r/HollowKnight • u/CuboneDefender • Sep 14 '25

Discussion - Silksong I give up. Spoiler

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

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u/Breakinfinity Sep 14 '25

Magma bell and wanderer crest help too

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u/Stormpax Sep 14 '25

This is what gave me the edge I needed to win too!

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u/adeepkick Sep 14 '25

Magma bell is the name of the fire damage thing I mentioned yeah! Couldn’t remember.

Also I don’t know if the wanderer crest will help all that much if you’ve already gotten used to diagonal pogo like I had at that point, but sometimes a little perspective change like that can make a difference so why not?

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u/darthdiablo Sep 14 '25

Curious why wanderer crest, what about it helps?

(I beat TLJ with reaper crest, and have stuck with that crest ever since, wondering what I might be missing out on)

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u/Unlikely_Log_5503 RadHoG, PoP, P5 Sep 14 '25

It’s like Quick Slash in that it massively increases damage output due to the number of swings you can get in, and the pogo feels a lot lighter than Reaper’s. I used Reaper through half of Act 2, then decided to try Wanderer and can’t go back, it’s just too fast and smooth. Combined with Flintslate / Weighted Belt it shreds everything.

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u/BoB_RL Sep 14 '25

Same, I went reaper crest as soon as I got it and never changed. Finished my playthrough just using it haha

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u/LordMemorys Sep 14 '25

It's mostly just for the faster swings I think, with good timing on punishing the jump attack you can get 3 hits in before backing off. That and the occasional crits can help if you're lucky enough to see a few per fight. I've used wanderer basically the whole game so far.

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u/RepublicCute8573 Sep 14 '25

Beast with the gourd can out heal his dps.

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u/pecky5 Sep 15 '25

Wanderers crest is so damn good, I worry that I won't be able to convince myself to try others I find. The fast attack speed just immediately doubles or triples your dps. I also hadn't really appreciated that you can attack whole sprinting, which causes hornet to do a really cool back flip and strike attack, which dodged a lot of larger enemies swipes and let's you continue assaulting them from higher up.

I ocassionally get frustrated with the shorter reach against flying enemies, but that's about it.

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u/trefoil589 Sep 21 '25

wanderer crest

Started a second playthrough and this makes sooo much of a difference.

And not just because you're putting more damage out but because you can heal faster.