Item & Equipment Tierlist - Patch 1.0 FULL LIST (Risk of Rain 2) 

bleed op

you play exclusively on monsoon until you need to beat mithrix for the first time :)

*Whites* 1:12 *_D-Tier_* 1:15 --Bustling Fungus 1:15 --Focus Crystal 1:53 *_C-Tier_* 2:12 --Bundle of Fireworks 2:14 --Crowbar 2:32 --Energy Drink 3:28 --Fresh Meat 4:36 --Gasoline 4:47 --Personal Shield Generator 5:04 --Rusted Key 6:31 --Stun Grenade 7:07 --Warbanner 7:23 *_B-Tier_* 7:43 --Cautious Slug 7:45 --Monster Tooth 8:01 --Repulsion Armor Plate 8:26 --Sticky Bomb 8:52 *_A-Tier_* 9:13 --Armor-Piercing Rounds 9:13 --Backup Magazine 9:47 --Medkit 9:57 --Soldier's Syringe 10:39 --Topaz Broach 11:19 *_S-Tier_* 11:36 --Len-Maker's Glasses 11:40 --Paul's Goat Hoof 12:14 --Tougher Times 12:50 --Tri-Tip Dagger 13:39 *Greens* 14:21 *_D-Tier_* 14:21 --Lepton Daisy 14:26 --Squid Polyp 15:03 *_C-Tier_* 15:39 --Bandolier 15:39 --Chronobauble 16:02 --Old War Stealthkit 16:23 --Red Whip 16:38 --Rose Buckler 16:51 *_B-Tier_* 17:10 --Berzerker's Pauldron 17:13 --Infusion 17:32 --Leeching Seed 17:56 --Razorwire 18:20 --War Horn 19:01 *_A-Tier_* 19:25 --Death Mark 19:26 --Ghor's Tome 20:00 --Kjaro's (Fire) Band 20:44 --Old Guillotine 21:27 --Wax Quail 22:01 *_S-Tier_* 22:26 --AtG Missile Mk. 1 22:31 --Fuel Cell 22:53 --Harvester's Scythe 23:10 --Hopoo Feather 24:01 --Predatory Instincts 24:24 --Runald's (Ice) Band 24:45 --Ukulele 26:26 --Will-o'-the-wisp 26:43 *Reds* 27:01 *_C-Tier_* 27:04 --Dio's Best Friend 27:05 --Frost Relic 27:48 --H3AD-5T v2 28:11 --Happiest Mask 28:39 --Interstellar Desk Plant 28:50 --N'kuhana's Opinion 29:19 --Wake of Vultures 29:50 *_B-Tier_* 30:19 --Aegis 30:22 *_A-Tier_* 30:55 --Alien Head 30:57 --Brainstalks 31:05 --Brilliant Behemoth 31:29 --Resonance Disc 31:48 --Unstable Tesla Coil 32:04 --Hardlight Afterburner 32:20 *_S-Tier_* 32:44 --57 Leaf Clover 32:46 --Ceremonial Dagger 33:51 --Rejuvenation Rack 34:15 --Sentient Meat Hook 34:19 --Shattering Justice 34:49 --Soulbound Catalyst 35:11 *Boss (Yellow)* 35:32 *_D-Tier_* 35:33 --Pearl 35:35 --Queen's Gland 35:56 *_C-Tier_* 36:14 --Genesis Loop 36:16 --Halcyon Seed 36:54 --Little Disciple 37:04 *_B-Tier_* 37:30 --Molten Perforator 37:32 --Titanic Knurl 37:54 *_A-Tier_* 38:13 --Mired Urn 38:16 *_S-Tier_* 38:32 --Irradiant Pearl 38:34 --Shatterspleen 39:17 *Lunar (Blue)* 39:54 *_F-Tier_* 46:47 --Spinal Tonic (equip) 46:47 *_D-Tier_* 39:54 --Corpsebloom 39:56 --Purity 40:17 --Effigy of Grief (equip) 48:20 --Glowing Meteorite (equip) 48:37 *_C-Tier_* 41:00 --Mercurial Rachis 41:01 --Shaped Glass 41:20 --Shades of Heresy 41:58 --Transcendence 42:10 --Visions of Heresy 42:43 --Hellfire Tincture (equip) 50:11 *_B-Tier_* 43:05 --Brittle Crown 43:07 --Defiant Gouge 43:36 *_A-Tier_* 44:17 --Beads of Fealty 44:18 --Focused Convergence 44:46 *_S-Tier_* 45:22 --Gesture of the Drowned 45:24 *Equipment (Orange & Blue)* 45:52 *_F-Tier_* 46:30 --Radar Scanner 46:34 --Spinal Tonic (Lunar) 46:47 *_D-Tier_* 47:38 --Blast Shower 47:39 --Eccentric Vase 48:07 --Effigy of Grief (Lunar) 48:20 --Glowing Meteorite (Lunar) 48:37 --The Back-up 48:47 --The Crowdfunder 49:02 --Forgive Me Please 49:21 *_C-Tier_* 49:56 --Foreign Fruit 49:59 --Hellfire Tincture (Lunar) 50:11 --Jade Elephant 50:43 --Volcanic Egg 50:55 *_B-Tier_* 51:06 --Disposable Missile Launcher 51:08 --Milky Chrysalis 51:16 --Ocular HUD 51:29 --Primordial Cube 51:43 --Sawmerang 52:01 --Super Massive Leech 52:23 *_A-Tier_* 52:52 --Gnarled Woodsprite 52:54 --Gorag's Opus 53:11 --Preon Accumulator 53:27 --Recycler 53:49 *_S-Tier_* 54:09 --Royal Capacitor 54:14

