a build to defeat the red death

[Facuwu]

and build for forbidden scrolls? thx 1.0 is hard

[Tekka]

rings + lancet and the red cross items + laurel is ez red death

[cgee3]

For the intended way to kill red death you'll need Lancet and Laurel and evolve them into the Infinite Corridor and Crimson Shroud respectively. To evolve Lancet, you need to level it up to 8 and also max level the Silver Ring and Golden passive items that are located on the maps. For Laurel, you need to max level it and max level Metaglio Left and Metaglio Right, they are also passive items that you find on the map.

I have been able to kill Red Death by only having Infinite Corridor.

[Georgiana]

Easiest way is going to be obtaining the Yellow Sign (https://vampire-survivors.fandom.com/wiki/Yellow_Sign) so you can unlock the evolutions for Clock Lancet and Laurel.

Once you have the sign and the new items, basically any build is fine as long as you have Clock Lancet and Laurel evolved in that build (assuming you have decent powerups and arcanas as well).

The new items will also help with the boss that unlocks forbidden scrolls. Be sure to not engage the boss until you have all your items unlocked and ready to go so it doesn't scale before you're ready.

[Ed1749]

To be frank you dont entirely need to evolve the laurel, but evolved lancet is non-negotiable. Having max level laurel definitely helps with safety, and evolving it makes it almost guranteed. Since the items are very hard to get to, having mad groove from surviving 31 minutes in the forest is also useful.

[Johnny Thunder]

Originally posted by Ed1749:

To be frank you dont entirely need to evolve the laurel, but evolved lancet is non-negotiable. Having max level laurel definitely helps with safety, and evolving it makes it almost guranteed. Since the items are very hard to get to, having mad groove from surviving 31 minutes in the forest is also useful.

didn't they update upgraded laurel so you can kill death without lancet?

[xt6wagon]

nah, I almost never use Lancet. Evolved Laurel is the winning move. All the good weapons posses the DPM to get it done. Healing through the damage is.. harder.

[Ed1749]

Originally posted by Johnny Thunder:

Originally posted by Ed1749:

To be frank you dont entirely need to evolve the laurel, but evolved lancet is non-negotiable. Having max level laurel definitely helps with safety, and evolving it makes it almost guranteed. Since the items are very hard to get to, having mad groove from surviving 31 minutes in the forest is also useful.

didn't they update upgraded laurel so you can kill death without lancet?

The big thing is that Lancet both makes the reaper frozen and guarantees the fight ends in a reasonable time. Having a second reaper show up is not what we want to happen. Also evovled lancet is just super good, might as well grab it if we're getting yellow sign items.

[Spike Migo]

Best I can help is advising you to unlock arcana and the mad grove arcana specifically as it will allow you to realistically and more easily acquire a build and the items you need to make infinite corridor. Only other thing I can say is that you can pick up extra passive items after your max if you get them off the ground, I.E. if you have 6 passive items then pick up silver ring it fills an extra slot along with your 6 others, I use this to get two bonus passive items when leveling as you cant pick up the rings or metagalio, then pick up the silver, gold, and both the metagalio sides so you can more easily deal with the extra stronger enemies

[Paw]

this reminds me of the old days of vampire survivors when there were no evolved lance and laurel. people just kinda raw dogged it with a level 2 clerci and a prism to kill death.