Best builds for ALL survivors - Artifact of Command (Risk of Rain 2)
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- How to create the most powerful builds AND the silliest builds you can possibly think of on all characters using the Command artifact.
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ima PROUD CommAndy and there's nothin u can do bout it
Same :)
this is the content i didnt know i wanted so much
Hey woolie why don't u make a video on the "most fun builds with comando" ?
so when do you think this update will hit console hi been watching your videos for a good week absolutely love the videos
WeirdChamp
My favorite thing to do with command artifact is wait till it comes out on console
console gamer PepeLaugh
Is there a confirmed release date?
I understand your pain my dude
i wish it comes soon
FeelsBadMan for all the console Andy's
I like to just open a single barrel and watch as every beetle, BBC, vagrant and scavenger look in horror as the definition of a carpet bomb is heading towards them, because I have stacked 30+ fireworks and have 5+ crowbars, it's amazing.
Only 30 fireworks? My record so far is 98. Shrines of blood and chance are downright terrifying to look at with a literal swarm of explosives spilling out of them for 15-20 seconds
@@daverapp *hits blood shrine at 93%*
"Call an ambulance! But not for me"
Heh heh,BBC
Make sure you stack those 30+ Squid turrets for the extra protection while you're opening barrels!
Fireworks stacking is the ultimate meta.
chronobabule is part of "THE build" lets go
All we need it red whip and desk plant
PogChamp
Justice for Chronobauble!
Chronobaboon
Chronopoggle
Heres the list “The Build”
Equipment:
Royal Capicitator/ tonic
White:
Lens Maker glasses: 7
Goat Hoofs: 6
Tougher Times: 10
Topaz Brooch: 5+
Tri tip dagger: 5
Gasoline: 1
Sticky bomb: 5
Green:
Predatory Instincts: 2
Scythe: 1
Ukulele: 2
AtG Missiles: 3
The bands: 1 each
Hopoo feather: 2
Wax quail: 2
Deathmark: 1+ (artifacts only 1 death mark works)
Chronobauble: 1
(Optional) 2 will-o-wisp
Red:
Clover: 1
Sentient Meathook: 1
Shattering Justice: 1
After thats done rest is optional (my own reccomendations):
a) Tonic + fuel cells + war horn + gesture drowned
b) Aegis + scythes
c) Ceremonial daggers/ tesla coil
d) focus crystal on melee
z) some meme
After 3rd loop:
Guillotine 40
This comment is highly underrated. Thank you very much, this is so helpful.
I LOVE YOU !
Why not more tougher times? Can't you get 100% block chance?
Wrong, 5 fuel cells, 5 gestures, helfire, razorwire, behemoth lensmakers, scythe and cautious slugs
@@RyeFields 1000 tougher times is 99.96% I believe and it's not that worth it, this is just almost the exact list woolie said and once you have got all those items you can take it anywhere
Was playin with my firends earlier with the command artifact,
Never realized how fun glowing meteorite is with gesture
I did this once as MUL-T a while back. I had Gesture and 5 fuel cells and decided to take meteorite as my second equipment. Whenever I swapped to it Gesture would use all 6 charges at once and it would nuke the entire map. I obviously killed myself and my friend with it.
Throw in a soul bound catalyst to spice things up
I went max equipment cool down reduction with meteorite on artificer (to actually dodge the meteors) and at stage 5 I got it down to a 2 sec cd, then the game crashed.
Do this with stacking something like 50 Will-O-Wisp and your game is DEAD :p
It's dead even without will, if you get the cooldown low enough.
I like Command-Sacrifice runs more than regular Command runs because it basically turns the Void Fields into The Room of Spirit & Time from Dragon Ball.
I didn't even realize that they stop the timer.... O.o
@@tonightscake4127 Yeah, areas that are classified as hidden realms no longer advance the timer as of the Artifacts update. This also includes the Gilded Coast :)
Clickbait youtubers: "What if I put 1000 syringes on at once?"
CommAndys: "I am 7 parallel universes ahead of you!"
DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEEP
@@superlelch314 FILTHY ACTS AT A REASONABLE PRICE
Simply Gaming BAD POOR
@@Isaac-jz9el Cheap'nt Quality'nt
I was amused by that videos showcasing it
I love to stack infinite crowbars and will o the wisps. The crowbars allow you to kill one thing, and then anything else is dead.
Last two times I did this, I got far enough that my game crashed... brilliant build.
I never thought to add crowbars and just built a solid on-hit then spammed all the teddy bears. Does struggle to get that one kill after a while though.
yeah i saw a guy that did it and it was hilarious he stacked like 30+ will o the whisps and if he killed a monster on the other side of the map everything infront of me would just instantly die
Yeah I can definitely approve that one. The game plays itself past stage 7
@@CrabBar risk of rain 2 but you enjoy the command artifact a wee bit too much
You could have made the video literally 6 seconds longer for 10 min but didnt, honorable
Coz at 10 min, a clone of him will spawn and kill him
@@thecyrax96 lol
@@thecyrax96 epic
10 min isnt actually that umporyant
@@theSato yes it is
Stacking old war stealthkits and razorblades on Rex feels nice...
"you can't hit what you can't see!"
i once did a one punch man type build with loader which mostly consisted of crowbars, focus crystals, goat hooves, and on-hit and crit for the gaps . one thunder punch would kill basically anything by stage ~8, super fun to do
thank you for the ideea.
I suck at loader but this is my new life goal
Add one or two hardlight afterburners for infini-punch
You can also try attack speed Loader with health items, each punch is 5% of your health as a barrier, so you can become pretty much immortal, and then start getting proc-items to work with your attack speed.
Just another youtube-addicted person you become STAAAAAR PLATINUUUUM
Best meme build stack warbanners and fungus until their radii span the whole map
Fungi only engineer PogChamp
I see you are a man of culture.
I like it, but it clearly needs more BUNGUS.
Haha yes, I agree!
Mikkel Folting Me when I get the milk. Oof
It isn't so much a "new" build, as one that so many people overlook. Max Razor wire stacks on REX. His M2 can proc the razor wire, and with enough stacks you can easily launch 2-3 missiles per M2 fired, without actually hitting anything with the M2.
I managed to get 7 stacks in a non-artifact run, and due to all the scythes and monster teeth I picked up, as Rex with a full self-damage skill loadout and Aegis, I never dropped below 150% HP. Despite spamming the hell out of M2, the sheer number of procs from the 20+ target razorwire blasts(since it could reach so far from so many stacks), was constantly keeping me way above 100% HP.
My friend and I have banned ourselves from stacking razor wire, repulsion armor, and hellfire tincture while using command. With some fuel cells and a gesture, you can have perma uptime on the tincture, but the real broken part is the razor wire. Because razor wire can proc other items you can literally afk and be completely fine because everything on the map is dying
Bonus points for using it on Engineer, as the tincture will even proc his turrets' Razor Wires, and then you get additional wells of damage for the same build.
@@LittleJobu If you are playing with command, every run is going to be broken as fuck, so I don't really see a reason to add limitations into what you can build.
I love going for an Engineer with a bunch of fungus, Rejuvenation Rack, Aegis and N'kuhana's Opinion
So many projectiles!
You can do an AFK build that way: Just add a bunch of infusions and shield generators, since both of those count for aegis' max barrier as well as towards opinion's max damage.
Pop a turret and nothing can even spawn properly before getting opinioned to death.
@@SpaceBrotha It's amazing, truly
We can go even further: Engineer Turrets also inherit your Equipment alongside your items, so using Hellfire Tincture + Gesture + Planula + Razorwire will practically multiply outgoing projectiles. Heck, Mired Urn also procs Razorwire (I think), so might as well pick that one up too.
Woolie here a challenge for you mate : only ONE item of each tipe. u can use drones, equipment etc. so one white, green, red, blue and u can stack as many u want.
what is the goal? Obliterate on Monsoon, Kill the current "final boss" in a moment in time whole, or go as far as possible?