He forgot the actual best equipment in the game. The Fuel Array.

The Halcyon Seed is literally just the "Final Boss when you fight them vs. when you unlock them in your team" meme.

Mired Urn is F tier in multiplayer, you start stealing health from each other and slow each other down as well

Fungus is good for one other thing: You're doing Void Fields stage 1 and need to heal between events.

When Woolie says "consistency", he means reliability^^

Woolie, the term you're looking for is "diminishing returns"

a note on chronobauble: the slow makes avoiding Mithrix's melee attacks easier by a bunch and a note on Dio's best friend: it's slightly better on engineer because it gives your turrets a second life, but it gets outclassed by a brainstalks right away.

I've noticed Chronobauble being pretty effective on Mythrix, so that helps quite a bit with keeping him at a comfortable distance.

To back up Tougher Times, i had like 3 or so of them and in that level where you unlock Acrid, the Tougher Times bears were literally nullifying the damage you take when outside of the safe zones. God tier white item.

49:50 First time I got the Voodoo Doll, I ended up holding it for 8 minutes with 250+ uses. Daggers, Wisps, Fuel Cells, Gestures, and Soulbound Catalyst. I eventually discovered that the game will not let you deploy it after some number of uses per stage. (Edit: this was after the 'nerf' that prevented infinite spamming of it.)

FUN FACT: Captain + Capped Bleed + Capped Crit + Shatterspleen = 16 bleeds per shot.

Woolie really forgot the defense microbots, I just can't believe him

That League analogy for Shattering Justice was beautiful, Mr. Streamer.

thanks for the great video. It’s really nice to see you still making risk of rain content and i have been watching sense the game came out.

scrap op, procs way too much and it scales proc chance and damage pls nerf hopoo

Ah but Mired Urn has to be an S tier for engineer His turrets gain the succ ability What other character can succ themselves??

This happens once in a blue moon, but I love Forgive Me Please's interaction with Soulbound Catalyst (which rapidly reduces FMP's cooldown as it's an on-kill effect), throw in a Gesture or two and there are constantly 3 dolls on the floor proccing things. If you somehow manage to get all that + ceremonial knives, you can just go afk and your equipment plays the game for you

The fact that so many characters have a different play style makes this list more general rather than must takes, I would say aegis is top tear for rex but for most others its really not great, I still think its a great guide

Me: Mom can we have Headhunter? Mom: We have Headhunter at home. Headhunter at home: Wake of Vultures

Woolie: Time is extremely important!! Also Woolie: 9:44

whenever you use one of rex's abilities that damages you, medkit will count that and heal back that damage.

