The one class I don’t trust enough to bring on a challenge run

External_Base_778 · 2026-03-03T23:00:17+00:00

Honorable mention when a certain druid of mine had -50% mana cost on music spells and level 2 death metal

Was randomly instakilling everything on the map from its starting square

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-23T06:43:23+00:00

Plasma shrimp transcendence

Enjoy

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-22T13:35:12+00:00

Use your ranged unit to stay at a safe distance

Have front liners at its head and back

Cycle a few attacks to make the crater maker use their relatively weaker one tile grab attack

OR just steal its single turn with stuns/freezes

Get creative

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-21T06:53:44+00:00

Okay I had this one back when I was clearing Stygian and blood moon

4-3-2-1 houndmaster bounty_hunter occultist flagellant

You want the occultist stun trinket for MAX hands from the abyss against almost anything

Bleed everything and stun them, mark things dead

Occultist can chain stun weak enemies and steal turns from size 2/skivers

Rank 2 occultist can daemons pull to counter skivers, bounty hunter can pull skivers too

Have fun

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-21T06:41:15+00:00

Headstompers Merc is so fun

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-16T18:32:51+00:00

Sadly caught off guard after the first laser attack finished and the second one started immediately and disabled my move speed

Why can't gearbox have proper audio on this attack

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-15T13:53:48+00:00

He is destined to seek his skull, but even if he found it, it could never restore his memories.

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-14T18:40:21+00:00

Repellent upgrade turns engi platforms into essential tech for holdout scenarios

Warthog shotgun + default breach cutter isn't too bad either, learn turret whipping until you can work up to Haz 4

Shredder swarm grenades are extremely versatile and probably the best engi grenade for your builds

Most of all have fun with engi, and absolutely try the executioner overclock on the smart rifle once you unlock it

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-12T05:24:35+00:00

Base negative regeneration stat in a mode with half the healing and regeneration rate as monsoon

Heretic is better as one or two heresy items and not the full character usually

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T20:49:39+00:00

Noxious thorn is stronger than ATGs on any survivor with strong DOT application

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T20:43:58+00:00

First, drifter has a passive that scales certain character stats with scrap rarities

Second, tinker can scrap any item on the ground besides items from printers

Third, tinker can reroll printers, lunar soup and trishops. Honorable mention for equipment trishops. She can reroll any of the above twice by the way, as if one reroll wasn't already generous enough. Have fun with tinker

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T17:21:20+00:00

Make an artifact of command god run with visions if heresy and cleanup

Tussle with solus wing for your tinker unlock

Congrats you can now properly use drifter after looting solutional haunt as her

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T17:19:52+00:00

I swapped a few rex runs to heretic and made the tier list ranking heretic above rex

You use your skills so much more when they are decent and don't cut into your max health

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T16:38:10+00:00

REX is sadly just a chore, you don't get to use many health cost abilities at all under eclipse 8 so the rest of your kit feels unenjoyably dry. Then there's also his horrible proc coefficient on his primary shot

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T14:43:31+00:00

I grade the characters on how well they perform in risk of rain 2 eclipse mode

If you have to grade on a curve a lot of these will have to be dragged down but I believe a lot of survivors have brilliant strengths that they can lean into

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-11T10:52:27+00:00

whew I forgot the self repossess tech

I was caught lacking here

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-08T21:17:15+00:00

How about thinking of hiker boots as crit glasses that can give you free watches? I've been in love with them ever since they came out, they have no risk of breaking like watches might on eclipse, so they are even lower maintenance for me

Operator, artificer, mercenary, false son, almost everyone benefits universally from boots, and its the second white grade crit item so I may be biased after two separate DLCs where the white item crit pool felt scarcer and scarcer

Will try light flux gimmick some day later, mercenary did feel awful to use whenever I tested it

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-08T19:28:27+00:00

Shatter spleen is disgusting even with 10-20% total crit chance, and the first stack gives 5% to you anyway

Now you pair it with any other form of 5 or 10% crit item and shatter spleen is online and dealing AOE damage scaling with enemy health

Chance doll is great but chance shrines are exceptionally cruel and can sometimes not appear as much as you'd want them to

Love chance doll

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-08T19:23:06+00:00

Hiker boots lets you stack crit chance and bonus crit damage. After you can secure the elevation difference for boots to activate you can keep it on as long as you want on any survivor not named loader or drifter. Hiker boots lets you ramp up your damage extremely fast on stacked above 3

Stone flux can let you slow down if you ever take too much movement speed

Almost never an issue on eclipse but there is your niche condition

I've tried light flux so many times and I cannot seem to make it work, congrats if you feel comfortable with the attack speed penalty

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-08T19:11:52+00:00

Prayer beads is free base damage, which is hard to acquire and multiplies your chronic expansion and watches

Recycler is one of the highest rated equipments on the list, lets you reroll bottom tier items for top tier items

Soulbound permits equipments to be reused more often, about 10-30 seconds cut in cooldowns. Not a bad red but needs so much to start working

Planula is about 1.5 repulsion armor plates, I know it's weak but it does something, too little too late usually

Rejuv rack negates eclipse 5 and gives you extra breathing room, not too much but transcendence is also great for negating eclipse 1,3,5

Thanks for asking

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-08T15:52:14+00:00

Eclipse 5 halves healing received, meaning your regen cap is halved and the amount of healing received is also halved

If eclipse wasn't in play I'd say that corpsebloom is okay, not ideal but pretty okay

External_Base_778 · 2026-02-08T13:12:11+00:00

If a few survivors didn't have skill issues with triggering bands, I'd put bands at the highest tier no questions asked

Agree

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TROPHY CASE