What are your best or favorite charm combos

[Gortheus]

Try to not comment something that's already been commented before but, what are the really good charm combinations you guys always resort to or those that you find really fun to play with?

I started thinking about this when I went back to play the game all over and I got to the Trial of Fools, I was playing around with the charms and found out a really good combination of charms that made the last trial a piece of cake..or maybe I'm just getting better, but I used:

Grimchild + Glowing Womb + Weaversong + Soul Eater + Grubsong

This combo worked really well because it allowed for me to do constant damage through pets and still mantain a lot of soul due to Soul Eater and Grubsong's synergy with Weaversong as well as it's ability to give me soul if I got hit. I was able to heal often and even easily use spells for the later stages where I would have to fight enemies in the air and with spikes on the floor. These stages made Weaversong useless but they're relativelly short and Weaversong was very useful throught the trial in helping collect soul and do damage. I beat this trial and realized my nail was not fully upgraded either, so..that says a lot.

[Luscard]

unbreakeable strengh, quick slash, mark of pride, sharp shadow
i call this the destroyer of bosses build, this build make every fight in the game easier

[Gortheus]

Originally posted by Lusca gampleys:

unbreakeable strengh, quick slash, mark of pride, sharp shadow
i call this the destroyer of bosses build, this build make every fight in the game easier

Nice, maybe that one unvulnerability charm would be good to add instead of sharp shadow, so you just tank the boss and take advantage of the unvulnerability frames

[Darkskinned King]

yea stalwarts shell is pretty fun

[Luscard]

Originally posted by Gortheus (´• ~ •`):

Originally posted by Lusca gampleys:

unbreakeable strengh, quick slash, mark of pride, sharp shadow
i call this the destroyer of bosses build, this build make every fight in the game easier

Nice, maybe that one unvulnerability charm would be good to add instead of sharp shadow, so you just tank the boss and take advantage of the unvulnerability frames

that works too, but you cant tank every boss in the game, in the pantheons for example, if you tank a boss and lose some masks, you will start the next boss with low health, so in this case sharp shadow is better, both for dodging and for damage

[Syndiciate]

My Spell Build:

Shaman Stone, Spell Twister, Soul Catcher, Quick Slash, Grubsong.

If you don't feel confident about being able to kill the boss without also putting yourself in danger with this build you can switch out Quick Slash for Quick Focus.

My Nail Build:

Strength, Quick Slash, Mark of Pride. Your last two notches can go to one of the following: Sharp Shadow, Stalwart Shell, Longnail. This one really depends on preference.

If you don't feel confident about being able to kill the boss without also putting yourself in danger with this build you can switch out Mark of Pride for Quick Focus and use Longnail in its place.

I generally roll Quick Focus, Longnail, Strength and Quick Slash for a nice mix between high DPS melee and the ability to heal quickly. I know a lot of the pros like to run builds like Shaman Stone, Soul Catcher, Quick Slash and Strength in order to maximize DPS for both their spell and nail attacks whilst also ensuring their soul gain is as efficient as possible.

[Gortheus]

Originally posted by Harrison:

Strength, Quick Slash, Mark of Pride. Your last two notches can go to one of the following: Sharp Shadow, Stalwart Shell, Longnail. This one really depends on preference.

If you don't feel confident about being able to kill the boss without also putting yourself in danger with this build you can switch out Mark of Pride for Quick Focus and use Longnail in its place.

I generally roll Quick Focus, Longnail, Strength and Quick Slash for a nice mix between high DPS melee and the ability to heal quickly. I know a lot of the pros like to run Shaman Stone, Soul Eater, Quick Slash and Strength in order to maximize DPS for both their spell and nail attacks whilst also ensuring their soul gain is as efficient as possible.

That last one is very interesting, I kinda wanna try it out now...and by Pro's u mean speed runners? Also..i really have stopped using MarkOfP since it seems like a waste of notches, I rather have longnail if anything but I've gotten comfortible to the range of the regular nail so its not a big deal to have low range

[Syndiciate]

Speedrunner's generally use a different sets of charms optomized for mobility as opposed to DPS. More talking about the people who want to practice AR for the final Pantheon.