Just had my 1st +1hr run thanks to you, Woolie! Your content on this game is the best I've found. Thanks!

0:58 I'll just pretend that you defeat the final boss in drizzle mode for the first time never happend.

The one dislike is the Squid Poglyp.

Phew, what a huge effort. Thanks for putting this all together to sort things out. Especially pointing out the changes to medkit and tooth, I've been scrapping those as garbage, might keep the kits around longer now. (I get hit too often, poor multi) Nice to see most of what I thought I knew is right. Those ring changes though, that's gonna take some adjusting to. Much obliged!

Dio's Best Friend: *Exists* Void Reaver's late game kamikaze: "I'm gonna end this bear's whole career"

Yeah, it does feel good to get smacked by an overloading brass contraption

Squid Polyp gang will remember this

I love your special emphasis voices. The one in the shaped glass bit and the one for sawmerang both crack me up

I have to say, I absolutely love your streams and videos Woolie. I don't just love the information part of it, your just an awesome dude in general! Two Thumbs up!!!

49:40 small impact area laughs in 50 will o the wisps

Well, the whole list, and I only have one disagreement, Mr. Streamer: Tonic *annihilating* final boss (even with some afflictions) has to be something that isn't F tier 🤔There is just too much raw power packed in it

Amazing job! Thanks for all the content man

Just so you guys know, I absolutely recommend getting tonic if you happen to have a clover, even with no gestures or cells. The affliction chance being reduced to *4%* means that you are pretty unlikely to receive a single affliction, let alone 2 (two removes your OSP)

Great list! I would rank the Deskplant a bit higher, however (no really, hear me out). Since the Deskplant counts as an on-kill effect, it gets triggered by the Forgive Me Please equipment. This means that you essentially get a placeable super-concentrated fungus that quickly reaches insane healing values, as the Deskplant seeds are stacked on top of one another. Just barely touching the healing AoE will instantly heal you up. It's very powerful. This *might* be an argument for moving N'kuhana up a tier as well, but that's another discussion.

"hard earned *COUGH* lunar coins" ...he knows

I haven't played ROR2 in a couple of months, so imagine my surprise when medkit and dagger outclass energy drink. Damn, what a huge update.

Really surprised by the spinel tonic ranking, I think it is a valid equipment item even if you don’t have an endless setup. It functions just fine if you use it sparingly with its explosive effect, long duration and low risk drawback. Reminder that alternative to infinitely looping the equipment with cooldown items just a single 57 leaf clover brings its chance to reduce stats down to only 4% per use. So if you’re only using it a couple times per stage it’s actually pretty unlikely to ever receive a single negative stack before obliterating or fighting Mithrix. The fact that the negative effect is removed on use means that you have some freedom with its usage even if you get it early while working towards better cooldown options (or just better luck).

You can really FEEL the sass when he's talking about something his chat has been spamming him with over the last few months

glad this vid exists and that i watched it. im new to the ror2 scene and so hearing u say "take something else" really impacted me thx

Thank you for this vidéo ! It helped me a lot to understand the different objects in detail.

"I play monsoon difficulty exclusively" okay Mr.streamer, then explain the captain unlock on drizzle.

When you revealed Aegis was B-Tier, I literally pulled it from a chest. Thank you?

This gave me a really good idea of what items to prioritize :)

was i suppose to be weezing during this video, the time and effort you put into making this video not only educational but fucking hilarious is unsurpassed

Beatle guards are only useful as a battery when you have a mired urn.

Have you ever considered making an ability tier list? Like ranking all the characters abilities against each other? It would probably be incredibly difficult because all the abilities are built around the character's kit so they aren't easy to compare.

I've been running huntress on attack speed crit builds, and this video is really helping me round out the decisions I need to make. Ten soldier's syringes is definitely too many when Predatory Instincts is a thing.

Supermassive leech is amazing on MUL-T with a gesture. Had a Royal Capacitor in the other equipment slot, and did the nail gun / rebar puncher switch strategy, so everytime you switch the leech is activated, pretty good if you don't have that much healing yet.

