Egocentrism

[Dog]

At first I was like really? This item is like whu huh? And then I found a cleansing pool.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2777404299

3 irradiant pearls

[Percussigant]

It's actually not that bad if the RNG has given you nothing but poop. It goes quite well with some survivors and a Spinel Tonic.

[MhicTheMawile]

I'll be honest with you.. Sacrificing 28 items just to get 3 Irradiants (30% bonus) doesn't sound like a good trade to me..

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by MhicKy:

I'll be honest with you.. Sacrificing 28 items just to get 3 Irradiants (30% bonus) doesn't sound like a good trade to me..

well, each normal pearl is 10% more HP, each irradiant is 10% everything. if he were lucky, he could have gotten the equivalent of having spinal tonic on all the time. which in of itself is pretty powerful. then simply wipe out ego and go for more normal items again. its a minor dip in kill rate pending on character but a huge boost if you plan to do some kind of silly run.

also, i wonder if shrine of order would change the pearls to the same one... imagine 280% everything if it does.

[Jesus Cat (Fwyrl)]

Feel like this *has* to be the intended use for it. The damage is laughably low otherwise.

[Leviathan]

Originally posted by Percussigant:

It's actually not that bad if the RNG has given you nothing but poop. It goes quite well with some survivors and a Spinel Tonic.

Does it turn tonic afflictions into egocentrism?

Originally posted by MhicKy:

I'll be honest with you.. Sacrificing 28 items just to get 3 Irradiants (30% bonus) doesn't sound like a good trade to me..

That's bad luck. Irradiant pearls used to be 4% but now it's 20%. With average luck that should be a 60% bonus everything+220% bonus health.


For a less intrusive method of getting pearls you could get Eulogy Zero and go to Aphelian Sanctuary.

[Talithmara]

Originally posted by Jesus Cat (Fwyrl):

Feel like this *has* to be the intended use for it. The damage is laughably low otherwise.

I mean, if you're surrounded by 20+ bombs that do 360% and respawn almost instantly (it's tied to not attacking, and speeds up with attack speed. Not like attack speed matters much when the items will be converted anyways, but a multiplayer ally with Gorag's Opus could crank up your output) suddenly the damage isn't low anymore.

It's main use is when your run is RNG screwed and killing things is simply taking too long. Imagine Commando without Bleed, Crit, etc, on higher stages (true story: this is what happened to me on my attempt at the Incorruptible achievement. Only finally got Shatterspleen and a pair of glasses on like Stage 18, and finally things could die without being Primordial Cubed off a cliff.) Egocentrism's use is to go "You always have an option to salvage this and actually make it to the end, but it's not going to be preferable to a good run." Kind of like how the Stone Flux Pauldron's main use is "I'm uncontrollably fast, I need to slow down."

[tv]

Originally posted by poopy:

Originally posted by Leviathan:

That's bad luck. Irradiant pearls used to be 4% but now it's 20%. With average luck that should be a 60% bonus everything+220% bonus health.

Bro I thought I was crazy lucky when I finally got one...

Same lmao

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

also, i wonder if shrine of order would change the pearls to the same one... imagine 280% everything if it does.

pearl counts as a boss item for the purposes of order so yeah it can happen

[Percussigant]

Originally posted by Leviathan:

Originally posted by Percussigant:

It's actually not that bad if the RNG has given you nothing but poop. It goes quite well with some survivors and a Spinel Tonic.

Does it turn tonic afflictions into egocentrism?

No it doesn't, and it doesn't absord empty flasks and broken watches either. The point of the Tonic is to offset the absence of defensive/regen/mobility items during tricky fights. I don't have the numbers, so I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Tonic also buffs the damage of the Ego bombs.