Hourglass method still viable?

[Nemoraffa]

I want to unlock the keeper with the glowing hourglass +
Chaos card method, but i dont know if they nerfed it, because a friend of mine told me they did. Someone can tell me if its still viable?
I have afterbirth+ on pc

[Seiryuu]

Glowing Hourglass becomes a regular Hourglass after 5 uses.

[CalKari]

Originally posted by Seiryuu:

Glowing Hourglass becomes a regular Hourglass after 5 uses.

Unless you use it with void

[JellyPuff]

Still viable, sort of.
While you can't use it more than 5 times anymore, doing it in Greedier Mode still lets you donate alot of coins, especially if you bring a Card Against Humanity into the fight. Use it after Ultra Greedier is dead and the room will be filled with golden poops.

Originally posted by CalKari:

Originally posted by Seiryuu:

Glowing Hourglass becomes a regular Hourglass after 5 uses.

Unless you use it with void

Which has 6 charges, so not that useful, unless you happen to also have a 48Hour energy pill on you.

[Rio]

Acid baby isn't THAT uncommon in greedier mode and he can hook you up with that sweet 48 hour energy pill if its in rotation and you catch him early enough.

[CalKari]

Originally posted by Jellypuff:

Still viable, sort of.
While you can't use it more than 5 times anymore, doing it in Greedier Mode still lets you donate alot of coins, especially if you bring a Card Against Humanity into the fight. Use it after Ultra Greedier is dead and the room will be filled with golden poops.

Originally posted by CalKari:

Unless you use it with void

Which has 6 charges, so not that useful, unless you happen to also have a 48Hour energy pill on you.

When you have it with void, the charges go back to 6 when you use it a.k.a. infinite rewind

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by CalKari:

Originally posted by Jellypuff:

Still viable, sort of.
While you can't use it more than 5 times anymore, doing it in Greedier Mode still lets you donate alot of coins, especially if you bring a Card Against Humanity into the fight. Use it after Ultra Greedier is dead and the room will be filled with golden poops.


Which has 6 charges, so not that useful, unless you happen to also have a 48Hour energy pill on you.

When you have it with void, the charges go back to 6 when you use it a.k.a. infinite rewind

Well, if that's the case, it'll be patched out sooner or later.

Glowing Hourglass doesn't get it's charges back, upon use. Also, picking up Glowing Hourglass by replacing it with a charged active item, then using Glowing Hourglass will give you your active item back, but also deplete it's charges.

With that in mind, it really sounds, like it's a bug, that the Void is charging itself after it has been used with Glowing Hourglass absorbed

[Slurp Dog CDXX]

Well even if they nerfed it, at least now the machine actually accepts more than 3 coins per ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ run, so it's not too soul-crushing to just unlock him normally at least.

I still remember sitting there for 5 hours on launch day depositing one coin at a time, wondering why god why does the machine jam, instead of just taking all the coins you've managed to save (which I thought was the entire point of the mode in the first place). Good times.

[josh]

I was doing it in Afterbirth (not AB+) the other week. Glowing hourglass with a car battery would keep both charges after using the hourglass. The problem was with the donation machine. After it reached 20%, you could only put 5 coins into it per run, likely to prevent farming.

At that point, I just downloaded a mod that spawned a dollar bill and the donation machine on the first floor. Greed mode has way too much grinding, and it's not nearly as fun as doing a regular run tbqh.