Glory & Miserable Survivors DX General Guide

A general guide on Glory & Miserable Survivors DX (AKA Daisenka / Great Senka). Includes lore, early, mid and late game strategy, game mechanics, attributes, characters, weapons, accessories, deployables and achievements.

Introduction

Glory & Miserable Survivors DX, also known as Daisenka (Great Senka). This game is made by TLACHTLI (Jaggar Senshi), published by Mango Party and drawn by Namako Dai Bakuhatsu (AKA Namako, Takorin and on their Twitter). This game can be found originally on DLSite by TOKURATORI.

The game combines 1vE rogue-lite, tower defense, time survival and H into one game: Daisenka. Very similar to Vampire Survivors but with victory conditions and different heroes, with playability ranging in 5-15 hours.

The kingdom of Sezen has been invaded after a blitzkrieg to the Capital by the enemy nation of Garvecia, tearing up the maintained peace treaty. They are known as a mighty military nation as well as for their barbaric and pillaging ways, destroying forests and poisoning rivers, and the murdering and violation of many people.

Numerous “misfortunes” have happened around the nation due to Depraved Demon Lord’s new capability to interfere with the outside with her new magic while imprisoned under Sezen. Events such as demonic beast sightings near the border; tying up the royal mages to deal with them, in addition to landslides on all major routes; blocking mercenaries and communications, as well as the appearance of the Kraken; delaying the return of the Princess’ ship, have happened “coincidentally” around Sezen. How will the kingdom defend against these threats, and will it be glory or damnation that awaits you?

This guide contains no H.

Controls & Mechanics

Enemies spawn of the right side of the screen. Your goal is to prevent them from reaching the left and lowering the HP of the Keep, as well as maintaining your own health.

You can play this game one-handedly. Mouse is not required and every control is possible on keyboard, allowing your free hand to do whatever it wants…

Use WASD to move. In Daisenka, weapons attack automatically in the direction you are facing (denoted by appearing around your character) after their reload time. You are allowed to face eight directions: vertically, horizontally and diagonally.

A vital mechanic to understand is how to strafe; this lets you move your character while maintaining their direction of attack, as moving regularly has your character face the direction of movement. I highly recommend keybinding this to LSHIFT key instead of the default F key as it allows unlimited movement while strafing instead of holding up your index finger while strafing.

In addition, you can dash using the SPACE key. While dashing, you are invulnerable, can phase through collisions and can still attack; different characters have different dash lengths and cooldowns. The dash cooldown is represented as a red bar above your health bar which is in yellow. Similarly to dashes, different characters have different HP pools and regeneration. Collisions with enemies allows them to deal damage to you.

Other attributes, such as crit rate, luck, attack speed and range and allotted item slots also differ from character to character. Every character has the inherent ability to “pull” enemies into fighting you instead of trying to invade the Keep. This pull range differs and some enemies (Rushers) resist your pull much more than others.

Use the WASD keys when focused in a menu to select choices.

You can use the Z and X keys to respectively Confirm/Select or Cancel/Go Back.

Use the C key to construct buildings, and the ESC key to pause the game.

Use the 1 and 2 keys to respectively Zoom In and Zoom Out. This is a vital part of the game as zooming out allows you to see enemies like Rushers on the edges of the stage and to modify the bounds of which weapons like the Kunai depend on to “bounce” on the edge of the screen.

Controller support is available as well.

Every attack has a chance of becoming a critical attack depending on your character. Criticals deal double damage.

As characters receive damage, Armor Break applies at the first third and two thirds of your health pool’s losses. Each Armor Break does not affect defence and only cosmetically changes the character’s sprite displayed on the right.

Enemies also drop Gold when you or your constructs kill them (except the Propaganda poster). Gold can be used in-game to reroll item choices at every level up (the price to reroll doubles every time you do), or on attribute upgrades. Gold drops despawn over time, and characters must move close to pick them up within their differing Pickup Ranges.

I recommend you take a look at the in-game tutorial as well. It also includes controller support and kebindings, as well as more information.

Experience Level & Items

As you defeat enemies, your character gains experience that fills an experience gauge. When your character fills that gauge and levels up, your experience quota resets and you are given a choice of items to give your character in three categories: weapons, accessories and deployables. The number of choices given can be increased by the attribute “More Choices”. Each character is allotted a maximum quota of each type of item, depending on the character and respective attribute “More [item type] Slots”. Experience gain can be increased by the attribute “EXP Up”, or the attribute “Pheromone Up” and accessory of the same title, which both increase the number of enemies and thus the amount of experience gained by defeating them.

Items come in three types: Weapons (with red background color), Accessories (with blue background colour) and Deployables (with yellow background colour). Each has its own role; weapons deal damage or have unique effects, accessories boost your character’s stats and deployables serve a variety of purposes.

When you max out your character’s maximum allowance for each item category and all item levels, levelling up only offers gold bags worth 100 gold or healing items worth around 25HP.

