I did my first tier 3 run yesterday and got instakilled by the final boss when I hit him once and I didn't even feel anything, despite half an hour going down the drain. I now understand the shit balance and only meta allowed people were talking about, I might be done with the game if it's like this

>>724143884
Yeah there's no iframes, game is fun but by no means good or well balanced. you can just kinda get surprised tapped and then jankily bounced into other hitboxes and it'll tick your HP like 50 times in a second and you'll die before you can react.
I had to survivalmax t o beat both tier 3's. Aegis + Quantity was enough for forest T3, had to use max hp + regen tomes on top of that for desert T3

>>724143707
The only good weapons seem to be katana, sniper, and dexecutioner, with poison, firewalker, lightning staff, and aura being somewhat okay too. I've been told wireless dagger and black hole are good but I stopped playing before getting them. Game needs new maps stat.

>>724144361
Sniper seems pretty mediocre to me. Poison is fine if you just want a weapon you'll never upgrade and can keep at level 1 while you just passively upgrade it with tomes for your other weapons.
Aegis is fucking godlike for survivability, I think attack speed increases how fast the shields come back so you can just become immortal with enough quantity + speed. Also Blood Magic and Dice are both good because any self scaling/auto scaling weapon is just gonna be broken.

>>724144361
To me, axes feel crazy busted because they can multihit per projectile and you can double dip with multiple projectiles, so if you stand against a boss you can hit like 50 times per attack
aegis is crazy strong for just staying alive & should be one of your four weapon picks unless you're trolling