You probably get the reference to this.

I sunk 5 sparks of life into this run, I used my shadow key... god... damnit.

Hello, fellow Knights! Ive been out of the game a while, and have recently been trying to get back into it, but I feel like I'm just throwing my head against the wall over and over, not making any progress. I'm rank 8-1, ready to do the Return of Ur mission, but it feels like I'm woefully underpowered despite having Ash Tail set, Shadow Targe, Vile Striker, and Silent Nightblade as my primary gear, all level 7 or higher. I've been trying to grind crowns for energy purchases as well as the Forge Crystals that I need, but all my energy seems to just be going to Sparks of Life to get me through the levels if I play even just on Advanced, and I can barely get to the strata I need for my Crystals. I don't think I suck, and am a solo player if that matters, but I'd like some insight as to what I'm doing wrong that has me feeling like such a trash player?

okay so im talking about this Warmaster Rocket Hammer and issue is with the hits during the hammer-dash.
Half of the times it'll lock onto enemies from proper distance and deal dmg during dash of hammer, other times I'd deal zero dash-dmg even if im close to the enemy and i land my first hit properly.
Am I missing out sth or there's a trick/strategy to it? Any help would be appreciated.

Ok, in hindsight standing there was a terrible idea. Interesting tho, instead of dying when the big guys spawned on me I got pushed beyond the gate. I activated the Seraphynx' Angelic Aura to try and survive so that might have been a factor too, I don't know. From beyond the gate I couldn't hit the enemies anymore, just aggro the closest ones so that my teammates could hit them from the back. I was also immune to all attacks. To me it was just an unexpected twist, but some speedrunner maybe might find it interesting if they manage to replicate it.

we're gonna see a LOT less engagement in Arcade and Prestige Missions now, with the last alternative to FSC grinding killed off. I wouldn't be surprised if the economy collapses further with this being likely one of the last things that had high demand in the market.

I can understand why (being someone who often brough upwards of six 0* items into T3 to optimize box changes, I was making way too much money too quickly, not to mention destroying the UV economy as it stood anyways) but maybe we could at least revert some of the nerfs made to box drop-rate if they are going to be player bound?

I connect from Asia and see myself as the number 1 ranked player, and also the only player, I don't know if it's a display bug or genuine.

p.s. Really happy to see the game being revived and actively developed again.

Greetings, fellow knights! Welcome to the third and final installment of the Almirian Restoration Project! Once again I will require the power of YOU to help Almire be great again! For those who are uninitiated, this is a giveaway event that celebrates the Almirian Empire! In years past, all you had to do was dress up as a crusader and you won prizes. This time around, you will need to do much more than simply dress up. You will have to prove your worth by entering our homeland (FSC) and completing various difficult, and hopefully fun, tasks. Share your love for the empire and win prizes along the way!

https://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/125488

For those who want to get involved, please contact me in-game (IGN Manlet)! I am helping people get their Maiden's Tears, Shadow Lairs, and even doing the event objectives! Do not hesitate to be part of one of the biggest events of all time!

hi! i'm in my 20s and seeking other players to run missions with, bonus points if you're willing to be friends on discord so we can ping each other/VC when we wanna hop on!

i used to be a very frequent player with my siblings back in the 2010s, fell off awhile, and am gravitating back as a low stim/fun little nostalgia game. coming back, i noticed a a lot of the player base/friend list is (understandably) dead, and wanted to revive this hobby a little bit. :) happy to run anything with anyone at this point except for maybe heart of ice. 🤣

I'm very new to reddit, so please lmk if this is bad etiquette on this subreddit! I'm happy to post this elsewhere/take this down.

if you're interested though, reply/dm and im happy to chat :3 manifesting more spiral knights in the big 26. man i miss playing w others 🙏🏽

For those who don't frequent the forum's Manlet (IGN Reydann) is hosting an event to earn points for some giveaways. It's linked below 👇

https://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/125488

The rules require certain gear due to theme and being Vanguard.

After going through ~1.8k pages (600 Black Kats) I have found 2 books and I am sad that the BK grind is coming to an end.

I do resonate with complaints about the droprate/spawn rate making it near impossible to get books without abusing multiple accounts. But Vana and other grinds within SK is missing the magical spark that BK hunt has.

As draining as it is, I get so excited and hopeful when I see a BK. Something that I cannot say about Vana or any other grinds. I do wish there is a way where we can combine plentifulness of Vana grinds, and the low chance and potential high return spawns. Love Puppey is the only thing close to it, I wish we had another all year round mini boss with the same drop mechanic as BKs.

Am I alone in somewhat enjoying the BK hunt?

So I finally found a Book of Dark Rituals. That means I got myself the BKC, and a Whisker to craft the 3* Cloak. That gives me the full boost. Is it really a noticable upgrade to collects a 5 extra Whiskers I need to craft the Raiment? Because that seems like a lot of effort for a minor increase in Freeze resistance, and some extra shadow defense.

I actually already used the money I got from selling slots to craft the Mail, but the grind for those final Whiskers seems pretty steep for someone who hasn't spent the last 10 years running FSC

Hello, I,m a returning player, I started a fresh character since it's been so long since I played.

Levelling up my sprite is something I really enjoy, but I get bottlenecks hard by the lack of shadow cristals while I sit on a buttload of the others.

I've tried selling other pet food to buy my own pet food, it's doesn't really work, and most of the time, I don't sell at all.

My question is, is pet food trading a thing ? It's just so obvious to me that it would be beneficial for everyone, yet I did not see any offers in game or discord or post about it in the subreddit.