Streamer man: Fire band is lower than ice because enemies move around too much to get the use unless they are big and/or slow. Streamer man as well: Chronobauble slow does nothing, shut up shut up Shut Up SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!

55 minute tier list video. HHHNNNGGGGG, (grabs popcorn)

crazy how much you do for the community

I actually really liked a lot of your comedy in this video very well done

9:48 every survivors second ability is quite powerfull plays captain once....

Doll is easily A-tier, just a few broaches and you get insane survivability from it, especially when you get a few fuel cells since you can have 3 at once, not too shabby with wisp either and definitely good for crowd control in midgame (or lategame if you get lucky with a wisp printer or something)

If anyone hasn’t you should try the fuel cell + gesture + tonic combo. Although it takes up your equipment slot permanently, on characters like commando and huntress it is completely worth that sacrifice for the constant bonuses it gives. Any run I do with those characters I try to get that combo

You got to love this guy he really goes into detail for every item

24:53 "The ice band is now the most consistent type of damage" Commando mains: *cries in not being able to proc* Buff Phase Round please.

UMM ACTSHUALLY MR STREAMER... Lol jk, but I do want to clear up a little discrepancy. The energy drink isn't just changing the flat speed at which you sprint (it kinda is, but not really) it affects the speed _multiplier_ you get when sprinting. Think of it as increasing the "speed gap" between sprinting and walking, goat hoof marginally increases _both_ speeds, but the energy drink is increases the boost in speed you get from going from a walk to a sprint. If you wanna test it out, try comparing the speed of sprinting with 13 goat hooves, then try 10 hooves and 3 energy drinks.

Great video. So much info. Thanks! :)

Amazing video Woolie. You're entertaining^^

Got my first skin running Forgive me Please, Desk Plant, and Aegis literally couldn't die

tonic with just 3 fuel cells and a single gesture is my new favorite goal every run

15:57 Playing with mercenary I actually love having 5+ bandoleers for perma invincibility (you can pick the reset up while invincible)

the burn you can get from the molten perferator is actually useful for being a more consistent form of gasoline, it actually adds to your deathmark

41:20 "This one PANES my quite a bit"

I'd say the doll (forgive me please) could get a better ranking, one ceremonial dagger a few topaz brooches and enough drowneds/fuel cells and you get permanent barrier, plus the game plays itself

Glad you made Infusion B tier ive been advocating grabbing this item whenever possible to my friend group for awhile now.

Thank you for the incredibly helpful video! I'm new to the game, I've only got 20 hours into the game and this is very helpful to me.

Honestly from my experience with the “new” bands I’ve found them to be far less effective even if they are reliably consistent. The difference between a hard cap 10 second cool down and infinite proc chance and chaining seems crucial to determining their power compared to their previous iteration

Imagine if rusted key gets buffed:"for every stack of this item, you get 1 chest per stage"?

Thank you for this Tier List!

It should also be noted that purity is INSANE on thermal harpoons + visions of heresay engi. with 1 stack of purity, visions has a .5 second reload time, and your thermal harpoons ALSO have a .5 second cooldown. You can essentially hold down m1 and fire constant barrages of visions, and you can spam m2 m1 over and over to fire near endless harpoons because of the incredibly low cooldown. Just firing 1 harpoon at a time makes you have that split second of downtime that recharges it. It's pretty damn insane, and it also makes mobile turrets with visions MUCH more desirable.

YOU ARE A LEGEND WOOLIE! YOU MAKE ME NOT SUCK

You know you're a veteran when you instinctively salute that printer. If you know you know

Bustling fungus is good for the engineer on multiplayer. It makes all of your turrets have auras around them too, and its really useful.

