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Ungifted Clones of Obliteration and Unethical Magic Find v1.0

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Ungifted Clones of Obliteration and Unethical Magic Find v1.0

This build starts out as an arcane missile clones build in the campaign, turns into a ray of obliteration clones build with the ferocious affinity reaper in the first and second adam nostrus trials, remains as a ray of obliteration clones build but with the ungifted reaper in the third adam nostrus trial and finally becomes a lightning imbued ray of obliteration clones build with the vengeance reaper in the end game.

This build does not use any legendary effects until the third adam nostrus trial. It is easy to swap to this build halfway before this.

You will be able to clear the game using the “ethical” part of the guide. The final build in the end game after full clearing the game is an “unethical” build. There are elitist players out there that deem builds using the vengeance reaper or going past +15 reinforcement levels as unethical builds. They will look down on you for playing this. Try the unethical part at your own risk.

If you wish to play a “proper” dps build, play till the stop sign before it is turned into an unethical build.
If you wish to play a “proper” magic find build, go for Golden Overdrive instead.

Build details for the lightning imbued vengeance version

Build design
The original intention was to design a magic find build that can farm for slormites and pure stats grafting feed faster than simply farming in the forge. Even with extreme luck and super optimal reward options in the forge, there is a hard cap.
Magic items quantity and magic items quality does not work in the forge. However, with unlimited reinforcement levels comes unlimited scaling, our drop-related stats will eventually exceed the amount of war chest quantity/quality and rewards that forge can offer. This is especially so when there are new areas in the game that have higher enemies killed per second than the forge.
The design is heavily focused on dishing out as many hits as possible in a huge area while staying as a low apm build. This is mainly because of how annoyed I was by the nullifying shield cataclysm. This build is designed to minimise the annoyance and time wasted by the nullifying shield cataclysm.
This build is only meant for those who wish to pour unlimited hours into the game. If you want to try many builds you should stop at the stop sign below.

Vengeance reaper
Infinite life and damage scaling. This reaper covers both survivability and damage which gives us space to fit in drop rate related stats and quality of life solutions into the build.

Build goals
Unlimited scaling of Magic Items Quantity and Magic Items Quality for more and better drops.
Unlimited scaling of damage to one shot monsters for faster clearing speed.
High movement speed for faster clearing speed.
100% Tenacity for unimpeded movement for faster clearing speed.
Auto aim using clones for quality of life.
Low apm skill for quality of life.
Non-projectile skill which will not be impeded by projectile blocking shields and projectile speed cataclysm for your sanity and faster clearing speed.
High range skill for faster clearing speed.
High number of hits per second to minimise time wasted by the nullifying shield cataclysm for faster clearing speed.
AOE hits for faster clearing speed.

Life
We gain max life from the reaper, which can be scaled to infinity.

Life sustain
We avoid using life leech and life regeneration to sustain life to avoid getting cucked by the cataclysms.
Coward’s belt from our belt’s legendary effect will restore 5% of missing life every 3 seconds.
Life sustain can be stopped by the shadow confusion debuff. We counter this by getting a capped 100% shadow resistance.

Skill Cost
Ray of obliteration and electric overcharge originally cost mana to channel. We turn this into life using the crimson pact ring legendary effect so that our life sustain solution also solves our skill cost.

Damage
We mainly deal elemental damage. Our source of elemental damage is the 4000 elemental damage granted by investing slorm into all ancestral legacy effects. We scale this 4000 elemental damage using our reaper, which can be scaled to infinity.

How we deal damage
The first way to deal damage is through ray of obliteration clones. We can cast up to 2 clones (4 if you change specialisation for forge farming), 1 from the base limit and 1 additional clone limit from the arcane lord from our helmet’s legendary effect.
The second way to deal damage is through electric arc. We imbue our ray of obliteration clones with lightning by allocating electric overcharge. This will cause our ray of obliteration clones to trigger an electric arc on hit. With static shock allocated, this triggered electric arc will hit up to 3 random nearby enemies. With the vambraces of polarity bracers legendary effect, this will allow electric arc to hit 4 random nearby enemies instead of 3 on the second hit and beyond.
The third way to deal damage is through thunderbolt. With thunderstruck allocated, when our ray of obliteration clones deal an ancestral strike, it will trigger a thunderbolt on a random nearby enemy.
The fourth way to deal damage is through walking bomb. With arming the bomb allocated, when our ray of obliteration clones deal an ancestral strike, it will apply walking bomb to the enemy. With the ancient blazingspark talisman from our amulet’s legendary effect, applying walking bomb to the enemy will also trigger a thunderbolt on the enemy dealing damage to them. When the enemy with walking bomb dies, it triggers an explosion dealing damage to all enemies in the scalable area and applying an unspreadable walking bomb to all enemies hit. This application of the unspreadable walking bomb to enemies will also trigger a thunderbolt on them dealing damage to them.

Ancestral Strike chance
We will attempt to reach a 100% effective ancestral strike chance for a 100% trigger rate of ancestral strike effects (thunderbolt and walking bomb).
This is achieved by stacking critical strike chance and ancestral strike chance stats on our gear, allocating 10 points to fury and zeal for 10% critical strike chance and 5% ancestral strike chance, equipping the ancestral command passive from the phlegmatic caster specialisation, and gaining critical strike chance multiplier from the muzzling gloves from our gloves’ legendary effect. We do not care about the downside of the muzzling gloves due to our infinite damage scaling.
With the muzzling gloves, you will need to reach a total of 85% ancestral strike chance and 40% critical strike chance on your gear stats.
We will get up to 15% critical strike chance from bravery but that is unreliable so we will not be counting that.

Drops
We will graft max score pure magic items quantity and magic items quality stats to every piece of gear. This can be scaled to infinity with the unlimited reinforcement levels.
We will prioritise magic items quantity first. This gives us more equipment drops for an easier time at farming for pure stats and more slormite drops to reinforce our gear. Magic items quality comes next, it will result in more common epic equipment drops in case the pure stat you are looking for only appears as an epic stat, as well as higher tier of slormite drops.
We will allocate 75 points to bravery for extra goldus find, magic items quality, and most importantly slormite find which cannot be found anywhere else.

Clear Speed
We will be using the movement speed ultimatum with the oloron’s ultimate enhancer legendary effect to reach a decently high 3.5 movement speed. You can also opt to craft movement speed stats instead of using the ultimatum.
We will cap tenacity at 100% to be immune to all crowd control effects. The only movement speed impeding effect that we cannot avoid is the ice floor.
We choose ray of obliteration clones as our primary skill as it has a long range, has instant and automated targeting, does continuous and rapid hits, is able to hit all enemies along its beam aoe, and has infinite duration. This leads to a comfortable and less tiring low apm playstyle where you only need to press 1 button per area to clear all enemies. Can’t grind to infinity if you or your hands burns out first.
We will stack as many area of effect size stats as possible on our gear. This will scale the aoe of walking bomb, giving us a bigger explosion on death effect for bigger clearing aoe.
We use the midos’ collectors’ bracers and sparkling boots of midos legendary effects to increase our collection radius. This cuts down on the time spent moving to collect loot.
We will attempt to cap cooldown reduction at 75% and attack speed at 90%. This will increase how fast we place our clones down, which is a very minimal increase to our clearing speed. At higher reinforcement levels when we no longer need phlegmatic caster to cap our ancestral strike chance, we might swap back to the arcane commander specialisation for two more clones. Having high cdr and as will help us place down all 4 clones faster.
We have two movement skills, time warp and twitching warp. I am very doubtful that we will even bother using these movement skills with our high movement speed, and even especially so if you are playing using a controller.

Campaign

Pick the Mischievous Mage. You will be levelling from 1 to the end of the campaign using Arcane Missile as your primary skill, Ray of Obliteration as your secondary skill and Arcane Commander as your Specialisation.
This build uses the ferocious affinity reaper. This reaper is the fixed first drop for mage. If you did not start the save as a mage you will not get this reaper as the first fixed drop. You can still get it as a random drop later. This is not the best reaper for the build, it is used for convenience as it is a decently strong reaper and lets you skip reaper farming. The best reaper for this build is the ungifted reaper.

