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Skill Amp Hart (AdelaPatch)- Community Guide By Pruprukru
By pruprukru
Skill amp Hart is very fun to play. If you like a fun burst mage that is one of the most unique play style in ERBS, just play skill amp Hart. If you think Hart is cute, play skill amp Hart too. It use to be hard to finish your build and get lots of inconsistency early game because you don't have a lot of options. As of now, you have a lot of good route to play so you don't have to force yourself to contest hard for resources using the best route. Many routes are now viable.
   
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Update note*
  • 03/03/2021 Adela patch
    • All route still mostly the same. I'll update some item on some route. I didn't do it before because some items are just preference or alternative which I've already explain in each route. The new shoe Tachyon Brace is interesting but we don't want to craft it since it require material that are hard for us to get. The new accessory is really good and it should be an upgrade to uchiwa so if you kill anyone and see this item you should probably use it.
      The new Accessory Lunar Embrace is a good alternative for Schrodinger box. You lose a bit of damage and lose HP but you are tankier against Skill and the SP regen is good so you don't have to worry about SP much anymore.
  • 17/02/2021 Cathy patch
    • Minor Update to the guide
Introduction

Hart is an interesting character with evolution mechanic which on paper allow you to customize her freely. However the evolution point is very limited (only 3) and most of the time you want to put at least 1 point into your Q so you are left with only 2 point. That roughly translated into 3 Hart play styles.

ENAD Hart
***ENAD = Extra normal attack damage***
You use evolution for your Passive so you get 2 more attack each time you auto attack. Also that 2 extra attack work with ENAD so you want to stack your build with ENAD and deal lots of damage.

Crit Hart
You use evolution point on W? or Passive? Looks nice on paper but it just feel weird to play with. You don't get power spike with W evolution. If you put evolution point into Passive it doesn't feel synergize that well with with Crit.

Skill Amp Hart
You use evolution point on your E which make your skill damage higher. Your power spike is pretty good after your weapon and continue to have better damage after each item. She will fall off after everyone get a little more tanky and at end game she can't kill people as easily anymore.

This guide will be for Skill Amp Hart or SA Hart in short. It is very important to make your Guitar as fast as possible since you are very weak without it. Hart also need quite a bit of SP to fight so you need to make SP food. Don't run around with low SP without and SP food you can't fight or escape with out SP.

Before looking at the routes, you need to know that every route is ok to run. Currently Paper[/p] is the hardest resource to get. It'll be more consistence if you can start at the place that have paper. For more information i'll put in each route.
Skill

Q
Press Q to charge (up to 4 seconds for max damage) and Press Q again to shoot a small fast projectile forward dealing damage to enemy.

This is your main damage skill. It has a decent damage for poking which will hurt enemy a bit. When you charge it up with your E skill it will hurt a lot. If you want to run away or just want a quick slow just tap Q twice.

Evolution

Your Q will get 'slow' effect added. Put in 2 points and the slow will be stronger.


W
You buff yourself and gain attack power for a short while.

You will not put any point into W until late game since it use quite a bit of your SP. After you charge your Q and ready to engage use W to buff your attack then E E E Q and possibly charm as your combo.

Evolution

Your W will reduce enemy defense. Put in 2 points and you reduce even more defense.


E
Heart do a mini jump which can be cast 3 times. This will deal damage to the nearest target.

You use E for your main damage combo. You also use E for kiting and chasing. Against some match up it's a good idea to use your last E to disengage. It's also a good idea to use E to dance around randomly in a close fight you might evade lots of skills.

Evolution

Your E will give damage Amp. Put in 2 points for even more damage Amp.


R
Hart will do a concert and create a safe zone where everyone in the zone got their movement speed reduce and can't attack or use any skill.

I don't know the interaction with your HP regen but if you have lots of HP regen and also eat some food you will heal back up a lot. You shouldn't panic and use your ult. It should be use when you are about to die or very low so you heal up to full. You can also use it to tank Xiukai ult but getting hit by a constant healing reduction will make you heal a lot less than usual. You can also use ult as a part of your burst since it give you enough time to reset cooldown of your skills.

Evolution

Your R will have SP reduction effect. Put in 2 points for even more SP reduction.


Passive
Your auto attack will gain SP back. It also work with extra attack from Evolution of your passive.

You sometime auto attack animal which help a bit with your SP but this is mostly useless for SA Hart.

Evolution

Your Auto attack will have 1 extra attack. Put in 2 points for 1 more extra attack.(1 + 1 + 1 = 3 attack for each auto attack)


This is one of the best weapon skill in the game. You shoot a heart beam which is similar to your Q but a little bit slower. If landed it will charm your enemy making them unable to do anything and their movement speed reduced for a short while.
Skill Order
Start E then you max Q and E both are fine to max first.

You put in R when you feel like you need it or when Q and E are max. Then max R next. Your ult might not give you damage and seems useless at first but the ability to heal back up is really useful and mandatory to win some fight.

Then max W since it use lots of SP so we leave it for last. Then you can put the rest of the point into Passive which is kinda useless in this build.

***Evolution order***
E - First since you really need damage to farm animal and scare people.
Q - The slow will be very helpful when you run away. It's almost a requirement to just run away from anything when you are weak.
E - The we comeback for more damage.

In some route when you get your Purple guitar very late you should go for Q evolution first. The slow hardly help you to runaway without damage but it's a little bit more helpful than more damage when you can't even trade anyone with your weak weapon.

This is Why you want to evolve E first
Route - Tanky Stairway to Heaven 9/10 (4th Zone Weapon 6 Zones build but fast)

Build ID - 249616

Build Info

Someone said to me that Sword Stopper is a really good item with it's high defense Attack damage reduction and even crit damage reduction. I never fit Sword stopper into a build since it has only a defensive stats but it doesn't look that bad since it's also has healing reduction that will free up other slot to go for other stat.

I bump this build up to the top because it is the build that I use the most. It is the only build that give you most of the end game item and I find it to be consistent.

