While this guide still teaches a lot of game mechanics and can still lead to a win its outdated. Here is the update for Arcana: ruclips.net/video/lqOCO-9lyFI/видео.html
im like 15 (full) attempts in and only now saw this, i was doing cooldown upgrade plus standard builds smhmyhead, gonna try no book tomorrow, wish me luck xD also, just btw, within those 15 attempts i havent seen a single bone, is it super rare to show or smthing?
Um quick tip, for anyone watching this video, you do not want to use lightning ring for the last weapon slot, the reason is because lightning ring has a knockback factor and when the other deaths come, they tend to get stuck on the bookshelves which allows you to survive longer and get a higher chance at killing death. But when you use lightning ring, it knocks the other reapers around which causes them to be able to get to you, and eventually kill you. So yeah I would not use lightning ring unless you have no other choice to. Great video nonetheless!
Big tip that I see go highly unmentioned: If you have experienced Death "not spawning", its usually because he's stuck on a bookshelf offscreen. If you don't want this ruining your runs, after picking up your levels if you still don't see the reaper, MOVE DOWN SCREEN until Death shows himself, then you can go back up to your spot and dps. Hope this helps someone on there journey.
Worked after a few tries even without the tome. Like you said lots of RNG. I guess I tried it around 20 times and I just saw the red orb on screen 2 times. The rest of the time it was right of the frame. Everyone who wants to try this. Watch his video and you will eventually get it.
For all the people dying early: you NEED 100% to apply the correct power-ups in the main menu. Especially Amount, Cooldown Reduction, Speed, Duration as you need these to keep the Rune in place ALL the times. Otherwise you will die around 23-27 minutes and not make it to the Reaper. This is due to the 0.1-0.2 second gap between recasting your spell, if you have not equipped the power-ups mentioned above. You WILL take damage because there are so many enemies that they will push through, hence you need these power-ups.
@@eriksons600 Just make sure you use the correct Power-Ups in the main menu. I often took some damage still, like I wasn't totally invincible but managed to recover health over time. Also, I forgot to mention that Base Area is important (the Power-Up). The rest of the PU's are a bonus. So my take is this. Tier 1: Amount, Cooldown, Speed, Area, Duration. Tier 2: Might, Reroll, Revive, Luck, Health MoveSpeed etc. I would probably prioritize Might and and defensive stats (health, regen, armor) in order to have more survivability in case I do get hit more often. Then go for the rest of the PU's Tier 3/Never get: Orb, Growth, Curse. Now with the Arcanas you can pick "Awake", which gives you extra revives. You can look up how to unlock these cards by a Google search.
Thank you so much for the guide! I just defeated Death and want to share some stats: It took me about 3 days after work and 26 attempts. 3 times i leveled up to lvl 3, 7 times i lost to 3 min boss (cheeky deadman got me somehow), once lost 17 minutes in to some cheeky sorcerer. Once i ended up without Tome, once - without Tiragisu, once died because of some strange movement lag. Of 9 documented runs with red orb off screen, 5 were down-right, 2 top-left, 1 down-left, and once i never found it lol.
Followed the guide. Arcana IV. Restarted a few times to get Runetracer. Chilled until 30min. 3tome > 7clockLance. Candelabrador. Arcana VI and XVI. Thousand edge. First try melted him before 31:45. Thanks for the solid guide, man.
Nice! good extra info! For those that don't want to sit around for 30 minutes, if you hold space and alt-tab out of the game it will spam the spacebar in game for you, allowing it to automatically open chests that drop on your character so you can spend your time watching youtube or something instead, just remember to check back now and then to make sure everything is going ok (specially prior to the xp drop cap) and when you tab back in hit space to stop it continuing to spam it.
@@Hlebuw3k when tabbed out just slightly shrink what ever you have infront of it (I usually pull the top down slightly to show the timer and xp bar) should continue to run then.
Well, after around 4 hours of starting, quitting, restarting and eventually getting past 3 minutes without hitting level 3... still haven't unlocked the reaper. Weirdly enough though, I did unlock Exdash somehow in all of that.
TikTok RUclips shorts and everything like it is just frying people's brain they want instant gratification with Everything it's literally awful. And despise that you still made a fully detailed video for undeserving people you're too kind i appreciate the passion you put into ur work
YAY, thanks to your awsome video I killed the Reaper on my 2nd try. I don't know what happend on my first try, I was killed by the mermaids after the 25 min mark. Here is a text summary I made while watching your video and used during my run : TOTALLY NEED Runetracer (lvl 7 MAX) Clocklancet Laurel Tiramigu Empty Tome (lvl 0 or 3), then Clocklancet (lvl 7), then Tome (lvl 5) Candelabrador Spinach MINOR UPGRADE Spellbinder Bracer Duplicator Knives Firewand Bone NEVER TAKE Armor Health regen Lightning Ring unless no other choices (Isaiah Polte comment) Don't upgrade weapons to lvl 8. Item can (and should) be lvl max.
I don't even have vampire survivors and I have the patience to watch XD love seeing the thought process and vids keep it up! Been here since like 200 subs :)
Damn, I dont expect any sub, my complaint was only about people that clicked on a 4 Minute guide to something that will take hours and then still skipped - so far it's fine, but then I received comment asking things I mentioned or when I talk to someone to help it turned out sometimes that it was something I mentioned and or showed. I highly appreciate it when subs, especially those that don't play the game, give a guide a go, but I have no "bad feelings" if they turn it off a minute in, it wasn't meant about that :)
i got this on my first try with your guide. I got REALLY lucky because I forgot to turn off xp growth and luck at the menu but thank you so much:). I only died after killing the first death so I can't emphasize the luck enough
What helped me a bunch with the levels not going up is positioning clerici as if he/she is gonna pull the cord on the clock (like the hand lines up with the bottom pointy bit of the clock) that way I've been staying lvl 2 even with full growth (My first run I only became like lvl 54 so i felt like i missed a bunch of lvl's so wanted to grab growth)
I liked the video when you asked which is something I rarely do, I watched the series last night and fell asleep after work ( not all of, just a few videos ) - keep up the good work and good luck in your endeavours as a youtuber and in life
Thank you a lot and yea thats the reason I mention it in videos. I don't want people to press like on something they didn't like or even disliked. I just noticed whenever a youtuber I watched said it and I did like the video it reminded me to give it a like :)
I got Red Death by accident. I wasn't even planning on unlocking that character. I had evolved laurel + bunch of evolved weapons in Gallo Tower. I had almost 29k hp. I survived for over 39 mins with one revive.
