This is my 2 cents on various strategic aspects of the game, I'll share with you what I learned and understood about the game mechanics, in the hope it might give you ideas or even help you improve if you were struggling. Enjoy and feel free to comment and debate if you think something seems wrong or can be improved

This guide is focused on understanding the core mechanics of the game, maximizing efficiency in combat and how to improve on it with your current heroes. You'll find informations about stats, skills, gear progression, class builds, teams, Combat AI Settings, Commander Traits builds etc.. everything possible to get the edge and leading you to victory

If you are starting out or are looking for more like a guideline, detailed informations about every feature you'll encounter in your journey, hints and tips, I suggest you to have a look at Tenoshii's Guide first then comeback here.

@Sparrowhawk is making a PANOPTYCA Wiki with a bunch of informations and numbers from the game, I recommend to check it out if you want to know more on some values.
Here's the thread link on Steam forums
And the direct link to the PANOPTYCA Wiki[panoptyca.wiki]

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And now ? (Jan 24th 2026)
My squad is composed of :
- 1 team (Knight/Archer) doing daily Temple-15 (80s per run) with Scrolls and Commander Buffs.
- 1 speedrunner 9-10 in 2.8s (Assassin, Deadshot build, see Advanced Builds section), nearly 45k Mana Stones Ahel per day (with time pass and faith retry timers)
- 1 speedrunner 8-10 in 4.4s (Priest, Holy Smite build, see Advanced Builds section), 23k Mana Stones Ahel per day (with time pass and faith retry timers)
- Battlefield farming (class build zone) :

• Knight (Atomic Samurai) C-10
  
• Archer (The Minigun) C-6
  
• 2nd Assassin (Hi Venomous) C-3
  
• 2nd Knight (Sideros set) - B-10
  
• Warrior (Spin to Win) B-3
  
• Wizard (Oppenheimer) A-6 (will be deleted for a 3rd Sideros Knight)

I don't do Ruins anymore because I finished Knight (2 times) and Archer boss sets, I'm waiting for the content update with the new boss sets, crafting Skillbooks in the meantime
I'm back to doing only Overdrive Sideros-Ruins-11 for another Sideros set (3rd one), and
Only reason to do (overdrive) Ruins might be for the Mana Stones and Mana Cores (enchant fuel) and the drops it gives (lot of orange and red drops)

and, because boss armor sets are not class-exclusive, craft a few Sideros Gloves (%attack damage) / Kesidus Boots (%crit chance, %attack damage) for other AD classes but not complete sets.
(I did craft one pair of Sideros Gloves and Kesidus Boots for my Warrior)

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I made an Ahel Calculator on Google Sheets,
you can make a copy of the file to your account to use it

Ahel Calculator v2[docs.google.com]

- Gear Progression part 2 (soonTM)
- More teams
- Refine some sections for more visibility and readability

Dates are DD/MM/YYYY

25/01/2026
- Added Option B for Exploration Commander tree, as an alternative with less daily friction

23/01/2026
- Updated Ahel Calculator to V2
- Added a gameplay video for endgame C-3 speed farming with poison Assassin
- Updated intro about what my squad is currently doing

17/01/2026
- Updated Warrior Spin to Win alternative skill setup, feels a lot less clunky

15/01/2026
- Added Priest advanced build Holy Smite, an 8-10 speedrunner (<6s)
- Added Ahel Calculator google sheet in Intro section
- Updated some generic builds accessories (wizard, archer, assassin..)
- Removed Archer's generic build The Flying Turret (was outdated, refer to The Minigun instead)
- Updated intro about what my squad is currently doing

13/01/2026
- Added note in Potion Setup about the Soul Elixir potion and it's usage

09/01/2026
- Updated Potion Setup with a second endgame setup to speed up your runs

08/01/2026
- Updated / reworked Assassin's Hi Venomous build, more CDR focused, new accessories, skill restrictions and gameplay video
- Quick update of Assassin's Knives Out build with new gameplay video
- Quick update of Knight's Atomic Samurai build with new gameplay video
- Quick update of Priest's Godrays build with endgame accessories and gameplay video
- Quick update of Wizard's Oppenheimer build with gameplay video
- Updated intro about what my squad is currently doing, with an 8th character (reached level 30 Commander)

07/01/2026
- Updated Potion Setup with endgame setup
- Updated Assassin's Knives Out build with endgame skillset and accessories
- Updated intro about what my squad is currently doing

02/01/2026
- Updated Commander Tree Exploration, unified the options and changed to a minimalist tree
- Updated various builds with some small notes
- Updated intro about what my squad is currently doing

30/12/2025
- Updated Commander Trees, added a second option for the Exploration Tree

27/12/2025
- Added Atomic Samurai, an advanced Knight build
- Updated Warrior's build Spin to Win with alternative skill setup
- Updated some informations in the Knight/Warrior team section and the Intro section accordingly

23/12/2025
- Updated Knight Wethermon Build, with skills update and notes, gameplay video
- Updated Warrior Spin to Win Build, with skills priority, restrictions and notes, gameplay video

22/12/2025
- Updated intro about what my squad is currently doing

21/12/2025
- Added Deadshot Advanced build, the Assassin 9-10 speedrunner (4.2s)
- Updated the Commander Traits Exploration section with optimized build

19/12/2025
- Reworked Enchants section with patch 1.0.3.0 changes
- Reworked Gear Progression Part 1 section for more readability and with patch 1.0.3.0 changes
- Added an alternative 2 accessories setup for Archer in the generic builds, also added gameplay video for The Minigun build, and updated the skills selection to promote more Eagle Eye instead of Legendary Archer
- Updated Combat AI settings options for Teams Assassin / Priest and Wizard / Priest

18/12/2025
- Added Knight / Assassin team
- Added Wizard / Priest team, updated Wizard and Priest generic builds section with a bit more information on skills

16/12/2025
- Added Wizard Wormhole speedrunner build (Advanced Builds section)
- Added Knives Out, an AD Assassin classic build (Generic Builds section)
- Added videos for teams Knight/Warrior and Assassin/Priest
- Added a note in the Generic Builds Archer section, about +projectiles and added alternative skill in the builds

15/12/2025
- Updated Stats section with pictures, quick edits on the stats informations
- Refined Trickster advanced build section (ex-ZoomZoomBang, was time to rename it)
- Updated Pathfinder build, with new visuals and new accessories set with alternative

14/12/2025
- Added a note about Mind Heal to the Priest Boost-bot build
- Updated note in the Knight/Warrior team section
- Updated note with new information about AI settings in the Assassin/Priest team section
- Updated note about what my squad is doing at the moment, in the Introduction section

13/12/2025
- Added/Updated pictures in Commander Traits, updated informations and descriptions a bit for Exploration and Faith
- Added Leadership tree in Commander Traits

12/12/2025
- Added Assassin / Priest team
- Updated notes on Archer / Priest team
- Reworked Generic Class Builds - Priest section, separated solo and team party play Priest (with updates on build)
- Added alternative accessories on Poison Assassin
- Updated Commander Traits section
- Refined some sections

11/12/2025
- Added Archer advanced build Pathfinder, speedrun 9-10 in 8.3s
- Reworked Teams section in multiple sections
- Archer / Priest line-up is work in progress again, will soon add the changes in setup I made with the team recently

10/12/2025
- Added PANOPTYCA Wiki link in the introduction section for those interested

09/12/2025
- Reworked class builds sections
- Added Shotgun build for Archer
- Some minor updates of informations here and there

07/12/2025
- Updated the Trickster build with a new timer, 11.3s per run
- Populated the Commander Traits section
- Updated Skill Priorities & Restrictions to include informations about Support Skills settings
- Added a note in Generic Class Builds - part 1's introduction about gear progression and slowly switching to more offensive accessories
- Updated Genereic Class Builds - part 2 with an update on Archer's build and recommendations, also on Priest for party play
- Added a note in Teams - Archer/Priest about Priest potion setup
- Refined some parts of the guide
- Updated Introduction informations
- Refined and updated Trickster 9-10 boss farm build, also new starting-up accessories

06/12/2025
- Populated the Gear Progression section (finally), pretty generic part 1.
- Populated the Teams section with 2 teams
- Added recommended accessories for Archer, Priest and Assassin's builds and enchants too
- Added recommended enchants for Knight, Warrior, Wizard's builds
- Updated the Enchants section with more information
- Updated the Stats section with more information
- Refined the Generic Class Builds sections

05/12/2025
- Added a note in the Buff Stacking section, regarding an easy overlooked behavior in buff casting than can chew the mana pool of all your heroes when you reach a certain amount of CDR
- Refined guide sections
- Added informations about monster tier setting in Combat AI section
- Added class stats building
- Added build Assassin Trickster, 9-10 boss rusher

I tried first to keep the traditionnal 1 health potion, 1 mana potion and 1 utility potion depending on the class and situation, but that didn't work really well compared to the 2 healths pot, 1 mana pot setup.