I feel like it's too easy. Syringes-ATGs-Clovers are gonna wreck everything
@@zaifir8119 monsoon for sure and the rest is can be anything
@@bodhisattva6805 yes that was my build too but the leck of movement can kill you with ease
Its pretty easy, topaz for overshield, ATG for the damage, and clover for proc chance. Also if you want the only useful lunar would be shaped glass IMO.
Here's a good meme build for y'all:
- THE BUILD
+ Happiest mask
+ Stack as many clovers as you can
You now have an army
They eventually stop spawning =(
''You and what army ?''
@@lisathefoolish captain: what army? WHAT ARMY. LOOK AROUND YOU IMP OVERLORD
same
You, Mr. Streamer: Get this item and this item and these items in order to chain procs. Don't get too many and avoid picking up others as they don't help.
Me, an intellectual: HAHA, WISP STACKS GO BOOM
WISPS GO BRRRRRRR
Crowbar and wisp stacking is so strong
Add a ceremonial dagger
Honestly I always just go for always drugs as soon as possible. It's just so strong and buffs all stats. If you know where stuff is you can generally get it in the first or second stage and it's pretty much all downhill from there
I love stacking will o wisps and reaching explosions of such intensity that it covers the whole map
Razorwire + Hellfire Tincture works fine too. Deals with the massive chaos. I especially love this build on Artificer as it helps her with killing flying enemies a lot.
This combo also procs your items as I've noticed. Also very effective in the Void.
If you were to combine this with the Sacrifce Artifcact, then you can farm in that level for days.
Also if you can stack a lot of Will of the Wisp and/or Gasoline, eventually you can kill all enemies on the entire map.
On Commando, I like to do "Operation: Infinite Machinegun", where you get Brainstalks and stack a bunch of Ukes and Guillotines, crit, attack speed, Predatory, and all the rest of the damage, and then HOLD R for play of the game. For bonus fun, throw in a Spinel build.
for a machine gun build on commando, i just use a lot of soilders syringe, shatter spleen and 10 tri tips, along with a on hit effect
I had a meme build when I first did this and I stacked so many goat hoofs on engineer with his moving sentries and it was super fun to watch them scuttle around the map like little death machines
**before Artifact of Command**
Me: "Marty, I'm scared."
**after Artifact of Command**
Me: "Whose ready to have their a*s kicked?"
the best thing ever on command is stacking transcendance and healing + barrier. I had a run with 100k hp. pretty op if you ask me.
Don't do healing! You can't heal with transcendence!
Sam Hilem oh yes you can! Its amazing. 60k shield + 60k barrier. You need healing for that.
@@rslife466 No haha sorry I wasn't clear. Like transcendence literally won't let you heal anything. If you get healing items they are wasted.
Sam Hilem No they work...
@@rslife466 Haha try it in game? I'm not sure where you're getting this information
My favorite meme build is infinite royal capacitor. On stage 1, get a bunch of green items from the tp event, and then immediately take a trip to the Bazaar. Buy all of the lunar items and turn them into Gestures, and convert some of your green items into 1 Soulbound Catalyst. At this point, turn almost all of your greens into fuel cells, and just watch anything you look at get smited instantly.
You have won.
You’re very right, this video helped a ton today improving my knowledge of the games mechanics, I appreciate it
Did a meme run with Artifact CommAndy by running 96 teddies, glowing meteorite, 10 gestured of the drowned, 5 fuel cells, clover, 11 shaped glass and 95 repulsion plates. The run was very exciting
One of my favorite things to do is get an insanely high attack speed on Loader and shout ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA as I attack things. Not very smart but it's fun.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture.
It's plenty smart! 5% of your health as a barrier with high attack speed and high health you're pretty much immortal, and it changes how you play the game a lot.
Too bad if you hit enemies fast enough, the game freezes for a second every punch. No true jojo build, but god it is hilariously fun.
MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!
infinite shield!! :D
I'd recommend trying the tank build on loader, because it will proc her passive and she'll get a hella boosted barrier. Kinda did something similar on a swarm + sacrifice run because those were just the items that seemed to drop a lot early, mainly razorwire, brooch, plating.
I came here to learn, leaving more confused, but somehow happy about it, thanks
So I was having so trouble unlocking clover and sin either challenges. I think that's about to change. Thanks Woolie!