Act 1 The Graveyard

Planner Snapshot

  1. Open your inventory, on the left you will find the character stats. Click on Life Leech and Max Mana to highlight them. Go to the second tab and click on Raw Damage to highlight it. Doing so will highlight loot that drops. It will also affect the item filter that we unlock later on. Items that dropped with the selected stats will be highlighted, you can choose to only loot these highlighted gear to save time.
  2. Keep 1 piece of gear with life leech equipped, just 1 is enough, the gear’s level and value of life leech doesn’t matter. Wear whichever gear gives you more raw damage. You can use the character info’s average skill damage estimate to determine which is better. If the gear does not have raw damage, wear whichever gives more max mana.
  3. Open your inventory, go to the third tab on the right for attributes. Remove the first point from Willpower and add it to Toughness. Add points to Toughness until you reach Toughness 15.
  4. Try to kite (walk around the enemy) when attacking, do not stand there and facetank.
  5. At level 3 you will unlock Ray of Obliteration which is automatically equipped in the secondary slot. Leave it there, we will not be using it, but it still needs to be equipped for it to gain mastery levels for later use.
  6. Upgrade Arcane Funding (Arcane Missile) to Rank 1. This lets you ignore mana cost for the entire campaign!
  7. Upgrade Conflux (Arcane Missile) to Rank 4.
  8. Equip the Signet Ring of the Mcrippeds that Pedro gives. Use emergency healing to restore life if you have to. You can replace this ring with better rings when you find and equip a gear with life leech.
  9. Talk to Pr. Geranium in town after saving him. This allows our reaper to start gaining levels.
  10. During Mission 5, you will get a Staff of Ferocious Affinity. Equip this new staff. You will start getting random reaper drops after this. Talk to Pr. Geranium in town again for a free legendary amulet.
  11. Fully refund Conflux (Arcane Missile). Upgrade Remnants Wingman (Arcane Missile) to Rank 7. You now have extra projectiles for better clear. These remnants can shotgun if you attack near the enemy.
  12. After unlocking Jemma, you can sell excess gear to her. Or just throw them on the ground, doesn’t really matter.
  13. At level 10, you will unlock specialisations. Open your skills menu and click “Become Arcane Commander”. You will not be using the support skill, it is equipped to gain mastery levels to unlock upgrades.
  14. Upgrade Arcanic Delegation (Arcane Missile) to Rank 1. You can now place a clone to attack for you. You only have 1 clone for now, you will get 2 more from your specialisation later.
  15. Upgrade Remnants Wingman (Arcane Missile) to Rank 10.
  16. After saving Palstrang, you unlock Expeditions. Ignore this system for now and continue on the campaign.
  17. After saving Adam Nostrus, talk to him in town. You will receive your first Ancestral Stone. Allocate Air Conditioner, upgrade it to Rank 1 and turn it on.
  18. At level 16, you should have 15 points in Toughness. Add remaining points to Zeal for the rest of the campaign.
  19. Upgrade Mana Protection (Arcane Commander) to Rank 1.
  20. Kill the Act 1 Boss. Highlight the remaining text for spoilers/tips: **Whenever the boss goes invulnerable, you have to kill all the summons with the red aura below to end the invulnerability.**
  21. After killing the Act 1 Boss, talk to Adam Nostrus for another Ancestral Stone. Allocate Raw Boost. Upgrade it to Rank 10 after you have capped Remnants Wingman.

Act 2 The Prison

This act has the most annoying mobs, especially the prisoner which blocks the first 3 hits. I highly suggest skipping killing enemies that aren’t required by the quest to save time. For example, if the quest requires you to clear breaches, you should only bother killing enemies spawned by the breaches and simply skip the rest of the enemies on the way. DO NOT SKIP ANY BREACH, it might be one that unlocks an NPC.

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  1. After saving Joana, talk to her in town, then pay 1000 gold to purchase a stash tab from the left stash above Joana. You can now stash your excess legendary gear and pure stats gear here. The legendary stash on the right is pretty expensive to unlock, you can do this later after the campaign.
  2. After saving Rick Manalan, talk to him in town. This unlocks Slormite drops.
  3. Upgrade Arcane Chieftain (Arcane Commander) to Rank 1. You can now place 2 clones! Refund slorm from Raw Boost (Ancestral Legacy) if you have to, this takes priority. Continue upgrading Raw Boost (Ancestral Legacy) after this.
  4. Upgrade Raw Boost (Ancestral Legacy) to Rank 10.
  5. After saving Friedrich, talk to him in town. This unlocks crafting and the drop filter. From now on, do not sell excess gear to Jemma. Salvage your excess gear at Friedrich.
  6. It is time to set up the drop filter. Open your inventory and click on Filter-o-tron at the bottom right. Set it to the following for normal, magic, rare, epic and legendary items:


    Note that I hid legendary items too. I did this as a showcase that we do not need to use any legendaries until we had to fight the final boss, and that was when we were rich enough in resources to add legendary effects directly to our gear. You can absolutely keep legendary items hidden for the entire game. You can also feel free to have them shown to discover new legendary effects, and eventually collect 1 of each to store in your legendary collection stash, it is up to you. Do remember to salvage any duplicate legendary you find, you will need those legendary fragments.
  7. During the escort mission, you do not have to escort or care about Olorin, just make your way to the exit and leave. Apparently the dev made Olorin a zoomer now, Olorin should be so fast that you can no longer win Olorin in a race.
  8. After killing the Act 2 Boss, talk to Adam Nostrus for an Ancestral Stone. Allocate Exceptional Accuracy and upgrade it to Rank 8. This gives you some pierce for better clear.

Act 3 The Mage Academy

DO NOT SKIP ANY BREACH, it might be one that unlocks an NPC. The witches on brooms here cast a silence ground aoe, you can walk out of them to continue attacking. There are sorcerers with a projectile blocking aoe shield, they will block your Arcane Missiles, place your clones in their shield aoe to kill them.

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  1. Upgrade Exceptional Accuracy (Ancestral Legacy) to Rank 8.
  2. Olorin will give you a Legendary Doubtful Sock. It is a meme referencing the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter. Stash it for collection.
  3. Upgrade Arcane King (Arcane Commander) to Rank 1. You can now place 3 clones!
  4. Highlight the following text for extra tips and spoilers for the Act 3 Boss: **When the boss starts channeling and gains a colored rune around its body, stand on the rune with the corresponding color at the corner of the room to avoid damage from the fireballs.**
  5. After killing the Act 3 Boss, talk to Adam Nostrus for an Ancestral Stone. Allocate Seasoned Hunter and do not upgrade it yet, we will upgrade it later.

Act 4 The Luxurious Gardens

DO NOT SKIP ANY BREACH, it might be one that unlocks an NPC.

Planner Snapshot

  1. Highlight the following text for extra tips and spoilers for Mission 3: **You can skip the chaos wave breaches next to the individual signboards. The correct paths are Candle (right), Mushroom (left) and Egg (bottom).**
  2. Upgrade Remnant Lock (Arcane Missile) to Rank 1.
  3. Upgrade Not So Lost (Arcane Missile) to Rank 1.
  4. Upgrade Exceptional Accuracy (Ancestral Legacy) to Rank 10.
  5. Upgrade Mana Protection (Arcane Commander) to Rank 10.
  6. Highlight the following text for extra tips and spoilers for Mission 7: **You can skip the chaos wave breaches next to the individual signboards. The correct paths are Key (right), Fire (right) and Book (top).**
  7. Highlight the following text for extra tips and spoilers for the Act 4 Boss: **Try to place the damage over time ground at the corners out of the way. During the bullet hell phase you will have to collect pumpkins, be patient as there is no timer.**
  8. After killing the Act 4 Boss, talk to Adam Nostrus for an Ancestral Stone. Allocate Reapersmith’s Legacy and do not upgrade it yet, we will upgrade it later.

Act 5 The Royal Wing

Planner Snapshot

  1. Highlight the following text for extra tips and spoilers for the Act 5 Boss: **Dodge the beam and multiple rapid earthquakes (when Palstrang jumps before slamming down), the other skills are not deadly.**
  2. After killing the Act 5 Boss, talk to Adam Nostrus for an Ancestral Stone. Allocate Regenerative Strikes and do not upgrade it yet, we will upgrade it later.

