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== Owl ==
 
== Owl ==
  
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=== Support Healer Owl ===
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=== Steelclaw Healer Owl ===
 
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<div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center">Support Steelclaw's bite owl</div>
 
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* Max mana
 
* Max mana
 
* Mana regen
 
* Mana regen
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* Holy increase
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* Holy/elemental increase
 
* Spell increase
 
* Spell increase
 
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'''How to use''' :  
 
'''How to use''' :  
  
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Your job is spamming your 2 consecrates where your party members are. Always try to be close to your party members to ensure you are being healed too (enemies can still attack you)
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The main idea is to keep you and the whole party alive by constantly ensuring that there is at least one consecrate active
  
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* The steelclaw's bite allows for 100% crit chance but causes takeback of damage. Healing with the bite, however, does not make you take damage but still makes your heals crit.  
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* The steelclaw's bite allows for 100% crit chance but causes damage recoil. Healing with the bite, however, does not make you take damage but still makes your heals crit.  
  
 
* The owl cannot easily tank the damage from the Steelclaw's Bite, your main focus should be healing and not attacking.
 
* The owl cannot easily tank the damage from the Steelclaw's Bite, your main focus should be healing and not attacking.
  
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* For stats, focus on multi and int. Ignore crit chance.
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* For stats, focus on multi, int, and spell/holy/elemental increase. Ignore crit chance.
  
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* It is recommended to use 1 or 2 [[Rune of Tranquility|Runes of Tranquility]] for your party members because of the large mana cost of [[Rune of Consecrate|consecrate]]. (The [[Soul%27s_Moor#Obtainable_Items|Sash of souls]] will help to reduce the mana reserve of your tranquility)
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* It is recommended to use 2 [[Tranquility]] runes for your party members because of the large mana cost of [[Consecrate]]. (The [[Sash of Souls]] will help maintain a high mana pool even when using multiple tranqs)
  
 
* You still get loot/exp if you heal a party member that damages a monster
 
* You still get loot/exp if you heal a party member that damages a monster
  
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There is a high chance that Bite healing will be nerfed in future updates which will make this build obsolete.
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''edited by Arkie for v0.11.0''
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''based on Polfy's original build''
 
 
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Revision as of 17:11, 14 March 2023

Advanced Guide

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This is a general guide that covers advanced tips and endgame goals and builds.

To Add in this section

  • Advanced equipment explanation
  • Advanced info about Rune usage
  • Advanced leveling guide
  • Advanced crafting (idol/mat) tips
  • General passive node tips
  • Fighting tips
  • Other advanced tips
  • Rune choices
  • QQ equipment advice/explanation

Goals

Here's a list of things to work on (mainly lategame):

Spirit Tips

Owl

Summon Skeleton are many times used by slightly weaker owls to help keep enemies away by distracting them. Although it is recommended to use no more than 2, so that you have alternative attacks in case you are caught off guard while summoning a skeleton.

Ice Spear can be used to deliver a quick hit thanks to its low cast time.

Fireblast can be used to keep mobs at distance for a few more ticks, allowing critical time to cast a final mm or cons to heal. It also works well when paired with Ice Spear or Smite. Owls can farm groups of enemies by coupling Fireblast with a source of healing such as Consecrate, Cowl of Obscurity, or Healing Touch.

When engaging in combat alone, a Healing Touch may be used instead of a Consecrate as it provides better hpt on single targets, although it relies the caster to be reactive towards damage taken rather than proactive, which can be more dangerous.

Owls generally use Tomes as the preferred offhand slot item because of the spell crit chance and multi implicits being more useful than the block chance implicit stat of the Shields. Some owls prefer to use shields for more armor, because owls are generally have less health and armor than other spirits. The Strength requirement on shields can sometimes be a problem though.

Bear

Bear can farm groups of enemies via AoE damage sources such as Rune of Whirlwind, Shield of Lustre, or Gourdhowl together with a source of healing such as LoH, Cowl of Obscurity or Harvest Life.

Rune of Flurry may be used in pairing with a high damage axe to deal large amounts of damage in a short period of time.

If not using an axe, bears generally use Shields as the preferred offhand slot item because of its block chance implicit stat being more useful than the Spell Crit Chance and multi implicits of the Tomes.

Lynx

Rune of Flurry may be used in pairing with a high damage spear to deal large amounts of damage in a short period of time.

Lynxes generally use Gilded Shield as the preferred offhand slot item because the armor implicit stat being more useful than the Spell Crit Chance and Multi implicits of the Tomes.

Due to how often lynx can apply damage with Smokebomb, building for crit with a Cowl of Obscurity vastly increases a lynx's durability.

List of Builds

Most builds are designed around a certain spirit and a level 20 character. Before level 20, different stats might be more important to kill mobs and level up as fast as possible so players can start working on getting the strongest endgame gear. It's probably best to focus on reaching level 20 before specializing your build.

Bear

High Damage Flurry Bear

High damage flurry bear

Damage/Tank Steelclaw's Bite Bear

Damage/Tank Steelclaw's bite

Tank Bear

Tank bear

Sickle Tank Bear

Sickle Tank bear

Lynx

High Damage Flurry Lynx

High damage flurry lynx

Smokebomb Lynx

Smokebomb Lynx

Owl

Steelclaw Healer Owl

Support Steelclaw's bite owl

Sniper Owl

The strategy of the Sniper is to use their unique ability of ranged attacks to their advantage. Using Smite and Ice Spear, they can slow the advance of an enemy, allowing time to cast Magic Missile and use it to deal massive damage. As the end goal of a Sniper is to kill their target before it reaches them. This allows the owl to focus on high damage output, at the cost of low armor and vitality. For this reason, owls are very vulnerable to being one-shotted by powerful ranged attacks, such as those from many bosses Snipers feel at home when using their range advantage to avoid taking much damage, and thus are vulnerable once they are within melee range, or when fighting enemies that also have ranged attacks. Because of this weakness, it is highly recommended that all Snipers run a Rune of Consecrate or a Rune of Healing Touch, for healing.

Sniper owl


Other builds not in the list

  • High damage Bear
  • Whirlwind Bear
  • High damage Lynx
  • Ambush Lynx
  • Bow Lynx
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