I'd like to add that Dio's Best Friend is beyond insane on the Engineer because the turrets inherit the extra life but they dont use the item up when they die.
And Dio stacks, so if you have two Dios your turrets need to be killed three times before they break down.
Now that the Command artifact is a thing can you see yourself doing "build" requests?
Ooh, good idea dude. Hope he does.
waited for this video for quite some times, thanks!
It seems im not the only one who would like an update including the void items... Between this video and the titular guide on reddit ive been having a blast with builds however i enjoy the layout of the titular guide with with the information you also provide. The guide is based off this video so a lot of it is repeated information but theres a nice mix in my opinion. Keep up the great work with your other content but I do hope youll update this guide at some point when youre not too busy.
i have a build i usually refer to as the god build, basically a ton of fuel cells, a couple gestures, a foreign fruit and N'kuhana's Opinion. constant healing means constant skulls that do a whole lotta damage, grab an aegis and some antlers later on and you can go for as long as you want pretty much
I love taking 2 drowned and 9 fuel cells to get perma-jade elephant
PERMA ROYAL CAP
I love the work keep it up woolie :3
I e genuinely never built mobility items ever and have found continuous success but I love your take on everything
Another great auto kill build involves the resonance disk and wisps in a jar. Crowbars help too.
The 3rd reason for command artifact is for unlocks like huntress' one shot one kill challenge and the challenge for the saw on mul-t and so on
I feel like because RoR2 got so much updates you can now have more varied builds(I kind of like the build where you stack enough fuel cells to cause Blast Shower to make you invincible)
Nice list! I'm in the middle (near end?) of a run with Artificer where I've been just doing Whatever for the most bit along with trying to get all three of her Challenges done if I can (and I did! yay!) but I had absolutely RIDICULOUS luck with item rarity around Stage 4 and wound up with FIVE reds before the end of my run between random luck and the guaranteed chest, so I split them between 3 alien heads (so I don't have to worry about her cooldowns... at all really) and 2 clovers mostly because I just watched your tier list and figured it wouldn't hurt. I managed to get the 1-second takedown challenge on stage 4 against a titan-*duo* with a Prion-Flamethrower-Shock-Bleed combo thanks to a FOURTEEN stack of A.P. Rounds because I've been doing fine and I figured I'd already gotten both of the other challenges done on the Aqueduct thanks to the Black Hole and I wanted to give Chunked! the best shot my insistently-reflexively-suboptimal ass could have at taking down an abyssal boss in 0.9 seconds flat. After that, well I had a Prion Accumulator with 3 fuel cells from previous equipment I swapped it for, and now I've just been working on boosting the absolute hell out of that with even MORE fuel cells. I'm about to head into A Moment, Whole with NINE CHARGES on my Accumulator--let's see that pale tubby hoarder drop THIS!!
Update: FFFFFUCKYEAH!! PUT *THAT* IN YOUR BAG AND HAUL IT!
I like stacking crowbars, guillotines, and ceremonial daggers and watch as the daggers go around murdering the entire map after a single kill.
glad to see someone else understands the power knifes and crowbars
ps.: add a forgive me please and a soulbund and gestures.LET THE PARTY BEGINN
I think one of the best runs ive ever had was one where i stacked all the damage, on kill, and speed items i could with the grovetender's boss item
By the time i got to stage 10 i didnt even have to use any skills
Just sprint and use missile launcher and everything dies
I love the chain reaction build which just causes everything to die as soon as you kill one enemy
I just love the equipment build, pref. With about 20 fuel cells, 4 drowned, pref Sawmerang and one or 2 4Heads so once you kill anything you just puke out a game lagging amount of saws, fkin hillarious
Engineer Question: in "the" build, how high of an priority would the fungus be, or would there be an need for them at all considering you can just choose your items?
I mean, even with god run items, fungus is a must on engineer, especially early on, as it guarantees decent survivability on your turrets. Once you start getting some scythes and decent crit they wont matter *as* much, especially with brooches and aegis, but they're still very useful. I'd recommend at least 3 or so stacks to ensure decent healing whenever you need it.
