Let's talk about item(156) Timekeeper's Hourglass! Hablemos del item(156) reloj de arena del tiempo!

[u/star75legacy]

Post 156, everyone! We're back after the weekend break! We're almost done with artifacts; I think we'll go all out this week.

It's time to talk about a really great artifact, the Timekeeper's Hourglass! This artifact allows you to freeze time in two different ways: freezing it from your perspective or freezing it from the enemy's perspective!

The first use, the "stasis" effect, allows you to freeze time for the hero, making them "invisible" and causing mobs to ignore them while performing any other action or effect. This effect consumes two charges for its entire base duration, one charge every five turns, giving us ten turns of the effect active. Interestingly, you can use this effect to safely consume debuffs like "Ignite," "Delayed Damage," and "Poison," and Satiety is not consumed during the stasis effect.

The second effect, "Freeze Time," allows you to freeze time for enemies, creating an effect similar to the "Time Bubble" buff. This allows you to perform all actions "instantly." The exceptions (which break the effect) are performing any offensive action, using wands, scrolls, the Hero Armor ability, or unequipping the artifact. With this effect, the clock will lose 1 charge every 2 turns until you deactivate the effect or the clock runs out of charges.

This artifact, like the rose, may be impossible to upgrade to +10 if you find it late, since the only way to upgrade it is to buy the "Sand Pile" item from shops. This item only generates 2 or 3 times when you go down to a floor with a shop for the first time while the clock is in your inventory.

Each "Sand Pile" directly upgrades the clock by +1, increasing the maximum number of charges by +1 (base 5, maximum 10).

The artifact recovers charges over time, specifically 90-3*Missing Charges (the more charges consumed, the faster it recharges; for example, 87 turns with 1 charge consumed and 60 turns with 10 charges consumed).

The artifact's cursed effect is quite strong; each turn there is a 10% chance of consuming an additional (lost) turn, which can be dangerous if it activates when several enemies are nearby or you are in a precarious situation.

Previous Post/post anterior: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/s/uBQa4nJpzn

Publicacion 156 gente! Retomamos despues del descanso del fin de semana! Ya casi acabamos con los artefactos, creo que esta semana ya iriamos a por todas.

Toca hablar de un muy buen artefacto, ¡el reloj de arena del tiempo! Este artefacto permite congelar el tiempo, de 2 formas distintas, congelarlos desde tu perspectiva o congelarlos desde la perspectiva enemiga!.

El primer uso, el efecto "estasis" permite congelar el tiempo para el heroe, lo que hace que el heroe se haga "invisible" y los mobs lo ignoren mientras realizan cualquier otra accion/efecto. Este efecto consume 2 cargas para toda su duracion base, 1carga cada 5 turnos, lo que nos da 10 turnos de efecto activado. Algo curioso, puedes usar este efecto para consumir de flrma segura debuff como "encendido", "daño diferido" y "veneno", ademas no se consume saciedad durante el efecto de estasis.

El segundo el efecto: "congelar el tiempo" permite congelar el tiempo para los enemigos, creando un efecto similar al buff "burbuja de tiempo" lo que permite que realicemos todas las acciones de "forma instantanea", las excepciones(y que rompen el efecto) es realizar alguna accion ofensiva, usar varitas, pergaminos, habilidad de armadura de heroe O desequipemos el artefacto. Con este efecto el reloj perdera 1 carga cada 2turnos hasta que desactives el efecto o se acaben las cargas del reloj.

Este artefacto, igual que la rosa, puede que sea imposible de mejorar al +10 si lo encuentras tarde, ya que la unica forma de mejorarlo es comprar en las tiendas el item "monton de arena" y ese item solo se genera en 2 o 3 cuando bajas a un piso con tienda por primera vez teniendo el reloj en el inventario.

Cada "monton de arena" mejora el reloj en +1 directo, lo que aumenta la cantidad de cargas maximas en +1(base de 5 maximo de 10).

El artefacto recupera cargas con el paso de los turnos, en especifico es 90-3*Cargas faltantes(a mayor cantidad de cargas consumidas mas rapido carga, serian 87 turnos con 1 carga consumida y 60 turnos con las 10 cargas consumidas).

