Curse

[OliverW]

What is the benefit of powering up the curse? Only strengthen the enemy? need help

[LemGambino]

Mainly to increase the challenge, really.

[Vexleigh]

Curse increases the amount and health of enemies. This means that, if you can kill them all, you stand to gain more XP (and more gold with the right equipment).

Curse is one of the gateways to endgame.

[Dante]

Originally posted by Vexleigh:

Curse increases the amount and health of enemies. This means that, if you can kill them all, you stand to gain more XP (and more gold with the right equipment).

Curse is one of the gateways to endgame.

It's not hard to end up with a 10k gold rush (Bare minimum, I've had 50k and I wasn't even doing a gold run) with the right setup, and it's better with as much curse as you can manage because the increased spawn rates can double or triple enemy spawn count if you manage to stack every curse item.

[Gr3atsaga]

I never play without the curse powerups (main menu), or any of them actually. It definitely was jarring at first when I started playing with the max curse powerup but you get used to it.

[jordyexists]

Curse increases the enemy health (which is bad), their spawn rate (which is good) and increases their speed (which can be a double edged sword; it makes them easier to kill as they move to you and thus get hit by your weapons more quickly, but it can make some of the harder waves of enemies, reapers, guardians and bosses a much more serious threat.)

The general result is more enemies on screen and a higher kill count, which results in more XP and more potential for gold gain with certain builds.

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