***After the new addition of Lunar embrace we want to use it in this build replacing Uchiwa or Schrodinger box. The main point is that we want SP regen and tankiness.
I also want to test replacing EOD Suit with Mithril armor and maybe also replace Straitjacket Sneaker/Glacial Shoe with Hermes Boot. Also if you are playing duos/squad and have someone else to apply healing reduction for you just go all out and replace Sword Stopper with Auto Arm.***


The build is a bit risky since you don't have much stat until hotel and you also won't have any Damage until you finish Stairway to heaven at school. But when you do you will be able to finish the build without much problem.

***I play this build quite a bit in Duos and it's working well so far. You can win in most match up but for melee that heal a lot you need to kite very hard. Just Charge Q->Q for damage and E for defense until you think you can kill. With 30% CDR and this level of tankiness you are very hard to kill unless you choose to all in for a fight. I'll be making Uchiwa instead of Schrodinger box since it's feel easier to manage inventory and make the build more safe. It's also a pain to continue to fight without Uchiwa SP regen.***

Chapel

You only need a holy grail so if you can get it then you can immediately TP to beach. Box and 2 Paper are good to have but you don't have time to casually look for it.

Beach

We have to drink everything we find since we won't have a space to keep any. You need 1 pickaxe and 1 gem to make into gold for your guitar upgrade. You also need 1 Hammer. Chain, extra gem and pickaxe is very nice to have but it can wait. Binoculars is ok to miss since we can find in hotel but if we can't find it in hotel too then it'll be very slow for weapon and that's very painful.

Hotel

Try to make a Lemon cake here since we need some food. After you find windbreaker and scrap metal get 1 branch to upgrade your armor. You don't have to kill anything yet. Then we will go to school next and we should be done before night time.

School

You will get your Stairway to Heaven here and if you got lucky with lighter you will finish your boot and accessory too. If you can't find hat you can find it at Achery range instead. Alley also has some lighter. If you didn't find bandages you can TP to factory or dock before going to cemetery. Also grab alcohol if you can. We can make it into soju or coffee liquor later.

Archery Range

You should be strong now but do be careful about your SP. Hunt wolf if you can or just leave Archery range if you get your item fast. We will go to alley to TP to cemetery. If you have extra lighter or extra time at all do pick some potatoes. You can search around a bit for a lighter too.

Cemetery

We just need to finish our Helmet here then we will be done with our build. You don't really need tree of life but you can also go for Glacial Shoe. We don't want to swap out sword stopper for bracelet of skadi for this build since we want that healing reduction.

It's also take lots of time to kill wick with this build so you have to be careful.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Route - Standard 8/10 (Need to be fast in temple)

Build ID - 216445
Build Info
Temple start is always the best for most skill amp characters so it might be heavily contested. We need 2-3 papers for this build so and getting at least 1 paper from temple is a must. 2 papers are great and 3 papers are the best. We also need 1-2 cloth.

This build is squishy but has lots of burst. It's fine early game but if you can you should swap some item out for HP like Burished Aegis and Schrodinger box. If you can get EOD suit or you make sunset armor instead White crane fan is a good choice for late game. You can also choose to build Rocker jacket which is also not a bad choice.

*If you get at least 2 paper and 2 cloth you can go for Uchiwa
*If you get only 1 cloth but 3 paper instead, grab a Stallion Medal for Revenge of Goujian instead.

We have lots of options for our armor but currently commander armor is slightly better than the rest. We will go forest 2nd since it is more safe at school 3rd and to avoid Shoichi and potentially Hyejin.

***You can run straight to Alley for that 3 boxes. You might not get all the thing you need but at least one paper is enough. That 3 boxes is very important since you can get lucky and get a pair of scissors and a lighter so you can finish Purple Haze in forest. A running shoe is also good since you can turn that into heelys.

Build Bracelet of Skadi if you do get tree of life. Glacial Shoe can also be good if you don't have ash. Make sheath of shah or Auto arm if you can't finish your Bracelet of Skadi.

***Be careful of Shoichi and Hyejin***
This guy jump to you and search ahead of you getting all your papers, gems, and cloth. He will also get all your lighter at school, pickaxe and gem at forest too. Then he will kill you with his ult. Hyejin will also kill you easily at forest. You just try to stay away from her.

Temple
Try to get 2 garlic for garlic bread. You can also dig up potatoes for potatoes bread which are a bit worse. Don't take too much time in temple if you know that people already search your area just give up and move on. We can find other stuff later. One paper will be enough to at least feel good about temple start. If no one is at temple you can take more time to find stuff but you shouldn't search too far and you should leave when you reach the end at Hyperloop.

*optional
Get 1 monk robe here then 1 flower from forest to make Hanbok for Queen of Heart.

Forest
Make honey water and get all of the honey you find. We really need SP to fight. If you don't find enough pickaxe or gemstone we can leave it for later but you need to make at least 1 gold for your weapon.

School
Hopefully people aren't taking all the lighter yet. You will get your shoe and guitar here along with Uchiwa which make you strong enough.

If we don't have enough lighter we can find more at alley. In fact a lots of stuff can be find at alley too so you don't have to stay too long in here.

Optional - Archery range
We have to go here if we still need paper. We can also get rusty sword here for Revenge of Goujian. This will make us hit so hard and delete some people in one rotation. You can find more paper here and also farm wolfs. It's not require to farm wolf since Archery can be quite dangerous at times so if you get what you need we will move on to Alley.

Alley
We will get our full build here. If you have any lighter left you should dig potatoes to make baked potatoes for food. If you are quick enough you can now go to fight for tree of life in Forest. If you aren't ready yet cemetery tree should also be fine.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Route - Pond 8/10 (Slow and steady + Hopefully get lighter from school)

Build ID - 216520

Build Info
Most people go to temple to get all their stuff first and fast but most of the time they don't loot everything in temple so we can take time to get what we want. We will make Imperial Crown since it's easy for Pond start. We also make Covert Agent Uniform too since this is also fast.

