What is the best/worst lunar items?

[Uncle Jon]

What are the best/worst lunar items for each survivor in the game?

[Shining_Darkness]

Broken crown is hands down the worst since you don't get much when it procs but you lose so much just by getting clipped by the swarms of wisps the game likes to throw at you (they are way too accurate).

Best is between glass and gesture...but probably gesture since its "downside" isn't actually that bad especially if you stack them and other cooldown reductions, but glass in the hands of someone great at avoiding damage is the single best power boost in the game. MUL-T can even afford to pick up one and half his health is the same as full health for the other survivors. But gesture has the least of all the downsides.

[Nooblander]

Meteor is.

[Shining_Darkness]

Originally posted by Nooblander:

Meteor is.

naw it is not the worst or best. It is easy to dodge and doesn't do much damage to enemies. Really funny to troll friends by giving it to an equipment drone though.

[Nooblander]

Originally posted by Shining_Darkness:

Originally posted by Nooblander:

Meteor is.

naw it is not the worst or best. It is easy to dodge and doesn't do much damage to enemies. Really funny to troll friends by giving it to an equipment drone though.

It is therefore the best AND the worst.

[Derpykat5]

I would have to agree, Gesture of the Drowned is the best lunar item. Grab a few of that and a Fuel Cell or two, equip a Royal Capacitor, and every 7 seconds, whatever you are looking at dies. Shaped glass is also a handy boost in DPS. Got two of those on merc, stacked 4 Tesla Coils, basically I walked into the battle and it was over.

Hands down, the worst lunar item is Brittle Crown. With a chance to gain a fixed amount of gold (3), and a certainty of losing a scaling amount of gold (the amount of damage you took), it's basically the equivalent of opening up a black hole in your wallet. Second worst goes to Transcendence since it eliminates pretty much every recovery item in the game (brooch still gives barrier, and I think an Aegis would actually still get you barrier off of things like leeching seed, but stuff like fungus is still useless). Say what you want about Corpsebloom, Transcendence will get you killed more often due to the 7-second regen delay.


As far as equipment goes, my vote for best goes to Meteor. It affects the entire map, and it actually does do a very good amount of damage. Having to dodge the circles is a bit like having 10 stone titans on the map at once, which will happen eventually anyway.

Worst equipment goes to Effigy of Grief. Small area of effect, requires you to manually pick it up, and affects you while you do so. I have yet to test the Spinel Tonic, so that was not included in my consideration.

[Xilo The Odd]

early game brittle crown is terrible, past stage 30, it is stupidly funny to watch your cash shoot into the negatives because you have sooooo much of it from all your auto damage stuff triggering alot. its also semi pointless by this point but, gold left over at the end of a stage = XP.

best has to be the spinal fluid combined with gesture. having those 2 plus soulbound catalyst = you have almost no need of any other item all the way into late game, you could have just hit a shrine of order but you get these 3 things, your run is instantly back on track.

[HEY]

If anyone who is reading this has never done a 7 shaped glass run you should try it, One shotting
Overloading worms by the 90 min mark can be so much fun. Had 32 hp including the topaz broach if I am not wrong, was playing as commando. Went for 4 hours before ending it.

[stolen hi]

The brittle crown isnt even that bad. If you can dodge well, or kill things fast enough, then it has no downside since you never get hit.
I picked up 2 in a run when i had 11 glass since any hit would've killed me anyway, and it just went towards increasing the amount of money I had.
Some of the bad lunar items are the corpsebloom, meteor and effigy.
Probably the worst is meteor, as it is pain to dodge, especially when you have 7 fuel cells and 3 gestures and it activates every second.

[Sotanaht]

Best is Transcendence or GOTD. Hard to say which, both are crazy OP
Worst by far is Corpsebloom. On the bright side it becomes moot if you get Transcendence. Any other time though it's a runkiller.

Something like Meteor can't be the worst because you can just not use it. 0 effect is better than negative effect. Compared to an item that's always bad and that you can't turn off, it's just nothing.

The best Lunar Equipment is hands down the Hellfire Tincture. Early game (with no items) it's the strongest equipment in the game. You can easily do 3-4x the damage of a Preon blast with one use of Hellfire, and the cooldown is relatively short as well. No item scaling though, so you drop it once your build gets going. It also conflicts with both of the best lunar items (trans and gotd).

[El_Verdugo]

One run i managed to stack 5 pf the glass i becomed a true glass cannon i could instakill anyone but also get insta kill with only 30 hp left lol

[crab.king274]

Shaped Glass=Best-Just don't go overboard

Gesture=Second Best-Good with Capacitor and DML

Corpsebloom=Worst-Just believe me

Brittle Crown=Second Worst-C'mon printer, CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!


Blue Meteorite=Best Trolling item+portable dodgeball

Effigy of Grief=This+Huntress is enemy cancer XD

Transcendence=Best Defense Item

Hellfire Tincture=Best Crowd Control, Hands Down

[Renz]

You guys forgot about the best support equipment - Spinel Tonic, boosts all your stats by a fair margin and only a 20% chance to reduce stats by 5%, in theory you can pair this with gesture and never have dropped stats but i dont know if anyone's tested this yet so eventually i'll get back to this post with facts :T

But the worst lunar item is Transcendence by far >.>

[crab.king274]

Originally posted by Zerac:

You guys forgot about the best support equipment - Spinel Tonic, boosts all your stats by a fair margin and only a 20% chance to reduce stats by 5%, in theory you can pair this with gesture and never have dropped stats but i dont know if anyone's tested this yet so eventually i'll get back to this post with facts :T

But the worst lunar item is Transcendence by far >.>

Oh yeah, Spinel Tonic with Mercenary is like playing God for 30 seconds. But I wouldn't say that Trans is the worst, because if you have no healing items, it can be a run saver, because after you are out of danger, it instantly refills. Boom, bounce back in, dip out, repeat.

[SlicedAndDiced]

Why does everyone Hate brittle crown? It soo good as a source of exp Late game. I can open gold chests 10x times fast with it. It's not that hard to avoid damage Just stay away from fire elites and your rich for the rest of the game.