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Cocktail needs a rework to function more similarly to scholar or revenant.

Controller, it should be Triangle L2 to ready skill, L1 draws residue from target (or holding it draws all nearby residue including from allies), R1 dumps oldest residue (or holding it dumps all residue), R2 mixes the cocktail, L2 or dodge exits mode. Any of these actions returns you to exits mode.

This way, you can more easily decide when to use your cocktail, or more easily take advantage of residues on allies from enemy attacks.

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I would say the most RNG depended character. She either super strong or super weak, depending if you got good spells or you got some pebbles are slow low damaged AOE ones, like Crystal Release which is ONLY good when you cast it under huge boss

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There are some misconceptions about recluse plus the two things that the guy below said that have some truth in it, but for the wrong reasons.

Recluse has way more survival potential depending on the relics she has. She’s shallowly a glass cannon, but when you know how to build around her, she has huge survival potential.

So I’m posting this for someone that wants to play this character to its full survival potential and thus enjoy the character.

A long read, but worth it:

Night of the fathom is not the awesome relic people make it out to be for recluse, by ITSELF. The thing is that you can sacrifice a bit of damage for survivability by stacking it with recluse hp relic.

I will talk about that from two perspectives within the trios scenario: normal mode and DoN.

Normal mode is very chill. Recluse’s bone-like stone relic with defeating enemies art gauge should be enough. Evergaol relic is meta in this mode, so unfortunately you must have one as annoying as it is.

Meanwhile, in DoN joining these relics acquire more importance since they will give you a cushion effect that can last for the entire expedition and function like a wylder passive for the final fight, while doing great damage and help the others with your ultimate art’s benefits.

And keep in mind the idea in mind that magic/sorcery atk aren’t the only good dps picks: affinity and incantations increase are very powerful too.

If you have defeating enemies fills more of the art gauge plus any atk up on at least two depth relic slots, you can essentially become not only decent dps but even unkillable if you know how to manage the passives you find throughout the match.

Damage negation at full is just one of them. Even taking damage boosts damage negation with damage up while casting can help you a lot.

You must be very aware of the passive stacks, but you must also consider if you find dormant physical/affinity damage negations and hp plus during the expedition, and prioritize them when you run a semi-hp build, since these will make you even more durable.

An important remark here is that if you have a depth relic with hp and magic/affinity/etc damage up, you really should use it. Even if the other relics have higher damage tiers or some sorcery/incantation type increase, hp will be 100% better. It’s a rare find, but if you do find one or many, use them with recluse hp increase.

When it comes to damage negation relics, they’re not the priority either, but imo having a physical/affinity damage negation with an atk up can be helpful too if you also pair them with at least recluse hp enhancement.

The hp benefits become even greater if you have sacred seal discovery. When you are facing an enemy that has holy weakness, your teammates will most likely obtain that affinity and you might obtain a holy seal.

By ensuring a constant supply of holy affinities you’ll find out it has two uses: to constantly reapply the holy defense aura buff cocktail (10%, should be 15 or 18% imo), and if you keep a fire affinity source, to occasionally create the warming stone 30% hp cocktail, which btw is also a huge benefit for your teammates.

I also want to cover a very underrated relic: the one that makes you negate the affinity you collect by 20%.

It’s not worth it by itself because of the fact that you’ll miss out on damage in exchange for a 20% negation of affinities that comprise way less of a threat than physical damage during the expedition.

But if you’re going against caligo, augur or libra, this relic can be your most valuable asset for surviving their affinity attacks. If you also have some extra hp the way I described it before and negations, you can directly tank many of their affinity attacks, even in depth 5, which makes a huge difference between winning and losing.

In this case I’ve simply covered her ways of having better defenses while balancing it with some damage.

Long story short, damage is 50-60% of the focus and the other half goes to hp, art gauge and whatever you have to survive.

