This Build is so BROKEN IT ONLY NEEDS TWO GODS! | Death Must Die Darkness 30

70 hours in and this is the easiest run so far.
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Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.
"Many heroes throughout history had taken on the journey to The High Mount to enter into Death's realm and end his reign. None to return.
Yet this time, an unsung higher power had chosen to back our heroes in their quest. Toss a coin in my hat here traveler, if you wish to hear The Saga of Death's Demise."
~The Bard
Death Must Die is an action hack and slash roguelite survivors game in which you play as the heroes trying to defeat Death.
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[@newtonngames]

I love the sound when giant paladins die, reminds me when you open a can of beer.

[@gamingwithjeff]

I hope it never changes lol

[@WanderingDad]

Meteor storm is just there to trigger incinerate, incinerate is there for combust. They really need to combine something so it doesn't take 3 skills to make fire only semi-bad.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Meteor impact damage should be WAY higher. Why does a Meteor do about the same base damage as an unarmed character. I'd like to see fire breath functionally changed to where it does low damage but triggers on every attack, It would make summer so much better

[@daveonezero6258]

yeah but getting all three and a fire attack is awesome.. I watch Asmon play and he doesn't even realize all this.

[@YouGottaShootEmInTheHead]

​@@gamingwithjeffFire should spread, holy shit, making fire the environmental hazard it should be.

[@bearnaff9387]

I agree with synergistic effects between gods being key. It also gives more situations where Justice-like conditional messages of the gods commenting on one another. Also, in this run you were not a character, you were a horrifying natural disaster straight out of a 2010 Syfy movie.

[@tangledfish]

In terms of strength the combo that I think is top is Time -> Mort -> Justice. From Time you obviously get warped strike and gem high, from Mort soulstealers and malady (ravens and serendipity too, but they're secondary) and from Justice celestial wings and divine shield. Turn autoattack on once you have gem high and/or celestial wings and never turn it off, proceed to snowball so hard you can get a no hit run on 30 that melts Dracula in under 10 seconds.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Time/Mort/x will beat d30 consistently. Justice makes it extremely safe, War goes pretty crazy with chains and bloodlust.

[@Jaminskii]

i feel like time + mort needs a nerf though its such an easy go to for clearing

[@tangledfish]

@@Jaminskii Yeah currently gem high and mayhem are obscenely strong. There will definitely be some rebalancing that happens along the way as those two talents snowball in a way nothing else does.

[@jacobfernandez6055]

No nerfs needed, they should buff the other ones if they're garbage.

[@vitorteixeira7948]

I'm failing to understand what Celestial Wings does? Soulstealers do so much damage! I like doing time, soulstealers and then lightning, I get pretty decent crits with lightning damaging skills

[@danielzaiser]

nice build, i just achived the 0 damage achievement with Morris on diff 30, i needed like 30 tries, but this run was insane, just time carrying hard, the "Alteration Ritual", which gives you a random buff every time you level up, on master and lvl 5 is 150+ seconds, and it scales with spell duration, it's just bonkers, both in damage and defense. Also spell area + time bubble keeps you safe from everything, put a divine shield on top of that, and i am pretty sure you can achieve 0 hit pretty consistently. 3rd god is whatever you want, i picked fire this time, just because i got it offered as master randomly, but it really does not matter, all the damage comes from time random buffs + gem high. Also i like to take the attack boon from time, it just boosts your xp gain by a lot, and the damage with bounce is very nice

[@8928jb]

I had a really interesting one similar to this but used the mythic amulet that gives 300% spell velocity and master lightning orbs.

[@Beamy2000]

Every time i hear that music ingame, i still feel reminded of In Flames´ Cloud Connected.

[@yukikochanchan3123]

i agree would be really nice some legendary synergies with fire-ice-electric time&death war&justice

[@AlteredCarbons]

17:15 yes, it was a nerf , heh i was thinking the same thing. i was like "didn't he take x% damage to undamaged" and with lightning bolt build like this it def KILLED the dps you where doing over all

[@Quxer0721]

Interesting build. One thing I don't like is uncertainty of dropping items off screen. There are not many good items, but as you said you want hydra staff. Maybe you dropped it, but didn't pick it up. I think one thing I would change was getting Mort + Time to maximaze XP, with Hydra and infinite pull range that would be cool. With some luck you could do on hit build, maybe I will try it, cause I have this staff.