Slorm allocation sequence (Campaign):

  • Arcane Funding (Arcane Missile) 1/10
  • Conflux (Arcane Missile) 4/10
  • Refund Conflux (Arcane Missile) 0/10 + Remnants Wingman (Arcane Missile) 7/10
  • Arcanic Delegation (Arcane Missile) 1/1
  • Remnants Wingman (Arcane Missile) 10/10
  • Air Conditioner (Ancestral Legacy) 1/10
  • Raw Boost (Ancestral Legacy) 6/10
  • Mana Protection (Arcane Commander) 1/10
  • Arcane Chieftain (Arcane Commander) 1/1
  • Raw Boost (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Exceptional Accuracy (Ancestral Legacy) 8/10
  • Arcane King (Arcane Commander) 1/1
  • Remnant Lock (Arcane Missile) 1/10
  • Not So Lost (Arcane Missile) 1/5
  • Exceptional Accuracy (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Mana Protection (Arcane Commander) 10/10. This very likely won’t be fully upgraded by the end of the campaign, it is fine.

Adam Nostrus’ Trials 1

After the campaign, you will unlock the quest board next to Almerolis that contains the Adam Nostrus’ Trials. You will be unlocking multiple important pieces of gear such as the 3 runes, movement speed ultimatum and the 7th Ancestral Stone. Time to edit your filter, remove highlighted stat from the normal items to reduce clutter:

Level 40 and normal gear

Head to the Mage Academy at the bottom left of the town, you will be levelling here for a quick boost to transition into Ray of Obliteration, as well as to obtain and craft your first set of temporary mid game gear.

  1. Upgrade Regenerative Strikes (Ancestral Legacy) to Rank 10.
  2. Go to the mage academy mission 4, tick Match my level
  3. Enter, rush to the 3 chaos breaches and trigger them all. Place 3 clones and channel Ray of Obliteration to kill all enemies then use the leave expedition key to leave. If this is too hard you can trigger the chaos breaches one after another instead of all at once.
  4. Repeat this until your Ray of Obliteration reaches Mastery Level 10. It is time to respec into Ray of Obliteration. Refer to the slorm allocation sequence for this phase.
  5. Repeat the above until level 40. Continue swapping to gear with the highest raw damage while doing so. This will earn you a good amount of slorm and levels.
  6. Temporarily turn off hiding of normal, magic, rare and epic items
    Repeat Temppo until you loot a full set of at least level 36 gear. Once done, turn the hiding of normal, magic, rare, epic and legendary items back on.
  7. Go to the blacksmith Friedrich. It is time to start crafting. Craft the following on your level 36+ magic item. Remember that you can scroll down for more crafting options as well as lock stats you do not want rerolled. Craft the Normal and Defense Stats and % Mana Leech. Magic Stats is optional, do it if you have enough magic slormelines. You can merge fragments into slormeline at the blacksmith, but I highly recommend that you skip this and save the gold for later use.
    Helmet: Max Mana, Armour, % Armour or Elemental Resistance
    Amulet: % Raw Damage, Armour
    Chest: Max Mana, Raw Damage, Armour
    Cape: Max Mana, Armour
    Belt: Raw Damage, Armour
    Rings x2: % Raw Damage, Armour, Max Mana or Raw Damage
    Boots: Max Mana, Raw Damage, Armour
    Gloves: Raw Damage, % Critical Strike Damage, Armour
    Bracers: Raw Damage, % Critical Strike Chance, Armour, % Mana Leech
    Shoulders: Raw Damage, Armour, % Armour or Elemental Resistance

Rank 3 Ultimatum of Indisputed Speed

This is where you unlock your first ultimatum and level it to rank 3 to meet one of the Adam Nostrus’ Trial 1 requirements. You will also upgrade your Elder Slorm capacity to 200+ in order to run the next part of the grind.
In between runs, if your gear reaches full potential, reinforce it at Rick in town up to +6.
Planner Snapshot

  1. Talk to Almerolis, select Battlefield, Wrath 1 and Battlefield Journey (Random and Everchanging Environment. Boss Events.).
  2. Enter, clear breaches until you can open the portal to the next floor (5 breaches below the number of breaches on the floor). Ignore normal monsters on the way between breaches, but do kill any elite you see for Elder Slorm. Once you can open the portal, go to the next floor right away. This saves lots of time as we can rush for the 30 Battlefield Bosses. Avoid chaos wave breaches, they take too long to complete, you can refer to the bottom of this page for images on how to recognise breaches.
    Elder Slorm drops from Elites in Battlefield. Repeat this until your Elder Slorm is full. Once it is full, exit the battlefield through the portal after killing the next battlefield boss.
  3. Olorin will appear, talk to him to unlock Slorm Temple.
  4. Talk to Almerolis, select The Slorm Temple.
  5. Enter and push as far as you can until you are out of Elder Slorm. At the end of each run, talk to Olorin, spend your Pure Slorm on upgrading Elder Slorm Max Capacity and dump the rest into Elder Slorm Find.
    Note that Pure Slorm sometimes drop when triggering a room, there is no minimap icon so keep a lookout for it.
  6. Talk to Cory Ironbender to unlock The Great Forge.
  7. Repeat Battlefield and Slorm Temple until you have cleared Floor 20 of The Slorm Temple. Equip the ultimatum, talk to Olorin and upgrade this ultimatum to Rank 3.

Activation & Effect Runes

This is where you unlock the 2 runes needed for the build: Activation rune of Astorias, Thornbite (Effect) rune.
This may be very grindy or fast depending on your luck, but none of the time spent is wasted. You are earning extra crafting materials, reapersmith spirits, goldus, slorm, skill masteries and gear potential while farming in the forge.
Use the secondary skill slot to level skills to unlock access to all their upgrades, this will let you dump excess slorm into them for up to 3000 raw damage.
In between runs, if your gear reaches full potential, reinforce it at Rick in town up to +6.
Use Kame’s Resolution for forge and Concentrated Ray for non-forge content. If you can’t be bothered to keep swapping, keep it on Kame’s.
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  1. Farm Battlefield until you have more than 140 Elder Slorm. Talk to Almerolis, select The Great Forge, Wrath -. I picked the lowest wrath to save elder slorm, if you do not mind the cost, go ahead and do higher wrath levels.
  2. Enter, open 2 gates only (again, to save elder slorm, open more gates if you want to).
    Place your clones around you similar to the image below. You can simply stand in the middle and semi-afk.

    Use the leave expedition key to select start and next wave.
    Do not pick any shadow related option, you cannot handle the shadow debuff yet.
    Pick any Siege Leader Spawn chance option that appears.
    Complete waves until the Siege Leader spawns. Its spawn chance is equal to the current wave number plus any additional spawn chance from reward options. The Siege Leader can only spawn once per round of the forge.
    After killing the Siege Leader, claim a rune, open the war chest and leave. This is to speed farm for the runes we need. You can clear up to wave 100 if you prefer, especially if you chose a higher wrath level.
    Reapersmith spirit can be earned only from the forge, prioritise choosing options that reward Beigarth > Astorias > Cory, you will need these for upgrading runes and affinity later.
  3. Repeat Battlefield and The Great Forge until you have unlocked the Activation rune of Astorias and Thornbite (Effect) rune. Optionally continue this until you have also unlocked the enhancement rune of Beigarth.
    Equip them when you unlock them.
  4. Upgrade them at Cory Ironbender in town.
    Prioritise upgrading Activation rune of Astorias > Thornbite rune > Enhancement rune of Beigarth
    At least upgrade the activation rune of Astorias to rank 3. This is to complete the Adam Nostrus’ Trial requirement. Feel free to upgrade the runes further than rank 3. Once complete, move to the next section.

