User:Toadmilk/Combat Guide/Into the Abyss
Introduction
The following guide takes the player through the combat of the
Into the Abyss Expansion with as little effort as possible. This guide is targeted at people who have either completed or nearly completed the base game. Completion of at least the Air God Dungeon is recommended to follow the largest portion of this guide. Frequent skill swapping in
Into the Abyss is a lot more important than in base game, so if you are struggling to progress try leveling some non-combat skills first.
Skill Trees are also extremely important, make sure you are acquiring the buffs as those points come in to make progression significantly faster.
This Guide is NOT designed with the Ancient Relics Game Mode in mind. Players looking for more information about that Game Mode should visit the Ancient Relics Guide.
A simplistic order for completing
Combat (WIP):
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How Into the Abyss affects Combat
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In the Abyssal Realm, the direction of the combat triangle is reversed. Note that if your AR is reduced by the Abyssal Intimidation passive, the combat triangle is applied last.
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Reversed Combat Triangle (Standard Mode)
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Reversed Combat Triangle (Hardcore Mode)
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Abyssal Damage is dealt by all monsters in the
Into the Abyss Expansion, making Damage Reduction useless. Abyssal Resistance is the stat required to reduce damage by these enemies.
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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.
Stats and Buffs
Having progressed through Throne of the Herald and Atlas of discovery combat will make
Into the Abyss significantly easier. This is due to powerful starting potions from
,
bonuses,
bonuses and
familiars. also has many benefits such as the
Point's of interest added which give many useful combat buffs, some of the
Unholy Items can be useful too.
Make sure to run in Combat Simulator to find out what to use! These are just recommendations.
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Enhancements are very useful for both non-combat skilling and combat. They are obtained from Strongholds. Before starting
it is reccomended that you acquire all four realm enhancements:
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Abyssal Stronghold enhancements will be acquired as progress is made in the expansion.
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There are a few useful summoning synergies to have going into
combat before you get [Familiars]:
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- Siren Lightning Spirit
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Base Game
Collect the first three god sets from:
,
and
. Collecting the fire god set from
will also be helpful but not strictly required. It is only for endgame clear speed improvement when you have enough damage reduction already.
Throne of the Herald
Ensure you have the following armour from
. This will be BIS save for a few items near the end of :
- Hood of Shade Summon
- Amulet of Curse Totem Summon
- Gloves of Greater Shade Summon
- Ring of Phantom Summon
Collect the three weapons from
as these are the BIS for most encounters:
Acquiring the Superior Max Skillcape will also be helpful.
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- Critical Strike Potion IV +20% crit chance
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Roughly in order of unlock. Be sure to look at dungeon guides.
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Consumables
- Fervor Scroll
- Monster Hunter Scroll
- Summoner's Blessing is good but requires a lot of effort to get so use sparingly
- Blood Chalice
- Power Crystals
- Relic Whetstone and Charged Relic Quiver are technically good but they take so much effort to get they are ultimately useless
Atlas of Discovery Combat
Early Game Atlas of Discovery
After collecting the first three god sets from:
,
and
the player will be well equipped to start combat. Immediate goals are to begin gathering Barrier damaging equipment. The first gear the player will get is actually from the Ancient Market in
. Remember
and
are crucial to progressing Atlas Of Discovery combat.
Major Goals
- Excavate Old Summoning Amulet and Ring of Summoning from Ritual Site
- Farm Barrier Gem from Ancient Market to create Tortoise (you only need one for gem slot if you have a lot of Spectre Spider already)
- Lesser Summoning Amulet from Blind Ghost
- Craft Ring of Barrier Touch
- Sapping Barrier Gem and Barrier Sapping Gloves from Vampiric Bat
- Excavate Ancient Silk from Bazaar to craft Ancient Infernal Cape
- Optionally; Max all skills for the Max Skillcape
- Excavate Ancient Stone Tablet from Monuments
- Farm 11 Draining Barrier Gem from Golem Territory to upgrade your gloves to Barrier Draining Gloves and to equip one in your gem slot
Mid Game Atlas of Discovery
After completing the early game the next goal is to unlock the Cult Grounds dungeon as fast as possible and farm it to upgrade your god gear to (B). The difficulty starts ramping up here. If you are struggling to defeat these dungeons check the individual strategy guides on each dungeons page.
Major Goals
- Find Old Route Chart
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- Find Torn Scrolls
- Complete Trickery Temple once
- Find Lost Cursed Text
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- Equip Summoner's Blessed Ring from Cult Grounds unless you are using the summon set from
Late Game Atlas of Discovery
The main goal of late game is to find Melantis, collect the three weapons from Underwater Ruins, finishing Underwater City and then acquiring endgame clear speed items for the subsequent pet farms.
Major Goals
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- Discover Melantis through following a trail of clues (solution here for lazy people)
- Engulfing Vortex Longbow from Error creating thumbnail: File missingMermaid Archer. Devouring Barrier Gem in your gem slot. Optionally; Water Pulse Staff fromError creating thumbnail: File missingMerman and Hasty Trident fromError creating thumbnail: File missingMerman Guard can be acquired but they are easily replaced
- Underwater City (guide higly reccomended!). Equip Eradicating Gloves (m) as soon as they are found (for those using summon set play around with the Combat Simulator to decide whether to use them or not)
- Devouring Barrier Shield for shield slot and Knight's Summoning Defender for passive slot are both reccomended for further farming
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