Cosmo is the best character.

[Pairodice]

change my mind

[Odbarc]

I really like Boros. He can get very high levels and when you combine that with those 3 Randomozzo's that give you attack speed, area and duration based on level, you have yourself a crazy War Horse.
I wouldn't guarantee him as the best but he's certainly near S tier because of this.

[Johnny Thunder]

Smith is better because of the scaling

[HeraldOfOpera]

After a certain point, all you really care about is gold. Therefore, you need Big Trouser.

[!?!]

Burd

[dorping Wolf]

Cosmo is aweseome with Gimini arcana.
since he has 2 birds by default, +the 2 birds as pick up weapons.
you can have 4 birds, which all get their Gimini
(+ if you have only white bird 8 and chest, you evolve the white + the unlisted black bird into vandal. than you can even pick up another black bird, since you had no one before)
pair it with Sparrow/Tubhello guns, which too get a gimini twin, and the cat.

oh, and take Twilight Reqium, since every bird projectile explodes...
(you have 8 birds constanly shooting projectiles)

to top it off,
get a laurel into evolve, + armor, and hp. and you have an unkillable walking carrier.
nothing can kill you, since damage capped at 10 -armor, and your health reg per level heals you up...
having 98 health with 161 regeneration...
(no eggs of course)

[Pumpkinreaper]

Originally posted by Odbarc:

I really like Boros. He can get very high levels and when you combine that with those 3 Randomozzo's that give you attack speed, area and duration based on level, you have yourself a crazy War Horse.
I wouldn't guarantee him as the best but he's certainly near S tier because of this.

I love Cosmo, but Boros is probably the best character in the game to farm with due to Wicked Season synergizing incredibly well with him. Around 500 eggs I was easily making around 2 million gold in the bone zone. Today at 700 or so eggs I got over 3 million (2 weapon slots, start with wicked season, get laurel and grab components for cape.).

Should I write a short guide?

[Akrythael]

Mortaccio, seeing a ♥♥♥♥ ton of huge bones flying around like crazy to a point you can hide in the bone pile is a lot of fun ^^

[SheepGravy]

Originally posted by IAMCRAIG:

Originally posted by Odbarc:

I really like Boros. He can get very high levels and when you combine that with those 3 Randomozzo's that give you attack speed, area and duration based on level, you have yourself a crazy War Horse.
I wouldn't guarantee him as the best but he's certainly near S tier because of this.

I love Cosmo, but Boros is probably the best character in the game to farm with due to Wicked Season synergizing incredibly well with him. Around 500 eggs I was easily making around 2 million gold in the bone zone. Today at 700 or so eggs I got over 3 million (2 weapon slots, start with wicked season, get laurel and grab components for cape.).

Should I write a short guide?

I'd be interested mate

[Demented Mind]

Originally posted by IAMCRAIG:

Originally posted by Odbarc:

I really like Boros. He can get very high levels and when you combine that with those 3 Randomozzo's that give you attack speed, area and duration based on level, you have yourself a crazy War Horse.
I wouldn't guarantee him as the best but he's certainly near S tier because of this.

I love Cosmo, but Boros is probably the best character in the game to farm with due to Wicked Season synergizing incredibly well with him. Around 500 eggs I was easily making around 2 million gold in the bone zone. Today at 700 or so eggs I got over 3 million (2 weapon slots, start with wicked season, get laurel and grab components for cape.).

Should I write a short guide?

Do you have to pick Wicked Season as first arcana to start getting benefits per level or you can pick it up at 11th minute and it'll count all the past levels?

[Demented Mind]

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

After a certain point, all you really care about is gold. Therefore, you need Big Trouser.

Would Gains Boros actually earn more gold than Big Trouser with Wicked Season arcana?

[Soft Lockpick]

How are you playing it?

Vicious hunger will kill your xp gains. So something reliant on high levels is less valuable.

An AFK farm kills the growth value after 30 minutes in full. Leaving only how much greed you can get.

The duration bonus is hard to put a value on because it probably depends a lot on egg level given how luck works to generate triggers to gold fever.

[Pumpkinreaper]

Originally posted by Soft Lockpick:

How are you playing it?

Vicious hunger will kill your xp gains. So something reliant on high levels is less valuable.

An AFK farm kills the growth value after 30 minutes in full. Leaving only how much greed you can get.

The duration bonus is hard to put a value on because it probably depends a lot on egg level given how luck works to generate triggers to gold fever.

So here's the funny thing; vicious hunger doesn't help all that much for gold gain compared to using a beefier weapon to ensure a steady stream of enemies dying + enough curse that there's always a bunch of things to to murder. The gold gained from vicious hunger isn't much in the end, as nice as it is to have the eyes picking up bags of gold to keep gold fever maintained with little to no effort.

Originally posted by Demented Mind:

Do you have to pick Wicked Season as first arcana to start getting benefits per level or you can pick it up at 11th minute and it'll count all the past levels?

