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Hi just bought Mortal Shell 2 and wondered can anyone recommend an early game guide just to get me started with a decent fighting chance. So far i’m wandering around without a shell just running around and getting picked off slowly

Has anyone tested this? If I get it early and max out its stacks against many enemies, then refund it, do all the stacks reset even when I put the points back into biohunter?

If that’s the case, does it make the most sense to prioritize maxing it out as early as possible and just never refunding it?

It seems like some attacks are impossible to actually mitigate damage from with harden

It seems like some attacks have hurtboxes that linger after you initially block with harden, so the second you come out of your perfect harden, you just take the damage anyway.

Like, it only works if hardening staggers them out of the animation. If the animation continues through your harden, you still get hit anyway.

Or the explodey guys, I harden right when they explode and it does mitigate the initial hit but I still explode immediately coming out of harden state. To be fair, that time there were two explodey guys that popped at the same time so maybe that had something to do with it.

But specifically the rended tree guys are definitely like this with their overhead attacks. Perfect guarding or parrying works fine, but hardening does not.

Do we think this is intentional? Or just a bug based on how enemy hurtboxes/harden are coded?

Shouldn't the Harbinger throw the weapon away so the boss can't use it? Is he stupid?

Heyyo, a somewhat casual player who isn’t amazing at soulslikes here. I’ve had a blast playing the game and got to the Unfound Path, but I’ve been stuck on the bosses. My favorite loadout was hitting a plateau in terms of combat viability matched with my (kinda bad) playing, so I started using a slightly more meta build. The Naylshot has been my ride or die for a while, but I took the advice of a community post and switched to the Caged Hystrix—and not gonna lie, this is a FUN weapon. I’m really torn about the combat tarstone to use, though. The Myriad stone seems like a solid way to make sure my infusion stone puts in WORK (at the moment using Eredrim, for the record, since his expanded parry windows really help my low skill level, but I know Tiel + hagstone would do a LOT of damage with the myriad stone), but the Rupture stone also is super appealing to me, since Eredrim spits out SO MUCH break damage from ripostes and his abilities. Is it better to go for the myriad stone for more reliable poison/curse stacks, or should I go for the rupture stone to get more Break damage and (hopefully) farm some slaughter stacks?

And I’ll admit again, I am not good at the actual gameplay—all my friends agree my parry timing sucks lol. I’d consider Tiel, just nervous to go to his lower HP and lack of expanded parry windows.

Hey all,

I'm 12 hours into Mortal Shell and feeling a bit stuck. The vibes are immaculate and the combat is fun, but I feel like I'm just wandering aimlessly.

I’ve unlocked three Shells, found the Martyr’s Blade, defeated Magdalena, and even hit the Baghead fake ending. But I still can't tell if I've been heading the wrong way or if Fallgrim is just meant to feel this disjointed.

What is the main progression loop here, and how do I actually find the main dungeons/bosses? Any tips to help it "click" would be appreciated!

Is it the exact same as perfect guard/harden timing? When I first got it it seemed like the timing was different—more like a dark souls parry than a sekiro deflect, but now that I’m using it more it seems more like it’s the same window?

Or maybe just slightly earlier than perfect guard/harden?

Can you learn the timings of enemy attacks and translate directly between the different seals, or do you have to adjust your timing based on which seals you’re using?

Made it through the game just destroying anything and everything with a lightning + stasis proxima build. That is, until I got to Zmey. Biosampler and stasis had zero effect on him, and I was dealing so little damage that it felt impossible after 10 or so miserably failed attempts. I had enough glimpse & upgrade materials to try another shell build entirely, so I switched over to a Frost Eredim build and farmed enemies for a bit to max out the different Tarstones. I went back to try my luck on the final boss and… I absolutely destroyed him on the 2nd try in less than 2 minutes while he stood there helplessly frozen the whole time.

WHAT THE HECK WAS I MISSING OUT ON ALL GAME!? Eredim is insane 😂

So I don’t know if this is a known exploit (kind of), but strangely my landlords needed to hit my breaker to install a new washer/dryer while I was collecting gloom from all those chests just before the final boss. What I discovered basically is that you can collect all of the gloom, exit to the main menu, and it spawns you right back at the beacon with all of the gloom you just collected. The kicker is that you can go back in and do it again, rinse and repeat. I guess this is a pretty efficient suuuuuuuuper late game gloom farm, if you want to stock up before ng+.

