EA Guide Season 8

## Guide Expédition Abyssale saison 8 / Abyssal Expedition season 8 guide

*This is a guide to aim the top ranking. This season, we are playing in auto mode against the final boss.*

### Roles and terms of this mode

***The Carry :*** This kind of player will save his stamina and do not do the path to optimize his damage output on the final boss, his role is to power up quickly by doing a perfect start. It will allow him to kill easily the boss gates, and doing a lot of damage on the final boss with his developped box of heroes. The carry will need to play at the start of the expedition to take his 20 camps (at least 10 3tier village).

***The runner :*** This kind of player will do the path and help the carries to advance and move forward, it will allow to save a lot of stamina for players that will do a lot of damage on final boss, and also will help quickly to connect the players on the gates. The runner must be active to play this role.

**The support** **:** This kind of player will not have the time to play and will support someone to generate more stamina for the player and for the militia.

### Expedition's strategy

#### the start and first zone

Ideally, everybody should try to get 20 camps between 1:00 am and 5:00 am (french time zone), but we know that real life is first priority so do your best to get camps as soon as you can.

To take these camps, we will take 5 heroes for the 5 first slots.

*The recommended team for the tier 3 at start, is the following* :

##### **Tier 3 village composition team**

* Arthur 303
* Albedo 303 (e60 will help a lot)
* Ainz 309 e60
* Merlin 309
* Ferael 209 / AK Brutus 309 e60 (for the ones who owned it)

You can do the empty tiles solo with Ferael/AK Brutus Or Ainz or the trio arthur merlin albedo if you need to balance the stamina. Try to take the nearest tier 3 village, and use the full team to attack it. Tier 2 village can be taken and just use Albedo Merlin and Ainz (You will use Arthur and Ferael /Ak brutus to balance the stamina on empty tiles to do the path). Try to take the most T3 villages but you can take half T3 and Half T2, it will be a good start.

When the stamina is finished, we remove them and put them again on slot 6-10 on which there are 80 food to use, and again we take the villages with the team.

When you have finished to farm your start, slot some celerity heroes on slot 1-5 (check the list that I will describe), don't forget to take Saurus to fight Zaphrael.

Normally with this strategy, you will be able to get 20 camps with T3 and T2 villages.

You can keep the T3 team until you are 2.0 celerity relics, then after that, you will need to dismiss them and take 5 more celerity heroes.

For the ones that have thoran 309, take him in one of the 10 first slots and save his stamina until we are on Marsha and got a max tree branch to optimize his damage.

##### Tier 3 villages with ennemies to avoid.

Some ennemies are terrible and can waste our stamina, avoid Thoran, Brutus, Flora, Thali, Oden, Satrana, Solise, Orthros as ennemies, you won't be able to easily 3 star the fight and you'll waste some stamina.

##### Celerity heroes list that are usefull in expedition

1. Ezio 309 (can solo empty tiles and some weak villages)
2. Thane 309 e60 (can solo empty tiles and some weak villages)
3. AK Thane 309e60 (with Alna, he can duo easily strong villages)
4. Ferael 209 (good control on ennemy team)
5. Drez 203 (can solo empty tiles easily to do the pathing)
6. Lyca 209 (good support to take advantage)
7. Eironn 303 (Good carry to take out teams for 3 star)
8. Prince of persia 209 (great carry to solo villages)
9. Lucretia 309 e60 (carry hard fight)
10. Cecilia 203 (to take out one enemy in particular)
11. Athalia 309 (to take out one enemy in particular)
12. Kren 309 (good aoe damage)
13. Joker 203 (to duo with heroes that can control)

##### People who owned Awakened Thane and Awakened Brutus

These are the heroes that can farm easily strong villages, only need to solo with AK brutus with relic soul and to play AK Thane with alna.

##### After the start, it needs to get the baron rank.

Le but est de bien farm et monter ses reliques rôdeurs et ressources pour passer Baron très vite pour débloquer 5 nouveaux slots qui serviront à accueillir la team boss final, faut débloquer rapidement ce grade pour commencer à cumuler la team boss sans la toucher. Donc prendre Mishka, Grezhul, Warek, Twins et Estrilda pour ceux qui joueront avec Mishka ou bien Grezhul.

The goal is to farm and up the celerity relics and ressources to rank to baron and unlock the slot 11-15 to put the mishka team against marsha. When you are baron, put Mishka Grezhul Estrilda Twins and Warek on slot 11-15.

##### Aim the viscount rank to get the relic soul

Aim to rush this rank to get the relic soul and begin to fight Zaphrael the first boss gate.

##### Zaphrael

The team to use is Saurus, Drez, AK Thane, Raku and Cecilia, it needs 3.3 on celerity relics, relic soul on saurus.

#### **The second zone.**

We need to rush the pathing and try to connect to the second gate boss, continue to farm and upgrade your relics and income.

Boss gates are Eluard on the left side, Oku for the right side.