Rocker jacket is also fine if you want to build it and it's better for us than covert agent uniform but you will need to go find chain in alley.

You can also swap Revenge of goujian for Schrodinger box but lighter will be a bit of an issue. Get an extra box and hope for a random ash or poison drop from wolfs and bears is an option. You can choose to build Rocker jacket if you go Alley for the 5th zone.

[bThe only bad thing about this route is SP food. You need to get water from pond since it's the only thing that give you SP around here. At school you can get soju but it can also be hard to find alcohol too.[/b]

Build Bracelet of Skadi if you do get tree of life. Glacial Shoe can also be good if you don't have ash.

***Be careful of Shoichi and Hyejin***
This guy jump to you and search ahead of you getting all your papers, gems, and cloth. He will also get all your lighter at school, pickaxe and gem at forest too. Then he will kill you with his ult. Hyejin will also kill you easily at forest. You just try to stay away from her.

Pond
As always make gold first and Evolve E for damage. Make 1 more gold and 1 ruby prepare for crown. Make orchid from flower and oriental herb. Don't make more than 2 stacks(4 total) since it take some time to craft. Grab 1 branch going into temple.

*Optional
Get 1 extra flower for another hanbok if you want to build QOH later on.

If possible try to get a stack or 2 of water. This route has no SP food until school which can cause you to die when you can't use your skill to fight or escape.

Temple
Make crown and get what you can. Make galic bread. Then use teleporter(hyperloop) to school. You can also search 2 boxes from alley but most of the time people already search them. You can also choose to walk through alley since we can also finish our guitar here.

If you can't find all the paper we will get that at archery range or chapel later on.

School
Hopefully you can still find lighter here. Kill dogs too since it can drop lighter. Be a bit careful about noise at school. You are strong if you get all the stuff at school but try to stay away from noise ping if you are still weak.

Archery range
All we need here is sword and nail then we will be done with the build. You will have an extra spiked plank left which can make another Crimson Bracelet for Bracelet of skadi or remote mines.

Afterward if you want tree of life you can go to forest

Forest
We don't need items here except tree of life but if you still need some gems you can find it here. We can also go to archery range first for more paper and rusty sword too. After forest you go to get rusty sword at chapel and find ice at cemetery.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Route - Bohemian 1,2 8/10 (Easiest to run Beginner Friendly)
Build Info

I just found out recently that Bohemian is a skill amp guitar and it's stat is pretty amazing!


Wait this doesn't seem right so let look at the stat again shall we?



Why Bohemain work as skill amp guitar?

So Bohemian is a rare Flat Skill amp guitar with SP regen. Uchiwa is there for the HP and other stats here is not doing us any good. We build it along the way so it's fine. With Bohemian we can 2 zone it which is really good.

Evolved Flanger: Activating the skill grants 15%/25% skill damage amplificaiton for a few seconds, stacking up to 3 times.

Basically any guitar at all upgrade 2-3 time for evolve E will deal 75% skill amp damage and yes you will still one shot people early game. This give us the best fighting chance to Fight for tree of life, kill some Shoichi or anyone you see before night 1.

When you pair bohemian with accessory you will see that it's not all that bad. This allow us to remove 1 HP item too so you can be creative with this set up. Getting Imperial burgonet to replace Motorcycle helmet or Imperial Crown is a good idea. Getting white crane fan is also fine but we will go with Uchiwa at the start since we can also 2 zone it making us a monster.


Build ID - 216665


Build ID - 216666

***Alternately you can also start Pond and work your way up to avenue. You should have most of the stuff you need at pond and this is faster by a bit. If you also get lucky at avenue you can TP to cemetery or temple and just start killing people.***

Avenue

Get everything you can. Bottle will be use for making healing potion with orchid. Milk, honey, chocolate is also good to get. You can make either box chocopie or chocolate chip cookie. Honey butter or pound cake work too so. We don't need that many food and it will clog up our inventory so just make a bit and keep some for SP regen.

You can also craft white crane fan which will be better for late game but you will need to make lots of SP food to help you farm.

***Battery and card is a must***

Pond

We will get our Bohemian soon at pond. Make Uchiwa too if you can. At this point you will have your power spike so you can grief anyone at the pond. When you see anyone running toward you with Heart emoji you can just kill them so don't be afraid to do so. Basically you can kill almost anyone now. Depend on how crowded Cemetery is at the start, you might go to temple instead after pond. Stay in the pond as long as you need since it's important to finish your build.

Cemetery
Cemetery is a better choice since you get a better equipment overall. You can finish everything here except Glacial shoe so you can go to fight people at Forest. Try to kill animal along the way too so you can get weapon to mastery 7 for a charm skill.

OR

Temple
We will finish our build here except our shoe. This build has not enough damage so you might want to consider crafting a new guitar. Stair way to heaven and purple haze are both fine but purple haze will be easier to craft. Get extra pickaxe, gem, bamboo and paper. You can go to alley for lighter and scissors and the only thing you need is piano wire.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Route - Stair way to Heaven 7.5/10 (Consistent but need to replace lots of items)

Build ID - 216757

Build info
Stair way to Heaven is now arguably the best skill amp Guitar since it has 10% CDR. The build path is also fast and smooth but it's also has problem with SP regen since you don't get anything in the build at all. The rest of the build is fine but getting either glacial shoe or straightjacket sneaker. Since this build has low damage you want to hold your Rocker jacket for that healing reduction unless you get White crane fan + EOD suit.

Glacial Shoe is what you want the most since your shoes doesn't really fit the build at all. Bracelet of skadi is also nice if you get your shoe already. This build also play a bit different than usual since your damage is low. Rocker's jacket is important for longer fight since your enemy will heal less from the healing reduction. If you want to swap out items make sure to balance out your damage output and tankiness.

