Samson Effect?

[Nargacuga]

I'm just curious about whether Samson's power boost only activates from enemy damage, or if things like floor spikes can also raise his damage. Anyone know?

[Doniazade]

Everything, you can pump your damage with blood donation machines for example. Which is very convenient since then you don't need to lose soul/sin hearts.

[Nargacuga]

That's great. So once you have the placenta, you can pretty much max your damage whenever you want, as long as you're patient. Samson really is great this time around.

[Doniazade]

Originally posted by Nargacuga:

That's great. So once you have the placenta, you can pretty much max your damage whenever you want, as long as you're patient. Samson really is great this time around.

The Placenta was such a terrible design decision for so many reasons including this one, christ.

[Nargacuga]

I don't know, I kinda like OP item combinations. After all, what's the point of all these items is a few of them don't have some crazy interactions?

[Doniazade]

Originally posted by Nargacuga:

I don't know, I kinda like OP item combinations. After all, what's the point of all these items is a few of them don't have some crazy interactions?

It's not that it gives you infinite red hearts, it's that it gives you infinite red hearts in exchange for waiting a very long time, which is not fun or interesting at all. There is no crazy interaction required, the item alone gives you unlimited healing between fights at the price of nothing but massive amounts of boredom and/or afking.

[Nargacuga]

Oh. Yeah, I guess I can see that. I never wait for it to fill me up between fights since, as you said, that would be boring. What it does, even without waiting, is nice, though.

[Elvis II]

Originally posted by Doniazade:

Originally posted by Nargacuga:

I don't know, I kinda like OP item combinations. After all, what's the point of all these items is a few of them don't have some crazy interactions?

It's not that it gives you infinite red hearts, it's that it gives you infinite red hearts in exchange for waiting a very long time, which is not fun or interesting at all. There is no crazy interaction required, the item alone gives you unlimited healing between fights at the price of nothing but massive amounts of boredom and/or afking.

At least it still requires you to clear the rooms yourself unlike gnawed leaf with daddy long legs or something.