r/VoidlingBound

The idea of "risking it all" in the abyss is cool in concept, but after playing for a while now I feel that it has unintended gameplay affects.

There is a pretty substantial time period after the campaign but before you are 50 wrangler level that you want to finish all the ship progression and begin moving toward Max late game voidlings. During this time you want to be doing the abyss to begin unlocking catalysts but there is a catch! You are usually using a weaker voiding that has a very real chance of dying even in the first 10 stages and therefore risking it in the abyss is just usually not worth your time. (please note i am playing on the hardest difficulty and you will get one shot if the wrong elite spawns even in early abyss levels).

I found that this simply made me not play anything outside of abyss level 1 for quick breeding till i had wrangler 50 and a seriously powerful voidling because it was just more efficient to do so.

The player should be encouraged to see if they can go deeper and deeper without threat of their time being 100% wasted. I could see versions of the abyss that every 10 levels your rewards are locked in so at least you don't lose everything, but until you are done with progression (making death in the abyss meaningless anyways) there is just 0 reason to risk it all.

TL:DR - death in the abyss isn't scary later in the game cause you don't worry about losing resources at that point, and is too punishing early at the very time you actually need those resources. Losing everything only serves to make the early late game feel far worse from a grind perspective.

i want to see what everyone thinks

I was experimenting with Ur-Sek builds for endgame, noticed I got pretty far, so I decided to record it before I called it quits. Accidentally hit my hotkey for muting desktop before I started recording, so no audio unfortunately. Ur-Sek is busted even without any mutations, built in bleed and healing on primary makes them my personal pick for strongest voidling. Impending Doom didn't even trigger once.

I'd love to have a plant Voidling someday, like a Venus Flytrap that grows copies of itself that act like bear traps, or a pitcher plant that sucks up enemies and uses them as projectiles.

I love the game but find myself getting really overwhelmed with the breeding aspect. Is there anywhere I can find basic, easy to understand breeding information? I've searched through this sub but I'm confused.

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Should I be max leveling voidlings before I breed them? Should the voidlings I breed have their skill points balanced? Or, for example, should I breed one voidling who has all points put into strength with another voidling who has all points put into health?

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Sorry if this post is confusing or doesn't make sense. Any useful info would be greatly appreciated because right now I'm only playing about 20% of the time in game, the other 80% is spent trying to figure out who to breed, and if I train them before I breed etc

Can we talk about how good the OST is on the last level before the void??

I've been doing some testing with Gwigoon minions and how they could be used for elemental builds.

This is what I have found so far, please let me know if they are wrong or incomplete:

1. The only minions that appear to apply status effects are the "funky ones".
2. They do NOT trigger any perk for status like on-inflict or the bonus damage ones. This includes the on-death lingering pool from the upgrade skill.
3. They also do not appear to inherit your essence value.

That together seems to sharply limit the use of elemental builds for these guys. The minions seem only useful as mostly straight damage.

Tell me why ? Ain’t nothing but a heartache? Tell me why ? Ain’t nothing but a mistake, Tell me why?