Dex! You have given us all the content we wanted! I would say much better job explaining in this video than the last. But still you could try to explain more details in a concise manner but that comes with practice because like I said you already improved in just one video. Good job at this rate you’ll be the King RUclips content creator for vampire survivors and maybe others games.
It's really easy to get to multiple Death showing up with this guide, but up until now, luck is not on my side with the items and the way it plays out most of the time. It will work, eventually. Believe, it only has to work once after all! Thanks for the guide, I'll keep trying! Edit: Lol, My run directly after this comment finally worked XD Yay!
ty so much im 2 weeks into this damn addicting game and killing the guy at the end even 9 days ago seemed impossible because of this guide rngjesus blessed me with your knowledge i defeated that dog c-nut. tyvm again i subbed dig bick
Dude, I love the video. Calling out the idiots who don't want to listen or bother to pay attention. This is generation X - why listen to someone when they know it all.
Great video! I'm attempting this rn, I loved the upgrading guide! Btw the positioning showed in your previous video works better for me (a bit higher, closer to the clock) otherwise I grab some xp and lvl up
I tried all positions on the left side and I gotta be honest I saw little difference. I first went for mine but failed 20+ times in a row so I moved it and little changed. It just depends on RNG how they move, if Santa Water protects you and if they end up dropping xp :)
Got 2 failed endgame attempts (bad reaper position RNG), then I got a penta-chest 3 times in a row (with 0 luck invested). Wish the game file editing method was still working.. :)
@@DexTag I tried both making him "appear" by editing the file (not working anymore), then I tried the garlic damage-up method (with increasing HP and regen), but when I got to the reapers, they simply did not try to attack me and/or die, despite the practically infinite damage. Maybe I'll get it in the meantime, but I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate a working method, because the amount of uncontrollable RNG is still way too high.
for some reason almost all enemies are glitching through the bookshelves, and giving me expierience, even though i lined up perfectly and tried multiple times with different positions edit: i found a "working" position, where im 1 exp away from lvl 3. maybe its just the starting enemies. nevermind, its definitely after the red exp spawns, the enemies stop dropping exp on me and start combining into the orb instead. definitely takes some rng. i killed one! on the first actual "attempt" after resetting like 15 times for runetracer. when the second one spawned, i started dying fast, but i killed him right on my last life!
“easier”, watchin this vid I feel like it’s just faster/less rng based cuz like the other thing had way less steps, or am I wrong in this? (great vid tho)
The video is a lot longer because I kept things short, typical syndrome of "I am so used to stuff they are just normal to me, so I don't explain them". Like, even in this one, I forgot to say why you want to stay level 2, because I am so used to it. Overall it's exactly the same amount of steps, just better explained as I took "inspiration" from comments on the other video :)
@@Folk_Rocket I am actually also surprised because each voice recording is redone 5-10 times (which leads to me forgetting minor things). Either I mess up or I think it's not good enough or such. I know the result doesn't show that, but when i have to make sure I mention something I start stuttering or jumping around and it becomes horrible. If I read a script I sound like a robot. I gotta find a better way because this hurts the video but hurts especially my free time :D
for what u said about the last guid: I dont know if skipping back and forward destroys the watchtime, maybe that was the problem. for example I had to rewatch some parts for the notes
@@zhervir thank you a lot, I don't think that's possible though xD and yea I also think it's interesting but I wouldn't abuse that in some way. This video here is pretty much a gamble. If people reload it often it will kill watchrime and percentage watchtime, so its a fight of optimized for RUclips or optimized for being a guide. I hope the "optimized for being a guide" will not backfire, because the 4 minute one did hard as stupid as it sounds
you manage to kill the Reaper, that's crazy. BUT i'm more impress about the amount of info that you research on how to optimize the item with various combination and level. that's insane. just think about the effort you have to put in just to get that much info is making me crazy.
In regards of the weapon/build order there is 0 credit to me and 100% credit to the linked video in the description/comment. I think if I had sit down and thought about it, ran it and took numbers I could have come up with something, but for me it was not worth the work. That person also managed to kill 2 Reapers in a run.
I was insanely luck and managed to do it in the first try, i even made a lot of mistakes(i completely forgot empty tome for example), but after burning my two revives he died right before the third reaper killed me.
Something tells me there would be an age to watch time correlation In that reaper kill vid.😁 P.S. Don't stress over watch time stats. You channel is growing very quickly with Ytube recommendations BC of the Vam Survivor content. Keep up the great quality and post frequency and you will be golden.
The latest patch fixes the Empty Tome cooldown glitch. The Spellbinder version might still work, but would require using the Cooldown power up and not taking the empty tome at all. Might help free up another item slot or might kill this strategy entirely.
Funny enough, I just updated both pinned comments (on both videos I mean) and yes, you can also still go for Empty Tome and hope that the Reaper stays in your shots, you should be safe until 31:30 at least if you get Tiramigu. Spellbinder on the other hand is more reliable to not die to missed freezes, but a loss of 40% attack speed is significant in how much damage you deal, meaning what you won in reliability of freezing might be lost in time-based RNG of the Reaper movement.
You: If you dont see the red orb by 3:30 then just restart your run Me: Well i don't see it, but all my monsters are dying here so You: (voice in distant background) sometimes the orb may be off screen Me: It's gonna be in that pile of blue orbs, no biggie. 30 minutes hit Me: (runs toward giant blue pile), why did i only get three levels (dies and revives) I'll go for this pile then! (dies again and sees red orb south east of me) .............Welp guess I'll do my second attempt later
It's always on the furthest away orb that gets turned into a red one :) if all are too close it seems to create its own one that might be still on screen
8 runs to 30 minutes mark without red orb on the screen. Run bottom right - no orb. 5 times managed to get to the left part with shelves - no orb. No luck for me :D
Quick question, if the option is forced on you / becomes available, is evolved santa water a good pick up? It feels like it would increase your DPS, but I'm almost sceptile of whether the damage instances would cause knockback on the deaths and make it unreliable. Great video btw!