Level 60 and magic gear

We are back at Temppo again for the second update to our level and gear.
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  1. Equip your other 2 specialisations and level them to mastery level 8. This is to unlock the skill upgrades for you to dump excess slorm into them. Change your specialisation back to Arcane Commander when you are done.
    Equip the exp ultimatum.
    Repeat Temppo until level 60.
  2. Go to Jemma and purchase random containers from her until you have a full set of level 60 gear.
    Craft the following on your new gear, merge fragments into slormelines if you have to.
    Helmet: Max Mana, Armour, % Armour or Elemental Resistance, % Max Mana
    Amulet: % Raw Damage, Armour, Raw Damage
    Chest: Max Mana, Raw Damage, Armour, % Max Mana
    Cape: Max Mana, Armour, % Max Mana
    Belt: Raw Damage, Armour, % Totem Increased Effect
    Rings x2: % Raw Damage, Armour, Raw Damage
    Boots: Max Mana, Raw Damage, Armour, % Max Mana
    Gloves: Raw Damage, % Critical Strike Damage, Armour, % Life Leech
    Bracers: Raw Damage, % Critical Strike Chance, Armour, % Mana Leech
    Shoulders: Raw Damage, Armour, Elemental Resistance, Max Mana
  3. Equip your new gear.
    Respec your Ancestral Legacy, refund and unallocate everything.
    Allocate Air Conditioner, upgrade it to Rank 1 and turn it on.
    Allocate Neriya’s Shield, leave it at Rank 0.
    Allocate Cold Snap, leave it at Rank 0.
    Allocate Raw Lock and upgrade it to Rank 10.
    Allocate Shaman’s Herald and upgrade it to Rank 10.
    Allocate Relentless and upgrade it to Rank 10.
  4. Repeat Temppo while reinforcing your gear until your gear is +3. Move to the next section.

50 Battlefield Influence

In this section, you will continue farming battlefield for elder slorm and pushing to higher floors in the slorm temple. There are a few differences for battlefield farming here. Influence is earned by closing breaches, and increases with wrath level.
Equip the movement speed ultimatum for faster clearing speed.
In between runs, if your gear reaches full potential, reinforce it at Rick in town up to +7.
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  1. Talk to Almerolis at the top right in town. Select battlefield. Select wrath 4. Select careful examination (the right arrow). Select an environment. Press P on the keyboard or down on the controller to view your current influence level for each environment, it is shown at the top left of your profile. Try to push each environment to level 10. Enter.
  2. Ignore monsters on the way, only kill any elites you encounter. Rush to breaches, trigger and clear them.
  3. Clear as many breaches as you can on each floor while avoiding chaos wave breaches, dead ends and backtracking.
  4. Repeat until your elder slorm is full or over 1000. Make sure you leave through the portal to earn your influence. If you died or exited the game, all influence from the run will be lost.
  5. Talk to Almerolis. Select the slorm temple. Enter. Clear rooms until you reach the end.
  6. Keep pushing to higher floors until you run out of elder slorm.
    Talk to Olorin and purchase the upgrades in the following order: upgrade movement speed ultimatum > upgrade elder slorm capacity > upgrade elder slorm find
    After your movement speed ultimatum is rank 15, purchase upgrades in the following order: upgrade exp ultimatum > upgrade elder slorm capacity > upgrade elder slorm find
  7. Repeat steps 1 to 6 until you have a total of 50 influence levels across all environments. Check the board and your profile to keep track of your total influence level. Congratulations, you should have cleared the entire Adam Nostrus’ Trials 1!
    Talk to Adam Nostrus to claim your 7th Ancestral Stone and unlock part 2 of the trials.
    Allocate Spark Machine, upgrade it to Rank 1 and turn it on.

Slorm allocation sequence (Adam Nostrus’ Trials 1): {#slorm-allocation-sequence-(adam-nostrus’-trials-1):}

  • Regenerative Strikes (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Refund all Arcane Missile upgrades after Ray of Obliteration reaches Mastery 10
  • Unallocate and refund Air Conditioner (Ancestral Legacy), Raw Boost (Ancestral Legacy) and Exceptional Accuracy (Ancestral Legacy)
  • Allocate Balance of the Manabender (Ancestral Legacy), Elemental Boost (Ancestral Legacy), Heart of the Wizard (Ancestral Legacy)
  • Regenerative Strikes (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Balance of the Manabender (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Clone of Obliteration (Ray of Obliteration) 1/1
  • Avenging Tornado (Ray of Obliteration) 10/10
  • Galvanize (Ray of Obliteration) 1/1
  • Concentrated Ray (Ray of Obliteration) 10/10
  • Mana Protection (Arcane Commander) 10/10
  • Heart of the Wizard (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Life Sentence (Arcane Commander) 10/10
  • Inner Chaos (Ray of Obliteration) 10/10
  • Seasoned Hunter (Ancestral Legacy) 10/10
  • Kame’s Resolution (Ray of Obliteration) 10/10. Swap to this for forge and Concentrated Ray for non-forge.
  • Reapersmith’s Legacy 10/10
  • Dump slorm into any skill upgrade for more Raw Damage. You get up to 4000 Raw Damage if you max all the skill upgrades. Upgrading any skill upgrade automatically equips it, make sure you unequip them after and equip the correct skill upgrade required by the build.

Adam Nostrus’ Trials 2

During this phase, you will aim to complete the second trial. Remember to continuously dump excess slorm into all other skill upgrades throughout this phase.

Ultimatum of Infinite Wisdom

We will still be repeating battlefield and slorm temple to cap the rank of the exp ultimatum, this is in preparation for the next section where we will be levelling. In between runs, reinforce any gear with full potential up to +7, no need to go any higher for now.
Planner Snapshot

I forgot to allocate spark machine and was still doing wrath 4 until I remembered halfway through. You should go straight for wrath 5.

  1. Farm Battlefield with Careful Examination (press the right arrow) until your Elder Slorm is full or more than 1000, whichever is lower.
    Run your preferred layout, it does not matter which layout you choose now. I recommend The Prison.
    Continue avoiding Chaos Wave breaches and backtracking to save time. Keep repeating this.
  2. Talk to Almerolis. Select the slorm temple. Enter. Clear rooms until you reach the end.
    Keep pushing to higher floors until you run out of elder slorm.
    Talk to Olorin and purchase the upgrades in the following order: upgrade movement speed ultimatum > upgrade elder slorm capacity > upgrade elder slorm find
    After your movement speed ultimatum is rank 15, purchase upgrades in the following order: upgrade exp ultimatum > upgrade elder slorm capacity > upgrade elder slorm find
  3. Keep repeating battlefield and slorm temple until capped the rank of the two ultimatums. Once complete, move on to the next section.

Level 80 and rare gear

Time to farm the full 100 waves of forge for the third update to our level and gear.
When you unlock the primordial version of the ferocious affinity reaper, equip it.
When you reach level 75, you should have allocated 15 points in toughness and 60 points in zeal. Zeal 60 lets us silence enemies. Equip Ray in the secondary skill slot instead. If this affects your muscle memory, swap your keybinds in the game options.
Planner Snapshot

I did some experimenting with various ways to level, and settled on levelling in wrath 2 forge with the exp ultimatum.

  1. Farm wrath 5 battlefield for 434 elder slorm, then farm wrath 2 forge with 4 gates open and repeat until level 80.
    Avoid all shadow and light related options.
    Prioritise rewards that grant: Elder Slorm > War Chest Quantity > Beigarth spirit > Astorias spirit > Cory spirit > Goldus > Slorm > Slormite/Slormeline/Equipment/Fragments.
    Use the movement speed ultimatum for battlefield.
    Use the exp ultimatum for Temppo and forge.
  2. Go to Jemma and purchase random containers from her until you have a full set of level 80 gear.
    Craft Normal, Defense, Magic and Rare stats only on your new gear, merge fragments into slormelines if you have to.
    Defense stat, Magic stat and Rare stat are interchangeable as they have the same range of rolls.
    I highly recommend crafting in the following order:
    Reroll Normal Stat > Reroll Defense Stat > Add Magic Stat > Add Rare Stat > Reroll Rare Stat > Reroll Magic Stat
    Check here for the gear stats.
  3. Equip your new gear.
    Repeat Temppo while reinforcing your gear until your gear is +3. Move to the next section.

