Since bishop's lazer is aoe electric shock now, should houndius do the same?

[Tranoze]

?

[Edible Coal]

for something that requries a afw kill to get one, i expect no less 

[Jakepeng99]

Maybe but give it a niche different from catapults, it should have electric damage, but stay single target and maybe do more damage.

[Tranoze]

3 hours ago, Jakepeng99 said:

 it should have electric damage

We totally want houndius shootius to light base on fight by shooting brightshade once.
No it should deal freeze damage cuz it use deerclops eyeball.

Edited March 8 by Tranoze

[Jakepeng99]

1 hour ago, Tranoze said:

We totally want houndius shootius to light base on fight by shooting brightshade once.
No it should deal freeze damage cuz it use deerclops eyeball.

Maybe it does both idk.

[Maxil20]

10 hours ago, Jakepeng99 said:

Maybe but give it a niche different from catapults, it should have electric damage, but stay single target and maybe do more damage.

I really think it should be multitarget (especially considering the hoops you need to get one…), but what if it worked similar to the brightshade staff where it chained between target to target compared to dealing damage in a small radius? It would give both similar results for crowds, but do so in different ways. Would also probably get a coolness bonus, since I feel it would also be pretty satisfying.

Edited March 8 by Maxil20

[Bumber64]

Winter's Feast Deerclops eye laser.

[Jakepeng99]

14 hours ago, Maxil20 said:

I really think it should be multitarget (especially considering the hoops you need to get one…), but what if it worked similar to the brightshade staff where it chained between target to target compared to dealing damage in a small radius? It would give both similar results for crowds, but do so in different ways. Would also probably get a coolness bonus, since I feel it would also be pretty satisfying.

I posted an idea here before similar to that. It was a post riff upgrade to the houndious that used enlightened shards. The more shards it has, the more it bounces and stronger it is.

[Radicaljoe]

Maybe instead of aoe, it fires multiple shots? Like it fires 3 blasts and tries to spread the damage out between a bunch of targets. 

[Gashzer]

23 hours ago, Bumber64 said:

Winter's Feast Deerclops eye laser.

This would turn it into the Obelisk of Light from command and conquer..... which would be so cool!

[DegenerateFurry]

On 3/8/2026 at 3:50 PM, Bumber64 said:

Winter's Feast Deerclops eye laser.

Best idea in the thread here, that'd make it really cool.

[Lovens]

On 3/8/2026 at 1:46 PM, Tranoze said:

We totally want houndius shootius to light base on fight by shooting brightshade once.
No it should deal freeze damage cuz it use deerclops eyeball.

This. Houndius has nothing to do with electricity and should stay this way. I wouldn't mind this suggestion if electric damage setting plant mobs on fire would have been a toggle in the settings like we asked.

AoE non-electric damage would be fine though but to me houndius is fine as is already. 

[PonyOfApocalips]

I said this once and i will say it agian.

NO. Houndus is good for a lot of farms BECAUSE it is diffrent than bishop (both have diffrent useges) cause it shoot single target projectal.

If klei would change houndus they would decise number of farms we can made- unless we still got old houdus in some way i am strongly against it

[Cruvimaster]

An item that requires defeating the game's hardest boss to craft a single unit definitely deserves a rework. It should have planar damage, area damage, or damage to multiple enemies like the Brightshade Staff. But it's hard to expect the devs to ever dedicate the time to it.

Basically, the player needs to defeat 4 bosses to gain access to the item (Deerclops, Shadow Pieces, Ancient Guardian, and Ancient Fuelweaver). Klei should have put more effort into this.