[@Ca55per]

"Master Splinter"... a TMNT reference!

[@vladgaedel8521]

since aging reduces max life , they still have max hp all the time which you can see in their healthbar. both legendaries work

[@nazaxprime]

15:30 Based on vague hints in the recently published roadmap, im expecting god synergy abilities to be added to the pool...

[@jasper5878]

Best Trio for me is Mort, Time and Grom. Using Ravens, Soulstealer and Skeletons, plus Warpstrike, Gemhigh, Force and Groms Shrukens and the one that increases attack speed I killed Dracula in 8 seconds. I picked that buff that gives all your boons as expert as however you have no masters it was literally the second statue I walked into from start. Then got my Alteration to trigger pandemonium 2 times. At the end all my boon were level 5 masters except for expert Ravens as I never bothered with them as the purpose was to trigger curse. Warpstrike Force and Soulstealer were all above 1.5 million the rest were around 900k. I managed to also get my warped strike to have 5 projectiles and I got level 4 expert critical strike which is what added to the sheer damage output of it. I am yet to replicate the run as successfully. I have had a few others around 15 seconds

[@gamingwithjeff]

So krom is kind of a waste if you already have time. You're better off going with lightning for Chain Lightning procs. Because of Kroms attack speed buff only being active while things are ruptured it makes it just worse than Gem High and also ineffective vs Drac. This is if we are tryharding for speed drac clears though lol

[@animesh9124]

I just unlocked a hidden achievement called "Older brother's remorse". Managed to kill the red dragon before the blue dragon @ minute 7.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Nice, that one is not easy to do.

[@animesh9124]

@@gamingwithjeff I lied.

[@martinbobis6764]

meteor and orbs is nice with time spell cooldowns from gem high

[@Kabanist]

Getting new uniques is cool, but then remembering that I already have 3 columns of this stuff in the storage plus all reserved slots in the shop filled is not.

[@gamingwithjeff]

why am I having nightmares about this

[@ExtraBrightMind]

Inventory management system is kinda redundant for this game. It serves no real purpose. The most fun aspect of this game is experimenting with wild builds. So I think some kind of an unlock system with searchable library of found items available for any character would be much more fun.

[@D3adCl0wn]

@@ExtraBrightMind Too much money becomes a thing late-game, perhaps a way to use them to unbind items so we don't have to keep similar effect builds for each character. I like luck so much that Skadi, Merris, and Nixi has a full set of it. That's 3/4 of a storage filled just for that.

[@Ca55per]

"Meatier Meteors"!

[@amsgoth]

i'm hoping as well they make blessing synergize with each other in the future!

[@original_pranxter]

Gets Master Splinter... Also recieves ninja turtles as bonus

[@robertapgar7413]

Once you get brevity/spell speed too high there is no CD even if it says there is one lol, there is like a cast time or animation delay before it can cast again though.

[@m1xxx3r]

I would've gone even further with Your idea, Summer should have legendary that gives chance to ignite on every type of dmg both attacks and spells 19:04 if You did that we'd need to call for more pizza since TMNT will join the party 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gamingwithjeff]

That'd be cool but I'm trying to think of non legendary stuff so they can be consistently better. Summer and Qinter both have pretty cool legendaries as it is

[@miothan]

That was a nice run, imstill not sold on Winter, Summer and Lightning, too much garbage on them and a lot of their powerful builds involves getting a legendary or master version of their skills.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Lightning is fine, just missing legendsries currently. Winter is neat in theory it just takes a lot to get her going and ends up not working half the time. Summer is straight up bad sadly.

[@xagnarok3991]

Flare ( Fire ) can be pretty good. 30 difficulty easy with luck, death and time combined.

[@finbarshields]

Brevity gets severely undervalued. At Adept that's 11% more Lightning Bolts, Meteor Showers. More madness on your screen. It's an awesome ability. Cooldown is OP in Vampire Survivors.