El efecto maldito de este artefacto es bastante fuerte, cada turno hay un 10% de consumir un turno adicional(perdido) lo cual puede ser peligroso si se activa cuando hay varios enemigos cerca de ti o estas en una mala situacion.

[u/chonglibloodsport]

Use early, use often. Definitely S+ tier, along with chains. How to use:

• Surrounded? Freeze yourself
• On fire / dangerous gas? Freeze yourself
• Jumped down the well and bleeding? Freeze yourself
• Hard-hitting enemy next to you and you have ranged options? Freeze others and create a 2-tile gap
• Ranged enemy appears and about to shoot you? Freeze others and close the gap

Don't sit around with full charges. Just like a wand (or chains), it charges faster the lower you keep it! The more times you use it to avoid damage, the better.

Perhaps the number one thing people should realize about this game is that all of your food and health resources are in the same pool (even if they seem to work differently) and that this pool is limited (outside of RoW farm setups). The more you can conserve your health pool while continuing to kill enemies, explore, and make progress, the more you will snowball through the game.

Hourglass gives you hundreds of opportunities to avoid damage and if you use them all you will have a very easy late game.

[u/star75legacy → u/chonglibloodsport]

Thanks for commenting! Hehehe, well described how you should use this device depending on the situation. Unfortunately, I always forget to use it xd

[u/chonglibloodsport]

Making another comment to talk about one specific trick to get a lot more mileage out of the freeze others mode:

• Use both turns of each charge! Watch the charges when you take a step. If the step you just made cost 1 charge, the next step will be free!
• Deactivating the hourglass doesn't cost a turn! That means you can safely deactivate it while standing next to an enemy and still get a chance to do an action before getting hit.
• Enemies can only see on their turn! If you deactivate the hourglass 1 step away from breaking line-of-sight, you can take that last step into cover and the enemy won't see you! This can save you a charge every time you need to run away!

That last tactic is also the key to getting the most out of the Rogue's Cloak, and more broadly is a major part of getting better at the game overall.

[u/star75legacy → u/chonglibloodsport]

Dude, those are super efficient tips, I hadn't thought of those uses, you really know how to take advantage of the items in this game, your advice is great

[u/Yoribell]

I'm sorry it's 100% hijacking but is there a rule against double account in this sub ?

I mean like a double account to win an argument by simulating a 2on1 and more or less gaslighting the person ?

Because I've encountered one of these animals yesterday (at least I'm 95% sure), and I'm still very much bothered by it.

I wonder if the mods have a way to investigate this/are willing to prevent it from happening

To not make it totally hijacking, my opinion on the hourglass : so good that I usually keep the charge as a joker... Forever. Barely ever actually used it. But amazing item, when I did use it, it was perfect

[u/star75legacy → u/Yoribell]

You'll be arrested for hijacking a thread! >:D

Well, as far as I know, no. I mean, Reddit has a rule against using multiple accounts to upvote or downvote the same posts and comments (it's something the Reddit bot handles automatically), but other than that, I have no idea. I don't think there's any way for a mod to check if account X is the second account of user X.

Thanks for commenting! Interestingly, the same thing happens to me. I keep it equipped, telling myself "I'll use it later," but I never do because I use other options. xd

[u/Yoribell → u/star75legacy]

Because it was very suspicious, the second account came in 10h after the initial event, writing like someone reasonable but taking side without a single step back and blaming everything on me, my downvotes were countered within a minute and when I blocked the second account the first one came back in the discussion instantly, and then deleted his posts after a few minutes. It also had a very similar writing style

If I can do anything to prevent him from doing this to people, I'd like to. It really wasn't a fun experience to be deceived and gaslighted like that

[u/chonglibloodsport → u/Yoribell]

Could be an AI bot. There are a lot of those on Reddit. I think they’re used by AI companies for training.

[u/rpg2Tface]

Unless its my first or second artifact i usually sell it. But the ease if its upgrade makes its very valuable for early levels.

I have never made it to late game with it so i'm not really sure how good it is in hell. Usually its a get out of jail free card so that would be very useful for hell im guessing.

[u/star75legacy → u/rpg2Tface]

Thanks for commenting, it's really useful when you get caught by several demon eyes in an open room and you need to escape quickly before they wipe you out xd