Thanks for leaving a comment! My apologies if I incorrectly worded this in anyway. The augment for Constrict which gives shields can be used more than once per turn.

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! I agree with how you feel about Invocation. I think it requires more investment to get to a point where it's strong compared to some other drafted bindings.

Thanks for leaving a comment! Subscribe if you haven't, I got something for tomorrow 🙂

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! I might try to see how many Glass Cannons I can obtain in a single run, that was fun!

@@TheAlmondButter That would be insane to see.

Thanks for leaving a comment! I typically avoid going to Ruhnstone because of those rocks. I've had dives lost because I didn't have a way to negate that damage somehow.

Thanks for the comment! I agree, it was confusing but definitely fun. Having two copies of a base binding for certain aspects opens up so many possibilities. After playing this challenge, I hope the developers somehow implement this outside of authored challenges. An idea I just thought of would be a drafted binding that copies a chosen binding. I might post that somewhere in the Steam forum or in the Inkbound Discord because I would love to see this.

I don't know, I'm confused even after reviewing my video lol

@@TheAlmondButter Yeah, this one confused me too!

Risingdusk is a G. I've watched majority of his monster train content. I think almondbutter has got the pacing down for inkbound KZbin content.

@@kains1985 Definitely--been enjoying AlmondButter's content!

I struggled too. I tried to do a Tether build with Weaver, which wasn't a good idea. Not the most optimal build but I had try it out.

I hope you liked it!

Thanks for the comment! This was indeed fun due to the amount of damage that was being done (to myself and the enemies).

Stigmatist's was fun. I used Chainbreaker and ended up with an infinite with runic strike/overflowing eruption.

I just looked at the modifiers for the Stigmatist's Challenge... 😨

@@lyrrakell Did you pull of infinite using Will Collector + Shaheen's Shadow(s)?

@@TheAlmondButter Honestly can't remember exactly how I did it, but it involved overflowing eruption making the runic strike free and something else that just let me hit runic strike over and over infinitely. Wish I could remember! Will collector was definitely part of it, and Shaheen's Shadow very well could have been involved.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree it's underwhelming. It's not a top tier binding but it's workable if that's what RNG hands you. I'm hoping for a small buff in the future.

@@TheAlmondButter Yea, these types of games are all about finding your win condition. I'm coming more from a Slay the Spire angle(card building game).

I just got into Slay the Spire. I'm secretly practicing so I can one day feel good enough to do recordings and prepare for Slay the Spire II.

Thanks! I thought about doing the challenge with Clairvoyant but I'm not familiar with the aspect. Thanks for sharing your tip! I'll keep this in mind.

Will do! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!

Thanks for the feedback regarding The Unbound! More Authored Challenges in the pipeline, I just need to edit them.

Thanks for taking the time to comment! More Authored Challenges coming soon!

Thanks for commenting and giving feedback! I feel like preparing for The Unbound forces me to build my dive in a certain way. I also have to hope I can defeat the Guardian of the Unbound Key. This fight can be difficult sometimes depending on how my build is at the moment I reach them. Sometimes I think the builds I like to experiment with and try won't work against The Unbound. This is why I usually just stick to not going after The Unbound. I'll consider visiting The Unbound more often going forward. I'm considering maybe using videos of me at least getting past the third boss and failing at The Unbound and turning that into content. Let me know what you think and feel about this.

Thanks again for commenting, sharing feedback and sharing my video! Good luck to you and your buddies, I know you all will reach and complete rank 20.

Go watch his vid on the pilfer chalice build. I have never felt more powerful in this game than with that build. I was annihilating any and everything.

Thank you for taking the time to comment!

@@TheAlmondButter your vids have helped me rank up super fast. Wish the game had a larger fan base so you can get more views.

Thanks for this comment! This makes me happy 😊

Thank for you this comment!

