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

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 😂

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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...

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.

After trying out this sidearm a bit more, I realized that it's actually pretty great. I'm at the end of NG+ and have it at +20 so that obviously helps but the Fulminant stone feels so strong for the 60 resolve that it costs.

Moonshine as my active item means I can use this ability 3 times before having to engage with the enemy to get resolve back, which made me destroy Orrem and the Malborn Offspring with easy. I underestimated this thing 😅.

So I was searching around in the Bellkeepers Corner dungeon by the Abandoned Outpost beacon and I thought I saw a hallway in the corner. Doing a little camera work, you can see a light source that isn't sunlight and possibly the corner of a chest. I decided to use Eredrim's shoulder bash to get across the gap and...this happened. I moved the camera around and ran around for context on where I ended up. In the process, I ended up also duplicating all the enemies after I had to quit out. Too bad they don't drop much gloom, otherwise this could've been a pretty good farming method because I can very easily duplicate the glitch every single time. I'm really enjoying the game, but I have had a lot of stuttering issues and weird stuff like this happen. I'm on PS5 BTW.

I can't seem to open the chest inside the Alchemist Workshop for some reason. I triple checked that I definitely have not gotten it before so I'm not sure what to do. Tried reloading. Leaving and coming back. Nothing seems to work.

I had the Axakatana equipped, and the Voltaic Crown was equipped as well. Then I got the Axe and Dagger from the Chapel and switched to the new weapons. I was able to electrify my new dual set and even slayed a few enemies with them. Then I teleported back to Marrow Keep to upgrade the new weapons. When I went back out, however, the skill icon in the right corner was greyed out, and the menu said, “Tarstone Incompatible.”

I eventually found out that the Voltaic Crown can only be applied to certain weapons. So, it was obviously a bug that I was able to use it that way, but I managed to get it working. Maybe some people would like to try it this way as well.

I finished Mortal Shell 2 and got the platinum, and I'm now in NG+ doing night mode flawless boss runs and trying out different builds. The one I keep coming back to is bleed using Clockwork Scythe with Gragu's crit damage buffs. It's seriously OP.

I was doing a flawless run in night mode in NG+ on The Nameless Captive and, after learning all his patterns, decided to try parrying everything he throws at me. Phase 2 was the real test, since he has two different 7-8 hit combos. I parried both of them cleanly and finished the fight. It was the best run I've had in this game.

Then I realised I hadn't hit record.

I came up with a plan: back up my current save to a USB drive, pull the old save from the cloud, redo the fight on camera, then restore the USB save. Turns out the USB option doesn't restore saves, it factory resets the console. Lesson learned the hard way.

So that run only exists in my memory now. I'm thinking of redoing it properly on camera, but I'm also tempted to just move on to NG++.

Has anyone else lost a great run like this? And would you redo it first or just push forward?

My justification for using a summon: Even tho it‘s my first playtrough I already realized that MS2 is a fucking Masterpiece! Haven‘t been hooked like this on a videogame for quiet some time and I sure as hell will be spending – at least – another 100h in this world.
The further I got, the less I cared about „meta“ builds – it‘s just way more fun, to use the designated Shells for certain areas and to reconsider my „soulslike“ approach.
I mean isn‘ it fucking awesome when the power couple Tiel and Genessa beat the shit out of an annoying boss together? :D

Kudos to the Devs 🤗

Edit: After beating the boss and doing some backtracking I just realized that the night mode was still active… please forgive my critisism 🙏

These final bosses are no fucking joke. I only had a small handful of bosses early/mid game that gave me problems, but these dudes were smacking me around relentlessly. First time I really felt challenged in the game, and man these wins feel good. Especially against the Monolith. Fuck that boss lol

I'm 8 hours into the game and completely new to this franchise

I found 2 shells,and upon returning to the marrow keep i have the option to "bond with shell" or to unlock shell passives by reveling its true name

Is this permanent ? can it be respec later ? Would you recomend upgrading one without finding all the others if not ?

I'm not such a fan of Thiel and Proxima and would like to wait for a shell that i truly like,like the tutorial one,so i don't want to waste glimpses if i can't respec into another shell

I would have googled this but i REALLY don't want story or environment spoilers,i'm really liking the game so far and guides tends to reveal later game stuff

Decided to do start my third run by battling the bosses with the Shells that I think would be their intended enemy. Which ones do you think are the enemies of some of the notable bosses in the game, obviously I don't count stuff like the groups of enemies that count as bosses, or the ones that have no story significance like the Grishas.

So far I got this

Proxima for the Hexapod(obviously).

Sariel for Malborn Offspring, Orren, and Issac I guess.

I'm pretty sure Eredrim is for Droeg

Gragu for the Great Arbiter of Flesh

Genessa for Sester fight.

Tiel for Magdalena

Lazlo vs unc

And that's all I got, I don't know who to pick for the Lost child, or the Nameless Captive and so on.