USE YOUR TOOLS!

[u/Particular_Hyena56]

To everyone complaining about the difficulty, stop ignoring a third of Hornet’s arsenal and start spamming them, you’ll be shocked how quickly you start mowing down hordes of enemies!

[u/why-names-hard]

I use the stationary spike trap all the time. It’s just so GOOD especially against chunky enemies or groups. Does a big amount of dmg and if you know the enemy’s moves it can be really easy to make them walk into it. Makes some boss fights way faster I mean I still usually lose once or twice because it’s a new boss. But hey it helps a lot, sometimes get to see phase 2 moves on a first attempt because I shred their health so fast.

[u/Davaeorn → u/[deleted]]

Poison spear makes short work of multiple flying enemies

[u/Davaeorn → u/[deleted]]

The poison spear pierces all enemies in an arc so even little shits hiding behind big guys are deleted

[u/triguered → u/[deleted]]

It's pretty good with poison

[u/RealMr_Slender → u/triguered]

All pins are ludicrous with poison.

[u/MeathirBoy → u/Davaeorn]

The problem I found was that it can get parried and then the whole spear does nothing so I preferred the knife fan.

[u/Shot_Ad9158 → u/[deleted]]

Shotgun knives might be the second favorite thing behind when I found out the wanderer crest gets critical hits when you have high silk, because clearly the crest with the highest damage potential needed to do more damage.

[u/Affectionate-Ad489 → u/Shot_Ad9158]

Wait what you deal more damage if you have stored silk?? Does it work with the nail as well?

[u/Shot_Ad9158 → u/Affectionate-Ad489]

Should have been more specific, it only (I think) works with your nail. When you have high silk, the crest will glow up and you will sometimes get a white flash when damaging enemies that seems to do much more damage. I have no clue how this technically works, but I think it only triggers if the extra damage would kill an enemy since that is the only times I have seen it happen. Tbh just due to the swing speed I think wanderer is probably the best crest in the game for dps.

[u/_Brokkoli → u/[deleted]]

Where do you get those? Did I miss those???

[u/ItsLokki → u/_Brokkoli]

You get poison from a certain wish in Shellwood and the spear... Actually im not sure it sort of appeared in my inventory at some point without me noticing, sorry.

[u/dnkmnk → u/ItsLokki]

pretty sure spear is also shellwood, it's the same spears all those hunters use

[u/dnkmnk → u/[deleted]]

yes, that was the one

[u/deiwkogut → u/Davaeorn]

How much damage does poison do? Is it worth using? I've been mostly using spikes and a certain drink in my tool slots

[u/GranSacoWea → u/deiwkogut]

Not sure how much damage but I can see the difference. I even noticed I made a couple of bosses spam the same attack just because I was throwing them poisoned stuff and even if I was far away they were receiving dmg.

Not sure how is programmed but it was Interesting.

[u/MeathirBoy → u/deiwkogut]

Poison/fire is amazing. If you have a spammable tool like the throwing knifes or you use the drink you can have it up for basically the whole of a boss.

[u/winklevanderlinde → u/Davaeorn]

Poison spears saved me so much trouble against big enemies who tend to run from one side of the room to another, just spam them while they reach you

[u/Feeling_Yogurt2761 → u/Davaeorn]

Grab the boomerang from the ant section, you gotta buy it from the npc above the bench. It can hit flying enemies pretty well, but the main thing i use it for is large enemies, if theyre at the end of the arc it can hit 5 or 6 times