Ultimatum of Profound Depth

Back to repeating battlefield and slorm temple to upgrade the area damage reduction ultimatum and elder slorm capacity, this is in preparation for the next section where we will be doing lots of forge runs. In between runs, continue to upgrade your gear reinforcement level and gear item level.
Planner Snapshot

  1. Farm wrath 6 battlefield for elder slorm.
  2. Farm slorm temple for pure slorm. Keep pushing to higher floors until you run out of elder slorm.
    Talk to Olorin and purchase the upgrades in the following order: upgrade area damage reduction ultimatum > upgrade elder slorm capacity
  3. Keep repeating battlefield and slorm temple until you capped the rank of the area damage reduction ultimatum and maxed your elder slorm capacity.
    Once complete, move on to the next section.

Adam Nostrus

In this section, you will aim to upgrade your gear in preparation for the boss fight. You will be farming in the forge for exp, crafting material, goldus, slorm, reapersmith spirits and gear potential.
This will be a long grind, but you will experience exponential growth. I highly recommend that you pull up your reading materials, shows or streams to enjoy while semi-afk farming the forge.
Equip the area damage reduction ultimatum for forge.
Equip the movement speed ultimatum for battlefield.
Runes are vital to surviving in the forge, try to upgrade them asap. If you come across the reward that turns all following rewards into reapersmith spirits, take it. The enhancement rune of beigarth stacks takes time to stack up, you might have to be more conservative with your choices in the early waves of each run.
Planner Snapshot

This was a long grind so I only recorded the first and last forge run as well as the Adam Nostrus fight. The first run’s slorm to elder slorm reward option giving a huge 28k elder slorm showcases why we had to max elder slorm capacity in the previous section. I did a total of 18 forge runs.

  1. Repeat forge runs.
    If you lack elder slorm, farm battlefield. Prepare double the entry cost for 4 gates and triple the entry cost for 6 gates.
    Start with wrath 3 and 4 gates open. Increase the wrath and number of gates as you upgrade your gear.
    W4: +8 and rank 9 runes
    W5: +10 and rank 10 runes, at this point you should actually be able to defeat Adam Nostrus, but we will still finish up our gear first before fighting Adam Nostrus.
    Avoid all shadow related options if you have not capped your shadow resistance.
    Avoid light related options if possible if you have not capped your light resistance, this wont brick the build but might cause you to die due to the armor broken and ele res broken debuffs.
    Avoid cursed reward that grants goldus as a reward, this will result in the goldus curse that will massively increase the life of enemies. Cursed rewards that grant war chest quantity or reapersmith spirit rewards are doable.
    Avoid Shadow Clone, Nullifying Shield and Assimilation if possible, they can result in you taking way more hits and dying.
    Prioritise rewards that grant: Elder Slorm > War Chest Quantity > War Chest Quality > Beigarth spirit > Astorias spirit > Cory spirit > Slormite > Equipment > Slormeline > Fragments > Goldus > Slorm. Drop the spirits from the priority list when you have fully upgraded their respective runes or affinity.
  2. Repeat until you complete the following:
    • Reach level 100
    • Reinforce your gear up to +10. Go beyond +10 if you are able to.
    • Update your gear up to 100. Craft the slormandrite of true potential using fragments at the blacksmith if you have to, this takes priority over adding and rerolling epic stats onto your gear.
    • Craft +2 Ray of Obliteration mastery to all your gear
    • Craft +3 Toughness, Willpower or Zeal to all your gear. Adjust the rolls and your attributes accordingly to reach 15 Toughness > 75 Zeal > 10 Willpower > remaining into Toughness
    • Craft a total of +50 Cory Ironbender Affinity on all your gear
    • Craft epic stats on all your gear.
      Craft epic slormeline using rare fragments and slormeline. Only begin crafting epic slormeline using epic fragments after you have updated all your gear to level 100.
      Prioritise capping shadow resistance > light resistance > tenacity > armour penetration. Tenacity is a huge qol for the forge, you should have noticed that you were getting knocked around all the time, 100% tenacity will prevent that. If you absolutely hate getting knocked around you can prioritise the 3 tenacity rolls first.
    • Reforge score until they are all max score. Use the reforge all scores option at the top combined with locking to save cost.
    • Reach 100 cory affinity at cory ironbender
    • Reach rank 15 activation rune of astorias
    • Reach rank 15 thornbite rune
    • Optional: Reach rank 15 enhancement rune of beigarth, or at least as high rank as possible
    • Optional: After capping cory affinity, dump extra cory spirits into upgrading the rank of activation rune of cory
  3. Time to fight Adam Nostrus. Equip the movement speed ultimatum. Equip the activation rune of cory, thornbite rune and enhancement rune of beigarth. You will mostly be using your life and life leech for ehp and ehp sustain, the runes will be pretty useless in this fight.
    Enter the portal right of Adam Nostrus.
    Defeat Adam Nostrus. His skills are a combination of all the skills you have encountered during the 5 Act Boss fights, you should be familiar with them.
    The most dangerous skills to avoid are the rotating laser beams and the row of fireballs.
    Try to place the dot ground at the corners or edge of the arena.
    Congratulations, you should have cleared the entire Adam Nostrus’ Trials 2! Talk to Adam Nostrus to claim your 8th Ancestral Stone and unlock part 3 of the trials.
    The 8th green stone is special, you can socket it into any node on the Ancestral Legacy Tree without having to connect it to previous nodes.
    Allocate Elemental Aura, upgrade it to Rank 10 and turn it on.

Non-nether Gear Set

For non-nether level 80 to 100 gear.
Helmet

  • Armour
  • Max Mana
  • % Armour
  • % Max Mana
  • Elemental Resistance
  • % Shadow Resistance (after ungifted reaper, swap to % All Damage Reduction)
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Totem Increased Effect

Amulet

  • % Max Mana
  • Armour
  • Max Mana
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Shadow Resistance (after ungifted reaper, swap to % All Damage Reduction)
  • % Light Resistance

Chest

  • Max Mana
  • Raw Damage
  • Armour
  • % Max Mana
  • % Armour
  • % Shadow Resistance (after ungifted reaper, swap to % All Damage Reduction)
  • % Light Resistance
  • % Totem Increased Effect

Cape

  • Max Mana
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Max Mana
  • Armour
  • % Light Resistance
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • Raw Damage

Belt

  • Raw Damage
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • Armour
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Tenacity
  • % Raw Damage
  • % Damage to Elites

Rings x2

  • % Max Mana
  • Armour
  • Max Mana
  • Raw Damage
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Shadow Resistance (after ungifted reaper, swap to % All Damage Reduction)
  • % Light Resistance

Boots

  • Max Mana
  • Raw Damage
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Max Mana
  • Armour
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Armour
  • % Tenacity

Gloves

  • % Critical Strike Damage
  • Raw Damage
  • Armour
  • % Life Leech (after ungifted reaper, swap to % Critical Strike Chance)
  • % Raw Damage
  • % Critical Strike Chance (after ungifted reaper, swap to % Ancestral Strike Chance)
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Damage to Elites

Bracers

  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • Raw Damage
  • Armour
  • % Mana Leech (after ungifted reaper, swap to % Ancestral Strike Chance)
  • % Raw Damage
  • % Critical Strike Damage
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Damage to Elites

Shoulders

  • Armour
  • Raw Damage
  • % Armour
  • Max Mana
  • % Max Mana
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Tenacity
  • % Raw Damage

Adam Nostrus’ Trials 3

During this phase, you will upgrade your build with legendary gear, reinforce them up to +12 and fight the last boss.

Legendary Gear, Netherworld and Ohm Agad

In this section, you will be adding legendary effects to your gear.
Equip the movement speed ultimatum, activation rune of astorias, thornbite rune and enhancement rune of beigarth.
Equip the regular version of the ferocious affinity reaper. If you have found the Ungifted reaper, do step 2 below first.
Planner Snapshot

As this is a long grind, I only showed the first few warlords, last forge run after swapping to the ungifted reaper, last few warlords and the final boss.