Get fungus and then the nukahanas (spelling whatever) and you got god run by stage 4
first item is always fungus, then get "the build" going, switching out some of the common items in it for funghi. everything else is the same, after you finish "the build" with everything grab reju rack and nkuhanas.
With max crit Scythes and Teddy/Brooch they will survive just fine, its a different story though if youre building around N'kuhana and rack
@@mikeh171 This. Also, Dio's best friend is incredible for the turrets, since they always have two lives. It gets to a point that I keep trying to paint targets for missiles and they simply die too quickly for me to do anything.
Stacking bears, wisps, and abusing infinite royals capacitor is still my easy long run build
Lovely. Thanks! My favourite build is actually Ultra Tank, and I came to it with my own theory-crafting. Nice idea to use Hellfire Tincture though; I've only seen my UT shine in The Void -- and now I'll be seeing it everywhere else too. >:)
I love getting a ridiculous amount of Will o' th wisps and just watch the stage go up on flames.
What about yellow items? Shatterspleen would majorly help with bleeding on crit, removing the need for any tri-tip daggers. The fireball one (the orange talon thing) is also hilarious with this build, I've done a lot of testing.
Edit: what are your guys' thoughts on this build with the heretic? I think it would be funny
I’ve been a Commandy for 6 years and 4 months
My favorite build to run with command artifact is to grab Gesture, Forgive Me Please, Soulbound, and Ceremonial Dagger with 2-3 Fuel Cells to get all of the Voodoo dolls stacked on top of each other when you go into a stage. When combined with topaz brooches and monster teeth you can basically just AFK with your cursor at your feet and vaporize everything. Having some clovers and on-hits help a lot, as well as having 100% crit is very great. Grabbing some infusions for health works wonders, and shaped glass works really well too.
I tried some funny builds yesterday and I had tons of fun with the Megumin EXPUROSION build idea that I had a while ago.
(General rule for my specific build runs where I dont run "the build" is that I'm allowed to differ from the defined item picks thrice for common and twice for green per loop since you just need hoof, bear, crit, ukulele and atg at least once and after the second loop scythe and hopoo are also kinda mandatory)
Survivor: Artificier
Rules: Every item you pick has something to do with explosions.
Commons: Sticky Bomb, Gasoline, Fireworks
Greens: Will'o the Wisps, Atg, Kjaros
Legendaries: Behemoth
Equipment: Preon Accumulator
Yellow: Genesis Loop
Lunar: since there are technically no lunar items that have something to do with explosions, you can pick whatever you like there, but know that Megumin would pick shaped glass for that extra bit of oomph for her expurosions.
gl hf
Honestly love doing a "On-kill-effect" Build
Essentially taking only items that proc things on kill and chaining kills around bosses to kill them instantly.
Its really fun to mess around with
Meme build
Crowbars: all of them
Royal capacitor: enough
1 shot everything just by existing
Don't forget a gesture of the drowned and a large number of fuel cells.
A command build that I tested was a crazy FMP build. Tons of gas and wil-of-the-wisps with ceremonial daggers and a ton of cool-down reduction. Press Q and kill everything.
Also both perforators are just nice with your proc chain tomfoolery. In case you ever roll a yellow.
*Questien* - does artifact of sacrifice work like aspects(does clover amplify the drop chance)? Im like 97% sure that it doesnt but it may even be possible, so i just want to make sure
no, clover does not affect the chance to get an item via Sacrifice
Woolie darn
"The man himself"
me: Mr. Twitch?
Sometimes with a command run ill do a "necromancer run" n get the clover for the first red, and then stack happiest masks, because it increases the time they are alive, so you can have a ghost army, pretty fun, just one random build
one really fun(ny) meme build is the "ultra oneshot" bandit build, its basically about getting as many crowbars and armor piercings as possible and then some bands with desperado, and then get like 3 purity to get .5 desperado cooldown. i did this with blast shower, 13 fuel cells and 3 gestures and it was very fun.
What’s the likelihood that you’d do a video tiering items/survivors for M.A.A.O runs?
