God Cross sword is secretly OP.

[darthokkata]

The stats don't look like anything special for one of the 8-bit crafted weapons.

However, it does light damage, which is nice as a lot is vulnerable to it.

It also shoots a projectile that hits twice when you do the down forward attack that does decent damage.

Plus it randomly inflicts stone, which instakills lots of enemies. The chance for it is fairly high as well.

The other 8 bit swords all do more damage, but I don't think any of them is as powerful as this one.

[Sugoi]

The Encrypted Orchid is considerably stronger. Its lightning does damage as extra hits, but more importantly freezes for several frames. Once you gain the ability to greatly increase attack speed, it can stunlock almost every enemy that isn't lightning immune to death.

[darthokkata]

Originally posted by Sugoi:

The Encrypted Orchid is considerably stronger. Its lightning does damage as extra hits, but more importantly freezes for several frames. Once you gain the ability to greatly increase attack speed, it can stunlock almost every enemy that isn't lightning immune to death.

I've tried that weapon and it's nice, but I think the God Cross is actually stronger even though it does less damage, at least regarding early game enemies. It's riskier to use because it doesn't stun, but kills things faster.

I recently upgraded it to the 16bit version and the projectile attack does close to 30 damage, that's just the projectile and not counting if you hit with the sword as well, plus the stone chance is really frequent. I can get through more enemies faster with it than the Encrypted Orchard because about a third of them just instantly die after a hit or two.

The light damage and base damage are nothing special, but good enough. However, the rate at which it inflicts stone and the speed you can attack with it makes it pretty OP.

You will want something else for bosses and other stuff that's immune, but for just running around the castle, I've found it to be the equivalent to the shotgun in Doom. It's the best thing I've found so far to run around and deal with the rank and file until you run into something bigger and need to pull out a bigger gun.

EDIT: I have both swords and had enough money so I upgraded both to 16 bit.

Then I ran through several rooms with each weapon. Leaving and entering to reset the room for each weapon. I ran through several rooms to ensure a variety of enemies.

God Cross killed enemies more efficiently. I got through the rooms faster and killed everything quicker with this weapon. It was especially effective against larger damage sponge enemies. It also knocks back enemies a bit further than the other sword.

Encrypted Orchid is safer to use because it stun locks, but less reliably against larger enemies. I was able to easily kill small fast mobs with this weapon because it stuns them instead of knocking them back. Really good against things like dogs.

[Gearhart]

Does the Encrypted Orchid count as a 1 handed sword for purposes of the sword expertise crystal or does it count as a rapier?

[InstableMonster]

Originally posted by Gearhart:

Does the Encrypted Orchid count as a 1 handed sword for purposes of the sword expertise crystal or does it count as a rapier?

Its indicated next to damage type

[Gearhart]

Originally posted by InstableMonster:

Originally posted by Gearhart:

Does the Encrypted Orchid count as a 1 handed sword for purposes of the sword expertise crystal or does it count as a rapier?

Its indicated next to damage type

i ask as in earlier versions of game it was a rapier.

[fender178]

Originally posted by Gearhart:

Originally posted by InstableMonster:

Its indicated next to damage type

i ask as in earlier versions of game it was a rapier.

It is in the Sword class now.

[Varyn [GER]]

Wouldn't call it overpowered when several cheap spells exist which oneshot the whole screen with one button press for almost no mana ;o)

[Tenshi]

dude, this game has A LOT of op weapons, you can literally play the way you want and be op.