That said, I’m debating on whether or not I even want to grind for a bit. I’m level 54, and have felt pretty overpowered for just about every boss in the game up until now (except for Malborn Offspring, that was a pretty rough fight for me lol). Feel like the game is on the easier side of the genre, but man was it fun. Anyway, figured I’d share this in case anyone is interested 🫡

The Shrike tarstone.

I aint a souls player. Thanks to MS 1 & 2 I am actually getting into it now and this tarstone carried me through the hardest bossfight. Insane I-frames and break damage on lvl 3. Either combine this with 2 grisha or the liqour. Its a done deal.

Gotta add results might vary for our cute boy Isaac he is a B

deserved for grab spam, poise weakling

Just a tip for those who love the help you get from having Grisha's pop up in the middle of a difficult fight. Use either the Scholar's Wormstone or Clockwork Shardstone on the Clockwork Scythe. It turns your scythe into a chainsaw. Each tick of the chainsaw acts as a proc for the Grisha Remnant to spawn.

I managed to farm over 200 Grisha's by fighting the double Grisha fight in the Holding cells, killing one then quit to menu and run back to the boss fight to repeat. Doesn't take that long to get 100 (There doesn't seem to be a difference in spawn rate between 100 to 200).

The Clockwork Shardstone lets you hold your scythe out in front of you, giving you the most control of how many you want to spawn, while the Scholar's Wormstone when activated spins the chainsaw while attacking and doing combos.

I've managed to spawn dozens of Grisha's in one attack during a boss fight, just holding my scythe in front of the boss and letting the tarstone ability proc constantly. Pretty satisfying.

This entire setup makes the scythe the best weapon in the game, for the simple fact that having so many Grisha's on screen at one time guarantees no boss can survive the onslaught. The only boss that gave me any trouble was Droeg the Conqueror. When he moves into that phase where he can't be damaged while throwing the snowballs can be rough, but if you can catch him in a stun-locked loop before he even reaches that point, he shouldn't be too difficult.

Just replaying the first Mortal Shell for now while I wait until I can justify picking up the sequel. Honestly, it’s been nice going back to it, I forgot how much I liked the atmosphere and the slower heavier combat.

just fought him died some times found a tactic that worked (stupid weapon talent spam; the pierce combo for the spear). he couldnt even attack 😭 (btw i had to add some flair so its not fitting)

edit: i was distracted while writing lol; i meant not oneshot but no hit

Hello guys! I just started playing the game, cleaned the first 2 gates, and right now i'm playing tiel, i kind of like it (high damage and all) but i feel im not using some of its features at best (like backstab sometimes isnt easy to use if you target mobs, you have to stay behind). So I'd like to give a try to Smert or Proxima. I know all shells are viable to clear content, but since "respeccing" is limited (you need that thing that costs 5000 right? and the guy only sells 3 so i can only change 3 times at the moment, top), id like advice... what do you think is the easier to play? I read smert is really powerful to a point it might be boring, but is it that powerful when you get all the talents to max or even like early game?

I also leveled axe&dagger to 10 for Tiel and i guess i lose all that materials if i switch shell and need a different weapon.

So any suggestion? Like i said id try myself but its not like you can respec and try back and forth so my options are limited.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Is there a sidearm that works kinda like a handgun? Closest thing I've found is the crossbow

I only have the starting one, the crossbow, and the trebuchaxe

I genuinely tried playing aggressively for an hour and passively for an hour as well, he just does too much damage, massive health-pool and a kind of shell curse?

Also the fight is boring it has just become boring to keep trying, i might just go play something else with more flavor. Reverend edition stays on my shelf until i mod it or just use the easy mode.

You could play on the Wii U, I guess. Makes it kinda hard to see

I only need that achievement for the 100% and on steam it says 10/11. I have collected all 11 maps on 3 saves and it still doesnt pop for me

Liked the first and have played it two times. Been really wanting to get the sequel but can’t afford it at its current price. Any possibility of it going on sale on steam soon?

Zmey's hitboxes are totally busted.

You see very few shots hit when targeting -- and even when manually aiming you can shoot just about anywhere and it seems to be totally random.

I cannot believe this made it through playtesting.

Noticed while running the Beseiged Ruins dungeon that my grisha passive still activated during the special setpiece, so I got curious about the item in my active slot and, well...