Ok, I wanted to make a post about the new update that is a little bit more serious than just me making a silly wrestling joke.

Darkasso is a BIG upgrade, and it's going to considerably change in the future how Vampire Survivors is played. This is because with a few choice cards, the limits and boundaries as we previously knew them just exploded, and the old "metas" have been supplanted by new ones. This is, in particular, because of ONE arcana, and it's coincidentially the one you unlock first, the Moonlight Bolero.

1 treasure chest carrier every minute, and chests which can give you extra passive you don't have, and, even better, arcanas.

This means that thanks to this, all the passives are on the table, and you can get more arcanas that you previously could hold, without considering the fact it's 30 more potential chests for a regular game, equivalent of 30 level ups at least worth of power. This is so strong there is pretty much no reason to not insta pick that in 95% of the situations. You can pick the arcanas you are missing down the line too, and you build will only be stronger from it. You can thanks to that card alone, have way more evolved weapons in hands than you could before.

This is now the queen of cards, and it blows blood arcana or even Wicked Season out of the water(especially as there is no downside to it).

But wait, there is more!

With the addition of Saphire Mist, you get a luck dependant chance of double fire. This is absolutely huge, because the more weapons you carry, the more chances you have to tigger it and do a lot more damage. While the weapons assosciated to the card which gain even more attacks are nothing to write home about except maybe flame of Misspell due to the curse scaling, the sheer amount of firepower you can bring to bear with 2 of the new cards is staggering. But you will say: It's luck dependant, what about characters with not much luck? Well, here is the thing, the Midnight Bolero guarantees you the clover, so you will get more luck. And if you get the Greatest Jubilee with the amount of pick ups you are going to get, chances of getting random clover pickups are greatly increased. You should run Greatest Jubilee anyway.

The two others dark arcanas aren't nearly as good, as they favor defensive builds, which some people do like, but I find are always greatly inferior to aggressive and more orthodox ones. Still for that task, they are very very good! Crystal Cries favorise those characters who want to often go at low health to trigger effects, like, say, Bat Robbert or She-Moon, who are the ones used to unlock those cards. The whole thing is that the more hurt you get, the more you will get opportunities to raise growth, max health and recovery. This is good for scaling, although one may argue that the recovery isn't: Too much recovery and you hinder your capacity to get damaged, and as such to further trigger the effect. The Wandering Jet Black turns your health lost into relfect damage with heavy scaling on having a lot of max HP, and makes you the ultimate porcupine. Problem stills occurs in the fact that killing everything attacking you will makes it once again harder to further trigger the effects, but at that point it's probably not going to matter. Coupled with Divine Bloodline you have something serious going on.

Whatever dark arcanas the future holds, I can already say this is going to be glorious. Boundaries are going to once again be destroyed, and I'm very eager to see how much.