The Bullet

[Martin]

For a character, I think the Bullet is way too good compared to everyone else.

Blasphemy single-handedly boasts more utility than most of the other weapons in the game, thanks to its bullet-canceling ability and sword beam attack at full health. Prior to its nerf it was also able to reveal secret rooms. You can even go up close to enemies and hit with both the sword and the beam for essentially double damage, and swinging the sword basically nullifies many dangerous attacks. You can beat every single boss in the game without blanking or dodge rolling by just swinging the Blasphemy at them. I find this weapon incredibly overpowered for a starting weapon.

Its other passive abilities, while not as spectacular as the Blasphemy, aren't things to scoff at either. Immunity to contact damage means enemies that charge at you turn into nothing but free money and active item charges (haha blobs and cubes). Even the increase in dodge roll damage can be pretty threatening with the Armor of Thorns item.

From the looks of it, there's really no reason for me to use anyone else at the moment. The Bullet is by far the most useful for runs out of all the characters because of that broken as hell sword.

In short, once you manage to stay at full health and pick up some useful armor and passive/active items, the Bullet snowballs into a guaranteed victory. As is, if you wish to get good at successful runs, I highly recommend unlocking and using the Bullet for consistent full game clears (including the true final boss). The game becomes so much easier to beat.

[chiya]

"Pretty threatening with Armor of Thorns"

That's an understatement. Armor of Thorns increases the dodge roll damage by "1,500%" .. Which effectively makes a normal dodge roll deal 48 damage instead of 3 damage (x16). But, with the bullet who has 15 base damage you get a 240 damage dodge roll .. You can kill literally most if not all non-boss enemies by just dodge rolling into them. Seems legit.

By the way, the title is a spoiler and someone's gonna get salty over this post. I agree with your post 100% by the way, though I often use Robot as well because I love his starting items including his starter weapon.

I don't really want Blasphemy to be nerfed though, but I hope they add more interesting characters in future DLC though .. The selection is so small at the moment that there is literally no reason to pick anything but the Bullet except for variety's sake. For me that's mostly Robot, and sometimes the Hunter.

I think one way to make Blasphemy more balanced would be to change the core mechanics of the weapon. Maybe it could be a bit like Gunther where clearing rooms (or perhaps killing enemies) with it causes it to level up, eventually having the projectile shot while still keeping the condition of you being full health. On it's base form it'd be nothing more than a fancy sword .. This would mean that you would HAVE to use the Sword early game because then the enemies are still relatively easy, but you'd still have to be careful about it.

[Unsanitary]

In a single player game like this I really feel like a nerf isn't really needed. Getting the bullet is difficult enough and being able to play as him once in a while for a guranteed run is pretty nice
Also in the wrong hands he's not great at all. I'd argue he's only really good if you can maintain full health

[Nermanater]

The Bullet is hands down the best starter, but he's also my favorite. Blasphemy is just too much damn fun. I like that I don't have to shoot the ♥♥♥♥ out of enemies while dancing around each room using some low dmg weapon to save my better ones for bosses/high floors. I just clear with blasphemy, melee+ranged in one strike (at specific distance) followed by a roll if that doesn't do it. I like him cause he's fast and fun, albeit easier.

I did find a casey for the first time the other day and continued to finish 90% of the rest of the rooms with it too. THAT is a fun weapon.

[Polygondwanaland]

listen you want a op bullet get gundromeda strain and cursed bullets and you are rolling in a easy win

[ExaltedDuck]

Casey > Blasphemy