Priorities will vary depending on which nightlords we’re talking about as shown with collecting affinity relic. So I advise you to create multiple builds for each situation.

Hope this is helpful for you guys. If you have any feedback please share

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These recommended relic section are awful. Night of fathom is terrible on recluse, you should not be buffing your HP at all. you are a glass canon.... GO FOR DAMAGE. YOU ARE NOT SUPPORT AND YOU CANNOT TANK. GO FOR DAMAGE. DO NOT WASTE A SLOT FOR HEALTH BUFFING OR SUPPORT EFFECTS.

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Magic slop aka Ironeye with more damage. Fish for stars of ruin from lusat or night comet from loss and learn to time your cocktail through boss offense and you already mastered the ranged slop strat

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Big Hat Logan skin when?

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I've confirmed that the cursed keyboard and mouse only tech (controller has the two inputs needed bound to the same button) where you hold her character skill (cocktail) input and then tap a barehanded weapon skill input while her hand is right in front of her hat and she performs a version of carian grandeur is in fact a thing and not just a rumor.

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I find it hard to believe that shattering crystal isn’t a starting spell, considering it got nerfed in efficiency to the point that adding it as such would be balanced.

Can’t see either why spells like rock sling aren’t here either, so that gravity builds can actually exist.

And how we got carian gs instead of carian piercer, which favors recluse’s character more than the gs. Carian gs isn’t bad, just not as decent as piercer.

It’s also stupid that rare staves like prince lf death and meteorite don’t get ancient death rancor and collapsing stars, but instead lesser versions that are worse than a GLINTSTONE PEBBLE.

Revenant has three great starting spells. So why tf does recluse get such a garbage repertoire?

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please for the love of god i see the team running i know storms closing in im not actually trying to fight the red bbk i just need to steal elements off a target that wont die in one hit so i have the cocktail i want you don't have to spam pings at me like im stupid thats the whole gimmick of my character

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Mommy

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I love playing recluse with heolstors relic with a bow in hand and being able to draw whatever elements I need to cast whatever of her cocktails I want to use in various situations. Been having so much fun

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Carian gs will make your solo playthroughs better. You can deal with many more enemies without risking dying mid-animation.

Many enemies can be consecutively staggered by it. But it works the same way hoarfrost stomp does: early-early mid game at most.

Rest of the game you should rely on any good spells you’ve managed to find.

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I still use Shattering Crystal anyways, the nerf wasn't even that big.

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Anyone else feel like the Shattering Crystal nerf went too far? Now it costs so much you can't break even on fp without throwing out some cheap filler spells which lowers your overall dps. Even Stars of Ruin doesn't have that problem.

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she can safely solo punish the giant flower in everdark harmonia's second phase. the ice cocktail covers enough area to hit all the pustules simultaneously

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Sbd help, I find it's too hard to play Recluse solo

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For her remembrance you do NOT need to kill 4 Nightlords with Recluse to complete her remembrance. You just need to progress to the final step, then kill Heolstor. Lots of sources online claim that you need to have a certain number of Nightlord kills while using Recluse but it is not true.

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the lightning stake might be one of the most orgasmic abilities in a fromsoft game

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im gooning

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do yourself a favour, get a relic that has hidden power helps discover sacred seals and become an incantation recluse. sorceries are almost exclusively magic damage, aside from a couple of fire damage sorceries and only have access to frostbite for statuses. incantations have everything besides magic, buffs like golden vow/fgms and access to every status including frostbite (frozen lightning spear). it becomes trivial to get a lvl 3 cocktail of your choosing on demand, while still putting out absurd damage.
not to mention how much cooler incantations are compared to sorceries. sorceries are just blue vfx that shoot a projectile at the enemy. incantations are just way more visually interesting and far more fun to use in my opinion. unless you get a staff with ancient death rancor, rycards rancor or stars of ruin, there's not really a reason to use any sorceries outside of the starting weapon.

