6USP - Village

Ok, here you are. The beginning of the endgame. You’ve been through an Ultra Ascension (UA), and you’ve mostly gotten back to where you were before. There’s still a ton of content ahead of you, including playstyle-changing upgrades. In fact, in total hours played, you’re just getting started if you want to take advantage of all that Idle Slayer has to offer! But, the upgrades are pricey and grindy, and the strategy for most of this will stay the same: click lots, play lots, and become an Idle Slayer hero.

You’re going to have a few playstyle upgrades along the way, like Rage Mode, the Village, new equipment, and even new Stones of Time. But, throughout the endgame, the basic way to measure how far you’ve gone is through Achievements. So look through the rest of this guide for some insight (master the Bonus Stages! Don’t be afraid to Ascend).

### A Brief Overview of the Rest of the Game:

Consider using the following suggestions for when to Ultra Ascend, and the types of Equipment, Upgrades, and/or Major Ascension Tree upgrades you can plan on getting at each level, refer to the Ascension Tree Tier List if you get stuck in a UA:

#### Make your 1st Ultra Ascension...

once you've earned 6 overall Ultra Slayer Points (USP).

After your first UA, plan to get the new Equipment, Cape. Work towards unlocking the important craftable, the Book of Death Pact, granting you access to Dark Divinities. Rage Mode is also essential for getting more SP (making use of the Rage mode strategy) which will help you get to Astral Slayer (the main objective of this UA, the big boy at 500 Million SP!). After Astral Slayer, you'll buy the Village Key for a meager 2 million SP (you should also grab Astral Sword (10m SP) and Astral Blessing (60m SP) as well!) and UA immediately afterwards.

#### Make your 2nd Ultra Ascension...

at around 26 overall USP shortly after you've gotten the Village Key. Be sure to check out Village to see what preparation you would benefit from doing beforehand. Try to start making use of the Ultra Prestige Strategy to get more DP as long as you have over 470 total DP.

After your second UA, plan to get the new equipment, Claw. Completion of the first two buildings in the Village is the first priority in this UA, collect as many upgrades as you need that will help you collect materials for the Village and begin immediately after. Also get these Astrals in the following order: Leadership master, Command & Conquer, Master of Multipliers, Multiverse, Slash The Life, Eternal Rage and the Stone of Hope (see below).

#### Make your 3rd Ultra Ascension...

at around 45 overall USP, once you have the Stone of Hope. You should also have gotten the Armory by this point.

After your third UA, plan to get Silk Master, Triple Silvers, and Provisions. This will be a longer grind! Continue to grab any Astrals you can get your hands on, including Flawless, Gem Seller, Gem Buyer, and Ancient Treasures. Gem Seller and Gem Buyer make quests significantly easier after UA, Ancient Treasures unlocks powerful crafting items which will help you in your next UA.

#### Make your 4th Ultra Ascension...

at around 62 overall USP, once you have Ancient Treasures.

After your fourth UA, you're headed towards Wander's Path! Get the other tree items at your own preference or according to the Tier List. After Wander's path work towards getting Cyclops (do not get Cyclops before Wander's path), Get Collateral so you can unlock Funky Space and Galaxy Quests (very helpful for the grind up to Chest in a Chest). Pick up Time Skip if you want, and then begin the long grind to Chest in a Chest. See below for the strategy to make most use of Wander's Path for getting SP. After getting Chest in a Chest you will need to get 12T SP more for Time Skip and Sacred Tome of Death Pact (allows you to unlock Boss Fights), which also gives you time to get a shield drop before your UA.

#### Make your 5th Ultra Ascension...

at around 82 overall USP, after picking up the Sacred Tome of Death Pact and the rest of the Astrals you may have skipped over.