You should try the setup 2 health potions, 1 mana potion, here's why :

Since defensive stats in this game are less meaningfull than offensive stats, even with a lot of armor and flat damage reduction, spell res is scarce and harder to get to a good level, so having another layer of defense with the potions is crucial.

Be it a swarm of trash mobs chewing your health bar in seconds or some hard hitting boss, sometimes you'll use all your health potion charges in an instant (burst damage).

With a medium potion, that is 3x1600 hp recovery, so 5400 hp total.. having the double of that can be decisive and the difference between continuing your journey, slaying the boss, or death.
Large Health Potion give 3500 hp, 3x3500 = 10500 hp total
It is like having multiple lifes if you compare it to your hero's hp.

You can keep the %health threshold the same for both potions, it will only deplete one at a time, the further left first.



The Soul Elixir potion is mandatory to speed up your boss farming runs yes, but it's not only that..

It also becomes a wonderful boost for endgame farming of any content.
It allows to ignore normal mobs and pass through them,
but also act as a defense layer against some magic attacks like magic missiles and fireballs because with it you can evade these.

With that in mind, when using this potion you should put the zero restriction to allow it's usage as soon as it is available again



When reaching endgame, with better gear (often orange+), you'll need less of the survivability offered by 2 health pots, and can speed up runs a lot by using a different setup with special potions.

- 1 large health pot : 50% health threshold, adjust to your liking but keep it lower than hybrid pot
- 1 hybrid pot : only use in combat, hp threshold to 75%
- 1 soul elixir : no restriction (use when available again)

If you have mana issues, you can remove the hybrid pot hp threshold and put a low cooldown (2-3s max, or no cooldown at all) and use it somewhat like a random regen pot every couple of seconds



If you have enough mana regen and defenses and kill fast enough, often farming on lower boss areas than your hero level (areas A/B with levels 90/95+ are good for that), you can remove the health pot and use the hybrid pot as your main health pot. This allows you to put another pot to speed up your run, speed pot works well on most classes.

- 1 hybrid pot : only use in combat, hp threshold to 75%
- 1 speed pot : only use while moving
- 1 soul elixir : no restriction (use when available again)

If your hero get hit out of combat and cannot sustain until next fight and die while running, remove the "only use in combat" restriction on the hybrid pot

There is two types of foes you come across and that is :
- swarm of trash mobs, low health but lots of little attacks
- larger health pool and hard hitting single mobs

In your skill kit you have a few types of abilities :
- single-target, high damage
- multi-target / AOE (Area of Effect), lower damage
- single-target / aoe and utility/move skills (like a charge, a leap, a step shot..)
- buffs
- debuffs


So the minimum you should go for is 1 single-target, 1 aoe and 1 buff.
Ideally what you want is 1 single-target, 1 aoe, 2 buffs or 1 buff / 1 damage utility move / 1 debuff.
This can of course vary depending on your options and you can have like 2 aoe, or can try something in party play and bring multi debuffs, utilities, etc..


See the Generic Class Builds - part 1 / part 2 and Advanced Class Builds, if you want some ready to go builds with their skillsets, recommended accessories and enchants.

(numbers below are per point, these values do not differ from one class to another)

STR
+1 flat Attack Damage
+2% armor
+5 health points

DEX
+2% attack speed (exception, Assassin seems to have a 20% increase so 2.4% per point)
+1% crit hit damage (flat increase, just adds on top of what you already have)
+0.5% movespeed (calculated on base Movement Speed)

INT
+1 flat Spell Damage
+0.2% CDR (Cooldown Reduction) (flat increase)
+3 mana points
+0.1% crit hit chance (flat increase) (on Wiki says +0.2% per point)

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So with the stats breakdown in mind, you can decide how to prioritize your stats, from what I've seen and after discussing it with others (early with @Tenoshii on steam forums, and others on Discord), I have a few suggestions on how to build your heroes stats-wise, it can be prone to variations if you have an original build and skillset but for the most part it stays pretty generic unfortunately. Armor is really important to get the minimum layers of defense going and is tied to STR.




Full STR
Can put a few points early in DEX (tops at 10-15) and INT (tops at 10-20), you'll get some base attack speed while you are working on getting more CDR, and some mana points to make your mana pool last longer. (can always reset later if you feel you don't need these anymore)

Substats
- %CDR, %increased Attack Damage, flat Attack damage



Full STR
Almost the same as Knight, can put a few points early in DEX (tops at 15-20) and mostly INT (tops at 10-20), can be quite mana hungry when spamming higher tier skills with high CDR (like whirlwind)

Substats
- %CDR, %increased Attack Damage, flat Attack Damage



Half STR/DEX
Can put a points in INT (tops at 15) to get a bit more mana mostly

Substats
- %CDR, %increased Attack Damage, flat Attack Damage, %AS



Half STR/INT can tends toward 1/2 STR/INT at some point
Can put a few points in DEX early (tops at 10) while you're working on your CDR to help with the auto-attack part and waiting for spells cooldowns to refresh but that is really not necessary

Substats
- %CDR, %increased Spell Damage, flat Spell Damage



Half STR/INT
Actually depending on how you build her, you can put a bit more points in DEX (tops at 15) it should works well with her buffs (swiftness + enchant vision) to get more auto-attacks

Substats
- %CDR, defenses (%max HP, %armor, flat attack/spell damage reduction, HP & Mana regen), flat spell damage, %increased spell damage (hard to get beside archmage's ring though)


Half STR/INT

Substats
- %increased Spell Damage, flat Spell damage, defenses (%max HP, %armor, flat attack/spell damage reduction, HP & Mana regen)

Half STR/DEX
AD can put a bit of points in INT for more mana mostly

Substats
- %CDR, %increased Attack Damage, flat Attack damage, %AS

You can find the craftable weapons, armors and sub-weapons n the Crafting menu in-game, I'll just do a quick summary of the breaking points and what to keep in mind.


- White (normal)
- Blue (magic)
- Yellow (rare)
- Orange (unique)
- Red (boss)

- White 5, 10, 15, 20
- Blue 20, 25, 35, 45
- Yellow 27, 37, 46, 55
- Orange 44, 52, 58
- Red 60

Sub-weapons levels are 1, 36, 52, 60

There is milestones when enhancing which give a significative boost when achieved.
Generally it is +5, +10, +15, +20

But the success rate of enchanting goes lower and lower :
+1 / 2 / 3 / 4 is 100%
+5 is 80%
+6 is 75% (3/4)
+7 is 70%
+8 is 65%
+9 is 60%
+10 is 50% (1/2)
+11 is 40%
+12 is 30%
+13 is 25% (1/4)
+14 is 20% (1/5)
+15 is 10% (1/10)
+16 is 9%
+17 is 8%
+18 is 7%
+19 is 5% (1/20)
+20 is 3% (1/33)

You can already see the problem right there, you'll burn enhancements stones (runes), but more on that later.