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Feedback : Recluse is weak. Duchess is better than her in mage role.
FS : Ok , let buff cocktail damage by 30% , buff cocktail cast speed by 30%

Feedback : Executor is weak. Duchess is better than him in melee Dex dps role.
FS : Ok , let buff his curse sword damage by 9000% , stance break by 999x , stamina on guard by 888x , let it get boost by passive "skill damage" , let his dog mode scale with DoN level too.

hex , Did you already fire your tester out ???

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i dont like her voice

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She's good and strong but I can't play her in DoN depths under 4. Like dude I can't revive you when you're at 3 bars. Even with an offhand melee weapon I don't have the dodge to avoid attacks while reviving. And in D3 you're expected to have teammates at constant 3 bars. Revenant is a better carry and reviverat lower ranks, while recluse dishes out more consistent damage and is one of the most powerful characters, you just need a good team to make recluse work.

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her cocktail seems not rewarding compared to the Executor's Cursed Sword.

Find three different affinity. takes 2 business days to gather (wasted time pick wrong aff due to your team's spam attacks). take another business day to cast, boom 2000.

while Executor can clang clang clang Zoooom 2500 + rip post 2500 lol.

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Recluse got hidden buff in teamplay.

they buff tank classes (Raider , Guardian , Executor) and they nerf range class (pot Scholar , Ironeye , Crystal Duchess)

That means there will be more players playing in the frontline and fewer players in the back.
fewer Scholar steal affinity damage passive.
fewer Ironeye hide behind your back.
fewer Crystal Duchess steal your staff and sorceries passive.
more players do tank and take aggro for you.
sound good , right ?

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Not even a single buff to the character skill or ultimate.

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just stack +4 magic in DON and get a shattering crystal

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Since Recluse has equal INT & FAI, I've started to REALLY wish that she started with a Sacred Seal in her offhand, so that we could make use of the newer Relics options that change your starting equipment's Sorceries & Incantations.

Just imagine actually being able to start out with something like Magma Shot & Glintstone Arc on your staff, and Lightning Strike & Discus of Light on your offhand seal, so that you'd have a decently ranged spell to be able to actually use ALL of your Magic Cocktail options right from the start, instead of having to constantly rely on RNG and/or other teammates to have other ones in their setup while attempting to time your FP absorption accordingly.

Ever since I landed a Relic that gives Dormant Power helps Discover Sacred Seals & Maximum FP Increased with 3+ Sacred Seals, I've had a monumentally more enjoyable time playing Recluse, because you have so many more options from Boss drops, your teammates will naturally leave good Staffs for you if they happen into them via RNG, AND you can actually make use of Magic Cocktail combinations intentionally, because you'll basically always have all the elements you need to throw in whichever one you want. (I used to occasionally run the Night Aspect Relic and grab a bow in my offhand, and cycle through it to have some control over being able to have all 4 elements from the start, but that's a bit obnoxious to manage, and that Relic Slot's a lot better for other things for her).

Of all the characters, she's the one you can't really use to make a starting build that really emphasizes her character Skill with in a way that's focused. Ironeye's kit has his ult being able to cause Poison, and also Relics that can cause poison, so that his Deep Relic of his Skill causing Heavy Poison can expand his playstyle around Poison. For characters like Scholar & Executor you can lean in to a lot of Arcane-focused options around a myriad of different status effects at once, now also including Rot. The Balancers now give the option of making other characters into L2 spamming machines with a number of good starting Ashes, so that you can start out strong and let the RNG reinforce that. With Recluse... it's still basically impossible to make a build around emphasizing one of the specific Magic Cocktail Doubles or Triples specifically, because Sorcery only gives Magic & occasionally lets you occasionally have 1 of 4 Fire Spells, whereas Incantations have a strong balance between Fire, Lightning, & Holy for the rest of your Magic Cocktail components.

