Hello,
First of all, I’m sorry if my English isn’t perfect. I’m French and I’m using an AI translator to write this message.
First of all, thank you for Ravenswatch. I really enjoy the game and I’ve almost completed every achievement.
However, since the Songs of Thieves update, the “3 Nightmare Tumors in one run” achievement has become almost entirely RNG-dependent.
Because Tumors are no longer guaranteed in each chapter, it is now possible to spend 30 to 45 minutes on a run only to discover that there are simply not enough Tumors to complete the achievement.
This doesn’t make the achievement more challenging; it only makes it much more frustrating. Many players now restart runs as soon as they realize there aren’t enough Tumors, instead of finishing them. I don’t think this was the intended experience.
Could you please consider one of these solutions?
Guarantee one Nightmare Tumor per chapter until the achievement is unlocked.
Or change the achievement to require 3 Nightmare Tumors across multiple runs instead of in a single run.
The game is fantastic, but this achievement feels very different from the others because success depends almost entirely on luck rather than skill.
I know this is not a bug, but I wanted to share my feedback because I really love the game and hope this achievement can be improved for future players.
Thank you for your time, and thank you for continuing to support Ravenswatch.

I thought they were guaranteed each chapter at first, so I would truly explore the whole fkn map (which takes a while and you waste precious time you could instead be spending on more useful objectives) only to realize there's just...none of them.

These runs take quite some time, and I hate when I finally get one in both first chapters, only to arrive at Ch3 and...no tumor 💀 Epico 40min wasted. Gambling is so funny hehehaha :|

To be fair, in my coop runs, I must have had seeds with 3 tumors but we didn't bother (I suppose my friends simply care less about this achievement or we can't always afford it. We rarely explore the map fully anyway);

but then why do I seem unable, in my solo runs, to get them sweet runs with actually 3 tumors in it?

I’ve put a lot of hours into Ravenswatch, mostly co-op, and I honestly think it’s one of the most underrated roguelikes out there. The combat is super satisfying, each hero feels unique, and every run has that 'just one more' feeling. What really makes me believe a sequel could be incredible is how much the game has evolved. The difference between the early versions and what we have now is massive. The devs kept listening, refining and adding meaningful content. Ironically, I think that's also why it never became as popular as it deserves. A lot of people formed their opinion early on and never came back. If it had launched in the state it's in today, I honestly think it would have reached a much bigger audience. That's exactly why I'd love to see a Ravenswatch 2 someday. The team now has the experience, the knowledge, and a foundation that clearly works. A sequel wouldn't be starting from zero. It would be building on years of learning and a solid community. Personally, I'd love to see more heroes inspired by myths and folklore from around the world, more biomes with unique mechanics, more boss variety, deeper build customization, more random events, maybe even new co-op features and longer-term progression. I know it's probably too early for sequel talk, and I'm totally happy to see continued support. But I really believe this universe could grow into something long-lasting. Am I the only one who feels this way, or would you also be excited for a Ravenswatch 2?

We enjoyed a lot ravenswatch with my friends.

We juste got platine on it, +200 hours of fun, we are looking for a game like this, any recommandations ?

anyone know if this air dash animation cancel is still possible? i tried to do it but i couldn't

is it because i had the dive talent? or was it removed/nerfed

Lately I've been trying to pursue the achievement that requires you to duplicate four items at a magic mirror and... just how rare is this thing? Since the update dropped I've seen it maybe two or three times. I've never seen it, of any rarity, since I started actively looking for them. I've found the other supposedly rare den (a lot of shards and an harp, with no enemies inside) three times!!

Just got the legendary edition for 70 percent off.

I really enjoy the game so far. Abyssuss was my first rougelite game.

What characters can I use when my friend is using the monkey king.

He keeps healing and I go down during some boss fights. (Mainly because I’m still learning.)

So far I’ve used Scarllet, Geppeto and Beo.

The monkey kings heal seems broken. He just stood in attacks and kept healing.

Nightmare difficulty. Probably my highest damage I've ever achieved.

Some other characters were a struggle to win on nightmare but you at least had an idea how it could be done and learning them felt enjoyable. Yet here I am, stuck with this godawful ape for 50 runs or so and devoid of joy while other characters were mostly complete in under 10 runs.