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I'll not take into account Boss tier to keep it simple
By going up a tier, you'll see two things :
- The primary stats (Base Effect) are differents, superior than their same level counterpart in the lower tier (remember that there is overlaping levels brackets from one tier to another at first ?)
- A new substat will appear or be of higher grade meaning more bonus, this one stays the same when you enhance your gear, it is under the "Additionnal Effect" indicator

- White : nothing
- Blue : 5% crit chance (increases a bit from first to last level)
- Yellow : 6.5% crit hit chance, 40% crit hit damage (both increase a bit from first to last level)
- Orange : 8.5% crit hit chance, 65% crit hit damage (both increase a bit from first to last level)

- White: nothing
- Blue: Only level 35 has a new substats which is +5 mana regen
- Yellow : 4% CDR
- Orange : 7% CDR, 5% AS

- White : kind of a common Base Effect substat, the treasure chest capacity, it will go up with each tier, starts at +3 first white to end at +24 last orange, it's like a backpack
- Blue: 5 flat attack damage reduction (level 35 has mana regen again, +8)
- Yellow : 10 flat attack damage reduction, 5 flat spell reduction
- Orange : 15 flat attack damage reduction, 7 flat spell reduction (+8 for lvl 58), 5% max HP

- White : nothing
- Blue: 3% crit hit chance
- Yellow : 5% crit hit chance, 10% crit hit damage
- Orange : 5% crit hit chance, 25% crit hit damage

- White : nothing
- Blue: 10% crit hit damage
- Yellow : 25% crit hit damage
- Orange : 35% crit hit damage

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With all of that in mind, maybe you thought about advancing rapidly to the next tiers to get these bonuses. You'll have one main problem when going further, enhancement stones.

And I talk mainly about weapons, not armors, because you don't need to enhance to a very high grade with armors, at first. The stats differences are not much to justify spending more runes on a tier until later on.

For weapons, the bonuses are significant.
The flat damage increase of course, but the %more damage too and it is what is really crucial here.
+15 is 33% more
+16 is 37%
+17 is 41%
+18 is 45%
+19 is 49%
+20 is 59%

If you look at your gear overall, you'll find that you can have a few %increased Attack/Spell Damage here and there (some Rings, enchants..) and this %more on the weapon, so it really the only multiplicative value of your Attack / Spell Damage, besides some buffs, and between 33 and 59 it is a significant gap.

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All of this to say, you will want to apply some strategic approach to enhancing gear.

I still maintain that you don't want to go very high with armor, +15 will be max in most tier, you can even stay at +10 and go up in tiers to get some new bonus substats if you can +10 the next tier. But as of patch 1.0.3.0 with more accessible Faint Mana Stones and yellow gear enchants, you can now stay longer in yellow armors.

This means early/mid game you can either :
- follow the same pattern as weapon for enchancement (see below)
- only enchance to +10/+15 and go up a tier earlier, you can use the armors you loot along the way. You don't need to craft the best level, as sometimes a temporary orange tier helmet / gloves etc.. with a nice enchant is a good upgrade to push while you wait on mats

After you get a ton of mithril to craft orange (in the Ruins), you can focus on only the best levels orange

You can advance rapidly to get new bonuses and the stats difference between levels is quite high comparing to armors. But you don't get big boosts at +10/+15/+20, it means you can enhance to only +10 at first and it's fine, See the Enchants section of this guide to see why you need an orange subweapon quickly

You should really restrain from adopting a new weapon that just dropped or that you can craft on a lower level from the next tier.

Instead take the approach of getting a
+20 white level 20, then
+20 blue level 45, then
+20 yellow level 55

And try least going by milestones +10, +15, +20
each time and not stopping in between, for big boosts.
And lastly craft or drop (you'll) your level 58 orange tier weapons.

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Sounds dumb I know but really try to focus allocating the next tier AND max level weapon, enhancing it to max grade, to your top tier heroes, the pushers, the ones doing higher level temple etc.. Even if it means throwing to the recycle bin a mid level higher tier weapon (even orange, yes)

For the other heroes waiting to get an upgrade on their weapons, well, let them farm lower level boss areas for mana stones for crafting until they get their upgrade.

I looted multiple level 44 orange tier weapons that I recycled for 1 mithril.
I got a 58 orange axe for my warrior that I looted, no need to craft, waiting since a couple of days in the storage and it will stay there a couple more days, I am still going strong with my +20 yellow lvl 55 axe while upgrading my 58 orange bow and sword closer to +20 each because.. runes.. so the orange axe will wait.

EDIT: it pays off, the bow is done / EDIT2: and the sword a couple days later

Tiers of enchants :
- Rare, on yellow gear, needs Faint Mana Stones
- Unique, on orange gear, needs Mana Stones
- Boss, on red gear, needs Mana Core

Some enchants grades are unlocked at higher tier of gear, so for example for certains skills enchants on subweapon you'll need at least the orange tier of subweapon.

Higher tiers of enchants also gives higher grades of existing enchants on lower tiers, with better stats

That's why you should try to push for orange sub-weapon to get the good enchant for you skill, and new / better substats of course, typically a +0 orange will be superior to a +15 yellow. For Knight and Warrior you can even skip the yellow sub-weapon and go from blue to orange.

You can buy Mana Stones (for orange gear) in the shop, 50 Mana Stones for 500 diamonds (1 time daily) so it is quite cheap for the time saved in the beginning of your journey.
From time to time with your free diamonds, you can buy a bit of Mana Stones for enchanting orange gear. Get just a few, you won't need a ton.

I recommend to NOT spam too much the enchants roulette to try to get the perfect one, know where to stop for a good cost / reward ratio

The enchant are quite an upgrade when you get a good one, have a look :

This will be pretty straightforward, nothing really fancy about these settings

You'll mainly want to use two styles of Exploration Range depending on what your hero is doing.
Your hero is killing bosses for stones needed for crafting (x-10, A-3, A-6 etc..), you might not need to clear the whole area and can skip some parts to get faster to the boss
Exception is if a short path (as not taking too much time to do) is leading to a unique mob, you might want to stick with the "full" option


For the Clear style, in high level areas I would suggest to keep Full Sweep ticked to avoid being killed by mobs following you, in lower level areas with higher level hero you can speed it up by ignoring mobs so Partial or Minimal can be ticked.



You can untick normal mobs so you avoid killing them because it is sometimes really slowing you down, and often some are grouped with blue mobs so you'll still kill some.
With Soul Elixir you'll just go through and save a ton of time.
Without Soul Elixir (ghost effect), if your hero get stuck on a mob or 2, he will still attack to clear his path and move on, ignoring the tier restriction but he will get hit in the process

There you want to kill as many mobs as possible to get more exp and more chests, so a full path and full sweep is recommended

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If you looked at the Skills setup section, you know that a good kit uses AoE and Single-target, often the AoE will cover an area around your heroes, somes just in front.

In order to optimize target acquisition and killing, in most cases you should use the Higher Tier First, this way you'll focus on unleashing your single-target skills on the thougher ennemies AND clearing trash mobs along the way with your AoE skills.
If you choose Lower Tier First or Nearest First, you'll be waiting on killing lower tier or nearest (and in this case talking again about lower tier) ennemies then moving to the higher tier target.

Though there is cases where you don't really want this behavior and instead select Nearest or Lower Tier First :
- Archer : you might not want to move into position to kill higher tier and instead focus on clearing everying that is near her first to avoid melee.
- Priest : only have two AoE damaging skills, and often want to avoid contact in party play, so she can focus on clearing the nearest targets to have less pressure on her.
- Wizard before getting Desintegrate (single-target) : with only AoE at your disposal before getting Desintegrate, there is no real need to focus on higher tier immediatly, and in the same spirit you might want to clear mobs around to lessen pressure.