With the new rank and new slot 16-20 put the eironn team so Daimon Albedo Eironn Merlin and Hendrick for the ones who don't have albedo e60.

if you have albedo e60, take daimon Albedo Eironn saurus and hodgkin, as Saurus was already in our first slots, the empty slot should be replace by AK Solise or Desira or Silas to replace Saurus in the team against 3rd boss gate Desira (take the one who is maxed and do a lot of healing to counter the boss), it only applies for people who are on the left of the map.

the two sides will need to take raku to fight Desira and Hodgkin.

##### Compo Oku

Oku is too hard to handle, let the left side to kill Eluard.

#### Underground map

Dans cette partie de map, il existe des mines pour éclairer une partie de la carte. Si un village / tuile reste dans la pénombre, un malus apparaît et rend le combat un peu plus compliqué (toujours gérable), pour enlever ce malus, il faut donc allumer les mines.

In this map, it needs to light the mines to illuminate some part of the map, if an empty tile / village is in the dark, a debuff is applied and make the fight harder, so it needs to illuminate the map to farm easily.

the debuff is also applied on third boss gates Desira and Hodgkin, we will need to light on 50 mines to get rid of the debuff.

##### Desira

**Use this comp to avoid using stamina of our teams for marsha, it needs 5.0 celerity relics**

For the who has albedo e60 and using the eironn team for marsha, use your best healer between AK Solise, Desira and Silas.

Solo izold is a good hero against her.

##### Hodgkin

**Use this comp to avoid using stamina of our teams for marsha, it needs 5.0 celerity relics**

Solo izold is a good hero against him.

#### **Last zone, get back to surface map.**

We are all together and in front of the final boss marsha.

It needs to rush the duke rank to get the slot 20-25, to take the anasta team so put anasta silas rosaline ak solise and skreg.

##### Compo Mishka

the team composition with high and low investment to compare.

##### Compo Eironn (without albedo e60)

the team composition with high and low investment to compare.

To avoid too much RNG, reset might branch on the elder tree. Max tank and celerity branches on the elder tree.

##### Compo Eironn (With Albedo e60)

Very RNG, damage between 1.6B and 4.5B but better average and needs Albedo e60.

to lower the rng part, it needs to reset to level 0 the celerity tree in the elder tree and level up equally warrior, tank and support tree.

##### Compo Anasta

the team composition with high and low investment to compare.

Rosaline needs to follow Anasta.

##### Solo compo

Zolrath is very good as solo but needs to be used when Marsha is under 40% Hp.

##### Global team composition in one image

 without albedo e60

 with Albedo e60

##### After the death of Marsha 1

On passe en mode farm et on augmente ses reliques, on arrête complètement de taper pendant plusieurs jours pour maxer ses reliques pour pouvoir lancer des attaques ultra puissantes lors des 4 derniers jours de l'event. Il faut rentabiliser ses attaques et son endurance utilisé, donc il faudra bien up ses reliques et ne pas se précipiter.

We need to farm and up the relics, we completely stop to fight marsha to take the time to up the relics and wait for the last 4 days of the event to launch the attack with high relics tree. We need to wait and not waste stamina by attacking with low relics.

### Relics order for Marsha.

Il faut d'abord évoluer en 5.0 célérité pour farm tranquillement, puis on passe 5.4 support avec les 4 reliques mythiques avec de la DEF. Ensuite on fait le 5.6 tank puis le 5.4 guerrier avec les 4 reliques mythiques avec de la DEF.

We need to go 5.0 celerity to farm easily, then 5.4 support with 4 relics with def attributes. Then we need to 5.6 tank tree and 5.4 warrior with relics with def attributes.

### My personal timeline to take heroes

This is what I played during the different phase of the event (I'm on the left side of the map) :

 for the ones who don't have albedo e60

 for the ones who have albedo e60

### Strategy's overview.

During the event, we will send calls and reminder of the strategy on discord, **please be active and read calls on discord.**

### Tips and tricks

#### Errors to avoid

* Remove the x4 speed in battle against strong villages, it will allow you to retry the fight and waste only 1 stamina to retry instead of losing 12 stamina if you lose.
* Avoid ennemies like Thoran, Satrana, Solise, Orthros, Flora, Brutus.
* Put you camp near the boss gate or final boss to get the 5% damage bonus.

#### Villages transitions for farming

Do +2 level transitions, I mean if you have Tier 1 village, change it into Tier 3 village, T2 village to T4 village and so on. The only transition +1 level you can do and is still efficient is the T4 -> T5.

#### Quest order for the rank

Do the one that need you take high level relics in one tree first, it will power up the celerity tree and let you farm easily.

The last quest to do is the one that asking you to level up all tree branches at a minimal state.

#### Sell relics that you don't need for celerity and support at the beginning.

It will accelerate the collection of the ressources, and will allow you to rank up faster and become stronger faster, after getting the slot 16-20 you can stop selling relics.

#### Don't up your relics when you are ready to sleep

If the up of a relic does not allow you to farm better, then don't and just wait until you have enough to get a checkpoint to farm better or become stronger, it will allow to wait for drops that can reduce massively the cost of the relics.

#### Do not hesitate to ask for help and do not steal villages.

Ask help on chat or discord, do not steal villages, if you see a village or city that has been injured, please ask if you can take it or not, wait for 5 minutes for an answer, if nobody answers you can take it.