Warachia's Warehouse - Death Metal Strategies

Warachia's Warehouse

Crypt of the NecroDancer: Death Metal Strategies

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[Basics]

DM himself has only 3 types of spawns (1 tile left/middle/1 tile right of the 5th row).

9-8HP: Phase1 (Shield)

When you attack DM's shield, he spawns enemies before he knockbacks. (thus newly spawned enemy can block his knockback)

You can try to deal less than 4 damage to prevent him from teleporting early, which can make fight faster (less teleport).

ex. (zap dagger without damage-up) use electricity to deal 1 damage, then hit normally.

ex. (titanium rapier without damage-up) deal 2 damage next to DM, then lunge DM to deal 4 damage.

ex. (Nocturna initial build) deal 1 damage with cutlass, then hit DM with bat form.

However, sometimes other enemies are messy and these can be slower than just fighting normally.

7-3HP: Phase 2 (Summoning)

DM fight has spawn cap (7/5/3/3/5), which can be useful to avoid his summons.

2-1HP:Phase 3 (Fire)

He casts fire even when frozen.

There's 2 type of parities for DM (like red bats), which you can adjust/change by choosing where to enter the fight/killing enemies/using bounce traps.

I describe the parity you get when you enter vertically aligned with DM as "on parity", and the parity you get when you enter horizontally 1 tile off from DM as "off parity".

You can use his summon to heal up yourself (with crown of thorns/heal spell/bat form/blood weapons) (especially on Nocturna score, where greed drain doesn't affect bat form).

・Basic Strats

・Obsidian Rapier/War Drum/Gigantism

・Infinite Damage

・DM1 Easy Earth

・Axe/Rapier Earth

・Double/Triple Heal

・Basic Strats

If you want to hit DM 3 (or 2) times in a row, you enter on parity.

If you long range 3+ damage, you can enter off parity to hit DM faster.

You can avoid to get out of the way by using fireball/shooting stars.

High/Inf damage source can be very useful.

・Obsidian Rapier/War Drum/Gigantism

You can kill DM before teleport with them.

・Infinite Damage

Blood Drum Throw: You can always enter from middle.

Blood Drum + Axe: For middle spawn, you only need to go 1 tile left/right. See monster's post.

Gold Kill: You can intentionally hit DM's shield to possibly get convenient enemies for gold kill (especially on Mary DM1).

You can also use onyx weapons, mana bomb, earth+battle shov, frost dagger/ring, blood weapon effect, gold weapon+rich to 1-shot DM.

・Freeze

With 1 damage, you need to hit 2 times before freeze.

・Snowbro

The number of turns you can hit DM will be like 3→5→7→9→11…

・Low% Bomb

There are a variety of DM low% bomb strat, which allows you to avoid summoning phase.

This one assumes you are off parity (which you can get by entering horizontally 1 tile off from DM).

You can always kill 4 ghosts for easier fight.

Reminder: You can change parity by killing enemies/using bounce traps.

For Mary, see lith's post.

・Melody Bomb

・Earth

If you want to earth-kill DM with bottom-wall, you should enter on parity for faster kill.

・DM1 Easy Earth

Works with 1-range weapons/spear/longsword/bow etc.

Enter with off parity, hit once, up, earth.

(You can't do this if ghosts are too close to DM, which rarely happens.)

・Axe/Rapier Earth

You need to avoid middle bouncetrap.

On DM3/4, this is difficult but enemies can block middle bouncetrap.

・Double/Triple Heal

Thanks to fast song:

On single tempo, you can use stairs-heal twice. (easier with late-stairs?)

On double tempo, you can use stairs-heal 3 times.

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