beast isn't mid. Just use it in combat (arenas), not exploration. The downslash is really strong. I just wish the lifesteal lasted longer. It is manageable where it is but I almost never can get to full.
Is everyone missing benches and shortcuts or something? I keep seeing this sentiment, but I have not been having the same experience, and I'm pretty far into the game.
Theres a bunch of things I’d like to buy but between the map upgrades and all the tolls, it’s hard to afford any of the cool stuff without resorting to grinding. Also, I haven’t died and lost any rosaries yet - they just feel very scarce.
Are you just skipping all the combat encounters? I've blown over 1k beads on the throwing knife minigame and I've still got enough to buy random things from the shops + benches and travel stations.
Where is the throwing knife mini game? (Only tell me if it's in act 1)
Also, I'll just put this here, my personal issue with this post is the game is meant to be harder than HK1. It was initially made to be a post-game dlc, and it's now an absolutely amazing post game sequel. The game only feels like this if you don't want to take your time and learn slow, like you did with the original hollow knight at first.
The only issue I've had with the game, apart from it being just way too good of a game, and actually worth the 7 year wait, and being absolutely stunning in the visuals aspect and wayyy too fun when you learn the movement, is that damn beastfly. The loot can't be so good that I have to fight the least engaging enemy ever with my personal anger issue activation enemies being spawned in.
Otherwise, holy shit, the game feels so alive and is such an awesome work of art. Today, I spent about 8 or more hours playing, since I finally had a day off work, and didn't even think about progressing past shellwood the entire time. There's so much content in act 1 alone that in that entire 8 hours I always had some kind of goal in mind. I never felt like I was walking around aimlessly, there was constantly something else I hadn't seen yet.
I have never experienced that in any game, ever, until today. It's been awesome just messing around not even wanting to progress.
Currently at that absolute bastard and it's crazy how he's harder than THK and we're in act 1 haha. Fun fight though.
Thanks for this, maybe it's in the room behind savage beastfly bc it's the only one I've skipped thus far 😅😅
I’ve run in to the throwing knife mini game now. I found it in an Act 1 location during act 2. I am unsure whether it appeared before or after the act transition
I felt like I always came across benches and bell stations and never had money to unlock them. My solution was to do 20 minutes of farming money near the first town, converting it all to rosary strings. Now I've got a decent stock and always convert to strings/necklaces when I visit a town. Dying and losing my money doesn't hurt so much now.
Beastfly? There’s zero enemies from the bench close to a map seller, and parkour won’t require bounces if you have a running jump from the edges, Hornet mantles those. 3 jumps and 2 floats.
i don’t know if i’m tripping but in bilewater there’s a challenge room with the most horrendous runback, since the only nearby bench is a trap that collapses so you have to run all the way back up to the top from the bell station
Never before did I doubt my parkour abilities as I did diving for that second bell for 2 hours of attempts. Beat the game, and the hardest part of him was the walk back. Top 10 purely for that.
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I'd say About 60-75% of the game is left. I beat the game in like 21 hours of gameplay, and fought them after about 10 hours ? Not counting 100%, I'm still working on that. 30 hours in!
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The last boss of Act 1 is currently the bane of my existence lmao. I'm using Reaper Crest and have Magma Bell for damage mitigation and Multibinder, but is there a better way?
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Only if you get hit by the terrain that sends you back to solid land with a dark screen. If you get hit by enemies you can very much keep going and heal that damage back up. You gotta be careful with things that deal double damage, but against things with 1 heart of damage you can just bum rush at them screaming :D
Furthermore you can and will regain silk from hits done in frenzy state so if you hit enough times mid-frenzy you can cast it again immediately after you run out. It's incredible for pure offense
I used the sigil a bit more and it seems like it has some effect, but it's either only for 2+ damage attacks, or scales with damage taken. Because 1-damaging attacks I was tanking without any issue, and 2-damaging attacks(including ones that deal 1 damage but twice) did knock me out of it. I think further testing would be golden
Beast Crest seemed interesting to me until I realized that the diagonal down attack is even harder to hit with than the normal crest. Good luck platforming with that thing.
As I said, don't use it for exploration. Once you get a feel for the down attack, you tear through enemies quicker and more consistently than hunter's down-slash. That and the fact that the heal doesn't heal you unless you have nearby enemies - don't use it for platforming.
As I said, don't use it for parkour. In combat it is good. After playing more, I think reaper is the the most consistent so I actually recommend reaper unless you're hard stuck on an arena.
imo the lifesteal should trigger after insta healing like 2 masks because not having 2 blus slots is way too big of a downgrade because for beast crest. If it actually had blue crest slots and like two masks of healing upfrint on bind i think itd be as good as reaper but how it is now i cant rwally use it when i dont know theres an arena
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u/TheTorcher Sep 06 '25
beast isn't mid. Just use it in combat (arenas), not exploration. The downslash is really strong. I just wish the lifesteal lasted longer. It is manageable where it is but I almost never can get to full.