Your character can push deployables by moving against the sides of one. Certain characters have different push speeds. If you push a building to the edge of a stage, you can bring it back by moving diagonally; away from the edge and into a side orthogonal to that edge at the same time. However, boundaries for buildings exist closer from edges and characters can usually move around buildings and bring them back simply.

Treasure Chests

Glory & Miserable Survivors DX General Guide Defeated bosses drop treasure chests on the ground. Upon collision with a treasure chest, your character must open the box; each has a chance of containing either one, three, five or eight items; highly dependent on your luck stat. A treasure chest containing eight items is recorded to your character’s statistics as a “jackpot”. The contents of the treasure chest are guaranteed to be an item upgrade for a weapon, accessory or deployable that you already have. If you have a starter weapon (Knights Sword, Elven Bow, Lightning Rune, Assassin’s Dagger, Sanguinous Ring, Trample or Bayonet) at level 10, the treasure chest will take priority to upgrade your character’s respective starting weapon to its special version. If you have the “Starting Weapon Upgrades Unlocked” attribute and have another character’s starting weapon via the “Drop [respective weapon]” attribute, you are able to upgrade another weapon that does not belong to your current character. If all your items are at maximum level, the contents will be bags of 100 gold.

Boss drops are useful in early to mid game, when you are trying to max out your damage potential by increasing item drops, However, in late game, players save treasure chests and wait until they have a starting weapon to upgrade. When you can afford Experience Up or Pheromones, boss drops lose some significance.

Characters & Origins

Princess Kukuru Ankers

Glory & Miserable Survivors DX General Guide

The princess of Sezen, a tomboy from young and a formidable knight. She has a stronge sense of responsibility and justice. She is sailing to defend the kingdom after being held up by a Kraken in the seas.

Kukuru has high HP, attack and some regeneration, with standard stats for the rest.
Her starting weapon, the Knight’s Sword, as low to medium reach and damage and is a decent all-rounder.
Her starting weapon upgrade, Velmanway, deals extremely high DPS in a small AOE around Kururu in the direction she faces and is one of the best sources of damage in the game.
She starts with 5 weapon slots, 3 accessory slots and 4 construct slots, allowing her a large variety of damage from weapons but less damage boosting potential.

Henrietta Moss

A wandering adverturer and bounty hunter who is terrible with money. She left her elven home village from boredom and learned her crafts from combat, and is described as enthusiastic, amicable, yet brash and careless. She is in debt after purchasing a magic bow and is looking for a way to repay it quickly.

Henrietta has a slightly longer dash, larger pickup range, higher gold gain and much more luck. She has high push strength, applicable to pushing enemies and constructs quickly.
Her starting weapon, the Elven Bow, has a very large attack range and deals small AOE bursts to random targets, which is good for mobbing.
Her starting weapon upgrade, the Storm Bow, deals extremely high DPS to random targets with higher ammo capacity and rainbow effects, and is one of the strongest mobbing damage dealers in the game if you don’t specialise exceptionally in a certain loadout.
She starts with 4 weapon slots, 3 accessory slots and 6 construct slots, restricting her damage potential but increasing her options with constructs.

Lady Louise Dittenberger

A genius royal mage of the kingdom of Sezen who only thinks of magic as a hobby. She is lethargic and lax, and the best mage in the entire kingdom with her endless research and magic scriptures. Since the other royal mages have been keeping demonic beasts away at the borders, she has been called upon to defend the nation herself.

Louise has high weapon effect duration applying to all weapons, slightly higher experience gain and a much larger pickup range.
Her starting weapon, the Lightning Rune, is good for mobbing and shoots out homing lightning balls. However, it can’t focus on a boss well; she must use a different weapon.
Her starting weapon upgrade, Prismatic Lightning, has increased damage and weapon effect duration. It also has very good mobbing capabilities.
She starts with 3 weapon slots, 6 accessory slots and 5 construct slots, offering her high damage boost potential but low damage variety.

Ouka Crouch

An elite ninja from the village where the mercenary group Sabba resides. She is the best fighter among them all and is always sent to dangerous frontline missions. She is tasked to take out the trash with the unreasonable request to defend the nation by herself .

Ouka has low HP, larger crit rate, lowered dash cooldown and lower weapon knockback.
Her starting weapon, the Assassin’s Dagger, shoots daggers in the facing direction, with low-medium single-target damage such as for bossing.
Her starting weapon upgrade, the Dance of the Reaper, shoots out piercing daggers continuously in the facing direction with higher damage, colored purple.
She starts with 5 weapon slots, 5 accessory slots and 3 construct slots, sacrificing her “tower defence” capabilities for damage potential.

Depraved Demon Lord Anis

A Greater Demon, part of many who caused chaos, havoc and hellscapes throughout the land a century ago until the first King of Sezen subdued and imprisoned her under the Palace of Sezen. Prideful, selfish, spiteful and arrogant, she plans on using Garvecia to gain the crown of Sezen after repelling the enemy army away.

