ok so. in Peglin, i can't open act 4 until i beat act 3 with all characters. but i can't unlock one of the characters until i accrue a big amount of bulwark.

uh. i've never accrued any bulwark, apparently? and im at cruciball 4-7 with the other three characters lol

this feels statistically impossible

i've always felt like there was only one or two balls and relics that did anything with ballwark? i think i basically never find more than one ballwark item per run, IF i even come across a single one.

like i finished cruciball 4 on the thief earlier today and never encountered a single item which provided it

like in case you think im some sort of prodigy who easily got to those ranks, here's how many hours i have in the game: 61.

@lunalapin yeah I think you need to play the vanilla peglin to get the items, since the pool changes based on character and the ballwark items are mostly locked to the ballwark character

but vanilla peglin gets the whole entire pool

@demize i did not know this and feel like a fool
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@demize yeah it says Peglin has access to "almost all orbs and relics" and none of the characters remark upon removing things from the pool. so i just thought that meant that "Peglin has all orbs, except those exclusive to other characters" - not "Peglin has access to some orbs from all character pools"
@lunalapin i think there's something that keeps doubling your ballwark, it's been a bit
@BestGirlGrace okay but i've gotten zero
@lunalapin i forget how i got to 100 ballwark, i think i had to double it or something, but the "gain X ballwark per Y pegs hit" and "gain ballwark per shield on the board" uncommon balls helped a lot
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