It won't count previous levels, but picking wicked season at 11 mins in isn't so bad and might actually work better when you don't have a ton of eggs or just want to relax while grinding out gold, since Gains Boros levels up faster and faster the longer the map goes on for.

If you're starting out (say, sub 300 or so eggs), I'd recommend setting it to two weapons, grab laurel, tome, armour, wings, stone mask, torrona's box (sub for cursed skull if waves get to be too much before the 28th minute)and a magnet orb (or whatever the xp hoover is called) for sanity's sake (also to minimize wasted time in collecting xp). First arcana should be disco of gold, since you won't have much natural hp regen or armour.

Edible is kicking in so I'll try to summarize some of my reasoning behind certain items:

Why wings and armour?: You want to minimize the amount of time guardians and stalker can be in melee contact with you, since with the curse you're going to have, they're going to murder you incredibly fast. It also gives wiggle room in case you mess up in keeping them away. For armour, it's because you aren't outrunning everything, especially when you start leveling up with wicked season. Also at higher levels of curse and the massive amount of ♥♥♥♥ going on, the game is going to do some odd ♥♥♥♥ when wicked season cycles to double curse, with mobs of enemies getting in close, then spontaneously dying all at once, with the game flipping a coin to decide if you're taking damage the whole while. This also can run down your gold fever timer and put you in a bad spot looking for another one.



As an aside: if you do it on quick mode, absolutely do not pick wicked season first, since the 10 minute stalker spawn will eat through all of your lives incredibly fast (you could potentially weather it by saving up a lot of chests and abusing the short invulnerability window each one gives after clicking through the animation, though you'd need 4+ lives). The curse buildup just makes him too fast to keep away (or tank his damage for that matter).

Oh, also I've been fiddling with using pentagram and its evo. It isn't half bad, though it can make you pick up XP gems when wicked season hasn't cycled to XP, which sucks a bit, but isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. It pretty much solves any stalker issues as long as you let a few XP build up before it hits 10 minutes, so you have a good chance of getting a pentagram limit break (which makes it immediately fire off if picked).

[Soft Lockpick]

Originally posted by IAMCRAIG:

Originally posted by Soft Lockpick:

How are you playing it?

Vicious hunger will kill your xp gains. So something reliant on high levels is less valuable.

An AFK farm kills the growth value after 30 minutes in full. Leaving only how much greed you can get.

The duration bonus is hard to put a value on because it probably depends a lot on egg level given how luck works to generate triggers to gold fever.

So here's the funny thing; vicious hunger doesn't help all that much for gold gain compared to using a beefier weapon to ensure a steady stream of enemies dying + enough curse that there's always a bunch of things to to murder. The gold gained from vicious hunger isn't much in the end, as nice as it is to have the eyes picking up bags of gold to keep gold fever maintained with little to no effort.

Vicious Hunger depends on map and egg level.

Capella AFK farming you'll be hitting freeze powerups constantly without it to transform them. They're a huge slowdown and end fevers.

[puma]

Originally posted by IAMCRAIG:

If you're starting out (say, sub 300 or so eggs), I'd recommend setting it to two weapons, grab laurel, tome, armour, wings, stone mask, torrona's box (sub for cursed skull if waves get to be too much before the 28th minute)and a magnet orb (or whatever the xp hoover is called) for sanity's sake (also to minimize wasted time in collecting xp). First arcana should be disco of gold, since you won't have much natural hp regen or armour.

Just wanted post here to say thanks for this advice and to bring more attention to this post for anyone else trying to do a low/no egg gold farm.

The only issue I had is the seemingly buggy nature of damage when one amasses a ball of enemies. For whatever reason, around the 20 minute mark (maybe late teens), the enemies start turning into a ball around you somewhat often. Heaven Sword becomes unable to do any damage. Wiggling around may or may not resolve the issue. If it doesn't, then Gold fever drops and death follows shortly thereafter unless I can run to another bag and try to get the Heaven Sword to start damaging again.

Adding La Borra fixed the issue. It did impact Heaven Sword's DPS a bit, but I manually pick Limit Breaks up to a point to favor Heaven Sword crit, amount, and might. The last 10 minutes or so, it's just left on random.

Edit: Oh, and La Borra reached the 520k mark around 23 minutes to compare to Heaven Sword alone at 26:32 -- still I'd like to see how it would do if this glitch/quirk didn't occur.

Example of ball with only Heaven Sword and it not harming them:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850371285

Example of death at 26:32 still getting 520k with only Heaven Sword:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850371598

Example of using La Borra taken at the same 26:32 mark:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850396267

And the death just shy of completion:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850396411

[thugen]

Cosmo is also one of my favourites! If you want to have a blast:
1. Start a game with Cosmo with weapons limited to 1 and limit break enabled
2. Get Sarabande of Healing as your first arcana
3. Get Laurel as your only weapon
4. Pick up Armor, Health, Candelabrador, Toronna's Box, Crown and Attractorb
5. Get Wicked Season as your second and Disco of Gold as your third weapon

It's hilarious. I managed to kill death within 30 seconds.