Beach
It will slow you down but you should get a rock so it will free up a bit of your space. Since we need to go fast we won't be making extra gold or ruby for Imperial Crown since we can't get a hair band until we finish our build. Get all Carbonated water for SP and it also denied people from making their weapon if they need it too which is really nice.

Uptown
Try not to go to far from Hyperloop since we will use it to teleport to factory. You should also kill a dog or chicken for leather which will make your inventory better from crafting your armor. Get 2 curry or lemons to make your food. Make some SP food here too we will need it to sustain our bad SP consumption without any regen for a while.

Factory
If you didn't get leather yet you can also kill dog or wolfs here just use food and SP food if needed. If you do get mithril from wolfs you can use that for your mithril helmet until you get a better item. Then we will go to chapel to finish our build.

Chapel
It might be a bit scary at chapel night so you need to be careful. Watch out for noise pings or sounds until you complete your guitar. After that you need to farm animal until you get mastery 7. This is important since we want to contest tree of life at forest. If you don't feel fighting for tree of life you can also continue to farm more wolfs and bear until they drop ash. Go the avenue to finish straight jacket. It's also possible to make ash yourself but you should use that lighter for food since this route doesn't have much food.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Route - Archery 7/10 (Fast and good but alley 2 is dangerous)

Build ID - 216551

Build Info
This build is really good and fast but it has the same path as some Hyejin route and Alley is important to Hyejin too so it's might be a bit risky to run. You can also make schrodinger box which is very good for HP but you will get it at your last zone. For schrodinger box you can just get a box from pond and find either ash or poison drop from wolfs and bears which are pretty common.

Build Bracelet of Skadi if you do get tree of life. Glacial Shoe can also be good if you don't have ash. Make sheath of shah or Auto arm if you can't finish your Bracelet of Skadi.

Archery Range
Try to get at least 2 paper from here. As always we need to be fast to make our weapon and taking too long in archery range might get you kill by a nadine. Make heelys for exp and movespeed if you have inventory space or can't find slipper you will be using heelys for a while. We can't make too much food so anything is fine if you get 2 eggs make egg bun if you get 2 chocolate make chocopies.

Alley
You need 2 lighters and 2 chains which might be hard to find. You should get everything here but missing some item is not the end of the world. Make honey water or hot honey water if you find extra lighter. You can make galic ramen but it will also take a lot of time to do so extra lighter can be use for baked potaotes/carps later on.

Forest
Finish your Guitar and Commander's armor here. Get more food and SP food if you need but if you get a lot from alley already just try to focus on getting what you need here so we can go to avenue.

Avenue
We will finish most of our build here. Then we will go to pond to finish Burnished Aegis. If you do have orchid the bottle here will make a nice Healing potion too.

Pond
It might be hard to find turtle shell and mouse trap but the extra HP you get is worth it.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Route - Archery EOD 7/10 (Good but Hammer and scrap iron are hard to get)

Build ID - 216459

Build info
EOD suit is really nice and this is only few route that we get to craft it.

I was thinking to replace Sheath of shah with Sword stopper so it should use 1 less hammer and we get Healing reduction. Also Uchiwas might also be better for SP regen since it's so hard to farm and fight without SP.

Build Bracelet of Skadi if you do get tree of life. Glacial Shoe can also be good if you don't have ash. Make sheath of shah or Auto arm if you can't finish your Bracelet of Skadi.

Archery Range
Try to get at least 2 paper from here. As always we need to be fast to make our weapon and taking too long in archery range might get you kill by a nadine. Make heelys for exp and movespeed if you have inventory space or can't find slipper you will be using heelys for a while. We can't make too much food so anything is fine if you get 2 eggs make egg bun if you get 2 chocolate make chocopies.

School
You really need 1 scissors and 1 lighter for guitar upgrade. If you didn't take too much time in archery range you will likely to find your stuff here fast too. Try to go for a big Dumpster near archery range wall and school wall and a car at the school building entrance. If you get 1 scissors and 1 lighter you can now leave school. It's still better to have some item more than this but getting our guitar online is our top priority. Make soju if you can for SP regen. If you have slot open you can get some cans we will be making a canned cola.

SP food is really important to have some. You will die if you don't have SP to fight or runaway. You also need SP to farm animal too.

Forest
Forest is not needed and this route can be only 4 Zones but walking through forest to beach will get you material for gold that will complete your guitar. Don't go too deep into forest we are just passing by. Get to the beach if you don't have a complete guitar yet. Make honey water and get some honey if you can.

*It doesn't matter much if you choose to go to the beach first or hotel first after weapon but Hotel will let you complete your shoe and if hotel is quiet you can just grab it and make glacial shoe

Hotel
We just need 1 cloth and 1 scrap metal here. Make cola or canned cola if possible. Tree of life and ice is also here so take them and make glacial shoe but it's will be scary to contest. Most of the time you need to have a good view of area around the tree and also watch out for noise pings in hotel and forest. If no one is here we can just grab it.

Beach
Finding hammer might be hard but it should be fine. We need at least 1 hammer to make EOD Suit and sheath. Alternatively if you get all gems and pickaxe already from forest you can use Hyperloop to go alley instead.

That's the end of this route and early game. For late game look into late game sections.
Experimental Route (Only use if Top side is crowded)
Build ID - 282714

Stairway to heaven
Mithril armor/Sunset Armor(can also do EOD Suit but you'll slow down)
Imperial Burgonet
Sword Stopper
Tachyon Brace
Uchiwa/Lunar Embrace(These are important since we are very very SP hungry and we have no SP regen else where)

1.Beach / Pond
2.Hospital
3.Factory
4.Chapel
5.Temple
6.Pond

It's a 6 Zone Build with 4 zone weapon again. I don't build EOD suit since I want to skip uptown and just TP out. It's possible if you get a lucky windbreaker from 3 boxes above the hyperloop since we will jump over the wall and only search those 3 boxes. You can also start Pond but you won't get a random wind breaker instead you can search 3 boxes in avenue if you search along the way to avenue and get fast cloth for Uchiwa. Try to get as many ice and lighter since we want to make purified water to fix our SP problem and to make Lunar Embrace. Carbonated water, milk, and alcohol also help with SP so just drink them.

