I think I gaslit myself into thinking bandit's blast and lights out weren't as good as their alternatives

I just tried them out after ages for a change, and for one I forgot lights out doesn't just refresh the special cooldown on kill, but ALL cooldowns

as for blast, I always dunked on it cause haha 4 pellets >>>>> 1 pellet, but as it turns out one pellet that actually fires straight is BIG, you can actually kill things from afar without relying on your special, and the damage isn't half bad

also I had generally forgotten the sheer style of shooting down like 10 wisps in a row with a revolver, doing air combos by using smokebomb and proc'ing lights out, etc

#riskofrain2

yesterday was the first day I had so much fun as bandit in a very long time

I lucked out like crazy fairly early on and got a laser scope + a behemoth (and a second one later on) and I feel like those were the main things allowing me to melt everything, together with a ton of other items

I went for the dlc2 boss cause I wanted to unlock the skin and right before the fight I just got a runic lens and it might've helped make what came next hardly a fight at all, definitely my quickest false son kill in like 5mins or so

since I was clearly on a god run I felt like continuing onwards to fight voidling for the first time in 3 years or so (where I had died as mercenary) and even though I didn't expect it to go well, I ended up winning that too

god runs feel so damn good