Your favorite/best weapons/shards/techniques?

[dustin1280]

Everything I have listed below is noteworthy in one way or another, I believe these are the cream of the crop of various gear/shards/etc...

Best Weapons are arguably:
Ukanvasara (lightning element)
Fully Fed Grand Izayoi (ultra high damage katana with all katana techs? Yes please...)
Rhava Valar (1-handed sword, it's like the valmanway/crissegrim)
Oracle Sword (upgraded flying sword)
Death Bringer (fire axe, very high damage)
Encrypted Orchid (lightning element)
Adrasteia OR Renee's Requiem+Diamond Bullets+Recyclers Hat+Gun boosting gear
Valkyrie Sword for it's secret technique.

Shoutout to God Cross for early game thanks to it's petrify proc.

Best Shards are arguably:
Conjure:
Riga Storaema --Room Clearing Fire Pillar AOE
Draconic Rage -- Weaker, slower version of Summon hellhound (still good)
Throwing Axe -- Giant Axe Boomerang that hits huge area for good damage
Axe Strike -- Massive damage, animation cancelable huge axe attack
Summon Hellhound -- insanity levels of damage, in huge aoe, very quick. Can animation cancel, two on screen at a time.

Directional:
Bolide Blast -- this is surprisingly rather amazing, Big AOE rather tremendous damage, can be animation cancelled, with the added benefit of paralyzing things that get hit with it.
Flamethrower -- multi hit, good damage, can be fired fairly rapidly
Chisel Barrage -- machine gun projectile that hits fast and hard
Ruinious Rood-- very good, fast firing, huge aoe, hits hard, effectively a sawblade boomerang
Riga Dohin -- massive aoe that can be fired fast and lasts forever
Teps Oceus -- room clearing chain lightning
Tiz Rozain -- Weaker version of void beam
Void Ray -- strongest beam type shard
8-bit fireball -- insanely strong shotgun attack

Manipulative:
Bunnymorphosis -- badass killer bunny with legs of the gods

Tech:
Jinrai (katana)
Sansetsuzan (katana)
Sickle Moon (G. Sword)
Penetrate (Spear)
Valkyrie Sword Secret Tech

[GeminiEclipse]

I don't know about best, but my favorite shards are Riga Storaema and Teps Oceus. I like not having to aim and filling the whole screen with fire and lightning.

[Varyn [GER]]

Originally posted by GeminiEclipse:

I don't know about best, but my favorite shards are Riga Storaema and Teps Oceus. I like not having to aim and filling the whole screen with fire and lightning.

Ye i really like teps oceus (if that's the chainlightning you get from the birds in the clockwork tower level). Oneshots everything you see for 50 mana (equip the oculus accessiore which zooms your screen out to oneshot even more at once).
For bosses I just cast Welcome Company, jump into his face and spam flying daggers... although it doesnt really matter what you cast. Spam spam, gg, much skill needed. Playing on hard, every boss so far died before he could bring me down to half health -.-
Also quite nice for bosses is the shield-sword you can craft with the 8-bit coin as you block most hits by just spamming attack.

[MuscleSenpai]

Teps Oceus was my favorite until I got a maxed Riga Dohin, it is too fun to spam the massive ice barrage

[Chef]

directed shield

[Mystic Myotis]

Originally posted by Chef:

directed shield

Can confirm. This is incredibly useful, especially if you're going for the boss medals. You can pair it with Beast Guardian or Feral Claws, Welcome Company, and Dullahan Heads to give yourself either extra defensive coverage or damage while you use it.

[Nine]

Ruinous rood combined with stand still.

[Arte]

In terms of farming, Tiz Rohaen+Skull Necklace+Accelerator is the fastest by far. Enter a room, flick the beam top to bottom, everything's dead.
In terms of everything else, Bunnymorphosis.

[Tenshu]

Joyeuse
Riga Storaema
Teps Oceus
Beast Guardian/Feral Claws
Dullahammer Head

[Tenshi]

How do you feed the Izayoi?

[Mystic Myotis]

Originally posted by Tenshi:

How do you feed the Izayoi?

Use Grand Izayoi+Gebel's Glasses+Standstill+Blood Steal+Heretical Grinder.

Freeze an enemy that can bleed on the ground with standstill, then use heretical grinder, then bloodsteal the blood when you're done.

[Tenshu]

Oh so the Izayoi is like the Muramasa from Symphony

[Tenshi]

Originally posted by Gaawa_chan:

Originally posted by Tenshi:

How do you feed the Izayoi?

Use Grand Izayoi+Gebel's Glasses+Standstill+Blood Steal+Heretical Grinder.

Freeze an enemy that can bleed on the ground with standstill, then use heretical grinder, then bloodsteal the blood when you're done.

Oh so you just need to give it blood, nice. Thanks for the strat too.

[Phantom]

Skull Necklace + void ray = liquid enemies

[LVL 9999 OVERGEARED LAST BOSS]

rank 9 Riga Storaema is a infinity gauntlet , you press one button , all life ends.
i am using it on this video of grind , see , all melts .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QafjwyWPSNU&t=1s

[Mystic Myotis]

I've been screwing around with abilities and I am pretty sure that Summon Hellhound is the most damaging conjure shard. This is a boss-crushing shard, and as far as I can tell no other shard comes even close to the raw single blast damage of this thing.

At max level with passive shards maxed and OD's books and recipe stat boosts...

With Flame Ring on I am hitting 1800-2300 without critting.
With the Skull Necklace I get more consistent results at about 2900. Skull Necklace is better, obviously.

With both Flame Ring and Skull Necklace, I've gotten crits over 5500. Using Summon Hellhound is very expensive without 2x Words of Wisdom or Gebel's Glasses, and frankly no player should ever need to do damage this high so it's actually pretty impractical.

I'm pretty sure that no other conjure shard can do that kind of damage without grinding NG+ over and over for boss shards maybe, which I haven't done.