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* Oni Guide Refactored

Updated to v1.02

As  has high Pet Levels as a class feature he wants to use . So getting 200 Mastery, 200 Empathy and 180 Int (if you have ) after that is the highest priority. After that fill out Spellcraft to 200+, then Insight to 250, then Patience, goal is to reach all the 250 Perks while bursting, though Insight will get to 250 because we won't use  for the Void Mana gathering.

Dump stats in order are: Empathy>Spellcraft>Mastery>Patience>Insight>Intelligence>Versatility

Ignore Wisdom and Dominance.

### Spellsets:

Temper The Steel stacking ( Meditation stance )

Spell stack with ( Defense and Meditation stance)

Pet levelling (Berserk stance)

Pre Burst with   (Defense stance)

Burst (Berserk stance)

### Spell stacking:

Equip  or  if you have access to T3 pets and the spell stacking set above and switch do meditation stance. Now you have two options. With the latest patch came rework to  passive. You can no longer keep your charge speed increase as it was converted to the active part of the spell and you start from scratch each exile.

**Option 1**: If you can make profit in less than 1 hour ( due to lower mysteries or/and high memories ) you will stay in meditation stance for the entire duration of your spell stacking phase. Equip spell stacking set with gear set and put  and  on reckless. You can cast  and  once to speed up initial spell charging generation via meditation stance bonus. When you max out sources with your pet ( around 20 minutes ) switch to  and level him up for like a minute using box leveling spell and gear set below ( don't forget to switch to berserk stance for leveling ) so your  can generate more  charges.

**Option 2**: If you plan to do longer runs, it is now highly advised to separately stack  to the point when  can sustain it on itself in defensive stance so you can make proper use of . Equip spell stacking set with gear set and put  and  on reckless. You want to increase meditation stance bonus. Casting  and  once at the start of you run will boost your initial charging speed. Do it only for like a minute since you hit diminishing returns relatively fast. Now switch to temper the steel gear set with temper the steel stacking spell set. Stay in meditation stance and put everything on reckless. For pet you have multiple choices. If you have trouble keeping up  and  use  or, if you want to max out your sources in this phase use  or , for extra levels switch to  and lastly, if you want to speed up this part a bit go with . Again, don't forget to level your pet for few seconds with pet leveling spell set and gear set posted below. I recommend you to start with / to max out sources first, then switch to  for the remaining time. Depending on your pet, this phase shouldn't take you more than 40-60 minutes. When you can successfully sustain  +  loop with defensive stance, switch back to stacking spell set + gear set and change pet to  or alternatively  to make use of 200 empathy attribute perk if you plan to do longer run for extra  boost because it scales with your highest pet level. Both pets will slightly increase the effect of  as well, especially at the start of your run. However  may still be the superior choice as crafting dust is very valuable long term throughout multiple exiles/realms.

You can stay on this phase for as long as you want ranging from less than a day to entire weeks. Note that  scales very well.

### Spell stacking gear set:

Note that the only items that really matter are ,  and maybe to some extent  +  for , rest is optional, they are there to boost  if you want to push Furious Strike charging speed of Temper The Steel and .

### Temper The Steel gear set:

Somewhat similar to the previous set but you switch out few items, is bread-and-butter of this set with support items like  and  with  even though they won't account for too much. In addition you want to swap few items to increase your character ability power to boost your meditation stance bonus. Those items aren't mandatory to have or enchant but they might give you an edge when it comes to min-maxing. When you are done maximizing sources you can swap  to  and  to  for extra boost, however it's not mandatory.

Once you want to move on and start to get ready to burst, change  to  and  to . Both are the weakest scaling spells and we need quite a few  charges in the following phases, get at last several hundred.  buffs Insight 150 Perk Bonus and also gives easy character levels, however if you don't plan to do run that lasts at least a day additional stacking of  outside temper the steel stacking phase isn't necessary. If you decide to stack it for longer, don't forget to switch and level  first. You should as last action go back into Meditation Stance and wait until you have at least two charges of , as we will need that for Leveling the Pets we're going to use next.

### Box levelling:

 scales of off highest pet level this exile (  too, is just way better). Just going Box with the leveling spell set from above will give you some quick levels. Here's the BiS for fast levels (not very important, but can be helpful)

*Note: BiS bit isn't updated, use*  *for Offhand,*  for Neck-Slot,  for Research,  and  for Trophies.

### Void phase:

Switch to , level it a bit with the leveling set and berserk stance.

After we're done with leveling  it's time to get as much Void mana out of him as possible. To do that use the following item-set:

 and  give the same boost so use whichever is higher rarity, if you have both at legendary, use  to have one less item to enchant.

Important: use  to increase character ability power --> pet ability power --> more void mana. Don't forget to use  if you have 200 Insight. Your stance and the rest of your spells don't really matter, so I like to go into Meditation stance and refill  as well as continue casting  and refilling  and reckless casting . You can stay quite long in this phase, stacking , as Empathy 200 bonus will keep helping you to reach more Void mana.

### Burst:

As  has trouble doing a setup-burst, we do it right before the actual burst. Repeating Box-level and VT Phase again before the final burst, as the upgrades we unlocked with the Pre-Burst will allow us to make those phases much stronger. I prefer to use  for the Pre-Burst to take advantage of the maxed sources from doing spell stacking with  and  for the final burst. Once you have T3 pets it's  in both cases, obviously.

*Note*:  will eat your sources while leveling and while stacking , but don't panic and re-buy them, instead let him eat however much he wants and only re-buy Hellholes once before you activate . This way you will only lose 25 Hellholes maximum in your final burst, as all your saved up mana gets used to re-buy them. We don't care about the other sources, so make sure to only re-buy Hellholes and not the other sources too.

Now it's time for real juicy stuff,  burst. The  have a complex burst, so I'll divide it in steps.

Switch  to  (If you don't have paragon 30 yet, use / )

Level your chosen burst-pet with the spell and item set also used to level Voidterror in Berserk Stance, but don't do it for long, as you're bleeding Voidmana! 30s to 1min should be plenty.

Switch to the pre burst spell set and defense stance (very important, defense stance can give about 600 more sources), put all the spells on reckless, then activate

Once 10-20 seconds remain on  (you should have received about 1500-1800 sources) switch to berserk stance, burst spell set and this item set:

cast the first 5 spells and then , buy all new upgrades, and sources if you can, then cast  again, repeat. For the Setup-Burst casting it 2-4 times should be enough, in the final burst you can set  as reckless (it only casts once every second anyway)

profit!