Rapidly mashing the Crystal Heart button can let you slow your wall sliding down to a crawl without needing to launch yourself off the wall afterwards.Do so at every opportunity (unless it will kill you obviously) Remember you can pogo off spikes and saws, as well as enemies.Just be careful not to go too early or you’ll hit the roof (which, naturally, is covered in spikes). Longnail and Mark of Pride are massive benefits since they significantly increase your margin of error when pogoing.The extra soul from the Grubsong synergy is unnecessary, and the beams make pogoing off enemies (which is necessary) next to impossible. I still recommend Deep Focus + Grubsong for the few parts without the statues, but you can probably just farm soul off of Wingmoulds.You don’t really need Hiveblood, they give you practically infinite soul via statues.Having just completed the new ‘Path of Pain’ portion of the White Palace, I figured I would leave a few general tips for the platforming nightmare we’ve been graced with.

Hollow knight path of pain location