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Easy Cactus - Kill 100 Cactus enemies with thorns damage

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NOW WITH VIDEO PROOF RUN - How to unlock Catcus - Kill 100 Cactus enemies with thorns damage

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Overview

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IMPORTANT - CORE STRATEGY MOST PEOPLE GET WRONG

Character selection

Weapons and tomes to get

Weapons and tomes to AVOID

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IMPORTANT - CORE STRATEGY MOST PEOPLE GET WRONG

Cactus casts a small AOE attack on where you stand. Catching these while you have thorns stat damages the cactus. Do NOT bump the cactus with your body because Aegis and other weapons are NOT THORNS. This is why most people cannot complete this challenge. If no cactus at 8:59, restart.

Pic 1: Stand on those small AOE circles to damage the cactus with your thorns.

The mission is to kill 100 cactus with THORNS damage. It goes without saying, no cactus, no mission.

Cactus will never be the FIRST to spawn, you will see mummies first then a second type of enemy at 8:59, if you do not see cactus spawning at 8:59, just restart (Press & hold R), this is better than waiting for another few minutes just to see no cactus at all. There's RNG involved but you don't have to get 100 kills in one run, but you want to make sure whenever you get cactus spawns you are not wasting the opportunity

Character selection

The most important stats to have for this challenge is THORNS damage and damage mitigation. While you can get thorns with thorns tome on any character, Athena has innate thorns damage as well as Aegis which serves as damage mitigation. Picking Athena is therefore recommended.

Weapons and tomes to get

Weapons

Aegis - This blocks one damage, you will be catching a lot of cactus attacks so this becomes a very essential item
Katana - Short range at early level, stops you from accidentally wiping out cactus enemies. It will not slice half way across the map at tier 1 just yet.
Dexcutioner - Same as katana.
4th weapon - Your choice, just make sure it's very short range and will not be stackwiping cactus enemies. Chonker stones, aura, etc are great since they are limited in range and won't accidentally kill cactus.

Tomes

Thorns - 3-4 levels would suffice, I did not actually get a throns tome and still unlocked it, you can likely do it quicker with thorns tome.
Projectile count - Aegis scales with projectile count, allowing you to take more cactus shots, also gives your short range weapon more defence.
Shields - Allows you to take more cactus shots equals faster completion
Lifesteal - Essential for sustaining the cactus attacks

Item top picks

Campfire - Literally heals you while you stand around to tank cactus shots
Beacon - Allows healing on the go between jukes
Burgers - Heals the occasional damage in case you take too many shots
Spikey shield - Gives you thorns damage - But since it's not a common item, the chance of you getting this PLUS seeing cactus is not very high. If you see it definitely pick it up.

Weapons and tomes to AVOID

Avoid Weapons

Anything long range - Slutty rocket, sniper rifles, daggers, anything with range that bounces you don't want them, because they can hurt the cactus by accident.

Tomes

Pickup range - You don't need it.
Size - You don't need it.
Attack speed - Not needed. You need to be tanky to eat the cactus shots.

Item top picks

Moldy cheese - Meta boss killer, but beware the poison damage CAN accidentally kill cactus. If you feel like you are not scaling well against bosses and there are a lot of cactus and you got Thorns 3, moldy cheese is still viable.

Anything poison, burn, DOT = avoid.

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10 Comments

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aidandixon1111 4 Nov @ 9:32pm

I figured out a way to do this in about 3 hours, I went pretty well!

Instead of doing this, I picked Calcium, I'd rush shrines for thorns, and since his bone weapon does just barely below the amount of damage to kill them at lvl 1, I'd hit them once with the bone, then bonk for a thorns kill.

I avoid any damage scaling, and get as much shields and healing as possible, only using shields to bonk into the cacti, while picking up as many thorn and shield shrines as possible.

Most runs I'd get 2 or 3, just due to almost no cacti spawning, but every now and again I'd get a run with loads of cacti and I managed to get 25~ in one run, it was glorious

cheddar500 29 Oct @ 11:11am

Woah, good to know, thanks!

Gekkō 28 Oct @ 8:25pm

Your Neighbour [author] 27 Oct @ 12:48pm

Great to hear!

⎛⎝RoyX1v⎠⎞ 27 Oct @ 11:28am

The best!!! Thanks to you, I was able to complete this hellish achievement!

Challa 26 Oct @ 6:52am

I hate this challenge so much ffs facepalm sigh

GCE I am GoonGoon 25 Oct @ 12:28pm

okok hear me out. I saw the quest before entering desert. So I knew to look out for cacti. Which I first noticed the actual plant , not the enemy. The ones at 0::55, So what I've been trying is stack thorns and movement speed and hurl my body at it. Then I'm watching the video and going .. this guy hasnt even jumped into one cactus yet. What is going here... I see nowww

k£r£m 24 Oct @ 4:33am

ayn k

Your Neighbour [author] 23 Oct @ 8:03am

Great to hear it helped!

rowan0306 22 Oct @ 7:01pm

great guide, i spent like 3 hours trying to do it before and only had done 30, had no idea that the damage spawning where u stand was from the cactus, dont think any other guide said that, did it in 3 runs after following this one

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