Anis has a long dash length, a large weapon AOE size applying to all weapons, much lower luck and a slightly higher gold gain.
Her starting weapon, the Sanguinous Ring, summons a medium AOE damaging vortex that follows her. It deals medium damage over time (DOT) for all enemies inside.
Her starting weapon upgrade, the Lich’s Torment, has much higher damage, hit rate, AOE and thus DOT than the basic blood ring.
She starts with 5 weapon slots, 5 accessory slots and 5 construct slots, allowing her a variety of gameplay opportunities.

Jing Lei

A beast girl and martial artist who journeyed the world for training. She is popular, highly athletic, incredibly charismatic and a heroic, altruistic outlaw, as well as a ruthless hidden killer when needed. Her hometown has been destroyed by the Garvecian Army, as well as numerous forests and rivers along their path of destruction. She fights to protect innocents, to avenge her hometown and to protect the delicious fish residing in the rivers.

Jing has low HP, a faster move speed, faster dash cooldown and less weapon knockback.
Her starting weapon, Trample, trailblazes a wake of fire behind her dashes with high DOT.
Her starting weapon upgrade, Clear Sky, leaves a wake of blue fire behind her every move, including while standing still. It has extremely high DOT, especially when fire particles stack while Jing is standing still.
She starts with 5 weapon slots, 5 accessory slots and 3 construct slots, sacrificing her “tower defence” capabilities for damage.

Sister Estelle Cowen

A sister who serves the Church in the Capital of Sezen and a trained vampire hunter. Legend has it that she once faced off against a fortress full of evil spirits and won with her magic. Although she considers it a disgrace to fight other humans as a cleric of the Church, she would even face off God for the sake of the people.

Estelle has low HP, a long dash length, a large weapon AOE size applying to all weapons, low luck and slightly higher gold gain.
Her starting weapon, Bayonet, throws a boomeranging sword forward for medium damage on collision. Although the reload time is extremely long, it can be mitigated by catching the returning bayonet.
Her starting weapon upgrade, the Inquisitor, throws a larger purple sword forward for higher damage, and it returns automatically to Estelle.
She starts with 5 weapon slots, 5 accessory slots and 5 construct slots, allowing her a variety of gameplay opportunities.

Stages

All stages feature enemies that spawn on the right and aim to decrease the Keep’s HP on the left or to attack your character.
Keep HP varies per stage, and is displayed at the bottom left of the screen.
Your goal is to defend the Keep and the rest of the nation by destroying the invaders.
Every enemy that passes the Keep decreases its HP by 1.
Allowing a boss to pass the Keep guarantees defeat.
Keep HP can be replenished by the Repair Shop construct, which slowly regenerates Keep HP, or by having the appropriate attribute upgrade that regenerates Keep HP.
Keep HP can be protected by redirecting damage to your character via the Scarecrow accessory.
In addition, health packs () offered by your Keep spawn on the left and heal your character when picked up.

The Keep HP on stage 2 – “Fortress”.

Normal Stages

Stage 1 – “Chokepoint”

This stage is horizontally long and vertically short. Normal enemies that are easy to deal with. The Keep comes with 20 HP.

Stage 2 – “Fortress”

A stage with taller edges than stage 1; they offer Rushers more opportunity to run along the edges past you into the Keep, and narrower width means less room for you to run. The Keep has 15 HP, and all enemies are strengthened with higher HP, movement speed and attack, characterised by a blue tint.

Stage 3 – “Capital”

The tallest and narrowest stage, shaped square. Rushers become a main failpoint for players with a Keep HP of 10 and bosses can overwhelm you if you have the “Wanted Poster” deployable and bosses spawn on opposite ends. All enemies are further strengthened with higher HP, movement speed and attack, characterised by a green tint. Constructs may be used to shorten the area to defend and help you defend effectively by reducing wild movement chasing Rushers, for example.

Endless Stages

In endless stages, enemies are strengthened every wave and change between types frequently. Enemy spawn rates can soar. Thankfully, the developer has implemented a “Limited enemy spawns due to low FPS” function and we can play the game. Since a good source of lag comes from Damage numbers, we can freely toggle between smooth gameplay by turning off damage numbers and increasing exp gain from more allowed enemy spawns, or laggy gameplay by turning on damage numbers and decreasing spawn rates if things get too dicey.

Since endless mode is, endless, choosing Pheromones or the Scroll of Secrets isn’t really useful as you’ll end up levelling all the same before the real challenge comes. Your build should be able to handle all three: Soldiers, Rushers and Bosses effectively at the same time (elaboration under the Enemies & Waves tab).

Stage 4 – “Nighttime Chokepoint”

Similar to stage 1, except with endless waves. Enemies start at Normal difficulty. AFK is possible with a macro for pressing the “Confirm” button or a click on the item upgrades at each level up; more info in the Endless and Progression Strategies tab.

Stage 5 – “Nighttime Fortress”

Endlessly similar to stage 2. Enemies start with blue tint difficulty.

Stage 6 – “Nighttime Capital”

Endlessly similar to stage 3. Enemies start with green tint difficulty.

