Brittle Crown seems to be rather useless. As does the crowdfunder.

[Jericho]

I honestly can't see anyone using this for any reason past very early game. It's simply not worth having in later stages of the game where you'll be taking hits non-stop. Every time I've ever had this thing on my character, my gold amount depletes to $0 rather quickly.

Anyone have any ideas for a use of this thing? Hell, it even says in the description of it in the game's logbook that it can uses 1 of 2 system for draining gold and that it picks the greater of the two.

The crowdfunder also seems pretty bad. It just eats up your gold and doesn't seem like it would be worth it. Foreign Fruit seems to be the meta.

[Ivara Ara]

If you are taking hits nonstop late game you are doing something very wrong. Brittle crown is quite nice for long runs(would be even more so if the game didn't break spawns). When you reach a point where you don't have to legit click anything for damage to pop off then brittle crown is very good.

Crowdfunder really blows, needs some real change for sure.

[Jericho]

Originally posted by Ruben T:

If you are taking hits nonstop late game you are doing something very wrong. Brittle crown is quite nice for long runs(would be even more so if the game didn't break spawns). When you reach a point where you don't have to legit click anything for damage to pop off then brittle crown is very good.

Crowdfunder really blows, needs some real change for sure.

It's not my fault this game is completely luck based. My first run I lasted over an hour in solo. But every run after that I keep getting garbage items from the RNG. I am not getting any shield upgrades appearing nor speed upgrades or anything to absorb or prevent damage so It makes it very difficult to dodge certain attacks like the Titan's laser which is basically aimbot unless you have speed upgrades to outrun it. Unless you're on a map where there's lots of obstacles to obstruct it's view, but that's not a dependable source of avoiding damage.

[Zeddy]

Brittle is pretty bad. The drawback starts huge and scales, while the benefit starts small and stays there. You'd have to keep stacking brittle crowns for dozens of lunar coins before you could consider it worth anything.

Crowdfunder is low-key very powerful because while the cost per bullet goes up, it does so very poorly. You'll reach a point at so many loops into the game that gold means nothing to you. That's when Crowdfunder becomes a sustained 15 shots per second (1500% dps + procs) monster basically for free without requiring any fuel cells or gestures.

Problem is fuel cells and gestures exist, and the odds of you getting into the point of the game where crowdfunder is relevant but you're not up to your gills in fuel cells and can therefore more easily use Capacitor is pretty low.

[Jericho]

Originally posted by Zeddy:

Brittle is pretty bad. The drawback starts huge and scales, while the benefit starts small and stays there. You'd have to keep stacking brittle crowns for dozens of lunar coins before you could consider it worth anything.

Crowdfunder is low-key very powerful because while the cost per bullet goes up, it does so very poorly. You'll reach a point at so many loops into the game that gold means nothing to you. That's when Crowdfunder becomes a sustained 15 shots per second (1500% dps + procs) monster basically for free without requiring any fuel cells or gestures.

Problem is fuel cells and gestures exist, and the odds of you getting into the point of the game where crowdfunder is relevant but you're not up to your gills in fuel cells and can therefore more easily use Capacitor is pretty low.

I haven't even unlocked fuel cell or capacitor yet I don't think. I managed to unlock Huntress and that's about it. I'm not sure how you unlock more characters.

[WizardMeThis TTV]

Originally posted by Zeddy:

Brittle is pretty bad. The drawback starts huge and scales, while the benefit starts small and stays there. You'd have to keep stacking brittle crowns for dozens of lunar coins before you could consider it worth anything.

Crowdfunder is low-key very powerful because while the cost per bullet goes up, it does so very poorly. You'll reach a point at so many loops into the game that gold means nothing to you. That's when Crowdfunder becomes a sustained 15 shots per second (1500% dps + procs) monster basically for free without requiring any fuel cells or gestures.

Problem is fuel cells and gestures exist, and the odds of you getting into the point of the game where crowdfunder is relevant but you're not up to your gills in fuel cells and can therefore more easily use Capacitor is pretty low.

Agreed, Crowd funder is sleeper OP late game especially if you didnt get fuel cells but brittle crown is just meh.

Edit: spelling

[Zeddy]

Fuel cells are unlocked by picking up 5 different types of equipment. You'll get it soon enough. Engineer is play 30 stages total and MUL-T is beat first stage 5 times, so you'll get him pretty soon.

Check the logbook menu, all challenges are detailed there.

Alternatively, if you want to spoil yourself:
https://riskofrain2.fandom.com/wiki/Challenges

[✿⊱Solo ❤ Darling⊰✿]

if you can melt them down quicker with attack speed and crits along with some mobility items to make you so fast that you don't get hit then the crown is really great for longer runs as the first comment stated.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by Ѵнїтмїяє:

Originally posted by Zeddy:

Brittle is pretty bad. The drawback starts huge and scales, while the benefit starts small and stays there. You'd have to keep stacking brittle crowns for dozens of lunar coins before you could consider it worth anything.

Crowdfunder is low-key very powerful because while the cost per bullet goes up, it does so very poorly. You'll reach a point at so many loops into the game that gold means nothing to you. That's when Crowdfunder becomes a sustained 15 shots per second (1500% dps + procs) monster basically for free without requiring any fuel cells or gestures.

Problem is fuel cells and gestures exist, and the odds of you getting into the point of the game where crowdfunder is relevant but you're not up to your gills in fuel cells and can therefore more easily use Capacitor is pretty low.

I haven't even unlocked fuel cell or capacitor yet I don't think. I managed to unlock Huntress and that's about it. I'm not sure how you unlock more characters.

why do you even make a post like this if you have barely unlocked anything??????

[Gyan Rosling]

Disagree. Brittle Crown is cool.

[Haku]

Originally posted by Ben Shapiro:

Disagree. Brittle Crown is cool.

Thank you Ben Shapiro, very cool!

[Denninja]

Crown is pretty broken if you pick it up after you have autotarget projectiles, pop out of a portal and can immediately afford crates. When you are equipped for it, it's also free to pick up as no one else wants it.

[Cacomistle]

Originally posted by ѕку❤ Birthday Chick 🌸:

if you can melt them down quicker with attack speed and crits along with some mobility items to make you so fast that you don't get hit then the crown is really great for longer runs as the first comment stated.

But you get ridiculous amounts of cash anyways later on. Brittle crown just seems like it would be completely irrelevant other than as a way to lose the money required for an orange chest.

[Xilo The Odd]

well, with your other abilities generating cash using the brittle crown, you could use crowd funder with it to always have a sustained rapid fire.

just a thought.

[awanderingswordsman]

Crown is literally 3 gold per hit. By the time you can hit dozens of times per second, every kill gives like 10k gold. It's a worthless trap item.

[GIRL]

Crowd Funder should just be like the Golden Gun from the original RoR. And it shouldn't be a toggle, but instead have a cooldown like any other use item.

I suggest:
- 60 second Cooldown.
- When used, fires 7x bullets per second for 7 seconds.
- Each bullet deals 25% base damage, plus more damaged based on gold divided by the number of stages you've completed (So it's not completely busted).

And above all, it shouldn't cost gold.