Sorry, am Chinese, am using machine translation to write you this
I went and actually played through it
here's what I think was the best build I found.
later on, i just only upgraded the bottom 4 abilities with my money. I skipped damage, hp, and armor after getting a little bit.
1. Fastest way to get stuff is just to just bum rush through. If you take 1 dmg ignore it. Just run straight into people. Just clickclickclickclick
Endurance skill (% chance to restore 1 hp after being hit) is not bad for 'rush' runs. You restore lots of HP. Alternatively, the restoration skill might also work.
2. Best build? AOE abilities + 1 anti-boss ability
If you don't get the skills you want in the first few rooms, just die and retry.
I think the shield skill is broken. It's almost better than taking defence. Because once you get defence and everything reduces to 1 dmg, then why get more? It's useless until you reach the boss. (Or a miniboss) But then just use shield skill. Doesn't make defence stat bad, just means shield is really good.
I went with Hawkeye (long range) + Haphazard shot (Fire arrows at random targets) + Repeat (% chance to fire additional arrows) and this nuked rooms. This is really good for both bosses and when rooms are stacked with enemies at the beginning. Haphazard shot just does a lot. Haphazard shot works off of hawkeye's vision bonus. But haphazard shot does NOT interact with repeat.
So hawkeye + haphazard nukes the monsters in a room but also works as a ranged boss DPS nuke. After boss armor, near the end I was hitting bosses at maximum range with hawkeye + haphazard for about 20x6 dmg. (Some weaker bosses even took 23x6) Pretty good. And once they get close, either shield to tank dmg, or use a knockback skill to buy yourself time.
When the boss gets close to you, take your pick for what to use to knock them back. I thought intimidate was the best, because it reduces their armor and haphazard shot + Repeat rely on multiple shots.
Slap the bosses around easy. I got to the end in one try when I used this build.
I thought restoration was really useful for helping me keep HP high. Ultimately I ended up having like 90 HP near the endish and being able to restore all of it in 2-3 rooms.
I don't know if crit or base damage is better. If repeat works for critical damage, then crit is probably good. In any case, with enough base stats in damage, you will one-hit or two-hit everyone all the time so early on you can max out hitrate and critrate and keep damage low.
Additioanl:
Complete + Endurance work well together for rushing.
I gave you the most important abilities. But for the last one, I don't know what's good. I thought about retaliate or rebound, but those are probably not that great. Maybe the last one you should get is lightning arrow.