Enemies

There are three classes of enemies with a variety of types inside each class: regular units that focus on the player (Soldiers), fast units that focus on the Keep (Rushers) and fast, uncommon and strong units that focus on the Keep (Bosses).
Soldiers have many different classes within and certain units are stronger than others in terms of HP and attack. We have from weakest to strongest:

Knights

Paladins

Barbarians

Warlocks

Dark Knights

Holy Knights

Samurai

We also have two types of Rushers from weakest to strongest:

Cavalry

Aerial Cavalry

Bosses follow the same order of difficulty by type as Soldiers: we see Large versions of those units appear as bosses.

These appear on the dot and a large banner notification appears near the top of the screen to tell you.

In addition, every type of enemy in a class can come in five difficulties, characterised by colour tint from weakest to strongest, for example using the Knight:

Regular tint

Blue tint

Green tint

Yellow tint

Red tint

Waves

There are twenty enemy waves in non-endless stages, one at the beginning of every minute. Surviving all 20 waves results in victory, and in endless mode, the game continues until defeat. Certain enemies spawn on certain waves, as well as bosses on special waves. Bosses act like Rushers; they have high move speed and aim to destroy the Keep. Depending on the Pheromone attribute and accessory, you have at least 15, 10 and 5 seconds to deal with each boss respectively on stages 1, 2 and 3. If you let a boss into the the Keep or you let the Keep’s health go down to 0, you lose. Keep HP heals to full whenever a boss spawns so it’s fair that you take your focus off hunting Rushers for the boss.

Kururu, Ouka, Jing and Estelle can deal with bosses well enough on their own starting weapons. Henrietta, Anis and Louise will probably need help from another weapon, like the Elven Ring or Sunfire Cape to deal directed damage. If you have Revives to spare, using your character to push and bodyblock the boss can be effective in gaining Time to Kill, especially for Henrietta with the best push strength in the game.

If you are challenging stages 1, 2 or 3, your general item strategy should be to follow a set strategy (check the Non-endless Strategies tab) beforehand and to adapt whenever needed. If you are challenging endless mode, do not adapt as much and focus only on getting at least one copy of every vital item, as your loadout is critical when it comes to endless play and even the loss of one important component, like Bubbly Lotion, hampers your ability to progress and score well.

For example, Wave 1 starts at time 00:00, Wave 2 starts at time 01:00, Wave 3 starts at time 02:00 and so on.

Wave 1
Basic enemies (Knights) spawn. They are easy to kill with every starting weapon and shouldn’t be a big deal.

Wave 2
In addition to Knights, Paladins spawn as well. They have higher health and damage, and can start building up if your damage or AOE capabilities are lacking. Both enemies spawn at a 1:1 ratio.

Wave 3
The first boss (Large Knight) spawns. It is quite easy to deal with if you don’t only have a mobbing focused weapon like the bows, runes, kunai, etc. If you have the Wanted Poster deployable down, another copy of the boss spawns – randomly – you must consider your ability to kill both at the same time for double boss drops, even if you are unlucky and they spawn on opposing edges. Knights stop spawning and only Paladins spawn.

Wave 4
The first wave where the Rusher types appear in addition to the paladins. Cavalry (Horse Riders) start spawning in addition to the Paladins at an approximate 1:8 ratio. Rushers’ difficulty depends on which stage you play; on stage 1 “Chokepoint”, they are quite easy to kill. However, on stage 3 “Capital”, they are extremely hard to deal with without the Scarecrow accessory, extremely high AOE and/or movement speed. Rushers have high move speed and resist your character’s pull range unless you get quite close to them. They constantly aim for the Keep and try to ignore your character. Survive the wave by hunting down Cavalry, repairing the Keep and/or redirecting Keep damage and using a source of healing / the Keep’s healing items.

Wave 5
Paladins and Cavalry stop spawning and Barbarians start spawning. They have higher damage and HP than Paladins.

Wave 6
The second boss (Large Paladin) appears alongside the Cavalry and Barbarians. They seem to spawn at a 1:8 ratio. The second boss is generally also quite easy to deal with.

Wave 7
Warlocks start spawning in addition to the Barbarians and Cavalry stop spawning. Warlocks have higher damage than Barbarians and a little more HP.

Wave 8
Barbarians stop spawning, leaving only Warlocks. Focus on building a suitable source of damage before Dark Knight start spawning.

Wave 9
Aerial Cavalry (Pegasus Riders) appear in an approximate 1:8 ratio to the Warlocks and rush the Keep.

Wave 10
Dark Knights now appear, replacing Aerial Cavalry with an approximate 1:8 ratio with Warlocks. They have much higher HP than Warlocks and are a much higher step from the previous Soldier class to the next. If you don’t already have a good source of DPS, they will start to pile up and cause problems.

Wave 11
The third boss (Large Warlock) appears. Aerial Cavalry return with an approximate 1:8 ratio to the rest of the spawns, shared half and half between Dark Knights and Warlocks.

Wave 12
Dark Knights spawn more often than Warlocks. 1:6:2 ratio between AC, DK and WL.