  1. Talk to Almerolis, select Netherworld, expand the map.
    Clear as many cataclysmic expeditions and warlords as possible, hopefully finding the ungifted reaper if you have not.
    Do not worry about not being able to clear certain warlords, you are not meant to be able to straight up clear everything the moment you start the third trial. There is no need to keep retrying runs that you cannot clear.
    Once you are left with only the warlords that you cannot defeat, go to step 2.
    Tweaks to counter certain cataclysms:
    • Reconstruction: Swap the last ancestral stone to fiery weapons. This will apply burn to enemies which deals damage every 0.5s to prevent them from healing. If the possibly unintended interaction still exists, you can use the necrotic curse skill from the benediction reaper to one shot the boss if you wish to.
    • Nullifying Shield: This is optional and to minimise annoyance only. Swap the last ancestral stone to electric overcharge. This will add 1 extra hit (dealing trash damage) to every hit by the clones, effectively halving the time spent to strip the block stacks of the enemies.
    • AOE damage cataclysms: Swap to the area damage reduction ultimatum
  2. If you have not found the ungifted reaper, follow the guide here to rush for it.
    After finding the ungifted reaper, equip it.
    Swap your last ancestral stone from elemental aura to lowey’s creation (or consistency is key if you do not like having a pet). Turn on air conditioner, spark machine, life is overrated and mana is overrated only.
    Swap Ray back to the primary skill slot, and change your keybinds back if you have to. Do a w5 forge run to unlock the primordial version.
    Equip the primordial Ungifted reaper, and turn on all auras, you will have to swap the equipped skill on your ancestral hotkey bar to turn them all on.
    This reaper grants way more damage, and removes the need for mana sustain. At this point we can fully rely on thornbite rune for ehp, we no longer need life sustain too. This means that we no longer need shadow resistance, freeing up the shadow resistance stat slots for all damage reduction.
  3. Do a few forge runs to upgrade your gear.
    Equip the area damage reduction ultimatum.
    You should be able to handle wrath 7 from the start, and very quickly up to wrath 9 after a few upgrades.
    During these runs, prioritise elder slorm > goldus > war chest quantity > war chest quality > slormite > equipment > slormeline > fragment > astorias > beigarth.
    • Add legendary effects to your gear then reroll them to the correct legendary effect. There is no pity system for the reroll so it might take quite some grind to get the legendary effect you want. Craft for more legendary slormelines using rare and epic fragments/slormelines.
      In order of priority:
      1. Helmet: Slormandrite-Infused Diadem. More damage and defenses.
      2. Chest: Chest of Immense Vitality. More damage and defenses.
      3. Boots: Bulwark’s Resolve. More defenses.
      4. Ring: Defender’s Twin Bands. More defenses.
      5. Belt: Sahrusiel’s Pact. More defenses.
      6. Amulet: Olorin’s Ultimate Enhancer. More movement speed or area damage reduction.
      7. Bracers: Celestial Shackles or Ultrasonic Bracers. Either will work, we only want to lock more mana for more damage.
      8. Gloves: Predator’s Fang. More damage.
      9. Shoulders: Aiming Assistance Pads. More damage.
      10. Cape: Soul Eating Mantle. More damage.
      11. Ring: Ancestral Champions’ Present. Slightly more damage and defense.Reforge the legendary effects to max score. Use the reforge all scores option for cheaper cost.
    • Reinforce all your gear to +12
    • Reach rank 15 enhancement rune of beigarth
    • Reforge cory affinity into a total of +50 astorias affinity on all your gear
    • Reforge for the “after ungifted reaper” stats specified in this section
    • Optional: Reach 100 astorias affinity at cory ironbender, or as high as possible.
  4. Time to finish up the remaining cataclysmic expeditions and warlords. Equip your movement speed ultimatum and go ham.
    Tweaks to counter certain cataclysms, you might have to use a combination of them for particularly nasty expeditions/warlords:
    • Reconstruction: Swap the last ancestral stone to fiery weapons. This will apply burn to enemies which deals damage every 0.5s to prevent them from healing. If the possibly unintended interaction still exists, you can use the necrotic curse skill from the benediction reaper to one shot the boss if you wish to.
    • Nullifying Shield: This is optional and to minimise annoyance only. Swap the last ancestral stone to electric overcharge. This will add 1 extra hit (dealing trash damage) to every hit by the clones, effectively halving the time spent to strip the block stacks of the enemies.
    • AOE damage cataclysms: Swap to the area damage reduction ultimatum. This will give a only 3.5% more area damage reduction than what you already have.
    • More defenses: For generic defenses, swap the last ancestral stone to risk of pain, if you do this, do not equip the area damage reduction ultimatum. For specific imbue resistance, use the search bar at the top and swap the last ancestral stone to them.
    • More damage: Swap to the crit chance or crit damage ultimatum. Your damage is already pretty high, there should not be any need for this.
    • Smaloron entry trick:
      1. Swap to smaloron activation rune
      2. Equip the trigger skill
      3. Use the trigger skill
      4. Swap back to astorias activation rune
      5. Usually, once is enough to get going, and is still considered ethical.
      6. Steps 1 to 3 can actually be repeated, which bypasses the cooldown of the trigger skill. Repeating is unethical cheating, but I do it anyway for particularly nasty cataclysms such as shadow clone. If you want to play ethically, farm for nether gear, craft them, reinforce them to +15 and level them to 120, this is a long process. The other ethical way is to actually wait out the cooldown with spark machine and celestial decree turned off while still having Bryan’s Protection. If you are repeating for higher stacks up to your thornbite rune, use the enhancement rune of hagan while stacking and swap back to the enhancement rune of beigarth when you are done.
    • Beigarth stacking trick: When you enter a new expedition, kill all monsters without triggering a breach, only trigger a breach at the end of each floor to enter the next floor. Repeat this until you have a comfortable number of stacks before starting to properly clear the expedition.
    • Run through room clearing: Certain cataclysms leave behind lots of on death effects. You can consider clearing the room, running out and waiting for the on death effects to expire before returning to the room to clear the breach.
    • Grenade room clearing: Kind of like how people chuck a grenade or flash bang through the door into the room before entering, you can do the same with your clones. Place clones into the next room without entering it, wait for a few seconds for things to clear before entering. This is easily done on keyboard and mouse, but is way harder if you are on a controller.
  5. Once you have cleared all the cataclysms and warlords, talk to Adam Nostrus.
    This will unlock the final boss Ohm Agad.
    Enter the fight at the castle doors.
    Defeat Ohm Agad. This fight should be relatively easy compared to certain warlords…
    Use the movement speed ultimatum, activation rune of astorias, thornbite rune and enhancement rune of astorias.
    Keep an eye on the life bar, when it reaches the cataclysm mark, it will remove all of your life, shield and thornbite protection. When that happens, rush to open all 6 breaches while dodging attacks, this will summon enemies for you to kill to trigger your thornbite rune for thornbite protection.
    CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEATING THE GAME!!!

Endgame

Time for some endgame min maxing.

Pure Stat Max Score and Chance

In this section, you will be farming for pure slorm in the slorm temple. This is to prepare for the next section where you farm for pure stats gear to use as feed for grafting onto nether gear.
Keep a lookout for the occasional random pure slorm that spawns when you trigger a room.
This is a long grind where you question your life. Pull up some shows to watch on your second screen or use picture-in-picture for entertainment while you grind.
Planner Snapshot: Same as the previous section as no upgrades were done.

After floor 165, I turned the audio off to watch shows on the side to help bear with the boring grind. I only had to do floor 109 to 250, then floor 190 to 211 again to cap the upgrades. In the playthrough I forgot about saving some extra pure slorm for nether gear grafting later. It is fine, we can always come back to the temple to farm for more pure slorm later.

  1. Push to floor 250 of the slorm temple
  2. Exit, go to floor 190 and push towards floor 250 again, until you have fully upgraded the following (in order of priority):
    • Elder Slorm Capacity. This should have been fully upgraded in the Ultimatum of Profound Depth section. I am putting this here in case you have not.
    • Pure Stat Max Score. This is important to fully upgrade, you will want to only use max score pure stats for grafting for perfect items.
    • Pure Stat Chance. Helps with finding pure stats.

