I've been consistently hitting sub 5 min clears on the vault with shield maiden at 5 shard drops difficulty. Have not failed in 10 runs. Build block helmet (boost), plated boots (boost), plate armour (boost), fencing guantlets (crit), copper ring (boost), echoing band (reach), scars of toil (capacity) and mark of shield. All shards in increase health have about 150% max health atm, plus between scars of toil and plate armour i am running around with close to 3000 health. For every 1000 health you are missing you get +100% damage so damage can increase close to 300% from the amulet slot alone. You always crit on block hence the copper ring over the other choices and this also procs echoing band which does damage based on total damage. Therefore big crit = big shockwaves. Also with all the block chance mark of the shield is giving +70%ish damage early scaling as you level. Killing the boss sub level 30, focus on all block, health and defense upgrades. Grab phantom needles first and I've found flamestrike as a second ability to be handy for 1 shotting the 4 objectives to open the boss faster. Using a revive usually but that just means i was abusing scars of toil to max damage. I suspect you could go for some more move speed on the boots to speed the clears but its been safer to max block overall.
called me out about the shield maiden comment xD but like I said before, block by itself (without scaling) is almost useless. imo regen and defense are nearly equal, but a balance of the two vs going hard into one or the other seems most optimal. I've just started banishing block on every character other than shield maiden. great vid 😁
@@ExplosivePaddle I finally got the game to play on my old as dirt pc by remembering I can use nvidia control panel to force/override app defaults. It was doing so well that I kept returning more and more original settings. I finally did my first agony run and it crashed with 2 minutes left. there were too many mobs on screen. luckily it saved my progress. guess it's back to single monitor mode/720p with all texture filtering turned off. 😓
Why do you not use duelist spark for the neck? It gives more damage than it can give anyway. Also, not sure if it's not better to just pick archer mark, since it would be 30% crit chance on attacks and abilities 40% for attacks towards then end of the run with your crit rating and just take the health 10% regen from the archer instead. Also, why do you only use one roll per chest and not just spend them. As long as it is a red chest, there is no point in saving them.
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I've been consistently hitting sub 5 min clears on the vault with shield maiden at 5 shard drops difficulty. Have not failed in 10 runs. Build block helmet (boost), plated boots (boost), plate armour (boost), fencing guantlets (crit), copper ring (boost), echoing band (reach), scars of toil (capacity) and mark of shield.
All shards in increase health have about 150% max health atm, plus between scars of toil and plate armour i am running around with close to 3000 health. For every 1000 health you are missing you get +100% damage so damage can increase close to 300% from the amulet slot alone. You always crit on block hence the copper ring over the other choices and this also procs echoing band which does damage based on total damage. Therefore big crit = big shockwaves. Also with all the block chance mark of the shield is giving +70%ish damage early scaling as you level.
Killing the boss sub level 30, focus on all block, health and defense upgrades. Grab phantom needles first and I've found flamestrike as a second ability to be handy for 1 shotting the 4 objectives to open the boss faster. Using a revive usually but that just means i was abusing scars of toil to max damage.
I suspect you could go for some more move speed on the boots to speed the clears but its been safer to max block overall.
called me out about the shield maiden comment xD
but like I said before, block by itself (without scaling) is almost useless.
imo regen and defense are nearly equal, but a balance of the two vs going hard into one or the other seems most optimal.
I've just started banishing block on every character other than shield maiden. great vid 😁
thanks!
@@ExplosivePaddle I finally got the game to play on my old as dirt pc by remembering I can use nvidia control panel to force/override app defaults. It was doing so well that I kept returning more and more original settings. I finally did my first agony run and it crashed with 2 minutes left. there were too many mobs on screen. luckily it saved my progress. guess it's back to single monitor mode/720p with all texture filtering turned off. 😓
oh no not the crash! yeah the game gets pretty crazy at the end you can always try turn off damage numbers as well it actually helps a bit
The sorceress can also make use of block strength reasonably well.
@@ExplosivePaddle oh yeah idky I didn't even think of that. I do that in DGRS as well when it starts to lag out.
I mean this only works if you can kill the boss with that many debuffs. I'm already struggling to kill him with 1 debuff haha
haha this is true!
Why do you not use duelist spark for the neck? It gives more damage than it can give anyway. Also, not sure if it's not better to just pick archer mark, since it would be 30% crit chance on attacks and abilities 40% for attacks towards then end of the run with your crit rating and just take the health 10% regen from the archer instead. Also, why do you only use one roll per chest and not just spend them. As long as it is a red chest, there is no point in saving them.
Yeah there are some gear pieces that haven't dropped for me yet. in terms of the mark is nice for extra regen in more difficult content
“Just a little bit of damage and crit” 🫢 😳 how many shards is that!?!?
Oh I'm over 500 now :)