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to comment and give me feedback. No need for apologies, I'm thankful for the good feedback you're providing and knowing people actually watch my videos. I can admit others have asked me to explain more and I think I'm making an effort. You're correct that I do spend lots of time stating what I'm doing and it's not helpful to you. It's a way for me to say something in the video at least instead of staying silent. I guess I need to try a different approach perhaps. I'm noticing that people who comment are watching me to understand and get better themselves at this game, I think. I'll definitely take your suggestions and try to change how I comment. No promises on this happening immediately but I'll try 😀 This video and dive is older so I might not remember the run too well but let me try my best to answer your questions regarding the run: 1:29 - Quickened Seismic Slam decreases the cooldown allowing me to use it every turn if I carefully manage when I grab orbs each turn. Like I said during the beginning of the run, I didn't have a particular build in mind. Since I'm doing a ranked dive, my priorities and playstyle would be to survive by reducing and taking less damage. The hopes of getting Broad Ironclap is to possibly get another augment (Shielding Ironclap) that grants 1 additional shield on hitting more than 3 or more enemies. Quickened Seismic Slam can be useful if I'm aiming to build around the Seismic Slam ascension, Earthquake. This ascension grants +50 damage every time it's used. Lower cooldown means more use of Earthquake. 2:40 - The reason for rerolling and deciding between Misting Bells, Outlawed Works and Braced Belt is to conserve some kwill for other uses. I try to keep some kwill handy to reroll other vaults to at least pick a favorable vestige item. I'd like to avoid situations where I end up taking something out of a vault and not getting come value from the vestige item I walk away with. For ranked dives, there's value in getting Bastion, which grants shield every turn. It does help you soak damage because you will get hit or lose HP in some other manners. I also see it as a way of allowing you to at least use the Shadow set without losing HP. If I decide to get the Shadow set and have at least 3 Bastion, I can have at least Shadow 4 (causes you to lose 3 HP at the end of your turn) without taking damage. I did do that this dive with the Shadow set. As for why I chose Misting Bells over the other two: Outlawed Works is geared towards magic damage, which doesn't help the Obelisk much. Plus, it has that -15 movement penalty, which is not desirable. This gives me less movement for positioning and makes it difficult for me to avoid AoE damage. Braced Belt only grants 5 shield on the first turn. There's not many situations where I find that useful compared to Misting Bells, which grants 1 shield on picking up an orb. I'd rather have the 1 shield on orb pickup the entire fight than just additional shield during my first turn. If there's anything else you want clarification on, please do leave a comment.

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this comment and giving me feedback. I've read both of your comments, please go see my reply in the other comment 😀

Thanks for asking this question. If you're referring to the Poxy Feather in the Carver's Refuge before The Rhinferno fight: It was to save Kwill to reroll the two vaults before the third boss fight. If I bought the Poxy Feather, I wouldn't have enough to reroll. I get the benefit of triggering toxic from Poisonblood but I felt like I was dealing enough non-DoT damage to kill enemies at that point. Let me know if this is not what you were referring to.

Keep at it! You can reach rank 20!

Yes, indeed. A lethal one 💚

I usually don't try to. The dive is longer and I have to build in a certain way to reach and defeat the Unbound. Do you think it's worth going after the Unbound every dive?

I stopped playing it. Sometimes I do lose interest in a video game I start a playthrough for. I could pick it back up but I wouldn't remember what I would need to do to continue the story.

@@TheAlmondButter Fair enough. Just wanted to make my interest known.

Thanks for commenting and sharing. It's helpful and motivating to know that people do watch my content.

Great to hear!

Thanks for the feedback and taking the time to share this! It's encouraging for me when I get comments like this to continue creating more content.

My pleasure!

🤣 That's the same thing that's going through my mind often when I'm doing some of my runs.

Ctrl + left click on the item on the ground.

Thanks! Expert Binder is powerful. I don't like the high requirement to nine but it balances out.

@@TheAlmondButter i honestly never go past 3... maybe 5, but its one of those things that with just two visages you can re-use your best cooldown every turn

Thanks!

Glad to hear you completed this Victory Board! It's definitely challenging.

Glad you love them! Thanks for commenting and leaving feedback, it's encouraging for me!

@@TheAlmondButter you made me pick up inkbound and I'm thoroughly enjoying the game! Definitely underrated

Thanks for leaving a comment and feedback! I purchased the cosmetics.

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

For no rank runs, most of the time it's one. Rank 20 runs, sometimes I lose more than twice depending on what build I'm trying to win with.

I'm trying my best to be consistent. Thank you for commenting and taking the time to do so.

I don't know if I have the bandwidth for another game into my schedule. I'm trying to play Inkbound and Another Crab's Treasure. It's tougher than I thought to play and make videos for two video games. My GPU doesn't meet the suggested minimum requirements either to run Red Dead Redemption 2. I'm still running a GTX 970 in 2024 😭

No problem! I hope you enjoyed it!

