Cursed Forest/Guide

Why Idle This?

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Cursed Forest is mainly cleared for the Curse Masks. These have 1% dr over the previous BIS gear and apply a curse when the enemy spawns.
Voodoo Trinket is obtained during this dungeon and is required for a smooth
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Throne of the Herald fight.
Once cleared 100 times, the Despair Curse is unlocked and will be used against enemies with high health, as it does percentage based damage.

Dungeon Mechanics

This dungeon's gimmick is that all enemies are immune to curses and attack styles other than magic. As such, you will need to use the
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Magic to clear this dungeon
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Cursed Forests's final enemy, Lady Darkheart has a passive effect which gives them +500% curse lifesteal. Additionally, they have 3 attacks which will apply curses to you, and another attack which deals double damage if you are cursed. The lifesteal by iteself already makes this boss incredibly annoying, and the double damage requires you to balance survivability and damage output.

Stats and Buffs

Minimum Recommended Levels

Suggestion	Benefit
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Less need for DR
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Pillar of Combat and Elite Pillar of Expertise
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 118	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Battleborn

Astrology

As many combat bonuses from

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Astrology

constellations are recommended, but not required. In total, Astrology serves as a massive buff to combat and will make the fight easier. The main bonuses are:

+5 Hidden Levels for
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Melee
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Ranged
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Magic
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  Iridan,
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  Terra,
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  Syllia, and
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  Arachi. The +5 hidden
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  Defence levels in
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  Tellus are redundant.
5% reduced Attack Interval and Enemy Damage Reduction decreased by 5%, from
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Ashtar

Agility

#	Obstacle	Reason
1	X
2	X
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Climb	No particular reason beyond being the only obstacle that grants any combat benefits.
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Coal Stones	No negative modifiers, technically saves some food.
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cliff Balance	+20 HP.
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rocky Waters	+50 HP. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lake Swim can be used instead if the player gets more damage reduction.
7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Trap	No negative combat modifiers.
8	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Raft Building	Gives a bit more survivability which is rather important.
9	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Water Jump	More damage. The 20 HP from Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ice Jump is not needed.
10	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ocean Rafting	Free damage!
P	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pillar of Combat	Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.
11	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frozen Maze	More damage reduction and faster monster respawns.
12	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Balance	Lower attack interval and more damage for the low price of lower accuracy.
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rope Trap	More damage.
14	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Freezing Climb	More evasion, accuracy and damage.
15	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Waterfall Crossing	Is the equivalent of a permanent Diamond Luck Potion IV, which frees up the potion slot for Damage Reduction Potion IV It is necessary to have this obstacle at 99 mastery to halve the -100hp modifier.
EP	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Elite Pillar of Expertise	Provides 8% doubling, which helps a lot with chests.

Idle Gear

For spells, use
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Dragon Storm Call and
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Surge II
Use Damage Reduction Potion IV for 10% extra DR.
Note that if you are able to squeeze in a little more DR, Superior Max Skillcape is a direct and substantial upgrade to Skull Cape. However, since it provides 0% DR, it is sometimes hard to reach the DR requirement if you're using it.

Slot	Better to Worse
Head	Mask of Despair	Blazing Helmet
Body	Freezing Touch Body	Slayer Wizard Robes (Mythical)
Leggings	Lightning Mythical Wizard Bottoms	Lightning Legendary Wizard Bottoms
Boots	Frostspark Boots	Lightning Boots
Hands	(U) Carrion Vambraces
Cape	Superior Max Skillcape	Skull Cape
Neck	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Allure Amulet
Ring	Ring of Power	Ring of Wealth
Passive	Chapeau Noir	Elder Crown
Weapon	Archaic Wand	Ocean Song
Offhand	Shield of Magic Power	Leviathan Shield
Prayer	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Battleborn and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Divination	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Battleheart and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Augury
Summons	Spectre and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Occultist	Fox and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dragon