Suggestion about the underwhelming dumbbells

[Rafi.]

Hi everyone, I'm going to keep it simple, I like the rework, I just don't like the dumbbells, they are really underwhelming, here's why :

What I don't like about the dumbbells :
 

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The dumbbells take one slot of inventory to just be able to be mighty, so Wolfgang's main perk. The way it works is pretty simple, you right click it, Wolfgang lift it and use durability, depending on which one you use, the speed to be mighty change and the durability of the dumbbell as well.
On paper that sounds great, but I don't think it is, the dumbbells are stupidly slow for what they cost you, beside the materials used to craft them, you need to constantly have one slot ditched just for being able to use your only perk, you need to spend alot of time too, if you want to do a boss you need to lift the dumbbells (especially in early game where you don't necessarily have a base to build the gym.) and, it's just boring as hell, being forced to do nothing for awhile only to active your only one perk is not what most of us would call good gameplay.

I don't like the idea of needing upgrades to the dumbbells too, Wolfgang always has been a character to makes the game go faster, and farming for some of those resources are painful, especially the purple gem for the last dumbbell, in the early game that first purple gem is very precious to make a shadow manipulator and, when of course you can rush the ruins, you wouldn't be able to effectively be mighty in the ruins, you'll need to go to the ruins to get a purple gem to get mighty, which is honestly just bad. I'm not even mentioning the fact that you need a prestihatitator to make that dumbbell.

In conclusion : it's too slow and the need to use upgrades shouldn't be, not early game atleast.

What ideas do I have ?
 

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I have a pretty simple idea actually, just like rowing with an oar, we could right click when Wolfgang lift the dumbbells up to speed up the procress, something like 2 or 3 points each time you right click at the right moment, it would add to what the different dumbbells gives you without doing nothing, so the upgrades are still relevant (maybe upgrading the durability of the purple gem one would be nice in that case.)

Oh yeah and eventually, throwing dumbbells should do atleast double the damage that they do right now (since it use so much durability and that AoE won't be used in alot of case beside killing spiders I guess.)

Alot of problems can be solved with a simple solution.

Thank you for reading, I hope that my ideas will be appreciated by most of you, I can't wait to have the rework officially dropping ! I liked most of the ideas of the rework, but the dumbbells man, so much people here wanted them to be added to game, let's make them atleast useful and enjoyable !

TL,DR: Make the dumbbells have a rythm "game" to speed up the process of getting mighty with them, and buffing the damage when you throw the dumbbells.
 

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19 hours ago, Rafi. said:

 

  Hide contentsTL,DR: Make the dumbbells have a rythm "game" to speed up the process of getting mighty with them, and buffing the damage when you throw the dumbbells.

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Two things:

A: i seem to have somehow broken the quote system

B: i like your idea of including a minigame, it would make it more consistent with the gym and lettint players get away with using the dumbells instead of the gym easier