Skill Builds

These skills are provided by the community on Shimrod's Discord server. If more than one build is provided, choose the best based on your own skill levels, skill stones, and other factors.

### Determining your best skills

The builds below will have suggested skills which *may* be the highest damaging skills, but may not be for you. Your highest damage skills will change as you progress through the game. There may be times when a lower tier skill does more damage than a higher tier one. Because of this, it is important to know how to calculate which skills should be doing the most damage. You may want to swap out a build's damaging skills for more damaging ones.

To do this:

1. Look up the skill's damage multiple. If the skill does damage more than one time, add up the damage from every hit. Some skills have an initial hit that uses one multiple, followed by a bleeding effect that does a different multiple several times.
2. Find your skill multiplier for the skill's type. This multiplier is 100% + SKILL DMG + (TYPE) SKILL DMG.
3. Multiply the sum from step 1 by the multiplier from step 2.
4. Divide the product from step 3 by the skill's cooldown. This gives you the skill's damage per second.

Example:

1. Wound Slash does 1710% damage on initial hit, followed by a bleed that does 256.7% five times. Its total damage is 1710 + (5 \* 256.7) = 2993.5%.
2. Wound Slash is a Slash skill, to to find its skill type multiplier, we do 100% + SKILL DMG + SLASH SKILL DMG. Let's say SKILL DMG is 1023% and SLASH SKILL DMG is 4000%. 100 + 1023 + 4000 = 5123%. This is a percentage, so we divide by 100 to get the multiplier, x51.23.
3. Multiply the sum from step 1 by the multiplier from step 2. 2993.5 \* 51.23 = 153,357.005. So Wound Slash does 153,257.005% damage over its whole duration.
4. Wound Slash's cooldown is 5.1 seconds. 153,357.005 / 5.1 = 30,070% damage per second.

You can now do the same calculation for other skills to see which of your skills does the most damage.

## Builds

### Stages

#### Farming

For farming builds, check the Farming Guide.

#### Stage Push

##### Other Useful Skills

 has 100% uptime at max level and with 100% crit effectively triples your damage.

 becomes extremely powerful later on.

 can be useful early on. Remember that defense's effectiveness maxes out at 90% of the enemy's attack. Bless of Defense triples your defense, so you want your unblessed defense to be around 30% of the enemies' attack when using this.

 if you don't have  or it's too low level.

### Bosses

#### Skill Growth Boss

Remember that Aura skills do not damage this boss!

##### Simple Strategy

Immediately run behind the boss so that its model is on top of yours and stay there. This is required for  to work.

##### Advanced Strategy

1. Immediately run behind the boss so that its model is on top of yours and stay there. This is required for  to work.
2. Swap  in for . If you're fast, it should be active when the boss knocks you back a second time.
3. Wait until  is cast a second time, then swap it out for .
4. Wait until  is cast a third time, then swap it out for .

Depending on your multipliers or if the knockback resistance just isn't working well for you, you may want to swap  out for a more damaging skill.

#### Emblem Boss

Remember that Slash skills do not damage this boss!

##### Advanced Strategy

1. Swap  out for  after its first cast.
2. Swap  out for  after its second cast.
3. Swap  out for  after its third cast.

 does not damage the boss, but the damage buff may still be worth it. Test for yourself.

#### Giant Slime Appear / World Boss

##### Simple Strategy

###### Giant Slime Appear

Swap  immediately upon cast. Swap  immediately *or* after its second cast, depending on how short its cooldown is due to 's level.

###### World Boss

If you die before 45 seconds, use the same tactics as Giant Slime Appear.

If you survive past 45 seconds:

1. Swap  immediately upon cast.
2. Swap  after second cast.
3. Swap  after third cast.

### Towers and Dungeons

#### Glyph Dungeon

You may want to use  or  instead of .

For more damage, you can replace  or  with HellStrike or .

#### Skill Stone Mine

Start with  on manual. Switch it to auto when the boss's shield goes down.

#### Other Towers and Dungeons

Your standard stage push build may work for some towers and dungeons.

##### Standard Long-range Build

With this build, you can stay away from enemies and hit them with your long range skills.

 has a \*very\* long range, so line it up to hit every enemy in Gear Stone Tower and Artifact Dungeon.

##### Alternative Long-range Build

Like the above build, but drops  to increase 's speed with . May be better if your slash multiplier is much higher than aura.