Bazaar Between Time bad ?

[Fourlamas]

I feel like this place could use some "buffs" or changes or w/e.

I dont know about you but right now, I only visit it late into a run if I have a lot of items and im hoping for good red or green to print, thats it. I do like the option to pay for next stage to be this or that but I use it very rarely. Obviously this is also the place where you access the Acrid event for items, which I dont do, mainly because I forget to drop down and land properly where the cave leads me to the portal. Why is that place so hidden? Is that intentional like "oops I fell, oh wait whats this purple portal lets investigate" ?

I would also move the Cleansing Pool there, and I know what you are thinking. Doing that makes it so you can just grab all blues and print pearls, which is not ideal, but again, in the regular stage, if I find a pool, I look for lunar pod a little so I can spend a lunar coin and grab a guaranteed pearl, I dont buy lunar items in the hopes of finding a pool later, that doesnt feel like a smart decision.

Thoughts? Bazaar good or bad? Would you change anything or do you like its current state?

[Zeddy]

Most lunar item are pretty good, though. I'm also really bad at the game and can't pull off an obliteration monsoon without the extra items and levels from void fields.

[screeno42]

I feel it's fine as-is, but would like a cleansing pool there or at least see their spawn rate go up. across all my runs, I've found maybe 2 or 3.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by screeno42:

I feel it's fine as-is, but would like a cleansing pool there or at least see their spawn rate go up. across all my runs, I've found maybe 2 or 3.

Lunar Pools are purposely rare due to removing any Lunar item and it's downsides, save Tonic Sickness. Having one in the Bazaar would defeat the point of having to carry their downsides before finding one.

Sure, sometimes you can find a Pod on the same map as a Pool. It's fairly unlikely since one is an uncommon spawn, and one is a rare spawn.

[Ittrix]

^
In a nutshell. You aren't supposed to be able to shed their downsides that easily.

The bazaar itself is fine. It holds many tradeoffs in it, and if you don't want to take them then you wouldn't use it. If you do.... well you'd use it.
Most lunar items are also broken in some niche of their own. I'm kinda suprised that a lot of players don't know it.

[gruetoo]

besides, having a pool in the same place as the lunar store is just asking people to cheese it to convert coins into pearls.

[Ittrix]

Oh god. Yeaah. I forgot there were actually advantages to cleansing.