Do you find the prosthetic tools useful ?

[Ares]

It seems like the tools are supposed to be the mitigating factor to help you against stronger enemies, like figuring out how to use the gun/parry in previous games, but so far I'm finding very few uses for them. The one I've used the most is the feather as a way to dodge and do damage, but even that is somewhat situational. So, are you actually finding the tools useful for normal combat encounters, or are you just using them as situational aids in the specific scenarios they seem made for ?

[Zefar]

The one I found most useful so far is the axe because those shield and straw hat users have unreasonable amount of block resistance.

The rest of the tools have been really meh for me.
Well firecrackers vs bull was nice but I relied mostly on staying on his rear end.

[Arndell]

They are useless unless used for their exact intended purpose, otherwise they are nearly indispensable, shields are a nightmare without the axe, but the axe is piss poor posture damage despite the tooltip.

Firecrackers do nothing useful against humanoids, but they are great for animals, bull / horse so far.

Only seen a use for that flame cannon on the chained ogre, but it's tooltip mentions all red eyes enemies hate fire.

they aren't really tools for "open use" as doing so is a waste of emblems, they are exact tools for exact situations.

[Bandisto]

Only 4 miniboss in game actually but i dont use them. I try fire/axe/shuriken its fun but im more powerfull with a sword in same time

[JonWoo]

I use the shuriken and firecrackers a lot. That's about it. I haven't tried the shield or whistle yet. I need to try the fan again but it just seems...weird. I wasn't a fan of the raven one. Not that it seemed bad, just not my cup of tea.

[RIG-801]

They're a bit too situational. You'll use firecrackers for the bull, shurikens for lady butterfly, etc.

Axe is more usable, because it can do a lot of posture damage on some enemies, aside from just breaking shields and hats.

[Goblin]

Axe, firecrackers moslty. The spear is weird, the fire cannon is cool but pretty situational, shurikens are sometimes useful (vs weak and distant enemies). The rest of them is so situational and cost so much white things (dont recall the name lol) that they are just not usable :(

Edit ah yeah the axe is cool against shields

[Teddy]

Oiled up Juzo the Drunkard and flamed him, spam r1/leftmouseclick and dodge his super slow moves = profit. Shuriken to close distance and axe for shield dudes. So yes, it has its uses

[Arndell]

Originally posted by Bleak:

Axe is more usable, because it can do a lot of posture damage on some enemies, aside from just breaking shields and hats.

Yeah the axe is just "some" enemies too, most it does no more than a normal sword attack.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

I've found them to be very useful. Both against regular mobs, and against bosses.

Against Lady Butterfly, using shuriken to knock her off her lines to get in free hits makes it a lot easier.

Against the drunkard, using oil and fire helps to get down his health fast to make him easier to stagger.

Against the chained ogre, same thing with the oil and fire.

The axe is great against enemies with shields obviously, but also can do a lot of posture damage to other regular enemies, so I use it occasionally against ones that block a lot. The downside is that it is slow, so you need to be careful when using it.

The spear, combined with a skill, lets you attack at range then close a distance quickly. It also lets you pull enemies to you, or hit multiple foes, or do massive stagger damage - depending on upgrades.

The firecracker stuns enemies. Against the bull and the horseman (or animals in general), it is invaluable, but even against regular enemies it lets you get in some free hits.

The metal fan is great for blocking multiple enemies at once during panic situations, or versus ranged attackers.

The teleporting feathers or whatever they are called supposedly are good versus bosses as well since they let you avoid an attack and move, though I don't like that playstyle much.

Haven't used the one that makes enemies "turn around," may try it out later. I'm also still missing at least one prosthetic, if the prosthetic upgrade screen is anything to go by.

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So yeah, I use the prosthetic tools situationally. I use shuriken somewhat often just because they are fast and (once you spend a small amount of skill points) allow you to do your step-in charge attack which is very useful to keep up pressure when enemies retreat. I use the spear often as well, upgraded, because it actually can do a lot of damage (but is slower than the shuriken). My third slot is filled either with the metal fan or some other attachment depending on what I feel is useful at the time, usually.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Teddy:

Oiled up Juzo the Drunkard and flamed him, spam r1/leftmouseclick and dodge his super slow moves = profit. Shuriken to close distance and axe for shield dudes. So yes, it has its uses

I mean there's quite more than that lol

[Grunt]

alot of bosses dont like fire im finding

[Teddy]

Originally posted by drxMDR:

Originally posted by Teddy:

Oiled up Juzo the Drunkard and flamed him, spam r1/leftmouseclick and dodge his super slow moves = profit. Shuriken to close distance and axe for shield dudes. So yes, it has its uses

I mean there's quite more than that lol

Never said there isn't lol

[Grad]

The loaded Umbrellla is my best friend. I would have had such a worse time of the Gun Fort without that. And it is super useful for multi-hit enemies like the Long-Arm Centipedes. It actually makes them harmless!

Prosthetic skill tree is best waifu.

[Funpire]

Originally posted by Ares:

It seems like the tools are supposed to be the mitigating factor to help you against stronger enemies, like figuring out how to use the gun/parry in previous games, but so far I'm finding very few uses for them. The one I've used the most is the feather as a way to dodge and do damage, but even that is somewhat situational. So, are you actually finding the tools useful for normal combat encounters, or are you just using them as situational aids in the specific scenarios they seem made for ?

Axe for shields, firecracker for crowd control, spear for range and scorpion pulls for selecting victims from groups. Spear is mah fav.

[Teddy]

Originally posted by drxMDR:

Originally posted by Teddy:

Never said there isn't lol

Did you really have to write "lol" just in spite? Jesus christ, you are sad. Also your comment is useless, why mention 3 of 8(?) being useful and not even mentioning the others? Tf kinda argument are you trying to pull, who has the better dex-fth build?

Triggered? Relax and git gud