EA Guide Season 9

## Abyssal Expedition season 9 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 Izold to fight boss gates.

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.

##### Advanced start.

Need at least RC level 550+, a talismane / howl / winged lion level 12 at least, athane and abrutus maxed.

We start by using the slot 1-8 with 80 stamina to take a lot of T4 and T3. We must take first the common relic on warrior, the axe. Max your elder tree on warrior / celerity and sustain.

To take T3, use the duo Alna Abrutus with talismane / howl / winged lion level 12.

To T4, use Alna Abrutus Athane Asolise (or silas) and lucretia with with talismane / howl / winged lion level 12. We use 8 slots to take these T4 and T3, do not greed we must finish the start with 20 camps, and at least 20 T3.

T4 are bonuses but appreciated, after that, the two last of 80 stamina, put alna and abrutus to take 5 T3 when getting knight rank.

Slot 1-5 put your second best boss team (the first best team will be on rushing baron rank so more endurance on them). Slot 6-8 put athane and skreg (or canisa or veith if maxed) and Izold (to stack to unleash power on Khazard). We can do farm with the duo alna athane and abrutus skreg (canisa / veith).

##### 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)
14. Mulan 309e30, can solo
15. Abaden 309e60, is a beast

##### 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.

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 the best boss team 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 Theowyn the first boss gate.

##### Theowyn

Use this comp : Abelinda / Rosaline / Estrilda / Mortas / Palmer

No need to up relic for her, Orlandong or Garok with their Abelinda max will OS her. In case of they leave a little hp left, we can do solo izold to finish it (3.0 relic soul).

#### **The second zone, the Ocean and the beacons.**

We need to rush the pathing and try to get the beacons and regroup the two sides, continue to farm and upgrade your relics and income.

1. The left side do the yellow path, the right side does the green path and activate the farm beacon.
2. The left side will join the right side by the pink path, when the right side has finished to activate beacon, he can take the pink path to regroup with the left side.
3. Both team will do the orange path to link Hodgkin and Oku.
4. Both team will do in parallel the blue and red paths to activate the two other beacons.
5. Both team will kill Hogdkin but go through Oku's gate to kill Khazard with the black path and go to the final boss.

##### Compo hogdkin

4.4 célé / 3.2 support (defensive relics).
we will rank up and put your second best team on the slot 16-20.

##### Khazard

Solo Izold with 4.4 and relic soul, we have stacked his stamina since the beginning, it's time to unleash everything and all together.

#### **Last zone.**

We need to path to go to the final boss.

It needs to rush the duke rank to get the slot 20-25, to take your third best team

##### Compo boss final

###### Grezhul

To play with Rem, she needs to be at least 200 to be equal to Anasta. Ideally she needs to be 303e30 to do high damage.

To play with anasta, it needs to be at least Ascended and 300, ideally 309e60. Grezhul must be 309e60 and estrilda is efficient at 300e30

If your anasta is too low, play with scarlett or lucretia instead (use relic soul on them).

###### Awakened Belinda

Many variation of the team, Abelinda can be L and has to be as high as possible. Ideally we will need palmer at 209e30, rosaline 309e30 and edwin 303e30, but you can use them with low investment. Please test with your highest elite pet, and take the placement that fit best for you. Relic soul will be on abelinda.

###### Zolrath

Team with Silas is round 4B and veith's one with signature item at 30 at 3.5B, if veith is maxed, it will go higher.

Zolrath must have his signature item at 30 and ideally 309e60. Silas should be 309 and for the other heroes, the highest possible investment.

###### Raku

Relic soul on Raku, take albedo or daimon depends on if you have used daimon or albedo in Abelinda team. Raku must be 303e44 at least.

An alternative team with Anasta if you play Rem team.

###### Athane / Drez

Use athane if he's 309e60, for the other heroes, get the highest possible.

relic soul on athane / drez.

###### Listing compo final

here's my 30 heroes that I will use against the boss as star of dawn :

###### Which team to use at specific percentage life of the boss

From 100% To 50%, play with grezhul anasta or scarlet, abelinda team and raku team.

From50% to 0%, play with lucretia, drez, athane, solo mulan, solo eorin, to profit of the bonus of the celerity relics 5 (relic soul), raku does not profit well of this bonus.

From 40% to 0%, play Zolrath team.

##### After the death of final boss life 1

We need to farm and up the relics, we completely stop to fight final boss 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 final boss.

We need to go 4.4 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.

###### With the normal start

You need first to upgrade celerity relics to 4.4 to farm correctly. Next go to 5.4 (5.5 if you are star of dawn to rush prince) support with 4 relics with defensive stats, then 5.4 warrior with offensive stats and 5.4 tank with defensive stats. If you can push further, take 5.6 support, then 5.6 tank then 5.6 warrior.

###### With the advanced start

Upgrade directly warrior relics to 5.5 (as a star of dawn) with offensive stats, then 5.4 support with defensive stats then 5.4 tank with defensive stats. If you can push further, go 5.6 support then 5.6 tank then 5.6 warrior

### 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.