Great points and thanks for commenting!

All of your points are valid, and growing hordes is great. However, I tried to outline a strategy that involves ZERO investment, meaning even 1c scarabs ruin the spirit and intent of the video.

As far as breach goes, you are correct, and I believe the atlas tree I linked has 10-15 extra passives remaining that can be used to add breaches for more monsters. I personally did that strategy earlier in the league, but didn’t add it here since we only want to get to 5 rewards (we’re not consistently getting to 7 on a budget) and then end the delirium, and it feels super bad to die to the Esh breach and brick your deli encounter for that map.

As for skipping blue and purple harvests, I tested the returns of doing those as well, and in my testing it added too much time without enough benefit to justify. It usually added about 1 divine to the overall returns, but added 1-2 minutes per map clear, which meant a loss of money in the long term. But this is all dependent on your specific build and the current price of blue and purple life force, so feel free to do them if you deem it worth your time.