Hey @woolie just a heads up, Silence between two strikes is broken on Mul-T as it completely refills his healthbar when you switch. If you switch to the equipment slot where you are holding it, then it fills your healthbar with shield regardless of how much hp you had. And inversely it fills your hp bar to full when you switch away from it. You're literally invulnerable unless you get oneshot(or twoshot instantly to avoid OSP)

I didn't realize this video was almost an hour long til I was 35 minutes in

Should you do void fields Do you have razor wire y/n

15:04 They're actually very fun to use when you find a healing shrine, as long as you get the heal shrine to t3 quickly, you can have up to three of the squid turrets in constant healing range of it without having to be babysat by you. Even better if they spawn *in* terrain as they sometimes do, because that makes them practically invulnerable while their shots pass through all terrain. And in really late runs when I get an item like.. Interstellar Desk Plant, that can be quite beneficial for them. Also a good item to buddy up with on the Engineer turrets if they have lots of stacks of Bustling Fungus. They aren't a good item on their own, for sure. Requiring combos to set them up, but they do seem to pack a decent enough punch to warrant at least one stack of even if you don't actively (or can't) combo with them at the moment.

I'd put Warbanner in A or B tier just for the Engineer after this past update. The ability for your turrets to consistently have +30% attack speed during the teleporter event is great. Nice video!

"Here we are with the last item in all the lists and its an S item" Squid Polup pops up

Fun fact about the Mired Urn: When it says "creatures", it means it. Already killed multiple allies with this item by accident. Don't know if its enough to knock it out of the A tier, but definitely something to keep in mind as you need to actively avoid staying close to your friends

Well that didn't feel like an hour. Nice job with the script, info plus a lil humor to help it go down.

coming fromr isk of rain 1, I just got this game today and holy shit is it much more complex and confusing, so these videos are super helpful! keep up the great work!

The desk plant has been able to cover entire sections of the map in circles when I've used it. Seems atleast b tier

55 minutes! you spoil us mr. streamer!

in my opinion the gesture+gorag is ridiculously good. i call it the ungo bongo combo. plus a couple fusion coils or the one that reduces cooldowns on kill, and your talking continuous uptime frenzy bb. particularly when your playing with friends, because your getting the frenzy buff ob everybody, including engineer turrets i'm pretty sure, for a few items on 1 person. *chefs kiss*

48:47 Not sure what it is about it but this line is extremely satisfying to my ears, thanks mr streamer

So I've done some compilations on FMP data and how it actually works... Wisps scale at 280% per stack, so using this if at 1 stack it does 280 and hits 8 times you end up with 2240% damage. This is like if the Capacitor could hit multiple enemies. ...this is at A SINGLE WISP WITHOUT GASOLINE OR CEREMONIAL DAGGERS. Now throw on a single Brooch for 15x8 barrier, Tome for 8 chances of Gold for faster items a stage, Bandolier for CDR so you can use powerful skills more often, Desk Plant for a healing zone YOU CREATE WHEN AND WHERE YOU WANT or just use Monster Teeth for healing from it 2x8=16% health. A single Souldbound Catalyst also reduces the use time by 4x8 or 32 seconds over 8 seconds. 40 second CDR making it a 20 second use item if you don't kill anything. This is with a single stack of items on what would be a weak run. If you're going to get anywhere then FMP will help you, it will speed up your runs, reduce grinding, and give you on demand healing. It is literally every equipment in one save for Blast Shield. Provided you have the items... no different then a clover except you have complete control at that point. If FMP doesn't help you... then you lack the ability to kill multiple enemies effectively and will be overwhelmed quickly but with a single Tome you don't have to fight to get money to get those items to kill enemies.

33:50 Clovers also affect Aspect drop rate.

If you get the lighting aspect on multi it heals half of your HP every time you switch weapons due to how it switches half HP between health and shields constantly, while running double rebar it basically makes you constantly at full HP with one shot protection, it’s pretty great

I think it was worth mentioning how much multiple hopoo feathers can help with the final boss. In my experience, staying in the air as much as possible helps you avoid a lot of his attacks.

Liked before watching, so make it good Mr. Streamer

one *massive thing to add* shield gens are a *big oof* against mithrix on his last phase.. as you have to play pretty much dark souls against him letting him regen his shield if you are unlucky

I can't say for sure because I'm on console but the way you seemed to explain all the changes makes me think your teir list was near perfection

thanks for the list, very cool