How do you deal with Goblin Sappers on endless mode?

[Nazamroth]

Note that I mean the zappers, not the exploders.

I am trying to get the wave 50 achievement, and they and the knolls are the wrench in my not so metaphorical machine. The easiest solution is to use guardians, barricades and tar as the key elements, and that did get me to wave 40, but the guardian limit is a thing, and gnoll hordes eat them for breakfast at that point.

So I tried a trap-based approach now, and realised what a pain goblin sappers are, especially when they come at the same time as kobold sappers, and you either have to defend your blocker barricades, or stunlock your killbox until the zappers are done and you can restart your traps.

I tried thinking of ways to kill them before they reach the killbox, but they do not die like kobolds, they ignore barricades, and whatever trap I place to kill them, they would just disable. On top of that, I can't even just use decoy traps either, like with the kobold sappers, because I know from my wave 40 run that they will expend one or two blasts on the decoy or secondary killbox, and then they rush the main one anyway.

[Haigen]

Wind belt and ice amulet are great for dealing with sappers.

[Nazamroth]

Originally posted by Haigen:

Wind belt and ice amulet are great for dealing with sappers.

How so? You have to go out there to stop them before they reach your killbox, but at the point where they really start being a problem, there are ogres and trolls swarming everywhere. It sounds like that is an excewllent way to get stunlocked and killed, which is how I die almost every time.

Also, I noticed that the game is a ♥♥♥♥ and sends sapper waves at the same times and gnoll hordes.

[Haigen]

Originally posted by Nazamroth:

Originally posted by Haigen:

Wind belt and ice amulet are great for dealing with sappers.

How so? You have to go out there to stop them before they reach your killbox, but at the point where they really start being a problem, there are ogres and trolls swarming everywhere. It sounds like that is an excewllent way to get stunlocked and killed, which is how I die almost every time.

Also, I noticed that the game is a ♥♥♥♥ and sends sapper waves at the same times and gnoll hordes.

Well thats the challenge. You can use ice amulet to freeze the ogres/trolls too.

[Nazamroth]

Well, I just did another run and managed to keep the zappers mostly at bay by spamming arrow walls on every available surface. I still died on wave 41 though. I simply couldnt put out enough damage to stop the endless tide of armored ogres, and more importantly, Yetis that aggro and start running through barricades at half health.

More importantly though, I noticed that the game is even more of a ♥♥♥♥ than I realized. Now that I did not have a single guardian, it barely sent any gnolls, as opposed to the dozen strong packs from before. Somehow I doubt that it is a coincidence.