Wall jumping makes me big sad

[Zixpk]

I recently finished the game (well, "finished" at 99%) and while I really enjoyed the atmosphere, the majority of the bosses and the cute bugs (^u^), I gotta say that wall jumping is extremely hit and miss...38 hrs later and I still seem to slide off of every surface, conveniently falling into spikes, enemies, etc..

Reeeeaaally looking forward to white palace :(

[Noborus]

A nice tip is you can use Crystal Dash on walls to stall for a bit, to keep it from charging all the way up, you can repeatedly press it. You'll slide down a bit, but not much. Another tip might be just not to stay on walls for long, in some cases, you might need to wait on a wall though. And also use Hiveblood if you have it.

[Zixpk]

does hiveblood only work if you're airborn? I got it recently

[Noborus]

It's very slow, but it's really helpful for White Palace (as long as you don't jump into spikes at 1 mask, before waiting for hiveblood to regen your health). Doesn't matter whether you're airborn or not. Also, i'm pretty sure taking damage resets it.

[Zixpk]

epic tips, thank you

[Noborus]

Np :D

[Goilveig]

For white palace, charm hiveblood, grubsong, and deep focus.

Hiveblood will (given a bit of time) regenerate the last mask of damage you took. Grubsong will give you soul when you take damage, and deep focus will cause your heals to give back 2 masks instead of 1, making your heals twice as soul efficient (but a bit slower).

You're basically immortal as long as you are patient. Everytime you hit spikes and get sent back to a platform, let Hiveblood do its thing, and if you're still down by 2 masks after Hiveblood is done regenerating a mask, then heal to full with the soul you've gathered with Grubsong.

The other combo you can do is Grubsong, Grubberfly's Elegy (used for its combo effect of increasing the soul generated by Grubsong) and Deep Focus. With that setup, every time you take 2 masks of damage, you will have generated 50 soul from Grubsong/Grubberfly and because of Deep Focus you only spend 33 soul to regenerate your 2 masks. So together you gain soul from taking damage faster than you lose it healing the damage you took.

[Zixpk]

good thing I have all those

[Goilveig]

Grubsong and hiveblood alone are probably enough to make you immortal as long as you take it slow and give hiveblood a chance to work before taking damage again. Grubsong is a very easy charm to get (10 grubs freed). The main reason hiveblood isn't enough all by itself are cases where you take damage twice, like touching an enemy who knocks you back into spikes.

Soul catcher and/or soul eater are also decent options. You will do a decent amount of pogoing off of enemies (wingmoulds) and those charms will boost the soul you gain from that.

Really, as long as you can gain soul faster than you expend it on healing, you can eventually beat the white palace (and even the path of pain, should you choose to do it).

[Zixpk]

I used grubsong for trial of the fool, very helpful charm

[Zixpk]

I did it!! Didn't realize path of pain was separate, definitely plan on never touching that

[Zixpk]

I used just hiveblood, plus unbreakable strength and the fast slash charm cause I was expecting more enemies on the non-path of pain portion