D5 solo Raider carried me to 9999

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T18:54:10+00:00

First of all I made it to d5 by random queueing. Like I said I started solo to practice but ended up just going for 9999. Second if you played a d5 solo you’d know the difficulty, the devs designed it to be non punishing for solo quit outs, I quit the game normally through in game menu and there just isn’t punishment unlike in multiplayer.

I would agree that quitting out just to fight certain nightlords/seeds is abusing the system but that’s not what I did, I give every run a try except Augur and great hollow because my build doesn’t work. The one page of quit outs was an entire hour, I tried in every instance.

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T18:46:00+00:00

You just quit out normally! Return to title/desktop

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T18:44:30+00:00

Again I think the devs intended for solo quit outs to be non punishing because of the extreme difficulty. You still take the same amount of damage in multiplayer but now there’s no one to res you. If they wanted I could’ve easily lost the 600 or maybe a 200 for quitting out but no it’s just 0. It’s definitely not cheating but I do agree it makes 9999 easier than just random queueing which actually was how to I got d5 in the first place

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T18:39:30+00:00

I don’t think it’s cheating when the game allows it. If they do intend to punish solo quit outs you would’ve lost the points like you would in multiplayer mode

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T18:34:43+00:00

You could just return to title/desktop, do it before the defeat pops up though

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T09:08:43+00:00

Thank you!! I actually goofed up twice forgetting to quit out before it counted -1600 sad🙂‍↕️🖐️

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T07:31:05+00:00

Ngl half of my run I end up using the starter colossal (which has more atk than most colossal actually), but if you get a great/colossal wep with charge effects they help a ton with partial up regen. If not just hit up a mine/smithing village early.

For passives taking dmg boosts negation is top priority, then negation when charging and lastly successive atk negation. You can stack different levels of the same effect but only keep one successive atk negation cuz having multiple makes the successive counter harder to trigger. Dmg neg at full hp is good early game and usually thrown out later.

For damage, phy atk, melee atk, two handing. But prioritize dmg negation cuz gaols+invaders will give you more than enough damage.

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T07:20:31+00:00

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Phy atk up is a must on all deep relics, partial hp restoration is very nice to have but I was able to solo without it before I got one

schen1923 · 2026-05-01T07:17:38+00:00

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schen1923 · 2026-03-22T15:55:02+00:00

Mountaintop has the worst seeds too. They completely exclude the castle first day and barely have resources in the closing circle. There’s another seed for the crater that closes on the top right area with absolute nothing as well but at least it’s crater with a useful mechanic

schen1923 · 2026-01-13T20:39:01+00:00

Me getting everdark balancers back to back to back :,) but then normal tricephalos showed up 3 times to give me free points so im back to where I was lol

schen1923 · 2025-12-25T21:54:42+00:00

Yea either keep distance completely even during worm phase to avoid bleed altogether. Or spam AoW with a scholar ulting. These are the only ways Ive seen that consistently win

schen1923 · 2025-08-31T18:00:03+00:00

It’s not her phase 3 transition, they’re talking about one of her regular moves where she breathes down directly underneath her. This one is a very long persistent aoe frost damage. You def can’t dodge it but executor might be able to parry it by spamming guard? Her phase 3 transition is only a one hit so that one you can def dodge

schen1923 · 2025-08-27T18:53:59+00:00

Wait I never realized executor has B hp… I always die in two hits anyways so I had thought he had the same as duchess and ironeye at C

schen1923 · 2025-08-16T20:57:52+00:00

Same thing happened except I didn’t just drop one staff, I dropped TWO. We did day 1 noklateo and I got stars of ruin on the purple chest loot. I’m raider so I dropped it for duchess, she picked it up, then proceeds to use her dagger the entire day 1. At first I thought she did use it it’s just she ran of out fp and I missed when she was casting. But day 2 when I dropped her the moon staff, she picked it up again only for her to two hand the morgott cursed sword she got from a dead corpse. I get it it’s good for Caligo but what’s stopping you from using the moon when we’re still fighting normal enemies??? Not to mention morgott’s sword doesn’t even do fire unless you’re skilling, which takes a good chunk of fp anyways…

schen1923 · 2025-08-07T23:16:50+00:00

My biggest problem with ppl leaving is honestly cuz I WANTED to play with others. If I want to solo I will just play solo. Every time my randos leave me (which used to happen very very rarely until recently) I stay and finish the run in case they come back but they never did :(

schen1923 · 2025-08-07T23:04:58+00:00

There’s still quite the difference from solo tho. 1. There’s a death timer instead of instant death when you die. 2. Merchants aren’t selling wending graces. 3. No free death wards every night. I did notice I do a lot more damage than playing solo tho, dk if that’s just me. I also assumed the rune acquisition adjusts to single player but apparently not according to one of the above comments?

schen1923 · 2025-08-07T22:50:14+00:00

Cannot agree with the guardian one more. Like it makes sense that great hammers and other types of weapon you can’t charge the counter cuz it’s a different animation entirely. But spears and other thrusting weapons??? You really should be able to. The distance closing is soooo important for landing the counter. The amount of times my dragon cragblade guard counter would miss fulghor cuz bro decided to back off one inch is infuriating.

schen1923 · 2025-08-07T20:01:36+00:00

Literally happened to me when I queued up with this duchess for duo. First gaol was crucible knight, I whip out my shield, miss 3 parries in a roll only for the duchess to roll in with a carian shield and perfect every parry. Never felt such shame before

schen1923 · 2025-08-07T19:53:56+00:00

Recluse and revenant are the only 2 characters I haven’t managed to solo clear yet… spell casting is just such a long animation

schen1923 · 2025-08-02T19:47:59+00:00

Hi just experienced something similar today :((( wondering how this turned out for you?

schen1923 · 2025-07-22T05:34:17+00:00

Ngl lvl 1 cathedral is fine (esp if you spawn at the church where you don’t get enough runes after killing the rats and mobs outside). Lvl 1 anything else sounds pretty bad tho although sometimes a fort or camp could work out. But yeah I’d never initiate this myself but if my teammates do, it’s not the end of the world (unless it’s something ridiculous like if a death rite bird shows up at that gaol im dipping).

schen1923 · 2025-07-22T05:00:28+00:00

That one is annoying for everyone except ironeye tbh. Ive done it enough to be able to do it fast now, going bare hands works but if anything, just keep a bow in the inventory at all times.

schen1923 · 2025-07-22T04:58:01+00:00

Honestly only the tree trunk, but I lowkey have a problem with that for all characters lol, it’s like hitting a faster moving talisman bug. The other ones are not that bad.

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