[@finbarshields]

Oh it doesn't work with Lightning Bolt? Is it based on distance walked only?

[@gamingwithjeff]

Yeah, doesn't seem to work on lightning bolt. Only reason Brevity isint completely insane is that there aren't a ton of boons that it effects

[@DMJ94UC]

Even if you heavily invest into cooldown reduction in this game meteor and other comparable skills underperform severely compared to others. They simply need a buff.

[@Mordikay211]

Missleading title but still fun. Sad part is the "Yeam imagine if you had Soul Stealer" and a 600% Mayhem. All builds without Mort is just gimped.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Kind of yeah, Honestly Soulstealers/Mayhem should be its own category right now because it it SO much stronger than everything else in the game.

[@Hateorade82]

Watching you take force with infinite pull range perk hurts my soul.

[@gamingwithjeff]

It's actually a good dps spell on infinite pull merris

[@tristanchristiansen9054]

i dub this set up apocalypse unleashed

[@nazaxprime]

I definitely like either Mort for the xp increase or winter for the duration rather than summer who's damage and skills are, unfortunately lackluster... With winters increased durration, in conjunction with her movement debuffs and damage increases to frozen enemies, with multiple giant time fields filling the realm , you can take all the time you like. If it wasn't for brevity, it would be an easy call to just go with Mort for the XP, but alas, we can do only so much.

[@natural20crit]

What do you think of choosing cold and Blight instead of shower? Sorry if it is addressed. Asked mid vidoe.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Blight is better than Meteor, but I think vehemence + combustion ended up being better for this. Not that it really matters, Time+lightning will hard carry

[@rekrn12345]

I got a master flare to 100% proc chance and I literally just stood there and it 1 shot everything that tried to attack me lol.

[@seudonak]

I love Gem High, but it's so imbalanced that not picking it seems foolish.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Yeah, I hope they bring every god up to Time's level, and just increase the darkness cap to 100 or something

[@newtonngames]

19:07 You want a giant rat? 😄

[@gamingwithjeff]

Only if he teaches me some type of martial art

[@devinrandall4538]

Just clarifying if Breath of Fire is just bad for this build or bad overall. Whenever I take it, it's usually close to the top of my DPS list at the end of the run, but I could see it being bad here because you're not attacking much

[@gamingwithjeff]

It was bad here, but generally it is just an okay skill. It does a great job at clearing out hordes but doesn't do amazing vs bosses unless you already have broken levels of attack speed.

[@ishmaelpolopski1494]

Duo boons would be sick.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Considering they already have conditional boons built in, 🤔 I can imagine some cool stuff

[@boringchild]

I used Time/Krom/Moirai, 4 or 5 projectiles bouncing ton of exp shards with infinite pull, massive movement and attack speed with Krom, the game nearly crashed honestly slow af. Shoot like machine gun monster can barely touch me 😂. Of course need some luck on getting right blessings.

[@3000shifty]

Can cheese this game, just take lifelink and stack spell power, +1 dash boots help a lot.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Yeah, the nerf patch made the game fairly easy so now for content sake it's about finding either the most OP stuff or making oddball spells good

[@3000shifty]

@@gamingwithjeff I'm trying to get the evasion set for nixx, at 75% so far, don't know if it will go higher.

[@D3adCl0wn]

@@3000shifty I got armor set for Kront, only the amulet and jewel doesn't give armor and it puts me at 75% reduction.

[@Vaelkari]

Issue with summer is fire dots dont stack so doesnt scale well into higher HP pools I think

[@gamingwithjeff]

I am curious how strong Summer would be if burn stacked

[@thegochie]

It does scale. It's 1%/sec

[@shivkatall291]

It's so bad that when you re-roll you get the same stuff so often. Same rarity too. I know it's supposed to be random but a re-roll shouldn't offer you all three of the same things at the same rarity.

[@gamingwithjeff]

It's a tough one to balance, if it's all new abilities then you are almost guaranteed to find the boon you want, if its rarity up that's.....just too good. Maybe it's something they can address later once more content/gods/powers have been added

[@DaroffApFire]

Are there still no lightning legendary abilities?