After your fifth UA, the priority is unlocking the rest of the expensive Astral Locked upgrades, including Total Sale, Stone of Rage and Rights of a Villager, but with great focus on building up your Armory, check out the Armory page for tips. Advanced Divinities is an Astral upgrade which can also be unlocked within this UA which will unlock several new Divinities including one to obtain new items in the Armory. Picking them up as you can afford them will make your journey easier (increasing your Spent SP, and thus, Inner Power) and you can choose to UA thereafter. You might also decide to purchase Advanced Divinities to make use of it, while pushing for these and other Astral Locked upgrades.

#### Make your 6th Ultra Ascension...

at around 101 overall USP, after you purchase at least those first three upgrades mentioned.

After your sixth UA, there's just a few Astrals left! You can pick up some of the remaining ones, perform another Ultra Ascension if you like to activate those, or just journey forth towards Edge Master. By that point, you've likely exhausted the existing content and may want to spend time hunting the rest of the achievements utilizing the Ninja minion.

### Inner Power

Early in this first Ultra Ascension, you’ll purchase Inner Power (a new Ultra upgrade next to the Stone Golem). Inner Power changes how minions rewards are calculated - not so much based on level, but now based on how long your minions take to complete a mission AND how many Slayer Points you have spent in this Ultra Ascension. This can become quite valuable.

You’re mostly going to want to spend your Slayer Points as soon as possible, but it's important to prioritize upgrades that you will find more useful on your adventure.

### Portal

Once you’ve ran through most of your quests, you’ll want to settle into a dimension for some good old fashion Slayer Point farming.

Endgame strategy can vary a little in various dimensions. But because of the strength of the Anubis Warrior giant, Hot Desert will be the best place to grind and farm for SP for a while. Modern City and Jungle are also important for farming materials for rage pills.

Only chase a Daily Quest if you have Portal Dominion, but always return to your 'home base' and farm there.

### Dark Divinities

After you craft the Book of Death Pact, you’ll have access to a new set of Dark Divinities. Unlike regular Divinities, these are toggleable - you can pay DP to turn them on, but you’re returned all that DP when you turn them off. Some of them are situationally used - some of them are always useful.

Most Dark Divinities have a positive and a negative (also separating them from Divinities). The Divinity Tier List will tell you more about which to prioritize or use. Generally, you’ll want to use Buckshot, Dark Projectiles, and learn to run the Bonus Stage using Hard Mode and Silver Death.

### Rage Mode Strategy

Eventually, you’ll unlock the very fun Rage Mode. On average, Rage Mode will give you about 6x the normal SP gain of killing with a bow. It will help generate a ton of souls if used right! The best strategy is generally to not Rage until you have a soul bonus. Then, wait until about the last 14 seconds before that bonus runs out. The hope is that in that time, you’ll find a random box with a giant Mega Horde.

Pause bow firing as soon as you see a box on the screen - if it is a megahorde, you want to kill the enemies with Rage Mode, not your bow.

If you don’t get megahorde, just fire the Rage Mode with about 10-14 seconds remaining and hope for the best.

If you do have a soul bonus, feel free to chew through those Rage Pills. In general, in the endgame, rage will last enough to kill 2-3 giants if you fire Rage when the first giant is in front of you. With a soul bonus, wait to have a giant in front of you, fire rage, use a rage pill, and wait to have another giant in front of you before using rage mode again.

### Trailing Keys Strategy

Trailing keys is a very viable strategy at this point in the game. Don't forget to not pick up Strong Magnet if you want to utilize it. The Dark Divinity Wind Force does make this technique much easier, once it is unlocked.

### Mine DP and Ultra Prestige Your Minions

There’s no way you have enough Divinity Points yet. Do everything in your power to check your minions frequently, prestige them often, and gather DP.

Whenever you’re preparing for an Ultra Ascension, take some time to get your minions close to max level. It’s unlikely that you want to permanently spend 450 DP on Ultra Prestige. If you don’t, enable it right before your UA, and then reset your Divinity Points after unlocking Blessing of Cronus. As long as you have more than 20 minion levels that get auto-prestiged, you’ll gain more DP than you spent.

