Temporalist Dread mini guide

In general, follow the overall Temporalist guide. Phases are broadly the same, with minimal changes to spell sets and a focus on idle bonus for burst gear. Other than that, just use the Ascension form spell and the second pet slot, and you'll make great profits. I was able to reach e1300 with 5e6 memories and 35+5 enchants, far stronger than Demiurge.

## Pet choices

**TL;DR: Mechanos Apexis main pet, Risen Giant sub-pet for burst, Pixie sub-pet otherwise**

Having a second pet is the big new mechanic for Dread, so this will be the longest section.

Mechanos Apexis will be your main pet at all times, once you've maxed sources with Greater Chimera. Even before hitting Ascension forms, you should be able to do your buildup phase with Mechanos Apexis. So that locks up the main pet slot, and prevents you from using Anima Construct and Archivist in the second pet slot.

That leaves the following options for the second pet slot:

* Irrelevant:
	+ Ent (autoclicks a lot, and empowers clicks + summons)
	+ Pit Lord (doesn't work on Dread)
* Profit increase:
	+ Risen Giant (autoclicks, and increases profits based on time and idle bonus)
	+ Arcanaworg (increases profits and gives spell shards)
	+ Simulacrum (increases profits)
	+ Hungerer (increases profits)
* Potential utility:
	+ Voidterror (provides void mana)
	+ Ley Keeper (increase stats and increase profits)
	+ Pixie (autoclicks more than Ent)

Ley Keeper to boost Spellcraft will increase time skipped, although the effect seems insignificant. In a brief test, it provided +110 Spellcraft, however that only provided +3% time skipped. So I'd say Ley Keeper isn't worth the effort.

Voidterror might be worth using during the void mana phase, but when you want to level your burst pet, you'll lose void mana. Maybe it's worthwhile, but I'm lazy and I doubt the effect would be orders of magnitude.

Pixie for autoclicks will get you ~20x autoclicks, which is worthwhile for exp and Dominance perks. So it will be in the second pet slot a lot longer than regular Temporalist's Pixie usage.

So now we just need to pick the best profit increasing pet, and hands down the winner is Risen Giant. Idle bonus is a good stat, and then you get extra benefit from it by having Risen Giant. It blows all the other options out of the water, and will probably be nerfed somehow in the future. Swap to it before bursting, time skip for minutes/hours to level it, and then enjoy delicious profits.

### Risen Giant time vs Pixie time

Not yet solved is how much time to spend with Pixie as the secondary pet, vs Risen Giant. Pixie will provide more autoclicks, which will increase exp (directly boosts Temporalist profit ability) and Dominance perks. Estimate from Discord is that clicks have a ^0.3 profit boost for Dread Tempo. So it's worthwhile to keep Pixie on for a good chunk of your exil.

Meanwhile, Risen Giant's profit boost increases over time, which includes time skipped. Skipping millions of years of time on Risen Giant will provide a ridiculous amount of time for its ability, which is a good profit increase as well. So you probably want to spend a lot of time on Risen Giant as well.

As a rough guideline, consider using Pixie for the first third of your exile, and then using Risen Giant for the rest of the exile.

## Changed phases

No need for an initial MA burst before the other setup phases. Just build some void mana and burst any time. Currently there are no upgrades past e2400 mana, and that won't be hard to reach with the power of Ascension forms.

For the void entity phase, you'll collect e10 from Synthetic Entity and then move on. Since you'll always have Pixie/Risen Giant equipped you won't need to worry about autoclick counts.

## Spell and gear changes

The new spell provided by Dread is Manifest Twisted Reality (MTR), an evocation that boosts Character Ability Power and Idle Bonus for the rest of the exile. CAP will increase Tempo's evocation efficiency and profit, while idle bonus will boost Risen Giant. You basically always want to be casting it.

### Spell set changes

* Buildup: replace Ritual of Power with Manifest Twisted Reality (MTR), the new Dread spell.
* Time skipped: replace Primal Power with MTR. This will reduce time skipped (by 15% in my test), but stacking more MTR is a larger boost.
* Void mana: replace Conjure Manabeast with Kelphior's Black Beam, and Revert with Voidbolt. Conjure Manabeast doesn't add much, and I'm not sure what purpose Revert served in the original spell set. We want these spells in order to trigger weapon abilities for Reality Prism and Shard of a Lost Dimension.

### Gear set changes

There are two new items from recent patches you should use:

* Leg slot: Nether Barrier in the void mana phase
* Head slot: Artificer's Crown boosts crafting dust and evocations when enchanted. Use it in the Synthetic Entity phase, buildup phase, and time skip phase

In the void mana phase, use Shard of a Lost Dimension as your weapon and activate its ability to boost void mana generation by ~e2. No need to enchant it, since it gives void profit and won't be used in the burst set. For bursts in the first 18h of MA real played time, use Reality Prism briefly at the start to charge it.

The biggest gear changes are in the burst set, where the focus shifts to idle bonus for powering up Risen Giant. You should already be using Murmuring Spellbook, so here are the items that should be new to your burst set:

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## Credits

This guide is a summary of discussion on Discord in the first few months of Dread's release, including patch 1.34. While I wrote it down in the wiki, the people you should thank for testing and proving the ideas are, in no particular order:

* rus9384#1864
* Chocoholic#5690
* hugglesthemerciless#6669
* YBGnome#0901
* cosmological decade#1284
* MetroidLover97♀#7348