Coffins, Arcana, and Levels, oh my!
We Return to Gallo Tower with Lama today, to complete the Coffin on this map and unlock Concetta. We also gain the Slash Arcana, by reaching level 50 with Lama. Because we use Lama here, we end up taking on Gallo Tower with a respectable +50% curse, which makes for a wild time!
The Build
Character: Lama
Default Weapon: Axe
Bonus Stat: +5% Might, Move Speed, and Curse every 10 levels (20% max)
Weapon Picks
Default: Axe
2: Cross
3: Runetracer
4: Laurel
5: Ebony Wings
6: Peachone
7: Lightning Ring
Secondary Picks
1: Empty Tome
2: Attractorb
3: Candellabrador
4: Armor
5: Duplicator
6: Spinach
7: [Map Pickup] Bracer
Evolved Weapons
We end up with Death Spiral, NO FUTURE, Vandalier (combined Ebony Wings & Peachone), Thunder Loop, Zhar Ptytsia, and Cygnus in the end. The last two (Zhar and Cyg) are alternates brought out by one of the arcana we end up getting. We are using Arcana IV and I in this run, and it is Arcana I - Gemini - that provides us these counterparts... which fairly dramatically increase our damage.
The Strategy
Well, Gallo Tower is hard at the best of times and we foolishly choose to bring Lama in, so by the end of this map we're on 50% curse and there's a TON of enemies... but that's okay, because Lama wrecks everything... and because we manage to pull Gemini Arcana, which is probably the clutch item to this build.
Getting this map's coffin was a bit tricky - apparently, sometimes the "door" into the mirror we're looking for is slightly off-center, so you have to kind of bump and grind on the wall to find the right spot to get in... which threw me off the first time we found the mirror!
We relied on weapon cooldown, the shielding Laurel, and attractorb for most of this run. Duplicator also came in handy. With a high Curse in Gallo Tower, you really have to focus on managing packs, so the AOE of Peachone and Ebony wings was super important in the early section of this map.
As soon as we could, we completed our Axe upgrade to get a bit of additional knockback with Death Spiral, and at nearly the same time we found our second Arcana - Gemini - which probably saved this run honestly. Once we had Gemini, it was a fairly easy task to simply keep going until we'd upgraded as many of our weapons as we could (which ended up being all but Cross), and playing out the 30m of time on this level.
Until next time friends, Happy Gaming!
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