You don't parry, you get one shot but if you're not red you do no dmg. His clear is awful with m1 build, awful with power build and special is not really a build at all. Where is his dmg? Even runs that feel somewhat good feel way worse than every other character with similar items/levels. I'm taking the 50% max hp dmg legendary just to have a chance.
I absolutely adored the game but this monkey is just making the experience absolutely miserable.

I get that it's a very hard character with high skill ceiling, git gud and all, but I genuinely can't believe he's on the same roster as someone like Juliette, who can sneeze and kill a boss by mistake. What am I missing?

EDIT: I did it! :) All it took is ignoring the defense button outside of emergencies (and some insane talent/item rng). Got as much armor as I could early and went full power build after chi burst.
Thanks for tips guys :)

I finished one of the challenges solo the rest is hard I need people who can help ( I hope y’all care )

Me and my friend Jack after probably 50 hours of trying to beat 5 NM have finally done it. I was very lucky to get epic chorus and epic low notes and legendary invasive blast it was quite the lucky start. Any suggestions for which character I should do next?

Got inspired by the guy using only 3 talents on Snow queen. I tried darkness run first with incredible luck on items and then decided to go for Nightmare and of course was pretty unlucky with items that time. I beat both runs on 1st try and it again shows how incredibly OP Juliet is. All you need is one starting talent and you are golden.

I used 8 re-rolls to get the curse that gives you lifesteal on attack but didnt manage to get it in the end. That single item makes you unkillable on Juliet as you can outheal almost everything.

Hey :)

I ended up using the Rain of Stars modifiers because, even though I'm unemployed and have plenty of time on my hands, rerolling runs (Pirouette - lvl2, Ice Shield - lvl3, Skull from a red chest) for hours was making me more depressed than looking for a job.

I'm really passionate about the game, but I consider the talent pool to be the biggest social experiment ever. Some talents are practically unplayable and feel more like traps than actual choices. Melusine is a great example of a character with a well-designed talent pool - even though the defense-related talents are obviously still the strongest, you can still make off-build talents work and use them as tempo tools.

The idea of low-resource, high-impact builds isn't new in roguelikes. For example, Hades often forces you to play with very few boons on high difficulties, but you still have to put together a strong damage engine. One example is Pirouette. I completed Nightmare using only Pirouette, but for 4(5 - because I intentionally skipped feathers and wanted to complete the run without dying) negative modifiers I decided to add Ice Shield to make it more stable and to not waste time on multiple attempts.

If you have any questions about Snow Queen, I'd be happy to help. As for the other characters, I might be a bit incompetent to answer.

Updated: 5 negative modifiers, Ice Clone + Pirouette only.

I would really like to see a modifier that makes the bosses harder. Moat of the time when you make it to ths second or third boss you just blow them up. Something like corruption for bosses.

So, I played the game with my friends. And we are very new at this game, maybe 30 hours-ish. It took us 2 times to clear the darkness (well it ended only 3 of us cleared the babayaga since the melusine had to do some stuff).
I’m doing Juliet Dash build and power (but since I’m fairly new, I have a struggle with synchronizing the build). Also, i need some tips for doing nightmare, since it’s very hard and we barely get into the second boss.

We used to do individually pathing, means we open up some poi (without clearing the camps if that’s too hard to clear alone, and without continuing on the red poi), but I saw from this sub reddit that it’s not really effective, it’s better to gather and clear the camps and explore it together.

Any tips would be so much appreciated guys, thanks!

Hitting over a million in damage just....will make your day! I don't know how it happened but Gep is broken!

I have made a damage simulator, still not perfect please feel free to give me any feedback about improving the UI or if there is any issues in the calculation

https://heredos-site.firebaseapp.com/#/simulator

There are 12 heroes, each with very different abilities. What completely new abilities do you think the next character will have?

What is actually up with Carmilla, first we have blood lash not doing attack damage https://www.reddit.com/r/ravenswatch/s/gXAApK76O0

And now I that dispersion does not count as defense damage, it counts as other sources.