Basic Ungifted Nether Gear Set

This is only a suggestion, it is not tried nor tested.
Use the movement speed ultimatum for non-forge content and the critical strike chance ultimatum for forge content. Once you are done levelling all skill masteries to level 15, equip book smash with the arcanicon upgrade in your secondary skill slot, casting book smash once after every expedition entry while having 3 obliteration emblems will grant you a 15% raw damage multiplier.
This set is not designed for pure stats grafting. If you intend to graft pure stats, you will have to come up with your own set of stats.
For the unethical players, you should skip making of this set for now, make this later down the road when you have excess resources.
For grafting feed, buy random containers from Jemma for the item then craft the stat at the blacksmith before grafting the stat.
Helmet

  • Max Mana
  • % Max Mana (Grafted from Amulet, Ring)
  • Armour
  • Raw Damage (Grafted from Amulet, Chest, Belt, Ring, Boots, Gloves, Bracers, Shoulders)
  • % Raw Damage (Grafted from Amulet, Ring, Gloves, Bracers, Shoulders)
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • Slormandrite-Infused Diadem

Amulet

  • Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Boots)
  • Armour
  • % Max Mana
  • Raw Damage
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Fire Resistance
  • Arcane Lord (Grafted from Helmet)

Chest

  • Max Mana
  • % Max Mana (Grafted from Amulet / Ring)
  • Armour
  • Raw Damage
  • % Raw Damage (Grafted from Amulet, Ring, Gloves, Bracers, Shoulders)
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Light Resistance
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • Chest of Immense Vitality

Cape

  • Max Mana
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Max Mana
  • Armour
  • % Light Resistance
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • Raw Damage
  • Brightsteel Warden (Grafted from Chest)

Belt

  • Max Mana
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Chest, Cape, Ring, Boots, Shoulders)
  • Armour
  • % Tenacity
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • Raw Damage (Grafted from Amulet, Cape, Ring)
  • Greaves of Stability (Grafted from Boots). Recommended for unethical players crafting this set for slorm farming.
  • Midos’ Collectors’ Bracers (Grafted from Bracers). Recommended for ethical build only players.

Rings x2

  • Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Boots)
  • Armour
  • % Max Mana
  • Raw Damage
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Light Resistance
  • First ring: Defender’s Twin Bands
  • Second ring: Tiara of the Ancestral Champion(Grafted from Helmet)

Boots

  • Max Mana
  • Raw Damage
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Max Mana
  • Armour
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Armour
  • % Tenacity
  • Bulwark’s Resolve

Gloves

  • Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Boots)
  • Raw Damage
  • Armour
  • % Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Chest, Cape, Ring, Boots, Shoulders)
  • % All Damage Reduction (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Belt, Boots)
  • % Damage to Elites
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Raw Damage
  • Predator’s Fang

Bracers

  • Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Boots)
  • Raw Damage
  • Armour
  • % Max Mana (Grafted)
  • % All Damage Reduction (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Belt, Boots)
  • % Raw Damage
  • % Armour Penetration
  • % Damage to Elites
  • Celestial Shackles

Shoulders

  • Max Mana (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Boots)
  • Raw Damage
  • Armour
  • % Max Mana
  • % All Damage Reduction (Grafted from Helmet, Chest, Cape, Belt, Boots)
  • % Totem Increased Effect
  • % Tenacity
  • % Damage to Elites
  • Ultrasonic Bracers (Grafted from Bracers)


This is where you make your choice. If you wish to play a “proper” build, continue using the ungifted reaper, this is the end for the ethical part of the guide.

If you want to go ahead with playing the imbalanced meme-y unethical build, continue.
Ok this unethical thing is a joke, it is not unethical at all. It is not a cheat where you easily get powerful, it actually requires a lot of grinding to get powerful.
Be warned that everything beyond this point is excessive min maxing, and will take many hours to grind out. A rough estimate is that you need 4.2 million kills to reach 1 million elemental crit damage and 900 thousand life on the +15 basic magic find set. For a direct comparison, you can press p (or down on controller) to bring up your profile and take a look at how many kills you have now and how long it took you to get to that.

Slorm Farming

I did this section without knowing that you can still earn slorm in the forge with the primordial vengeance reaper equipped. You should skip this section and do the slorm investment during the next section. I will leave this here in case this was unintended and gets fixed.
In this section, you will be farming for slorm in the forge. This is to prepare for the vengeance reaper swap where our flat damage comes only from the 4000 elemental damage granted by investing slorm into fully upgrading all ancestral legacy effects.
Planner Snapshot: Same as the previous section as no upgrades were done.

Only showing the first forge run, because I was semi-afk watching shows while forge farming for the remaining runs

  1. Equip the area damage reduction ultimatum, activation rune of astorias and thornbite rune, enhancement rune of beigarth. Swap the last ancestral stone to lowey’s creation, consistency is key, risk of pain, or just leave it on electric overcharge.
  2. Go to the wardrobe and save this loadout.
  3. Open your inventory. Turn on the highlight for magic items quantity, magic items quality, critical strike chance, ancestral strike chance and area increased size. Highlight for everything else should be off.
  4. Edit your loot filter to show pure stat that is also a highlighted stat for all item rarities.

    If you loot any pure stat, store them in your stash. At this point, you should be rich enough to purchase multiple stash tabs.
  5. Farm the forge. You should be extremely familiar with this by now…
    Wrath 10 if you do not mind some active playing by kiting around, or Wrath 9 if you just want to semi-afk in the middle of the forge.
    Prioritise the following rewards: Elder Slorm > Slorm > Goldus > War Chest Quantity > War Chest Quality > Slormite > Upgrade > Equipment > Slormeline > Fragment.
    Repeat until you fully upgrade all skill upgrades and ancestral legacy effects. This will give us a total of 4000 raw damage and elemental damage, we will need this for our next reaper.
    You will average close to 1.5m slorm per run, it won’t take too long to farm it.

Primordial VengeanceUnedited yet, do not follow this section. Current progress: 760k kills

In this section, you will still be farming in the forge. You will be farming for 10 000 kills on the regular vengeance reaper to unlock the primordial form. Afterwards you will be farming for kills on the primordial vengeance reaper to scale your life and damage up until you are able to clear the primordial netherworld.
Once you are done levelling all skill masteries to level 15, equip book smash with the arcanicon upgrade in your secondary skill slot, casting book smash once after every expedition entry while having 3 obliteration emblems will grant you a 15% raw damage multiplier.
Planner Snapshot
Playthrough Recording: This is an extremely long grind, I will only show the first forge run and last forge run. There are some setup steps missing in the recording, refer to the written guide for the full list.

  1. Open your inventory. Turn on the highlight for magic items quantity, magic items quality, critical strike chance, ancestral strike chance and area increased size. Highlight for everything else should be off.
  2. Edit your loot filter to show pure stat that is also a highlighted stat for all item rarities.

    If you loot any pure stat, store them in your stash. At this point, you should be rich enough to purchase multiple stash tabs.
  3. Equip the vengeance reaper.
    Unallocate all your ancestral stones.
    Allocate Scorched Earth, Thunderstruck, Twitching Warp, Electric Overcharge, Charging Up, Static Shock, Consistency is Key and Elemental Warrior.
    Reforge all the light resistance stats on your gear to at least 20% shadow resistance.
    Reforge Sahrusiel’s Pact to Coward’s Belt.
    Reforge the % Ancestral Strike Chance on Bracers to % Mana Leech.
    Reforge the % Critical Strike Damage on Bracers to % Tenacity.
    Turn on all 4 auras.
    Repeat wrath 4 forge for 10 thousand kills until your reaper turns primordial.
  4. Equip the primordial vengeance reaper.
    Repeat forge for kills. We are here for kills, not for loot. The wrath you choose should be easy enough for you to one shot almost all enemies for higher efficiency.
    Start with wrath 4 and slowly increase the wrath level as your damage improves.
    The numbers I used below are based on the spider and bat’s life, which is generally around 30% more than regular mobs. Use it as a reference only, you do not need to strictly follow it.
    W5: When you can consistently deal 200k non-crit hits.
    W6: 300k non-crit hits
    W7: 600k non-crit hits
    W8: 1m non-crit hits
    W9: 1.6m non-crit hits
    W10: 2.6m non-crit hits. I reached this damage with around 760k kills, damage is sufficient, but I will die in w10 due to insufficient defenses. I stayed in w9 all the way until reaching the target ??? kills.
    Avoid light related options, Nullifying Shield and Assimilation for now. In the future we will no longer be affected by the light debuffs.
    Prioritise the following rewards: Elder Slorm > Extra Enemies > War Chest Quantity > Slormite / War Chest Quality (pick whichever is higher) > Upgrade > Slorm > Goldus > Equipment > Slormeline > Fragment.
    Upgrade all skill upgrades and ancestral legacy effects for 4000 Raw and Elemental damage.
    Repeat this until you have a total of ??? kills on the primordial vengeance reaper.