Wave 13
Warlocks stop spawning and Holy Knights replace them for a 1:4:4 ratio of AC, DK and WK.

Wave 14
The fourth boss (Large Aerial Cavalry) spawns and DK leave. AC and HK spawn at a 1:8 ratio.

Wave 15
AC spawn at a much higher rate, between a 1:4-6 ratio for AC and HK.

Wave 16
Samurai now spawn, replacing AC for a 1:8 ratio for SMR and HK.

Wave 17
The fifth boss (Large Holy Knight) spawns. After defeating it, focus on your mobbing and CC power; the last wave contains too many Rushers to offset with the Repair Shop and many absorbent Samurai. SMR now make up half of spawns with HK.

Wave 18
Ninja start spawning and rush the Keep. Ninja make an eighth of the spawns and the rest is split half and half between SMR and HK.

Wave 19
All enemies spawn in larger numbers. Be careful if you have Pheromones already, as enemy units start coming in like they’re in a W*lmart store that announced they got a new shipment of graphics cards.

Wave 20 / “Last Wave!!”
The last boss (Large Dark Knight) appears. Enemies spawn in the largest numbers and Ninja and Samurai take half of total spawns each.

Wave 20+ / still “Last Wave!!”
For Endless waves, further waves take on a different type of enemy/ies every minute even though it is still called the “Last Wave!!”. By this point, your build should be set in stone and you should focus on balancing levelling up and surviving by toggling between No / Lag modes (Toggle damage numbers, as mentioned before), and surviving when done levelling up. You should be able to handle most importantly: high HP bosses, then focus on the mobs of Soldiers, then lastly Rushers. By this point, an effective strategy should be in motion, like using the Obsidian Pendant and Smokescreen as CC combined with Velmanway, the Mallet of Prosperity and the Hallucinatory Mushroom to deal extreme DPS over a large AOE, combined to slow, push and pull back bosses as you whittle away their HP. It is completely possible to stall bosses in place using bodyblocking on Shrooms, CC and Slow effects. Keystone accessories Giant Slayer and Bubbly Lotion are necessities for truly endless gameplay.

An Endless run on stage 4 – “Nighttime Chokepoint”. The player only built pure DPS, and lag caught up with the player. Their damage capability inevitably could not kill a boss before another appeared due to the lack of the Giant Slayer accessory.

Attribute Upgrades

In between each game, you are allowed to use your earned gold to upgrade attributes that affect all characters, like attack, health, luck and more. The total cost for all gameplay-affecting upgrades is 5,165,000 gold (not including the H Experience display (1,000,000 G) nor Low Camera Angle (10,000 G)). Some rewarding attributes need to be unlocked by fulfilling several challenges. Below is a list of attribute upgrades as well as gameplay factors.

Note: Each attribute upgrade’s cost increases by 100% for every level. For example, “Attack Up” costs 2,000G to start with, then costs 4,000G, 6,000G, 8,000G and 10,000G for levels 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

