Oni Guide Refactored

Updated for v1.44.0 // Coming soon - Defiance Oni Guide, Oni for dummies remake
**TL;DR** Requires , , . See Oni For Dummies

## Introduction

 converts the methodical stacking of  and the rapid pet levelling of  into a complex powerhouse. Though slower than  or , and less accessible than , 's high scaling makes it a strong mid-game class.

* Flexible Exile Length
* Scales well with most stats
* Many Spellsets, itemswaps, pets
* Many areas for optimization

## Attribute Points

*Note: This section assumes you have AP-granting items like Legendary  to meet requirements, so alter accordingly to what you have.*

* 60 Insight
* 125 Spellcraft
* 50 Patience
* 200 Mastery
* 125 (200) Empathy
2. Spellcraft
3. Mastery
4. Patience
5. Insight
6. Intelligence
7. Versatility

### Priority

Progression depends on how many perks  gives in burst:

1. 250 Spellcraft
2. 175 (250)Empathy
3. 250 Intelligence
4. 250 Mastery
5. 250 Insight
6. 250 Patience
7. 250 Empathy
1. 175 (200) Spellcraft
2. 150 (250) Empathy
3. 225 (250) Intelligence
4. 225 (250) Spellcraft
5. 225 (250) Mastery
6. 225 (250) Patience
7. 175 (275?) Empathy
8. 250 Insight
9. 250 Empathy
10. 250 Spellcraft
11. 250 Mastery
12. 250 Patience
13. 250 Intelligence
2. 200 (250) Patience
3. 250 Insight
4. 200 (250) Wisdom
5. 250 Empathy
6. 250 Spellcraft
7. 250 Patience
8. 250 Mastery
9. 250 Intelligence
10. Dump Vers until can hit 150 dom.
11. 100 (150) Dominance
12. Dump Vers until can hit 250 dom.
13. 200 (250) Dominance

## Presets (to be updated soon)

These are the optimal spellsets and itemsets referenced later in the guide. Set them up in advance for ease of use.

### Import Codes

Spell Sets:

* #Buildup and #Source Maxing: #0#60,1;63,1;88,0;89,0;86,2;87,2
* #TTS Stacking: #1#87,2;2,2;88,2;91,2;71,2;86,2
* #Pet Leveling and #Box Leveling: #2#64,2;63,2;88,2;91,2;107,2;87,2
* #Void Mana: #3#30,2;26,2;88,2;91,0;107,0;87,2
* #Cataclysm: #4#64,2;2,2;6,2;91,2;28,2;11,2
* #Burst: #5#60,2;6,2;88,2;89,2;107,2;86,2
* all:
```
#0#60,1;63,1;88,0;89,0;86,2;87,2#1#87,2;2,2;88,2;91,2;71,2;86,2#2#64,2;63,2;88,2;91,2;107,2;87,2#3#30,2;26,2;88,2;91,0;107,0;87,2#4#64,2;2,2;6,2;91,2;28,2;11,2#5#60,2;6,2;88,2;89,2;107,2;86,2
```

## Oni Summary

Main goals whilst playing Oni

1. Get **Berzerker** and **Cataclysm** before you play Oni.
2. Get **100% uptime in defense stance** to build up. (~170% "Furious Strike" charges per second.)
3. Fast burst
4. Source capping setup.
5. Stack Incants for 30mins-100 hours then stack some Synthetic Entity.
6. Level up your interrogator for Possessed Blade buff - (Interrogator/Arch/MA levelling - Evo, inc, PAP and CAP gear)
7. Level up Arch/MA and cast all your Synthetic Entity.
8. Charge Cataclysm weapon.
9. Level Void Terror (Other Pet levelling - Evo/inc gear | **Void Mana phase** - Whiplash/Collar, Void Entity >> PAP gear.
10. Level Burst Pet (Hungerer/Living Sin - Other Pet levelling - Evo/inc gear) | **Burst**
11. Source cap again.
12. Repeat steps 8 - 10 and do a second Burst

**Stat Focus**

Build Up - GodExp/CaP

Non-box Pet levelling - Evo/inc

Interrogator/Arch/MA levelling - Evo, inc, PAP and CAP

Void Mana phase - Whiplash/Collar, Void Entity >> PAP gear.

Burst Phase - Profits, Evo, Inc, PAP, CAP.

# Steps to Onihood (e300+)

## Step 1: Stack TTS Phase

*Can be skipped entirely once you unlock, craft and enchant .*

First take , level it and upgrade it into .

Stack  to around 170% TTS with 11.50% share. Once at 170%, you can go to the next step since you can maintain 100% defense uptime with Berzerker equipped. while building your accumulated spells indefinitely. Use  achieve 170% on TTS faster.

### Source Maxing

Do a quick burst (Vmana phase + Burst) to gain more sources, then max out sources using Simulacrum/Greater Chimera while building up your TTS and Accumulated spells. More Monuments = More Incants from Berzerker.

Use  and , to max sources fast.

### Berzerker Buildup

*Items don't matter so we take God Exp and increased Jars. Later on you can minmax this phase with reduction items and CaP.*
This phase lasts as long as needed for profits.

### Synthetic Entity Stacking

Stack for around 5% of your exile time if you're using Ceaseless Hunger.

 Go to Void Entity Phase

## Step 3: Box Levelling Phase

Level high to boost . Refill spells using  with  as needed. Once levelling speed slows go to next step.

## Step 4: Void Entity Phase

Go To Sythetic Entity Stacking You should stack up this spell in the buildup sets.

Level up Archivist, then swap in Synthetic entity and Reckless cast until Void Entity this Exile slows.

Void Entities boost 150 Insight and increase Character XP.  is better until around 5+5 enchants until  overtakes.