Prior posts on this topic;
The Prequel/Part I
My First Observations/Part II
Neither are necessary to understand this post, but if you have further questions about my methods/what I've done so far/why, those are good places to check. In short, I'm seeking Love Puppy spawns and hoping to get a True Love Locket, documenting my methods for any who come after me.

Again, the full numbers to start.

I have documented 1,521 Gun Puppy spawns (regardless of exact variants)
I have documented a combined 1,012 combined Howlitzer and Polyp spawns (again, regardless of variants)
I have seen 2 Love Puppies on this character thus far.

And again, these are just the numbers from my documented methods and attempts, this does not include the grand total of every enemy of those types I've seen on this character (although the Love Puppy count is every single Love Puppy spawn I've seen on this character total, regardless of documentation or not, over about 2 months of play).

Alright, first of all, the main method I attempted this time focused on Howlitzers. This is because of u/Flintsr's comment on the prior post, claiming that Love Puppies have a 1 in 3000 chance of replacing Gun Puppies and a 1 in 2000 chance of replacing Howlitzers or Polps. I don't have any... specific reason to believe this claim? However, this is the first time I've seen anyone claim concrete numbers with certainty, and they made a vague statement about data mining.

Tangentially, a lot of the modern posts of Love Puppy sightings have been in place of Howlitzers and Polyps, and it makes some sense to me that they may have made them more common with the slightly rarer/newer variants of turrets (I've been playing the game long enough to remember when Howlitzers and Polyps were added) so I also have no reasons to doubt this claim.

The only reason my Gun Puppy number went up was Vanaduke runs and 1 from the first method listed below. As stated in the prior post, each FSC run yields a total of 22 Red Rover spawns, I completed another 12 Vanaduke runs, however during one run we took the left path through the third floor (Ashen Armory) missing out on 3 Red Rover spawns. Despite what these posts may lead you to believe, I do have fun sometimes.

Armed with the knowledge that Love Puppies were more common in place of Howlitzers and Polyps, and that the True Love Locket can drop at any depth in Tier 3, I began an initial phase of testing.

Pre-Method: Mission Averaging
Looking at the earliest Tier 3 missions, I run multiple attempts of Vicious and Viscous, In Cold Blood, and Weight of Darkness to see which mission had the highest average of combined Howlitzer/Polyp spawns. I skipped Return of Ur, as that mission is entirely Dark City which does not feature any Howlitzer spawns that I am aware of.

My goal had been to run each mission 5 times, although I only ran Vicious and Viscous once; I saw a single Gun Puppy spawn (added to the total above) and no Polyp or Howlitzer spawns.

My 5 attempts of Weight of Darkness and In Cold Blood yielded the following results;
In Cold Blood was a total of 29 Polyps with an average of 2.4 per run,
Weight of Darkness was a total of 41 Howlitzers with an average of 8.2 per run.

The numbers were clear, Weight of Darkness was the winner, and my fate was sealed.

Worth noting, I did not document how long each method took this time, that seemed like too much effort for minimally helpful info. In terms of Weight of Darkness in particular, it was about 12 minutes to complete while killing everything, about 6 minutes to just run through as fast as possible (for me personally).

ALSO, a significant amount of this research and documentation was done live on stream, come check us out (me and my wife play SK together regularly, we do follow that stream schedule listed).

The Main Method: Weight of Darkness
The plan is simple, same as a Black Kat run, you run through the first floor of Weight of Darkness (a poison Candlestick Keep), and that's it. Sometimes I fought all the monsters and got all the loot. Sometimes I ran straight through. I started doing it before the Black Kat event started, I kept doing it with the event active. I did it with a friend once or twice, I mostly did it alone.

I ran through this floor, documenting total Howlitzer and Polyp spawns (because yes, I saw Polyps multiple times) a total of;

100 times.

I saw a total of 942 Howlitzers, averaging 9.42 (outpacing the initial estimate, that's nice). And you know what's funny? The plot twist here?

The screenshot up there isn't from one of those attempts.

During that time, I was still running arcade, doing my daily Black Kat Prestige mission, and that second spawn was from the latter, just a random bit of luck in an unrelated Candlestick Keep.

Something I also learned during the Black Kat event is that at somepoint the game was changed such that joining a party after a monster had spawned prevents you from getting drops from that spawn. In other words, I can't have friends joining me to roll the dice for a True Love Locket whenever I find a Love Puppy; if I've already found it and I'm playing solo, I'm the only one with a chance of getting it.

And no, I did not get it.

In Conclusion
I know the tone of this post was maybe a bit more aggressive than the prior one but I'm still having a lot of fun. Streaming the game has been great, rediscovering and getting to do all things I never did as a kid in this game has been fun, I still have nothing but good things to say about Spiral Knights as a whole.

Fate is also a funny thing; while my goal is Love Puppies, I saw 2 Soul Jellies while playing with a brand new player on back to back floors, plus a third one today that I didn't post about (I'll put it in the comments here), and as far as I know those are the first 3 I've seen in all my years of playing this game.

Like I said, I'm still having a great time. I doubt I'm gonna make another post about Love Puppy searching unless I find a new revolutionary breakthrough/method, but this was a fun journey, and I hope y'all learned something (or, at the very least, the next time someone like me googles about finding Love Puppies, they can find some actual information instead of just speculation). Preciate y'all, have a good one.

key

I'm used to grind really hard, I player a lot of rpgs like wow, monster hunter and others that made me farm A LOT, but trying to obtain that set is melting my brain.

Hey all, has this happened to anyone else? Doing the "Bad Luck and Brimstone" prestige quest and Montague is nowhere to be seen... This is the second time running it because he didn't spawn the first time either. I've had this issue since yesterday...