Attribute Upgrades Table

Lvl. 1 Cost	Max. level	Effect	Factor per Level	Tier	Description
2,000G	5	Attack Up	+5%	A	Can increase your attack by up to 25%.
2,000G	5	Armour Up	-1 Damage Taken	B-	Reduces damage taken by up to 5. Useful when redirecting Rushers.
5,000G	3	Max HP Up	+10 HP	D	Increases health pool.
5,000G	3	HP Regen Up	+0.2HP / sec	C+	Regenerates health. Health is more effectively gained from Lifesteal or Heal Orb deployable.
20,000G	3	Cooldown Reduced	5%	A+	Decreases cooldown of weapons. Very useful as damage and CC boost.
5,000G	4	Weapon Area Up	+5%	S	Increases all weapons’ AOE. Useful for all builds.
5,000G	4	Attack Speed Up	5%	D	Increases weapon projectile speed. The upgrade you’re looking for is Cooldown Reduction to decrease reload time. Only useful for Elven Ring and Lightning Rune & Upgrade.
5,000G	4	Attack Duration Up	+5%	A-	Increases the lifetime of projectiles like the Obsidian Pendant, Elven Ring or Lightning Rune.
100,000G	1	Amount Up	+1 Weapon Clip size	S+	Essentially a Duplicator upgrade. Easily doubles damage in early game.
5,000G	4	Move Speed Up	+5%	C+	Increases move speed. Can be useful to catch Rushers, but weapon AOE much is more important.
5,000G	4	Pickup Area Up	+5%	D	Increases Gold pickup Range. Literally just walk a tiny bit further. If you’re scared of losing HP, walk in and dash out or up your damage.
5,000G	4	Luck Up	+5%	B	Increases your chances for more items per boss drop. Useful in early to mid game when trying to get high damage, but in late game when you can afford Experience Up and Pheromones, boss drops only take on the role to give starter weapon upgrades.
5,000G	4	EXP Up	+5%	S	Increases the rate at which your character levels up. Incredibly useful to build your kit faster.
5,000G	4	Gold Up	+5%	A-	Only really useful in early game, when trying to purchase all attribute upgrades. Gold for item choice rerolling isn’t really a problem.
10,000G	5	Pheromone Up	+10% Enemy Spawn, Move Speed and HP	A+	Useful mid to late game. Used when you can start dealing high damage and can compensate for it by this appropriate risk and reward for more gold and experience drops.
100,000G	2	Revives Up	+1 Revive	B	Grants you extra lives. Really only useful in early game. Later, your damage and sustainability greatly outclass other needs.
5,000G	5	Construct Attack Up	+5%	C-	All your damage should come from your character. Construct damage is laughable (even considering the Laser Tower and Rotating Saw). If you’re relying on your towers, that’s because you’re playing Bl**ns Tower Defence 17 instead of Daisenka.
5,000G	5	Construct AOE Up	+5%	B	Increases deplyable AOEs. Constructs such as the Magnet, Swamp and Graveyard profit the most from this.
5,000G	5	Construct AtkSpeed Up	+5%	C+	There really isn’t a need for construct attacks. The one that benefits the most would be the Rotating Saw.
50,000G	2	Keep Regen Up	+0.1 Keep HP / sec	C+	Really only useful if you don’t care about Rushers. AOE and Black hole builds easily shadow the need for this.
100,000G	2	More Weapon Slots	+1 Weapon Slot	A+	More weapon damage opportunity. Very good to have.
100,000G	2	More Accessory Slots	+1 Accessory Slot	S+	More damage boosting capabilities. Extremely useful upgrade.
100,000G	2	More Construct Slots	+1 Construct Slot	C	More deployables. Given the lack of utility compared to weapons and accessories, constructs just suffer a ton and aren’t really useful enough to warrant having more of them.
300,000G	1	More Choices	+1 Item Choice	S+	Increases level up item choices. Allows you to find desirable items more often and decreases the need to reroll and spend gold and could spell the key between beating or losing to a boss.
200,000G	1	Drop Knight’s Sword	Lost the treasure of the Ankers family.	B- / S	Allows every character access to a decent weapon, or a very good bossing and mobbing weapon.
200,000G	1	Drop Elven Bow	And I bought this bow with…	C+ / S-	Allows every character access to a decent mobbing weapon, or the best mobbing weapon in the game.
200,000G	1	Drop Lightning Rune	This will shock the Mage Assoociation.	B / A	Allows every character access to a good mobbing weapon or a very good mobbing weapon.
200,000G	1	Drop Assassin Dagger	Could an amateur even use this?	D / C	Allows every character access to a poor bossing weapon, or a decent bossing weapon.
200,000G	1	Drop Sanguinous Ring	This is not meant for human use!	B- / A-	Allows every character access to a decent mobbing weapon, or a very good mobbing weapon.
10,000G	1	Display H Experience	Show H Exp when picking character.	H	A mentionable statistic display choice that does not affect gameplay. Displays a maiden’s private experiences in Character Select.
200,000G	1	Drop Trample	Picked up a leg. Scary.	C+ / A	Allows every character access to a decent weapon, or a high DPS dual weapon.
200,000G	1	Drop Bayonet	Smite those heretics and vermin!	C- / B	Allows every character access to a relatively weak weapon, or a decent all-rounder weapon.
10,000G	1	Low Camera Angle	Can be toggled in the Options menu.	H	A mentionable cosmetic choice that displays your maiden’s lower regions. Does not affect gameplay.
1,000,000G	1	Starting weapons upgrades unlocked	All starter weapons can be upgraded.	S+	Only consider this in mid to late game. Starter weapon upgrades perform powerfully and having multiple can win you a game.

Weapons

S Tier

Obsidian Pendant

Best not to get caught in it.
This is the best weapon in the game. It summons a forward-creeping black hole with high pull strength that entraps enemies inside in addition to some DOT, giving you incredible crowd control (CC) and focus for your smaller AOE attacks. Use of the Duplicator and the Mallet of Prosperity are critical to effectively using this. Also helpful would be Honey, Pomodoro and Hallucinatory Mushroom, as well as using either Anis or Estelle due to their inherently large weapon AOE for overkill. Currently the best CC option.

Velmanway (Knight’s Sword Upgrade)

Slices through enemies with multiple longswords.
This weapon has one of the highest DPS out of all the weapons. Although the reach is quite short and has medium damage, the ROF is extremely high, making it a suitable weapon for bossing. It can also be used as a mobbing weapon with AOE and enemy pulling enhancements. Use Primal Strength and Pomodoro for damage with this as well as Hallucinatory Mushroom, Mallet of Prosperity and Demonic Bracelet for a devastating high attack high AOE combo.

Smokescreen

Create a lingering zone that slows.
This weapon creates a zone that slows enemies by approximately 50%. It is quite useful in buying time to kill, especially for early bosses in stage 3 – “Capital”. This is one of the best CC options in the game. Pair this up with the Mallet of Prosperity and the Pomodoro or Honey.