## Step 5: Cataclysm Charging Phase

Meditative Fury spell gives more stacks and scales alongside mysteries earned.

Items help generate extra stacks, make sure your MF usage rate is >1/s by using incant reduction gear, evo reduction increases stacks from amount of Hellstorm casts and fireball.

## Step 6: Void Mana Phase

### FS Stacking

[Final burst of Exile] This is the ideal moment to stack some FS before you burst.

Use the Void Mana Generation setup but swap Nether Barrier for Spacepants (Charge speed). Spend roughly 10% of your exile length before going to burst.

### Void Mana Generation

*If you stacked FS, swap Nether Barrier back in.*
This phase can take 2-5 minutes for best results. Spend more time on this for your second burst (Emp200).

Get as much Void Mana from Voidterror until slows drastically. Collar of Obedience, Whiplash are very important items decreasing VoidTerrors Charge speed. As soon as you go to Burst you will be on a timer since your built up Void Mana will begin to go down slowly.

## Step 7: Burst Phase

### Levelling Burst Pet

Build up levels on your Burst Pet, once idle mode kicks in go to the next step.

#### Oni Time (Burst)

Get as many Mysteries as possible. Go to Berserk Stance and activate Cataclysm, buy Hellholes and upgrades, then set Furious Strike to reckless cast manually, buying Hellholes and upgrades where possible. Once Cataclysm wears off repeat Steps 4-8 again for more mysts.

## Step 8: Need more mysteries?

Simply follow Steps 5-8 again until you have acquired enough mysteries to exile. It's recommended to do at least a second burst if your exile isn't short.

## Enchanting

To get Enchant priority make a copy of this spreadsheet, select the appropriate items for your total enchant range, fill the rest of the data in, input max dust and it will calculate enchant priority for you. Since it won't calculate VT levelling or Box levelling phases, for VT levelling use the Burst pet set, and for box levelling just make sure the enchants are either the minimum possible or something like -15/-20 your best item.

## In-Depth Mechanics

#### TTS Math

To maintain the loop,  must be fully refunded by casting all granted . This is possible when:

C
×
R
×

1.1

S

≥

N
T

{\displaystyle C \times R \times 1.1^{S} \geq \frac{N}{T}}

E.g. when  grants **170%**  charges per second, and casting charge-based evocation spells shares **11.5%** of their cost.

 will **halve**  duration and thus **double** the loop threshold.  will reduce the loop threshold by **10%** (multiplicatively) per enchant.

where:

# * C
FS Charges from TTS Each Second

{\displaystyle C = \text{FS Charges from TTS Each Second}}
# * R

TTS Charge Share

%

{\displaystyle R={\text{TTS Charge Share}}\,\%}
# * S
Temporal Scabbard Enchant Level

{\displaystyle S = \text{Temporal Scabbard Enchant Level}}
# * N
Charging Evocations on Panel

{\displaystyle N = \text{Charging Evocations on Panel}}
# * T
TTS Duration

{\displaystyle T = \text{TTS Duration}}

## Tips

* As , get some easy  levels with  and  before switching to . This can let you quickly cast  and  to get started.
* With enough enchants on , the start phases can be skipped. Don't forget to level a buildup pet!
* Do an early burst for Upgrades and faster Source Maxing.
* If using  in the Burst phase, do *not* buy any sources in the Pre-Burst phase. Before and after your first , buy max Hellholes and any Upgrades. Continue buying Upgrades, but not sources.
* At 1e780 mana (1e384 Mysteries),  becomes available. Use it in place of  everywhere, to boost Pet Ability Power and  stacking. At low Wisdom, periodic manual casts of  may still be necessary to refill spells.
* At higher Memories equip incant/evo duration reducing items during buildup with Muscle Memory to get slightly more RoP/UK/TTS casts
* During longer exiles you will want to charge up your TS with Voidterror (for emp 200) for around 9% of your exile length
* After your first burst you can go back to GC to build up some sources you couldn't afford during burst
* If going offline make sure you equip Light of Eighth Star (Dust cap) and Blessed Tapestry (Attribute speed).

## High Mysteries

At higher Mysteries we gain access to T3 pets and the Pantheon (Memetics will not change our strategy).

 improves  stacking further. With high Incantation Efficiency and low Evocation Efficiency, it may outperform  for rushing.

### Pets

* >  burst pet, Level for 25 seconds.
* >
* >  for SE stacking.

### Build up

You can get around 10% more RoP and UK casts with maxed Muscle Memory, Kata bracers, Searing Gaze, Frosty ring, Habitstone. Rest of items can be enchanted with CaP to increase it more. If you have plenty of Iron Blood stacks you could use them up to cast more too.

### Offline

Equip Light of Eight Star and Blessed Tapestry if you turn the game off.

### Cataclysm

You want to make sure you get as many casts as possible of both fireball and hellstorm, so equipping items like Searing Gaze, and Warp Basilisk will increase overall stacks. Make sure to try to press Cataclysm when all non summon spells are about to cast at the same time (If you swap spell set, usually after 4 casts of MF & UK they will be decently timed).

### Pantheon

Only a general guideline is offered, as the optimal distribution is highly context-dependent.

* *e500 / P30*: Altermutus > Ardourium
* *e600 / P32*: Altermutus > Procreogenus > Ardourium >= Tempoaeverum
* *e700 / P34*: Altermutus > Procreogenus > Ardourium >= Tempoaeverum > Animatealia
* *e800 / P36*: Altermutus > Procreogenus > Chaos > Ardourium >= Tempoaeverum > Animatealia
* *e900 / P37*: Cerebros (On all times) > Altermutus > Procreogenus > Chaos > Ardourium >= Tempoaeverum > Animatealia