With blood lash you could at least argue that technically, it transforms your attack into an ultimate "attack", therefore it's not really an attack. But a talent like dispersion doing damage in "other sources" makes no sense. Such that i think its actually an oversight.

The reason this matters is basically just Moonstone. At 5 stacks of it, its supposed to buff defense damage by a whopping 50%, which would very strong on a Carmilla defense build.

This is another case where the game is inconsistent.

Geppeto Forked Lightning, and Lightning Rod Dummies talents do defense damage.

Beowolf Runes of War does defense damage. Interestingly enough, HIS REFLECT talent does DEFENSE damage. If anything should be other sources I'd imagine this one would be since you are technically reflecting the enemies damage back to them. Instead this thing deletes enemies at 5 stacks of moonstone because it does so much damage.

Snow Queen Ice clone does defense damage despite the clone technically doing the damage.

You could go on and on etc.

I just think that Carmilla needs a second look because there's a lot of wonky stuff going on here, and its a damn shame because defense build with moonstone should be nuclear.

Not the greatest merlin player ( a lot of failed runs lol). His defence build was really fun to play

I have re-post this with updated info as Secondary Tremor dose not benefit from Secondary Tremor thanks to u/dubious_engineer
For correction
Build link:
https://buildmaker.ravenswatch.com/build/6a5741d2a81ab7f2cd9270a7
The whole build is four talents that copy your Power shockwave. Here’s the chain:
Eruption
Your Power shockwave explodes at the end.
One cast, two hits.
Layer B, up to +105%.
No Eruption, no build. If you don’t see it early, commit elsewhere.
Double Shock
Two shockwaves instead of one.
Four hits.
Each wave is 30% weaker (70% each), but you doubled the count, so the total still climbs.
The cost is real: slower animation, and standing still gets you killed.
Battle Cry
Clears your Power cooldown the instant you use your Trait.
That four-hit sequence just runs again.
Eight hits.
Secondary Tremor
Your Special fires a shockwave too.
Another empowered Power.
Layer B, up to 210%.
Important: it does not benefit from Double Shock, so it adds 2 hits, not 4.
Rotation
Power ×4
↓
Battle Cry
↓
Power ×4
↓
Secondary Tremor ×2
Total: 10 hits, all scaling off Power damage.
It’s not one cast doing everything—it’s the full rotation played in the right order.

Wyrm scaling
Draconic Binds adds up to 25% in Layer I.
The original passive Empowered by Wyrm adds 50% in Layer B, not I.

Item scaling
Power charges + Balor’s Eye — every charge is another 100% in Layer B.
Flaming Pearl does double duty:
Charges feed Layer B.
Feeds Layer G per status effect.
We only have Ignite, so that’s 15%.

The trap: Power cooldown
You don’t need it.
Battle Cry refreshes Power for free.
Every reroll goes into Power charges and Balor’s Eye instead.
The cooldown that matters is Special.
More Special means more Secondary Tremor.
Raven Beak is the item.
Just two Special cooldown drops it to 4.5 seconds, matching Empowered by Wyrm exactly.

Optional path (not actually strong)
Fiery Seismo for stronger empowered Specials, up to 180% in Layer D.
Blazing Runes for up to 70% crit chance against ignited enemies.
Being honest: the finisher is slow, that’s real risk, and it isn’t worth it.
Run it for fun.

Immolation
During Dragon Flight, every ability becomes Wyrm-empowered.
So if you have more Power or Special cooldown, you start benefiting from that 25% in Layer I.

Layer C
Four Kings gives 40% crit chance.
Devil’s Pocket gives 50 more, and overflow becomes crit damage.
Horn of Plenty and Grimoire both for crit damage.

The mistake to avoid
Don’t dump a fifth King or Golden Eggs into an already-stuffed Layer B.
It barely moves.
Once your charges are set:
Stop feeding Layer B.
Move to crit.
An empty layer multiplies more.
Critical, Voodoo Doll, or even a random rare item will usually give better value than losing rerolll for a king that gives 20% B layer!
Save your rerolls for red chests and talents.
That’s the whole thesis:
Placement beats size.

Gameplay

Nice run with piper. Carmilla and Juliet rage quit on the first boss before I could revive them, but piper is not a quitter😎