Knockback is actually quite good, because it pushes the reaper into you, making it more likely that you hit with Runetracer - but there are some weapons like La Borra and Lightning Ring that CAN mess up due to their strong knockback. It pushes him too far, so instead of into the line of shooting it pushes him into you (because he has negative knockback resistance, it reverses the effect). But overall, there is no weapon in the game but Runetracer and Bone that deal a lot of damage. Even Knifes only deal a minor % of Runetracers damage.
@@DexTag I quickly scanned through your video thumbnails to see any mention of an update to this strat after the update where Runetracer can evolve to NO FUTURE but I'm wondering if that weapon might mess up this strategy. I had the same items as you did in the video, instead of Lightning Ring, I had Phiera and instead of Tiragisu, I had Bracer (and Thousand Edge). I also picked Arcana that I assumed wouldn't mess with the strat, Awake, Slash, and Heart of Fire. I could easily have just messed up my positioning since it seemed like Death was just permanently on top of me but I wanted to hear your thoughts.
The frustration in your voice at the beginning is so understandable, if you decide to click a RUclips video that’s four minutes and don’t watch it, you have no right to ask questions that were in said video
The thing is, if I watch a guide I watch the video first to know what I expect. Then I do the things and go back to the video and check whats the next step, watch it again and then follow it. I dont expect everyone to do this on a guide, but this thing literally takes multiples of hours, for some days to do. By watching a 4-minute video twice, you would save hours of attempts, but I think I overestimated how people value current sacrifice vs future gains out of it. And I'm not mad that they have to spend way more time and fail, but I am mad when they then ask me or even have the audacity to write "Then proof that it still works" when I say it does, like what? So I took actual misunderstandings/bad explanations and made this guide here, which goes way more in-depth. Without throwing shade, some people started with their own strategies without understanding why what happens. I don't understand why people watch a guide that shows it works and then change something. I mean this is of course up to them, but that feedback gets back to me in complains and the like/dislike ratio. When I do guides, I do them in good faith and to help people, and that's why it makes me sad/mad. Sorry that you had to read that long rant, the stuff just upset me. And the current watch time shows that people do not watch the video - I can see how many returning viewers watch this, so if that number was 2, then it would double the watch time, but no its really low. If they left thats fine, but it usually means someone skipped something.
@@DexTag yeah, I’m part of that low watch time. I really like vampire survivors that’s why I subbed to u cuz ur entertaining. But I can’t watch guides because I don’t own the game and it really won’t be entertaining to me.
@@soildarr598 oh no worries, that is totally fine, but the last guide got 66k views. Subs, even if all of them watch it for 1 second only, have no impact on the view time in percent :D Edit: but really cool you still watch the content about it, glad you enjoy it!
Man this is a real PITA. I have only gotten close on one run got to 29 min and lost 4 revives WTF lol. I was lvl 2 kicking ass and bam dead 4 times. Don't know if I have the will to continue on lol.
i find it hardest to get the actual sweet spot because no matter how precise i am the keep getting to close to the point i always pick up a few exp and it messes up my run so im forced to get lucky and get garlic otherwise i sadly continue to level up
Got this on my first attempt and I have to say, very well explained and really easy to follow along! A very good video put together I’d say and now im a fan of your channel, keep up the great work :)
I've spent over 2 hours(50+ runs at this point) and have not been able to get past the 3 minute mark even once coz I keep over-leveling, I have all the mentioned powerups, I've tried every recommended position, done all sorts of alignment methods, and I still dk what I'm doing wrong. Maybe I'm just unlucky idk
I got so lucky during my first attempt, reaper was about to spawn. At 30 mins I picked up the gem, got the same exact items you said, got into the top right position and the reaper didnt spawn for some reason. It spawned at 30:41
100%. It's not impossible, but wait without candlelabrador? Dude, I thought just without empty tome. That means in a majority of his positions he usually goes to he won't get hit. Damn you got insanely lucky, congratulations!!
Yea. You are pretty much RIP. You can replace Empty Tome with Spellbinder (slower rotation but longer freeze) and it should line up again, but that means your Runetracer pretty much halves in damage. So what you win in reliability on the Clock Lancet is somewhat lost in damage. I'm honestly not sure which method is better of those 2. I got to around 31:30 in the update and died (though one death was really stupid as I was leveling up and I should've been invincible) and that can be enough to kill a Reaper if the hits land right, but once you got 2 Reaper on you, it becomes really hard to not die with the update.
@@DexTag Yeah, I just managed to eke one out at 32:52. Got pretty much perfect drops, no empty tome, just took out a reaper pretty much immediately before being murdered by one of the other two. If I didn't have spinach, tiramigu, plus the bit of extra damage from evolved knife and santa water, probably wouldn't have made it despite just about everything else being optimal. Lancet shots timed pretty well, but the reaper jitters would cause them to change position which then could throw the timing off. If you're paying attention you can try to shift to get them to line up on time again but it's pretty much RNG at that point.
@@imjustsomeguy72 Yea, the issue with lining them up is that this can lead to them bumping into you and then they "bounce" off, making it impossible to hit them again until the next rotation as you keep pushing him with you. Not saying that'll happen everytime, just that it's a risk of happening when he is on you and you move
@@DexTag Yeah, for sure, but a lot is dependent on when the second reaper comes in and what they do, as I don't know if it would even be possible to kill the reaper within the first minute without tome. In my case, the second reaper bumped the first, at which point you really have no option but to try and reline them up again, or risk the reaper unfreezing long enough to move and get into a position where they can murder you :P
Idk can't do it, did they change something? I always get level 3 before no gems drop anymore, close to the 4min mark. I've given it multiple dozen attempts (with runetracer) never worked, always leveled.
Just beat it on my second try. Even had my extra revive from the start. Still only just beat him in time before I ran out of revives.. Not really sure what to do with my life now.
Yes, the health of the Reaper is 650k x level, cant believe I covered everything but literally the main part because I got so used to it that it was normal to me lol
@@SlaytJ I thnk it's fine. People that are far enough into the game to kill the Reaper should know what Clerici does. If not, then they'll realize the moment they hit 3 why you stay 2. There are multiple reasons for it.
unfortunately, I think this has been hotfixed. Because chests started just flying to me from wherever on the screen they were and death would teleport to me after a moment when frozen by clock lancet.
