Introduction

Barrier Combat

Unholy Prayer Equipment Recommendations

Unholy Prayers

Base Game

Magic

Ranged

Melee

This content is part of the Atlas of Discovery Expansion.

This guide is designed to teach players how to work their way through combat progression with the expansion. Due to the nature of independent, yet important mechanics, this guide will be broken into several major sections. There will also be less delineation between early, middle, and end game combat than other combat guides.

This guide, while functional, is NOT designed with the Ancient Relics gamemode in mind. Players looking for more information about that page should see Ancient Relics/Guide.

The primary mechanic added to the game in is Barrier, a powerful shield that is entirely immune to player attacks. In order to break barriers, the player must utilize

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Summoning

Familiars that deal damage such as the

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Golbin Thief

or

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Unicorn

.

More information about the specific functionality of barriers can be found on its dedicated page, Barrier.

See: Unholy_Prayers

This section is heavily WIP due to the number of different factors that can go into using Unholy Prayers, as well as the possibility of nerfs.

Unholy prayers do not help against Barrier enemies as they do not affect summoning damage.

The gear listed below is the core REQUIRED to see good results with unholy prayers. Deviating or substituting this gear may result in massive damage losses, as the synergy between 3+ unholy items with multi-hitting weapons is what produces a majority of your damage. Using 2 unholy items with 2 unholy prayers results in 0 unholy marks on the enemy, and the prayers will not function.

As always, use the Combat Simulator to test these setups for YOU to ensure you are hitting the required slayer area negation and damage reduction to not die. If attempting to manually eat through a dungeon while relying on weapons with special attacks that hit multiple times, remember that eating interrupts your attack and guarantees that your next attack will be a normal attack.

The Eradicating Gloves (m) are a large upgrade to all styles, but require a larger investment into combat.

Slot
Neck	Grudge Amulet (m)
Passive	Consuming Shield (m)
Ring	Ring of Malice (m)
Gem	Agile Gem	Accuracy Gem
Weapon	Cloudburst Staff
Prayer 1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reckoning
Prayer 2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Destruction

Using

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Water Strike

over higher level water spells can be a minimal kph loss with a massive reduction in runes used.

Ranged has bad options for multi-hit in the base game, so including additional unholy items such as Unholy Gem (m) or another unholy item in the passive slot may be a gain. Ring of barrage, and fast weapons such as throwing daggers may be a kph increase with increased levels of ammo/prayer points. Ghost Blunderbow and Engulfing Vortex Longbow are massive upgrades, but require a significantly larger investment into combat. Consuming Shield (m) or another unholy item may be moved to the passive slot if needed. Using only

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Reckoning

as your only prayer may be a gain without a multi-hit weapon.

Grudge Amulet (m)

Ring of Malice (m)

Unholy Gem (m)

Consuming Shield (m)

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Reckoning

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Destruction

Slot
Neck	Grudge Amulet (m)
Passive	Ring of Malice (m)
Ring	Ring of Blade Echoes
Gem	Agile Gem	Accuracy Gem
Weapon	Infernal Claw	Tidal Edge
Offhand	Consuming Shield (m)
Prayer 1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reckoning
Prayer 2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Destruction

Blade echoes is particularly important as it grants a special attack with multiple hits to all melee weapons.