Can DD2 Still be Effectively Played Solo?

[Big N. Strauss]

I haven't played DD2 in years but was kind of in the mood lately. Looks to me like the game is kind of dead (maybe I'm wrong). But can one still solo most if not all of the content? Do I need to play a specific character / build? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!

[uni790]

You can play solo, you will have to level multiple characters(if just starting), but that's easily doable with the deck system. There will be some points that either require heavy grinding, or a higher level player around though, just as a fair warning.

You will want all the base characters leveled, and you'll probably want either the gunwitch, or barbarian to fight the waves with. The other characters can do it, but these two are specialised for that role. The rest is mostly just effectively using the tools provided to remove your chances of losing. As an example, Chaos 1 has the one trooper with the big frontal shield that's immune to projectiles, so you either lay traps instead of towers, or place your towers to the sides/rear, each chaos level adds a new hostile type like this.

One last warning, beware of the drakenfrost boss guy(don't remember his name) you will need to light him on fire to kill him, meaning hit him with oil and then a fire attack, otherwise he's basically immune to damage, and kills everything in a large AOE around him, Huntress makes it easy though, oil bomb then the fire bird, everyone else though, will have trouble.

[AlexDrevniy]

Only floors 954 and subsequent Lost Temple cannot be won in solo now.
The best heroes to build now are EV2 and a monk.
The best heroes to fight are monk, barbarian, witch and mystic

[The Virologist]

Originally posted by uni790:

You can play solo, you will have to level multiple characters(if just starting), but that's easily doable with the deck system. There will be some points that either require heavy grinding, or a higher level player around though, just as a fair warning.

You will want all the base characters leveled, and you'll probably want either the gunwitch, or barbarian to fight the waves with. The other characters can do it, but these two are specialised for that role. The rest is mostly just effectively using the tools provided to remove your chances of losing. As an example, Chaos 1 has the one trooper with the big frontal shield that's immune to projectiles, so you either lay traps instead of towers, or place your towers to the sides/rear, each chaos level adds a new hostile type like this.

One last warning, beware of the drakenfrost boss guy(don't remember his name) you will need to light him on fire to kill him, meaning hit him with oil and then a fire attack, otherwise he's basically immune to damage, and kills everything in a large AOE around him, Huntress makes it easy though, oil bomb then the fire bird, everyone else though, will have trouble.


:millafp:

WRONG XD

Barb + Turtle Stance + Heal = Draken not immune

[uni790]

Originally posted by Mr.CreeperBunny:

Originally posted by uni790:

You can play solo, you will have to level multiple characters(if just starting), but that's easily doable with the deck system. There will be some points that either require heavy grinding, or a higher level player around though, just as a fair warning.

You will want all the base characters leveled, and you'll probably want either the gunwitch, or barbarian to fight the waves with. The other characters can do it, but these two are specialised for that role. The rest is mostly just effectively using the tools provided to remove your chances of losing. As an example, Chaos 1 has the one trooper with the big frontal shield that's immune to projectiles, so you either lay traps instead of towers, or place your towers to the sides/rear, each chaos level adds a new hostile type like this.

One last warning, beware of the drakenfrost boss guy(don't remember his name) you will need to light him on fire to kill him, meaning hit him with oil and then a fire attack, otherwise he's basically immune to damage, and kills everything in a large AOE around him, Huntress makes it easy though, oil bomb then the fire bird, everyone else though, will have trouble.

WRONG XD

Barb + Turtle Stance + Heal = Draken not immune

The Barb will need to be able to inflict some kind of status though, easiest would be a weapon inflicting oil, and another with fire damage, otherwise, he'll stay heavily resistant to damage, even if the barb survives being frozen. Now I don't have the barb myself, the person I used to play with had him, I ran the Gunwitch, but my friend used to run the oiling/fire weapons on the barb specifically to counter Draken, espically when I decided I wanted an ice weapon for the Gunwitch, so we had to farm his stage.

I've used the Dryad with drenching strikes shard to do it too, the shard drenches him, and her poison petrifies him, doesn't always kill him though.

[paige]

you can definitely play solo, and you'll kinda need to considering the game isn't very active and a lot of the active players are are in late game

[Zombina]

playing solo is the way now . don't look for someone to carry you . watch youtube videos for builds if you're stuck

[hbarudi]

I tried the first game solo and was getting beaten by the ogre in level 2 and there is a hidden level where you can't build towers and they just come while you are fighting a wave they come behind you and destroy the reduced hp crystal. I rage quit and uninstall. The only reason I am interested in this series is the tavernkeep npc in terraria and the old one's army event that came from this game.

[Bamethyst38]

Yes and no.

I made full houses when I wanted to Ascension level to exploit the +100% XP bonus, stack on legendaries and gain 10/10 servos faster, but I have to establish dominance to make people give me their mana since I trust literally nobody except a few of my friends to build.

As for ONS, it depends who you play with.