Progress help

Hey guys.

I feel like I'm kinda stuck in progression after following the loot progress guide for dummies.

I got a Countess, Apprentice, Ranger and Initiate to 74 and got some gear for all of them and my stats are as follows.
Initiate Stats
Hero stats 269-166-279-300 Tower Stats 418-372-408-375

Ranger Stats
Hero stats 462-442-465-276 Tower Stats 440-447-411-306

Apprentice Stats
Hero Stats 48-242-98-282 Tower Stats 340-587-559-663

Countess Stats
Hero Stats 286-326-308-263 Tower Stats 335-744-200-804

I've been duoing NM HC Endless Spire for quite a while, with AFK controller, but loot which is an improvement has been far between.

I've also tried the UMF solo guide here and failed at 2nd wave and NM MM which I fail at around wave 10.

So where do I need to go? Farm NM HC Endless Spire some more or is there some magic trick I can do here?
My items ain't fully upped either, so I guess I could do that for around a 40+ in stats on each character.

Thanks for your time. =)

Do misty campaign in hardcore. Not many ogres spawn in campaign. The loot at wave 8+ will be better than the loot you get on endless spires. At wave 12, loot will be way stronger that what you have, for sure.

nightmare survival alchemy lab would be another option

So I tried with a NM HC squire build and I failed at wave 10, I think it was, because of 3 simultaneous ogres from 3 different direction. Was to much to handle. 2-3 at one spot was easy, since I could just repair and boost the harpoons with my huntress.

Got a few items, but nothing to yell "hurray" at =)

Might gonna try NM Survival Alchemy Lab when I get home and see how far I can get there =)

Also a side note is you only need 3 sets of gear for all 4 classes. You need a tower set for your monk, a seperate tower or hybrid set for your mage, and 1 hero dps set that can be shared by your dps toons. Just move it to whatever character you want to play dps on.

Also a side note is you only need 3 sets of gear for all 4 classes. You need a tower set for your monk, a seperate tower or hybrid set for your mage, and 1 hero dps set that can be shared by your dps toons. Just move it to whatever character you want to play dps on.

So you think I should dump the Countess all together? I was under the impression that after the App nerfs the squire did a better job at soloing? =)

Also, I've been looking for a new gun for my ranger. He has a Blasticus with around 6k dmg. I've heard that mythical retribution should rock its socks, but all Mythical Retribution I've seen is worse then my Blasticus. Whats up with that? =)

Retribution shoots 5 more projectiles and they pierce. It should easily destroy a Blasticus :)

A proper Retribution is hands down the best huntress weapon in the game atm.

You can't have seen any good ones yet, the best ones have 254 upgrades and lots of 100-180 stats.

rets shoot 4 projectiles, not 6 >__>. But they are still by far the best gun.

I've seen one with 2xx upgrades but it only had 1 stat over 100 and the thumb still pointed down.. Dunno whats going on.

Anyway.. I've been farming tons of mana to get my gear upgraded.. Found out about 200m cap the hard way o.O is there any way to store mana?

Been looking into getting a proper app & huntress guardian, but looking at defendersstore.com they seem to have crazy stats, for 100m, so I am worried that they are hacked. Is there some quick guidelines, like they can't have more then 50 boost stat non-upgraded or do I just have to go with my guts?

Thanks for all the help so far.. Really helped me out a lot =)

I've seen one with 2xx upgrades but it only had 1 stat over 100 and the thumb still pointed down.. Dunno whats going on.

Been looking into getting a proper app & huntress guardian, but looking at defendersstore.com they seem to have crazy stats, for 100m, so I am worried that they are hacked. Is there some quick guidelines, like they can't have more then 50 boost stat non-upgraded or do I just have to go with my guts?

The thumbs down is probably due to the fact that the weapon damage on your current weapon is upgraded to the point where it sees an upgrade as a downgrade whereas if you think about it and pump a couple of hundred million mana into it it would then show as a thumbs up.

For the buying items issue you can use common sense and to be honest I'm unsure if theres any guide showing 'maximum' stats for stuff. I've seen many guardians at 100+ stats and 100+ upgrades spawn in my tavern after doing ESNMHC and the best ones either cost 75,000,000 mana or 10 mana. If you keep doing ESNMHC campaign you will eventually see pets of similar quality spawning, it just takes time.