Especially if the SotE Weapons & Spells still eventually show up at some point, I'm hoping that that'll be a QoL update for her, as that would be monumentally impactful. Even just being able to start out with the ability to use the Holy + Lightning Auto-Parry, or the Triple Lightning Dodge really mix up what you'd be able to do with her for the first few levels when those abilities have the opportunity to make a HUGE difference. At any rate, Sacred Seal Recluse is just such a monumentally fun way to play her where you're basically guaranteed to have good picks for 3 Staffs & 3 Seals in almost every run that it feels like she could really use a way for the starting Relics to build her out towards emphasizing her Magic Cocktail combos that doesn't exist currently.

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AWOOGA!!

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It doesn't matter whether Recluse or Duchess is better spell caster.

No one will play spell Duchess when desert sorceress skin comes out lol.

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The relic stat that reduces her mind for increased INT and FTH is absolutely busted. You can buy a normal relic with this stat change at the Collector's Sign Board, but it'll also give you +3 INT and FTH. Having more INT and FTH means you do WAY more damage with spells, and not by a small margin either. You're looking at anywhere from a 15-25% increase. You can 2 shot mobs in the starting camp with glintstone arc, for instance.

Of course, it's balanced with you having about 30% less FP than usual, but you quite literally have a way to regen FP. And if you ever can't, then use starlight shards or touch Grace. Trust me, the extra damage is worth it

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Imagine if we ever get Knight's Lightning Spear...


its all over my screen

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Magma Shot on starter staff is pretty neat. In addition to still keeping Glintstone Arc, so you get magic + fire affinities guaranteed every run, Magma Shot is actually really decent at staggering things especially charged. Makes dealing with things like Crystalians easier, and banished knights can be a unlocked with repeated uncharged shots. It's also really helpful for dealing with any shield using does. The biggest gripe I have with this set up is that talisman scarabs are kind of a pain to chase down, but most of the time you can just use Arc how you would use Pebble and it more or less "works"

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Carian greatsword start is a must if you play solo. It stuns many heavy hitting enemies and you’ll be able to cheese them

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My wife

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since we have relic that change her starter staff spell to Magic glintblade (Glintblade) , Night shard (Invisible) , Magma shot , Carian greatsword (Carian) , and Briar spell (Thorn)

I hope we will found more variety Recluse from now on , not just braindead spamming Crystalian everywhere.

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THEY DIDN'T GIVE ME MY GRAVITATIONAL MISSLE! REEEEEEEEEE

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should’ve made magic more like in souls game with all classes separated
why on earth sorcery has only magic damage while incantations have holy, lightning, ice lightning, fire, fire but orange, fire but black etc
i miss pyromancer class

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Cocktail storage. Every problem stemming from her skill would be solved through that.

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I’ve been playing DoN with this character for a while, and this is all that I’ve learned so far:

1. Some DoN expeditions are better with sacred seal discovery relic. Try to find it. You can go to Rises with teammates to find proper staves anyway. Killing bosses might give you good seals. Gnoster and Caligo need fire damage, and most seals have at least some fire damage.

2. Affinity attack power is better than any sorcery/incantation relic because you’ll expand your range of options by dealing decent damage with both staves and seals. Besides, the cocktails aren’t boosted by sorcery and incantation relics.

3. Call me meta slave, but for depth 4 onwards it’s unfortunately mandatory to run at least evergaol or night invader relic in trios. HP bars get way too high.

4. The mentioned relics in point 2 and 3 are important because they also boost your cocktail damage.

5. Recluse’s affinity negation relic is niche, but it works for gnoster, libra, caligo and heolstor for his third phase fissures. But it’s better paired with affinity damage negation perks, if possible without damage sacrifice oc or as dormants found by defeating enemies.

6. The improved int and faith relic is only excellent for sacred seal or straight sword discovery for coded sword and sword of NaF build. It’s like a 10% damage increase to sorceries and incantations. But for sorcery spam you need huge amounts of fp that are hard to pull off with this relic if you aren’t experienced enough with fp regen.

