Minions and Divinities

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You'll first encounter Minions in the Midgame stage, as you head towards factory. At first, Minions will provide a steady stream of SP. You'll likely unlock White Knight and Dark Wizard, followed by the Stone Golem, Skeleton, Slime Monster, Ninja, and then Cyclops. Four minions (White Knight, Skeleton, Wizard and Goo Mutant) have ascension tree skill upgrades which will give CPS bonuses based on the level of the associated minion.

After unlocking Divinities in the Ascension Tree, you'll be able to earn Divinity Points (DP) by prestiging Minions and purchasing additional upgrades. These can dramatically boost gameplay when used appropriately.

Later, you'll be able to craft the Book of Death Pact, which unlocks Dark Divinities. These are toggleable effects which cost DP, and which provide a gain and a loss. For instance, Dark Projectiles will cost 140 DP and will dramatically increase the SP gained by the bow, while also drastically slowing the bows fire rate. Dark Divinities are a valuable late game addition.

## Basic Minion Strategy

Follow the tier list in purchasing Minions, and level minions as aggressively as possible. Not only will these soon provide SP income, but you're also paving the way to great DP benefits after unlocking Divinities.

At first, you'll feel like you're wasting SP by leveling your minions. Initially, they cost a lot more than they bring in! But remember, you never *waste* SP, as total earned SP contributes to your CpS boost and Soul Reaper benefits. So, instead of *wasting* SP, think of it as *investing* SP.

You'll also find yourself ascending a bit more rapidly as you need constant SP to send your minions on quests. This is normal.

If you want to be as efficient as possible, you should utilize the in-game notifications to be notified as soon as one has finished. You want to level them as quickly and as efficiently as possible, especially to maximize DP gain (below).

## Basic Minion Prestige Strategy

When you first unlock Divinities (200,000 SP), you'll want to prestige - or reset - all your minions immediately. The best basic strategy here is to prestige minions whenever your Dark Wizard is max level. This will likely be the case as soon as you unlock Divinities, and you might initially balk at immediately prestiging your minions. But do it anyway! Every max-level quest you send a minion on is a wasted Divinity Point (you're already losing DP from your Stone Golem), and DP is incredibly valuable, especially late game. Prestige those minions!

Keep in mind that there are ascension skills that boost CpS based on Minion levels. Prestiging your minions will cause you to lose those CpS boosts. Midgame, however, you're focused on SP gain and not CpS.

Later, you'll unlock The Chosen One and Perfect Prestige. The Chosen One allows you to individually prestige your minions for 80% DP, and Perfect Prestige makes that 100%. Ideally, hold off resetting any of your minions until you have Perfect Prestige (it's tough to waste DP), but if you're a long way from 2.5 million SP and you have a max level minion, reset it!

Once you've unlocked both, the basic strategy is always prestige any max level minion. The only exemption might be Stone Golem, who maxes every 3 levels. Some players prestige him at level 2, knowing that they might forget, request, and then remember at level 3. This is better than forgetting at level 3 and wasting a day (and the 1 DP you'd gain). It's a slight strategy, but it might be worthwhile.

## Purchasing Divinities

Divinities are game boosts purchased by Divinity Points. Consult the Divinity Tier List for some direction.

Unlike SP, you can reset your Divinities, for a cost of 20 DP. While that's costly - that's 20 DP you've lost forever - it can be helpful to use as Divinities are expensive and you'll only be able to afford a few select Divinities at a time, for a while.

Divinities will help for a while during your very first play through of the Ascension Tree, but shortly after purchasing Divinities, you'll find yourself thinking about Ultra Ascension. Luckily, after UA, there is a new node on the tree called "Blessing of Cronus" (only 50 SP) which will give you access to your previous Divinities long before unlocking it on the tree. When purchasing Divinities, keep in mind which will help both now, and in the early stages of your next UA.

There are generally three camps in regards to the best Divinity Strategy:

 Max Random Chance
 Max DP

Situations might vary, but the best strategy is to purchase Wind Waker and Ultra Instinct first to maximize SP gain. Both are considered essential Divinities to carry through a UA as well.

