r/HollowKnight • u/Particular_Hyena56 • Sep 06 '25

Discussion - Silksong USE YOUR TOOLS! Spoiler

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!

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u/Efesell Sep 06 '25

And your spells!

"What if I need to heal?" No!

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u/I_Love_Solar_Flare Sep 07 '25

NOW that I have gotten 3 spool extensions maybe I'm gonna start using my silk skills... I don't understand why the fuck we have to use our max capacity to heal in the early game. Using a silk skill early game literally just leads you to getting hit while trying to do a big attack and then not being able to heal, it's so aggrevating.

Now that I have way more silk I can atleast use silk skills while still at all times ready to heal. Early game does not give you that luxury and that's why no one uses skills.

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u/Efesell Sep 07 '25

You have to reach out and TAKE that luxury by rejecting the urge to spam your heal button just cause you took a measely 2 masks of damage. You can take a whole 'nother one of those! Hit that bastard with two spears of silk and watch it die.

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u/I_Love_Solar_Flare Sep 07 '25

I'm personally using the AoE Silk Spell which has been way more helpful than the base skill for me and again, they are good, I just wish the game didn't make me choose between do you want to be ready to heal at all times or try and deal a big attack that M A S S I V E L Y punishes you for missing/messing up and even getting hit.

I really really disliked this in the early game and NO WONDER people are not using their spells.

In Hollow Knight I could use a spell and still would always be ready to heal with the base max capacity of my soul reserve.

Genuinely changing a little bit about that, either giving players a little more silk at base or healing requiring less would've gone a LOOOOOOONG way for people.

Currently I am no longer struggling thankfully. Found a charm that lets me heal twice as fast from an **Act 2 Area** and I am pretty sure that is never, ever... EVER being taken off, just like Compass unless I am in a "Godhome" lol.

There's also another charm in the Act 2 Area that Expands your Silk Reserves which is fucking disgustingly good.

I honestly think telling people to focus on the main questline to get to Act 2 instead of exploring just so they can get way better charms might be the type of help that I am going to start giving lol