7. Dex relic is useless because it sacrifices a lot of both stats in exchange for what is imo too little dex points. If you want the same thing but with a character better suited for fast casting then play duchess/faith duchess.

8. Don’t play this character on solo unless you either have OP DoN relics or a severe lack of self love.

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as in a baddie not gameplay prespective

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shes so bad bro

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Yeaaaaah I totally play Recluse for the unique and fun magic gameplay and the complex playstyle, no other reason involved at all... And my tendinitis has NOTHING to do with me playing Recluse, you hear me, no connection at all...

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Slay queen.

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before DoN , I found a few of Recluse in ED-boss. some are good , some always on 3 bar.

after DoN , I found massive number of it , none are good , almost all are on 3 bar.

and look like every Recluse I play with use cheat relic : improve crystal spell , improve Magic+4 (reduce str and fai)

sad.

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Try to get a relic with "Dormant Power gives more seals." Sure, staves are nice and shattering crystal is the GOAT, but almost every stave does magic damage while seals offer much more variety. Of all the nightlords, not a single one is "weak" to magic (which makes sense since magic dmg is so common and most of them only have 0-10% resistance anyways which is peanuts), but seals can give you fire, holy, and lightning dmg, and since Recluse has 51 INT and FTH, she can use seals just as, if not more effectively than staves

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Found Recluse in depth 5

Look their Relic

Always 3x of improve crystalian + damage boost with a little curse.

now I'm at 8k score and have 40 in my block list , let see how many people I block until my score is 9999.

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Big mistake for make Relic effect : Improve [...] sorceries stack with Attack power boost effect.

Instead make this character use all element , mix cocktail. they make people spam 1 magic over and over.

Instead of Rogue-like with multiple build , they make people rely on 1 spell and cheat meta relic.

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tfw you have to set your favorite character aside because you have to solo your way back up to rank 4 after Chinese griefers dragged you down to 2.

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She's so adorable.

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You know that she's the kind of character that holds back her true power. Who knows what she's capable of if she took off those sandals

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Hear me out: Dark Night of the Champion on Recluse.

-Big increase to stamina which she sorely lacks.
-Much faster Ultimate gain when killing any enemy, this includes kills from your allies.
-Increased attack power of any elemental weapons and their damage based skills she finds on an expedition.

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Unknown nightlords become more common from depth 3 onwards, imo it's better to focus your build on pure magic since the worst case you can get is a nightlord with 20% magic resistance.
Ignore the moth if you meet gnoster, and always bring a healing incantation in case you meet ED maris.

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Of course when I want to run Duchess with crystalian sorcery boost relics, I get to play with Recluse who doesn't check others relics, steals all staves, contributes absolutely nothing and throws the run. Had to resort to use powerstanced daggers so we lost obviously.

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Cries in Revenant

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The new patch MEGA buffed Recluse.

All of her cocktail animations are faster (about 1-2 seconds, can't confirm directly), but ALL of her cocktails spells received anywhere from a 30-40% increase in damage. Pure magic used to do 253 to the training dummy (no relic buffs). Now it does 341. Pure Fire did 350. Now it does 501. The Lightning Rod when from 1150 to 1637. This is a pretty huge buff, for obvious reasons.

The relic effect where it gives you extra health when you use your ultimate when from giving you +30% to +50%. That's huge, but that pales in comparison to the next part:

THE HEALTH PERMANENTLY STAYS UNTIL YOU LOSE IT. That's right. If you pop this art and somehow never get hit, you effectively have 50% more HP at all times. If you take any damage, you lose the buffer health and you're left with your usual toothpick of a healthbar, but this change is SUPER helpful for not getting one-shot.

Also Shatter Crystal? The shotgun spell? The seemingly most common spell next to f*cking Rejection? The one that can rack up thousands of damage per cast? It got fixed so now charging it actually increases it's damage.

