Build-Juggernaut

This build is middle to late-game oriented. It is based on 2 active and 2 passive skills : Hapazard, Shield, Endurance, Complete. Other skill slots are optinal and all passive skills.

You can start to use it as soon as you unlock T4, after few runs. Keep in mind that the build will be easier realise with higher Skill choices and Pre-assigned skill slots. It will be more and more effective while you grind Attack, Defense and Skill slots for more passives.

### Minimal configuration

Minimal configuration is the core build with skills mentionned above. In order of preference, the requirements are :

* Attack : the most is the best
* Skill tier : T4 (Dont unlock T5)
* Skill choice : 3 (Or 4)
* Defense : the most you can
* Skill slots : the more you can afford.
* Pre-assigned : the more you can afford.

If you cannot have these, read the guide for beginners before.

### Optimal configuration

Optimal configuration is the final version, when you can buy near all the Set up upgrades. Especially Attack, Defense and skill related stuff. HP and Critical are really the last upgrades to buy.

Here is the list of priority for upgrades. All the core skills, Attack, Defense and Accuracy are really over the top. Other stats and skills can wait, let them at level 1 until all the core ones are maxed out.

1. **Endurance**
2. **Complete**
3. ***Attack***
4. Proficiency
5. **Hapazard**
6. **Shield**
7. ***Accuracy***
8. ***Defense*\***
9. Restoration
10. Recall
11. Repeat
12. Retaliate
13. Hidden arrow / Lighning arrow / Iron rain
14. *Critical rate*
15. *View range*

Defense : make Defense your absolutly first, top priority if standard damages you received exceed 1, even from bosses.

### Some explanations

You can see 10 skills picked here, while you can actually pick only 8. It's because some will depend on your choice :

* Proficiency is T5 and so cannot be picked up until you pay the upgrade is Set up. It allow you to level up faster and so keep being stronger and stronger along the stages. Level it up early is a good investment.
* Restoration is good when you don't place well on the field and have to restore more HP to stay full health. Keep it to rush the dungeon, give it up if you play more carefully.
* Recall is a really good skill to gain much more Memory Shards and buy more upgrades in Set up each loop. Forget it when you are fully upgraded.
* Repeat gives a good chance to double-hit your target and get rid of the tougher enemies at the first sight. It makes bosses fights shorters too.
* Retaliate is a 5 level skill, easy to level up, that gives you a free counterattack by turn. Can make it easier to kill enemies around you if they are too close, strong or bosses.
* Hidden arrow / Lighning arrow / Iron rain is the last pick if you have a free slot (no Restoration and no Recall). It will help a bit to kill swarms and summoned pets in the last stages. Change it for whatever you like to play.

### Strategy

This build is mainly about passives, so the global strategy is what the standard gameplay is. Pick all the chests and bonuses you can, just dont waste your keys on locked chests, keep them for later. Fight enemies one by one while your Endurance/Shield are low level. Try to get close to them for the 100% hit rate without being hit by the other ones. Keep away from yellow-glowing mobs who can deal you extra damages like with throwing weapons, inflict poison etc. Shapazard and Shield can be used to clear dangerous zones, especialy the starting areas, the wolves rush overwhelming and if you have difficulties to one-shot mobs at some point.

The Complete passive is a very, very strong skill. It gives you +9 strength and +9 defense in only 5 levels of this skill ... but only if you stay full-clothed. Your priority is to keep this passive on, and so you have to maintain you HP high enough. That's why Endurance, Shield and Restoration are made for. Endurance will restore 1HP when you are hit, once a turn, up to 96% of the time. It's obviously insane, while you will rarely be hit more than that. Shield will give you defense bonus, but more than that, you'll be hit for 0 damages while the skill is active. Not enough ? Endurance triggers even if you are hit for 0, this is just immunity+free heal. Just beware of poisons that cannot be negated. And restoration will let you heal more than needed by picking heart drops and by chests. In the case your clothes aren't so clean anymore, you'll lose the Complete benefits, you must open all the locked chests to find new clothes ! But i'm pretty sure this won't happen. What can you be afraid of ?

#### Bosses

Afraid of bosses ? No way ! Clear your way to the boss, kite him backward and when he is isolated, just use your combos : Haphazard will ruin their HP pool. If he is still alive, cast Shield and tank him. With Complete and Shield, you will deal more damage and he will do none. He is ranged and don't want to kited ? No problem, rush him and use your active skills, then left click on him to focus him as a priority target and shoot him to death. Shield will negate all the damages from standard mobs. Once the boss is dead, see if you need to retreat ... or not. A good mob is a dead mob (that gives Exp ^^).

#### The Lord

That is a very strong boss ... what ? Well ... not at all, lol ! Just like all other bosses, he will deal like no damage to you. Maybe a bit with its skill, but nothing to worry about. Use the same strategy for stage 32 than the other bosses, and leave his corpse behind. What the f\*ck ? He is immortal ? Maybe, but you are immortal too, and still stronger than him forever. There is only two reasons he will come back for : because he is really stupid, and because he want let you have free massive Experience points to level up faster and become even stronger ! In every next stage, clear the starting area to be quiet, come back to welcome the Lord (before he summons dozens of pets) and give him a free acupuncture session.

#### Some tricks

If you need to be healed or have a bit of fun, think you can have Shield 7 turns out of 8 at the maximum level. Put off your auto-attack in the bottom right corner, activate Shield and let you hit. The Endurance will restore you 6-7HP during the duration. Keep only 1 enemy at a time for the last turn before you cast Shield again ... and so on 6 times, or until you don't need more. Beware that Retaliate can kill the ennemies and break the trick.

If you level up and don't have good choices to choose from, don't leave the floor. You can quit to main menu and resume game, it will reload at the same stage with another randomization and so, new choices. This can be used to have a better build. Someones can think its close to cheat, but not more than save/load in other games. The same trick can be used to restart a stage where you lost too much HP.

Don't take this game too seriously, if you die before than expected, just spend your won Memory Shards and make a new loop. And over all, have fun ! :)