[SMOOTHIE_KING]

Personally I've been toying around with fury of the fallen, nailmaster's glory, quick attack, and glowing womb, with various other charms in the remaining three slots. Glowing womb is nice since it gives you something to spend soul on which fury can actually affect, and quick attack works with both since it gives you soul regen for the hatchlings and DPS multiplication for fury. Nailmaster's glory is also just cozy in general and lets fury affect nail art damage.

Originally posted by Gortheus (´• ~ •`):

Grimchild + Glowing Womb + Weaversong + Soul Eater + Grubsong

You should probably replace soul eater with quick slash. You should almost always do that. It lets you attack 54% faster, which means you're collecting soul 54% faster; that's like going from 11 to 16.94 sould in the main vessel, and 6 to 9.24 in the reserve vessels. In the reserve vessels, soul eater actually adds LESS than that, despite costing more, and in the main vessel it only increases the soul gained per hit by 8, which is 2 per notch, identical to quick slash's effect per slot if you just round the 16.94 average up to 17. Plus quick slash doubles as 54% more nail DPS on average which is kind of a big deal since that also makes it usually better than fragile strength.

Plus, while soul catcher an eater stack with eachother flatly, the speed increase from quick slash will instead multiply their effects, so if you're overcharming with soul eater quick slash will absolutely blow soul catcher out of the water. If you've already got the 19 from soul eater, increasing that rate by 54% is like adding another 9 points, more than soul eater gave originally. It's really absurd that quick attack used to be only two slots; it's worth at least six compared to soul eater and strength.

[ZeN (uk)™]

Done patheon 3-4 with unbreakable str/heart, quick slash & quick focus.

[Kaschey]

Grimm Child + Weaversong + Soul Cather + Grubsong + Nailmaster Glory + Soul Twister + Sprintmaster.

I almost always use magic and nail arts but simple slashes because it's really fun and spectacular.

[a passerby]

Exploration: Wayward Compass, Gathering Swarm, Unbreakable Strength, Mark of Pride, Dashmaster. Sprintmaster

Nail focused: Unbreakable Strength, Longnail, Quick Slash, Quick Focus
or
Unbreakable Strength, Mark of Pride, Quick Focus, Grubsong, Random filler

Spell focused: Shaman Stone, Spell Twister, Quick Slash, Grimmechild, Grubsong

[Gortheus]

Originally posted by 「HUSTLE BONES」:

You should probably replace soul eater with quick slash. You should almost always do that. It lets you attack 54% faster, which means you're collecting soul 54% faster; that's like going from 11 to 16.94 sould in the main vessel, and 6 to 9.24 in the reserve vessels.

I mean, speed is great and all for a lot of situations, however, the point of the build was to minimize the amount of time you had with encounters, more of a hit and run and timing for opportunities with low risk. Personally, I feel like when I have charms like quick slash, I often try to take advantage and get extra hits when sometimes, there isn't even enough of an opening to take advantage of the speed, so it's better to retreat and attack and look for single or double hit openings..with quick slash, it's hard for me to find the right 3 strike or 2(instead of 1) situation that doesn't hurt me. But i will keep it in mind, definatelly with other builds, this one felt more appropiate for the colloseum in my opinion

[Jelly Sandwich]

Unbreakeable strengh, quick slash, mark of pride and spell twister.

[The Meatball Man]

My personal favourite set is Quick Focus + Deep Focus + Shape Of Unn + Grubsong + Nailmaster's Glory

I'm pretty confident in my skill with the nail/nail arts but i rarely use spells, the rest of the charms are for using the least amount of soul when focusing while being able to use "fast unn sinergy" and healing 2 masks at a time. I use nail arts pretty much always and barely using normal atacks (with bosses, for normal enemies i use nail arts only when the enemy has a considerable amount of health), Nailmaster's glory makes whings much faster and dynamic (the only downside is that i got too used to the speed with the charm and now the normal charge speed feel unnatural lol)

[Phirestar]

All-purpose build:

- Quick Focus
- Nailmaster's Glory
- Shaman Stone
- Soul Eater

Allows for Nail Arts as a primary attack, strong spells with big hitboxes, fast healing, and more speedy soul acquisition. (I used this build for much of the game.)



For a pure spell build:

- Shaman Stone
- Spell Twister
- Soul Catcher
- Soul Eater

Spell cost is reduced to 1/4 of the vessel, and a single nail strike with this build fills (I think) 24% of the vessel. So almost a 1:1 ratio for casting.