Acrid on monsoon

[Prophet419]

I dont know if i suck or what but I've never had a bigger butt clenching run before. It took me a solid 13 minutes to kill 3 clay dunestriders on stage 7. Nevertheless though i completed the monsoon run to get the skin. I've never thought i'd say this but the dragon egg was my saving grace. 2 transcendence beetles and a shaped glass turned a really bad run into something that ended up being possible. The best items i had were 4 razor wires, 2 kjaro bands and 2 ukaleles. I went to the bazaar at least 4 times trying to get the vision of heresy lunar item and never got it. I thought I couldn't do it but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I did and now im rewarded with a naked mole rat that im proud to use. (also main reason it took so long is because i was up to like 40 minutes when i spawned the boss and elite beetle guards were spawning left and right)

[Ser Pounce]

Dunno man, I rolled over monsoon even though I took my time with 7 to 8 minutes per stage. It feels pretty strong to me.

[gachi is manly]

His poison alone can kill bosses in like 100-120 seconds if you keep it on them. I don't see why it would take 13 minutes to kill any boss with him.

[Prophet419]

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

His poison alone can kill bosses in like 100-120 seconds if you keep it on them. I don't see why it would take 13 minutes to kill any boss with him.

If i didnt I would've died every time, all of my items were just bad, the positioning of the teleporter. the fact that I was getting bombarded by elite vultures, elite beetle guards, wisps, imps, clay templars around every corner. Doesnt help that the dunestriders were all grouped up so and every time i'd get them low as a group they'd rapidly heal off of all of the elites around them and each other so they'd be right back to around half hp. Again though I'm sure i wouldve had a much easier time if i had gotten better items and had actually gotten the vision of heresy like i had planned to (sadly it never showed up) I'll list my items as well so you get a better idea of the bad run

[Ittrix]

I mean even then it takes a few minutes for clay dunestriders to be ready to pop the death heal again.
If your raw damage is lesser, it does do 10% of the enemies' max HP over 10 seconds. Should've taken less than 50 seconds to burn them down if it were just poison damage alone.

[Prophet419]

the thing is I couldnt just sit still ever, I had to constantly move from one part of the map to the other or i wouldve been nuked by almost any monster that was spawned. and with the shear number of enemies spawned there was no physical way for me to kill them all so i just had to deal with them. Jesus himself watched over this run though, there was like 3-4 times where i was left with 30 or less hp and managed to survive.

bandolier, 4 razorwire, 2 energy drinks, war banner, whip, tough meat, 2 kjaro bands, 2 beetles, shaped glass, 2 uke's, war horn, tri-tip dagger, will-o-wisp, tougher times, crowbar, 2 armor piercing rounds, topaz brooch, 2 medkits, personal shield generator, harvesters scythe, gasoline, focus crystal, lepton daisy, runalds band, fuel cell, stealth war kit, soldier syringe, and a rose buckler. For my equipment since the run was so bad I needed mobility so i could run and regen so i went with the dragon egg

[Prophet419]

Also I tried to abide by the 5 minute rule which i realized after stage 3-4 was almost impossible since it takes 2-3 minutes per boss. which is why I was missing out on a lot of items that wouldve made it easier. (I got the dunestrider as a boss 3 times btw, unlucky)

[Ittrix]

It seems like your equipment for it wasn't baad (maybe a bit lacking in healing tho), so I'm guessing it was the time constraint thing. The teleporter generally takes a minute or two to finish. I'm generally starting the teleporter about 2-3 minutes in and spending the left-over cash once the event is over.
Most people take some extra time on stage four since there's good items there, too.

You may wanna invest in some lunar items. There's a lot of absolutely broken stuff that you can do with them if you wanna absolutely cheese things, but a single corpsebloom or shaped glass can really change up a run without entering cheese city.
Shaped glass is especially good for people who tend to lag behind a bit, since it alleviates a lot of the worry of being out-scaled. You do have to stay on your toes, though.
Plus, the green and red items you can trade in for cauldron swaps can be pretty handy from time to time.

[Prophet419]

Originally posted by Ittrix:

It seems like your equipment for it wasn't baad (maybe a bit lacking in healing tho), so I'm guessing it was the time constraint thing. The teleporter generally takes a minute or two to finish. I'm generally starting the teleporter about 2-3 minutes in and spending the left-over cash once the event is over.
Most people take some extra time on stage four since there's good items there, too.

You may wanna invest in some lunar items. There's a lot of absolutely broken stuff that you can do with them if you wanna absolutely cheese things, but a single corpsebloom or shaped glass can really change up a run without entering cheese city.
Shaped glass is especially good for people who tend to lag behind a bit, since it alleviates a lot of the worry of being out-scaled. You do have to stay on your toes, though.
Plus, the green and red items you can trade in for cauldron swaps can be pretty handy from time to time.

I did have some lunars, I had 2 transcendence beetles and a shaped glass. The beetles were the only thing that kept me in the run since the regen is so strong if you can manage to kite well enough, which is why i went with the egg

Edit: I wanted to get the visions of heresy and tried to get it since stage 2 and every stage after that but I got unlucky and it was never there. Also every green and red item in there was basically useless and i was scared of getting rid of my ukes

[Ittrix]

Originally posted by MrSaltShaker:

I did have some lunars, I had 2 transcendence beetles and a shaped glass. The beetles were the only thing that kept me in the run since the regen is so strong if you can manage to kite well enough, which is why i went with the egg

Yep you totally said that too. Derp.
You did mention you were a bit behind on the stages, though. How long was it taking you to clear them?

[Prophet419]

I was trying to abide by the 5 minute rule but by the time i was at stage 7 the timer was around 35 minutes, so around 6-7 minutes per stage roughly

[Prophet419]

The first 3 I did in less than 5 minutes each but after that each stage just got longer and longer