Likely, once I begin doing MAAO again
What is M. A. A. O.? Monsoon artifact something something?
@@AttacMage Monsoon, All Artifacts On
Attac Mage It stands for Monsoon All Artifacts On.
the top tier would definitly be topaz(probably 1 or 2 only) and teddys/goat hooves, guillotines and the usual green dmg items and sac dagger
What about the Kablooie build for memes? It consists of: Will of the Wisp...
That's it, that's the build.
“If I weren’t a good demoman, then I wouldn’t be here talking with ye, would I?” Insert wisp here.
Why not add gasoline?
@@Draconis_Eltanin _Mmmph!_
I remember in a stream you said the 2 best items are atg missiles and the ukulele. that was a fun run
My go to command build is shaped glass ( the more the better ) and 1 sacrificial dagger. all green items go into feather/quail/wisp and all grey items go into goat/teddy. grab a few fuel cells and some gestures with a tonic or meteor to spice things up.
mister streamer, sodacan > goat hoofs on huntress
he says in video that goat hooves are preferred due to how they are more consistent
@@sonicdude2011 well not if you're consistently sprinting
Avatar Innuendo you should always be sprinting as huntress so soda is better...
@@sebw8169 how about just getting them both, that would be way more consistent than just only one
I'd recommend taking repulsion armor on REX as it does apply to his self damaging attacks as well, so rather than lose 25% of your current health, just take one damage and feel the healing.
Finally got to abuse 1 shot protection and I'm glad to say it was awesome for the 3 hours I got to enjoy it
One of my favorite builds I ever did was with engineer, but it could be for any class. I started doing a stereotypical fungus build with stationary turrets, but I got the usable missile launcher and decided "you know what? Missiles."
From then on I built only use item recharge items, and some various mobility items for red and white items I found as well. By the time I got to the final boss, he stole all my items (this is post-rework) and got devastated by the sheer number of missiles that had been backlogged from the number of times I used it.
One of the most hilarious builds I've done in a long time XD
Tried making a viable build run for the engineer's walking turrets. needs work
If the turrets had more range maybe it will work but for now the range of the walking turrets is just shit
Walking turrets are really good actually due to them proccing death mark 1 item earlier! Just use the build in this video and they will mow down everything.
Considering fixing them yourself. There is a mod wich allows them to "activate" the fungus while walking
my plan: 150 hooves
i do like that explosion meme build with just gasoline and will of the wisp stuff. Explosions is fun! (can crash but still...FUN!)
For a crazy ish build, I've found it fun to get as many regen scraps as possible for a free red per stage off the newt
I went with 35 death marks on a command run a few days ago. B I G B R A I N
The true build is stack Poglyps and heal them up with fungus and they go brrrrrrrrr and kill everything :DDD
engineer with n'kuhana + 5 rejuvenation bracket + 50 shroom, litteraly killing by healing.
With the ultra tank build, you could also take a reju corpsebloom combo because you would be immune to small hits
the red item that gives reduced cooldown on items along with the gesture of the drowned, fuel cells and the royal capacitor is really fun. truly a death glare
why build anything when you can just stack 50 willowisps and kill 1 enemy to blow up the whole map.
The one and true god: Artifact of Command
Max attack speed on huntress is a load of fun mainly for the animation of her arm staying back as the bow turns into a lazer
Thank you Mr Streamer, very cool.
favorite meme build so far is a mini-challenge i did for myself of only taking one type of item of each rarity, where i took goat hooves, will-o-the-wisps, and hardlight afterburners on rex (i was trying to unlock his skin at the time, along with trying to get his alternate after pushing a dunestrider in a pit), was a great run overall and would totally do it again.
for the meme side i like to do an addict build. It consists on only getting syringes as your white item and getting the tonic on the Q item, getting any green and red items you wish. Its really dumb and fun and i usually do that on Commando
I've done a 4-hour command run with a buddy. In the end, we were the game's equivalent to Medusa. Wherever we turned our gaze, absolutely everything died. The basic recipe for that is a Capacitor plus a whole lotta Fuel Cells/Gestures and Crowbars. We had about 100 Crowbars plus 20 to 30 fuels cells and gestures each. And since our approach to the first loops was similar to what Woolie suggests here, we also had our proc chains going. IIRC, the biggest hit was about 890 million damage. We ended up obliterating ourselves because even on Monsoon, you're going to massively outscale the game with command.
