Gunpowder not working?

[Everest]

I used 14 gunpowder to kill DragonFly but i only made 2800 Points of dmg wtf?

[Vativ]

Originally posted by Glomli:

I used 14 gunpowder to kill DragonFly but i only made 2800 Points of dmg wtf?

The dragonflys health is 10 times the health it is in regular dont starve. You need 138 gunpowder to kill her.

[Everest]

Oh damn :( that's a lot of eggs, okey thanks xD

[Retrolicious]

Originally posted by Glomli:

Oh damn :( that's a lot of eggs, okey thanks xD

Gunpowder got nerfed recently. That "exploit" cant be used for true raid bosses anymore.
sry mate. try to get good friends and kill her the intended way.
good luck :3

[Hotzenplotz]

Big Fly

[Vativ]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

Originally posted by Glomli:

Oh damn :( that's a lot of eggs, okey thanks xD

Gunpowder got nerfed recently. That "exploit" cant be used for true raid bosses anymore.
sry mate. try to get good friends and kill her the intended way.
good luck :3

curios about how it got nerfed? Like what did klei do to make it harder to use?

[Everest]

I don't know anyone who plays DST actually xD i always play solo mode on this game

[Domino/DarkEyv]

1 gunpowder = 200 damage. If you have a mod that displays mob health installed and you can do basic math, then that'll be all you ever need to know.

[󰀉tempeh󰀉]

Originally posted by Insignificant Sloth:

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

Gunpowder got nerfed recently. That "exploit" cant be used for true raid bosses anymore.
sry mate. try to get good friends and kill her the intended way.
good luck :3

curios about how it got nerfed? Like what did klei do to make it harder to use?

Bosses get scaling explosive resistance for a few seconds after being hurt by an explosion. The more damage the explosion does, the more resistance the boss will get. I don't know the formula offhand, but I do know the maximum is immunity for 8 seconds. For any boss with less than 8000 health, it doesn't matter as long as you only use a single stack of gunpowder. But anything tougher will require you to wait before you use another stack.

[Retrolicious]

Originally posted by temporarymanwastaken:

Originally posted by Insignificant Sloth:

curios about how it got nerfed? Like what did klei do to make it harder to use?

Bosses get scaling explosive resistance for a few seconds after being hurt by an explosion. The more damage the explosion does, the more resistance the boss will get. I don't know the formula offhand, but I do know the maximum is immunity for 8 seconds. For any boss with less than 8000 health, it doesn't matter as long as you only use a single stack of gunpowder. But anything tougher will require you to wait before you use another stack.

Basically if you farm 80 gunpowders, put them down at a random giant target , freeze the giant and burn all gunpowders at once, they wont do their mathematical correct 200x80 = 16.000 damage.
It will do alot and alot less damage and the rest of the gunpowder will be wasted because the boss got immune.

In beta phase and such alot of people did solo dragonfly raid boss solo with thousands of gunpowders. Now klei did nerf it, since thats a very cheap exploit to cheese bosses.
Also this nerf began slowly with the introduction with the ancient giants and ruins and got perfected with the final release of "a new reign beta".

But sure gunpowder still got uses its just not the 1 win button it used to be.
It is a PART of killing giants, but its not the main method. I call gunpowder always Phase#1 in any boss fight, Phase#2 depends on the boss, party and circumstances.

[[SQ]Noname]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

Basically if you farm 80 gunpowders, put them down at a random giant target , freeze the giant and burn all gunpowders at once, they wont do their mathematical correct 200x80 = 16.000 damage.
It will do alot and alot less damage and the rest of the gunpowder will be wasted because the boss got immune.

How so? The patch notes clearly say "the first stack of gunpowder still does full damage", so this method should still work.

[Fecske]

Originally posted by SQNoname:

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

Basically if you farm 80 gunpowders, put them down at a random giant target , freeze the giant and burn all gunpowders at once, they wont do their mathematical correct 200x80 = 16.000 damage.
It will do alot and alot less damage and the rest of the gunpowder will be wasted because the boss got immune.

How so? The patch notes clearly say "the first stack of gunpowder still does full damage", so this method should still work.

Because gunpowder has a stack size of 40, you need 2 stacks. As one of them explodes, the giant receives immunity to it, so if the other stack explodes right after the first, it will deal 0 damage. If you wait a few seconds however, the immunity will decrease back to 0% and the next stack can be fully effective.

[[SQ]Noname]

Originally posted by Fecske:

Originally posted by SQNoname:

How so? The patch notes clearly say "the first stack of gunpowder still does full damage", so this method should still work.

Because gunpowder has a stack size of 40, you need 2 stacks.

And if I use the Increased Stack Size mod and take a stack of 80?

[sqwazyk]

Its Dst,lol

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by stop TTIP now! ʕ￫ᴥ￩　ʔ:

Originally posted by temporarymanwastaken:

Bosses get scaling explosive resistance for a few seconds after being hurt by an explosion. The more damage the explosion does, the more resistance the boss will get. I don't know the formula offhand, but I do know the maximum is immunity for 8 seconds. For any boss with less than 8000 health, it doesn't matter as long as you only use a single stack of gunpowder. But anything tougher will require you to wait before you use another stack.

Basically if you farm 80 gunpowders, put them down at a random giant target , freeze the giant and burn all gunpowders at once, they wont do their mathematical correct 200x80 = 16.000 damage.
It will do alot and alot less damage and the rest of the gunpowder will be wasted because the boss got immune.

In beta phase and such alot of people did solo dragonfly raid boss solo with thousands of gunpowders. Now klei did nerf it, since thats a very cheap exploit to cheese bosses.
Also this nerf began slowly with the introduction with the ancient giants and ruins and got perfected with the final release of "a new reign beta".

But sure gunpowder still got uses its just not the 1 win button it used to be.
It is a PART of killing giants, but its not the main method. I call gunpowder always Phase#1 in any boss fight, Phase#2 depends on the boss, party and circumstances.

Using the most damaging item to kill the enemies with the most health is cheesing now? Lol kids these days

[FUHN33]

Just curious but, how much time does it take for the Gunpowder immunity to wear off?