u/DraciosV

D5.

Honestly was an absolute shitshow of a run. The Revenant understood where things were on great hollow but made horrible decisions and had an awful build. Revenant had a wrath of gold esque build with old portrait. Got nothing and eventually just went with rivers of blood. Wanted to goto the tower halfway into day 2 and I was not having it.

The ironeye was alright but I could tell was quite dejected from a botched invader that ended with everyone level 1 with the invader dead but runes never having been retrieved.

However, I can say that neither of them quit. And the Revenant did ult at good times every now and again.

Level 10 at depth 5 in particular is a disgrace of a run in my eyes and even this is making the best of a bad situation.. And in my experience, the team would usually wipe from ever being in this situation at all. But that made this all the more interesting to me because I don't feel like the others had a good setup at all. I was surprised this only took 4 minutes.

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I used to be quite skeptical of tank builds. And tbh I still am a bit as I don't find myself enjoying having NO sources of damage. But I enjoy being tanky and having modest damage for bad situations.

Where I found this nice was having 2225 HP while still having 1500~ ish guard counter at level 10 of all places with red weapon. I only found one guard counter passive period, but quite a few different damage negations like taking damage, successful guarding, and full to complement this. This build has night of fathom and broach with GC MHP and GC + Max HP base relics.

I was skeptical because things going away faster helps people make fewer mistakes. But when things goto shit this isn't always an option. Though, I can't say this would be as useful in less dire situations.

What do you think of D5 tanks? How far do you believe you should go into being a tank?

People ask this question a lot.

Things went so well I wondered if this was worth posting. The run was very juiced for me and my random (and also good) team. But there might be some value in posting an ideal scenario.

Depth 5 as title says with a full guard counter build w/ GC on every relic (no dex relic), which is my preferred for both Mohg and Balancers. There are around 3 Guard counter passives on this build iirc. I think a shield crash build with dex relic + Phys + Balancer would also be good.

I dislike shield poke mostly because it isn't as fast and eating hits like that bleeds too much over just blocking 1 or 2.

Depth 3. It was a fun game with a friend.

I love guard counter but shield poke generalist is probably my second favorite way of playing guardian. Shield poking can even help set up standing your ground in general if you got the stamina + guard boost for it.

I usually call that lower left-hand corner throw-the-run flask. I usually don't condone going off alone for much of anything beyond simple looting of chests/caster stuff when people flask chase.

After this, we went to the castle and cleared the basement before the rain closed and locked us out of most of the map -- leaving us with two POIs and Bell Bearing Hunter in the Eastern woods near the gaol.

Depth 4

Base Game

Depth 3

Teammates both had it. Not me.

I love it. People should do this more often. No, I'm not being sarcastic. It was fun.

Its become surprisingly common but from my observation and watching even some youtubers, a lot of undertaker pick up Dex weapons despite other dex chars being present and even use dex weapons the whole game. Particularly in basegame and lower depths.

For the ones I see, I pull up their relics and no dex relic.

Undertaker has 13 dexterity (D) at level 15. This is lower than revenant, raider and scholar. If the situation is desperate then maybe but she is garbage at using most dex weapons effectively. Without her relic she has the lowest dex in the whole game.

I think this is just people not knowing and being used to Wylder who's good enough to beat duchess with most dex weapons. But I watch undertakers deal peanut damage I'd expect out of casters attempting to melee and its pretty sad.

Hopefully some people who need see this do and realize how bad it is.