YAVT: Post your victorious builds

[Brit]

Yet Another Victory Thread

I think it would be fun for people to post their victorious builds in a thread (along with the game version it was achieved on), so I'll start

I won with a Naqui Summoner of Mehtar on 0.4.1

https://i.imgur.com/TFvoI1W.png

https://i.imgur.com/EdpkCll.png

Maqbara:
https://imgur.com/a/PkXk1fb

There's some pretty ridiculous synergy between Mehtar and Psychomorphism so the build was made around exploiting that as much as possible for both offense and defense as mehtar floods the level with summons that attack at range (triggering your own mainhand through the Psychomorphism power), you can use this to stack on attack status effects very quickly (in my case I leaned into sickness and snakeform as I don't really care about my range and my speed would be debuffed by Mehtar's prayers anyways)
This culminated with me having 17k armor (1365 stacks of repulsion and 1695 stacks of snakeform) at the end of the path.

The skills I picked were Psychomorphism, Psychokinesis, Master Repulsion, Snakeform, Toxokinesis, Warrior of the mind, although I feel morbumancy would have been better, and a few levels in Tenacity to be able to wear gear.

[Ulfsire]

This is awesome and I posted it in the discord, hopefully some others will share here -- I've seen a lot of Snakeform wins, but using different strategies than you, which is interesting

Could also post the stats from the Maqbara (I keep forgetting to make the death screen display Power levels)

[Gurthang]

I won with a Lochra Venite of Dorok on 0.4.1

https://imgur.com/a/32QDksn

My first victory from today, also snakeform but in a different route.
Basically, turning yourself into snek and doing tons of poison damage and applying a ton of sickness, with death damage and the berserk from lochra blending in. The heals are absurd, and the damage caused in a single turn is even more, since you can dish out many (really, MANY) hits.
The build depends a little bit on luck to get decent itens on the earlier stages and survive, but after a couple of days it really takes off. Good for beginners and not-very-smart players like me, lol.

Maybe it also works well with ninhurs or other gods, but haven't tried that yet. Dorok did not help that much, really. It's only purpose was for getting me some heals early on (after that, you get 100%HP all the time from snakeform) and some extra hits for harder fights.

[Brit]

Originally posted by Gurthang:

Maybe it also works well with ninhurs or other gods, but haven't tried that yet. Dorok did not help that much, really. It's only purpose was for getting me some heals early on (after that, you get 100%HP all the time from snakeform) and some extra hits for harder fights.

I'm a fan of Dorok as well, the +3 strength to start off allowing you to wield bigger weapons early on is very nice on melee builds.

[Ulfsire]

I ALMOST got a win, was excited to post here...died far up in the Astrolith
https://imgur.com/a/zAG6bTy

REALLY fun build where I had to pay attention to my position a lot -- maximizing the number of adjacent allies to I could use minion feast + crimson staff + hemokinesis + robe of gore

Could attack distant targets with the staff and slow them down with Vinakinesis, and some Magus to get hits to trigger the Scythe ability once big targets were heavily entangled

Eventually misplayed my position with some arbiters and red demons :(

[Brit]

Second victory for myself in this thread, I got pretty intrested in doing a melee run after the summoner win and was having trouble to get enough defences without abusing snake form, I came up with a funny dodge / multi attack build based around getting some speed and reducing enemies with Vines, here are the images on version 0.4.2:

https://imgur.com/a/4xnO7ou

Overall very fun, although way less overpowered than my first build.

[Ulfsire]

first victory for myself, an Executioner / kill-allies-for-anoint build

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945521395

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945521504

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945521440

The Executioner damage is really useful on a ranged weapon for killing threats

Got Gore Cleave high enough to kill the Cadavers and Slouching Dead (bleed resistant) quickly, which let me rapidly get Anoint to ~50 after a couple prayers

Dexterity and Focus let me make use of the resultant high Hit to kill big enemies, while all the small damage from Necrokinesis / Blood Retort / Robe of Gore combo-ing off the ally damage would take care of smaller swarming enemies

In the end the King could still dodge my Hits, but luckily I had the Emerald Helm equipped, which dealt a ton of poison damage from my Anoints once I got close to him. Had to circle him while summoning Slouching Dead to heal / charge Anoint to win

[Brit]

Awesome win, and nice build, would love to try it eventually, reminiscent of poe builds using skeletons with reduced duration to trigger on minion death effects.

as for me I got my first win in the Cycle of Degradation (and fourth total win) with my overhauled summoner,
This time it was focused on doing cold damage to slow the enemies but still using snake-form for defence (I wish we had other strong defensive options for this type of build, I think maybe a self freeze option in cold tree that slows but grants armour or hit mitigation since the theme of using heavy armour is already there with some of the gear pieces or the old repuslion removing flat damage from hits.)

https://imgur.com/a/NJLuFsp latest build being the leftmost one.

