What are your favourite Gourds and Spirits?

[TheRaienryuu]

I noticed that I haven't really switched it up much while currently at the final boss of Chapter 4. What are some of your favourites to run with?

Wandering Wight/Earth wolf(orwhatever)/ and the dude with the staff AoE for bonus damage have been mine so far. And the only Gourd I switched to thus far has been the Medicine Buddha Gourd.

[StarlightAsh♡]

my spirit is irrelevant for me since I run spell binder but I use daoist for the mana because of it.
for the gourd I use the jade gourd obtained from scorpionlord for the extra drinking speed it provides, it has 2 less charges than the max but the speed makes up for it imo

[Shard of Manus]

Gourds:
- In NG, I pretty much only used the basic Gourd, and the basic Drink (restore X% HP)
- In NG+ I use the Qing-Tian Gourd and Loong Balm drink (30%HP but increases damage of next attack).

This is because the Qing-Tian Gourd has only 1 use, but it regenerates (i.e. infinite uses). It's dangerous if you're not good at fighting and get hit a lot, because you can only heal once and you have to wait. However, it is PERFECT for buffing yourself all the time.

I use two Crit Chance buffs on the drink, which is a 10% CC buff. Loong Balm also has 4 soak slots - at the moment I use the Graceful Orchid and Flower Primes, but in NG+++ I will simply have all 4 Tiger Relics on for 20% CC.

As for Spirits, depends on what I'm doing. At the moment I'm using Non-Able with Spellbinder and Life-Saving Strand (yet to activate it, but just in case), along with the Yaksha set and Fuban Staff.

Typically means I'm running around with 63% Crit Chance, almost 250 attack, 35% damage bonus, 190% Crit Damage and then if I do die at some point, I will also have a second life due to Life Saving Strand.

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The build is very strong. Pretty much nuking things whilst being unkillable.