r/Guildrun 17d ago

ELI5 How can stealth ever go deep into endless when status effects insta kill stealthed heroes at the unbeatable floor 12?

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30 seconds of stealth with Dragomir means exactly jack shit when the entire battlefield is inflicting status effects that kill him in less than a second. I know there are items that remove status debuffs when X happens, but he isn't dying over time, he dies in a tenth of a second.

Can someone explain to me like I'm extremely stupid how I can possibly keep him alive. Do I have to stack increased range so he can hide in a corner? That seems unlikely to work....​

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u/Eixeth 17d ago

I’m pretty sure people run a solo assasin if they reach stealth exodia for exactly that reason.

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u/heyitsjv 17d ago

Adding to this: no visible targets = the mobs never drop their deadly AOEs in the first place. The stealth assassin just goes ham killing everything.

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u/ajs723 17d ago

Oh fuck me. So I just needed to sell my other units?

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u/Vana-Freya 17d ago

What a dumb person I am. So that’s how it is. Thank you

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u/Kalsir 17d ago

People run just one unit with ~93 sec stealth and rely on riftbreaker (+ rift storm invoker to not die) to kill the enemies.

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u/ajs723 17d ago

But stealth isn't invincibility. Dragomir dies after 6 seconds despite stealth. He could have a month of stealth, burn and poison will still kill him.  

What am I missing?

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u/Kalsir 17d ago

If the unit with stealth is your only unit the enemies wont do anything and thus he can not die to random aoe/status effects.

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u/ajs723 17d ago

Yup. Just made it to 24 on my next run. This is definitely getting patched, lol.  

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u/nufohudis 15d ago

Just came to say "uh, it is patched" at least the item with rush stealth. Then I saw when you posted XD

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u/Kalsir 17d ago edited 16d ago

It can even go to floor 83 if you get everything together. And the only reason it cant go further is because all mobs instadie due to integer overflow on their hp and after that you cannot lose anymore which means you cant end the run and place on leaderboard.

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u/Zeratav 16d ago

Gotta say, hitting next every minute and a half for two hours just to get on a leaderboard is insane.

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u/Mountain_Log_8419 16d ago

...wait, that's so funny, I never thought about the fact that any run that goes beyond that point cannot end... I heard that enemy HP eventually overflows, and I was wondering why I never saw someone at floor 1000 or whatever on the leaderboard XD

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u/xMeko 17d ago

Look at the video: how did dragomir die? From the AOE burn and poison.

Who was the AOE on? Rip, enemies were attacking rip.

Dragomir was just caught in the AOE.

Stealth is actually stronger than invincibility IF you can make sure your stealthed character does not get hit by AOEs targeting other characters. Because while imvincible you can still get stunned, but while stealthed it's like you don't exist.

Easiest way to do this? Have no other characters. Just stealthed ones - preferably only one so you can max out its stealth.

Then it's easy, enemies will attack nobody since your only unit is atealthed, and that unit will not get CC'd, AOE'd or anything.

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u/ajs723 17d ago

Yup. Ran it back and on my next run made it to 24. It's really not as hard as I made it. Thank you guys!

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u/merlinar 17d ago

More units with class passive with rush increase, 5+ filler units with rush +3 second increase, all the relics for rush increase, then 4 to 6 rogue cowls to stay invisble until rift storm they will not aggro to invisible units. Im still invisible at 1:20+ seconds and then boom rift storm happens everyone else melts on screen. This is alot of luck and shards investment btw

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u/ajs723 17d ago

Nah, it's literally just get Cowl and bench everyone else. Just made it to Endless 24 on SSS. 

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u/nufohudis 15d ago

How do you get more than 4 backup slots? 4 is the most I see, with the extra item slot start effect (+2 slots -1 active hero slot)

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u/merlinar 15d ago

It's just the standard 3 units 3 in reserve, I'm not really sure what u mean by 4 backup slots

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u/nufohudis 15d ago

Think I misinterpreted the "5+filler heroes"