Strategies: Onslaught

This page lists recommended builds for use in Onslaught. For information about the game mode itself, see Onslaught.

In the Campaign, the game recommends you use blockades to prevent enemies from reaching your core. This works throughout most of the game and in all Chaos tiers, but Onslaught mode (and Prime Incursions) can feature enemies much stronger than your defenses are used to. This can result in your defenses being overwhelmed very quickly. It's not common for blockades to get destroyed in seconds when you're on a higher level floor, essentially defeating the sole purpose of your blockade.

Because of this, many defenses used in Onslaught differ heavily than those of other game modes; this, sadly, also means that you're more limited on what you can use to defend a lane.

Despite the limitations, there are plenty of different builds you can use, which are listed below. Many of these builds use Shards and Mods - and some builds may even require specific ones to be used.

Poison Dart Tower + Earthshatter Tower

This build can be used very early on, as you already have access to Petrify without the need for any shards or mods. You first want to poison enemies with the Poison Dart Tower (PDT), and then petrify them with the Earthshatter Tower (ES).

The Defense Rate and Deadly Strikes shards are highly recommended. Defense Rate allows you to petrify enemies more often, while Deadly Strikes will hugely benefit range on both the PDT and ES; this is also what separates this build from other common Onslaught builds (other builds are WIP).