So you started a new game and you feel that maybe you have a hard time picking a good starter character? Well this might help you out! This section will give you some overview on how the games progression system works and how you can use it to your advantage.

Character Upgrades

Each playable class grants a permanent global stat bonus to all of your characters when you unlock new Titles. Each class grants their own unique stat and multiples of the same character title will not stack. New Titles may be obtained by defeating bosses for the first time, and completing the game on higher difficulty settings.

Spreadsheet:

Any further completions of higher difficulties will always grant the following increases to your title bonus:

Paladin: +5 Armor.
Ranger: + 5 Attack Power.
Sorcerer: + 0.5 Mana Regen.
Warlock: + 5 Resistance .
Thief: + 10% Gold Gain.
Priest: + 0.4 Health Regen.
Wizard: + 5 Skill Power.
Gladiator: +20% Primary attack Crit damage.

Guild Titles
Your guild is leveled up by completing guild achievements. Upon leveling up your guild level, you gain various amounts of gold, ore, and 3 permanent skill points (stars) to spend on upgrading your character's skills. These skill points will be available to even brand new level 1 characters and are cumulative. To achieve the final guild title requiring 2M fame, you would need to acquire almost every achievement in the game. Expect to spend countless hours and hundreds of runs to achieve it.

So what character do i start with?
I suggest starting out with Paladin/Warlock as their upgrades are extremly important. Next up consider Ranger/Wizard. After that you should go for Sorcerer/Gladiatior. Last but not least are the Thief and Priest. The reason why i put Thief and Priest so far behind is because you can manage the game really well without extra HP regen and gold gain. If you start to struggle with one character, try switch to another and gain more class upgrades to your guild hall. Keep doing this and eventually you will have enough upgrades to continue where you left your main class.

Skills: Max out sword, shield, stunning blows, lay on hands, whirlwind and charge in this order. During earlier game you can get lay on hands as early as possible and put only 1 point in charge to speed things up.

Church Blessings:
Path of the Defender: Decreases damage taken by 20%.
Blessing of Mind: Increases your mana regen by 100%.
Symbol of Essence: Gain 2,5 lifesteal on primary attack.
Divine Hammer: Primary attack throws a hammer in a forward direction dealing 25 physical damage. Cooldown 0,3 seconds.

Drinks Common Ng+0:
The Groovy Ghost: 8% Evasion, -15 Attack Power.
Mellow Mist: -10% Damage Taken, -0,4 Movement Speed.

If you have not unlocked Ng+1 you can try out a few these drinks (not important for the run though):

A Strong Arm: +25 Attack Power, -15 Armor.
Ancient Spirit: +20 Skill Power, -10 Resistance.
Crazy Eye: +10% Primary Critical Hit Chance, -20 Armor.
Mind Control: Immune to confusion, All other debuffs last 100% longer.

Drinks Uncommon Ng+1:
The Safe Bet: +20% Armor and Resistance, -5 Luck.

If you have not unlocked Ng+2 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run
though):

Slumbering Giant: +50 Attack power, -20% attack speed.
Starlight Singer: +15% Skill Critical Chance, -25% Base Mana.
The Cranky Clergyman: +25 Resistance, -25% Skill speed.
Homemade Hazard: +100% Primary Critical Damage, +10% Damage Taken.

Drinks Rare Ng+2 and up:
Stab in the Dark: 50% chance to score a Critical Hit on Primary Attack, Darkness effect for 1.5 seconds when using your Primary Attack.
Incendiary Demise: +40 magical damage on primary attack, Set on fire when hitting enemies with primary attacks.

Arena:
For each rank you complete in arena you will earn 5 tokens. Get to rank 10 and spend your tokens on resistance and/or attack power.

Items:
Ng+0: No items needed from start.
Ng+1: Might be a good idea to shop for armor and resistance items.
Ng+2: Get armor and resistance items.
Ng+3 and up: Attuned Kings set/Markhams set.

At this point you want to get any item that boosts armor, resistance, skillpower, attack power, evasion and passive blocking attuned. Start with armor and resistance and try to go for kings/markhams set attuned.

