whats the usual most efficient build order?

[Rodrigo]

for buildings that is, im fairly sure i'm not being very efficient with my building order, and some folks said blacksmith and other item shops are not even worth it.

[phenir]

Gold mines (+workers to work them). 40 gold per worker beats most other options. Craft shops are too expensive and take too long to pay off, especially for shorter maps.

[Vexille]

Most efficient strategy is building item production. On day 3 you produce gear that costs 50-80 each piece which you can also use to arm your heroes with level 4 weapons.
Use Omen of Bargaining and Omen of Readiness.
Day 1 you upgrade the shop 2 times, sell some gear and build 3 production buildings.
This includes Apocalypse 4+ debuff.

[Bumc]

The thing is that item producers become good after you have enough rarity increase from meta upgrades. Also using workers on economy becomes gradually worse as difficulty ramps up, because corpse piles become bigger.

Before all that yeah, gold mine is the way to go.

[Včelí medvídek]

Hmm, curious about when you bring Inn and buy additional hero?

I used the gold mine + wokrers naturally myself but now I see I tend spend everything for this first 3 waves at least and than scavenger camps.. and than having bit hard to catch up.

Now at 3rd wave on 2nd map and they come from 2 directions already, I will still go with building gold mine, but curious if 3 heroes will be sufficient.. so jsut curious ho others play it.

PS> thouh if I understand well - gettnng 4th hero early will reduce xp gain for all (=slower leveling progress?

[Bumc]

The easiest way to go about the heroes is getting Wanderer, and skipping inn until the end of the run.
You'll be getting less exp early, but 4 bodies allow for quite greedy development.

Otherwise you can invest in one of the heroes early, give him the best weapons/mana refills/AP transfers/%exp, feed him kills and use his high level to recruit high level heroes at like night 6.