The original guide, Anokuu's Guide to Master the Master, was originally posted by /u/Anokuu on /r/Diepio.
The Shooting Star technique can be used by making all your Factory drones follow your mouse, and keep it in front of you to avoid bullets. This is done to protect yourself from bullets, since the minions can instantly respawn in front of you and can take multiple bullet hits.
In order to trigger the Shooting Star, one must hold shift or right-click continuously and hold their mouse in front of their tank. You must also disable Auto Spin using C, but having Auto Fire (toggled by E) is optional.
![Auto Fire: ON; Auto Spin: OFF](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZrDIV.png)
If the minions are close enough and within the 'Leash Zone', they will form a Shooting Star.
![Shooting Star formed](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AZtdP.png)
With this protection, you can now ram someone, or start using your minions normally. The option that is most effective would depend on your build and your opinion. If you have a build with higher movement speed and body damage, ramming would most likely be more effective.
/u/Anokuu describes it this way:
Use the spinning attract to attract all 6 minions (become a star shape), then charge towards the opponent with the minions as shield in front of the Master. When moving toward a direct along with minions leashed, if you have the same movement speed as bullet speed (For example, 7 bullet speed and 7 movement speed), you don't need to move the mouse because they have the same movement speed as you do.
You can watch a fight against two experienced players, with the first using the Shooting Star tactic and the second using Penta Shot, on YouTube.
In the top-left corner, you can select which tank you can upgrade to. As a Basic Tank, you'll most likely see this:
![Basic upgrades, not including Smasher](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2QqFs.png)
If you reach level 30 as a Twin, you would see a different list of upgrades.
![Twin upgrades](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMcd1.png)
If you press the gray Ignore button below the upgrades, the Upgrades menu will slide out. It will return again if you hover your mouse near the top-left corner. It will also automatically reappear if you reach levels 30 or 45. If it will not appear even when hovering your mouse near the corner, it is probably because you don't have any available upgrades.
Best Answer
These are (build) points. Each point can increase one stat by one.
You only get 33 of them, and you get them as you level up. You get your first once you are past level 2. Then, you keep getting one for each level passed until level 28. After that, you get upgrade points at levels 30, 33, 36, 39, 42 and 45.
You can upgrade a stat by clicking the colored plus button if you have enough points to do that. They should be easy to find.
Otherwise, each plus button will be grayed out and will also slide out of view automatically. If you move your mouse make to the corner, it will reappear.
You can tell how many points you can spend by looking at the number to the top-right of the Health Regen plus button.
Special cases can be made for having 1 and 0 points:
Note: The mobile version of Diep.io refers to these as skill points, but the web version doesn't refer to them as anything at all. This tutorial simply calls them points.
Builds
Builds are the configuration of points. You might find something such as
2/2/3/5/7/7/5/2
. Each section relates to one of the stats you can spend points on. Here is the points image, but there are arrows pointing from each part of the build to its respective stat in the points upgrade corner.Even better, we could put the build vertically and each part would match up with each stat.
Going back to our example, we would put 2 points in Health Regen, 2 in Max Health, 3 in Body Damage, and so on. Here's the finished build.
Stat Descriptions
Now that we have gone through using points, I will discuss stats themselves.
Keybinds
When in an intense situation, you can't reach over to press the plus button. Instead you can use keybinds, which do the same exact thing as pressing the plus button. The keybinds are written to the left of the plus buttons.
Pressing M plus a stat number queues stat points into that stat once when they are available.
You are able to also use U to queue one point at a time. The March 9th, 2017 changelog describes the new behavior effectively:
In the below screenshot, the player has maxed out Bullet Penetration and Bullet Damage, and is currently maxing out Reload.
Points vs. Build Points
The build points, although referred to as points in this answer, are different from points, a nickname given to score. Build points are the ones showcased in this answer, while points are the number that appears below your name in Diep.io, seen below.
These regular points start at 0 and can go up to 1 million and above, while build points have a limit of 33 during a game.
Points indirectly influence build points, as points dictate levels, which dictate build points.