I'm probably being an idiot, but did something change with todays update in regards to xp pick up range? The reason I ask is because yesterday I was following this guide and getting pretty close each time on a good run but today since the patch I keep levelling up due to absorbing xp even with out the magnet upgrade and the enemies are still dying at roughly the same distance away as yesterday. Also thank you for the great guide
I did it a bit ago, still worked. But the patch messed up the item leveling time, which leads to Clock Lancet being way less reliable. I know there is a version that uses Spellbinder instead of Empty Tome, but it means the kill takes a lot longer thus more RNG
I just killed the reaper after following this awesome guide. But after i killed the reaper i got red death and not missingno. Can someone explain to me how it works?
um i have a problem.. i have randomazzo already collected. can i still do this, bc every1 dies so far from me now and i don't have any gems near me when 30min mark hits..
So I have watched your four-minute video a few times and now this one - thanks for your effort by the way - but I seem to be kind of stupid because I just don't get the mechanics behind why I should level up specific things in a specific order. Okay, I get that a weapon has to level up so the effect of empty tome gets applied but why is it wrong to level up all the weapons to one level below max, empty tome from zero to five and then max the weapons?
You can, but you gamble into having a forced option (lvl 7 runetracer and 2 items offered you don't want). In fact in the video I said to not max out weapons until you have all weapons and items picked once, and empty tome is 5, to avoid maxing them before empty tome but also to be more likely to have them offered as upgrades to not be forced into a bad pick :) empty 0 to 5 would be wrong with no spellbinder, but 0 to 3 then clock lancet then rest works. The numbers on the list only mean that you do that level once the previous steps are done, it doesn't mean you keep the rest at 0 until then
Why does no second death spawn at 31 mins? You responded to another comment saying that it did and you just killed the first death. However going through your video frame by frame i see no evidence of that happening. Do you have any idea what happened?
@@TheTamiel I just checked and you are right, one death is missing. I've never seen this. In these runs I had a death spawn as late as 30:23 but something is wrong. If I had to guess I'd say ge is stuck where he spawned and since I don't move enough he doesn't move, but as I said I've never seen this.
@@DexTag Lots of luck looks like it helps here 😅 I definitely haven't had 3 runs in a row killed by 28 min chest being legendary 2 times in a row and the third being 3 items 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
In the update released today, they have fixed the issue with empty tome, so the level order shouldn't matter anymore as far as I can tell. Also, is garlic not a viable weapon for the increased freeze duration?
Following was tested by me to work: -Empty Tome (no Spellbinder) -Spellbinder (no Empty Tome) -Spellbinder + Empty Tome -Garlic + Spellbinder -Garlic + Empty Tome
Hey bro, thx for this tutorial, theres just one thing I dont understand. Why your rune tracer is this big at the beggining ? I dont know if its due to the last patch but mine is little so the rune tracer dont protect me as a Shield...
I might be mistaken, but it seemed like no death spawned at the 31-minute-mark. I thought a death would spawn every minute after 30 minutes. Is this a bug or am I just confused? And if this is a bug, how is it achieved?
@@DexTag Then it´s time for me to get some new glasses. xD PS: Thanks for the guide, it´s always a blast watching your videos, since I learn something new watching you every time. Keep up the great work :)
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While this guide still teaches a lot of game mechanics and can still lead to a win its outdated. Here is the update for Arcana: ruclips.net/video/lqOCO-9lyFI/видео.html
im like 15 (full) attempts in and only now saw this, i was doing cooldown upgrade plus standard builds smhmyhead, gonna try no book tomorrow, wish me luck xD also, just btw, within those 15 attempts i havent seen a single bone, is it super rare to show or smthing?
The modding guide link for unlocking Red Death says "Video unavailable, The video is private"
@@novvaq17 I think bone doesn't show up anymore at all, now it's just a starting weapon for the skeleton character.
@@pvshka whale then, guess im... BONED (get it?)
Link to update video is privated
Um quick tip, for anyone watching this video, you do not want to use lightning ring for the last weapon slot, the reason is because lightning ring has a knockback factor and when the other deaths come, they tend to get stuck on the bookshelves which allows you to survive longer and get a higher chance at killing death. But when you use lightning ring, it knocks the other reapers around which causes them to be able to get to you, and eventually kill you. So yeah I would not use lightning ring unless you have no other choice to. Great video nonetheless!
Big tip that I see go highly unmentioned: If you have experienced Death "not spawning", its usually because he's stuck on a bookshelf offscreen. If you don't want this ruining your runs, after picking up your levels if you still don't see the reaper, MOVE DOWN SCREEN until Death shows himself, then you can go back up to your spot and dps. Hope this helps someone on there journey.
Aliensrock credited you in a video he posted 14 minutes ago, you’re absolutely going to pass that 2000 sub goal
Worked after a few tries even without the tome. Like you said lots of RNG. I guess I tried it around 20 times and I just saw the red orb on screen 2 times. The rest of the time it was right of the frame.
Everyone who wants to try this. Watch his video and you will eventually get it.
Amazing!
For all the people dying early: you NEED 100% to apply the correct power-ups in the main menu. Especially Amount, Cooldown Reduction, Speed, Duration as you need these to keep the Rune in place ALL the times. Otherwise you will die around 23-27 minutes and not make it to the Reaper. This is due to the 0.1-0.2 second gap between recasting your spell, if you have not equipped the power-ups mentioned above. You WILL take damage because there are so many enemies that they will push through, hence you need these power-ups.
Yeah i still died at 26 mins and i had those powerups. Felt like mobs were immortal.
@@eriksons600 Just make sure you use the correct Power-Ups in the main menu. I often took some damage still, like I wasn't totally invincible but managed to recover health over time. Also, I forgot to mention that Base Area is important (the Power-Up). The rest of the PU's are a bonus.
So my take is this. Tier 1: Amount, Cooldown, Speed, Area, Duration.
Tier 2: Might, Reroll, Revive, Luck, Health MoveSpeed etc. I would probably prioritize Might and and defensive stats (health, regen, armor) in order to have more survivability in case I do get hit more often. Then go for the rest of the PU's
Tier 3/Never get: Orb, Growth, Curse.
Now with the Arcanas you can pick "Awake", which gives you extra revives. You can look up how to unlock these cards by a Google search.
Thank you so much for the guide! I just defeated Death and want to share some stats:
It took me about 3 days after work and 26 attempts.
3 times i leveled up to lvl 3, 7 times i lost to 3 min boss (cheeky deadman got me somehow), once lost 17 minutes in to some cheeky sorcerer.