***This is a backup build aim to play on bottom side of the map. Since I don't like the standard Stairway to heaven path all that much and the build path to go for skill amp item for other build seems to land on places that I try to avoid at certain time(It's also slow to get item too).***
I can't find my items(Paper, hammer, lighter etc.)
This is a tough time my friends but we can still make it work. Farm wolfs and bears aggressively for ash, mithril, force core, iron sheet, and VF Blood sample.

Mithril shield and mithril armor is easy to make and it work really well too. Mithril boot is harder but it's still fine to use. Your SP regen will be bad but you will be a lot faster and a lot more tanky.

Get tree of life and ice can make into your Bracelet of Skadi and Glacial shoe. Some people hate Glacial shoe because of in combat speed is terrible but i'd take Glacial shoe over incomplete shoe anyday.

Force core is also a very good option for our Arm and boot. It is the best for late game slot too. Craft auto arm if you need arm equipment and Hermes Boot if you need shoe. I still slightly prefer bracelet of skadi over Auto arm since i get SP regen too. Hermes boot is also good but you don't have to go out of your way to get it if you don't have to. Straightjacket sneaker SP regen is easier for you to manage your SP even if the added damage late game is worse than getting defense.

VF Blood Sample might be the only item we really want for upgrade. Queen of heart(QOH) is a better EOD suit. If possible we should prepare extra hanbok ready to craft into QOH.

How to choose route to play?
Hart need lots of contested items and sometimes she need 3 zones which are heavily contested from items. When you go there that place might already be empty. Speed is also a key, you don't want to be running around without complete weapon for long since that will just get you kill.

Temple start is not so attractive if they are more than 2 people. Even just 1 more people can make the route more inconsistent.

Forest and Beach is good if you get only 1 more people. We pick these area to start because we want to loot fast and get everything so having people to share the loot is not ideal.

Pond is a weird place even with no one start here with you it can still take a long time to get everything. You almost always get what you need but it's not every time. You can't also stay here forever to search every box too. You just need to move on.

Avenue is pretty busy place. If you can get at least 1 battery you are good to go then you can go to beach or pond next depend on which area is open. I have the worst luck here and finding that 1 battery is almost impossible sometimes.
Late Game (What to do after I finish my build)
Your main goal is to farm animals mainly wolfs and bears. If you are weak you don't have to aggressively follow ping and noisy area where people are. Just farm up and make some food. It's also pretty common for wolfs and bears to drop heated stone and heated oil. Turn those into fried chicken, baked potatoes and baked carp. If you have lots of heated oil you can make fish and chips too but your main priority is to farm animal.

When 10 minutes pass or around 20-30 second left of night 2 wickeline will come out.
She will be at Avenue if it open.
She will be at Cemetery if avenue is close.
She will be at Forest if the above 2 area are close.

If no one is around you can start to fight Wick. Hart is not the best character to do wick but she is not too bad either. Put down some camera to see if you will get third party while doing wick. Also try to see if there are any people around Wick via console vision or ping noise from fighting.

If you found people doing wick you can try to third party to kill them too. You shouldn't force yourself to kill wick if people are around her. It's better to not fight unless you can burst her down in 1 rotation then run away with items and buff.

So how to kill wick?
Wick should be down in 2.5 - 3 rotation of our spell. Do your 1 rotation without your charm first then heal up( Q charge W EEE Q). see how much damage it do to wick. Second rotation just do it enough for wick to die for our third or just blow everything to wick and finish her with 1 more Q if it's really safe to do so. Grab all her item even if you don't need that VF blood, force core, or mithril and just eat up her med kit. Run away to find safe place to heal up and that heal from med kit will help us a lot to be in shape faster too.

Now you get Wickeline buff which will poision(bleed) your enemy with any damage you deal to your enemy for 6 minutes(Not sure about this but it should last for lat least a day). You probably are strong enough to kill any one now so it's time to hunt people especially the one who are more fed than you or the one who you can't win normally.

You can now make QOH with the VF Blood sample which is really nice!

***Hopefully you will get into end circle with good gear and mastery or just End the game with Wickeline buff***

If you feel weak and can't contest Wick you should just use this opportunity to farm more. You can wait out wick timer. A lot of character can use stuff from wick but it's not that important for you anyway. We just want Wick buff and deny other people to get better items.
Item Choices / Endgame Upgrade


Purple Haze 8/10

It is the best skill amp Guitar for raw damage but the down side is that it is also the hardest to build.



Stairway to heaven 8/10

This is the best guitar right now. Decent damage with 10% CDR is just too good. HP regen 200% look like nothing but it actually help a lot when you stack some HP regen which also work nicely with your ult to make you heal more. The vision it gave is also nice.



Bohemian 8/10

This might not be the best guitar but it is the easiest guitar to build. It also has the best build path which can be finish very fast. You also get lots of HP which is really good but the downside is that in late game you'll feel the lack of damage from it.



Queen of Hearts(QOH) 8.5/10

It is the best armor for most skill amp character. You want 20% CDR and this alone will give you 25% CDR. You can also pair this with Imperial crown instead of Imperial burgonet for more tankiness.



Kabana 8/10

It give you lots of damage but it doesn't give much tankiness and no CDR. Kabana is still a solid armor.



Commander's armor 5.5/10

Same as Kabana but you get even less damage.



Rocker's Jacket 7/10

This is very squishy for an armor. 30 Attack power is not that great. The only good thing is Healing reduction. The movement speed buff feel terrible now but it still make you run faster out of combat.



Sunset Armor 6/10

It is easy to build and make you very tanky. But that's what make this item so good. It's not really great so try to use something else if you didn't lack HP.



Covert Agent Uniform 5.5/10

Honestly it's not that great but if it can be made along the way then I'll make it. You should complete as many item as you can as fast as possible so I've choose to build this in some my routes. The HP regen and CDR is really nice to have.



