This build leverages Old's harvesting capabilities while focusing on melee weapons to sustain health through material collection. With a mix of high DPS weapons and survival items, the strategy revolves around engaging enemies closely, minimizing enemy speed, and maintaining high survivability against the relentless waves of Danger 5.
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Score
85
Difficulty
hard
Why This Build Exists
This build focuses on a primarily melee-centered approach, in contrast to the previous ranged-focused builds utilizing the Chain Gun.
Weapons
The Scythe delivers high damage with excellent crowd control, ideal for handling close-range threats, while synergizing well with Old's harvesting bonuses.
The Chainsaw complements the Scythe effectively, allowing for significant damage output while maintaining fighting efficiency against multiple enemies.
Main Items
Increases harvesting significantly, which synergizes perfectly with Old's playstyle, although it does cause some damage to self.
Upgrades weapons, enhancing overall damage output, which is critical for scaling in later waves.
Max HP scaling helps support sustainability, allowing for greater durability in the late game.
Reduces enemy speed while giving elemental damage increase, helping Old mitigate damage while maximizing his burst potential.
Boosts structure attack speed, providing effective area damage while allowing Old to focus on engagement.
Upgrade Focus
Increasing Max HP directly boosts survivability, crucial against the scale of danger presented on wave 5.
Boosting damage allows for faster enemy eliminations, addressing the character's need to handle impending waves effectively.
Increasing HP regeneration can help offset the damage taken while engaging in close quarters.
Early Game
Focus on collecting materials and upgrading weapons while ensuring a quick kill rate for the first 7 waves; target enemies with less health to maintain your attack speed and health regeneration.
Mid Game
Transition into stronger waves by ensuring melee efficiency; maximize use of collecting materials to sustain health. Purchase better upgrades and focus on maintaining HP.
Late Game
Manage boss fights utilizing an aggressive melee strategy, leveraging speed reductions and high DPS weapons to survive; focus on eliciting damage rapidly to avoid overwhelming situations, especially with double bosses in wave 20.
Build Reasoning
The Scythe and Chainsaw provide compelling reasons for high damage output while synergizing well with Old's harvesting traits. Maximizing Max HP and survivability is critical against the amplified threats in Danger 5, while carefully chosen items balance the demands for health and damage.
Why This Build Wins
Danger 5 Notes
Be prepared for waves 11 to 18 with aggressive enemy spawns and elites; maintaining HP will be key while also needing to keep weapons strong against the scaling enemy metrics.
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