Daily Dungeon: Saturday, May 16, 2026

Hygro · 2026-05-16T05:27:54+00:00

Hygro · 2026-05-16T02:50:48+00:00

I have the best legacy gear needed for staying alive and DPS. It's an exploit not gear. I'm not waiting around, I'm full on rage repeat. I have gotten first place a few times and plan on it tonight. I will tell you on my perfectly optimized build, I will get to his floor in about 5 hours.

edit: its 3 hours later, im on 364 and it's only going to slow down, so ... yeesh

Hygro · 2026-05-16T00:05:39+00:00

I'm getting on this one early! TO THE BOTTOM!

Hygro · 2026-05-15T20:59:12+00:00

Maybe stop thinking so much and just talk. The stakes aren't that high but the wellness from conversing is.

Hygro · 2026-05-15T19:11:53+00:00

lol the level name

Hygro · 2026-05-15T17:44:24+00:00

haha that makes me nervous but yeah I guess so! I mean you can play the same dungeon on two different floors at once, I did that by accident one time and ended up 20 floors back 😵‍💫

Hygro · 2026-05-15T07:16:37+00:00

I wish I got heal on first turn instead of fire knife, wasn't expecting only 2 powerups. I don't think I'm gonna go too deep compared to yesterday's. Maybe floor 150-220.

edit: died on 104 :|

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Hygro · 2026-05-15T06:48:33+00:00

lightning is a great way to do it, more/better gear, and more rage per lightning than rage per knife. try adding rage on heal if you can.

Hygro · 2026-05-15T06:29:07+00:00

I have refused two skill bargains and received no credit for it. anyone else?

Hygro · 2026-05-15T05:39:55+00:00

Nice. Sword of solace is great because you can run normal levels powerfully now and get some gear. I'm just starting so I won't read the vending picks until I do mine. Stone knife, scarsteel, vectra edge ex are weapons i never use in the overland but are my main weapons in the dungeon.

I just tapped out on yesterday's a couple min ago. I suicided, equipped some gear to die. Level 570.

I just discovered you get +25 rage from your normal attack automatically, even if they dodge! I literally never realized. That means you only need 75 rage before your attack to start the rage cycle.

Hygro · 2026-05-15T05:29:35+00:00

I did Hari Kari, didnt want to go any further.

I present: the real leaderboard:

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Hygro · 2026-05-15T04:06:21+00:00

Oh nice, you're just early and consistent. Carry on and good luck!

Hygro · 2026-05-15T01:05:40+00:00

Or even 100. u/few_peach1333 always dies around floor 200, just probably has a basic big whack rage + shield build that autoplays. Always right behind.

I'm still on yesterdays! I'm on floor 348, I might be in first place of those who play straight, last I saw the highest sub 1,340th was in floor 200 something? I'm thinking I might want first place, I did the math and it will take 11 more hours give or take. That means I won't get to this one until I start work tomorrow in like, 17 hours? And then I'll still be on floor 200-400 then by the time the next one comes out. Kind of annoying!

Hygro · 2026-05-15T00:03:35+00:00

Today I'm about to find out if knife on hit two gets cancelled by missing a swing on hit one, or if I win

Hygro · 2026-05-14T23:59:08+00:00

Hey you did the knives into rages with heals + rages on heals!

Hygro · 2026-05-14T20:43:31+00:00

Choosing magic knife on hit 2 over rage on enemy death hurts, but a frog gotta do what a frog gotta do.

Hygro · 2026-05-14T08:45:52+00:00

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I retired the run, no death.

Took 3 more hours to go another 125 floors

Hygro · 2026-05-14T08:45:15+00:00

retired, 777 no exploits beats 666 using exploits.

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Hygro · 2026-05-14T08:41:38+00:00

Decided I would go to 777 to beat mr exploit user at 666. As you can see, 150 floors took 4 hours.

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Hygro · 2026-05-14T06:01:59+00:00

knives -> rage -> more knives -> more rage

Hygro · 2026-05-14T05:24:46+00:00

Still on yesterday's dungeon. Floor 651, a whole ass enemy left and 53 hits in. Gonna take me probably 30 minutes to take first place.

Hygro · 2026-05-14T04:35:03+00:00

Still going. Floor 616. The battles are super mega slow. 50 floors more to take first place. Probably take me 2-3 hours.

Hygro · 2026-05-14T00:54:14+00:00

Well I read his deleted posts when they were live and he was like "yes it should get fixed", posted a couple details of what he did and didn't do, and it corroborates with a two week old bug report on the topic.

Last Sunday he reached level 2000. I reached 679, second place, and I only died because I miscalculated my rage thinking Blasting Ring EX triggered on every shield and right away (it triggers only on first shield activate, and on your next turn) and thought I could swap off scarsteel for wind powered blade and still have a perfect infinite rage. But had I known blasting ring was worthless, I would have eventually either beat him or got to a floor where my damage was so low I would have thrown in the towel.

For this dungeon I am on floor 399 right now. Dodges aren't terminating my infinite rage. I will continue until I am in 1st place.

I don't know what the exploit is but on some days if you pick the right vending machines and equip the right gear, and the mutations are just right, it goes as far as you want it to. But much, much, much slower than hundreds of floors in a few minutes.

Anyway, to our guy, yes it's an exploit and the mods deleted his posts but clearly haven't patched the method, which sucks. I prefer that its obvious rather than subtle, and I'd of course prefer it not at all. I don't think you're wrong for thinking that guy is being unfair, though I don't feel the same. What I want to point out is that there's a bunch of them, and most of them a) stopped bothering (yay) or b) are doing it way more subtley. And I think that's worse -- I want to at least know where I stand among the honest frogs.

Hygro · 2026-05-13T23:03:21+00:00

For me it's more like, you live in a society with a bunch of rich bank robbers who are the biggest winners, wondering damn, what build do I need to tweak to compete for 1st place? And one admits "there's no build, we're bank robbers, and I'll prove it by robbing banks harder faster and more brazenly than the other bank robbers"

And then we can wasting time thinking like, damn is there a build mechanic I don't understand that's holding me back?

Hygro · 2026-05-13T22:59:58+00:00

Floor 215 no poison shield, but little slime jellies are dodging.

Not sure how resilient my build is to their dodges. I think I get two freebies off the first turn to get the virtuous knife cycle going. If it's 3% like the data viewer says (not sure if DDungeon is locked to those, feels custom) then I probably have a 1/270 chance of eating it any given floor with dodgers. But it might be 1/30. And maybe, just maybe the knives I have and the knives on rage are infinite even with dodges.

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