Farming for a Bat Scepter

[jamesc70]

Find any video out there, of someone owning the Halloween event, and they are using the bat scepter. Sucks for someone trying to get there, because the drop rates increase the further you get; you could spend months farming Wave 8 and never see one, but if you could get to 14/15 your chances are greatly improved.

Tried a few suggestions here in the forums, but I DON"T HAVE A BAT SCEPTER! Grr... it better be awesome when I finally get it.

So, I tried to combine all the tactics, mainly using Jungle Temple traps, and came up with this :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190929401

The idea is; 1 second timer everything (no relying on pressure plates). The ground consists of 1 tall jungle temple fire traps, instead of a wall of them, because they only shoot so far, so I spaced them to keep constant dmg up. But, a pit to trap Mourning woods with a 'wall' of fire traps.

Mid level is spiky ball traps galore, platform with star and heart statues, crystal ball, and camp fires spread evenly so the buff is applied no matter where I am on the the platform.

Upper level is Pumpking jungle temple fire traps.

Made it to lvl 14 on my first try. Tried to put spear traps on my level to get mobs that spawn on it, but they didn't work (see image). Going to expand the Pumpking air fire trap (it OWNS them). Center that over the Mourning Wood pit o' fire, and expect to own this event WITHOUT THE BAT SCEPTER!!!!

But yea, Spectre Armor is key; tried Cholorphyte with Vamp Knives and I barely hit lvl 9.

[Azriel]

Nice addition of the fire traps above to get pumpking..... I have been using a spectre armor setup with nimbus rod and magnet sphere with buffs and +dmg accessories and traps below and making it to 13-14 easy. Maybe the extra dps on the pumpkings from more traps will speed things up for me.
Edit - Flame traps actually seem to do no damage to Pumpking. Also noticed that somehow the damage dealt by the super dart traps in some way counts as magic damage when a full spectre armor set is worn, providing minor (1-5 average) heals from most early event mobs.

[Azriel]

Ok. After further testing, it seems dart and flame traps have no effect at all on Pumpking. Lava is useless as well. I can only assume the developers decided to make absolutely sure there was no way to make an "AFK" farm for this event. So as far as I can tell, there is no way to solo all 15 waves of this event without drops from the event itself.

[jamesc70]

I just assumed the flame traps hurt the pumpkings, because I had a hard time killing them before, yet killed 2-3 on that first attempt.

[VolOpt]

If you have the mats to make a 1 sec timer I guess thats good but everything seems to have about a 3 second cooldown anyhow so I've just been using 3 second timers for all my contraptions.

[Azriel]

for some it does come down to materials..... but if they aren't an issue, 1 second are generally better if you have them set up right. 2 of them with a heart and a star statue between them seems to have a nice glitch that causes more hearts/stars to spawn.