Once i ended up without Tome, once - without Tiragisu, once died because of some strange movement lag.
Of 9 documented runs with red orb off screen, 5 were down-right, 2 top-left, 1 down-left, and once i never found it lol.
Followed the guide.
Arcana IV.
Restarted a few times to get Runetracer.
Chilled until 30min.
3tome > 7clockLance.
Candelabrador.
Arcana VI and XVI.
Thousand edge.
First try melted him before 31:45.
Thanks for the solid guide, man.
Nice! good extra info!
For those that don't want to sit around for 30 minutes, if you hold space and alt-tab out of the game it will spam the spacebar in game for you, allowing it to automatically open chests that drop on your character so you can spend your time watching youtube or something instead, just remember to check back now and then to make sure everything is going ok (specially prior to the xp drop cap) and when you tab back in hit space to stop it continuing to spam it.
if the game is not visible, it just stops for me. so this doesnt work for some reason.
@@Hlebuw3k when tabbed out just slightly shrink what ever you have infront of it (I usually pull the top down slightly to show the timer and xp bar) should continue to run then.
@@Xenotric the developer should definitely implement a "pause when not in focus" setting
@@Hlebuw3k yeah definitely! but not maximizing something over it works for the time being
Well, after around 4 hours of starting, quitting, restarting and eventually getting past 3 minutes without hitting level 3... still haven't unlocked the reaper. Weirdly enough though, I did unlock Exdash somehow in all of that.
Danke für die Belehrung am Anfang. Ohne hätte ich mein Leben nie wieder auf die Reihe bekommen 🥰
If you click while moving u stop instantly and thus make it easier to get into the spot
Didn't know that
Thats worth gold
TikTok RUclips shorts and everything like it is just frying people's brain they want instant gratification with Everything it's literally awful. And despise that you still made a fully detailed video for undeserving people you're too kind i appreciate the passion you put into ur work
YAY, thanks to your awsome video I killed the Reaper on my 2nd try. I don't know what happend on my first try, I was killed by the mermaids after the 25 min mark.
Here is a text summary I made while watching your video and used during my run :
TOTALLY NEED
Runetracer (lvl 7 MAX)
Clocklancet
Laurel
Tiramigu
Empty Tome (lvl 0 or 3), then Clocklancet (lvl 7), then Tome (lvl 5)
Candelabrador
Spinach
MINOR UPGRADE
Spellbinder
Bracer
Duplicator
Knives
Firewand
Bone
NEVER TAKE
Armor
Health regen
Lightning Ring unless no other choices (Isaiah Polte comment)
Don't upgrade weapons to lvl 8.
Item can (and should) be lvl max.
I don't even have vampire survivors and I have the patience to watch XD love seeing the thought process and vids keep it up! Been here since like 200 subs :)
Damn, I dont expect any sub, my complaint was only about people that clicked on a 4 Minute guide to something that will take hours and then still skipped - so far it's fine, but then I received comment asking things I mentioned or when I talk to someone to help it turned out sometimes that it was something I mentioned and or showed. I highly appreciate it when subs, especially those that don't play the game, give a guide a go, but I have no "bad feelings" if they turn it off a minute in, it wasn't meant about that :)
i got this on my first try with your guide. I got REALLY lucky because I forgot to turn off xp growth and luck at the menu but thank you so much:). I only died after killing the first death so I can't emphasize the luck enough
What helped me a bunch with the levels not going up is positioning clerici as if he/she is gonna pull the cord on the clock (like the hand lines up with the bottom pointy bit of the clock) that way I've been staying lvl 2 even with full growth (My first run I only became like lvl 54 so i felt like i missed a bunch of lvl's so wanted to grab growth)
Hey Dex, thank you very much for this video, know that the vast majority of us appreciate all the time and effort you put into them.
I liked the video when you asked which is something I rarely do, I watched the series last night and fell asleep after work ( not all of, just a few videos ) - keep up the good work and good luck in your endeavours as a youtuber and in life
Thank you a lot and yea thats the reason I mention it in videos. I don't want people to press like on something they didn't like or even disliked. I just noticed whenever a youtuber I watched said it and I did like the video it reminded me to give it a like :)
I got Red Death by accident. I wasn't even planning on unlocking that character. I had evolved laurel + bunch of evolved weapons in Gallo Tower. I had almost 29k hp. I survived for over 39 mins with one revive.
GRATS ON 2K , my boy aliens rock tagged you in his latest video
Oh wow that is amazing, I enjoy his content a lot so that's great:D
@@DexTag he used your strategy to beat the reaper, I love his content also, your link in in the comments where he pins himself
@@KillerFox-sh5cc yea I saw it I just woke up so I had no chance to catch anything yet, thank you for letting me know!
Dex! You have given us all the content we wanted!
I would say much better job explaining in this video than the last. But still you could try to explain more details in a concise manner but that comes with practice because like I said you already improved in just one video. Good job at this rate you’ll be the King RUclips content creator for vampire survivors and maybe others games.
It's really easy to get to multiple Death showing up with this guide, but up until now, luck is not on my side with the items and the way it plays out most of the time.
It will work, eventually. Believe, it only has to work once after all!
Thanks for the guide, I'll keep trying!
Edit: Lol, My run directly after this comment finally worked XD Yay!
I kinda absolutely hate the fact that you have to stay level 2 until Death spawns unless you want it to have 19,5M HP. Makes it feel cheap.
ty so much im 2 weeks into this damn addicting game and killing the guy at the end even 9 days ago seemed impossible because of this guide rngjesus blessed me with your knowledge i defeated that dog c-nut. tyvm again i subbed dig bick
Dude, I love the video. Calling out the idiots who don't want to listen or bother to pay attention. This is generation X - why listen to someone when they know it all.
Great video! I'm attempting this rn, I loved the upgrading guide!
Btw the positioning showed in your previous video works better for me (a bit higher, closer to the clock) otherwise I grab some xp and lvl up
I tried all positions on the left side and I gotta be honest I saw little difference. I first went for mine but failed 20+ times in a row so I moved it and little changed. It just depends on RNG how they move, if Santa Water protects you and if they end up dropping xp :)
So much effort, and now we just get the rings. I don't like the rng of this strategy, but I want to try some of the original methods.
Your Channel is honestly extremly nice.
Did it first try! Thanks for the guide
Keep up the good work and ppl are inpatient now and days
thanks for the help man i just got it after 3 days of trying!
