Need a tip to bit 5th difficulty

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Hello. I just broke my hand by accident, but I want to get all the achievements asap.

Is there a easy class/build to bit 5th level while I am a creep?))

[Highborne]

All are doable, meta upgrades help a lot.

Golem/Juggernaught are solid, Assassin/Thief are good.

[Awkweat]

Butchernaut is really good. Focus on halberds, armour, and crate calls and you'll do good. (butchernaut is juggernaut butcher subclass)

[Demon Swords]

Priestess, start with 1st aspect and 1st starting item,

Surround the starting item with 5 of the cross bows that takes 6 slots. (Put them one above and below the starting item faceing one way, one inbetween those two, and two on the opposite side.)

The 1st starting item increases adjacent weapon's base damage for every 2 recovery and the 6 slot cross bow has the fastest attack speed (making for a ridiculous combo.)

Then just get as much recovery and attack speed as you can with 1-2 piercing and you can murder any basic enemy (within range) on spawn and have a ton of healing from Recovery to face the elites and the final boss. (and of course get some extra exp, resource, and more enemy spawn items for waves 1-19.)

[cookies for everyone!]

Easiest character is Thief, you won't have to worry about attack speed and you can get as many dice as you want since dice gives you only buffs with the thief bonus, so easier to get enough luck to get tier3-4 items early on while still having tons of attack speed.

Focus on Throwing Daggers, the best non-unique weapon in the game by far.

[doemondo]

I have had best luck with (in order)
Berserker with Sickle and Wolf's Fang (stack armor + vitality + any weapons really)
Thief with Hit List and 9 Throwing Weapons
Priestess with 4 Automatic Crossbows and Angel wing (forget defenses stack recovery, get 3 pierces)

[Copperwire]

Scholar.

[doemondo]

what do you run on scholar to make it consistent?

[Copperwire]

Start Rapier. Early, more rapiers, dual swords, ceremonials, and ebonies + 8+% lifesteal + 20+ range. Everything else, +resource and +barrels. You don't need xp or luck until you have money solid.

Dual Swords ... +45 attack speed when stationary on 4+ other weapons, including other dual swords ... the issue usually is you do not have the space. Scholar does not have that issue. They are also a combine 2 item, so you basically want all of them.

Ceremonials add superior lifesteal for the slots used.

Ebonies scale silly [base damage, like melee and signet ring]. Combined Ebonies combine the kills from all 3 weapons (new in this patch). Rapiers also scale silly [magic]. Both have exceptional base attack speed, which gets silly with scholar.

Once money is solid (+100 resource is good) shift priority to buying all the mirrors (skip scrolls) for xp, luck, and +monster%. Once inventory slots are maxed, sell all xp items and refocus on dmg -> many ways to scale, play the RNG.

[doemondo]

How much are you rerolling on scholor??
how many spaces open to u keep vs items?
which starting item are you using?
how many weapons r u using at once?

I am not really having that much problem with $$$ but the damage is horrible compared to other classes so most of the time I have a real issue starting around wave 10 on difficulty 5 (i have not seen an ebony or ceremonial in the last 2 runs, and i dont have enough damage to stand still even with multiple dual swords, also I just did another run with no dual swords)

I know this CAN work (pretty much all characters can) but it so shop reliant with little money its very inconsistent for me.

Doing the exact same thing on almost any other class seems better.
I feel like im missing something.

[Copperwire]

1. 95% of the time, I reroll until I am broke. If I hit something I want and do not have the space/cash to buy it now, I rightclick [lock it for later].

2. I fill any space I can, keeping in mind that empty space is worth 2 attack speed. Empty is better then super weak items. If resource/barrel Items have been rare, I sometimes have 15 or so empty.

3. None of the starting items are great. Signet works well with small items that scale well (Ebonies, etc). Tome gives you 10% attack speed/earlier spaces. I'd say signet has more long term potential and Tome makes the early game cleaner. Neither is that much better then selling them for 50.

4. Entering floor 10, I am using 10-12/40% of my inventory, on average. Entering floor 20, 15ish/40% of my inventory.

Scholar, meta, is: ~twice the inventory of other classes, +50% prices of goods (not rerolls).

Early Phase - Make use of cheap items effectively and improve your income to make up for the cost penalty.

Middle Phase - Explosive growth until you hit max inventory slots (192, approx 12-15th floor, depending on RNG).

End Phase - Whatever, then see how many seconds it takes the last boss to melt this time.

[Copperwire]

Screenies at 9, 15, and 19: this was a bad RNG run - low resource/barrels early and low xp items in middle phase - done a bit slowly as I cooked.

9
https://steamcommunity.com/id/copperwire1632/screenshot/2309850239036540786/

15
https://steamcommunity.com/id/copperwire1632/screenshot/2309850239036541252/

19
https://steamcommunity.com/id/copperwire1632/screenshot/2309850239036541977/

End Screen
https://steamcommunity.com/id/copperwire1632/screenshot/2309850239036552394/


The Boltgun/Crossnado/King Stick were just for fun - the Rapiers/Staffs alone were enough.

There are a few powerful items/combos missing (super crits, spearhead, and holy box).
Lifesteal cluster or supercrits AND either +movement or -movement are enough meta scaling, the rest is cake.

[Dying ArchDevil]

I beat all 5 of difficulty by using Basic Hunter with basic Auto crossbolt build. Just don't trash your roll pool with useless items from forge and try to reroll as many as possible to combine as many tier 4 weapons as you can.