about the golden ingots

[mr.fox]

just had a run and got a weapon that i didn't even unlock yet.
so what is the point of spending the goldne ingots for? all it did for me is to see that weapon in the training room. or maybe I increased the chance of finding this specific weapon in a run?

[Magmaboyx8]

It increases the finding chance, the weapon you found that you didn't unlock was probably from a secret room or shop

[mr.fox]

not a seceret room or shop, i just....got it, but i guass increasing the finding chance is a good reason to farm the ingots

[Kisama]

The real reasons to "farm" Ingots are two fold.
#1 : To spend on your reroll addiction to make sure you can get 100+ gold and 2 upgrade things every time.
#2 : When you unlock something with gold, you can 100% of the time pick it from the reroll list at the start (only for that specific run), which you can use to become insanely overpowered. As an example, I unlocked a cloak weapon last night called "Slaygore" that had broken damage and refilled your frenzy both passively and actively. I also noticed when you upgrade it, even without +cloak damage skills it does hundreds of damage every cast. By the end of the run I was hitting for over a thousand damage sometimes with the slam attack, and 300-500 with air attacks; And thats with a full blue skill bar, not red.

Pay attention to what you are unlocking. Some of the scaling on those things is absolutely obscene.