Skills priority goes from 0 to 8
0 for the highest priority (first in order)
8 for the lowest priority (last in order)

When it comes to priority, you have to ask yourself what matters the most to do first. The answer can vary from a person to another but here's my take on this, in order of priority from top to bottom :

- Heal, if for example with the priest I want to heal first, a dead hero can't use skills
- Buffs, I want to unleash skills with full power, better sharpen your knife before cutting onions than after, plus you'll be crying, blame the onions
- Utility skills, you might want to charge first, to dash first, to step back first
- Single-target, burst the big boys
- AoE, lastly doing damage to everything

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Often by defaults buffs will have the behavior Use Only while Moving, this do two things :
- pros : you not waste time casting buffs while entering in combat, you'll save mana in combat for your other abilities
- c0ns : you'll waste buff timers on walking, and if in combat and the buff expire you'll not cast it again

Most of the time buffs are only useful in combat, exception is something like Exaltation of Swiftness or similar move speed buffs in the Common Skills kit.

Also they are often quick enough to cast to not hinder your ability to unleash hell on your foes.

So my recommendation is either to switch that to Use Only in Combat or untick the restriction to use it in and out of combat, except for Exaltation of Swiftness just untick the restriction, and for move buffs keep Use Only while Moving to avoid using it in combat

BUT In a Boss Rush speedrun setup (9-10, 8-10 etc..), you'll want the opposite, using your buff at the start while moving then nothing in front of the boss.


There is a setting called Buff Stacking, Not Allowed by default.
Well, you cannot really stack buffs, but what it does in the Not Allowed position is waiting for the buff to expire to cast it again, while in the Allowed position it will cast it as soon as the cooldown is up and other restrictions conditions are met.
I would suggest to only consider allowing buff stacking if you don't have any mana issues first, else with a lot of CDR it can chew quite fast your mana pool. Most of the time you don't want to allow buff stacking



To avoid wasting mana on weaker targets, you should put a restriction on single-target abilities to not be used on at least normal ennemies, you can untick magic but it depends and can be useful to let magic targets too, try and see how it works for you

It seems that Damage over Time effects are not stackable from the same skill (but multiple skills have their own effect), from what I could observe and some others of Discord too, and the first hit does not do damage on its own.

I would suggest to put a cooldown on single-target DoTs to avoid spamming a skill for only refreshing the timer.
And since multiple skills have their own effect, you can set the Ennemy Count to 1+ on AoE DoTs like Poison Mist or Venom Fang so you can hit unique and bosses too when they are alone



The first part of the restriction panel is about your hero, and scrolling down you'll find another part about allies, this is the settings you'll have to change is you want to set conditions on fire up your support spells.
For support skills like heals, you want to ignore and untick the first part about the hero own Health / mana thresholds at the top of the settings and only use the ones in the Support Skills section of the panel.

The first setting Ally is actually priority for yourself (translation issue ?), and the second setting Allies is priority for your allies.
Then you have your classic Health and Mana thresholds working the same as before but this time it checks your ally and yourself and it will use the target priorities between your allies and yourself (work just like skill priority) to decide on who the skill is going first.

This section will focus on how to allocate your Commander Traits.
For colorblind people, I hope my descriptions along the color of the lines is enough

This is mostly for F2P players, Paid Packs (Supply/Idle Pack) can leave that for later.




Your first 9 (recent patch) 8 pts should go to Faith, allowing 500 1000 (recent patch) white (normal rarity) chest limit, so you can get more magic+ rarity chests when idle.

At some point when you'll be farming Ruins, 9-10 and other bosses for Mana Stones, you might need less of that limit and can save 3 points by removing the last nodes and keeping the first 100 white chest limit (total 6 points)
EDIT: With the update, the last node only cost 1 point now, and with the doubling of chest limit from these nodes, just keep it.

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I would recommend to do this tree after putting your points into Exploration first
This Faith tree is for optimizing speedrunners with retry timers, and/or holding more chests while idle, I suggest to do it if you have a precise goal with it, else do the other trees instead

Go straight to the magic chest limit node to the east. (it's now 100 limit instead of 50 before the recent patch)
This will allow you to stockpile more yellow, orange and red chests while idling for hours.



Then continue and follow the RED line (middle, 3x resurrect time).
You'll have 2 options after that :
- take the GREEN line (south, more magic chest limit) then the BLUE line (north, more white chest limit) to get more idle chest limit
- take the PURPLE line (west and north-east, retry timers) to get more Mana Stones with your speedrun builds 9-10 / 8-10 etc..

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This tree is focusing on chest drops and monster density, especially in the Battlefield

The benefits are better drops but also better mob density, you get +40% (up to +56%) mob density in Battlefield and also 1/5 chance to get two Unique mobs instead of 1.
This allow to get loot quicker to gear your team, but also to advance faster in the main quest

It's flexible ad you can switch points everyday (but costs diamonds) as needed from battlefield density points to get Shadow Temple mob density (PURPLE line, south-east), or to get the Overdrive cost reduction (+ ruins mob density) (BLUE line, north-west) when doing Overdrive Ruins then back to battlefield density. (or you can allocate the points for good if you don't want to daily switch with diamonds)

Don't go for Spoils of the Abyss (south west red cross) (0.01% chance to get x100 chest, it's spread across the chest tiers, not like x100 red chests). Chances are too low, you'll mostly get it on normal or blue mobs and it'll just fill your normal and blue chests a bit faster.. really not a valuable node.

Spoils of the Abyss (red cross) -> you can go for this node after you get the Temple / monster quantity and Shadow of Darkness (2x uniques) nodes

Mirror Plaza (north-east last Rare node) (1% chance to duplicate chest) is kinda meh, it is RNG on top of RNG, you have to drop the chest then roll again to duplicate. Not great but if you have spare points, it is still more drops in the end.



For less daily friction, and almost the same amount of points (20 base, 3 floating), you can use this tree and get fixed points for Temple and Ruins bonuses with 3 floating points between Temple monster quantity and Ruins monster quantity (north-west blue line and south-east purple line) depending on the content you are doing

You still have 32% Battlefield monster quantity, and get Spoils of the Abyss included in the path

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The total 11 pts here give the following stats, to every hero :

50 attack AND spell damage (1 perfect roll enchant on helmet for 1 or the other)
7% CDR (1% on top of a perfect roll enchant on helmet or boots)
7% increased armor
7% increased spell resist
6% movespeed

The last 4 points (GREEN line, south west) to reach the potion charge passive recovery is really optional, it can give a small boost at first when you have long Ruins boss fights but in the end with better gear and time, it will become pretty useless again, so you can avoid it and it's fine.
Along the way you also gain +20 Attack/Spell damage for 70 total (a perfect roll enchant on gloves)

See the Combat AI Settings & Skills Restrictions sections of this guide to learn more about Skills priorities, restrictions and why it is important.

See the STATS section of this guide for the recommended stats building for each class



The recommended accessories are with the goal to find balance in stats and are in synergy with the class's personnal buff and sub-weapon, you can always go for a more glass canon approach if you want but that won't work everywhere, it can also depend on the content you're doing like farming lower level boss areas.

You'll find out that later, with better base gear (orange +15 armors, orange rings and necklace), you'll get more and more defensive and regen stats "for free", at this point you can often freely switch the defensive rings and necklace (Guardian Necklace, Amethyst Rings) for more offensive options.
But do this slowly and observe the fights and results over multiple runs, because with the actual junky AI, sometimes it is better to lose a bunch of DPS but not die randomly every few runs, your call

Possible skills options
- single target : double strike, vital strike
- aoe : spin slash, soul slash, hurricane strike, fullmoon slash (+ self heal)
- utility : reckless charge, step strike
- buff : moment of enlightment, firm stance (defensive), bless to might (Common Skills kit, %more attack damage)
- debuff : x

- Hurricane Strike (aoe)
- Vital Strike (single-target, DoT [damage over time])
- Step Strike (damage/dash) (run Firm Stance for a more defensive no-dash option, Bless to Might for a more offensive second buff option)
- Moment of enlightment (buff, self, %increased CDR)


Recommended accessories

- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Assassin's Ring : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance
- Voler's Sunstone : same as Assassin's Ring + %CDR, HP & Mana Regen

If you don't have the Voler's Sunstone yet, you can replace it with an Amethyst ring for sustain, or go without sustain and put another Assassin's Ring or Ruby Ring (for the %CDR missing from Voler's) for more DPS.

