Zulf's dream is kicking my ass. Still first-game, I want to complete that dream before I take the VDFD. Been grinding the Kid's dream with three gods for cash to get more upgrades and XP to hopefully ding DURING Zulf's so I can get the free refill. I've maxed the musket, hammer, revolvers, and carbine, I'm close on the repeater... and I still have the machete, shield, and cannon proving grounds open. The machete's kinda BS for me, even with the crits it just doesn't feel right. I'm a hammer-musket guy, with grenades or deeks on Q. Knockback keeps my ass out of too much trouble.

Zulf's dream with 0 gods? I didn't have too much trouble with it, but I also had the mortar before I tried it. I powered through it with the fully upgraded breakers bow for single tough guys, and my half-assed upgraded Mortar on weaker groups. I don't remember what I had on Q, but I almost never use my Q if I've got 0 gods on. My new game plus I've been keeping 5 gods on for the entire run - Lemaign, Jevel, Yudrig, Olak, and Garmuth.

Really, I don't see any reason to ever turn Yudrig off, I assumed enemies worked that way the entire game until I saw that god.

How the heck do you manage to kill things with just the Breakers Bow?

In a lot of the stages, there's so many enemies(especially with gods on) that I can only get through it by keeping mobile and popping off shots with the revolvers. Since they're fast, I can target, shoot and move before I get hit.

Was was running every god except the extra mob damage one and one other who I forget what they did.

Also, I was mortar/spear.

Speed upgrades for the bow and pierce. Run until there's a line of guys following me, turn and get off a powershot, take down a line of them.

Once I got both, I pretty consistently used the Brusher's Pike and Army Carbine. Mostly the carbine. The pike was just my backup toy.

I spent the majority of the game with three gods on during my first run (I literally never deactivated Pyth once I got him, the game was a little dull until he made the enemies faster and more aggressive[/i]), and I'm sticking at around five or six on my second.

I never liked the Machete, Mortar, or Bazooka thing with the name I can't remember right now. They're all just generally ... blegh. Especially the Machete. Too weak, kept me stationary too much when I actually tried to kill things. Feh. As to the other two ... eh, I prefer precision attacks to big boomy 'splosions.

Pretty much the only god that really gives me any serious trouble when in use is the stupid revenge god that makes enemies drop bombs when they die. That god can just go fuck itself right up the nose.

Pyth is the only god that I dislike, actually. Probably because my favored weapon is the bow. The bow is not the fastest weapon...

No, certainly isn't. Even the Carbine is faster unless you upgrade it wrong.

Welp. thought I wasn't gonna bother completing the Calamity Cannon's proving ground, but I just did it perfectly. The secret is spam. You need the two "shoot faster!" upgrades, at level 2 and level 4, and stick the other 2 in column 1, then just lean on the fire button and sorta wave it around towards where the windbags spawn.