Orb Devo Build

Orb Devo is a Devolution Build which is focused around removing specific stats from your Tower in order to utilize Orb Mechanics to a full efficiency.

The goal is to remove any ability from the tower that will kill too many units too quickly. Devo strats are all about getting an advantage out of killing enemies with the right multipliers available. We want Black Hole and Golden Tower to go off with as many enemies on screen as possible.

Base Requirements

As all Devo builds, Orb Devo has it's requirements in order to be effective:

• Black Hole and Golden Tower in sync (can use Multiverse Nexus)
• Cards/Extra Orb card
• Extra Orb Adjuster Lab
• Range set to 69.5m (use cash in run)
• Extra Orb card set to 60m
• Set Shockwave to ~1.4 to juggle basics to bottom of the stack more if using Wall (1.65-1.75)
• Devo’d workshop Heavy into Defensive Options

Workshop Devo basics

In order for Black Hole and Golden Tower to go off with as many enemies on screen as possible we need to make sure in the workshop and with substats the following stats are at 0.

Attack Upgrades

• Attack Speed
• Multishot Chance
• Rapidfire Chance
• Bounce Shot Chance

Defense Upgrades

• Thorns (push up with cash during run to trim basics. As enemy spawns increase you will want to slowly get this up to about 34%) (can run substat if workshop is 0)
• Knockback Chance
• Orbs
• Shockwave Size (can be set at optimal shuffle distance 1.4 without Wall about 1.65 with)
• Landmine Chance
• Landmine Radius

Utility Upgrades

• Free Attack Upgrade
• Free Defense Upgrade
• Free Utility Upgrade

Optional stats to Devo

• Crit Chance - Lets you damage Devo for longer for those wishing to pursue those strategies
• Range - Different strategies use different ranges. Always a good idea to leave this at 30m base
• Landmine Damage - For people with Land Mine Radius for Land Mine Stun card or who have Spotlight and want to do Land Mine Orbless.

Cards

Following is a list of required and recommended cards for Orb Devo Build.

Best Cards

Following Cards are Required for the current build:

• Extra Orb
• Coins
• Critical Coin
• Sash
• Enemy Balance
• Health
• Extra Defense

Econ Cards:

• Wave Skip
• Wave Accelerator

Defensive Cards:

• Health Regen (if you use Wall or Wormhole Recombinator Mod),
• Recovery Package Chance if you don't or are using the Galaxy Compressor Mod

Nice to haves:

• Fortress (for early in the run),
• Land Mine Stun (do not use or undevo Landmine chance until Land Mine damage is irrelevant in your run. You do not want them to kill your stack. Only to stun to reduce damage. This is only relevant with Mythic or Ancestral Land Mine Radius)

Nice to haves

• Maxed Black Hole Coin lab
• Maxed Black Hole Damage lab
• Extra Extra Orb labs (both of them)
• Death Wave (for HP and Coin and Cell increases)
• Spotlight (For Spotlight Coins)
• 25s Black Hole Duration (with perk) This is so at max Black Hole Damage Protectors die in 2 cycles
• Extra Black Hole Lab
• Garlic Thorns
• Lower Cooldowns on Black Hole, Golden Tower, and Death Wave

Strategy

Base strategy for Orb Devo is to Hoard and eHP tank a ton of enemies so when Black Hole and Golden Tower go off together all enemies are pulled up into Black Hole and Orbs will kill the bricks.

After setup cash should be spent on defensive options. This includes Enemy Attack Skips, Wall (if you have it), Health, Regen (if using Wall or Wormhole Redirector Mod), Defense Absolute, Def% etc.

Micromanage Thorns to Trim basics as they are worth less coins.

When you are at risk of dying use cash to max Free Ups and proceed to Blender strategy until death.

Pitfalls

This Devo build comes with some drawbacks:

• Protectors are a huge nuisance. We max Black Hole Damage and have 25s duration so that they guarantee die in 2 cycles of our UWs.
• Low Damage from bullets mean Elites and Bosses are largely killed via Thorns damage.

How to Improve

Focus on Survival stat improvements

Lower Cooldowns while keeping Black Hole and Golden Tower in sync.

Perk Priorities

Following Perks are recommended during the run to make most use of Orb Devo Build

Econ

• Perk Wave Requirement
• Coin Trade Off
• Golden Tower Bonus
• Black Hole Duration
• Coin
• Extra DeathWave Wave
• Cash

Defensive

• Regen Trade Off
• Regen
• Defense%
• Max HP
• Defense Absolute
• 50/50 Damage Trade Off

Low Life Time Coin (sub 1T)

If you are devoting in T1 or T2 Defense absolute is your friend and you will want to pump it up in the workshop to about 1000 or so. After that you will want to prioritize Health as large package recovery is usually the best strategy for survival early on. If you have a Wormhole mod Regen may be of use for you but honestly not usually until you are getting close to 5000 levels in it as earlier than that it scales poorly. The goal is to get Health up to about 5000 so you can cash max it in run.

• Lab goals for survival
• Defense % to lvl 23 (so you can def% cap with ancestral substat and maxed Standard Perk Bonus)
• Death Wave Health
• Health lvl 50
• Maxed Standard Perk Bonus
• Enemy Attack Level Skips

Early Mid Game (3-200T)

At this point you should have Mod options. Largely Wormhole is the best right now but you always want the highest rarity DEF% substat you can get. Landmine Radius on a mythic or greater armor mod will make Land Mine Stun a very good card in the very tail ends of your run by stunning a ton of enemies. Thorns is useful not only for hitting higher breakpoints on Wall Thorns if you choose to go that route but also reducing scatter through wall damage and extending blender at the end of the run.

Credit goes to @tremnen from The Tower Discord

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