Kront is weak

[Delacroix]

I will give my feedback here about the kront character. After playing many hours and getting a good idea of the current equipment in the game, I came to the conclusion that Kront is the weakest among all the other characters. It doesn't really matter what type of equipment or what god you get with it. The end in 90% of cases is for him to die miserably, due to lack of mobility or insignificant support even when focusing on equipment with defense or life or both.

To begin with, all my feedback will be based on difficulty 30 of the game.

What reminds me of his Signs is how they are horrible and hinder the character more than they help. And this is where I think his main problem is.

The tornado: it's interesting and one of the best as it gives the character a greater reach, not leaving him as vulnerable due to being a melee.

The earthquake: This ability doesn't make as much difference as it seems. The proof of this is that she is completely subdued by the viper of Nixi.

The Tsunami: In theory based on RPGs, you would think that this would be one of the best skills but we need to remember that we don't have equipment that increases critical damage. So besides you being held hostage by the RNG of the god Moirai, it also won't help you with lifesteal, since these are locked at 1 (only increasing with +Heal on equipment).

The meteor: Certainly the most impactful on the character, both positively and negatively. This sign increases the kront's damage by absurd amounts, but you are heavily penalized for it. And we need to remember that he is a melee and making his armor no longer absorb damage is extremely fatal for him. To play with this ability you practically need to play as if you were trying to get the Ghost Matter achievement, which makes it unfeasible to use. In my opinion it should reduce armor absorption by -20% of the total value and not make it completely useless.

And finally we come to The Mountain: The worst of them all. There is absolutely no point in having + 222 if you cannot recover it in any way. It's more useful to have the cat of knight, although for now I also think it's bad, but in the future with other game modes it may find its functionality.

Kront and Skadi were the characters I liked most in the game. But unlike Skadi, in addition to having good signs and good equipment, Kront also doesn't have that. Even the godrage axe is exclusive to him and has a very bad. While the witchsword has a 30% chance, the godrage only has a measly 5% which means with him you activate the skill only 1 or 3 times at most in a run. In addition to the fact that it doesn't give you any attributes, the kront has problems with attack speed. Even a greater range would help or perhaps more spell damage to improve the damage of the axe skill own meteor shower.

Of all the characters, it's the most frustrating to play on difficulty 30. None of the others have such severe problems. Knight can be immortal (I even made the video about it), Skadi can both stay alive and cause a lot of damage in the area due to her unique signal and equipment. Merris is currently the strongest of them all thanks to God's timing of ricocheting attacks from her, not to mention her summon builds. Nixi with a lot of evasion plus her high sign attack speed means she also has a much better performance than kront.

Kront really needed to be a barbarian, not an empty punching bag that isn't even good for you to hit.

[Mufloni]

I agree, kront just feels the worst.

[Khalgar]

+1, totally agree with OP

[Morbid]

Can confirm. He's the only character so far where I die consistently on the Barron. He just feels slow and weak with nothing really good going for him,

[Shatred]

I had a horrible experience with kront in the 4-5 runs I tried him.

I thought the movement speed penalty when (auto)Attacking was bad with Merris but kront takes it to a whole nother level, the tiny range his attack does, combined with his garbage attack speed makes the character easily the worst out of all of them.

Yes, you can mitigate how bad he is with some gear, but that stands for all characters, so you should not take this into account.



Also, am I the only one who is extremelly bothered by the "movement speed penalty" this game applies when you do ANY type of attack?

It appears to be THE MAIN THING that is the constant reason my characters get damage in ANY run, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ movement speed which grinds the entire action game play to a halt, versus the enemies that always seem to move at twice the speed you do.

To add injury to insult, getting the "increased movement speed" buffs does NOTHING for you when you are doing your attacks, you always move at the same slow ♥♥♥♥♥♥ speed.

[Delacroix]

Originally posted by Shatred:

Also, am I the only one who is extremelly bothered by the "movement speed penalty" this game applies when you do ANY type of attack?

It appears to be THE MAIN THING that is the constant reason my characters get damage in ANY run, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ movement speed which grinds the entire action game play to a halt, versus the enemies that always seem to move at twice the speed you do.

To add injury to insult, getting the "increased movement speed" buffs does NOTHING for you when you are doing your attacks, you always move at the same slow ♥♥♥♥♥♥ speed.