It's likely that before you purchase both, you'll be Ultra Ascending. After that, purchase your Max DP and other Divinities suggested in the tier list, and go from there.

Others purchase Improved Work Benefits and Work Benefits first, and then work the other two strategies as needed. Owning these two Divinites means the Skeleton and White Knight finish quests in under 2 hours, and the Goo Mutant finishes in less than 3 hours (under the Daily Bonus time). This is a big gain to DP earning. However, you sacrifice significant SP gain at a time you really benefit from it. For this reason, it's recommended to always start with Wind Waker and Ultra Instinct before any other Divinities.

## Ultra Prestige Strategy

As you get close to an Ultra Ascension, plan to use Ultra Prestige (a 450 DP Divinity) strategy to get a major DP boost. Ultra Ascension will automatically prestige your minions. Ultra Prestige will double the DP from the automatic prestige, giving you 2 DP for every minion level instead of 1. You need 470 total DP to use Ultra Prestige, 20 to reset your DP and 450 to purchase the divinity. You need a further 20 DP to reset your Divinities again after UA and purchasing Blessing of Cronos (50 SP Ultra Ascension Upgrade) but this can come out of the DP you got from letting UA prestige your minions. While this is a high DP requirement, you should certainly have 470 DP by your second UA.

Remember, a minion at its max level is a minion that is no longer generating DP (you're losing DP). So plan ahead and prestige minions in this order to have them all reach max together, right before you UA. While executing this guide, continue prestiging all max minions as normal.

1. Prestige Goo Mutant and regularly send it on missions.
2. When Goo gets to level 33, prestige White Knight and continue regularly sending on missions.
3. When Goo gets to level 50, prestige your Skeleton and keep sending.
4. When Goo gets to level 64, it's Wizard's time. Keep sending.
5. Finally, a day or so before you're ready to UA, prestige your Stone Golem.

Using this strategy should land most of your minions at or close to max all at the same time. If you're able to set timers and set the minions out perfectly, it should take just about 12 days to max all minions.

It's important to remember that while having all your minions maxed would be perfect for the strategy, it's more important to UA when you've done all you can in the UA; don't be afraid to use the Ultra Prestige Strategy when you have just 200 minion levels, its better than prolonging a UA.

Credit to @D' and @treinenfreak in the Discord community for the math for this strategy.

There is a slight extension on this strategy in lategame. After you have over 470DP combined between unspent DP and DP used for dark divinities, you can deactivate your dark divinities to be able to purchase Ultra Prestige without doing the initial reset, saving you 20 DP.

### Example Calculation

#### Scenario 1

You have 470 total DP and you are able to prestige all your minions and get **41 DP**. Below are the 2 scenarios describing your DP after a UA with and without having ultra prestige enabled.

1. No Ultra Prestige - UA will auto prestige minions so you will have 470 + 41 DP after UA **(511 DP)**
2. Ultra Prestige - You reset to buy ultra prestige leaving you at 470 - 20 DP total (450), UA auto prestiges minions and doubles the DP so you will have 450 + 41 \* 2 DP (532 DP), another reset after unlocking Blessing of Cronus will leave you with 532 - 20 DP **(512 DP)**

This leaves you with **1 DP profit**.

#### Scenario 2

You have 470 total DP and you are able to prestige all your minions and get **200 DP**. Below are the 2 scenarios describing your DP after a UA with and without having ultra prestige enabled.

1. No Ultra Prestige - UA will auto prestige minions so you will have 470 + 200 DP after UA **(670 DP)**
2. Ultra Prestige - You reset to buy ultra prestige leaving you at 470 - 20 DP total (450), UA auto prestiges minions and doubles the DP so you will have 450 + 200 \* 2 DP (850 DP), another reset after unlocking Blessing of Cronus will leave you with 870 - 20 DP **(830 DP)**

This leaves you with **160 DP profit**.