Recommended Enchants
- weapon : flat attack damage
- sub-weapon : depends on your skillset, Vital Strike %more damage for single target, Hurricane %more damage for AoE
- helmet : %CDR if low / not capped 80%, any other offensive stat (except spell damage)
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction (spell seems better, spell res is harder to obtain)
- gloves : flat attack damage
- boots: %CDR if low / not capped 80%, flat attack damage

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An upgrade to the Hurry Cain build
Recommended accessories and enchants are the same as Hurry Cain



Here we use Full Moon Slash as our AoE instead of Hurricane.
I was using Bless to Might as a second buff for %more attack damage,
but went back on using Step Strike for the mobility and gave back Bless To Might to my Warrior

Enchant
For the sub-weapon enchant just go with the Full Moon Slash %more damage for AoE or Vital Strike %more damage for single-target

Skills Priority
Vital Strike before Full Moon Slash

Skills Restrictions
- Vital Strike : cooldown 3s, all target except Normal and Magic
- Full Moon Slash : minimum target 1, 250 distance
- Step Strike : minimum 2 targets, 500 distance, 4s cooldown

Possible options
- single target : slash, berserk crush
- aoe : power slash, whirlwind, earth crusher
- utility : swipe, heavy hook, small quake (aoe + slow), leap attack
- buff : battle cry, berserk cry (%more attack speed, party buff), last bastion (defensive, don't recommend this skill, locks you in place while taking damage to the face for the duration)
- debuff : intimidating cry (%less attack damage)




Skills
- Slash (single-target)
- Whirlwind (aoe)
- Bless to Might (buff, %more attack damage, Common Skills kit) (if your Knight uses this skill, take berserk cry instead)
- Battle Cry (party buff, %more attack damage)

Recommended accessories

- Guardian Necklace : %max HP, flat hp, flat attack/spell damage reduction, HP & Mana regen
- Ruby's Ring x2 : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR

Alternative

- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- 2x Voler's Sunstone : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR, HP & Mana Regen

Recommended Enchants
- weapon : flat attack damage
- sub-weapon : Slash %more damage
- helmet : %CDR if not capped, any other offensive stat (except spell damage)
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction (spell seems better, spell res is harder to obtain)
- gloves : flat attack damage
- boots: %CDR if not capped, flat attack damage

Skills Priority
Whirlwind before Slash

Skills Restrictions
- Slash : all targets except normal
- Whirlwind : minimum targets 2+, distance 350



An alternative setup focused on Whirlwind as AoE and Single-Target, only use if capped on CDR and don't have mana issues.
Enchants for alternative setup
Same except subweapon, get %more damage on Whirlwind

Skills Restrictions for alternative setup
- Leap Attack : cooldown 3s, enemy count 2+, distance 800, target normal magic and rare only
- Whirlwind : enemy count 1+, distance 350

Skills Priority
Whirlwind before Leap Attack

Possible options
- single target : disintegrate
- aoe : fireball, inferno, magic missile (multi-target, 5 hits, 3 hits on a single target max), fireburst, aqua ball, meteor strike, nuclear ball
- utility : teleport
- buff : focus, ancient one (can use Bless to Magic prior to unlocking this, Common Skills set)
- debuff : curse of weakness (%decreased attack damage), curse of frailty (%decreased spell damage)


- Focus (buff, %increased CDR) / can replaced with Bless To Magic (buff, %more spell damage) when enough CDR
- Disintegrate (single-target)
- Nuclear Ball (aoe) / when you start to get enough firepower you can switch to Meteor Strike if you can oneshot mobs with it
- Ancient One (buff, %increased spell damage and armor)

Final version when enough gear



- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Archmage's Ring : %spell damage, %AS (low, doesn't show up on base ring, 0.5% per level), %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low)
- Amethyst's Ring : %max HP, flat attack damage reduction, HP & Mana regen

Alternative (less defense, more cdr)
Can allow to replace Focus with Bless To Magic

- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Ruby's Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR
- Archmage's Ring : %spell damage, %AS (low, doesn't show up on base ring, 0.5% per level), %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low)

You can upgrade the rings to Bared's Rings (orange tier) and maybe use Aluna's Radiance as necklace (careful with the lack of HP and higher level content)

- weapon : flat spell damage
- sub-weapon : depends on your skillset, Disintegrate %more damage for single-target, Nuclear %more damage for AoE
- helmet : %CDR if not capped 80%, any other offensive stat (except attack damage)
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction (spell first, spell res is harder to obtain)
- gloves : flat spell damage
- boots: %CDR if not capped 80%, flat spell damage

Possible options
- single target : bleeding arrow, rapid fire (can hit multi-target in line if first one dies/move)
- aoe : split arrow, explosion arrow, piercing arrow, multi-shot
- utility : stun arrow (single-target damage, slow), step shot, backstep shot
- buff : eagle eye (+flat %crit hit chance and crit hit damage), legendary archer, firm grip
- debuff : x




- Eagle Eye: buff, fixed bonus %crit hit chance and damage
- Multi-shot : AoE (multi-target)
- Rapid-fire : single-target
- Firm Grip : buff, +pierce, %increased crit damage

If you don't have Firm Grip yet, you can replace it with Backstep-shot / Step-shot / Call of Healing

Skills restrictions :
- Multi-Shot : untick enemy count and targets (should be this way by default), use on everything (if mana issues, set target to everything except boss)
- Rapid Fire : set target to everything except normal and magic mobs
- Buffs used all the time (untick restriction), cooldown to 1s before it expires (39s usually)

Skills Priorities :
Set Multi-shot first and Rapid Fire last

Skills Adjustments :
You can narrow the angle of Multi-shot, I set mine to 42° instead of the 50° default (it is set to 42 in the gameplay video), I find it to be the sweet spot


- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- 2x Voler's Sunstone : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR, HP & Mana Regen

Can replace one Voler's Sunstone with a Ruby Ring, the other with either a Ruby Ring or Assassin's Ring

Alternative (early game)
With the lack of accessories early, you can use this setup and focus on auto-attacks in the meantime you get more ruby rings

- Assassin's Necklace : %AS, %movespeed, %crit hit chance, %crit damage
- Assassin's Ring : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance
- Amethyst Ring : %max HP, flat attack damage reduction, HP & Mana regen

- weapon : flat attack damage, %attack damage, any offensive stat
- sub-weapon : depends on your skillset, Multi-shot %more damage or Rapid Fire %more damage, if you use the alternative The Minigun build (see below)
- helmet : %CDR, flat attack damage, any offensive stat
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction (spell seems better, spell res is harder to obtain)
- gloves : flat attack damage, any offensive stat
- boots: %CDR, flat attack damage

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same recommendations as the Minigun build




Can replace Legendary Archer with Eagle Eye in case you don't have it or just don't want to use it, that will be less area covered but a bit more single target/explosions damage.

