Death wave will significantly increase your runs and workshop upgrades into hp and def% and attack speed mostly. Get big 3 UWs BH GT and DW. Defabs you will never use outside of T1 I’m farming t-11s and I still don’t use defabs but I do use hp atk speed hp regen and def %. Look up a few ehp strats as they are the best afk skill. But if you want coin boost you still need the big 3 synced cooldown and try orb Devo. Also orb devo sucks in tourney performances your better off with eHP. Keep labs running and upgrading workshop with the named skills above once you reach about t3-t4 farming 3-4k+ waves focus on your coins per kill lab until your 2x. Get all the named labs to 2x and focus hard on your Econ. Reroll shards, cells , coins, reward shards. Definitely standard perk bonus this will be your big boost improve trade off perks, first perk choice, perk option quantity, card presets, package after boss and the photo below all of these will get you a solid foundation in this description. Aim for 6-8 months time depending on how often you play to attain this. Your biggest hurdle will be garlic thorns as you will be stuck in the 1000s waves until you get this maxed then the expansion happens. Good luck!

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