EOD Suit 9/10

This is one of the best armor for Hart. It give you tankiness, HP regen and CDR. The down side is that it's kinda hard to build.



Imperial Crown 8/10

Solid head piece with some damage and decent HP.



Imperial Burgonet 8.5/10

We build this because of the damage and CDR is too good to pass up.



Motorcycle Helmet 7/10

This is a really good item. It's so easy to build that you can accelerate your build a lot faster. HP is really good too.



Bracelet of Skadi 8/10

It's not the best damage item but it does have everything we need. It has some HP, lots of regen, and some damage. It's so hard to build now so if it not on your route then it's not worth to craft it.



Auto Arm 7/10

It's does give you a decent damage and decent defense which is ok stat to have.



Burnished Aegis 7/10

This is a really good item due to it's high HP. The left over Spiked plank is also useful to have for making bracelet of skadi or remote mines.



Tindalos Band 6.5/10

This looks really good for an item but strangely enough it doesn't fit your build or build path. In each route you should have a minimum of 10% CDR to feel more fluid. Unless you go out of your way to make it it's not really fit in any build except stair way to heaven route. Even in that route it's also better to make Burnished aegis for HP.



Sheath of Shah 7/10

We build this just for some damage and HP. It's one of a few option of HP in arm slot if we don't build Bracelet of Skadi.



Draupnir 6.5/10

This should be the most damage in arm slot but it has less damage than other slot so I choose to have HP at this slot. If this is the only available arm in the route you need either tanky armor and/or accessory like schrodinger box.



Boot of Hermes 8/10

This is the best boot in the game. It has only defensive stat but it's really good.



Glacial Shoe 7.5/10

It give more damage than Straitjacket Sneaker but it's also come with less movement speed while you are in combat. For Hart the HP Regen is really good so the down side is not so bad.



Tachyon Brace 7/10

It's a good shoe but it's mostly not on our path and we do need SP regen. If you have less than 25% CDR then it's good for you.



Straitjacket Sneaker 7/10

Standard skill amp shoe. It's good for SP regen which we do want a bit in our equipment.



Revenge of Goujian 7/10

I used to think that revenge of goujian deal the most damage and it's still probably is but Uchiwa is a lot better to have overall since SP regen is very good to have. You can farm more and don't have to worry about running out of SP while fighting.



Schrodinger's Box 8/10

It give you lots of HP and some skill amp so it's really good for anti burst. This is one of the best item for late game.



Uchiwa 8/10

It give lots of SP regen which help a lot. The flat skill amp is also very good early game. SP is really important for animal farming so Uchiwa is more useful than just more damage item. We will swap out Uchiwa late game for either schrodinger box or White crane fan if possible.



White Crane Fan 7.5/10

White crane fan is only for late game item when you need healing reduction. It's a better options than Rocker jacket if you want healing reduction. I'd rather have Uchiwa early game though.



Veritas Lux Mea 5/10

This give a bit of everythings you want which is nice but it's doesn't have enough stat that we want to build it.



Lunar Embrace 7/10

It's not that good for skill amp user but It give lots of SP regen and some skill damage reduction so it's a good alternative to Schrodinger box. It's still a very situational item.
End game Part 2
No Healing reduction??
Uchiwa is a lot better item early game since it has SP regen and it's deal a bit more damage than white crane fan. Rocker jacket if it not on the way we might not want to craft it. My routes are optimize to finish build fast so that I can farm and have time to find food. After you have complete your build it's also a good idea to get White crane fan but your farming is more important. If you don't think you can win you should just run away.

So in the end what do i want?
Since you might not get every item you want every game try to consider these points.

**Anything that finish your build will be better than unfinished build**

  • 2-3 Hp equipment for tankiness
  • 1 SP regen equipment will make your SP dry after a while
  • 2 SP regen equipment is just enough. You can still run out of SP in a long fight
  • 3 SP regen equipment is more than enough
  • 10% CDR is alright for end game build. without at least 10% your E cooldown feel too long.
  • 20% CDR or more is really nice but you don't have to go overboard for max CDR
  • QOH is the one of the best armor so get it if you can unless you have EOD Suit. The extra CDR is real nice but EOD Suit make you a lot more tanky
  • Imperial Burgonet give you lots of damage and it's what you want most of the time
  • When you go tanky for late game it's better to have a source of Healing reduction from either Rocker jacket or White Crane Fan. Some matchup you don't need it but you will also lose to the matchup with high life steal without any healing reduction too.

One of the best End game would be

Stairway to Heaven
EOD Suit
Imperial Burgonet
Bracelet of Skadi
Glacial Shoe
White Crane Fan
Fighting tips / Matchup (WIP)
Tips

In many matchup You can't just Q EEE Q people to their face and expect to win. Hart can win more fight when you keep distance but enemy will also be able to run away too. You need to accept this otherwise you'll just suicide.

In most fight you can just poke with your Q->Q and E away when they tray to engage you. This is a basic when you fight melee character. Then you go for your full combo when you think you can burst your enemy down. For most range character fight, you should just go all in. In some cases you can just do it as you fight melee character. Even when you trade 20-25% of their HP with your 50% but if you can burst them down from that point then you will win the fight.

You use your ult to reset fight and to interrupt some skill. If you get the jump on your enemy and you can 2 combo them to death you can do your full combo then Ult for your E to come off cooldown then do your full combo again to get a kill. Another way to use your ult is to fight until you have low health. Most of the time around 25-30% is a good range. In DUO/SQUAD you can use your ult to help your friends but 90% of the time it will just delay the inevitable so it might be better to just let your friend die and have ult for yourself.

E is important in fight. You should try to E to the left and to the right to confuse your enemy. You can also E over a thin wall back and forth too which is important.

Jackie

Depend on damage you deal to Jackie but never E into her unless you are sure to get a kill. Poke Jackie with Q and you can follow her jump with your E but if you just E intoher with her jump up you might just die from her burst.