@@TheAlmondButter i have another godlike combo when u play crit and will collector, and then u have shaahen vestige 2x. then u will have unlimited 1St skill like cheating lol

I need to try this one day! Thanks for sharing this.

It was fun indeed!

Yes I can! I have a Victory Board for crit I need to clear. I'll use Chainbreaker for it.

@@TheAlmondButter thanksss my friend

Completely different game. Same vibe. But you can play with a team. And this game is far more difficult when you don’t know what you’re doing.

Are you referring to Hades by Supergiant Games? I wish I still had reflexes to play those types of games. I feel old.

Thanks for taking the time to comment! Clips of Extraction is great for Orb Lord builds, agreed! This day and dive, I wanted to get low cost Physical-damage type drafted bindings without having to restart a run and hoping RNGesus would give them to me. Smoke Bomb was one of them as it can hit multiple targets, which works great for Magma Miner's Heat. I settled Passkey of the Future makes it easier to get these. I hear you on not having enough damage with this game. I sometimes get around this successfully by reducing damage, in this case with Smoke Bomb. This doesn't always work though.

@@TheAlmondButter drafted abandoned antumbra on my first cache in a run today, had 1000 omni by the last boss. defo wasnt an issue with early game dmg there lmao. would like to see a run where u get multi pilfer orb thief with ascended orb miner bonk and orb lord. I usually play weaver, and I've had some runs with 2x orb thief no multi pilfer and I swear once that gets rolling ur turn is just infinite on anything with +3 targets

Awesome RNG! I could try your suggested build one day. I'm trying to clear out the Victory Board at the moment.

@@TheAlmondButter mind you I dont play magma boy that often, So i have no clue if it would actually do dmg investing into his bonk :D by victory board you mean the 107 odd wins?

Yes, correct. That Victory Board with 107 odd wins.

Thanks for leaving a comment!

Thanks for taking the time to comment! This is a good combo. I'll consider trying this out one day during my dives. I'm not a big fan of Rope Burn but I think I should give it a few tries and get a feel for how it performs.

Thanks for watching my video and commenting! The fight with the Guardian of the Unbound was tough after the entire battlefield was covered in ink. I didn't do much damage due to the Inkshield penalty which gave the Guardian two stacks of damage resist every turn. During this period of the fight: - I try to use only Shield Bash to avoid the 4 damage per binding use on ink because it's a teleport-type binding. - Shield Bash inflicts daze so it reduces the damage from the Guardian. - I'm healing myself through Orb Lord 3 + Clips of Extraction a total of 4 HP per turn. Orb Lord 3 grants 2 HP healing per orb picked up and Clips of Extraction is generating two orbs per turn. - Vestige item Bead of Metal gives me 6 Spiked per orb pick up. I considered using Shield Wall but the amount of spike it generated and losing 4 HP on use due to the ink wasn't a good trade off I think. Doing this slowly chipped away at the Guardian's health and I managed to outlast it. I guess I could have used Shield Wall when the ink covered the field after I looked at the gameplay a few times. Even though I lose HP, I still gain 4 shield and get a small amount of spike. This is the same amount of HP lost. The issue after using Shield Wall would be gambling on Expert Binder resetting the cooldown for Shield Bash. I don't think the spike gained from Shield Wall would do more damage than the Shield Bash, I could be wrong though. I'll have to take a look at this when I have chance.

@@TheAlmondButter I loved this reply! Wasn't expecting this thorough of a breakdown of your thoughts. However yes I did mean before the ink covered the area, because from my understanding with spiked, you lose 50% of stacks on the next turn start, so if you were for example, keeping all your cooldowns up, that way you can guarantee the reset on shield wall, then use the first spell (the name escapes me right now) where you have the augment to get spike on use, to slowly but surely scale up your damage. Again I don't know if this is the correct play I just wanted to hear your thoughts since I'm unsure of the numbers on spike damage in this specific situation, compared to what you did with shield bash as the main damage source

Oh, okay. I didn't have Pincushion to boost my spike damage. My assumption during the fight was that I would do more damage using Shield Bash. I might be wrong though. When I think about it, I'm not sure if spike damage would do more compared to Shield Bash due to the Inkshield damage resist the Guardian had. I wonder if the Inkshield applies after the player's turn ends.

I don't see why not 😀

@@TheAlmondButterfire. What’s the build?

@@TarellHudson This was an Ambusher build.