Which is your favorite starting gift?

[Aristocratic Cthulhu]

For me it's between Dice Case for early momentum and Broken Hero Sword for lategame investment.

[ZeppMan217]

Bombs. Unless I'm playing Alchemist, in which case keys.

[Vengyr]

Dice, but I tend to to do random nowadays.
...and then want to die whenever I see compass...

[Nogan]

Dice Case by a wide margin. From personal experience, dice rewards, especially eternal dice, are the most significant factor in having a successful run (with getting a decent weapon early on the second), and there's only one sure way to guarantee having any in your inventory. The Christmas event mitigated this by adding the dice merchants to the Tavern, but I don't know if that's something that will remain in some capacity.

[Light0234]

gold in my case might as well have some for early shops

[That Fish Guy]

Bombs, it gives you enough of them, and you don't have to decide between two quasi essential resources if you come across bombs or keys option

[Doombringer]

dice

[jEM]

Originally posted by Nogan:

Dice Case by a wide margin. From personal experience, dice rewards, especially eternal dice, are the most significant factor in having a successful run (with getting a decent weapon early on the second), and there's only one sure way to guarantee having any in your inventory. The Christmas event mitigated this by adding the dice merchants to the Tavern, but I don't know if that's something that will remain in some capacity.

I agree 100% with this. Trait rerolls are irreplaceable -- every other starting item's benefit is basically a side-grade to each other (e.g. keys <-> bombs <-> gold). Missing out on 1-2 key/bomb rewards matters way less than starting with a solid base of 1-2 generically good traits.

[Sojiro]

Dice is my favourite when I'm trying to win. Dice rewards are much rarer than bomb and key rewards, and being able to re-roll traits can make or break a run.

Broken Hero Sword is my favourite for easy fun. No need to bother looking for a build and weapon, just survive and upgrade.

Mana regen elixir is my favourite for comfort whenever I am going to rely on skills.

[Jamjars]

Dice, bombs, or keys.

Never take the lightning bottle, it is the worst.

[Scrublord]

I go random starting gift

[Slime_Borg]

Originally posted by Nogan:

Dice Case by a wide margin. From personal experience, dice rewards, especially eternal dice, are the most significant factor in having a successful run (with getting a decent weapon early on the second), and there's only one sure way to guarantee having any in your inventory. The Christmas event mitigated this by adding the dice merchants to the Tavern, but I don't know if that's something that will remain in some capacity.

Yeah I wish there was another way to get them besides rng doors to dice rewards or the dice case from the start. That said I've rolled through like 10 and still not gotten traits I want haha

[Slime_Borg]

I go dice case like %90 percent of the time but the golden spatula for stat upgrades can go well if you are lucky. Deprived, Cyborg and the Barbarian do well with big stats.

[fuumeknight]

bombs are really good

[Haliburton]

Dice every time.

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Originally posted by Haliburton:

Dice every time.

Same, rerolls > *