Making use of Ultra Prestige can still make sense even if you'd need to reset your Divinities before and after your UA. But for that you will of course need at least 41 minion levels (which is easily possible). It’s easy math to figure out, and definitely worth doing! There's a lot more on Ultra Prestige on the Minions and Divinities page.

### Endgame Strategy Quick Notes

#### Set Goals

You need to set goals as your endgame strategy progresses. These goals will inform ascensions (or Ultra Ascensions) and give form to your gameplay. Goals should either be playstyle upgrades (Rage Mode, Stone of Hope, etc), Astral upgrades, or Achievements. Ultra upgrades should be viewed as steps to those goals (See Ascension Strategy below).

If chasing Equipment level achievements, it’s helpful to view them in total sets of 50 levels (this will make more sense with the CpS Ascension below).

#### Stack City

In endgame strategy, your main goal is to stack as many Random Box buffs on top of each other for maximum gains. These stacks are multiplicative, and can dramatically increase your earnings. There are ways to increase the likelihood of earning good stacks (like the Less Coins More Fun Divinity, and Bonus Stages), but your life is now determined by RNG (Random Number Generation - or the idea that it's a dice roll). Yes, there’s ‘luck’ involved. But it’s also, technically, just time. If you invest the time, you will get a massive stack in a bonus stage. But it does take time.

#### Max Your Equipment (no, seriously, don't forget how important this is)

The Equipment Bonus is one of the better CpS buffs you can get. If you can stack a major Equipment buff with an 18x CpS bonus or more, you'll make a ton of coins. Don’t leave it up to chance; max level every equipment item you can. The higher their levels, the more bonus you’ll get. Of course, the Chain Mail of Greed also increases the value of every equipment level. After the Village, you'll get Joey's Amulet, which also increases your soul bonus for every single level of equipment.

#### Don't Neglect your Offline Rewards

It's easy to underestimate just how many enemies are slain offline. Same as above, putting levels into your equipment is key - in this case, especially the Sword, Dagger, and Axe. If you find that you're not particularly active, consider tuning your Stones of Time to beef up those offline gains. With this playstyle, Souls Bonuses aren't as important as having a nice coin combo (see *Stack City* above) at least once per Ascension.

#### Master of the Bonus Stages

The bonus stage is an essential element of endgame strategy. It's important for gains, but also essential for materials. As you’re aware, bonus timers pause during the Bonus Stage, and then your coin and soul gains can be massive. With Bonus Rewards+ from the Ascension Tree, you also have 4 random boxes each time you finish the Bonus stage. Flawless will give you two more. If you enable the Silver Death Dark Divinity, those are silver boxes, too! Hard Mode (Dark Divinity), Specialist (Divinity), Death Trinket (Divinity), and Bonus Stage 2 and 3 all improve your gains even further.

And the best part of the Bonus Stage is that it’s pure skill. Chest Hunt can be very lucrative, but it’s entirely luck. In the Bonus Stage, on the other hand, the only factor that can lead to failure is you.

If you’re going to play into the endgame, you’ve gotta master the Bonus Stages. Put in the work and get good.

#### Huge SP Gains

Whether you’re chasing Astral upgrades or just pure achievements, you need more SP. Have a lot already? You need more. The more SP you have, the more SP you’ll get. The more SP you have, the more massive your Ascension CpS bonus.

#### Portal at Night for Materials

Once you’ve unlocked Rage Mode, the dimensional staffs, and the CpS and Soul Compass, you’ll want to stay stocked up on materials for those temporary craftables. But who wants to go somewhere with slime or bat wings, much less the jungle for roots? Luckily, you can get lots of good materials in Modern City, and the bonus stage, with goblin cloth and soul boosts, will spawn in any dimension. For Rage Pills, consider heading to the jungle at night before bed, and gather your roots offline. You can head back to your preferred dimension when you wake up and send your minions back out on missions.