Arena of Ikar (Endless) - share your best Tier/Wave reached

[Lunar Umbra]

Late game with all upgrades, discovered a new strategy to initially stack rerolls and wait for opportunities to upgrade to all Ancient armor. Having six passive abilities is quite wild. Got to Wave 41, where the boss had so much health I had fallen behind on damage output while going for defense/survival.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3380331502

It can get very RNG, eventually had to settle with a set armor piece while trying to hold out for a desired passive ability attached to ideal armor. I was attempting to go all out on Whirlwind to have the ultimate buzzsaw.

Edit February 24, 2025: With the updated Demo some significant changes have been introduced. So, new records https://steamcommunity.com/app/3238670/discussions/0/603015872060184991/?ctp=5#c603023217322370460 will be distinctly different compared to the original Demo. Even more RNG, good luck...

[fodder]

oh yeah.. i just realised the gold coins for re-roll is increased by 1 when you skip an armor piece. i was wondering why it was charging 1 coin for re-roll XD (i wasn't keeping track... and didn't see the + sign)

just upped most things to tier 2... thanks for that.

[Swift_Talon]

Made it to wave 44 with a whirlwind barbarian, turns out damage to healthy and injured is multiplicative so shield barbarian seems to be the meta because heavy armor is the only ones that get that stat.

[fodder]

apparently not just armor piece.. all skips.

now i just have to figure out if i can up armor rarity (as oppposed to +1, +2, etc) after getting them.. instead of upgrading in the initial choosing.

[Unstable WiFI/No Mic/English]

Got to overall wave with no effort put in: wave 2.

[DikkeDerpa]

Hunter with bow and leap wave 34
hunter with bow and the spray roll wave 36
barbarian with throwing axes and leap wave 35
barbarian with sword and shield and leap wave 39

IT'S ALL RNG THO.

A good indicator when things are going right, with 8 or more lives just standing in the middle and letting wave 18 to 20 just be decimated without doing anything xD

EDIT: Just reached wave 42 with a barbarian throwing axe build

[Khavarum]

Barbarian throwing axe build wave 42. Agree a lot depends on RNG, but the game is super fun anyway. I tried to go with dodge build too, but the way it works is far worse, than movement skills. Especially Leap seems to be the best, due to its instant recharge.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395380727

[Joel]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395682617

Wave 41. It wasn't even a serious run, I just went with 6x Whirlwind because I thought it would be funny and it ended up being my best run.

[Hedning]

Yes, leap is crazy overpowered, and your weapon doesn't even matter because all the movement abilities interrupts them.

[Swift_Talon]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Hedning:

Yes, leap is crazy overpowered, and your weapon doesn't even matter because all the movement abilities interrupts them.

Weapon generally does not matter late game, however energy skill does, leap gives energy per enemy hit on top of everything else it does. i found axe toss and power shot to be the most effective ones, unfortunately power shot also comes with a lot of power and knockback causing your next leap to fail to reset occasionally.

[ciencias]

wave 43 with barbarian.

[BodhiZafa]

I've hit a hard limit which I think is odd.

Hunter, no matter what I use, short bow, medium bow, titan bow, I always get to wave 19, never more.

Barbarian, I've used Sword, Throwing Axes, 2H Axe, and Mace and Shield and I always hit wave 37 with every weapon. Can't get passed it.

I'm not even close to maxing everything out, but I wonder if I do max them, if I can break my records.

[Joel]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BodhiZafa:

I've hit a hard limit which I think is odd.

Hunter, no matter what I use, short bow, medium bow, titan bow, I always get to wave 19, never more.

I can pretty reliably hit 30 on a hunter. I think the trick is to make sure you get at least one legendary Savage armor piece with reduced damage taken per life lost, if you can get that at 15% per life it helps you reach the cap of 75% damage reduction at 5 lives lost which is pretty vital for survival in Endless mode. Don't forget to make sure you have the bleed rate reductions to survive the bleeds.

Personally I never grab any armor pieces below legendary in Endless, the extra ability and the unique stats are just too valuable to miss out on.

You'll also get more than enough AoE to kill trash mobs, so I'd go for Power Shot as your ability. Ricochet is a trap, it tricks you with its early game wave clear making you think it's amazing but then it just tickles bosses.

[Lunar Umbra]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Joel:

...if you can get that at 15% per life it helps you reach the cap of 75% damage reduction at 5 lives lost...

... I'd go for Power Shot as your ability. ...

Yep, need to build defense/health/recovery early before the huge waves that move fast. I agree with the Power Shot, especially with the 25% projectile split chance to improve the multi-target hitting.

I've had pretty good results going Burst Shot / Brand of Flame with Projectile Pierce from Stalker armor. Wave 34 is my best so far;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3396704238

[BodhiZafa]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Joel:

I can pretty reliably hit 30 on a hunter. I think the trick is to make sure you get at least one legendary Savage armor piece with reduced damage taken per life lost, if you can get that at 15% per life it helps you reach the cap of 75% damage reduction at 5 lives lost which is pretty vital for survival in Endless mode. Don't forget to make sure you have the bleed rate reductions to survive the bleeds.

Personally I never grab any armor pieces below legendary in Endless, the extra ability and the unique stats are just too valuable to miss out on.

You'll also get more than enough AoE to kill trash mobs, so I'd go for Power Shot as your ability. Ricochet is a trap, it tricks you with its early game wave clear making you think it's amazing but then it just tickles bosses.

Oh yeah, every single run I focus on legendary armor. I usually try to roll upgrade to legendary and pick the silver chainmail set first so that rare drops happen more, thus results in more frequent items I can skip for more reroll tokens. I can usually get an entire legendary armor set by about wave 10.

Anyway, the Savage set for "reduce damage on lives lost," I'll keep that in mind. Thank you. Still though, in some of my runs, I would have 5 dash charges, 5 dodges, and 200% barrier and it would just get chewed through instantly. I think I need to figure out how to get leap on hunter that some people were talking about, but then, it just wouldn't feel like a hunter at that point.

[#1f1e33]

Nooo i was 36 XD