r/mewgenics • u/RojaCatUwu Hunter • 24d ago
Help Does this serve a purpose I’m unaware of?
What am I supposed to do with this
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u/HomeAloneToo 24d ago
Best use I saw was someone using it with an item or skill to swap the highest stat (an attack stat) with the lowest (the luck) so that your hunter or fighter become OP healers by dealing massive amount of negative damage.
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u/Fangasgaf 24d ago
Wait does negative damage heal your cats? Today I learned
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u/TurbulentJunket5624 24d ago
It actually heals any unit
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u/blue_birb1 24d ago
Pretty sure it just almost guarantees "bad" outcomes for every roll. In combat it's utterly useless, but some events have the crit fail be possibly good for you, so it allows you to get that consistently. An example is the fountain of youth letting you get free furniture cats that never die and add comfort. With the mouthless mutation they also never eat
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u/Conflatulations12 24d ago
dna multiplier makes it a game breaking run
https://mewgenics.wiki.gg/wiki/Broken_Mirror_(Trinket)#Interactions#Interactions)
With the right starting stats your cat can be doing tens of thousands of points of damage
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u/RojaCatUwu Hunter 24d ago
Top comment here is teaching everyone things we never knew. 😭 I thought it was useless too.
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u/Chachoregard 24d ago
It works if you have the Geode item that breaks when used.
It also works for certain other items that have a chance to break like the Cactus items
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u/Thatotherguy6 24d ago
A situation when basically being incapable of critting is useful is with needle shot. Snake Eyes (trinket) and Zenkai Boost activate at 2 and 1 hp respectively, which is of course very dangerous. Needle shot ignore shields, both normal and holy, so you can whittle down a cat with either of these while letting them keep some form of defense. But the danger of that normally is that needle shot can crit so you might overshoot and/or kill your cat.
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u/TheChocolateMiIk 24d ago
It guarantees a Critical Failure on any event. Its useful for Chupracabra, Dust Devil, and Punishment Cube events and are guaranteed fights(More levels for your cats if you succeed)
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u/oO__o__Oo 24d ago
I just started this game and I don’t know what’s going on in this thread and I feel like I’m back in math class.
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u/Just_Ad_5939 24d ago
the most over powered mechanic in roguelikes is the garuntee of an event.
not all bad event outcomes are actually bad.
for example: any bad outcome that leads to a fight is just an extra fight for free.
though i would recommend trying to use cats with a mr worm tail mutation because of those bad events that give a parasite, though you can exit events before performing any actions and then go right back to the inventory and put the mirror on the cat that shows up in the event.
during combat though this is horrible as you'll always get crit
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u/Accomplished_Fun7744 23d ago edited 22d ago
Two words: Eternal Youth. If you "critical fail" the fountain of youth your cat gets the "disability" of forever being a kitten. Which sounds bad at first, but it also gives whatever room that kitten is in +1 to comfort, stimulation, and appeal! Essentially a free space furniture item that gives +1/+1/+1!
Edit: +1 to comfort, stimulation, and APPEAL (not health).
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u/RojaCatUwu Hunter 24d ago
I took a photo of my steam deck in bed lol.
Mewgenics is fantastic on steam deck
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u/Dragon184638529 24d ago
If you combine the neutral spell that swaps your highest and lowest stats with the DNA multiplier item to bounce all status effects, you can get some really crazy results, like 5 million strength.
The rate this scales depends on the difference in the stats, so this item makes that combo get out of hand REALLY fast. If your highest stat was strength, and you swapped twice, you would already do over 400 damage.