DD2 - Elvish Artillery is OP! EAC vs Chaos 8!

Taking a look at one of the over powered builds for Chaos 8 in Dungeon Defenders II! The Elvish Artillery Cannon is a beast of a defense and is on the list of Top Towers for C8 content!
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[@bryanmoyna9715]

You finally made me try this tower, g'damn that thing slaps! its op as hell! Ballistas have been replaced by these.

[@chargerfan1713]

Awesome!! Thank you

[@addon6994]

with water aura combo is nice

[@Rex-The-Wolf]

In c8 grindd, overcharge is MUCH better then critical allocation I got both gilded aswell You can build the catacombs in less the 25 seconds w 4 eac's and a pylon 20 du defence make sure y use overcharge if you do because the huge range is what makes the grind successfull The only bosses that suck are the drakenlord and the siegeroller

[@kirkslayer8946]

Hi Juice! I'm not sure if you remember me or not, most likely not. I was in one of your livestreams back in the day when there were Nightmares (before the Protean Shift update). I am getting back into DD2 after at least a couple of years from not playing, and I was wondering if you could form a playlist of up-to-date guides on DD2. Also, great content! Keep up the great work! :)

[@MrJuicebags]

Not much has changed since the trials update. Lots of additions but same old stuff as far as metas go. You may find that you liked the NM era better :P

[@lucastrindade7386]

hey juice how are you doing?? Im a big fan since the 2015 era when boost aura was the meta with the area explosion mod on the weapon. havent kept of watching your videos and the content is really the best. im actually at floor 200 and would suggest and aprecciate a video of how to deal with flyers properly such as trees for the purple bees but for all of the flyers with the best way! much love from brasil, youre awesome!!

[@MrJuicebags]

reflect beam around the core!

[@tjmiller6573]

Wow I never knew that you could get a nightmare krampous out of regular c8

[@joshbyers9394]

I don't yet have this character, but I'm seriously thinking about getting it. C8 is really giving me a hard time with the spiders. I've tried every combo to try and clear a map, but I can't for the life of me make it past wave 4 :( It's just like my first run through with C2 a few years ago lol, took me a while to get through it, but I did it all with no help making it so much more rewarding.

[@jayandrews4807]

If you have her use ev2 protons with a poison servo def rate servo and def rate shard and the frosty beams shard the overcapped rate means it still crowd controls the poison can combine with earthshatters for easy petrifying and pair that with earth toss on the earthshatter nothings getting by

[@joshbyers9394]

@@jayandrews4807 Yeah I ended up using the weapon mans with poison, earth shatter with knockup and skyguard towers. Turned out to work very well. 9 so far is not as bad as 8, just gotta keep the assassins off me lol. Thanks for the reply :)

[@jayandrews4807]

@@joshbyers9394 we are having the opposite thing I can't get past wave 1 on C9 but I have been able to afk c8 since it dropped

[@nvtoxicity6966]

So outta curiosity if I run a piercer mod on my EAC like you. Does it pierce the Geodes shields? Been noticing them being a issues here and there ricocheting my EAC progectile and nuking itself.

[@MrJuicebags]

Yup, geodes shields are the main purpose of piercer servo.

[@nvtoxicity6966]

@@MrJuicebags thanks. Also if you could kinda explain servos that don't really explain themselves that would be nice cuz idk what some do and I see ppl running them.

[@dudleyboy5327]

is that crit chance/dmg shard you're using on eac better than overcharge ?

[@MrJuicebags]

Depends, do you want aoe damage or single target damage? One is not better than the other, only different.

[@dudleyboy5327]

@@MrJuicebags i want to use it as the main dps tower, bcs i'm struggling in some c9 primes using the old fissure setup

[@caw1337]

What exactly make certain Chaos levels "tower meta" or "aura meta", is it just because of the types of enemies that spawn?

[@MrJuicebags]

Yup, DD2 is a game of countering enemies, some enemies are countered by auras, others by towers.

[@franco-golpeador2435]

For example: Chaos 2 and 5 is tower meta 'cuz the cyborks. Chaos 7 is aura meta becuz the kobolts that appear in NORMAL lanes, suck a ton of damage and focus more the towers than the cores themselves. Chaos 8 is tower meta cuz it was enough aura. Seriously, almost all chaos can be steamrolled with good aura set-ups (chaos 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and now 9, it's insane .-.)

[@markdover3825]

Would you kindly demonstrate the potential of skeletal archers compared to EAC in C8?

[@Buddy_Beatz]

He has before. Check his vids. But it looks like hes gonna be doing all of these tower showcases again!

[@MrJuicebags]

Easy, they are beast mode :)

[@tjmiller6573]

They r but I’m worried the nerf is coming soon

[@YoungFree213]

how many prime 1 maps would it take to get the des pylon shard would you say?

[@MrJuicebags]

1 of each, it's guaranteed after clearing the zone

[@YoungFree213]

@@MrJuicebags oh ok, so say have to do all of chrome, bling king and griblock in order to get 1? appreciate all the help

[@mypastlife]

Can you get more then 1 mass destruction? I would really like a second one?