Basic Magic Find SetUnedited yet, do not follow this section

In this section, you will be farming for pure stats and nether gear in the primordial netherworld to craft a basic magic find nether gear set. This set is designed to provide lots of extra drop quantity, quality, movement speed and quality of life, it will not provide any damage or defense.
Planner Snapshot
Playthrough Recording

  1. Go to the primordial netherworld.
  2. Complete all the cataclysms and warlords once to unlock the entire map
  3. Use the search bar at the top right in the expanded view. Hunt in the cataclysms expeditions that boosts the pure stat chance for the grafting feed you need. Repeat until your nether charge bar is full.
  4. Hunt primordial warlords for a full set of nether gear. Check their list of possible rewards when choosing a warlord to fight. For example, if you are looking for nether gloves, fight the warlord with the most number of gloves in their list of possible rewards.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have a full set of nether gear.
  6. Use the search bar at the top right in the expanded view. Hunt regular or primordial warlords for the following legendaries to use for grafting:
    • Vambraces of Polarity
    • Olorin’s Ultimate Enhancer
  7. Time to farm for pure stats for grafting. The score of the pure stat does not matter, but please do keep max score pure stats and not use them for grafting for the basic magic find set.
    • Use the search bar at the top right in the expanded view. Hunt in the cataclysms expeditions that boosts the pure stat chance for the grafting feed you need. Repeat until the pure stat chance for the grafting feed you need appears at the hall of mimicking dead or the chamber of resurrected shadows.
    • Now hunt in the hall or chamber while avoiding breaches. Only close a breach at the end of each floor to portal to the next floor. When you reach the breach limit, use the leave expedition key to exit. Repeat this until you have collected enough of the pure stats needed for grafting. This lets you farm in the densest map of the netherworld for the specific pure stat you want, maximising your efficiency.
    • Repeat the above two steps for the other pure stats.
  8. Craft the basic magic find nether gear set. Farm the forge for crafting resources if you have to.
    Reaper affinity is not required.
    Mastery is +2 to ray of obliteration.
    Attributes are +3 to bravery, zeal, fury or toughness. Adjust your attributes to have 75 bravery > 10 fury > 10 zeal > remaining in toughness
  9. After you are done crafting your basic magic find nether gear set, equip it.
    Swap from Inner Chaos to Protective Rays.
  10. Repeat forge to reinforce them to +15.

HelmetTHIS IS AN UNEDITED COPY PASTE, DO NOT FOLLOW THIS!!!

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Critical Strike Chance (Grafted from Amulet, Cape, Ring, Gloves)
  • % Tenacity
  • % Shadow Resistance
  • Arcane Lord

Amulet

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • % Area Increased Size
  • Elemental Damage
  • Ancient Blazingspark Talisman

Chest

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Belt, Gloves, Bracers)
  • Elemental Damage
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Tenacity
  • % Shadow Resistance
  • Vestment of the Wraith

Cape

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • % Shadow Resistance
  • Shroud of the Unseen

Belt

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % All Damage Reduction
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance
  • % Critical Strike Chance (Grafted from Amulet, Cape, Ring, Gloves)
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Elemental Penetration
  • Coward’s Belt

Ring 1

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Belt, Gloves, Bracers)
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Shadow Resistance
  • Crimson Pact Ring

Ring 2

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • Elemental Damage
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Shadow Resistance
  • Vambraces of Polarity (Grafted from Bracers)

Boots

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life or % All Damage Reduction
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Belt, Gloves, Bracers)
  • % Max Life or % All Damage Reduction
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Tenacity
  • % Attack Speed
  • Sparkling Boots of Midos

Gloves

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • Armour
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • % Area Increased Size
  • % Tenacity
  • % Elemental Penetration
  • Muzzling Gloves

Bracers

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • Armour
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance
  • % Critical Strike Chance
  • % Area Increased Size (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Chest, Cape, Belt, Ring, Boots, Gloves)
  • % Cooldown Reduction
  • % Elemental Penetration
  • Midos’ Collector’s Bracers

Shoulders

  • % Magic Items Quantity (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Magic Items Quality (Grafted from Amulet, Cape)
  • % Max Life
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance (Grafted from Helmet, Amulet, Belt, Gloves, Bracers)
  • % Cooldown Reduction
  • % Tenacity
  • % Elemental Penetration
  • % Armour
  • Olorin’s Ultimate Enhancer (Grafted from Amulet)

Notes
I highly recommend that you farm for pure stats to use for grafting, any pure stat roll will do for now, there is no need to push for max score on this basic set that you will only reinforce to +15. Save any max score quantity and quality pure stat you find for crafting the max score set in the future.
It is totally fine to simply buy normal gear from Jemma’s random container to craft non-pure and use as grafting feed too.
Do not compare using the numerical value shown when choosing which pure stat feed to use for grafting. Use the % above normal roll. A convenient way to compare is to move all the pure stat pieces into your inventory, then import your save into the planner, and view each item using the planner. Pick the one with higher % pure for grafting. Example screenshots from the planner:


With this setup at +15, if you graft using non-pure stats, you will reach:

  • At least 121% magic items quantity
  • At least 101% magic items quality
  • 100% tenacity
  • 100% shadow resistance
  • 100% elemental penetration
  • At least 73% ancestral strike chance
  • At least 87% critical strike chance
  • At least 99% area increased size.

List of grafting feed required
Grafts from magic or rare stats are interchangeable.

  • % Magic Items Quantity x11
  • % Magic Items Quality x6
  • % Magic Items Quality x5
  • % Ancestral Strike Chance x4
  • % Critical Strike Chance x2
  • % Area Increased Size x1

Max Score Magic Find SetUnedited yet, do not follow this section

In this section, you will be farming for pure stats and nether gear in the primordial netherworld to craft a triple max score pure stats magic find nether gear set.
Planner Snapshot
Playthrough Recording

  1. Use the search bar at the top right in the expanded view. Hunt in the cataclysms expeditions that boosts the pure stat chance for the grafting feed you need. Repeat until your nether charge bar is full.
  2. Hunt primordial warlords for a full set of nether gear. Check their list of possible rewards when choosing a warlord to fight. For example, if you are looking for nether gloves, fight the warlord with the most number of gloves in their list of possible rewards.
  3. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have a full set of nether gear.
  4. Time to farm for pure stats for grafting. Only keep and use the max score pure stats, those with !!! but aren’t max score can be discarded.
    • Use the search bar at the top right in the expanded view. Hunt in the cataclysms expeditions that boosts the pure stat chance for the grafting feed you need. Repeat until the pure stat chance for the grafting feed you need appears at the hall of mimicking dead or the chamber of resurrected shadows.
    • Now hunt in the hall or chamber while avoiding breaches. Only close a breach at the end of each floor to portal to the next floor. When you reach the breach limit, use the leave expedition key to exit. Repeat this until you have collected enough of the pure stats needed for grafting. This lets you farm in the densest map of the netherworld for the specific pure stat you want, maximising your efficiency.
    • Repeat the above two steps for the other pure stats.
  5. Craft the max score magic find set. Farm the forge for crafting resources if you have to.
    Reaper affinity, master and attributes are not required.
  6. After you are done crafting your max score magic find set, equip it.

HelmetTHIS IS AN UNEDITED COPY PASTE, DO NOT FOLLOW THIS!!!

  • Normal
  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Amulet

  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Chest

  • Normal
  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Cape

  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Belt

  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Ring 1

  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Ring 2

  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Boots

  • Normal
  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Gloves

  • Normal
  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Bracers

  • Normal
  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary

Shoulders

  • Normal
  • Normal
  • Defense
  • Magic
  • Rare
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Epic
  • Legendary
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