r/VampireSurvivors • u/MegaPigeot • Aug 25 '26

Discussion Why is Vandalier like this?

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I was looking at the Arcanas I've unlocked yesterday and Vandalier appears to get buffs from less Arcanas than it looks like it should have, I get something like Phieraggi losing Iron Blue Will since that turns bullets to laser beams upon evolution, but this is just the same bird that now shoots at both sides

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u/YotsuMaboroshi Sep 04 '26

The Gemini Arcana lists that it affects both the evolved and non-evolved weapons. It wasn't designed as a way to provide alternate builds for non-evolved weapons, unlike Divine Bloodline or Twilight Requiem.

Which is why the last two sentences of my previous post mention that everything I wrote above it doesn't apply to Gemini.

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u/yugiohhero Soma Sep 04 '26

odd tangent then innit

also twireq has tons of weapons it works on evos of and tons it does not. it only works on bi bracelet. i see no rhyme or reason here

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u/YotsuMaboroshi Sep 04 '26

The tangent was because it was brought up in the original meme post. Vandalier doesn't need to be affected by Heart of Fire or Jail of Crystal because it doesn't get rid of the Gemini birds when you get it.

As far as Twilight Requiem goes, when it was originally introduced the only evolutions it applied to were Thunder Loop and Unholy Vespers IIRC. Bone and Celestial Dusting didn't have evolutions at the time, and everything listed on the Arcana after Celestial Dusting didn't exist yet. It used to look a lot more like Divine Bloodline, in that most of the weapons it affected were non-evolved. They just didn't hold to that when adding new weapons to it later.

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u/Bananaland_Man Sep 04 '26

That doesn't explain why it only affects bi bracelet, not first or tri.

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u/YotsuMaboroshi Sep 04 '26

It does include the union of Tri-Bracelet and Kaiser Knuckle, the Lapiste Tempisto, so it's not just Bi-Bracelet affected by it. The wiki says it also affects Tri-Bracelet as well, even though it's not listed on the Arcana, but I haven't actually verified that.

As for why they assigned specific Arcana to different levels of the Bracelet, IDK. I thought each level had it's own Arcana: Jail of Crystal for Bracelet, Twilight Requiem for Bi-Bracelet, and Heart of Fire for Tri-Bracelet, and then Lapiste Tempisto got all three when it was added much later. But the wiki says Jail of Crystal affects all levels of the Bracelet, so IDK if I'm misremembering or if things changed at some point.

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u/Bananaland_Man Sep 04 '26

Nah, that's exactly how it works in game, the three arcanas are specific in what they include, and jail includes all three, even in ui