Skills restrictions :
- Explosion Arrow : untick enemy count and targets (should be this way by default), use on everything (if mana issues, set target to everything except boss)
- Rapid Fire : set target to everything except normal and magic mobs
- Buffs used all the time (untick restriction), cooldown to 1s before it expires (39s usually)

Skills Priorities :
Set Explosion Arrow first, Rapid Fire last

Possible options
- single target : x
- aoe : divine strike, purifying flame
- utility : cure, mind cure (mana), heal, mind heal (mana), divine bless (heal on time), recovery (party heal)
- buff : divine grace (defensive), enchant vision (+projectile), exaltation of fury (%more attack and spell damage), exaltation of swiftness (%more AS and MS)
- debuff : x

Disclaimer - This build is if you want to solo some content with Priest, I would recommend to use Priest in a team (see the other build Boost-Bot). Even before Ruins, you can farm 3-10 or 6-10 for Mana Stones for crafting with her, and then do Temple for exp in team.
This build with Divine Strike instead of Enchant Vision is great for farming A-6 though


- Purifying Flame (aoe damage + party heal) / can replace with Divine Strike early game
- Exaltation of Fury (party buff, %more attack and spell damage)
- Exaltation of Swiftness (party buff, %more attack speed and movement speed)
- Enchant Vision (buff, self or ally, +projectile count) / can replace with Divine Strike for double damage skill (set priority to cast Purifying Flame first and Divine Strike last)

If you don't have the buffs unlocked yet, replace with some heal / lower tier defensive buff


- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Ruby's Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR
- Amethyst's Ring : %max HP, flat attack damage reduction, HP & Mana regen
Can try to replace Amethyst's Ring with Archmage's Ring

Alternative (endgame)

- Aluna's Radiance : %spell damage, %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage, Mana regen, %CDR
- 2x Bared's Ring : %spell damage, %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low), mana regen, %CDR

- weapon : flat spell damage
- sub-weapon : depends on your skillset, Purying Flame %more damage, Divine Strike %more damage
- helmet : %CDR if not capped, flat spell damage
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction, %armor, %hp
- gloves : flat spell damage, %crit hit chance
- boots: %CDR if not capped, %movespeed, flat spell damage

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Party Play - The way the Priest should be used, only in a team.
- Divine Bless (Heal over Time)
- Exaltation of Fury (party buff, %more attack and spell damage)
- Exaltation of Swiftness (party buff, %more attack speed and movement speed)
- Purifying Flame (aoe damage + party heal) / can replace with Recovery (party heal)



Example of Mana Battery Priest for Wizard

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Recommended accessories

- Guardian Necklace : %max HP, flat hp, flat attack/spell damage reduction, HP & Mana regen
- Ruby's Ring x2 : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR

When you have your helmet and boots %CDR enchants (goal is 50%CDR at least for 1 Divine Bless 100% uptime, or 75% if pushing more for 2 Divine Bless 100% uptime), you can replace one Ruby's Ring with one Amethyst's Ring

Alternative

- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Ruby's Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR
- Amethyst's Ring : %max HP, flat attack damage reduction, HP & Mana regen

Recommended Enchants
- weapon : flat spell damage
- sub-weapon : Divine Bless %more HP recovery (even blue is very good, if you get it, keep or seal it before trying again to get yellow / orange version of it)
- helmet : %CDR
- torso : %armor, %hp, %attack/spell damage reduction
- gloves :%armor, %hp
- boots: %CDR

Potion setup
It changes slightly when boosting Archer with Enchant Vision, with enough gear giving mana regen (subweapon, guardian necklace, and amethyst ring), you won't need a mana pot anymore. Just use 1 solid pot + 2 health pot or 3x health pot.

Normal Gameplay

Endgame speed farming C-3 with red gear (full path 16s, short path 10s)

- Poison Mist (aoe dot, spell damage)
- Venom Fang (aoe dot, spell damage)
- Poison Attack (single-target dot, spell damage)
- Poison Master (buff, %more spell damage)


Possible options
- single target : poison attack
- aoe : venom fang, poison mist
- utility : emergency evasion ?
- buff : poison master (can be replaced with Bless to Magic in the Common Skills kit until you get it, lower % but similar effect), danger sense (defensive), vital sense (%increased crit), one sure strike (%more crit damage)
- debuff : disruption tactics (%less attack damage)

Skills Restrictions
- Poison Attack : all targets except normal and magic, can set a minimal cooldown (optional)
- Venom Fang : distance 500, enemy count 1+
- Poison Mist : distance 125, enemy count 1+, cast anywhere (in/out of combat)

Skills Priority
Venom Fang > Poison Mist > Poison Attack


- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Archmage's Ring : %spell damage, %AS (low, doesn't show up on base ring, 0.5% per level), %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low)
- Ruby's Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR

You can upgrade to 2 Bared's Ring later

Alternative

- Aluna's Radiance : %spell damage, %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage, Mana regen, %CDR
- Archmage's Ring : %spell damage, %AS (low, doesn't show up on base ring, 0.5% per level), %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low)
- Amethyst's Ring : %max HP, flat attack damage reduction, HP & Mana regen

- weapon : flat spell damage
- sub-weapon : Poison Attack %more damage for single-target, Venom Fang or Poison Mist %more damage for AoE
- helmet : %CDR if not capped, flat spell damage
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction, %armor, %hp
- gloves : flat spell damage, %crit hit chance
- boots: %CDR if not capped, %movespeed, flat spell damage

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Clip of John Wick chapter 3 knives fight (it seems I can't embed the clip)



- Dagger Throw : AoE, description is missing some text, shoots 3 daggers total and max 1 hit per target
- Emergency Evasion : AoE + Dash (max 2 hits per target), description is missing some text, shoots 5 daggers total
- Vital Sense : buff (+ flat %crit hit chance), can be replaced with Danger Sense for a more defensive option
- One Sure Strike : buff (%more crit hit damage)

Skills Restrictions
Unset skills restrictions on Dagger Throw and Emergency Evasion, just spam these.

Possible options
- single target : vital thrust
- aoe : dagger throw, knife trace (small coverage)
- utility : emergency evasion (aoe + dash)
- buff : danger sense (defensive), vital sense (%increased crit), one sure strike (%more crit damage), assassination time (%more attack speed)
- debuff : disruption tactics (%less attack damage)


Endgame Setup

Replace Vital Sense (%crit chance) with Knife Trace (aoe, attack damage)


- Ruby Necklace : flat Attack/Spell damage, %AS, %crit hit chance
- Assassin's Ring : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance
- Ruby Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR

Can replace the Ruby Necklace with an Amethyst Necklace

Alternative (endgame)

- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Voler's Sunstone : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance + %CDR, HP & Mana Regen
- Grand General's Ring : %AS, %max HP, %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage, %movement speed

I didn't go 2 Voler's because endgame with the 3 attack skills (adding Knife Trace) you do not need capped CDR, and I find the %HP, %crit damage and %movespeed more useful

- weapon : flat attack damage, %increased AD
- sub-weapon : Dagger Throw %more damage, or Knife Trace %more damage (endgame setup)
- helmet : %CDR, flat attack damage, %crit hit chance
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction, %armor, %hp
- gloves : flat attack damage
- boots: %CDR, flat attack damage, %crit hit chance

A build designed to rush 9-10 boss and farm 3 Mana Stones : Ahel in a short time, 11.3s cleartime per run (nearly 13k5 per day), pretty entry level gear thanks to poison

Without time pass and without Faith timers, that's just above 24s per run (counting 12s retry timer), 10600~ish stones.
With time pass and without Faith timers (counting 7s retry timer), nearly 13k5 stones

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Stats :
Standard Poison Assassin, so Half STR/INT

Skillset :
- Footwork (buff, %more movespeed) / can be replaced with Rapid Movements (%more movespeed but less than Footwork) or even Assassin's Step the difference is it is %increased instead of %more, actually great if you have multiple speedrunners)
- Venom Fang (aoe dot, spell damage)
- Poison Attack (single-target dot, spell damage)
- Poison Master (buff, %more spell damage)

Set your buffs to be used only while moving (so at the start of the run), since their durations is more than the duration of the run anyway.