i tried to go for as many shaped glass as possible and it was a very satisfying experience
Gotta say the mul-t with a bunch of crit glasses, predatory and as many syringes as you can pick up is my favorite meme build
With command arty on try building crit to start, get 1 of each proc item, then get a gesture and a missile launcher and start stacking fuel cells. it gets the missile launcher to the point where its literally a stream of missiles that never stops and one shots everything
My favorite thing to do with command artifact is - hellfire tincture and razorwire. Going for massive proc chains but stacking max hp tinctures on engineer so you get 3 razorwire spread with turrets
The "Poison can't kill? Fixed." Build. Acrid, some movespeed, GASOLINE, TWO UKULELES, AND WILLOWISPS. Your poison wears them down, and then all it takes is one death to turn the entire battlefield, not just the screen, the ENTIRE MAP, into charcoal and embers. Take THE BUILD minus the crit items early on if you want a more balanced run, but the crit isn't as strong on Acrid early due to so much of his(And the build's by extension) power coming from DoT's that cannot proc. You can start adding crit later on(And I'd still take maybe one or two Harvester's Scythes and glasses for the sake of reliable healing), but the majority of your power comes from being able to kill one weak enemy like a beetle and then killing the entire map through Gasoline stacking on the enemies multiple times, as both its power AND its range increase with each stack, and each dead enemy adds one more stack onto the yet-to-be-barbecue'd ones.
I love playing with the command artifact so far. I no longer have to get a bunch of trash items that I don't want. The only downside is that you have to pick the item, which makes you stop for a moment. I have been playing with Acrid the last couple of days and this is what I like to get for Acrid. Most of the white items that were mentioned are great to get in the order that was mentioned. However, I like to get 1 Will O' the Wisp because I can poison everything and the explosion kills everything nearby. It is great for getting rid of groups of enemies. Then, I like 1 Razorwire because I can poison and now I don't even have to touch most enemies. They kill themselves and with Will O' the Wisp, it kills everything else. I like to add a ukulele or two to chain the damage and a hopoo feather for getting around easier and attacking flying enemies easier. Maybe throw in some ATG launchers and the rest is extra.
I also like the only ceremonial daggers and crowbars build, works best with artificer or loader, basically you get crit, movility and defensive items and all the whites after that to crowbars, for greens you want to have the equipment with high uptime to kill the first enemy in later stages and sink all in will o wisps, and reds you choose daggers.
I like to stack as many fuel cells and gestures as possible, then use the royal capacitor as the main damage. Then keep stacking health increases (like brooches, etc.) For the legendary priority, I like to get the aegis, then ceremonial dagger, and shattering justice
i think an interesting item that most survivors should be taking at least a couple of (especially merc) is bandoliers, cause a fair few of the survivors are effectively ability based, namely merc and loader, so having your main damage ability up more often definitely helps
Yeah, a few stacks of Bandolier or Brainstalks are essential if you want to survive during a long Merc run.
My favorite build as of late is a Gesture/Blast Shower build to give me a permanent uptime on the bands, then play double rebar mul-t.
I like something similar to ultra tank with little diciple, lots of crit + scythes, n'kuhana's, fireworks, and ceremonial daggers. Rose bucklers for extra survivability, red whips (yes, I know) and energy drinks for speed, and proc chains for extra damage are optional. The whole point is to run around at mach 5, opening chests and whatnot, and just allowing passive damage to kick in. Works best with huntress, but merc comes close, as they can both Sprint attack.U
Heres my version of the build:
"The build" but with alien head or soulbound catalyst instead of 57 leaf clover bc huntress glaive hits so many times that proc chains are basically guaranteed even without the use of clovers -also I don't have clover unlocked-
(Infinite)x Will o' the Wisps
(Infinite)x Backup Magazines
(Infinite)x Bandoliers
Actual legend.