How do I make Garlic work?

[Virgo]

I really enjoy using Garlic but it seems to fall off quite quickly. I'm motivated to make it work because it reminds me of RF in Path of Exile but my runs die early if I try going Garlic. Any Garlic chads have some advice ?

[Panda]

Garlic plus spinach. I love garlic late game since it increases knock back effects a ton so if you pair it with magic wand and evolve it its almost impossible for enemies to touch you

[Anubis]

A good plan for garlic is to pair it with high level king bible, even better if you can evolve it into unholy vespers, both garlic and king bible benefit from candelabra, and spinich which should also give you some breathing space as king bible has some good knockback. I also fond that maxing and evolving the blue wand also helps fend off any that make it past the barrier.

[DaMarkiM]

the main point about garlic is that you dont need bible anymore, freeing up an accessory slot (since the evolution item for bible is freaking useless). If you have 1 or 2 decent weapons like evolved axe, firewand or cross garlic is enough to keep you save for the whole game.
Accessory slots are more valuable than weapon slots. So you shouldnt evolve weapons with useless accessories. Axe and Firewand are probably the best since you want their accessories on every run. Normal Wand is kinda useless but you grab the empty tome anyways, so its viable to bring the wand, if not required.

Anyways.

Garlic + free accessory slot >>> evolved kings bible.

[Danyaell]

Evo Bible still better than Garlic IMHO and plays the same role.

[Etrusco]

Postat inițial de Danyaell:

Evo Bible still better than Garlic IMHO and plays the same role.

The evolved King Bible will allow you to run and get away with several less than ideal weapons and combinations in the Forest. Just don't mix it with Candelabrador and it's the most flexible weapon you can get (excellent dmg and defense).

Ironically Candelabrador should be one of the best upgrades for it but it ends up affecting it negatively, if you combine the two you end up sacrificing DPS and knock back.

[procy]

Garlic is great, Starts off an S, 15 minutes into a run it's an A, 23+ minutes and it's a B, still a very solid item for the knockback, especially coupled the king bible, nothing gets a chance to get close enough

[Kaworu]

garlic + bible + laurel + spinach + candle + cross works quite well. its an easy ride to finish forest as you either standstill and everything dies by itself or you do some minor dodges in the circle and just make a break for it with laurel shield once you see you get overwhelmed

[Redderik]

The max benefit from garlic is to boost the knockback and freeze chance of those within the garlic range. This means that items like the book and birds do not benefit at all because their range is bigger than garlic so they never hit within that range. It boosts the knockback of holy wand and increases the freeze rate of enemies within the range.

[['w']]

Postat inițial de Kaworu:

garlic + bible + laurel + spinach + candle + cross works quite well. its an easy ride to finish forest as you either standstill and everything dies by itself or you do some minor dodges in the circle and just make a break for it with laurel shield once you see you get overwhelmed

just did that all was going really great at min 18, then I was greedy and ran directly into a mummy while being on full health and died :D

garlic 8 / evolved bible 8/ evolved cross lvl8/ axe2 / whip 5 (dublicate ring from gold)

[Virgo]

Garlic bros, we won. I'm posting this as I sit AFK and Evolved Garlic kills everything with Evolved Magic Wand.

[wulfster42]

I'm a big garlic fan, but just saw this thread. I mostly finished the game now and garlic + bible were my two favorite powers. I also liked the wand as my base damage, but ended up running portia the most because of the AoE boost (which really makes Garlic better, helps with bible, and rocks with a few other powers).

Garlic does great damage early on wiping everything out and works on the hoards even later on with spinash + the AoE damage one (candelabra?). It's nice to have the bible as well, and you don't even need to evolve bible if you have the faster recharge ability (and base upgrades). Non-upgraded bible is still up pretty much 100% of the time, so wasting a slot for it's evolotion isn't worth it (in my opinion). I also don't want/need garlics evolution and don't waste a slot on the regen (I get plenty from the base upgrades already).

Holy wand pairs GREAT with garlic, and I do like to evolve it. Empty tome is great to have as well, and the wand is a good boss killer (especilly if you back it into a corner). Paired with runetracer and you can handle everything just fine with non evolved garlic/bible (getting clover + spinach + AoE damage increase etc).

Currently there just isn't a high enough difficulty to actually need to build the most powerful combo you can get, you can finish both stages easily on hyper without evolving anything once you have gotten all the upgrades. I like garlic/bible as a base since it basically lets you ignore everything and just stand there if you want (not much reason to move around once you don't need gold anymore).

You can def finish both stages with maxed (but not-evolved) garlic/bible with pretty much any other upgrades though.

[vr·aa·nuh·kuh]

The mobs in the libraly all have lower health that the field. have you tried it on that map, it tends to hold up till the 15-10 minute mark pretty easily there.

[Enix Forever]

There are only three ways to improve Garlic and it's through damage, cooldown, and area.

If you just want to make Garlic deal more damage (don't we all) use;

Lv. 50 Antonio: +50% to attacks, this should include Garlic.
Max out Spinach: +50% to attacks again.
Max out Spinach passives: +25% to attacks.

All together that's 125% more damage per tick. Antionio does over double damage making Poe look like he doesn't know what he's doing with that Garlic. New Garlic Lord?
I'm not sure if evolving Garlic increases it's damage, but I know it does if you're damaged and it's healing you, which is kind of weird.

If you want Garlic to proc more often try;

Lv. 30 Arca; -15% cooldown
Max Empty Tome: -40% cooldown
Max Cooldown passive: -5% cooldown
Garlic also lowers it's own cooldown a bit as it's leveled, but I'm not sure what the specific stats are.

I haven't paid attention to what -60% cooldown does to garlic, but I don't think taking Arca just to get another -15% on it is good here. Still, I highly recommend Empty Tome for any build.

If you want a crazy huge death circle, then definitely take;

Porta: +30% area increase.
Max Candelabrador: +50%
Max Area: +10%
Soul Eater: Evolving Garlic also gives more area, but I don't know how much %.

With > +90% increase in area, Imagine maxed sized Garlic, but probably double the radius. This thing is pretty big and great for AOE builds. The added space also give you more time for a second and third proc to be something you can start relying on without moving. Not as reliable when tanky late game enemies get shoved through that space though. I've die with 10 seconds left because of this. Still it can get you to late game with the right build.

Combo Idea:
An interesting combo that I recently found is the Lancet + Empty tome + Garlic + Bible + Spinach. The idea here is that the Lancet will constantly freeze enemies allowing you to fearlessly walk on them without taking damage and letting the Garlic just melt them. Bible also helps with this. Would strongly take Laurels and/or Armor since this is a very guts play. If you use Antonio and evolve the whip and garlic you get more damage and a nice bit of regen as well. +10 HP a second with a max passive regen and Pummarola. If you use Arca the Lancet moves quicker once maxed with Tome. Wings may be needed to keep up.

[KellyR]

Garlic is unaffected by cooldown, actually. So Arca does no good.

[Shadowdweller]

Garlic IS affected by cooldown. Or at least several garlic level-ups decrease it. Affects the rate at which damage / knockback from it ticks. I think.