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I’m still looking for a science cone with implant weakness sour and sour damage up best

This is a NG+ build Always upgrade your weapons as high as possible. First playthrough, Mantis is +8 or higher.

@@That1Guy4Never oooh ok…what build would you recommend for someone on their very first play through fighting the mantis who’s playstyle is very much smash first block with face until either enemy or player is dead whichever comes first?

You'll have to learn to parry the mantis, or go with a build using a shield. Her attacks hit too hard. Club of the mother demon (salty) or salt morning are solid choices.

@@That1Guy4Never what armor would you recommend would be a good counter to her that would protect me but hurt her to high hell also I’m guessing the salt morning star would have to be maxed out in order to do even semi decent damage to her?

Screwed, I'm afraid

This is NG+. The trinkets don't have specific names. T3 trinket is called a Science Cone or Glowbasa Necklace. The modifiers are random. You have to grind for them.

It deals less damage if you do that

Sounds extremely powerful 👏 . If we combine that with one of the axes that already has finale fury, we could stack those two effects for quite fast attack speed. Crits on an already hard hitting weapon is gonna chunk like crazy. It's a very well thought out and designed build. The trick is getting that God roll on the trinket. Doable though.

@@That1Guy4Never yea the god roll took me 4 days of grinding 8 hours a day to finally get

@@That1Guy4Never btw thanks for the reply means a lot keep up the good work on ur videos

In general, it's best to just not piss flyers off. That way they don't raid you. You can always force a raid at a decoy camp/base using a Waft Emitter to reset the raid buildup meter as well. If you absolutely must fight flyers, then it really comes down to making sure your base is made of high tier building materials, there's no less than 1 layer of roof (many more is better) over your entire base, your beds and chests are at the deepest most secure part of your base, and always use tier 3 of guard dog mutation for the raids for a hefty dmg boost while defending.

I killed the Mantis with the sour axe till ng4 and then switched to the infused club. I died like 10 times before i killed him but works.

@@BeKzFFAoh ok thanks 🙏

Definitely some players at that level - some stuck unable to progress, too. You have to get to NG+4 before you can start getting Infused Weapons, which is the main benchmark for why you're doing NG+ in the first place. So, I gotta disagree. If most of the players are at the lower levels, as you state, the majority would be there for the reason they aren't skilled enough to progress. Some because of telepotties, most because they couldn't go further - in this hypothetical.

Thanks, mate! I'm sure I'll get there someday. Not too long ago, I was at 100 subs - then 2 videos bumped me up to over 3k. It takes a little bit of luck and a lot of persistence.

If you haven't yet, watch part 1 of this short series. She will move if you follow the steps shown there.

Very good as long as you can parry properly

Thank you for the help

I saw that! I commented on his vid and thanked him. That was very nice of him.

Some do, some don't, and some require simple changes to work. Let me know what you're interested in, and I'll let you know.

@@That1Guy4Neverthe punch build

Nearly nerfed to the ground, I'm afraid. If you are skilled enough to never take damage, its still pretty good against bosses. Otherwise it's not worth it at all until NG+ using some of the new modifiers

Totally understand your perspective. For grounded though, I disagree for the following reason: Grounded was not originally geared towards a player-base with such a high skill Requirement. Yes, whoa was included for players who want a challenge. But, even main playthrough Whoa is lightyears away from the extreme challenge spike of moving into NG+. I don't mind a challenge personally. But they have excluded and snubbed their main player base. Lets look at the achievement completion as a frame of reference - 1.5% of the players who started playing grounded beat it, while only 0.07% entered NG+ and managed to beat the story again. Grounded had around 20 million players...so 300k beat it, yet of that 300k only 14k of them beat even a single ng+ ....only 4.6% of the people who beat it managed to beat a single ng+ playthrough. That's what I'm saying. Why make content, if almost NONE of your playerbase is gonna A) reach it, B) be able to make any level of progress in it. If you like the difficulty, that's cool. But that doesn't make it fair.

Mathematically, they should perform very similar to each other. While the crit build will chunk with each crit, arcane archer will provide consistently high dmg with each hit after you proc the effect. In the end, the ttk will likely be very similar. Popularity-wise, people will like the crit build more cause it's sick to see those massive dmg chunks. But the pragmatic will prefer constantly high dmg on each shot. Hope you're doing well, mate. Good luck to you.

I know I showcased a few different builds to fight her, but I can't find anywhere in the video where I'm wearing antlion armor while rocking a melee build 🤷‍♂️.

NG+ is a general term - we all use it (except you, apparently). I gave the link to each of those specific recipes. They say EXACTLY how to get them, and in which NG+ iterations it's possible.