How does one beat => Risk of Storm™ ?

[Wolfbane]

I need some advice on how to beat this challenge.

I can get to stage 3, but once Corruption gets to 300, stages slow down, and usually die around 600 Corruption.
I have gotten to the end boss stage 3 "Necromancer" did get to 2000 Corruption and then I died.

Im clearly missing something...

Help / guide / suggestions ?

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[Fernanda]

You can follow my guide and it should help: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3213319345

As a general rule of thumb, if you're playing Knight Rog, start with Crossbow, limit weapons to two, take Throwing Knife and evo into Ballista. Build into Blood Transmutation or Zealot (or both, it's possible to start as a hybrid until Zealot's damage take over) and try to do stages as quickly as possible, and take a route that skips as many fighting stages as possible.

If you want to see card choices, here's an example run of Risk of Monsoon (the Hard Mode version of Risk of Storm) with no talents: https://youtu.be/HCX2uYz4vVo

[S'bass thulu]

I beat Risk of Monsoon (Risk of Storm on steroids) with this approach...

It took Lunar inferno, Stellar stone, Lunar stone, Moon stone, and katana as the shop keeper to start. I ignored all power boosts possible... focused on only defense multipliers and boosts, attack speed up... etc. I was approaching 50k dmg in world II when I got a shrine of reconstruction that boosted me up over 100k dmg and 50k defense. By the end of it I was up over 1.5m dmg and around 300k+ defense. Corruption was up over 300k as well. So you know what to expect.

I did a quick start run with the challenge to cut down the levels... but idk if it makes that much of a difference in this one, because by world III corruption usually jumps up over 1k no matter what I do.

So my defense was my dmg too (important and I don't see many folks mention it). I got all the durability and healing (tainted usually) I could. I got lucky with a shrine event. Shrine events are amazing. And then I spammed everything possible with shopkeeper. It takes a lot of tries to get through each level as fast as possible. Skip the boss intros, don't let them play out in full. Skip or banish that .75 green base defense boost. Focus on tainted ones and others.

I forget if RoS releases the shrine events... but I remember beating that one without a shrine event either way... using this same concept. It doesn't hurt to limit weapons to 4 or whatever works for you. I like to start with katana because then all xp is easier to grab without void crates. Once lunar inferno is set in, it's wild how quick you can build dmg by building defense.

What an incredible game. Cheers.