AFK farming steamroller and Drakenlord?

[Noods]

I am trying to grind through the early chaos levels for better items and shards. I have a Dragon's Nest tower build that is taking care of most mobs. However, they can't take down Steam Roller and Drakenlord who frequently require intervention.

Is there any mod or shard I can add that will allow my Dragon's Nest towers to kill these mobs without intervention? I can almost swear that I played with someone who had a Dragon's Nest build that did this. Do the anti shield shards take care of this problem?

[It's An Otter]

I use dragon nests + oil geyser mostly for low level afk farming. Up to C6 or so the dragons can kill rollers pretty reliably.

[Bamethyst38]

Drakenlord
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Ballista with Oily Harpoon (C8 Shard), Piercer and Burning Bolts (Servos) and any means of maxing attack rate will instantly ignite without the need of Oil Geyser from a safe range outside of the Drakenlord's Aura. Plus Burning Bolts causes the Ballista to do double damage due to overriding element to Fire. Oil Geyser can also be effective but you have only 1 shot to slay the Lord and there is a small chance the downtime on the Geyser may allow the Drakenlord to escape it's range. You may need to T10 Tenacity the Oil Geyser in this scenario.

Siege Roller
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Neither Spiders, Slime Pits, and Dragon Nests with proper placement can hit the Roller from behind and cannot be attacked. Ballista with Splody Harpoon (C7 Shard) is the only means of a projectile based defense hitting it from the front and still doing full damage. You will also need some means of slowing the Roller down and avoid petrification at all costs. Everything else you need to factor in angles and the local enemies.

[Firaeveus Carron]

Originally posted by Noods:

I am trying to grind through the early chaos levels for better items and shards. I have a Dragon's Nest tower build that is taking care of most mobs. However, they can't take down Steam Roller and Drakenlord who frequently require intervention.

Is there any mod or shard I can add that will allow my Dragon's Nest towers to kill these mobs without intervention? I can almost swear that I played with someone who had a Dragon's Nest build that did this. Do the anti shield shards take care of this problem?

I don't have the shards required to AFK a Drakenlord, but Bamethyst38 has some good suggestions.

Concerning a Siege Roller, moving your barricade-based defenses closer to the crystal cores will allow Siege Rollers to freely move down a lane. If you have positioned wide-angle or 360 degree towers further up your lanes, they will eventually be able to shoot the Siege Rollers from behind.

[MAX_GER_DD2]

MFR with Poison and Nether Spiders with Earth . Poison and Earth kill the Drakenlord and Spiders kill the Siege Roller

[Ice]

Originally posted by HMEC ( German ):

MFR with Poison and Nether Spiders with Earth . Poison and Earth kill the Drakenlord and Spiders kill the Siege Roller

What is MFR?

[Bamethyst38]

Originally posted by Ice:

Originally posted by HMEC ( German ):

MFR with Poison and Nether Spiders with Earth . Poison and Earth kill the Drakenlord and Spiders kill the Siege Roller

What is MFR?

Weapon Manufacturer.

[Defektiv]

Whatever you're using for a primary damage tower, weapon manufacturer with water and stunning combined with a fast lightning aura does some decent crowd control, even with the siege roller. Add on controller servo for damage multiplier. It got nerfed but it still works. I prefer it over petrification unless its a flyer heavy map. It would need an oil/fire source to deal with drakenlord but that's pretty easy to do with decent relics. Or tenacity 10 but you usually can't get that until later.

[DeadlyKitten]

Dragon Nests.
They can fly behind the barriers from where the enemies come from, and attack way behind them giving you so much more time.

[Loser]

poison+earth counters draken lord. Not sure if it's a bug or not.