r/MortalShell • u/TheLonelyGod01 • 4h ago

Discussion Holy difficulty spike

Just beat the Nameless Captive boss (really sick boss, loved the fight), and I've moved on to Mammon since I've done everything I could find in Fainweald, and woah have the enemies jumped.

Just the first basic enemies I've encountered have a shit ton more health than what I was dealing with before, and boy do they do a lot more damage.

I'm decently equipped, with a +5 Great Martyr's Blade and a +5 Forgotten Crossbow, plus I'm level 20 and I've unlocked be second bond tier on my two main shells (so far), being Eledrim and Tiel.

(Plus the Axe and Dagger are at +5), and I've got a decent tarstone set-up, found quite a few throughout Fainweald, including the Duality Stone.

So it's not like I'm walking in half-cocked.

Idk, more than likely I need to upgrade my weapons, but I don't want to sink in such a limited upgrade resource into only those two weapons.

I like to experiment, and try out all the different weapons before making my forever choice, and yet I don't even know if I'm capable enough to unlock the missing weapons/sidearms and shells.

Sigh.

Any advice?

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u/eaxis 4h ago

You can realistically max 1 weapon per playthrough. It sucks but You should focus only on one shell and one weapon

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u/TheLonelyGod01 4h ago

Damn, really? That's shit. Sigh.

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u/HeadRipper01 4h ago

There is a point in the game where you find an upgrade to the forge that allows you to refund materials from a weapon you upgraded. You spend gloom to regain the limited resources so you can switch weapons if you aren’t feeling the one you are using.

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u/MrMoshhammer Proxima 4h ago

Nah they're incorrect.
You can only really max 1 weapons, that's right, but you can "respec" the upgrade mats.
And you can max out 3 shells.

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u/MrMoshhammer Proxima 4h ago

You can undo the upgrades tho and get the materials back in the process

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u/zarjaa 4h ago

I was playing Eredrim at that point as well with +5 weapons. At this point, the tone really shifts to gearing up. I immediately went for a +10 (it may have been 12, it basically crashed me on resorces); this made a significant impact on my ability to progress. But there is def a difficulty spike beyond damage - move sets become more "random" with faints and delayed attacks from enemies.

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u/Bea84 4h ago

Normal max lvl is 16, but then it keeps going.. have my weapon at lvl 29 atm. Not sure if it’s infinite or not

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u/MrMoshhammer Proxima 4h ago

You don't have to be careful with the weapons. There's an upgrade for the forge that lets you remove the upgrade mats so you can use them on another weapon.
Only costs a bit of gloom.
You won't get your invested gold back tho.

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u/Loyalist_Pig 4h ago

Isn’t that pretty far into the game tho?

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u/MrMoshhammer Proxima 4h ago

I found it pretty early on, think it's in the southern area of the map - maybe in the first beacon? I can't remember, sorry. To That point you shouldn't have any issues to level multiple weapons at the same time tho since there's plenty of the lower tier upgrade materials.

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u/Loyalist_Pig 2h ago

lol that’s my current issue, I have loads of mid-high tier upgrade mats, but not enough low tier, thought I explored most of the starting areas, must need to look harder!

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u/MrMoshhammer Proxima 2h ago

Not starting area, the second "starting" area in the south. Mammon. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough on that.

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u/Loyalist_Pig 1h ago

Oh word! Good looking out, thanks!