Advice to those who feel stuck and / or frustrated

[Ahajir]

EDIT:
This advice is for people who are stuck on 0 Difficulty, for those who have yet to beat Dracula. Which is 50.1% of player base at the time of writing.

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My advice to people who feel stuck because they don't have solid items yet is to aim for Winter and her boon Frozen Treasure which gives 100% / 117% / 150% / 200% ( % based on boon rarity) chance for Frozen or Chill immune enemy to drop an item when killed.

This boon skyrocketed my progression because it allowed me to farm better items which in turn gave me much more viability. It is insane how much a difference an item with 10% More Expert Offer attribute makes in a run.

So if you are stuck and feel the game is unfair to you even when you are following a guide, focus on farming items. Once you get a few good items the fun factor of the game sky rockets because it fulfils that power fantasy we crave.

I got stuck either on Dracula or the skeletal horde before him until I got an item that gave me a small increase for master offers (was around 5 or 6%, I think I might have bought it from the shopkeeper). In my second or third run with the item I got Master rarity Lighting Bolt (not 100% sure but I know it was Leigong boon) and the run felt a breeze.

May the rolls be in your favour and have fun.

[Jarring]

Originally posted by SteelSoul:

Interesting approach...didn't think about going high life + lifelink dash, that sounds as pretty cheap sustain option early on, I might try it for fun.

My first clear and well...almost all of them (up to full modifiers runs) was just going as much dmg as I could, so I just kill things before they kill me lol.
(+ a little bit of regen or justice shields)

Edit: freeze helps a little for melee with decent damage and attack speed, but I wouldn't spend too many levels on it...

Not saying justice or regen is good too...that's just what I did to complete the thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it takes too many levels to make a difference, not worth it.

30% of 150 hp is 45 hp.. that's almost the entirety of merris/nixi base health pool that you can instantly regen back up with just a dash.

[Ahajir]

TL:DR

Gonna give it one last try and that's it.
ZERO DIFFICULTY if you stuck on it and can't complete it even with specific advised Gods, use Winters boons to farm an item which gives increased chance for Expert or Master boons. Even a common rarity item can have those attributes.

After that use the item in your runs, pretty much any Master rarity boon can get you through ZERO DIFFICULTY even if you have 0 skill. That's how much a difference they make.

That's it.
I never contested that Winter was OP or useless.
I never said you need this or that god to beat Dracula in my original post.
I simply advised to use winter to have increased item drop chance until an item that has the attribute for increased Expert or Master boons drops. Then you use the item to kill Dracula for the first time.

Can you beat Dracula on ZERO DIFFICULTY without using my advice, yes you can.
Case closed, have fun and good luck.

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by spectrefps:

I think what is being *repeatedly* missed here is that the OP is making their case for people who *cannot clear* D0 (self included) and thus do not even -have access- to higher darkness levels. While I do not doubt that farming increased darkness levels would produce better gear drops overall, you keep skipping that point in your replies. Once we can clear D0 (that is, once we get gear drops with +rerolls/+alterations/etc), THEN we could focus on farming higher darkness levels. But to simply state "best advice is to farm darkness 3" when the post is for people *trying to clear* the default difficulty (before darkness levels are even unlocked...) seems a bit silly.

What is also being missed is his advice is bad. Fortune only increases drop quantity not quality. Getting a bunch more white and blue items won't help you. Taking a god that actually does damage and can help you kill any of the bosses will net you infinitely better gear.