Discuss your favorite builds here!

[Mojito]

Lets share our favorite weapon/character combos and why we like them!

As the Leader of the Children of the Vine club, I LOVE using Vine, Arrow, and bone build!

When I play this build, I like to use Arrow as my primary with Vivian because she gets blue souls on every arrow kill so the early levels are VERY fast.

This build is also very good with Maxine as she gets Arrow 45% CDR (!!!!)

What makes this build so good for me is that it has a plan A and a plan B for beating the boss.

Plan A: The levels work well for arrow and you go HAM on arrow! It will get so fast and hit so hard that it kills the boss easy and clears everything. Secondary weapon Vines of course. Walk the path of the Vines while loading them all up with arrows.

Plan B: You get a ton of bone levels and it becomes a rapid fire machine gun up and down. (it is INSANE with max speed) Just get a few levels of arrow for CDR at that point. Secondary weapon the Vines of course. Trust the vines, walk the path and the ones will take care of the boss.

Best 4th item for this build? Cleave of course! A few levels of cleave will help set up arrow kills and if we go to plan B cleave size will help you with side to side attacks while bone gets everything else.

Well that is my current amazing build of the moment.

What is yours?

[Swift_Talon]

nice build, pretty much the same as mine however


Conrad - Vine stating for 2 hp on cast

Vine - max area, ignore it for...

Bone - max cooldown, range to lvl 5, damage when needed

Cleave - max cooldown, range to 5, damage as cooldown gets higher

FLEX - you are BUFF, show it off (just pick whatever you like for this slot)


Magus - Cleave starting for 2% heart drop on kill

Bone - Max everything alongside Cleave

FLEX - You are BUFF, ok that joke got old fast

FLEX HARDER - ... Free 2 slots

[Aesirgard]

Vivian - Tornado Synergy for 100% Exp drops.

Tornado - Invest heavy early, focus on getting 6-8 tornadoes, up size 2-3 times to prevent enemies from slipping through cracks, pick up enough cool down to have 2 waves going at all time to allow for options on where to move.

Bone/Shuriken - Invest in both roughly equally, whatever options show up. Take cooldown whenever available. This is for heavy monster and boss shredding.

4th spell is a throw away, whatever I get stuck with, not going to invest in it.

[Juniper Seed]

Originally posted by Aesirgard:

Vivian - Tornado Synergy for 100% Exp drops.

Tornado - Invest heavy early, focus on getting 6-8 tornadoes, up size 2-3 times to prevent enemies from slipping through cracks, pick up enough cool down to have 2 waves going at all time to allow for options on where to move.

Bone/Shuriken - Invest in both roughly equally, whatever options show up. Take cooldown whenever available. This is for heavy monster and boss shredding.

4th spell is a throw away, whatever I get stuck with, not going to invest in it.

Basically this. Vivian/Tornado start. Bone or Shuriken, thought Bone is most consistent. Vine for 3rd, investing only until 4 or 5 vines with enough AOE to have them all touch.

Vivian is S+++++ tier with tornado or arrow. Literally everyone else is F-----.

Maxine's starting CD doesn't matter after 5 levels of CD. She gets diminished returns compared to the other characters and everyone ends up at the same CD on Arrow/Bone/Spears. In addition, not being able to take a few hits makes her essentially worthless on Graveyard Hard mode.

Magnus is worthless, and the Tank dude is worthless. Magnus offers no gains, as you should never be getting hit that much and the Tank can't farm pets during a run.

Furthermore, Vivian is miles beyond others because of the scaling Soul Magnet on level up. She's so insanely broken. Every single Vivian run ends at level 90-100+. All others have a hard time even breaking level 60. I'll take two level 41 abilities with zero effort needed on my part any day.

My entire skill tree is focused around Vivian and how skills currently work. All Tornado nodes maxed out EXCEPT for knock-back, which essentially makes tornadoes worse with too much investment. Every Magnet primary node (20%). Every rune/blue soul node. Pet Cage speed, chest speed primaries, and Hero dmg/crit. Currently working towards capping bone nodes and the third vine node (haven't found it).

I keep trying other builds just to freshen up the runs but they all pale in comparison.

Final note on Pets. For very early first pets, always take Cici for 10% more xp. Otherwise take extended magnet range and at least one miner (the one that digs every 10s) for health regen. You don't need the one that only gives health, and getting extra runes/gems helps bolster future runs. Mining speed (for the gem rocks), movement speed, dmg mitigation, dmg, and currency boosters are all crap. Honorable mention is the +10% skill size Mole, decent, but because he's not worth investing pet levels in, he's not worth it. For additional pet levels, Magnet all the way.

If I find a node on the skill web that increases pet cage spawns then I'll reassess pets then. Haven't seen one yet, though.

[Aesirgard]

I agree Juni, Vivian is just miles above anyone else in my experience. Maxine is truly garbage tier in comparison. That early cool down reduction is meaningless and the extra speed doesn't make up for her horrible health pool. I can at least make Conrad work, his knock back cleave is a good poor man's tornado. Used Magnus once, and I'm like... why? I'd much rather have level 100 and all my skills basically maxed.

Bone is more consistent with damage, unless you get that golem boss on Dark Forest and he decides to come at you from the side, in which case you are boned cause you can't hit him without getting danger close to the spear wall.

[Irrelevant]

Vivian is just OP becausee she has two buffs. She gets the most xp and can screen pickup. If the devs don't nerf her but only tornado it's obvious they are joking. That aside...

Normal all maps = Conrad + Tornados. You are save from almost everything and Tornados do the job.

On abuse Vivian and go with the stuff you get if you can't make enough money early on to get rid of all the garbage weapons there are.