I think my next try will be a batform berserker relying on gorecleave with some form of heal on attack from Humbaba or maybe bloodbath

[Ulfsire]

finally got a win with the new Barbarism ---- Armor + as many attacks as I could get + Blight Cuirass / Golden Axe + Dumuzi

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2957076010

[Effectz_End]

Projection 5 / Cryokinesis 1 / Obedient Ice 1 / Parafrost 8 / Power Charge 10
Massive Multi-targeted damage, destroys basically anything, just cleared cycle of glory 5 minutes ago

[Ulfsire]

Originally posted by Brit:

Awesome win, and nice build, would love to try it eventually, reminiscent of poe builds using skeletons with reduced duration to trigger on minion death effects.

as for me I got my first win in the Cycle of Degradation (and fourth total win) with my overhauled summoner,
This time it was focused on doing cold damage to slow the enemies but still using snake-form for defence (I wish we had other strong defensive options for this type of build, I think maybe a self freeze option in cold tree that slows but grants armour or hit mitigation since the theme of using heavy armour is already there with some of the gear pieces or the old repuslion removing flat damage from hits.)

https://imgur.com/a/NJLuFsp latest build being the leftmost one.

I think my next try will be a batform berserker relying on gorecleave with some form of heal on attack from Humbaba or maybe bloodbath

just realized I forgot to respond to this -- an Ice power "turtleform" is definitely planned!

[Gredd]

So I've been having a ton of fun with Path of Archa, it's a great little game to pick up and try things out with. Gotta say though, I was not expecting a naked man with a spear to legitimately be my best run so far. I've won once before in the past, but this just took the cake - The King of Many Colors was dead in the first hit! Agility with a pierce weapon goes so hard for anything that isn't 90% resist and a few thousand HP that there's probably not even any blood left. Definitely a fun build to do!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642318
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642388
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642476

[Ulfsire]

Originally posted by Gredd:

So I've been having a ton of fun with Path of Archa, it's a great little game to pick up and try things out with. Gotta say though, I was not expecting a naked man with a spear to legitimately be my best run so far. I've won once before in the past, but this just took the cake - The King of Many Colors was dead in the first hit! Agility with a pierce weapon goes so hard for anything that isn't 90% resist and a few thousand HP that there's probably not even any blood left. Definitely a fun build to do!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642318
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642388
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642476

This is so awesome. I actually added a "deal 100k or more damage in one instance" achievement in the release version as something "impossible" but this actually looks like you got very close lol

[Gredd]

Originally posted by Ulfsire:

Originally posted by Gredd:

So I've been having a ton of fun with Path of Archa, it's a great little game to pick up and try things out with. Gotta say though, I was not expecting a naked man with a spear to legitimately be my best run so far. I've won once before in the past, but this just took the cake - The King of Many Colors was dead in the first hit! Agility with a pierce weapon goes so hard for anything that isn't 90% resist and a few thousand HP that there's probably not even any blood left. Definitely a fun build to do!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642318
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642388
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968642476

This is so awesome. I actually added a "deal 100k or more damage in one instance" achievement in the release version as something "impossible" but this actually looks like you got very close lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2969040718
100k damage done! That 100k was dealt to a green demon, to note - no gold demon -100% Piercing resist shenanigans involved! Agility is one hell of a skill.

[Ulfsire]

Originally posted by Gredd:

Originally posted by Ulfsire:

This is so awesome. I actually added a "deal 100k or more damage in one instance" achievement in the release version as something "impossible" but this actually looks like you got very close lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2969040718
100k damage done! That 100k was dealt to a green demon, to note - no gold demon -100% Piercing resist shenanigans involved! Agility is one hell of a skill.

Hahahaha, now THAT is what peak performance looks like

[Ulfsire]

Chamakana is an ability that I have to be careful with or it will become way too strong -- managed to get a win carefully trying to set up its triggers

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2970100056