QUEENS STAY WINNING FOLKS

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Recluse may be the best Nightfarer in Deep of Night mode.

because currently , she literally die from everything , buff enemy , curse reduce max hp , curse reduce vigor not change anything
(die by oneshot anyway)

I don't think guardian main and raider main prepare for this , they might be shock when see their full heath down to zero with 1 attack

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Why is it that Recluse players will never use a sacred seal (she has S scaling in Faith) UNLESS there's a Revenant on the team, in which case they suddenly decide that they need every seal in the game?

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in the fact that she can make a DIY Nuke but all Recluse I play with just ignore it and spam throwing a small orb.

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close enough.

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her ult mark actually actually increase the damage given to a enemy, dont know if anybody knew this already and no i am not talking about that one bloodloss relic effect

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Quick guide/tip for each cocktail combination (copy-pasted from the original comment on the magical cocktail page with some edits):

Pure Magic: Great for early game, gives you consistent source of magic to pull and lingers for a bit so it's essentially 60 free FP. First tick of damage is pretty much hitscan and will stagger most humanoid mobs up to Banished Knights levels, but the damage ticks afterwards are kind of useless. Pretty low damage, only good for FP regen early-mid game but has very niche uses later on.

Pure Fire: Leaves lingering AOE like Wylder's relic effect, but a bit bigger with less damage. Same as pure magic, can give you 60 free FP basically. Kind of slow and pretty short ranged, so it's niche but the damage can really add up if the boss stays inside the AoE.

Pure Holy: Improves dmg negation. Always helpful, but not always needed. Also kind of hard to get unless you're going for it, so this is one of the rarer effects you'll get. Plus, improved dmg negation doesn't help if you don't get hit, and with Recluse's role as the squishy spellcaster...yeah.

Pure Lightning: Gives you bloodhound's step. Not super useful, since it doesn't last long and Recluse already has a really good roll. It can mess with your roll timings though, so if you're used to her rolls, be careful.

Fire/Magic: Great damage and very easy to get. Combines the linger magic wisps and lingering fire AOEs. Moves super slowly in the air, but once it explodes, it can do pretty good damage. Never a bad option since you can just fire and forget.

Magic Lightning: Pocket Moonveil. SUPER good. Staggers, hits like a truck, comes out surprisingly fast, has long range, and you can hold it. If you have a consistent source of lightning damage, this is your go-to. Always try for this unless you're going for a tri-combination. This is basically a pocket Comet but with no FP cast and a wider AoE.

Fire-Lightning: Shock and awe. Invincible during the flashstep, but you get put right in the enemy's face. If they don't stagger, you're gonna die. Very fun, very flashy, but very risky

Lighting-Holy: Auto-parry. Worthless, and the buff doesn't even last that long. You'll probably spend more time trying to get the correct elemental cocktail than actually have the buff work, and even then, only a few bosses have parryable attacks. Surprisingly good against Heolster since he's the only Nightlord that can be parried, but only with his greatsword. Other than that, dont bother

Magic Holy: gives you infinite FP for a short amount of time. It's okay. Useful to throw out if you have nothing else, but the endlag eats into the duration, so you rarely get the full effect. Niche but helpful when it's there

Magic Fire Lightning: Hollow Purple. Has MASSIVE range and does considerable damage, stance, and posture damage, but the windup is super long and if you get hit out of it, you'll lose the cocktail. Better to have someone take aggro as you wipe them from existence. Great spell, never bad to have and can easily wipe crowds. Make sure you get poise buffs tho

Magic Lightning Ice: Popsicle. Long start-up but you're completely invincible while you're in the ice. Can proc frostbite but that's the most damage you'll ever do with it since it tickles otherwise. AOE is pretty big, but you're locked in the animation for the entire length of the spell, so if you use it at the wrong time or location, that's 15 seconds of subway surfer gameplay for you. You can use it as a pseudo-dodge, but you need biblical levels of premonition to pull it off against anything that's not a telegraphed nightlord AOE