Aya

Both Pistol and sniper are similar. Aya can be a glass cannon which deal lots of damage but very squishy. You can avoid her W with E interrupted it with charm or even ult. If she build more tanky her damage won't be high. It's a fight that you have lots of advantages.

AR Aya is tanky and deal lots of damage. She also move a lot and she's quite fast. Your poke might not goes through her shield and she is hard to fight. Your E can't dodge anything from her. It's mostly a stat check. Your Q has advantage with it's range but it's also easy to miss. I wouldn't want to take this fight if I have to. Just slow her with Q and run away.

Fiora

Fiora especially rapier is incredibly sticky. People said her chase is bad but you can't really run away from fiora unless there is a wall that you can jump. There is no real strategy to fight fiora but you can try to evade her Q and E with your E and hope for the best. Fiora also like to get life steal which is really bad for you.

Magnus

Magnus is not hard to fight if you stay far away from wall and objects. He will be tanky most of the time so it's hard to take him down. Don't get too close to magnus since he will burst you down and if you ever get low He will execute you with his bike. Magnus is hard to kill late game so if you can make him use bike to run away and hop he run into someone and die.

Zahir

If he has tornado you can't really get in his range or you will get tornados. Poke him with Q and dance around him with E. It's mostly a skill matchup. Zahir might deal lots of damage but you also too. If he run away from fight it's hard to chase since if you get tornados you might just die. If you land Q on him it's hard for him to chase you too.

Nadine

Unless you get poke hard with nadine and get pinned to the wall it's not that hard to kill her. If nadine get the jump on you she will deal lots of damage and you might die and if you miss your Q you might also die but you can use your ult to heal up and bursting nadine down is not hard since she is squishy.

Hyunwoo

Most of the time Hyunwoo will be tanky and if you are squishy you will die. You can fight Hyunwoo for a long time and the one who ran out of food first will lose. If he is stronger you just poke with Q and E away. If he is low or weaker you can run him down.

Skill amp Hart

It's a mirror match so who has a better build and skill play is going to win.

Enad/Crit Hart

Your Q poke will hurt a lot and your all in can just burst Hart easily but if you miss you will be kill by auto attack to death.

Isol

Unless you have camera Isol is a bit of a pain to kill. Your E can track him but it's still hard to tell where he will go next. If he miss his Q you can chase hard. If he land Q on you if you are stronger than him just ignore it and you can chase anyway. If he is quite strong try to kite back with Q and E and you can also use your ult when his Q is about to detonate. it will stop him from attacking you for free while your are rooted.

Li Dailin

It's the same as other melee but she will mostly try to gap close you so just kite her with Q and E. When her HP goes down she will try to run away we can chase her back then. You can use your ult to heal up if she burst you down especially with her ult.

Yuki

It's the same as other melee but Yuki has 2 long dash with E and 2nd E. He will most likely able to stun you and deal damage to you. Kite him with Q and E as always. When her HP goes down she will try to run away we can chase him back then. You can use your ult to heal up if he burst you down especially with his ult. If Yuki is a skillamp dual sword His damage is insane and you might just die. On the other hand that Yuki will be very squishy too so you can also burst him down. Just be careful of his burst.

Hyejin

Hyejin is annoying to fight. She can easily escape from you with her fear or her E or even with her Q slow. If she got advantages she can chase you down hard. Use your ult wisely since we have to do a close combat fight with EEE Q to her face. Try to interrupt her skill combo while getting CDR back with your ult. You can interrupt her ult with charm or your ult too but it's not reliable.

Xiukai

You can dodge his E with your E and you should do that. If you get poke by his Q and you are in his range you need to be ready to dodge his E or you might be dead. Try to poke him down a bit and don't over estimate his burst even when he is low. You can somewhat tank his ult with your ult for a bit but his ult will still deal too much damage to you. You can also E back and forth to somewhat juke xiukai ult and lessen the damage.

Chiara

Whatever you do don't E to fight a chiara unless she is weak. You need E to avoid her root. Chiara is very tanky but if you can avoid her E at the start of the fight she won't be able to burst you down. You can use your ult to prevent her from using it to execute you so that mean you want the fight to be as long as possible. When she has no ult you can just run her down.

Sissela

Sissela is hard to fight. You can burst her down just be careful of her bubble to avoid damage so just hold your Q if she use it. It's not complicate to fight a sissela you just E into her randomly to avoid her pull and land your Q. If she has a better stat especially with throw build it's almost impossible to kill her. Her auto attack damage is very long and hurt too much so it's nothing you can do if that happen.

Fighting tips / Matchup cont.
Silvia

Silvia hurt a lot and she is tanky. You can E to avoid her W knock up in bike form but it's unreliable. She can also interrupt your ult easily so you need to time it well. Fighting silvia is mostly a stat check if you have a stat to tank her burst and deal damage back you will win the fight. She can run away from you whenever she want to with her bike too.

Adriana

This is a stat check to see if you can withstand her full combo be fore you die or not. Since you can't do much with her Oil ability to ground you and mini stun for her ult which also has 3 charges. If you get the jump on her then you will get a lot of advantages if she get the jump on you you have to tank her damage. It's also hard to chase Adriana even when you win too.

Shoichi

Shoichi is scary only when he is in a good hand with good ping and get ahead. He will hunt you down and you can't really run away. Otherwise it's not that hard to fight a shoichi. Just becareful when to charm or Q him since she is slippery. You can somewhat use your ult to lessen his ult damage. Also try not to fight him on top of his ult. Just go away from it or simply use your ult and walk away. Then you can burst him down.

Emma

The longer the game goes the harder for you to kill Emma. You can win her if you land your combo and avoid some of her damage but she can just hat trick away. It's quite hard to chase Emma. It's also annoying to fight Emma. Blood will rush into your head and you will take lots of damage chasing Emma. So fight her if you have to. Kill her if you can or just let her go if you can't chase. It's also hard to run away from Emma but even Emma can't chase us all that well with a slow from Q to the face and our E.

