Iron Ball appreciation post

[Dorf]

My screen vibrates perpetually and it does 4x the damage of basically every other weapon I happen to use in the run. Thank you Iron Ball

[Arc]

I thinx it sux
It doing 4x the damage of weapons that are hitting full screen means literally nothing, damage doesn't matter beyond the point of killing what you need dead, which basically every weapon that's actually intended to kill can achieve thanks to how easy it is to scale might

[Hyper Realistic Blood]

Be sure to also grab mace, duplicator, and that one card that sometimes makes attacks go off twice so you can crash the game

[Conte Curatori]

I love my (iron) balls

[Neon Triangle]

I personally only feel it's useful with the Iron Blue Will arcana, which John gets automatically at level 10 thankfully (makes it easier to do other arcana setups at the same time). Then it starts pinballing like the axes do for more hits.

[Zephyr]

It has approximatively the same efficiency of a weapon like the Cherry Bomb, or La Robba. Which is pretty much saying it's extremely sub par and outclassed by a lot of others weapons in efficiency, It's fun, situationally powerful(if you manage to lodge a ball between a boss and a wall, so it ticks damage continuously), but most of the time doesn't do much.

I would rate it C tier, in that it's not as bad as the whips, or some others very disappointing and bad weapons like the pinion or celestial duster, but it's also not very useful.

I sealed it after first use.

[Hyper Realistic Blood]

I don't think most of you know what "appreciation" means

[Zephyr]

Au contraire, mister.

To appreciate something has an other meaning than just to value its qualities.
To appreciate something, under said meaning is to judge it for its value, to estimate said value in virtue of its qualities and failings.

In that sense, the iron ball has been appreciated, and found lacking.

It's semantic, but you can't fault me for being outside of the scope of the process.

[Neon Triangle]

To be fair a lot of weapons aren't viable in the hardest areas of the game, but are still fun to use for casual runs. At least unlike worse weapons like the Shadow Pinion and the Celestial Crasher I'm not constantly struggling to kill things or enjoy the game.

I mean, Photonstorm doesn't pinball everyone to death, it just leaves the screen free of enemies in all but the hardest maps. Not much fun there IMO.

[Moonbane]

Black Iron Shield is a retalitory weapon too, and spawns a LOT of spinning swords.

Trinum Custodem (Cerberus weapon ) also seems to also give retalitation damage even if it says nothing on the weapon with Divine Bloodline active.