Notes: With a Bloodthirst ring you can skip the Symbol of Essence and go for Symbol of Force (Increases critical damage on your primary attack by 100%) or Symbol of Retribution (Returns 250% damage to the attacker when hit).

Skills: Max out soul dagger, gargoyles, extended domain, soul clever, eye of the storm, stormlash and lightning bolt in this order. During earlier game you can get gargoyles as early as possible and put only 1 point in lightning bolt to speed things up.

Church Blessings:
Path of the Magician: Increases damage of your skills by 20%.
Blessing of Mind: Increases your mana regen by 100%.
Symbol of Focus: Increases critical damage of skills by 100%.
Divine Strike: Primary Attack fires a bolt at a nearby random enemy dealing 12 magic damage. Has a cooldown of 0.01 seconds.

Drinks Common Ng+0:
None is needed, grab mellow mist if you struggle with squishyness.

If you have not unlocked Ng+1 you can try out a few these drinks (not important for the run though):

A Strong Arm: +25 Attack Power, -15 Armor.
Ancient Spirit: +20 Skill Power, -10 Resistance.
The Groovy Ghost: +8% Evasion, -15 Attack Power.
Mind Control: Immune to confusion, All other debuffs last 100% longer.
Mellow Mist: -10% Damage Taken, -0.4 Movement Speed.

Drinks Uncommon Ng+1:
Starlight Singer: +15% Skill Critical Chance, -25% Base Mana.
Elemental Bruiser: +75% Skill Damage, +50% Skill Costs.

If you have not unlocked Ng+2 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run
though):

Double Thriller : +75% Damage Dealt, +25% Damage Taken.
The Safe Bet: +20% Armor and Resistance, -5 Luck.


Drinks Rare Ng+2 and up:
Wicked Sickness: +200% Damage dealt during combo, -50% damage dealt out of combo.
Evil Infusion: 5% Lifesteal on skills, Lose 10% of current HP when casting a skill.
Frenetic Eruption: 5% chance of triggering Combo on critical hits, +20% damage taken out of Combo.

Arena:
For each rank you complete in arena you will earn 5 tokens. Get to rank 10 and spend your tokens on armor and/or skill power

Items:
Ng+0: No items needed from start.
Ng+1: Might be a good idea to shop for armor and resistance items.
Ng+2: Get armor and resistance items.
Ng+3 and up: Attuned Kings set/Markhams set.

At this point you want to get any item that boosts armor, resistance, skillpower, attack power, evasion and passive blocking attuned. Start with armor and resistance and try to go for kings/markhams set attuned.

Notes: You will be very squishy when you are not using skills. Plan ahead and be careful before using up your mana! If you can team up with another player thats great and will be very helpful but otherwise take things really slow and steady.

Skills: Max out bow shot, grasping roots, on the prowl, marked prey, flurry of arrows, twinned arrows, powershot in this order. During earlier game you can get grasping roots as early as possible and flurry of arrows to speed things up.

Church Blessings: Path of the Warrior: Increases damage of your primary attack by 20%.
Blessing of Might: Physical damage ignores 20% of the enemies armor.
Symbol of Essence: Gain 2,5 lifesteal on primary attack.
Divine Hammer: Primary attack throws a hammer in a forward direction dealing 25 physical damage. Cooldown 0,3 seconds.

Drinks Common Ng+0:
The Groovy Ghost: 8% Evasion, -15 Attack Power.
Mellow Mist: -10% Damage Taken, -0,4 Movement Speed.

If you have not unlocked Ng+1 you can try out a few these drinks (not important for the run though):

A Strong Arm: +25 Attack Power, -15 Armor.
Ancient Spirit: +20 Skill Power, -10 Resistance.
Crazy Eye: +10% Primary Critical Hit Chance, -20 Armor.
Mind Control: Immune to confusion, All other debuffs last 100% longer.
Enchanted Slammer: +10 Physical damage on Primary Attack, Primary attack costs 2.5% of your current mana.

Drinks Uncommon Ng+1:
The Safe Bet: +20% Armor and Resistance, -5 Luck.
Homemade Hazard: +100% Primary Critical Damage, +10% Damage Taken.