A Tier
Storm Bow (Elven Bow Upgrade)

Rains arrows.
This weapon has one of the highest DPS out of all the weapons. Although it targets enemies randomly, the high AOE damage often clears most enemies off the screen. It is one of the best damage-based mobbing weapons. The best accessories for this weapon are the Pomodoro and Primal Strength.

Flail

Big knockback damage. Medium range.
This weapon deals very high damage in a large area. It is quite useful in catching fast enemies that don’t target the player because of its reach. However, its reload time is slower than others. This is an incredible damage focused mobbing weapon. Upgrading the Mallet of Prosperity and the Duplicator accessory boost this weapon to this tier, as well as with the Hallucinatory Mushroom.

Prismatic Lightning (Lightning Rune Upgrade)

Continuous lightning shocks.
This is a very good mobbing weapon due to its good damage, consistency, high homing capability and fast projectile speed. Pair this up with Honey and the Duplicator. The lightning trail it leaves behind is cosmetic, with the illusion of damage caused by balls passing through others on the way to their targets.

Crystal Phoenix’s Soul

Creates ice storms at random locations.
Despite its random summonings, the Soul has quite high DOT. With the Mallet of Prosperity, Duplicator and Pomodoro, it can easily cover the entire screen and act as a global effect. It effectively rids the edges of Rushers at higher upgrades and does very good damage.

B Tier

Elven Ring

Fires random homing orbs.
Despite its description, this ring summons orbs that home in on the nearest enemy, making it capable of focusing bosses. When paired with the Pomodoro and Duplicator, the ring can output a constant stream of orbs and is quite capable on its own tearing down bosses. Additional use sees Honey as well as Primal Strength.

Lich’s Torment (Sanguinous Ring Upgrade)

A trailing vengeful blood pool when moving.
This ring summons a large pool of blood following the player. It features high damage in a medium area. Use with the Mallet of Prosperity and Honey. Additional enhancements see the Pomodoro and Primal Strength.

Clear Sky (Trample Upgrade)

Leaves a damaging trail.
This weapon leaves a trail of blue fire as if your character had eaten four servings of Taco B*ll and blue G*torade the day before. Each trail particle has medium DOT and new particles are constantly spawned behind your character at all times. If all particles are stacked on top of each other, it has extremely high DPS. I have seen entire runs with only the Clear Sky as the main weapon, almost full AFK as high HP enemies like the Holy Knight and Samurai melt withing a fraction of a second as they are pulled by your character into a pile of flaming blue taco remnants they themselves are standing in. Otherwise, running up and down along the length of the map (less applicable to the Capital) works fine as well. Other than this niche playstyle, it isn’t really worth any effort to build as there are usually plenty of better, focused damage options for both mobbing and bossing. Build with the Demonic Bracelet and Honey, as well as Movement Speed and Mallet of Prosperity as needed.

Lightning Rune (Louise’s Starter Weapon

Chain lightning attacks at random enemies.
This weapon (maybe staff?) summons lightning orbs that have medium damage, very good homing capability and fast attack speed at a large range. You must have another source of damage to deal with bosses since this weapon targets randomly. Pair with Honey and Duplicator, furthered by Pomodoro. Lightning balls do not leave behind damaging lightning trails.

Sunfire Cape

Incinerates nearby enemies.
This cape gives your character a fiery aura and deals good DPS at short range. However, it cannot catch up to enemies with high health and you risk taking damage as they tank through the majority of your aura. Pair with another source of damage and the Demonic Bracelet, as well as Primal Strength and Mallet of Prosperity.

Elven Bow (Henrietta’s Starter Weapon

Shoots skywards arrows at random enemies.
This bow shoots high damage, small AOE arrows with a medium reload at a large range. A decent mobbing weapon. It targets randomly and you must have another source of damage ready to deal with bosses. Pair with the Duplicator and Pomodoro, or Primal Strength.

Trample (Jing’s Starter Weapon)

Damaging zone after dashing.
This trailblazer features high DOT and functions much like a molotov cocktail coming off your character’s shoes and is a good mobbing weapon. However, its uptime is quite limited due to dash cooldowns, and cannot effectively focus stronger bosses like other weapons can because bosses move quickly through the effects of Trample (you can still can fight the first boss easily). Use with Honey for mobbing, else Demonic Bracelet and Flagbearer’s glory for damage.

Dance of the Reaper (Assassin’s Dagger Upgrade)

Continuous dagger throws.
Your character masters the art of dagger throwing and now throws piercing daggers continuously like a turret. However, since your character can only face eight directions, using this weapon is hard if you cannot strafe in front of bosses or if a large group of enemies surround you. It has medium single-target DPS. Use with the Pomodoro and Primal strength.

C Tier

Sanguinous Ring (Anis’ Starter Weapon)

Creates a trailing damaging area when moving.
This ring summons a vortex with low to medium DOT and is focused on mobbing. The vortex is supposed to feel sluggish, which promotes you to run inside enemy lines for maximal damage and sometimes nets you a nick on the arm of you don’t dash. Use this with the Pomodoro and Mallet of Prosperity. Note: Anis’ weapons, the Sanguinous ring and Lich’s Torment, are known as blood rings for short.

