PSA: Ice shard + oil grenade = insanity

[thebiomage]

V1.1 seems to have buffed the ice shard quite a bit, it fires 3 shards at once now and is extremely spammable. If you have something that covers enemies in inflammable oil, the critical damage it does is insane. And it slows everything down to a crawl. At first I was just using it as a utility to make backstabs easier for the assassin's dagger, but in the end it became my primary (and only) weapon.

I was able to breeze through 3BC castle and hand of the king with it. Just look at those numbers. If only I could have traded the assassin's dagger for an alchemic carbine, making everything do double damage.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1620471593

[Chibi Life]

Makes 4bc easier but you gotta invest in pure damage until 25 points before you go hp. You can get screwed by one of those elites in a bad location.

[miletempo]

yes, ice shard is awesome. If you can get alchemic carbine with "spread oil on enemy" , then you may get a better skill.
But, is Hand of King inmume to slow down ?

[Chibi Life]

Originally posted by miletempo:

yes, ice shard is awesome. If you can get alchemic carbine with "spread oil on enemy" , then you may get a better skill.
But, is Hand of King inmume to slow down ?

He is but you will be doing so much damage with no mobility loss you shouldn't have an issue attacking and evading

[Sajonji]

I used this exact combo to beat 4BC.
But i went tactics as main stat in order to play hunter's instinct in order to always have oil grenade for the insane crit.
Mutations were (in this pick-order): necromancy, hunter's instinct, masochist
First for life sustain, then CD obviously, and last is quite free, i took masochist for safety, because of little health traps could hurt hard otherwise.
Resetted before HotK to those in screenshot.
Took every cursed chest for stats that high.
Parry shield for ugly inquisitor (i hate those guys) situations.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1620809196