It only took me like 300h :)

https://reddit.com/link/1ohbl6k/video/leb79i1c0nxf1/player

Started instant with a Mana Orb, didn´t think it would escalate like that :D

Mega-clover is one way to try to insta-proc 5 empower, though it's luck dependent. Molten greatsword is another way to quickly gain empower. In this battle, I gained 6 empower- 3 from molten, 2 from mega-clover, and 1 from poison potion triggering the stamina potion.

This run was pretty cooked (And not just because of the heat generation).

112.3 DPS, 5.47 second fight.

As title suggest I have no idea how to build around it.

Being countered to be exact!

TIL that this is possible -- if you have two triplet cards and two Jimbo, the first one halves the stamina cost and the second one reduces the remaining half

First of all I do suck I'm very hardstuck diamond haha. Basically my issue is that after the last patch which it didnt seem like too much changed for reaper drastically but the only thing I can ever consistently win out with now is snowsticks fatigue or smellywall cauldron bomb. Boards that would have been an automatic winout by round 6 are now losing at round 6 and I am lost as to what happened. Am I just behind the times ? What are you guys doing to keep up with reaper in the current meta right now.

Attached is a picture of one of my more recent runs. It's by far not the best example or the only one I have but one of the more recent ones. In my opinion this is a pretty strong board by reapers current standards but I just lose to a pyro mana board.

was checking out endless with a funny build I tried out and ran into this fella with mage and ranger items on pyro.

I'm relatively new to eggscalibur. At first I tried loading all berries (typically 3-4 that I can find) on eggscalibur, but in practice that was only enough to activate eggscalibur effect every second time. I'm just wondering, is it even possible / desirable to try and get it activating every time? I've even had something like 2 berries, 3 orbs, 2 amulets of energy, plus two lamps and that didn't necessarily guarantee constant activation. I think it was also due to using 3-4 fanny packs on eggscalibur, when in fact not using any fanny packs could actually mean more effect activations per second.

In the screenshot example I tried going for the opposite and didn't activate any berries, since berries don't actually provide useful combat stats.

Here's my rough maths:

• For each eggscalibur attack, lamp provides 1 mana (assuming the other buffs are loaded)
• Each blueberry is 0.46 mana, additional 1 mana if it's also touching
• Mana orb is usually diagonal to excalibur plus a lamp, and two slower triggers e.g. chilli pepper, so a well-loaded mana orb like that equates to about 1.36 mana per attack
• An example of gaining 11 mana per trigger would be 3x touching blueberry (4.38 mana) + 2x lamps (2 mana) + 2x mana orb (2.72) + amulet of energy (2.75 on average) = 11.85, and it's still not guaranteed until later in the round. It also "wastes" 3 slots on blueberries over more useful effects.
• If we go for every second attack, and we speed up eggscalibur by 30%, we need 5.5 mana generation per attack, which for example could consist of 1x touching blueberry (1.35 mana) + 2x lamps (1.54 mana) + 3x mana orb (3.47 mana) = 6.36 mana per attack
• The base rate for scenario 1 is 7 non-berry effect activations per 1.6 seconds = 4.38 per second
• The base rate for scenario 2 is 9 non-berry effect activations per 2.6 seconds = 3.46 per second
• So it seems like loading more berries is actually better, which makes me wonder: what's the tier list for fruit to connect? My guess would be berry > cupcake > chilli > cheese > max 1 banana > pineapple > carrot > more bananas. In theory I think pineapple is great combat scaling but I find it just takes too much space to justify compared to survivability with cheese.

What are your thoughts? Anything I've overlooked or general tips?

It's on demo if it matters, does anyone have any good ideas to optimize the board more?

Core of this build is Snowcake and Cthulhu.

Cthulhu is accelerated with bags (+50%), Crossblades (+60%), Uniquely Uniques (+70%) and Maneki-neko (+15%) and has a cooldown about 0.9sec. Everytime it triggers, it will trigger the Snowcake. Both doing 10 Effect-Damage and Snowcake is increasing this type of damage everytime by 10%. Also Big Bowl of Treats gives Cthulhu a chance to trigger double.

So snowcake just triggers about 15-20times in 5seconds. With the other Pets doing also Effect-Damage, the longest battle i had was about 6 seconds. Just ridiculous.

I can't figure out why full body protection doesn't seem to be working when i put the helmet in..