This build leverages the Engineer's innate abilities to spawn powerful turrets while maintaining mobility through upgraded speed and damage. The weapons and items synergize to create a formidable defense against increasing enemy hordes and dual bosses in Danger 5.
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Score
85
Difficulty
hard
Why This Build Exists
This is the current primary version of the strategy for this character.
Weapons
The Wrench synergizes with the Engineer's bonuses, allowing for significant turret damage and rapid turret deployment due to its speed and structure-based attributes.
With high damage and a cooldown mechanism that benefits from the Engineer's engineering skills, the Chainsaw provides reliable melee damage while benefiting from a burst of speed when attacking.
Main Items
Enhances turret attack speed, maximizing the damage output when combined with the Wrench.
Provides additional damage output through projectiles that spawn, effectively contributing to area control in crowded waves.
Enhances defensive capabilities by providing additional HP to sustain throughout multiple waves.
Boosts max health, which is crucial to survive the increased damage output from elite enemies on Danger 5.
Adds additional structure capability, which mitigates incoming damage and provides passive area control.
Upgrade Focus
Helps improve turret effectiveness, as well as making sure that the Engineer's abilities deal significant damage while reducing cooldowns.
Increasing health allows the Engineer to survive longer while deploying turrets and handling stronger enemies.
A vital upgrade as enemies are stronger than in lower Dangers, ensuring protection against high damage output.
Early Game
Focus on getting the Wrench and starting to build turrets by waves 3-5 to establish early defenses and damage potential.
Mid Game
Utilize turrets effectively while focusing on acquiring Alien Eyes and Clockwork Wasp to enhance area control and attacker damage.
Late Game
By wave 20, focus on synergizing turrets and your melee capabilities; stay near them while using the Chainsaw for efficient kills against the dual bosses, managing heavy fire.
Build Reasoning
The Wrench at 4 copies and Chainsaw at 2 balances area control with damage. The turret enhancements through selected items cover for any moment when the player might take damage.
Why This Build Wins
Danger 5 Notes
The dual bosses on Danger 5 increase the urgency to maximize damage output while maintaining survivability from turrets and shields, making use of all item synergizing aspects eternally crucial.
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