Thanks for the info. I got it on my first full run through. After just a few tries at getting the red gem on screen.
Got 2 failed endgame attempts (bad reaper position RNG), then I got a penta-chest 3 times in a row (with 0 luck invested).
Wish the game file editing method was still working.. :)
As far as I know it does, I'll look into how and make a video :)
@@DexTag I tried both making him "appear" by editing the file (not working anymore), then I tried the garlic damage-up method (with increasing HP and regen), but when I got to the reapers, they simply did not try to attack me and/or die, despite the practically infinite damage.
Maybe I'll get it in the meantime, but I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate a working method, because the amount of uncontrollable RNG is still way too high.
I left a like because your video got me to kill death on the first try.
i accidently took 5 powerups without grabbing the cooldown reduction and somehow i killed him anyway lmao. Thanks for the guide
for some reason almost all enemies are glitching through the bookshelves, and giving me expierience, even though i lined up perfectly and tried multiple times with different positions
edit: i found a "working" position, where im 1 exp away from lvl 3. maybe its just the starting enemies. nevermind, its definitely after the red exp spawns, the enemies stop dropping exp on me and start combining into the orb instead. definitely takes some rng.
i killed one! on the first actual "attempt" after resetting like 15 times for runetracer. when the second one spawned, i started dying fast, but i killed him right on my last life!
I did it today, thanks to you.
Thanks mate, great videos!
“easier”, watchin this vid I feel like it’s just faster/less rng based cuz like the other thing had way less steps, or am I wrong in this? (great vid tho)
The video is a lot longer because I kept things short, typical syndrome of "I am so used to stuff they are just normal to me, so I don't explain them". Like, even in this one, I forgot to say why you want to stay level 2, because I am so used to it. Overall it's exactly the same amount of steps, just better explained as I took "inspiration" from comments on the other video :)
@@DexTag tbh that was like the only thing u forgot I think, really impressed u didn’t forget more with so much explaining
@@Folk_Rocket I am actually also surprised because each voice recording is redone 5-10 times (which leads to me forgetting minor things). Either I mess up or I think it's not good enough or such. I know the result doesn't show that, but when i have to make sure I mention something I start stuttering or jumping around and it becomes horrible. If I read a script I sound like a robot. I gotta find a better way because this hurts the video but hurts especially my free time :D
totally understand the frustration at the beginning XD
Thank you so much! I killed death FIRST TRY with this strategy, and it made everything so clear. Keep up the amazing work.
for what u said about the last guid: I dont know if skipping back and forward destroys the watchtime, maybe that was the problem. for example I had to rewatch some parts for the notes
Na, skipping is actually insanely good, as long as it's no reload. It's like a 140% watchttime
@@DexTag interesting xD, love your vids btw, hope your channel will grow even faster then the last weeks ^^
@@zhervir thank you a lot, I don't think that's possible though xD and yea I also think it's interesting but I wouldn't abuse that in some way. This video here is pretty much a gamble. If people reload it often it will kill watchrime and percentage watchtime, so its a fight of optimized for RUclips or optimized for being a guide. I hope the "optimized for being a guide" will not backfire, because the 4 minute one did hard as stupid as it sounds
you manage to kill the Reaper, that's crazy.
BUT i'm more impress about the amount of info that you research on how to optimize the item with various combination and level. that's insane. just think about the effort you have to put in just to get that much info is making me crazy.
In regards of the weapon/build order there is 0 credit to me and 100% credit to the linked video in the description/comment. I think if I had sit down and thought about it, ran it and took numbers I could have come up with something, but for me it was not worth the work. That person also managed to kill 2 Reapers in a run.
@@DexTag yeah i just check out his channel. that was great. also your explanation make it easier to understand for me.
I didn't know this trick with Empty Tome, I hope that bug gets fixed soon. Using your tips now, going into 22 attempts...
It's already fixed in the public beta. Should be live in a few days.
tnx man, it was really useful, even kill 2, i´m really happy
Appreciate the work and the information :) subbed
Just started my first try after seeing this, awesome walk though :) GJ
This game is great, but you are helping me get so much more out of it! Thank you!
Glad to hear it!
I was insanely luck and managed to do it in the first try, i even made a lot of mistakes(i completely forgot empty tome for example), but after burning my two revives he died right before the third reaper killed me.
I can see how much of efforts is putting into this from the accurate weapons level strategy. Thank you so much for this
Something tells me there would be an age to watch time correlation In that reaper kill vid.😁
P.S. Don't stress over watch time stats. You channel is growing very quickly with Ytube recommendations BC of the Vam Survivor content. Keep up the great quality and post frequency and you will be golden.
My first attempt with this strat I had 0% luck and got 3 Ultra chests and maxed runetracer 14 minutes in.
I managed it on my second try, thanks to the bone. I sure got lucky with that one!
The latest patch fixes the Empty Tome cooldown glitch. The Spellbinder version might still work, but would require using the Cooldown power up and not taking the empty tome at all. Might help free up another item slot or might kill this strategy entirely.
Funny enough, I just updated both pinned comments (on both videos I mean) and yes, you can also still go for Empty Tome and hope that the Reaper stays in your shots, you should be safe until 31:30 at least if you get Tiramigu. Spellbinder on the other hand is more reliable to not die to missed freezes, but a loss of 40% attack speed is significant in how much damage you deal, meaning what you won in reliability of freezing might be lost in time-based RNG of the Reaper movement.
@@DexTag После нового обновления сделал всё как в видео и получилось с первого раза, спасибо.
How did you only have 1 Reaper spawn for so long? Is this RNG as well or maybe I missed something?
Another spawned but he was stuck somewhere. Usually when you move they get unstuck or when another Reaper bumps into them
You: If you dont see the red orb by 3:30 then just restart your run
Me: Well i don't see it, but all my monsters are dying here so
You: (voice in distant background) sometimes the orb may be off screen
Me: It's gonna be in that pile of blue orbs, no biggie.
30 minutes hit
Me: (runs toward giant blue pile), why did i only get three levels (dies and revives) I'll go for this pile then! (dies again and sees red orb south east of me) .............Welp guess I'll do my second attempt later
It's always on the furthest away orb that gets turned into a red one :) if all are too close it seems to create its own one that might be still on screen
8 runs to 30 minutes mark without red orb on the screen. Run bottom right - no orb. 5 times managed to get to the left part with shelves - no orb. No luck for me :D
Gonna have to try this.
