Your best hero?

[very goopy guy]

Ive been playing fo about fifteen munutes and i already really wanr the lavamancer

[whaaaah]

he is too op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3R7oRkNW9c

[CovfefeMastr]

Mystic kicks royal butt with all her tools and weapons but use Monk (FA,Skytower), Squire (Battle & Cannon), EV2 (Reflect screen), Mystic (Vipers Fang) for simplest most effective builds! I try different character builds from time to time taking queues from Juicebags but they usually are more complicated and less effective but when use logistical placement of any defenses, they usually are effective! :-)

[lovesoshah]

Lavamancer is one of the best for MOST chaos tiers but all of his towers are very expensive, he is my 2nd favorite right now

[very goopy guy]

Originally posted by growl:

Mystic kicks royal butt with all her tools and weapons but use Monk (FA,Skytower), Squire (Battle & Cannon), EV2 (Reflect screen), Mystic (Vipers Fang) for simplest most effective builds! I try different character builds from time to time taking queues from Juicebags but they usually are more complicated and less effective but when use logistical placement of any defenses, they usually are effective! :-)

this might as well be in north korean for me lol

[Xengre]

Monk and EV2 are the best characters followed by Dryad.

Bar a few chaos tiers with EMP orcs Monk will be used for everything. Monk has Sky Guard Tower (tho PDT will do well for slightly less DU in some maps for anti-air). Monk also has FA which is ideal against Shield Geodes which block projectiles and the little shield orcs since the damage is not reduced by their shields while providing strong AoE damage. Lightning Aura are extremely cheap at 20 DU and great for dealing with tankies/bosses that reach the wall (you should be weeding out small fry before that point if possible for LA to focus tanky targets due to it being single target). A hero dmg + crit + hero boost monk with the right pet abilty and shards can instant kill bosses even in C7 and follow up near instant killing any other bosses while pet ability is on cooldown.

EV2 violates rules and is designed as pure power creep. EV2's Proton Beam does very high damage while also being able to slow Lady Orcs who are immune to every other slow in the game (it shouldn't work but it does and Trendy intentionally refuses to fix it) while also being able to freeze mobs/Lady Orcs/bosses as well. It is also quite cheap DU wise and gets great benefits from upgrading. Weapon Manufacturer is still alright. Reflect Wall is basically mandatory for C6 else you have to find an EV2 to build one for you or skip from C5 to C7... Reflect Wall also enables other towers to function safely even with Shield Geodes and does very high damage, particularly great for C6. EV2 has some of the best DPS for killing bosses as well.

Dryad's Hornets are very strong against everything but flying/Rollers. If anything they are rather OP. Their DU cost is to low. It is advised to still use some AoE to weed out mobs otherwise sheer mob count can potentially prove an issue but Dryad's Hornets can let you afk win a 4-man C7 map without any walls or hero DPS except on Rollers. Does solid hero DPS to bosses as well.

The other heroes simply do not compare to these three. PDT are quite powerful but heavily limited by Shield Geodes. Mystic walls are nice for CC and Squire Cannonballs can do great single target DPS and CC but are still single target for 30 DU.

You don't really see lavamancer ever... like Ever... at higher tiers. From what I have heard he isn't very good atm but can't comment, myself, as I have never used him. I do know he does not compare to the other three atm tho because they are simply to good.

[Asphe]

Lavaboy isn't seen much at higher tiers mainly because his stuff can be done better by other heroes and his 'ultimate' defence becomes a liability past Chaos 2. Don't get me wrong, he is fun but players tend to be lazy and so we pick the easier path.

When going through the trials...

T1 has Vanguards. Practically invulnerable to shots aimed at their front... so auras, traps and stuff aimed at their behinds.

T2 has Cyborks. If they get off their special ability... they can disable auras, traps and beams for a LONG time. So if you were using auras and traps in T1... adapt. Or Adept.

T3 has Geodes. Moving bubble generators that shield AND reflect incoming LARGE projectile damage. My Volcano launches bombs that do millions of damage... which get reflected off a Geode and will kill me... or worse... any of my defences [wanna see a 15mil Orc get 1-shotted by a Volcano?] At least the Squire's Cannons just suicide while the Huntress's PDTs don't get reflected.

T4 has Lady Orcs in a hurry that don't won't slow down [but can be Frozen... aka 100% Slow] and hit hard in melee.

T5 has the unmentionable scum that is the DEA.

T6 has 'super' Javelin throwers that curse your defences.

T7 is what happened when a Cybork fell in love with a Suicide Flyer.

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If you're hunting for a list of heroes to buy and in what order...

Abyss Lord / Summoner for C5
EV2 for C6
Dryad for C7

Or do your own thing. Wanna use Volcanoes in C3? Sure... use auras and traps to nail those Geodes. Mystic's Sand Vipers even pierce Geodes like they don't exist.

But... if I had to choose just one hero to add to the four starter ones... I'd go with EV2.

[Freeborn]

i hav all Heros and all hav a pro and con.

Originally posted by Asphe:

Lavaboy isn't seen much at higher tiers mainly because his stuff can be done better by other heroes and his 'ultimate' defence becomes a liability past Chaos 2.

well i play with him in c7 and din´t hav probs ... you can ever build only with the lavamancer in c7 ;P

some pro about the lavamancer:

good HP and Hero dmg
Fissure is a better Flame aura but can´t hit the air
Oil geyser can hit air units and will be trigert by it and it slow !!!
and the oil geys trap hav the same dmg as the trap from the hunter so you can hit 12m crit on tier 5
the fissure go up to 2 mio crit on tier 5

the volcano can´t dmg the shild geos ... but with 8k Range can he be use as a map aa tower !