78.230.168.30 wrote:
I particularly think to run ruiners like wiggle worm or my reflection, but many crappy items are hated by a lot of players. Personally, I'd vote for chocolate milk, technology1, dead cat, or even IPECAC / brimstone (yay, that last one is particularly powerful, but not necessarly good. I prefer tears, most of the time.)
Chocolate milk indeed is often quoted as bad item but I really don't understand the hate about this item, which imo is awesome.
And objectively it IS a completely positive item: double your fire rate and allows you to charge massive damage tears. There is only ONE case where it is detrimental: with brimstone. The other detrimental feature but intangible in the game is that you have to tap the key instead of having it fire automatically. I guess people are so lazy that's one reason they don't like it...
But honestly I personally love this item. I love "cracking" the game obtaining pretty much the biggest/most powerful tears possible, and in these types of run, chocolate milk becomes an unavoidable item. Having the possibility to charge huge white homing teeth is just bliss.
I am talking about the charging effect but the fact that it doubles the fire rate is equally if not even better. But this is more than just doubling the fire rate inf fact, as it acts like cancer, allowing to go over the fire rate limitation if at max, unlike other tears up items. Add to this cancer and you will have the possiblity to fire absolutely crazily fast (although it will be difficult as you'll have to tap the key like crazy. RIP keyboard :P).
This property is very handy when you have low fire rate items such as polyphemus. When checking the stats in the pause menu, polyphemus resets it at 1, even when previously at max. The cancer + chocolate milk combo is the only combo that allows you to go up to 3 in fire rate. Thus huge and fast firing tears. This is great.
Anyway, it was just my monologue to give back a bit of credit to this item^^
You also tlak about Dead Cat, which imo is awesome. allows to farm bosses, and is a guppy item. Unless you already have a lot of health, you will want to take this one.
And Brimstone IS really good. 3 times the damage, piercing/spectral shots, this is definitely a very powerful item.