[@cl34nbean51]

yes 1 from mastery other one from doing all the prime 8

[@priority4290]

How much damage are your EAC doing?

[@MrJuicebags]

ENough to face roll C8, ignore tool tip numbers. They have not been accurate for the last 8 years in DD2 sadly.

[@iori79]

Quick question, how to reroll?????? I have been playing this game for around 2 years but I have no luck rerolling mods to get 10/10 tenacity or rate mods. How people is getting the 10/10 mods?????? Thanks for answering!

[@danielisle2542]

They either have good RNG with the drop or with the reroll OR they are hitting the 100 piti pull. Every 100 rerolls, you’re guaranteed a 10/10. That’s 100 rerolls total for any/all mods.

[@StoneyScientist]

ist every 256 rerolls a 10 of 10 mod

[@StoneyScientist]

@@danielisle2542 itx actully 256

[@danielisle2542]

@@StoneyScientist Thanks. I thought 100 was too low. I knew someone would correct me. :-)

[@cris20955105233]

You dont need tenasity mod just use the automation shard

[@user-xk6mm3qz3i]

When is the seas update coming to console?

[@StoneyScientist]

the eac is very nice been usin hem a bunch

[@StoneyScientist]

anf why is the vid so fuzzy?

[@MrJuicebags]

@@StoneyScientist Check your resolution on the little gear wheel, looks normal to me on my end.

[@StoneyScientist]

@@MrJuicebags yeah it did fix itself

[@benceshadowmuzsai1482]

Same method, my left side towers (from spawn if you look)getting boomed all time by fly boomers, no clue why, im literally using every mm i can, to make it work, automation+def rate shards on reflect beam [does it need tenacity10/10 to be good/ don't destroy my turrets or what?] :D

[@Zer0Zinga]

You can just use Automation instead of Tenacity 10 (but for this build I doubt you need either, don't think Hex Throwers pierce the RB like Cyborgs) however RB only protects from projectiles like Hexthrower's spears NOT the flying bombers themselves. I'd recommend putting a random Proton Beam or even the RB if you want down where the stairs start because kobolds will suicide into nodes. What Juicebags showed is you needing to have the perfect setup which is what's bad about EAC's, they require an expensive setup to be viable. Without having some bait for flying kobolds, they will destroy your EAC's.

[@addon6994]

you dont need the 3 node reflect

[@talonrivera4509]

Can’t seem to find how to do the earth shatter pdt afk build

[@jayandrews4807]

Earth toss shard explosive poison almost anything can be used to afk with the right setup

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

Never seen this hero, must've missed a lot since my absence from the game, huh?

[@jayandrews4807]

Not really

[@MarkLomod]

can i use all-mystic buildings in C8?

[@MrJuicebags]

Never a wonderful idea to use all of one thing from any hero. But you can do whatever you want if you throw enough power at it. So if a sub optimal build will work with other heroes mixed in, you would have to have a completely fine tuned all perfect build to do that, but yea, it's possible.

[@Zer0Zinga]

I just place 3 EAC's same as you do but I put 2 PB's for petrify down bellow the stairs. I've run at least 100+ runs and never needed reflect beams. Kobolds suicide into PB's so the only "danger" you got is the other flying mobs and bosses if you don't deal a lot of damage, which you won't. I leave mine at T1 so bosses take a while while everything else dies. It is also a c8 relic (and I use Overcharge over Crit Allocations, the build is too expensive to make them work, I've swapped to skeletal Archers since they're more reliable and allow me to afk better)

[@MrJuicebags]

Well as you saw here, I didn't need reflect beams either :P nothing threw at the EACs

[@DireBear1002]

so i am having trouble doing chaos 8 and these videos dont help cause you are using choas 9 stuff with all perfect stuff

[@cris20955105233]

Use the earth shakker and the skyguard is should get it done easy

[@MrJuicebags]

Earthshatter with Earth Toss + Poison Dart Tower is your friend.

[@superwhatevergamin9634]

With maxed Earth Toss proc chance, and Poison Damage Skyguard. Launched enemies count as airbourne, which makes Skyguard able to hit it.

[@cris20955105233]

Yeah thats what i use and my shakker does not have 10 mods and use a boost aura to boost the skyguard for 200% stronger damage lol

[@ozone5217]

Use earthshatters with poison protons that got me through my first maps with c8 gear

[@neoobsterics6591]

Farm free speed run c8 eu 😂😂

[@andrew9194]

One of the dumbest parts of the game is that whenever they release a new hero, they nerf the old heros into oblivion while claiming that they were just too op, and then proceed to make the new heros just as op as the old ones used to be. They completely made ev2 ineffective, and replaced her OPness with the new assassin guy. All this after they said 2 years ago that there would never be anymore updates. Devs are just trolling.

[@logansutherland7894]

I'm on c7 and i can beat c7