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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 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
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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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Recommended gear to get before starting
Base Game
Throne of the Herald
Atlas of Discovery
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There are a few useful summoning synergies to have before you get Abyssal Familiars:
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Fox 
Spider (worse Error creating thumbnail: File missingCentaur Error creating thumbnail: File missingDragon) -
Siren 
Lightning Spirit - Error creating thumbnail: File missingOccultist Lightning Spirit
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Critical Strike Potion IV +20% crit chance - Error creating thumbnail: File missingError creating thumbnail: File missingShadeveil Potion IV +20% crit chance and +50% chance to apply Shadeveil when critically hitting with an attack
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Roughly in order of unlock. Be sure to look at dungeon/stronghold guides.
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Enhancements are very useful for both non-combat skilling and combat. They are obtained from Strongholds. Before starting it is recommended that you acquire all four melvor realm enhancements:
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Abyssal Stronghold enhancements will be acquired as progress is made in the expansion, all four are useful.
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Combination Fury Gem
Agile Gem
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- Error creating thumbnail: File missingAbyssal Resist Consumable III
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Unhallowed Wasteland for respawn timer reduction
Dark Waters for melee
Bandit Hideout for ranged
The Academia Arcanum for magic
Into the Abyss Combat
Early Game Into the Abyss
After collecting all suggested gear from the Gear section, proceed to start combat. Immediate goals are to begin gathering
resistant gear. Remember that leveling all skills simultaneously is a lot more important in
Into the Abyss than base game. It is recommended that other abyssal skills are leveled a bit before starting combat to get their AXP bonuses from the respective Skill trees:
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and
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Major Goals
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Mid Game Into the Abyss
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
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- Find
Torn Scrolls - Complete
Trickery Temple once - Find
Lost Cursed Text 
Adaptive Summoning Amulet from Error creating thumbnail: File missingCult Imp- Farm Cult Grounds until you have enough
Barrier Exalted Shard and 
Siphoning Barrier Gem to upgrade your 
air god and then earth god armour to (B). The helmet for both should be skipped if you have the 
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Summoner's Blessed Ring from Cult Grounds unless you are using the 
summon set from
Late Game Into the Abyss
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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passive slot - 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 from Error creating thumbnail: File missingMerman and
Hasty Trident from Error 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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