I started playing DC again after a long break and my best run yet was when I found the Hotline Miami reference lore room, which unlocks and drops the (level I) baseball bat. Now the Baseball bat does not have particularly high base damage but very good crit damage and guaranteed crits on stunned/rooted targets. That is already really cool when you combine it with stunning enemies by stomping on them but I was sure I´d have to replace that weapon later in the run because it was just a level I item.

A few biomes later I stumbled over a golden altar with a legendary Boys Axe, which roots enemies on hit and as I told earlier you get auto-crit hits on rooted targets with the baseball bat, so obviously I ditched my rampart shield for the Boys Axe and from there on, practically all my baseball bat hits were crit hits. But it got even better!

Shortly afterwards I found a sinew slicer and then I got incredibly lucky and was able to roll +60% damage on bleeding targets on BOTH, the baseball bat AND the Boys Axe! Obviously from there I just breezed through the rest of the run, melting everything and killed the Hand of the King in mere seconds, with a level I baseball bat as my main weapon :D

On top of all that, during the run I was also able to figure out how to use certain weapons like they were one, as it had been possible years ago but was patched out. This also added to making the build ridiculously strong since I could spam the baseball bat and the boys axe like they where just a combo of the same weapon.