[@gamingwithjeff]

nope lol

[@urbanfox8083]

Are you going to try the no move achievement?

[@gamingwithjeff]

I haven't payed attention to achievements but yeah I imagine I could. Would have to do it on d0 though.

[@nazaxprime]

I cant be sure if taste of time nerfed your damage or not. There was already enough variance, and as its only the first hit its hard to be sure, but if it lowers the enemie's max life by 6%/tick, then it shouldnt be a compound stack, as that "shouldn't" be counted, and it can be isolated in the game code via max life stat modification. Hard to be sure, gotta ask the dev and suggest the alternative if it is in fact an instance where a legend is nerfiing another legend... As to which legendary is better it really depends on the bill that you have because taste of time can do a lot of damage over time but that requires enemies to be on the screen long enough for damage to be hit. If you have a high damage build with crits that are consistent and you kill everything in under a second, then the first hit on enemies would be better than a 6% tax on their maximum health pool... And this could potentially carry even to the bosses as well with the 400 percent first hit damage bonus.

[@emanate0]

does brevity effect dash? its technically a spell

[@gamingwithjeff]

It does not.

[@eIvin77]

30:00 how do you get an extra Dash at lvl 50?

[@gamingwithjeff]

Oh, Alteration Ritual rolled into fates legendary skill that gives an extra dash.

[@eIvin77]

@@gamingwithjeff how convenient, right for the boss fight XD

[@zookaru]

that's a shitty non-bo with the two legendary skills, maybe they could do max health drops by X% love the god combo idea, would be cool if there was a 'color pie' style ally system from magic the gathering

[@AlteredCarbons]

my runs as of late really suck. i cant seem to find any good items. i have sub par items for almost all my builds and a few "lul" items for meme builds in the stash. what i want to see is like a "the horadric cube" sorta thing, put in 2 items and combine them, or maybe a re roll function or better yet gambling with gold. i mean, the games centered around the items and making broken runs imo that just deal massive damage. i just think it would be fun for a huge content update, even if its DLC. bring in some basic QOL update like gambling gold away and maybe extend the 20 minute run to 30 mins and then have a DLC that is the 2nd map with maybe another character and or gods to the mix.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Well we know for a fact that the next update is a new map + character + god at minimum. I'm almost certain we will get some kind of gold gambling for items as well. It's really just a matter of when at this point.

[@AlteredCarbons]

@@gamingwithjeff yeah the dev team for this game im sure is small, so i cant wait to see what they do. i just been enjoying the fast game. its like the prefect i got 25 minutes to waste game. really fun on the steam deck but im vision impaired so reading deck on the deck sucks so bad, but i memorized what everything does and its just been so fun

[@gamingwithjeff]

@@AlteredCarbons Yep, only 3 people. 1 Programmer 2 artists/everything else

[@icata12345]

why is meteor shower much weaker than lighting strikes, basically same purpose skill

[@gamingwithjeff]

Hopefully it gets a buff of some kind

[@zebiekste92]

Not so broken , broken builds are when you kill dracula under 5 seconds like having sumons from items and sumons 2 k % dmg , skeletons dragon and ravens 1 shoted dracula ^^

[@acceleratum]

Fire is great, set them on fire and leave fire where they die can wreck the swarms without even moving, If your doing gem high/warp the fire burst also greatly increases your dmg and area.. I think frost is the worse god by far..

[@gamingwithjeff]

Fire is fine until darkness levels start going up, the damage scaling doesn't keep up with enemy hp. Winter doesn't do much alone but can be decent support and add some serious burst damage.

[@icata12345]

i had a good run with her, the buffs you get on chilled enemies can stack quite nice late game

[@JOnatanKERtis]

Its not build. Just lucky get First Strike (Legendary).

[@sno0p3r]

That build sucks

[@HERO-hx7ny]

Nahh, there can only be one broken build and its death and time.

[@gamingwithjeff]

Death doesn't need any other God though, Soulstealers + Mayhem + Lifelink, wins a run with no other skills