I don't play with the auto attack turned on, unlike other games of this genre. In this one you are penalized too much for using auto attack. So the best way to play in my opinion is for you to choose when to attack, that way you can move a little better without suffering so much from the movement penalty and being able to use the dash at times when it's really necessary.

I personally hate this movement penalty when attacking. This is too heavy for this game and I honestly don't know how anyone would be able to play with the auto attack turned on.

[Valerie]

I completed my first run using him after trying like 15+ times. Not saying he isn't weak, but he worked well for me but I haven't really used him too much.

[Neevox]

I cleared the 30 difficulty couple of times with Kront already. You just need the right gear and right skills. Kront can OS anything with the right gears. In my opinion Merris is the weakest in my characters.

[Delacroix]

Originally posted by Neevox:

I cleared the 30 difficulty couple of times with Kront already. You just need the right gear and right skills. Kront can OS anything with the right gears. In my opinion Merris is the weakest in my characters.

I'm curious, could you share here the equipment and their respective attributes that you focused on for it?

[Ultima]

Originally posted by Neevox:

I cleared the 30 difficulty couple of times with Kront already. You just need the right gear and right skills. Kront can OS anything with the right gears. In my opinion Merris is the weakest in my characters.

Just bought the game yesterday and finished d30. Playing only and only Merris for now, very easy to d30 if you build properly.
I have no clue of who is strong or weak, but like in all other games, and based on people's opinions: all characters can beat the game, but some are easier to play than others.

[Lindi]

I think kronk and nixi are the strongest in my opinion, might also be mainly equipment stuff but i prefer playing them on d30, i can beat it very easy most of the time.

[Delacroix]

Originally posted by Ultima:

Just bought the game yesterday and finished d30. Playing only and only Merris for now, very easy to d30 if you build properly.
I have no clue of who is strong or weak, but like in all other games, and based on people's opinions: all characters can beat the game, but some are easier to play than others.

If you make a summon build for any character, you will actually be able to win most of the time. This build is better on Merris due to its damage bonus for summons but it is a build that carries itself, regardless of the character chosen. And now I get to the point, are you going to play a barbarian to make a summon build? That to me doesn't make sense.

Originally posted by Lindi:

I think kronk and nixi are the strongest in my opinion, might also be mainly equipment stuff but i prefer playing them on d30, i can beat it very easy most of the time.

I ask you the same question I asked the other guy. In relation to kront, because as for nixi I agree, so much so that I mention that it does much better in this difficulty than kront.

Originally posted by Delacroix:

Originally posted by Neevox:

I cleared the 30 difficulty couple of times with Kront already. You just need the right gear and right skills. Kront can OS anything with the right gears. In my opinion Merris is the weakest in my characters.

I'm curious, could you share here the equipment and their respective attributes that you focused on for it?

[Lockjaw]

Kront is awesome. I clear my 30 difficulty runs with him.

[Sorelopede]

I agree, Kront has the worst Signs in the game. With that being said most characters only have 1-2 broken ones. White Raven on Skadi with summoner buffs would still be insane if they halved the bonus scaling, Merris' Timespace trivializes the game especially when you get +attack projectiles and Time, Avoron's Disciple makes getting high tier offers a cake walk victory. I have tried to use a Nixi Cool Off / Sign of the Rabbit build but it's got a really slow ramp compared to those (satisfying when it wins though).

Kront lacks a defining build. I feel like the issue is his attack focus. It feels really clunky and not really worth investing in. His earthquake sign feels the most universally useful but doesn't really give him an identity. I feel like trying to play into his strengths just feels unsafe but if you play meta strategies all of the characters work fine.

If they merged Tsunami and Tornado that could probably compete with some of the more prolific signs. Or make his unique axes less useless. I was really hyped to try Godrage and it doesn't do anything. 5% proc chance is way too low and it doesn't even target like Meteor Shower. It's not like Nixi who can easily get 400%+ luck.

[Ackooba]

I haven't even cleared the end boss once with 6h playtime, think this feedback is gonna be talking about the top 1% of players which no good games will ever be balanced around tbh.

[GilbertsWay]

I've got 30 hours under my belt and all achievements unlocked. Kront is not weak at all. My favorite sign is actually meteor and I've done D30 stacked with armor and I can pretty much just press q and walk away from the computer. Gear is just a mix of mythic stuff and I pick time, death & justice. Sometimes I go with war for the chain and bloodlust, but it all depends on the rng.