Builds

A build is made up of two main elements. The main damage source and main gold source. Normally you will pick one of each and concentrate mainly on those sources to get the most out of a build.

While a certain type of build may be better depending on the current meta of the game the important part of picking a build is picking something that suits the way you want to play. Below you'll see sections for what each damage and gold source is and how they roughly play.

This is meant for information purposes only. For more help with builds see the TT2 Compendium builds, llemmingllamas build guide, or Discord.

A meta guide is normally released each time a major change to damage or gold occurs. See llemmingsllamas guides for more details.

## Main Damage Source

Your damage source is what allows you to kill titans and push stages.

* Pet damage
* Clan Ship damage
* Shadow Clone damage
* Heavenly Strike damage
* Daggers damage
* Gold Gun damage

## Main Gold Source

This allows you to buy additional hero and sword master levels. Most of these are fairly similar in terms of total gold collected and are mainly about how often you want to collect gold.

* Boss gold
* Chesterson gold
* Heart of Gold gold
* Fairy gold

## Quality of Life Skills

While these options don't make your build go further in terms of stages these can either make your prestige times faster or your general play easier. Generally these take the form of skills you can add to your build.

Adding to these skills can reduce the points you can put into your main damage or gold skills but will generally make your playing experience more enjoyable. It's up to you how much you balance pushing and quality of life.

### Mana Siphon

Mana Siphon is a way to gain mana quickly when tapping or using Shadow Clone. It gives you a percentage of your total mana back each time it is procced, and it has a 0.5% base chance of being procced each tap or special attempt. As such, we want to use a max level Shadow Clone and potentially be tapping a lot to maximize the number of special attempts and procs. We also want to have a large mana pool to gain more mana per proc. this works well with the Limit Break Skill

**Key Artifacts**

* Phantom Timepiece
* Swamp Gauntlet
* Ambrosia Elixir
* Lucky Foot of Al-mi'raj

### Manni Mana

Manni Mana is a titan that you can kill to receive mana. With the combination of Oberon Pendant, the Love Potion skill in the Alchemist tree, and the Manni Mana Chance auras, this can be a very consistent way to gain back mana. As long as you can continue to kill titans, you can easily gain back your mana and progress. The ambush skill is also recommended as each multi-spawned Manni Mana titan gives 25% more mana.

**Key Artifacts**

* Essence of the Kitsune
* Oberon Pendant
* Lucky Foot of Al-mi'raj

### Fairy Charm

Fairy Charm is a skill that allows you to get more waves of fairies and more fairies per wave. It’s also one of the cheapest skills that can reduce your mana requirements, because each fairy has a 50% chance of giving you a free spell activation. Many players will use this with a Heavenly Strike build by activating all of their level 1 spell, then tapping the fairies one at a time to get the chance to use a max level Heavenly Strike for free. With up to eight fairies per wave, you can get many free spells, and twice as fast as regular fairy spawns. This skill is also great for people who use Fairy Gold as their gold source of choice, because it decreases the time between your next Fairy ad.

**Key Artifacts**

* Invader's Shield
* Lucky Foot of Al-mi'raj

### Love Potion

Love Potion is a skill that increases your special titan spawn chance. This means that you can get more Portar titans that help you skip stages, Snap titans that lower your titans per stage, Chesterson titans that give more gold, and Manni Mana titans that give you mana. This is a very strong skill for speed, and has the added utility of Manni Mana and Chesterson. Additionally, it increases your Multi-Spawn Chance, which further boosts the effectiveness of Chesterson and Manni titans.

**Key Artifacts**

* Unbound Gauntlet
* Boots of Hermes
* Egg of Fortune
* Oberon Pendant
* Lucky Foot of Al-mi'raj

## Powerful but "difficult" skills

These skills are very powerful but can either slow your prestige times significantly or require you to have a lot of mana to use effectively.

### Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike is a slow pushing skill that deals damage based on the current health of the titan. Each strike decreases in damage, meaning that you can never actually kill the titan. However, each level acts as essentially the strongest All Damage bonus in the game for the SP investment. For people who can tap fast or have the mana to level their Shadow Clone and get the special attempts, this is a fabulous skill to use.

### Poison Edge

Poison Edge is an All Damage bonus that uses daggers to increase your damage against the titans. This skill is incredibly powerful, but it is also very slow, as you’ll often be waiting for the daggers to come off cooldown so you can increase your damage.

### Forbidden Contract

Forbidden Contract is an All Damage bonus that takes time to maximize. The damage boost will slowly increase up to a cap, similar to Doom, but it also adds a mana drain effect that increases each second as well. This skill is very potent, but it’s not recommended for newer players who lack a lot of Fluffers levels or players who lack a high investment in Mana Siphon. You can use a tool like mmlh's mana sheets to determine how much mana you'll need in order to successfully use Forbidden Contract. Still, this can be a very consistent source of damage boost for players who have the required mana regeneration.

### Royal Contract

Royal Contract is an All Gold bonus that takes time to maximize. The gold boost will slowly increase up to a cap, similar to Doom, but it also adds a mana drain effect that increases each second as well. This skill is very potent, but it’s not recommended for newer players who lack a lot of Fluffers levels or players who lack a high investment in Mana Siphon. You can use a tool like mmlh's mana sheets to determine how much mana you'll need in order to successfully use Royal Contract. Still, this can be a very consistent source of gold boost for players who have the required mana regeneration.