Important - set Enemy Count to 1+ on Venom Fang, so you can use this on the boss too (or untick the restriction all together)
Set a cooldown on Poison Attack, just under it's duration (to 6s)

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With these Combat AI settings and the Soul Elixir, he'll ignore mobs, pass through them and go straight to the boss

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As you can see, they are at +0, upgrading these will improve clear time. (mines are +10 at the moment, reduced 3s on the clear time between +0 and +10 on all 3 accessories)
- Assassin's Necklace : %AS, %movespeed, %crit hit chance, %crit damage
- Archmage's Ring x2 : %Spell damage increase, %AS, %crit hit chance, %crit damage

Alternative if you struggle with survivability, replace one Archmage's Ring with :
- Amethyst's Ring: %max HP, flat damage reduction, HP and Mana regen

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- Soul Elixir : %movespeed, ghost ability (pass through mobs)
- Medium Health Pot : life sustain
- Speed Pot : %increased movement speed

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Enchant on Sub-weapon :
%More damage on the single-target skill Poison Attack
Alternative is same thing but with Venom Fang

Enchant on Boots :
%increased Movement Speed

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Gear :
- +20 level 55 yellow weapon, but you should be able to get away with less
- full +15 yellow armors, +15 orange boots with movespeed enchant, +19 yellow chest armor with armor enchant and +15 orange helmet, should be fine with less than that, +19 armor chest can be +15, orange helmet is totally overkill, orange boots are a nice bonus to movespeed factor and an upgrade you should strive for, don't forget the enchant on it

One of the best 9-10 speedrunner for Mana Stones Ahel

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- STR : 25
- DEX : 59
- INT : 10



- One Sure Strike : %more crit hit damage
- Vital Thrust : single-targe attack damage
- Assassin's Step : %increased movespeed, assassin's skill kit
- Footwork : %more movespeed, Common Skills kit

I was not using One Sure Strike on my other Assassin, so this allowed me to lower the gear requirement to reach 350k damage, I was using the other movespeed skill Rapid Movement on my second speedrunner at that time.

One option to use Rapid Movement instead of One Sure Strike, and thus lowering the seconds to kill, but with the same gear.. is to use the Elixir of Fierce Assault (40% increased Attack Power) instead of the Health Potion (won't need it with that speed and the one-shot).
I'm doing 3.2s to kill with this now

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Accessories
- Assassin's Necklace : high %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage and %movespeed
- 2x Assassin's Rings : for the %attack damage and %crit hit chance

Chest Armor is just there for survivability, no need to enchant or push it to higher tier / grade.

- Goal is to reach 350k damage on Vital Thrust crit, after that more damage is pointless.
- Next goal is then to reach 100% crit hit chance, to always oneshot and not have a run where you don't and then auto-attack waiting for Vital Thrust cooldown.
- Accessories can be +15, I pushed a bit more to have more %crit hit chance, but could have tried to get a better weapon enchant instead.

Best in Slot Necklace (don't even need Soul Necris orange tier)



Sub-weapon


Weapon, Helmet, Gloves
Can go for flat attack damage to reach 350k if you lack the damage, but if you can it's better to go for %crit hit chance to reach 100% crit chance

Boots
%increased movespeed

Combat AI Settings

Same as the other speedrunners, avoid any fight / mobs until boss

Potions

Same as the other speedrunners, Soul Elixir is needed

Just like the Trickster build, it is a build designed to rush 9-10 boss and farm 3 Mana Stones : Ahel in a short time, 7.7s cleartime per run (17k6 per day)

Without time pass and without Faith timers, that's ~20s per run (counting 12s retry timer), 13150 stones per day. With time pass and without Faith timers (counting 7s retry timer) that's 14.7s per run, 17k6 stones per day

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Stats :
Standard Archer, so Half STR/DEX

Skillset :
- Eagle Eye (buff, +flat %crit hit chance, +flat %crit hit damage)
- Bleeding Arrow (single-target dot, attack damage) / set a cooldown to 3s (duration of the skill 4s)
- Rapid Fire (single-target, attack damage)
- Footwork (buff, %more movespeed) / can be replaced with Rapid Movements (%more movespeed but less than Footwork)

Set your buffs to be used only while moving (so at the start of the run), since their durations is more than the duration of the run anyway. Will avoid doing it in front of the boss.

Priority :
Rapid Fire before Bleeding Arrow

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With these Combat AI settings and the Soul Elixir, she'll ignore mobs, pass through them and go straight to the boss

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- Assassin's Necklace : %AS, %movespeed, %crit hit chance, %crit damage
- Ruby's Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR
- Assassin's Ring : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance

Alternative (more AS based)

- Assassin's Necklace : %AS, %movespeed, %crit hit chance, %crit damage
- Assassin's Ring : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance
- Grand General's Ring : %AS, %max HP, %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage, %movement speed

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- Soul Elixir : %movespeed, ghost ability (pass through mobs)
- Medium Health Pots : life sustain
- Speed Pot : %increased movement speed

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Enchant on Sub-weapon :
%More damage on the single-target skill Rapid Fire
Alternative is same thing but with Bleeding Arrow



Enchant on Boots :
%increased Movement Speed

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The %crit hit chance and damage are with Eagle Eye buff

Gear :
- +20 level 58 orange weapon, but you should be able to get away with less
- +15 level 44 orange helmet with +attack damage enchant, +15 orange boots with movespeed enchant, +15 level 44 orange chest armor with spell damage reduction, +15 level 58 orange gloves with +attack damage enchant, should be fine with less than that

An entry level / starter / extra mage build designed to rush 7-10 / 8-10 boss and farm 1-2 Mana Stones : Ahel in a pretty short time, 17.5s cleartime per run

The advantage compared to others speedrun builds is that you don't need Soul Elixir and movespeed enhancement at all.

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Stats :
Standard Wizard, so Half STR/INT, can put 1/2 STR/INT at some point

Skillset :
- Magic Missiles : Multi-target (3 hits max on the same target)
- Fireball : AoE
- Focus : buff (%increased CDR)
- Teleport : moveskill, short cooldown teleportation a certain distance forward

Set your buffs to be used only while moving (so at the start of the run), since their durations is more than the duration of the run anyway. Will avoid doing it in front of the boss.

Set Teleport to be used only while moving.

Priority :
Magic Missiles before Fireball

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With these Combat AI settings, he'll ignore mobs and go straight to the boss

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- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- 2x Archmage's Ring : %spell damage, %AS (low, doesn't show up on base ring, 0.5% per level), %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low)

Alternative
Can replace one Archmage's Ring with a Ruby Ring : flat Attack/Spell Damage, %AS, %crit hit chance, %CDR

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- Medium Health Pot : life sustain
- Mana Pot : mana sustain
- Burning Potion : %increased AS, can be replaced by a Solid Potion (%increased defense) or another Health Potion

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Enchant on Sub-weapon :
%More damage on Magic Missiles
Alternative is same thing but with Fireball

Enchants on Boots and Helmet :
%increased CDR

Enchants on Weapon and Gloves :
flat Spell Damage, %increased Spell Damage

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Gear :
- weapon : +20 level 55 yellow weapon with %increased spell damage, but you should be able to get away with less
- helmet : +15 orange helmet with %cdr enchant (can do with yellow helmet)
- boots : +20 yellow boots with %cdr enchant (don't need movespeed so it can be +0 with how low is the armor on it)
- chest : +20 yellow chest armor with +armor enchant, can be less than that
- gloves : +15 level 44 orange gloves with flat spell damage, should be fine with less than that

A build using the Knight Sideros Boss Set

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Half STR/DEX

- Frenzy (Common Skills) : self-buff, %more attack speed
- Vital Strike : single-target, DoT, attack damage
- Reckless Charge : charge, attack damage
- Bless To Might : self-buff, %more attack damage

Can replace Bless To Might with Firm Stance / Call of Healing for a more defensive option
Can replace Reckless Charge with Rapid Movements if not using it on your speedrunners

Skills Restrictions
- Vital Strike : 4s cooldown, all targets except normal and magic
- Reckless Charge : 3s cooldown, Enemy Count 2+ and Distance 500
- Set a cooldown on the 2 buffs to 1s lower than their duration, cast at any time (untick the restriction)

Vital Strike animation is nearly instant and only needs to be renewed every 4s, it doesn't hinder the auto-attacks, it is solid extra damage on big single-targets.
Reckless Charge animation is a lot faster than Step Strike, just using it to get close faster.

