Dart trap any useful situation??

[Denny Crane]

I see most if not all traps have they use except Dart trap.

[omega]

I place the dart trap so its firing frontal on approaching enemies, kinda like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1753546993
After buying the upgrades for 1% more damage with each kill, increased damage with each consecutive hit and double darts its my main trap for almost every map.

[Vagrant]

Darts can apply Cold at vastly greater ranges than a Freezing Trap once you get Ballistics, which sets up Deep Freeze / Shatter combos more reliably. Bolts do this too, and more accurately, but Darts fire much faster, can upgrade fire rate even further, and are cheaper.

[BigSilverHotdog]

Dart trap is fun and can be useful early on but really only in the first clearing of the map and then only in the first 6-8 levels of each subsequent ascendancy. It simply doesn't scale well enough to do more. Deepening wounds is rarely useful in any situation because no enemy will ever be hit enough times for the dmg to scale up. Frost dart can be useful early on when there aren't gigantic waves of enemies but later on you simply won't be able to freeze enough enemies at any reasonable rate to make it useful, plus it wastes points and wall trap slots you need to use on other, more powerful traps. On occasion knockback will help with chokepoint strategies but, again, only early on before the enemies get numerous/strong. Only use the 1% per kill boost for maps that last a long time (i.e. no early maps), and even then it doesn't impress vs other traps.

To summarize my experience after 700~ hours and 15~ ascendancies: Dart trap needs a major upgrade to be useful in mid-late game, or against strong rune sets. A single axe or chakram trap can do more dmg than 20 (probably even 50 or 100) dart traps in the late game, and even bolt trap is far stronger and more flexible for different strategies/synergies.

Even with the Unique item that gives 15% chance of chain lightning the dart trap is hella, hella weak outside of the early game.

[Sylxeria]

Dart Trap as R'Droid mentioned, is more useful early'ish game than anywhere else. It can actually perform quite well even a while past that if set up properly (Levels put into it, Equipment, etc) but afterwards....

Even in the base game the Dart Trap tended to be the trap you'd throw away and not look back at after a point.