If you have not unlocked Ng+2 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run
though):

Slumbering Giant: +50 Attack power, -20% attack speed.
Starlight Singer: +15% Skill Critical Chance, -25% Base Mana.
Double Thriller: +75% Damage Dealt, +25% Damage Taken.
Elemental Bruiser: +75% Skill Damage, +50% Skill Costs.


Drinks Rare Ng+2 and up:
Incendiary Demise: +40 magical damage on primary attack, Set on fire when hitting enemies with primary attacks.
Hammer Time: +100 Attack Power, Lose 5% of current HP while standing still.
Wicked Sickness: +200% Damage dealt during combo, -50% damage dealt out of combo.


Arena:
For each rank you complete in arena you will earn 5 tokens. Get to rank 10 and spend your tokens on resistance and/or attack power.

Items:
Ng+0: No items needed from start.
Ng+1: Might be a good idea to shop for armor and resistance items.
Ng+2: Get armor and resistance items.
Ng+3 and up: Attuned Kings set/Markhams set.

At this point you want to get any item that boosts attack power, critical hit chance and damage, resistance, ignore armor effects, evasion and passive blocking attuned.

Notes: Mainly go for things with primary attack and critical hits chance/damage buffs. On later Ng's start game with attuned amulet of kings and armor of kings. If you are going with slumbering giant, get attuned bracers of quickness. Be extra cautious when you are not using your primary attack on higher Ng's. A few hits will kill you fast so be sure to fire it at all times when entering combat. Remember to pull enemies to corners and use Grasping Roots to hold them together for extra damage.

Skills: Max out Fireball, Meteor Shower, Fire Breath, Combustion, Flame Shield, Scorched Earth and Blast Wave in this order. During earlier game you can put one point in Fire Breath and Combustion to speed things up. You eventually want to get Meteor Shower maxed out as soon as possible.

Church Blessings:
Path of the Magician: Increases damage of your skills by 20%.
Blessing of Mind: Increases your mana regen by 100%.
Symbol of Focus: Increases critical damage of skills by 100%.
Divine Hammer: Primary Attack throws a hammer in a forward direction dealing 25 Physical damage. Has a cooldown of 0.3 seconds.

Drinks Common Ng+0:
None is needed.

If you have not unlocked Ng+1 you can try out a few these drinks (not important for the run though):

A Strong Arm: +25 Attack Power, -15 Armor.
Ancient Spirit: +20 Skill Power, -10 Resistance.
The Groovy Ghost: +8% Evasion, -15 Attack Power.
Mind Control: Immune to confusion, All other debuffs last 100% longer.
Mellow Mist: -10% Damage Taken, -0.4 Movement Speed.

Drinks Uncommon Ng+1:
Starlight Singer: +15% Skill Critical Chance, -25% Base Mana.
Elemental Bruiser: +75% Skill Damage, +50% Skill Costs.

If you have not unlocked Ng+2 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run
though):

Double Thriller : +75% Damage Dealt, +25% Damage Taken.
The Safe Bet: +20% Armor and Resistance, -5 Luck.


Drinks Rare Ng+2 and up:
Wicked Sickness: +200% Damage dealt during combo, -50% damage dealt out of combo.
Evil Infusion: 5% Lifesteal on skills, Lose 10% of current HP when casting a skill.
Frenetic Eruption: 5% chance of triggering Combo on critical hits, +20% damage taken out of Combo.

Arena:
For each rank you complete in arena you will earn 5 tokens. Get to rank 10 and find balance between resistance/armor/skillpower.

Items:
Ng+0: No items needed from start.
Ng+1: Might be a good idea to shop for armor and resistance items.
Ng+2: Get armor and resistance items.
Ng+3 and up: Attuned Kings set/Markhams set (Markhams wand and scepter of kings is a good start).

At this point you want to get any item that boosts armor, resistance, skillpower, attack power, evasion and passive blocking attuned. Start with armor and resistance and try to go for kings/markhams set attuned.