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(showed gear was before the video was made, in video I got Soul Necris and 2x Brave Innocence)

Accessories
- Amethyst Necklace : %max HP, %crit hit damage, %CDR
- Voler's Sunstone : %attack damage, %AS, %crit hit chance + %CDR, HP & Mana Regen
- Grand General's Ring : %AS, %max HP, %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage, %movement speed

If you have a Soul Necris Necklace, use it instead of the Amethyst

Sideros Boss Set :
Changes basic attack to combo skill that strikes 4 times and restores Mana - Crescent Blade

Potions
- Elixir of Resurgence : regen 6k health points over 6s
- Soul Elixir : movespeed and ghost effect
- 1 Large health potion
Can replace the Elixir of Resurgence with a second Large health potion

- weapon : flat attack damage, %attack damage, %attack speed
- sub-weapon : Vital Strike %more damage
- helmet : flat attack damage, %crit chance, flat armor
- torso : %attack/spell damage reduction (spell seems better, spell res is harder to obtain), %armor
- gloves : flat attack damage, %crit chance, %attack speed
- boots: %movespeed, flat movespeed, flat attack damage

One of the best build to farm 8-10 ?

Goal is to reach 175k damage to one-shot the boss,
second goal is to reach 100% crit to always one-shot

Cleartime Full DEX


Cleartime Half STR/INT

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Full DEX (if not using Priest for anything else)
Half STR/INT (if still doing duo content with Priest from time to time)

In the video, I didn't change the stats from standard build Godrays / Boost-Bot, so Half STR/INT

- Bless To Magic (Common Skills) : self-buff, %more spell damage
- Divine Strike : aoe, spell damage
- Exaltation of Swiftness : party buff, %more attack speed and movespeed
- Exaltation of Fury : party buff, %more attack and spell damage

If you don't manage to one-shot the boss with your gear yet, you can switch Bless To Magic for Purifying Flame to get 2 damage skills

Skills Restrictions
- Set a cooldown on the buffs to 1s lower than their duration, cast at any time (untick the restriction)

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Accessories
- Assassin's Necklace : %AS, %movespeed, %crit hit chance, %crit damage
- Archmage's Ring x2 : %spell damage, %AS (low, doesn't show up on base ring, 0.5% per level), %crit hit chance, %crit hit damage (low)

You can use a Soul Necris if you want to upgrade
You can use 2x Bared's ring but it's not necessary

Potions
- Soul Elixir : movespeed and ghost effect
- Speed potion : movespeed
- Elixir of Magic Assault : +40% spell power

- weapon : flat spell damage, %spell damage
- sub-weapon : Divine Strike %more damage
- helmet : %crit chance
- gloves : %crit chance, flat spell damage
- boots: %movespeed, flat movespeed

Combat AI settings for Party
Be sure to set your Exploration Range / Clear Style the same to avoid your heroes taking different paths or zooming while the other stay behind. Also suggest range Full and clear style Full sweep


I would recommend though to try to set this setting to No Adjustment for your most tanky hero, and Matching Ally speed for your most squishy, this way the tanky hero should be in front more often. Try to give more movespeed boosts (more boots enhancement levels, wings..) to your tanky hero

Builds
See the Generic and Advanced Builds sections for corresponding builds

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Work In Progress

Knight / Priest - TBD (actually really easy and quick to put together, nothing fancy)
Knight / Wizard - TDB
Warrior / Priest - TBD (same as Knight / Priest but with a few more changes maybe)
Warrior / Wizard - TBD (thinking using a debuff-bot Wizard, doubling down on %less attack with Intimidating Cry)
Warrior - Archer - TBD (should have a great synergy with Warrior's party buffs)
Wizard / Assassin - TBD (thinking debuff-bot Wizard with Poison Assassin, maybe doubling down on %less attack with Disruption tactics)

Both Ranged, Priest is invincible and Wizard stays behind Priest
Best used for Ruins (Temple is not so good with Priest due to some issues with pathfinding, level design and AI)

Synergy :
Priest acting as boost-bot, giving heal, mana and buff to the Wizard

Behavior :
They will stick together, Priest with AI settings will go in front and tank while Wizard will come next and annihilate everying around the Priest

Builds for this team :
Wizard - Oppenheimer, the upgraded version of it (just like @Ente's Meteor boom Mage on Discord)
Priest - Boost-bot, the mana battery version



Or

Or


AI Settings :
- Set the target priority to Nearest First for both of them.
- Set the movement speed to No Adjustment on the Priest so she goes in front and to Matching Ally Speed on the Wizard so he stays behind before engaging

Optional AI Settings
(not necessary unlike the Assassin / Priest team, should not be an issue if you don't use these settings)
You can use these Target Tiers settings on Priest only so she try to avoid hitting Rare / Unique mobs with lot of HP. She'll zoom to the next pack of normal / magic mobs, she can tank the hits while waiting for the Wizard to catch up


Potions Setup :
Wizard


Priest


With the Mana Battery Priest, you should not need mana potion on Wizard, and put speed potion on both.
Set a cooldown on speed potion to something like 8s to avoid spamming it between two close groups of mobs

Was doing Overdrive-Ruins-11 and Ancient-Ruins-3 with Scrolls and Commander Buffs, else all-day Ruins-11 (150s per run)

Both melee and tanky
They won't wander too far from each others, and in the case they do, they are pretty autonomous to at least not die quickly if swarmed

Synergy :
Warrior's party buffs Battle Cry (%more Attack Damage) and Berserk Cry (%more Attack Speed) benefits both Warrior and Knight

Builds for this team :
Knight - Hurry Cain or Wethermon
Warrior - Spin to Win

Advanced Builds for this team :
Knight : Atomic Samurai

Skills changes for the builds :
You can give Bless To Might to your Knight and use Berserk Cry on Warrior instead (optional for regular builds if capped CDR as it's not very useful, you can use another buff instead. But If using Knight Atomic Samurai build though, you should use these skills changes indeed)

TBD

Both ranged
They will stick together most of the time, if you build your Archer as a glass canon it might not end very well if seperated and swarmed, else it should be fine.

Synergy is high with Priest 1/2 heals and 2/3 buffs to boost both heroes with %more AD, %more AS and movespeed and maybe +Projectile Count


Builds for this team:
Archer - The Shotgun / The Minigun
Priest - Boost-Bot

Melee and Ranged
Priest is invincible, Assassin can be built pretty tanky and still do decent damage.
With AI setting for walking speed, Priest will try to be in front, it will do most of the time and they'll stick together.

Assassin - Hi Venomous / Knives Out
Priest - Boost-Bot

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Assassin TP behind his target, this will sometimes cause Sin to lose his old pathing range and lock to a new one, letting mobs behind alive while walking to a new encounter.
So.. you can have a situation where the Priest is hitting a Rare/Unique Big mob with huge HP pool (compared to her dps) for minutes, while the Sin is miles away, fighting alone too.

How to avoid that (or at least try) ? (Beside waiting for AI patch, soon.. I hope)

Well I got two solutions for you to try, just don't let the Priest hit a Big mob, that's all.

For Tier Target setting, set both to Nearest so they focus mostly on target they see first.

(recommended)
Use these Target Tiers settings on Priest only so she try to avoid hitting Rare / Unique mobs with lot of HP. She'll zoom to the next pack of normal / magic mobs, she can tank the hits while waiting for Assassin to catch up if he is finishing a big mob





The result is the Priest facetanking groups of mobs as soon as she encounters a Rare / Unique, she can take the hits while waiting for the Assassin, and as a bonus she packs the mobs for his AoEs. Though she can still be stuck behind, so for me it didn't solve the issue just reduced it, so be careful with this option.

Use the settings below for Priest only

Both Melee, Knight is really tanky, Assassin poison is built tanky too for this combo

Synergy :
No particular synergy, they don't share party buffs and are just buffing themselves.

Behavior :
They will stick within range of each other most of the time, Assassin can wander around a bit but it shouldn't be an issue as the Knight doesn't stay long behind and can catch up pretty quickly (if you compare to a Priest which is a nightmare because of that with the current AI)

Builds for this team :
Knight - Hurry Cain or Wethermon
Assassin - Hi Venomous / Knives Out

AI Settings :
- Set the target priority to Highest Tier First for both of them.
- Set the movement speed to No Adjustment on the Knight see he goes in front and to Matching Ally Speed on the Assassin so he stays behind before engaging (well not for long with his auto-attack tp)