230 material results in 2318 material after 12 waves. That translates to 2318/25=92.72% damage and 2318/100=23 HP, up to 69 HP if I would get all 3 paddings (at that time no one could know if I would end up with 1, 2 or 3). Not to forget the Potato Thrower scales up it's damage by our HP at 44-80% (blue to red), which is then further increased by the higher damage%. Which one of the 2 sound better ^^?

For those curious, I think the difference in spelling and pronunciation comes from "armor" being derived from the Old French word "armure"

The difficulty is that at the time of seeing an item, we don't know yet how many padding, ranged damage and HP I will get. This matters because material increases HP which then increases the Potato Thrower damage, so there can be cases where % damage is higher but the Potato Thrower damage is lower, simply because in the case where it's lower the character had way less HP. All in all in my experience, almost everything is not worth it and I heavily overbought here. Take the purple dagger at wave 5 that only costs 124 material, that sounds like a clear "that will pay for itself!" case, but if you math it out, at wave 20 this will result in 1910 material. And this is where it gets really nasty to attempt to math this out. For starters, you have a 58% chance to have a 62% chance to gain 1 material, but also only if the weapon actually gets the killing blow. For simplicity sake we will just assume whenever it attacks it kills. If we multiply the % values with each other, we get a 36% chance per kill to gain a material. That would mean in that moment we would need to kill 5308 enemies to make the purchase worth it. Except that's not true, because the moment it gets material, the material is also affected by piggy bank and this is 20% every start of the round. But even if it would reach that value in theory after mathing out odds, amount of enemies and everything, there is another problem of "Did we even need this weapon to kill the enemies?", because if not and we would get the same kill amount, then you'd need to calculate the average expectation of material on that weapon compared to the case of not taking it. Meaning you no longer compare "keep the material or invest in the Thief Dagger III", but "Keep the material and still gain material from another dagger while losing 2 common Thief Dagger vs invest in the Thief Dagger III and have a second Thief Dagger II" . Then you would also need to adjust for above average expectations of crit and melee damage bonuses (I say above average because as a KZfaq video, you shouldn't expect to see average or below average runs when someone attempts to get high luck) and you are running in circles of impossibilities. So this sounds over complicated compared to the Wisdom, but what you would need to check for Wisdom is: -The easiest one first is what I mentioned above: Does it actually end up in more damage or not due to an HP decrease -Do we actually end up with more kills compared to without it, since overkilling more has 0 value -Could Wisdom be the reason we lose a run because we start on lower damage and that allows dashing enemies to kill me -Does it even matter to deal more damage after 20 seconds if we already have to survive for 20 seconds, in a run where we assume enemies will eventually one shot me -How do we value the loss of HP compared ot the gain of damage, and due to ranged enemies techncially speaking the main limiting factors are not damage but HP, Armor and Dodge (since ranged enemies can always hit me before I hit them - in theory)

Don't forget I was rerolling the first 2 waves until I got 6 daggers. So I just give it a random attempt now: Wave 1: 4 Daggers, if I don't get this I reset (I had also 0 horde waves and usually I'd reset, but doesn't matter here), had 2 lvl ups and down to 4 Material Wave 2: 6 Daggers, 1 lvl up, 15 material left Now at this point my priority is to pick up attack speed, crit, melee damage, % damage and especially luck. Luck makes it more likely that you get the weapons you already own, and having full weapon slots makes it less likely to get weapons you don't already own - very important Wave 3: Nothing in the shop, 1 lvl up. I got +6 melee damage offered for 111 material (and I had exactly 111), but I don't think that's a good choice. Note that at this point, I'd already reset because I would want a blue luck level up to make it more likely to get the weapon, but also higher level items/weapons Wave 4: Got a free Hedgehog, 2 level ups and 287 Material, rolled for +10 Luck and rolled for +5 Luck (once each) Wave 5: 1 lvl up for luck (honestly would rather have crit or melee damage, but Im not gonna roll), bought Tree, 478 Material left Wave 6: Destroyed 4 trees, got 0 crates. My urge to reset is over 9000. Rolled once, got 5 luck, 25 total. Shop has purple and blue Thief Dagger, I now have 1 purple, 2 blue, 3 normal ones. Wave 7: Starts with 750 material, I will stop at this point. All in all, its a similar-ish point to the video though behind in weapons while being ahead in material. Too much luck, I had to choose it as best option and not that I wanted to reach 25, honestly 10 early on is all I want. But for the rest - resets. A ton. It's normal that I sometimes spend 4-5 hours per playing session just to reset for a run and I try to do it early on so I don't waste too much time. That also means I miss out on insane runs where everything works out by having insane shops, but it helps to get runs faster. You can always check in the video which stats I focus on and by wave 5, I had 15 luck, while on Wave 3 I already had 5 luck.

Literally what I was playing today lol xD

it feels like later armor don't really matter that much