Advanced Guide

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):

• Reaching level 20 (on all 3 spirits)
• Farming Stinktooth/M'ogresh/Radulos/Temple for gear
• Find/augment full legendary gear (has more rolls)
• High damage roll weapon
• High rolled runes
• Unlock Whirlwind (from Stinktooth)/Ambush (from Bera) recipes
• Farming for Putrid Shank (from Stinktooth)
• Farming for Steelclaw's Bite (from Stinktooth)
• Farming for Princess Morgawsa's Trident (from Estuary)
• Farming for Corrupted Blossom (from Temple)
• Farming for Cowl of Obscurity (from Gaekatla rep)
• Farming for Gaekatlan Druid skin (from Gaekatla rep)
• Seasonal events
• Become the strongest :D

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

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Standard Damage Bear

Slash
Spirit	Bear
Description	Use flurry to deal high single target damage
Type	Damage
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stat to focus on
Cowl of Obscurity Pendant (for str implicit) 2 Loops (for all attributes) Leather Belt (for crit) Smokey Orb (for dodge) Gourdhowl (for whirlwind on hit)	Slash Charge Harvest Life Whirlwind	Strength Attack crit chance/multi Physical increase

Passive tree choices

Choose depending on which improves dpt more, the first tree is typically stronger due to the % of a single stat roll the nodes represent (the difference is a 3.5 chance node vs a 40 multi node, the chance node represents a little more than one max roll while the multi node represents about 1.3x of a max roll)

How to use :

The main idea is getting as much crit chance/mult, str, and physical increase to pump weapon, slash, harvest, and charge damage

• Regular axes are an option if Gourdhowl is not readily obtainable, or you can run a one-handed weapon such as a Sword or Sunsickle with Shield of Lustre

• The cowl of obscurity and harvest lifes are important survivability tools

• Whirlwind can be used as a way to clear out groups of enemies

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Flurry bear

High damage flurry bear
Spirit	Bear
Description	Use flurry to deal high single target damage
Type	Damage
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stat to focus on
Cowl of Obscurity Pendant (for str implicit) 2 Loops (for all attributes) Leather Belt (for crit) Smokey Orb (for dodge) Gourdhowl (for whirlwind on hit)	Flurry Charge	Strength Attack crit chance/multi Physical increase

Passive tree choices

Choose depending on which improves dpt more, the first tree is typically stronger due to the % of a single stat roll the nodes represent (the difference is a 3.5 chance node vs a 40 multi node, the chance node represents a little more than one max roll while the multi node represents about 1.3x of a max roll)

How to use :

The main idea is getting as much crit chance/mult, str, and physical increase to pump weapon damage for flurry

• Regular axes are an option if Gourdhowl is not readily obtainable

• The cowl of obscurity is an important survivability tool

• Vitality and resistances can help you survive a flurry cast with bad rng

• Having some mana regen and using Tranquility can help alleviate the high mana cost of flurry

Flurry is NOT a consistent source of damage, so this build is abnormally reliant on rng

written by Polfy edited by Arkie for v0.11.0

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Steelclaw's Bite Bear

Steelclaw's Bite Bear
Spirit	Bear
Description	Use the Steelclaw always crit + Harvest life to deal damage/regen hp
Type	Damage / Tank
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Cowl of obscurity Choker/Pendant/Amulet (for hp regen/str/int) Smokey Orb (for dodge chance) Steelclaw's Bite Shield (preferably Wooden Shield for the block chance)	Harvest life Charge	Poison/all res Strength/Intellect Vitality Attack crit mult Physical increase Hp regen Mana regen

Passive tree choices

Choose depending on preference or on which stats you are missing (first tree is survivability focused while second tree is damage focused)

How to use :

The main idea is to both deal damage and regen hp using scb, while being tanky enough to survive your own self damage and the enemies' damage.

• Ideally 2 harvest life runes will be used, this is the perfect amount to harvest, take 2 steps, and harvest again (this is important for doing mog'resh)

• All attr is a blessing, as harvest life scales off of 0.75x the sum of int+str, meaning all attr is bascially 1.5 mainstat for the purposes of scaling damage instead of 1

• Focus on improving vit/res stats first, as they are vital to not killing yourself with scb

• Depending on if you are above/below 134% attack speed, 52/48 mana regen is the breakpoint to infinitely sustain 2 harvest lifes on cooldown, realistically you will need less as you should not be casting off cooldown too often

• Spare rune slots is ideally dedicated to either Tranquility or Innervation

written by Polfy edited by Arkie for v0.11.0

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Tank bear

Tank bear
Spirit	Bear
Description	Max armor/resist high vit/hp regen tank
Type	Tank
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Iron armor pieces (for lot of implicit armor) Choker (for hp regen) 2 Loops (for all attributes) Scaled Binding (for vitality) Smokey Orb (for dodge) Sword + Wooden Shield (for block)	Charge Slash/Flurry Harvest Life Tranquility/Innervation	Vitality Hp regen Armor Poison/all resist Attack/spell dodge (attack dodge is more useful) Strength

Passive tree

Pathing to multi on the tree is not particularly useful in this case, it is up to personal preference where those points should be allocated, although the attack speed can help reduce harvest life cast time from 3 ticks to 2 ticks if an additional 18% attack speed is present from gear stats

How to use :

This build is purely theoretically useful and will not be practical until the addition of a rune that can establish threat not based on damage dealt (bear attacks and runes have threat multi present on them, but that is based on damage dealt so tank bear cannot realistically take aggro)

written by Polfy edited by Arkie for v0.11.0

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Sickle Tank bear

Sickle Tank bear
Spirit	Bear
Description	Necro-ish build focused on harv and sickle
Type	Tank
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Iron armor pieces (for lot of implicit armor) Choker/Pendant/Amulet (for hp regen/str/int) 2 Loops (for all attributes) Smokey Orb (for dodge) Sunsickle + Wooden Shield (for block)	Charge Harvest life	Vitality Hp regen Armor Poison/all resist Block chance Attack/spell dodge (attack dodge is more useful) Strength and Intellect LoH Attack crit chance/multi

Passive tree choices

Passive tree is completely up to personal preference here, just go with whatever feels best

How to use :

The main idea of this build is similar to scb bear, but instead of relying on scb to artificially inflate damage at the cost of extra levels of danger, a sickle and loh are used to increase survivability at the cost of damage (it is possible to actually outdamage scb bear because you are not limited by your own hp pool regarding how hard you can hit)

• Any regular sickle can be used if sunsickle is not readily ontainable

• High vitality is important to survive between harvest casts

• Unlike scb bear, crit can and should be squeezed into the build (res is less important on this build so sacrifice res first to put on crit)

• All attr is a blessing, as harvest life scales off of 0.75x the sum of int+str, meaning all attr is bascially 1.5 mainstat for the purposes of scaling damage instead of 1

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Butcher PVP Bear

Butcher Bear
Spirit	Bear
Description	Use Steelclaw, charge, and damage from lustre and slash to kill players in a single stun
Type	Damage / Tank
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Steelclaw's Bite Pendant (for str) Smokey Orb (for dodge chance) Steelclaw's Bite Shield of Lustre	Slash Charge	Strength Attack crit mult Physical increase Vitality

Passive tree choices

How to use :

The main idea is to both to use Steelclaw's guaranteed crit (self damage is almost irrelevant in pvp), and a long stun duration charge coupled with slashes and spikes from lustre to kill even the tankiest enemy player in a single stun.

• Pvp is determined almost entirely by whoever charges first

• Lustre spike damage bypasses spawn invulnerability, so it is possible to kill players that have respawned and are still unable to attack you back

• Some vit/armor can help you survive against a weaker butcher's combo, but ultimately building tanky is completely useless (you can have capped armor, 1500 hp, and capped res and still die in one combo from a powerful butcher)

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Lynx

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Flurry lynx

Flurry lynx
Spirit	Lynx
Description	Use the flurry power to deal really high damage
Type	Damage
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Cowl of obscurity Neck: Locket (for dex) 2 Loops (for all attributes) Leather Belt (for crit) Trinket: Smokey Orb (for dodge) Spear/bow	Flurry Charge	Dexterity Attack crit chance/multi Physical increase

Passive tree choices

Choose depending on which improves dpt more, the first tree is typically stronger due to the % of a single stat roll the nodes represent (the difference is a 3.5 chance node vs a 40 multi node, the chance node represents about 1.1x of a max roll while the multi node represents about 1.3x of a max roll)

How to use :

The main idea is getting as much crit chance/mult, dex, and physical increase to pump weapon damage for flurry

• The cowl of obscurity is an important survivability tool

• Vitality and resistances can help you survive a flurry cast with bad rng

• Having some mana regen and using Tranquility can help alleviate the high mana cost of flurry

• You can use a bow if you prefer the range over the raw damage of spear, this can also allow you to take Roll over charge for kiting purposes

Flurry is NOT a consistent source of damage, so this build is abnormally reliant on rng

written by Polfy edited by Arkie as of v0.11.0

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Smokebomb Lynx

Smokebomb Lynx
Spirit	Lynx
Description	SmokeBomb spam damage
Type	Damage/Area Damage
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Cowl of obscurity Neck: Locket (for dex) 2 Loops (for all attributes) Leather Belt (for crit) Trinket: Smokey Orb (for dodge chance)	Smokebomb Ambush Tranquility	Dexterity Mana regen Attack crit chance/multi Physical/poison increase

Passive tree

How to use :

The main idea of this build is to use the high tickrate of sb damage coupled with crits and cowl heals to stay alive and deal damage

• Cowl of Obscurity is a MUST, this build does not function without it

• About 43 mana regen is the break point for infinitely sustainable casting of sb as soon as the cooldown is finished.

• Although it may seem unintuitive, the more enemies around you the safer you actually are, as more enemies -> more crits -> more cob heals, and it is highly unlikely they will burst you fast enough to kill you

written by Polfy edited by Arkie as of v0.11.0

Owl

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Steelclaw's Bite Owl

Support Steelclaw's bite owl
Spirit	Owl
Description	Fast cast/Full crit heal owl
Type	Healer/Support
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Sash of Souls Steelclaw's Bite Ancient Tome (for crit multi)	Consecrate Tranquility	Cast speed Intellect Spell crit multi Max mana Mana regen Holy/elemental increase Spell increase

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How to use :

The main idea is to keep you and the whole party alive by constantly ensuring that there is at least one consecrate active

• 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.

• Because the max duration of Consecrate is less than the cooldown, you need 2 cons runes to always have one active. Perfectly casting 2 max dur (13) cons runes so that cons is always active requires 92 mana regen to be infinitely sustainable, so beg your party to run extra tranqs

• For stats, focus on multi, int, and spell/holy/elemental increase. Ignore crit chance.

• 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

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Generalist owl

Sniper owl
Spirit	Owl
Description	All purpose owl
Type	Ranged Damage
Specific Gears	Runes to use	Stats to focus on
Quartz Fragment (for arcane incr)	Magic Missile Smite Fireblast Ice Spear Healing Touch Consecrate Tranquility	Intellect Spell/arcane/holy/elemental increase Spell crit chance/multi Cast speed

Passive tree choices'

Owl passive tree is incredibly flexible, you can change it depending on what you prefer or what matches the situation.

How to use :

The main idea of this build is to be adaptable to many situations, whether you need to deal single target damage, apply debuffs, heal, or do anything else. Owl is the jack of all trades spirit!

• This build is incredibly adaptable, with it being recommended that you dedicate some inventory space to extra runes or even extra gear pieces (rune swaps help you adapt to any situation, and you can carry some specialized equip swaps such as a full cast speed Finger or Trinket item)

• This build can vary amounts of cast speed, spell crit, intellect and mana stats based on personal choice.

edited by Arkie for v0.11.0

Other builds not in the list

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