Magic Fire Holy: Dragon's Breath. Does a decent amount of damage, but if the enemy is weak to fire, that's like 40% of their healthbar gone. It also replenishes allies' health AND FP, so you can cosplay the Medic from TF2 if you free-aim it. It's like Scouring Black Flame where it travels upward in an arc, so i'd recommend free-aiming it anyways unless the target moves around a lot or is fat (like an erdtree avatar or Mani) Can be a GODSEND for your melee characters. Just don't get hit because you'll be knocked out of it early and you're stuck in the animation so you'll lose your hard-earned cocktail

Fire Lighting Holy: Lightning Stake. Has an initial hitbox with very small lingering AOEs and then follows up with a delayed nuke. Does MEGA stagger, on par with Wylder and Raider's ult, and does a hefty chunk of lightning and fire damage. As rewarding as it is though, it's VERY difficult to land, both because of the delayed nature of the second nuke and the long start-up, and you lose it if you get hit out of the animation. That being said, 10/10 cool factor, 5/10 for reliability.

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Close enough, welcome back Sinh, The Slumbering Dragon.

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Close enough, welcome back Supreme Calamitas...

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Spell casters are the most fun classes in this game

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Do you think her soles are of a lighter skin complexion?

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People who play Recluse for the goon: "mommy"

People who play Recluse after completing her remembrance: "mommy"

iykyk

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she needs a skin without those sandals

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she could be a 200lb twitter mom and id still use her because of magic cocktails

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why a lot of Recluse only use ultimate for revive 1 bar / dodge iframe ?
rarely see someone use at opening boss fight

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Another advice for solo Recluse beginners: don't think too much about cocktails, keep it simple. Even though many enemies have some magic resistance, pure magic damage is still very much viable. Many of my fastest kills were with a purple/gold Carian Slicer and a stack of +magic +sorcery +dmg at full HP +cast speed bonuses.

And one more thing: don't be obsessed with gaol meta. Especially if you plan to use the green relic from Collector Signboard for +Max FP with 3+ staves and +Max FP after unlocking a Rise (and you should, it's awesome).

Think of it this way: with the Max FP relic, during day 1, you typically want to visit at least one fort and ideally 1-2 Rises, maybe clear a mine to upgrade your staff, and then start clearing the middle castle. On day 2, you want to finish the castle and either kill some formidable bosses in the wild or clear the shifting earth. If you're just starting to play solo Recluse, you probably won't be fast enough to do all that AND clear 2-3 gaols in addition. And if you clear 0-1 gaols, that's worse than using "Magic Power Up +1/+2".

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Too much skill gap player base.
The good one make my game very easy like playing easy mode
The bad one make me want a voice chat to tell them stop getting down every 5 seconds ffs

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Does anyone know if Recluse's mana absorption is a percentage of her max FP?
Like, will I get more mana per absorb if I build more FP?

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Advice for solo Recluse beginners: play without Shifting Earth. One of the best relics - if not the best - for Recluse is a relic sold at Collector Signboard that gives you Max FP when opening Sorcerer's Rises and when carrying 3+ staves. To activate its effects and get a huge buff to your Max FP, you want to visit forts for guaranteed staff drops and as many Rises as you can. However, if you have a Shifting Earth, it changes the layout of the map removing many regular points of interest. As a result, you may get a map where you have only one fort and only one Rise, and they are on the opposite sides of the map. Not only does this ruin your pathing, you will also see less staff drops, which means it will be harder for you to find spells you want, like Carian Slicer and Shattering Crystal.

Another advice is if you find yourself in a situation where a good staff/spell doesn't drop for your early, don't hesitate to upgrade your starting staff. Early game is arguably the most difficult part of the run for Recluse, so you want every bit of help you can get to farm levels and passives faster. Having a purple staff early helps a lot.