Notes: Use EXTREME caution when using Meteor Shower! As your character can't move during the skillphase, you can die before you even react. Grab Frenetic Eruption and put yourself into combo state at all times. Scorched Earth skill will go extremly well with Evil Infusion and Frenetic Eruption as you can drain life and trigger combo from Scorched Earth. Remember to take it slow and steady and use walls to your advantage. Teaming up with another player will increase your chances of survival extremly much as this character class is hardcore mode in later NG's.

Skills: Max out Smite, Concecrated Ground, Aura of Purification, Holy Light, Divine Protection and Celestial Orbs in this order. No points in Remeby because the pickups give enough that you need anyway. Try to get Smite maxed out as soon as possible.

Church Blessings:
Path of Warrior: Increases damage of your primary attack by 20%.
Blessing of Might: Physical damage ignores 20% of the enemies armor.
Symbol of Essence: Gain 2.5% lifesteal on primary attack.
Divine Hammer: Primary Attack throws a hammer in a forward direction dealing 25 Physical damage. Has a cooldown of 0.3 seconds.

Drinks Common Ng+0:
None is needed.

If you have not unlocked Ng+1 you can try out a few these drinks (not important for the run though):

A Strong Arm: +25 Attack Power, -15 Armor.
Crazy Eye: +10% Primary Critical Hit Chance, -20 Armor.
The Groovy Ghost: +8% Evasion, -15 Attack Power.
Mind Control: Immune to confusion, All other debuffs last 100% longer.
Mellow Mist: -10% Damage Taken, -0.4 Movement Speed.

Drinks Uncommon Ng+1:
Homemade Hazard: +100% Primary Critical Damage, +10% Damage Taken.

If you have not unlocked Ng+2 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run
though):

Double Thriller: +75% Damage Dealt, +25% Damage Taken.
The Safe Bet: +20% Armor and Resistance, -5 Luck.


Drinks Rare Ng+2 and up:
Wicked Sickness: +200% Damage dealt during combo, -50% damage dealt out of combo.
Frenetic Eruption: 5% chance of triggering Combo on critical hits, +20% damage taken out of Combo.
Stab In The Dark: 50% chance to score a Critical Hit on Primary Attack, Darkness effect for 1.5 seconds when using your Primary Attack.

Arena:
For each rank you complete in arena you will earn 5 tokens. Get to rank 10 and find balance between resistance/armor/attackpower.

Items:
Ng+0: No items needed from start.
Ng+1: Might be a good idea to shop for armor and resistance items.
Ng+2: Get armor and resistance items.
Ng+3 and up: Attuned Kings set/Markhams set (Markhams wand and scepter of kings is a good start).

At this point you want to get any item that boosts armor, resistance, skillpower, attack power, evasion and passive blocking attuned. Start with armor and resistance and try to go for kings/markhams set attuned.

Notes: Anything that boosts primary attack/crit chance/crit damage is good here. Heartseeker is a must have!

Skills: Max out Twin Daggers, Sidestep, Slice and Dice, Grappling Hook, Vicious Cuts and Throwing Knives in this order. During earlier game you can get Sidestep as early as possible and put only 1 point in Grappling Hook to begin with.

Church Blessings:
Path of the Defender: Decreases damage taken by 20%.
Blessing of Might: Physical damage ignores 20% of the enemies armor.
Symbol of Essence: Gain 2,5 lifesteal on primary attack.
Divine Strike: Primary Attack fires a bolt at a nearby random enemy dealing 12 magic damage. Has a cooldown of 0.01 seconds.

Drinks Common Ng+0:
Mellow Mist: -10% Damage Taken, -0,4 Movement Speed.

If you have not unlocked Ng+1 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run though):

A Strong Arm: +25 Attack Power, -15 Armor.
Ancient Spirit: +20 Skill Power, -10 Resistance.
Crazy Eye: +10% Primary Critical Hit Chance, -20 Armor.
Mind Control: Immune to confusion, All other debuffs last 100% longer.