Quick question, if the option is forced on you / becomes available, is evolved santa water a good pick up? It feels like it would increase your DPS, but I'm almost sceptile of whether the damage instances would cause knockback on the deaths and make it unreliable.
Great video btw!
Knockback is actually quite good, because it pushes the reaper into you, making it more likely that you hit with Runetracer - but there are some weapons like La Borra and Lightning Ring that CAN mess up due to their strong knockback. It pushes him too far, so instead of into the line of shooting it pushes him into you (because he has negative knockback resistance, it reverses the effect).
But overall, there is no weapon in the game but Runetracer and Bone that deal a lot of damage. Even Knifes only deal a minor % of Runetracers damage.
@@DexTag I quickly scanned through your video thumbnails to see any mention of an update to this strat after the update where Runetracer can evolve to NO FUTURE but I'm wondering if that weapon might mess up this strategy. I had the same items as you did in the video, instead of Lightning Ring, I had Phiera and instead of Tiragisu, I had Bracer (and Thousand Edge). I also picked Arcana that I assumed wouldn't mess with the strat, Awake, Slash, and Heart of Fire.
I could easily have just messed up my positioning since it seemed like Death was just permanently on top of me but I wanted to hear your thoughts.
@@Jaxter0987 I go into no future in the latest updated version to the guide. In short its trash
The frustration in your voice at the beginning is so understandable, if you decide to click a RUclips video that’s four minutes and don’t watch it, you have no right to ask questions that were in said video
The thing is, if I watch a guide I watch the video first to know what I expect. Then I do the things and go back to the video and check whats the next step, watch it again and then follow it. I dont expect everyone to do this on a guide, but this thing literally takes multiples of hours, for some days to do. By watching a 4-minute video twice, you would save hours of attempts, but I think I overestimated how people value current sacrifice vs future gains out of it. And I'm not mad that they have to spend way more time and fail, but I am mad when they then ask me or even have the audacity to write "Then proof that it still works" when I say it does, like what?
So I took actual misunderstandings/bad explanations and made this guide here, which goes way more in-depth. Without throwing shade, some people started with their own strategies without understanding why what happens. I don't understand why people watch a guide that shows it works and then change something. I mean this is of course up to them, but that feedback gets back to me in complains and the like/dislike ratio. When I do guides, I do them in good faith and to help people, and that's why it makes me sad/mad. Sorry that you had to read that long rant, the stuff just upset me. And the current watch time shows that people do not watch the video - I can see how many returning viewers watch this, so if that number was 2, then it would double the watch time, but no its really low. If they left thats fine, but it usually means someone skipped something.
@@DexTag yeah, I’m part of that low watch time. I really like vampire survivors that’s why I subbed to u cuz ur entertaining. But I can’t watch guides because I don’t own the game and it really won’t be entertaining to me.
@@soildarr598 oh no worries, that is totally fine, but the last guide got 66k views. Subs, even if all of them watch it for 1 second only, have no impact on the view time in percent :D
Edit: but really cool you still watch the content about it, glad you enjoy it!
Man this is a real PITA. I have only gotten close on one run got to 29 min and lost 4 revives WTF lol. I was lvl 2 kicking ass and bam dead 4 times. Don't know if I have the will to continue on lol.
The start just got harder with the latest update having mobs all come at you from the very beginning :(
i find it hardest to get the actual sweet spot because no matter how precise i am the keep getting to close to the point i always pick up a few exp and it messes up my run so im forced to get lucky and get garlic otherwise i sadly continue to level up
Never even played this game yet for some reason I watched this whole video lol
Got this on my first attempt and I have to say, very well explained and really easy to follow along! A very good video put together I’d say and now im a fan of your channel, keep up the great work :)
did it first try thanks man
great run love watching these
Thank you for the very indepth guide 🙏
hey guys, there is nice stuff in the description below the video but im not supposed to tell y´all
I've spent over 2 hours(50+ runs at this point) and have not been able to get past the 3 minute mark even once coz I keep over-leveling, I have all the mentioned powerups, I've tried every recommended position, done all sorts of alignment methods, and I still dk what I'm doing wrong. Maybe I'm just unlucky idk
This video helped me a lot, using your gold farm vid to help me ready up for this challenge
I'm really glad to hear that I wasn't useful just once but twice :D
thank you sir. got it 2nd try
I got so lucky during my first attempt, reaper was about to spawn. At 30 mins I picked up the gem, got the same exact items you said, got into the top right position and the reaper didnt spawn for some reason. It spawned at 30:41
Me who casually defeated red death first try with runetracer maxed out because of chests and no candelabrador. I guess i must have been very lucky.
100%. It's not impossible, but wait without candlelabrador? Dude, I thought just without empty tome. That means in a majority of his positions he usually goes to he won't get hit. Damn you got insanely lucky, congratulations!!
Meanwhile me after 3/4 hours :| But finally I did it
Has the change to empty tome (affects cooldowns immediately) changed anything about the order of upgrades at 30 mins?
Yea. You are pretty much RIP. You can replace Empty Tome with Spellbinder (slower rotation but longer freeze) and it should line up again, but that means your Runetracer pretty much halves in damage. So what you win in reliability on the Clock Lancet is somewhat lost in damage. I'm honestly not sure which method is better of those 2. I got to around 31:30 in the update and died (though one death was really stupid as I was leveling up and I should've been invincible) and that can be enough to kill a Reaper if the hits land right, but once you got 2 Reaper on you, it becomes really hard to not die with the update.
@@DexTag Yeah, I just managed to eke one out at 32:52. Got pretty much perfect drops, no empty tome, just took out a reaper pretty much immediately before being murdered by one of the other two. If I didn't have spinach, tiramigu, plus the bit of extra damage from evolved knife and santa water, probably wouldn't have made it despite just about everything else being optimal.
Lancet shots timed pretty well, but the reaper jitters would cause them to change position which then could throw the timing off. If you're paying attention you can try to shift to get them to line up on time again but it's pretty much RNG at that point.
@@imjustsomeguy72 Yea, the issue with lining them up is that this can lead to them bumping into you and then they "bounce" off, making it impossible to hit them again until the next rotation as you keep pushing him with you. Not saying that'll happen everytime, just that it's a risk of happening when he is on you and you move
@@DexTag Yeah, for sure, but a lot is dependent on when the second reaper comes in and what they do, as I don't know if it would even be possible to kill the reaper within the first minute without tome.