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Highest int of all characters and yet i only play with troglodyte recluses

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Apparently you can auto parry Gladius' sword swings with the Holy+Lightning cocktail. Feels funny just saying "Haha, No" To a sword much larger than your entire body on the squishiest character of the bunch.

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All recluses are f*cking c*nts. 3 bars, absolute f*cking idiots, had a recluse try to revive a 3 bar duchess instead of a 1 bar me when everdark caligo had barely any hp left so we died. Dumbest b*tch I've ever seen. Don't play this f*cking character it's genuinely dogsh*t, this needs to be locked behind like 500 sovereign sigils or some sh*t

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The fact that she has auto-parry...
I just wish I could find lightning weapons...

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Shouts out to the recluse who apparently forgot she had spells went all melee and threw the run.

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Insane in the right hands and a good team.

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the world is healing

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They should change her "Increases Max HP on Art Activation" to "Faster Cast Speed for Elemental Cocktails" and playing her solo would feel MUCH better.

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If you have runes to spare. Always buy blue shards for recluse or mark itens that remoge aggro from enemies of her.

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High skill ceiling. Tough to play but great payoff if you git gud. Matching with/feels like:
Bad one: want voice chat so I can tell them to uninstall
Good one: on a date with big booba gothic MILF at the theme park
S-tier: Mommy shows you how to beat the game

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playing her solo is the most miserable experience I ever had in gaming.

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I am on chapter 7 and picked up the baby at the end and it didn't count for the remembrance quest for some reason

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My only problem with Recluse (and to be fair, it's more of a skill issue) is that her cocktail casting animation is much longer than the residue consuming animation. Sometimes, in the heat of the battle, I forget that I've already consumed 3. I try to consume more, get locked up in this very long cocktail casting animation, and get hit. This is by far the most annoying thing about Recluse for me. The rest is great.

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Trying to finish her remembrance solo is a truly miserable experience. You got Ironeye HP and damage but you gotta stop every 2 seconds to rElOaD, like, "pls heolstor just walk slowly like a good little boss for a few seconds and let me use the skill cause otherwise i run out of FP", while he charges a thrust that covers the entire map and cockblocks you at the very last moment so you don't even get the skill's effect.

Also the Art's duration is WAY too low, i'd have expected a relic effect to be a boost to its duration but NO, all you get is "increased max HP" as if it fucking mattered for a glass cannon character like her.

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Recluse mains explaining that she's better than Revenant due to innate FP restoration (they spend most of the fight consuming residues and using magic cocktail). Seriously, I have way easier time playing Rev solo. Recluse is great glass cannon support in coop, but killing bosses solo with her takes so much time.

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Is ranni's full moon in this game? I've only seen Rennala's full moon on staffs. Hmm.

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Since this guide doesn't mention it, the FP regain is always 20 FP regardless of level

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i've only encountered two types of Recluse players: those that don't know what to do like 90% of the run and marking churches on the other side of the map for no reason and those that are hard carrying the run. No inbetween

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This might be the stupidest complaint ever, but I hate her surge sprinting animation. Like, her "rolls" have her magically glide across the floor. Why not have her surge sprinting animation be her gliding across the floor instead of just booking it? It would fit her more magical nature a lot more. Plus, it would make a lot more sense since she wears a dress. I don't know much about dresses but something tells me running at full-nelson with a skirt that falls down to your ankles is just a recipe for disaster.

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Use shield + shield incantations or the mystical scholars shield. All hail scholars shield.

Use scholars shield. + any elemental weapon.

I'm bout ta.... scholarsss shieldddd

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midcluse

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The three magic release speel is so bad, imagine if they exchange that for the full holy one lmao like infinity FP

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Just here for the comments

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I wish they could have added the simbol of lightning, fire and holy, cause icant see the diference betwen them

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I think I'm too European to understand how anyone could be mad about the "gooners" or "coomers" playing her. That seems way weirder to me than picking a character because you think she's hot.

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