The design for "Curious" doesn't work with ranged weapons

[dayofmone]

+25% enemy health
-10% damage for each duplicate item
Doesn't seem that bad at first.
Until you look at how the game tries to drop you the weapon you already have, which is usually good.
Now, try that with a ranged weapon build.
You get a ranged weapon, you get loads of duplicates for it in the first 4 rounds and can combine them, that is fine.
But the whole time, the game only shows melee weapons in the store.
Every
Single
Time
This makes it completely impossible to scale into the character, by wave 4 you can't clear even half the wave anymore, and fall so far behind scaling that continuing is not possible.
Please fix your terrible item system.

[Kappa]

just go with ranged + melee, if it happens that there are no ranged ones, then switch ( recycle ).

Forcing a build is something one can always do, but if the game doesn't go the way they want their run can be compromised.

[dayofmone]

Originally posted by Kappa:

just go with ranged + melee, if it happens that there are no ranged ones, then switch ( recycle ).

Forcing a build is something one can always do, but if the game doesn't go the way they want their run can be compromised.

Then it will get me more melee weapons for the whole run, making the issues worse.
Not a solution, I tried.

[Bumc]

Going ranged on potatoes without any synergy with flat ranged damage is already bad vibes, unless you can spam slingshots. Curious cannot spam slingshots. Go melee.

[elite outsider]

weird, it's almost as if ranged damage is weak or something...hmm...

but to the OP: it sounds like you're just describing bad shop luck. the shop doesn't really 'show you only melee weapons every single time', that would only be true on a character with "can't equip ranged weapons"

bad luck can happen to every character. some suffer more from it than others, because those characters are weak.

one thing that might help is paying attention to the weapon classes.
https://brotato.wiki.spellsandguns.com/Weapons#Weapon_Classes
gun is special because it's the only class where everything is ranged/projectile, for example something like precise or primitive contains melee and ranged.

slingshot increases your chance of finding slingshot, but it also increases your chance of finding spear. smg doesn't increase your chance of finding any melee weapon, because no gun-tagged weapon does that.

what starting weapon are you choosing when you do the ranged curious builds?