In my case, the second reaper bumped the first, at which point you really have no option but to try and reline them up again, or risk the reaper unfreezing long enough to move and get into a position where they can murder you :P
Idk can't do it, did they change something? I always get level 3 before no gems drop anymore, close to the 4min mark. I've given it multiple dozen attempts (with runetracer) never worked, always leveled.
Just beat it on my second try. Even had my extra revive from the start. Still only just beat him in time before I ran out of revives..
Not really sure what to do with my life now.
what is the reason to stay at lv2?
is there a hidden mechanic that makes levels detrimental?
Yes, the health of the Reaper is 650k x level, cant believe I covered everything but literally the main part because I got so used to it that it was normal to me lol
that... is a stupid mechanic, tbh.
does that apply to all monster or just the reaper?
@@DexTag pin it
@@Praetarius alll mobs
@@SlaytJ I thnk it's fine. People that are far enough into the game to kill the Reaper should know what Clerici does. If not, then they'll realize the moment they hit 3 why you stay 2. There are multiple reasons for it.
Empty Tome now affects cooldowns immediately NOW. How do we upgrade? 7 clock - 5 tome?
Do you need all the powerups?
unfortunately, I think this has been hotfixed. Because chests started just flying to me from wherever on the screen they were and death would teleport to me after a moment when frozen by clock lancet.
I mentioned that and how you should consider resetting if your Runetracer maxes out.
@@DexTag yeah I missed that my first time listening to the vid since I was multitasking doing some housework. That's mb.
@@mitchellconner6928 No problemo, wish you the best of luck. It's overall a frustrating thing to go through :/
I'm probably being an idiot, but did something change with todays update in regards to xp pick up range? The reason I ask is because yesterday I was following this guide and getting pretty close each time on a good run but today since the patch I keep levelling up due to absorbing xp even with out the magnet upgrade and the enemies are still dying at roughly the same distance away as yesterday. Also thank you for the great guide
I did it a bit ago, still worked. But the patch messed up the item leveling time, which leads to Clock Lancet being way less reliable. I know there is a version that uses Spellbinder instead of Empty Tome, but it means the kill takes a lot longer thus more RNG
@@DexTag Ok, I'll keep trying thank you for the info
I just killed the reaper after following this awesome guide. But after i killed the reaper i got red death and not missingno. Can someone explain to me how it works?
im loosing my mind, i keep hitting lv 3 cuz enemy keep going over the bookshelf
The Empty Tome bug got fixed in the patch today, does this strategy still work regardless or is there anything I have to change for it to work?
Pinned comment
spend three hours following exactly what's told in the guide and I always seems to get lvl 3, feelsbadman.
i dont get it.. i had the exact same damage skills and got 3 reapers and no kills. untill i died 4 times and quit.
I cant belive I managed to do this first try, thanks for the tips with how the skills and leveling them works, helped out! Love
um i have a problem.. i have randomazzo already collected. can i still do this, bc every1 dies so far from me now and i don't have any gems near me when 30min mark hits..
thx for ur vid, i did it
not working
does this still work? i got to the reaper got all my stuff, then got in the spot and he killed me.
So I have watched your four-minute video a few times and now this one - thanks for your effort by the way - but I seem to be kind of stupid because I just don't get the mechanics behind why I should level up specific things in a specific order. Okay, I get that a weapon has to level up so the effect of empty tome gets applied but why is it wrong to level up all the weapons to one level below max, empty tome from zero to five and then max the weapons?
You can, but you gamble into having a forced option (lvl 7 runetracer and 2 items offered you don't want). In fact in the video I said to not max out weapons until you have all weapons and items picked once, and empty tome is 5, to avoid maxing them before empty tome but also to be more likely to have them offered as upgrades to not be forced into a bad pick :) empty 0 to 5 would be wrong with no spellbinder, but 0 to 3 then clock lancet then rest works. The numbers on the list only mean that you do that level once the previous steps are done, it doesn't mean you keep the rest at 0 until then
Why does no second death spawn at 31 mins? You responded to another comment saying that it did and you just killed the first death. However going through your video frame by frame i see no evidence of that happening. Do you have any idea what happened?
you can see the first reaper dies at 21:23 and then the 33 minute reaper spawns
@@RedSlugah im asking why the 31 minute reaper doesnt spawn, not the 33 min one
@@TheTamiel I just checked and you are right, one death is missing. I've never seen this. In these runs I had a death spawn as late as 30:23 but something is wrong. If I had to guess I'd say ge is stuck where he spawned and since I don't move enough he doesn't move, but as I said I've never seen this.
@@DexTag Lots of luck looks like it helps here 😅 I definitely haven't had 3 runs in a row killed by 28 min chest being legendary 2 times in a row and the third being 3 items 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
@@TheTamiel maybe it got freezelocked offscreen, i guess we'll never know lol
Impressive budd.
In the update released today, they have fixed the issue with empty tome, so the level order shouldn't matter anymore as far as I can tell. Also, is garlic not a viable weapon for the increased freeze duration?
Following was tested by me to work:
-Empty Tome (no Spellbinder)
-Spellbinder (no Empty Tome)
-Spellbinder + Empty Tome
-Garlic + Spellbinder
-Garlic + Empty Tome
My runetracer kept on disappearing and coming back
I keep leveling up before timer hits 2 minutes
Hey bro, thx for this tutorial, theres just one thing I dont understand. Why your rune tracer is this big at the beggining ? I dont know if its due to the last patch but mine is little so the rune tracer dont protect me as a Shield...
Are you following the guide? Who are you playing?
@@DexTag ohhhh my bad, I pick the wrong character, I try the strat and come back tell you when I win!! Thx!
I might be mistaken, but it seemed like no death spawned at the 31-minute-mark. I thought a death would spawn every minute after 30 minutes. Is this a bug or am I just confused? And if this is a bug, how is it achieved?
Na, there were 2, then one died :)
@@DexTag Then it´s time for me to get some new glasses. xD
PS: Thanks for the guide, it´s always a blast watching your videos, since I learn something new watching you every time. Keep up the great work :)
@@kugelgesund9312 thank you a lot for the kind words :)!
No you were right lol
You can drop bone? Never seen that one, only on skeleton