Drinks Uncommon Ng+1:
The Safe Bet: +20% Armor and Resistance, -5 Luck.
Last Stand: +30% Damage Output Damage Reduction when standing still, +10% damage taken while moving

If you have not unlocked Ng+2 you can try out a few of these drinks (not important for the run
though):

Double Thriller: +75% Damage Dealt, +25% Damage Taken
Homemade Hazard: +100% Primary Critical Damage, +10% Damage Taken.

Drinks Rare Ng+2 and up:
Stab in the Dark: 50% chance to score a Critical Hit on Primary Attack, Darkness effect for 1.5 seconds when using your Primary Attack.
Incendiary Demise: +40 magical damage on primary attack, Set on fire when hitting enemies with primary attacks.

Arena:
For each rank you complete in arena you will earn 5 tokens. Get to rank 10 and spend your tokens on resistance and/or attack power.

Items:
Ng+0: No items needed from start.
Ng+1: Might be a good idea to shop for armor and resistance items.
Ng+2: Get armor and resistance items.
Ng+3 and up: Attuned Kings set/Markhams set.

At this point you want to get any item that boosts armor, resistance, skillpower, attack power, evasion and passive blocking attuned. Start with armor and resistance and try to go for kings/markhams set attuned.

Notes: On higher difficulties you should pick The Safe Bet instead of Crazy Eye, however a good player can go with Crazy Eye anyway. Try get Armor of Kings and Heartseeker and one resistance item like Robe of Arch Magi when going on ng+7 and up.

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Under Construction

This one is pretty straightforward but i will include it anyway. This is the build i always run to farm Ore and Gold.

Drinks Common Ng+0:

On the Run: +0.4 Movement Speed, -25% Gold Gain.
Miner's Delight: +100% Ore Gain, -75% Gold Gain.
A Fool's Errand: +100% Gold Gain, HP regen set to 0.

Key Items:

Shaftlock Pickaxe: +50% ore gain.
Markhams Stone: +2% Ore Gain per item in your inventory.
Markhams Purse: +1% Gold Gain per item in your inventory.

Other items:

Mana Stone: 30% chance to gain 1 mana when killing an enemy.
Life Stone: 15% chance to gain 1 health when killing an enemy.
Stones of Midas (Mana and Life Stone set): Killing an enemy gives 2 gold.
Lucky Charm: +1 Luck +10% Gold Gain.
Cloak of Many Pockets: +50% Gold Gain.

Notes: Having A Fool's Errand in your drink loadout will neutralize your gold gain to 100% with the other drinks included in this build. Reroll shop until you get atleast Shaftlock/Markhams stone and a gold gain item. Pick one ore gain item from anvil. Make sure you attune atleast the key items.

Now that you have followed this guide you should be able to unlock Ng+10 in your town. Replace two or three of your starting items to these below and pick a Ng you can handle without dying to early. Do you have high level friends? Invite them to help you on higher Ng's for faster farming.

Items:
Book of Enlightenment: 20% increased experience gain.
Monster Pamphlet: Undead: 10% increased experience gain and damage dealt to undeads.
Monster Manual: Undead: 20% increased experience gain and damage to undead.

Drinks:
Lazy Stroll: +50% Experience Gain, -0.4 Movement Speed.

The rest of them? Pick any drink that will help the run go faster or for survivability.

Notes: Attune all these items for better effect.

There are a total of 8 Statues. The Sculptor is located in the desert town.


From left to right: Bolgarth, Calis, Cedric, Ewran, Kyra, Ozreth, Phalarath, Wylmir
In order to build and upgrade Statues, blueprints are required. These can be found in the Pyramids of Prophecy campaign. Any level blueprint can be found during a playthrough regardless of NG level, however, they must be found sequentially(must get lvl 3 before level 4), and the probability of finding blueprints higher than 3 levels above your NG becomes exceedingly low. There is also an ore cost for building and upgrading.

There is No max level for Statues.

Up to 3 can be placed in your town, the boons they provide will be received by any players in your town (If you're in a multiplayer game, you'll receive any Statue Buffs the host has placed). The effects provided are not limited to the desert campaign and will affect tower gameplay as well.

Statues can be used in any combination of 3, and swapping them out doesn't lose any levels invested into them.

What they do:

Upgrade costs Spreadsheet: