Advanced Guide
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Advanced Guide
This is a general guide that covers advanced tips and endgame goals and builds.
Math
Stats/damage/rune roll range: here (v0.3.2) by Polfy
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 Choice implementation
- 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 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
List of Build
How to share/submit a build : Build Format
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.
Build 1 : High Damage Flurry Bear
| High damage flurry bear | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Bear | |
Description |
Use the flurry power to deal really high damage | |
Type |
Damage | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree : here
- Chose where to put the 2 last point (Depend if you need crit or mult)
How to use :
The main idea is getting as much crit chance/mult and strength/physical increase and using flurry to deal massive damage
- The cowl of obscurity will help you by healing you a lot
- Having a solid ~900 hp, decent armor/resist (poison for temple/esturay) help to not getting one shot
- Having some mana regen and using Tranquility can help because of the 12 mana cost of flurry
Flurry has gotten a significant nerf now, and it cant be used with one handed items. This makes flurry bear a much worse build, as you would need to use a one hand weapon for it to work.
written by Polfy
Build 2 : High Damage Flurry Owl
| High damage flurry owl | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Owl | |
Description |
Use the flurry power to deal really high damage | |
Type |
Damage | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree :
How to use :
The main idea is getting as much crit chance/mult and intellect/arcane/spell increase and using flurry to deal massive damage
- Staff/Trident do arcane damage (Reason of the quartz/arcane increase)
- The cowl of obscurity will help you by healing you a lot
- Having a solid ~800 hp help to not getting one shot (You'r still a weak owl :D )
- Having some mana regen and using Tranquility can help because of the 12 mana cost of flurry
- You can also have a consecrate in your rune set get your hp up faster in temple farm for example
Flurry has gotten a significant nerf now, and it cant be used with one handed items. This makes flurry owl a much worse build, as you would need to use a one hand weapon for it to work.
written by Polfy
Build 3 : High Damage Flurry Lynx
| High damage flurry lynx | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Lynx | |
Description |
Use the flurry power to deal really high damage | |
Type |
Damage | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree : here
- Chose where to put the 2 last point (Depend if you need crit or mult)
How to use :
The main idea is getting as much crit chance/mult and strength/physical increase and using flurry to deal massive damage
- The cowl of obscurity will help you by healing you a lot
- Having a solid ~900 hp, decent armor/resist (poison for temple/esturay) help to not getting one shot
- Having some mana regen and using Tranquility can help because of the 12 mana cost of flurry
Flurry has gotten a significant nerf now, and it cant be used with one handed items. This makes flurry lynx a much worse build, as you would need to use a one hand weapon for it to work.
written by Polfy
Build 4 : Damage/Tank Steelclaw's bite
| Damage/Tank Steelclaw's bite | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Bear / Lynx | |
Description |
Use the Steelclaw always crit + Harvest life to deal damage/regen hp | |
Type |
Damage / Tank | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree :
How to use :
You deal damage + regen hp with the Harvest life rune ( + some hp regen from the Cowl of obscurity )
- Having a good 1200+ hp, 50+ hp regen, decent armor/resist (poison for temple/esturay) help a lot to not die too fast from the damage you take from ennemies / Steelclaw self damage
- Having enough mana regen to be able to spam Harvest life is a must have
- As 4th rune you can use a 3rd Harvest / 2nd Charge / Tranquility / Innervation
written by Polfy
Build 5 : Tank Bear
| Tank bear | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Bear | |
Description |
Max armor/resit high vit/hp regen tank (Still no way to keep aggro) | |
Type |
Tank | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree :
- here : Must have point
How to use :
This build is not very good at the moment because we don't have real tank runes (Like aggro keep rune). But I tested it and it is pretty tanking enough.
- The defensives stats must be 90%+ perfect and you need a nice pool of hp/hp regen to never be one shot
- You can also use a Cowl of Obscurity for some free heal (But you deal low damage)
- The 2 charges is used to spam charge stun monsters (Need ~20% mana regen) and help other to not be hit by them
(This build will have big rework when new rune will be added !)
written by Polfy
Build 6 : Support 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 | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree :
How to use :
Your job is spamming your 2 consecrates where your party member are. Always try to be close your party member to also be healing (Some ennemies can still attack you)
- Ice spear/Charge can be used on Boss/Scarlet to slow their movement/stun (Be caution of the self damage of the Steelclaw)
- Use 1 or 2 aura buff for your party member (The Sash of souls help to reduce the mana reserved of your tranquility)
- You still get loot/exp if you heal a party member that damage a monster
written by Polfy
Build 7 : Support Owl
| Support owl | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Owl | |
Description |
Fast cast heal owl | |
Type |
Healer/Support | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree :
How to use :
Your job is spamming your 2 consecrates where your party member are. Always try to be close your party member to also be healing (Some ennemies can still attack you)
- Ice spear/Charge can be used on Boss/Scarlet to slow their movement/stun
- Use 1 or 2 aura buff for your party member (The Sash of souls help to reduce the mana reserved of your tranquility)
- You still get loot/exp if you heal a party member that damage a monster
- The idea isn't getting high crit/crit mult but high Intellect. You can still help damaging with some rune if nobody need heal
written by Polfy
Build 8 : SmokeBomb Lynx
| SmokeBomb Lynx | ||
|---|---|---|
Spirit |
Lynx | |
Description |
SmokeBomb spam damage | |
Type |
Damage/Area Damage | |
| Specific Gears | Runes to use | Stat to focus on |
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Passive tree :
How to use :
Depending on the situation, this build can be very powerful. If you have enough life on hit, it is easy to heal up. This is especially useful in places where mobs are aggressive like estuary, so you can get to mog faster. It is also the dominant build in the festival of the sun event.
written by Polfy
How to submit a Build
a build needs
- Name
- Spirit who can use it
- A little description
- Type of the build (Damage/Tank/Support/Healer/Fun/Whatever you think)
- Specific Gears to use
- Runes to use
- Stat to focus on
- Passive tree picture + explanation if needed
- Give external picture link for this (example: Imgur)
- How to use :
- Explain how to use the runes / the gears
- Add any explanation you want
- Writer name
You can submit it with a wiki edit or to #wiki in the discord