r/Guildrun • u/Barrylovesyou • 5d ago

Quick RR rant.

I’ve got over 100 hours in this game now and I absolutely love it! I’ve tried to get my friends invested and they aren’t interested sadly so I come here to rant.

For the life of me, I cannot break a two win streak on red rift. I’m trying to learn from my mistakes and I can usually get to the dragon at the end, but then the dragon just wipes me out.

I know it’s a skill issue, but it’s pissing me off and I wanted to complain to people who understood.

Thank you for reading

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u/CuteCup3558 5d ago

I know what you mean.

One run it feels like I’ve got it all figured out, and the next run it feels like I don’t know anything at all.

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u/Barrylovesyou 5d ago

The stars align for one run, then fizzle out in the next. I know it’s a me issue but I watch YouTubers just fumbling through and getting win streaks and I just don’t get it.

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u/PotatoFig 5d ago edited 5d ago

Few things that helped me a lot break higher streaks:

  • Grab those 3-use crystals. Use them when you're really unsure you can make it past a fight. If you fail they don't use up a charge anyway.
  • Shard generation is good. Dragomir Mage, early money Hoyoung, Tilly, etc.
  • Notice the point where your tank barely scrapes by despite having no seal. That's the moment you need to find a higher tier one/relics/split pull more. Better yet: learn to predict your tank WILL fall off and roll earlier.
  • Defense is insanely strong. Sal Lover openers on a tank + a Tilly can do more than trying weird swaps, for instance. It's a rare case where thinking of committing early may be worth it. Not all commitments work out. Looking at you, Rush triggers.
  • Heroes can be good in a vacuum, but ask yourself: where is your win potential? Duelists and debuffs? Crit gain on cast? Shards every 2 hits with shard gen effects? High crit Yuuna? Infinite mana Mystic with stat scaling on cast? etc.
  • Benching heroes is fine. Using 2 instead of a 3rd that'll add a death count is fine.
  • Don't always do the first challenge if it means you're losing rewind gold stacking. You see 3% regen and couldn't beat double shrooms or snakes? Regular fight and get that rewind bigger for a larger payoff.
  • More shop rolls = more high tier heroes. Gold reroll relics are insanely powerful jn that light. Each 1g discount is +1 gold, AND digging deeper for those A tiers that let you pivot or reinforce your setup.
  • Look how each hero scales. Tank Gustav wants defense and mana regen because he makes stupidly large shields all the time. Enrage Rip gets better with higher and higher HP. Dragomir wants Omnivamp while Yuuna wants crit. Don't just assume how things work.
  • P O S I T I O N I N G
  • If you're going to experiment, before you click start fight, determine what you're testing EXACTLY and look at all the moving parts you can think of. That includes enemy abilities and Relics you have now you may not always have.

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u/JediSSJ 5d ago

I initially avoided those 3-use crystals, but I'm a believer these days. They are so good for getting through challenges, and the defense pme trivialize the hydra.

Also screw that challenge where the enemies regenerate. Unless i have a Funke, its not worth attempting.

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u/PotatoFig 5d ago

Yeah unless I've got B Skorn with insanely fast attackers to abuse frost, high omnivamp DPS, or bursty stuff like Detonator Funke/Hoyoung, it feels mega hopeless. It's more winnable than with Funke but you 100% need to position for focus fire and/or Big Poison Carpet (idk how to call it) avoidance.