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This content is part of the Atlas of Discovery Expansion.

This guide is a WIP and may not be accurate nor complete!

The following guide takes the player through the combat of the Atlas of Discovery Expansion with as little effort as possible. This guide is targeted at people who have either completed or nearly completed the base game.

Every enemy in this expansion has a Barrier health bar as well as a regular health bar. Enemies cannot be damaged in anyway until the barrier is entirely removed. Only familiars are able to damage the barrier.

Two-handed weapons are strongly recommended during the entire combat section, unless the alternative is required for Damage Reduction or the alternative simply does more damage. This is because the familiar's hit-chance is based on the player's hit chance.

Since the combat portion is heavily focused on using familiars the following requirements are a prerequisite:

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  Level 90
• Tortoise
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  Dragon

Because the combat mechanics in this expansion are rather complex, and minor changes in enemy, equipment and player stats can make specific items better or worse it is always recommended to use the Combat Simulator to verify how to get the most kills per hour or drops per hour.

The minimal and recommended requirements for every individual section is listed within the sections below.

Preparing for combat

Required:

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  Level 6
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  Level 5
• Find Torn Chart

Recommended

• Old Summoning Amulet
• Ring of Summoning or Aorpheat's Signet Ring
• Necromancer outfit

Unlock the Ancient Market digsite and upgrade the map to perfect. It's heavily encouraged to also refine the map and get the +1 artifact bonus. Although it is possible to reduce the Tiny Artefact weight by 10, this generally isn't required as not that many barrier gems are needed for the entire combat portion.

From this the Ancient Market, collect a whole bunch of barrier gems. These are needed to make Tortoise familiars. These are a must have for all the combat in this expansion. Depending on how many tablets you can make at once, and the preservation chance, more barrier gems should be obtained. 1,000 - 5,000 gems is a good number to aim for, depending on the previous factors.

Make Tortoise tablets and an equal amount of Dragon tablets. If possible use the Necromancer outfit, Old Summoning Amulet and the Signet Ring for more tablet output. Equip both the Tortoise and Dragon tablets. These will be used throughout the expansion!

Entry barrier equipment

Requirements:

• Discover The Eye-Conic Cave
• Any combat equipment.

Recommended

• Old Summoning Amulet

This portion of the guide aims at getting the very entry barrier equipment items, outside of the familiars of course. Gear doesn't matter much at this point, prefer melee because it doesn't use resources. Use the melee weapon that provides the highest hit-chance.

1. Get the Barrier Touch Gem and Lesser Summoning Amulet from Blind Ghost.
   1. Optionally kill 100 of these for the Township task.
2. Make a Ring of Barrier Touch and equip it.
3. Get a Sapping Barrier Gem and Barrier Sapping Gloves from Vampiric Bat.
   1. Optionally kill 100 of these for the Township task.

Golem Territory

Requirements:

• All items obtained in the previous section.
• Find Ancient Stone Tablet
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    Level 35
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    Level 24

Recommended

• Summoning Skillcape or Maximum Skillcape
• Pure Crystal 2H Axe

For this dungeon, we still do not require any specific (B) armour. Use the familiars made earlier and let them do most of the work. Make sure whatever equipment you are wearing doesn't result in death, and whatever weapon you are using should once again provide the highest hit-chance that you can find. Melee again works fine for this dungeon, as it doesn't consume runes or ammunition.

Optionally, a Summoning or Maximum Skillcape can be worn to save some familiar tablets, but is by no means required.

Run this dungeon until you have obtained 10 Draining Barrier Gem to upgrade your gloves into Barrier Draining Gloves. The Township Task associated with this dungeon will also provide 3 gems.

All other items/loot received from this dungeon can be ignored. Do not use the familiar weapons. Unless the player is using very inaccurate and/or low level weapons, these will result in significantly lower clears per hour.

Cult Grounds

Requirements Starting from [[The following equipment is heavily suggested from now on, or a better alternative.

• All of the requirements mentioned above.
• Aeris god armour
• Scaled Shield
• Pure Crystal Crossbow
• Emerald Bolts
• Draining Barrier Gem

Recommended

The pure crystal crossbow might seem an odd choice for a level 60 Crossbow, but in terms of damage, is usually beats out all other crossbows available in the base game.

From this point onwards, the combat starts becoming a lot more serious. The goal in this section is to get to the Cult Grounds dungeon as fast as possible. Although it can be accessed earlier, the Trickery Temple has some enemies dealing reflect damage, and worse, base their max hit on the player's max hit. This means hard hitting weapons like a crossbow with Jadestone Bolts cannot be used.

Clear the following dungeons once, in order, to unlock Cult Grounds. This will be the place where god armours can efficiently be upgraded into their (B) counterparts.

Golem Territory

Req: Find Old Route Chart

Unholy Forest

Req: Find Torn Scrolls

Trickery Temple

Req: Find Lost Cursed Text

Upgrading to (B)

Req: Aeris etc.

Cult ground gives gems and shards to upgrade Aeris. Upgrade one piece at a time as soon as you can to drastically speed up clear times.

Req: Melee gear. Rec: Ragnar, big ron Cult grounds also unlocks Cult Imps which are efficient sources of a lot of Barrier Dust.

Melantis?

This area is a big brick wall unless the player has already met the pre-requisites. These monsters deal very high damage and therefor require a lot of damage reduction gear and bonusses. This area also requires

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Level 118

and a series of items.

> List all requirements to even enter Underwater Ruins

Underwater Ruins

Player has a choice of killing (Mermaid Archer > Merman > Merman Guard) for very good weapon upgrades, unless the player already has better TotH gear.

UGS is recommended for Archer farm.

Alternatively, the player can do manual Underwater City for (B) armour upgrades.

Finishing up

Player now has access to crystal behemoths for task + upgrade material for Arch / Carto Underwater Ruins drops BiS gloves, Shield upgrade, task access