Inquisitor (Bayonet Upgrade)

An auto-returning weapon for smiting the heretics.
This weapon boomerangs outward to deal high damage at medium frequency and arguably small to medium AOE and homes in to return to your character. Damage is not calculated as DOT but on collision. Enemies that remain inside a spinning blade receive no additional damage unless they exit the blade and reenter. This is a very decent dual weapon; throwing out a sword into a crowd does good damage in a decent area but lets enemies flank you from the sides, but chasing a boss from behind is effective since the blade is caught more often as your character follows the boss; thus more damage. Use with Primal Strength, Mallet of Prosperity.

Blade Shield

Deals damage when attacked.
This niche weapon is fully capable of damage, provided its user can survive the double sided gun. This functions similarly to the Thorns enchantment from M*necr*ft, dealing medium damage in an small AOE upon receiving damage. This can be quite the effective damage dealer with appropriate defence and healing sources; use Iron Armour over the Hallucinatory Mushroom if possible, as bossing is already quite difficult as bosses have high attack and movespeed, and the shrooms hinder what ability left over to deal with bosses. Better items serve its purpose, such as many weapons above, or the Propaganda / Cedar forest to retreat to or use as a last resort. Avoid using Miss Impervious at any cost, as it decreases ROF. Use the Mallet of Prosperity (and Shrooms if you can deal with the effects effectively) and Iron Armour and appropriate healing. Since its AOE with all of Anis or Estelle and Mallet of Prosperity and Hallucinatory Mushroom combined is around the size of a max level blood ring, you’ll need some way of dealing with Rushers otherwise.

Knight’s Sword (Kururu’s Starter Weapon)

Strikes in a semicircle in front.
The first weapon in the game has medium damage and low attack range. It can deal with early waves effectively using the Duplicator and Pomodoro, but quickly falls apart unless upgraded in later waves. Additionally use Primal Strength or try to upgrade this weapon into Velmanway.

Fireball Staff

Fires at a random enemy.
This weapon summons fireballs that deal good single target damage. It is a good bossing weapon in early game, but completely falls short in late game due to AOE damage.

Cloaking Leaves

Orbits around the character.
This weapon orbits around the character and deals good knockback and decent damage on every leaf collision with an enemy. It can protect your character well, but we are also playing a game where offence is the best defence. Use Duplicator to increase the number of leaves.

Explosives

Caution. Handle with care.
Although this weapon appeals to anyone with a single braincell for AOE, it has low starting damage and a frustrating targeting system that goes for the nearest enemy instead of down the middle of your facing direction. Explosions with good AOE and good damage are often thrown to the side and wasted, letting enemies come in on the other side. Effective use is in the CQC range. Pair this up with the Duplicator and Mallet of Prosperity, as well as Primal strength and Pomodoro.

Kunai

Throws piercing kunais that bounce at edges.
This weapon shoots a low damage, piercing projectile that bounces on stage edges and edges of your screen. This means that you can change your zoom level to suit your needs from this weapon; zooming in concentrates thrown kunais for a smaller AOE and higher damage, and zooming out functions almost like a screenwide, better Psychedelic Flower for mobbing. The downside is that while zoomed in, you obviously can’t see far, and when zoomed out, kunais have an extremely low chance of hitting corners and are not consistent in dealing with Rushers at low weapon levels. Use with the Duplicator and Honey for consistency, or use Demonic Bracelet and Primal Rage for damage.

Gunpowder

Enemies explode when dead.
This trait deals a small amount of damage to surrounding enemies on enemy death in a small AOE. I don’t recommend this in early game when players don’t usually get Pheromones as it deals abysmal damage, but it turns into only decent mobbing damage when the enemies come in large numbers. Use with Mallet of Prosperity and Primal Strength.

Scale

More intense attacks the closer to the Keep.
This weapon summons a column of lightning that hits vertically along the screen, and increases in damage depending on distance summoned from the Keep. I believe the main purpose of this weapon to be to catch Rushers near the Keep when they are out of your other weapons’ attack range, but when you properly play the game, there is no use for this weapon anymore. Simply the Repair Shop, CC, Scarecrow and AOE or even some Constructs will outclass this in terms of damage for equal or better Rusher hunting.

D Tier

Death Punch

Greater attacks at lower HP.
Deals medium to high damage depending on HP in a small AOE in front of you. This build can be quite dangerous to maintain. Although damage can be high, it has a slow ROF and requires low HP, which can be hard to balance. You need to be careful using this effectively because a wrong move ends you quickly. If you like this kind of build, you need the Emergency Shield, some source of healing of backup or revives, and a CC option.

todo:
backstrike
Shuriken
evil punch
Katana
Assassin Dagger
Bayonet
leatherbound book
javelin
dark blade
Giant level-up laser

Note: I guess I can make the descriptions of these after my exams. They aren’t really worth building or mentioning since their damage pales in comparison to better weapons.