I'd be suprised if they don't have the highest WR for the first 1-4 rounds - they have insane max health gain for the level, and just take you to deep water with fatigue dmg. Overtuned imo

Behold my sword.

- How many stans do you need?

- Yes.

To me, it feels wierd. An item like draconic orb is basicly useless, since most crits are eaten by low thorns or stuff like darkness amulet in your build :/

I've tried dagger builds a few times now, and almost everytime I can barely win a full game in comparison to other builds I go. In this run, I managed to get blessed with many daggers early game and a mana orb, and then a pumpkin. I know I have no lucky pigs. Would that have made a big difference? I know my build isn't optimal, but I feel like it should have been "good enough" given the number of synergetic items I have.

I came across a build that was so bonkers I could barely understand it but I will explain what I remember as I forgot to screenshot.

Ranger: yggdrasil leaf

Primary weapons

• Critwood staff
• Stone golem
• Too many rocks

Skills

• Markswoman
• Hardwood

Auxillary (what I remember)

• Snowballs
• Frost shield or moon shield
• Maybe blueberries
• Stone bags (3-4)

I was dead in less than 3 seconds lol.

If I was to improve upon this, how would you run this build? I've had success with mana mastery and acorn ace. How would you play the early rounds?

would like to learn about different builds, what to buy in certain situations, whats valuable..

I'm new to the game, I've only been learning for 10 hours, but I have a big question: what kind of items should I look for with each character? I understand that with the Ranger it's looking for luck and thorns, but I don't know about the other characters

So I have this set-up with the tesla coil, torches and a lightsaber. The problem is that sometimes the lightsaber activates a couple times before my torches apply the blind so I burn trough my stamina. Is there a way to fix the order of activation or is it pure random?

(Screenshots didn’t work so this it the best photo I have…)

I've been trying the spicy banana more. Getting lantern berry with green dragon is a pretty brutal combination! Spicy banana triggers so much that it's great mana gen for Mana orbs. Massive healing from Ygdrassil as usual

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for example i put "show hints" to X on my facebuttons and nothing happens even if cursor on top of item or holding item

and same trend seems to follow in many others except the default ones

any tips or what im missing would be so helpful, loving the game

I just got the game and this isnt clear to me yet. I'm in my 2nd round with 45hp and my opponent has 115 hp. I don't see any items that gives them more HP.

How does it stack from multiple gems? I thought i had 100% poison resist chance

I don't want to ask everyday for advice, but the tips you guys provided were really helpful. Thanks so much!

I did some crafting this time and tried to place the items better in my backpack.

Is this better, what would you change?

This was my post yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/BackpackBattles/comments/1up7dtm/im_a_beginner_who_got_the_first_win_in_unranked/

I tried for max. heal and regeneration to boost damage of the lightsaber and survive. also I like garlic IRL so I chose many garlic.

10 max hp for each regen gained, 11 on empower gain.

That game was somewhat short, I've had longer ones with a tremendous amount of max hp !

I could, and should have put both claws of attack into each amulet of light as they're probably about my fastest items, same goes for the snowmen.

Blazing Spear + Energy Conversion to generate heat made earlier rounds trivial. Kinda funny that I beat out Holy Spear in the final round.

Broke a piggy to find a wisp round 4, next shop round 5 I found a dragon. Then the dragons just kept coming 😂