Lenox

I hate to fight Lenox since she is the only one that have weird positioning while she fight you so it's hard to get used to landing Q on her. Deal with her the same ways as other melee. Poke with Q and kite her with Q and E. She is very tanky and can deal lots of damage but she is not that great with chase. So you can run away if you didn't get hit by her pull and die first. Her ult didn't do that much damage overtime so eat your food and it will not hurt that much so you can just run away. If she get low you can go for a kill otherwise just stay far away from her.

Rozzi

Rozzi has a short rotation so don't try to be near her. Deal with her the same way as melee so poke with Q and kite with E. She might avoid her Q so be careful if that happen. You can use your ult to heal up after your combo or to interrupt her ult combo if it land on you. If she get low you can just chase her and go for the kill. She can't really run away from you but she still has the damage to kill you.

Luke

Luke is a hard match up if you didn't get enough tankiness and CDR. Try to save your E to dodge his Q. Poke him with Q only and after you doge his Q or when he use 2nd Q to follow you just EEE away then Q him. Depend on the trade he might give up the fight so we can re engage him since he is not that good at running away. Use ult to reset fight and go for the kill if you can or run away if you can't.

Cathy

Cathy deal lots of damage and is very sticky. Deal with her the same way as any melee. Q to poke and E to kite. Try not the get hit by her more than trying to deal damage to her if she has lots of life steal. It's annoying to fight a tanky Cathy since she is very sticky so you will not be able to do your combo or even full charge your Q as you like. When she get low you can go for the kill but do beware of her ult. You will also get hit by her E to root you and take lots of damage in which you can't do anything about it you can't even ult.

Adela

She has extremely high burst and can kill you easily and her ult will negate your damage and even deal damage to you. However it's also hard for her to land combo that will kill you. Try to slow her with Q to get a betting positioning while fighting. E randomly into her and land Q for damage. If she mess up her combo it is easy to go in for the kill.
Fight at tree of life (matchup)
***I didn't fight much for the Tree anymore. I'll still leave this section here but this data should be too old by the time you read it.***
You might not always get competition at tree of life. But sometimes you get a lot of people who want your tree of life and you need to fight for it.

Item and power spike

You need purple haze to fight. If you didn't finish yet just hope any pray that no one come to pick up tree of life or just aim for another one at forest instead.

Uchiwa will be hard to get since you have not that many container to search to find a fan but this will boost our damage by a lot. You can just one shot most people with only Uchiwa and Purple Haze. Doll is not that useful so it will be a lot harder to burst people down at tree with just doll complete. A single fan has better stat for fight so if you at least got a fan it'll help.

If you want to you can also build repair slipper into Straightjacket Sneaker that will need 1 more lighter and 1 more paper which is possible but going for it every game is not possible due to time limit.

You might have a bit of time to seach dock for 1 container that might give you a chain to complete rocker jacket or hammer then a lucky find scrap metal at hotel for a sheath but this is not realistic.

Motorcycle helmet give you good Hp early and vision too see better in the night and also 10 attack power which help a bit.

Match ups
You need to kill people or deal enough damage that your enemy run away otherwise you can't start to dig for tree of life. Hart is one of the best Tree fighter since you don't rely on your ult to burst people down. Hart Burst is also reliable and her E also good at avoiding lots of people skill. Craft some Telephoto camera to help with vision at night so you can see who you have to fight. If people are going for your camera instead of you you can just dig for tree of life in that time.

Hart
I've never seen a Hart here. If there are people that use this build you'll probably see her earlier. Most likely that one of you will be able to finish Purple Haze in time and the other one will not.

Shoichi
With similar gear he should be able to kill you depend on who jump on who first. If you miss your Q you will probably die. You should poke him first with Q don't try to engage him with E if he not low enough. Most likely you won't actually fight shoichi at the tree but along your route and that mean you run away from him.

Hyejin

Hyejin is the most scary peoson to find at tree of life. Her burst is even stronger than you and poking her let her poke you back too. Her all in can most likely kill you even without her ult. If she get lucky her item might be even better. You might also find her at forest which will just kill you. You can still burst her down since she is also squishy.

Electron Blaster Users


This apply to Aya, Silvia, and Isol which will have the same item at tree of life. Silvia have to deal with leather harder than the other 2 so she might drop out of the fight early if they are people using the same route. This is also true if there is one Electron blaster user that finish their build faster. While these 3 are quite strong Hart can easily burst them down. You can E to avoid aya W and also E to chase Isol invisibility. The main point is that you need to finish these guy first before you try to dig the tree.

Magnum Boa Users


This apply to Aya, Silvia, and Isol and personally it almost the same as Electron blaster. It is also harder to build and they can be skill amp or autoattack depend on the shoe they choose. Just fight them the same way. These route are probably rare and not many people will use it.

Sissela


There are many Sissela variant but the strongest here would probably have at least 2 purple items. Sissela is strong in a long fight and is pretty annoying. However you can still burst her down fast. You just have to see her coming and be ready for it.

Sniper Aya


You will probably find only Skill Amp Sniper Aya here. She will not be much of a threat unless she get random moonstone drop from wolf which will make her more scary. She also take your pickaxe and gems at forest which might be more problem for you than having to actually fight her.

Plasma Sword User


Jackie is pretty rare to see and not all that strong yet since you can burst her down easily. Yuki is a lot more annoying. Yuki can burst you down if you are not careful. If you got hit by his ult you might be dead. If you can poke him down a bit your burst can definitely kill him. Just need to be careful though.

Frost Petal Hand


If for some reason they want to contest tree of life Hyunwoo and Li Dailin can. Hyunwoo is not hard to kill if you are not going near the wall. Dailin might be able to kill you if she land all her damage. You should poke Li Dailin down from a distance until you are comfortable enough that you can kill her.

Throws


Some throw route also come here. This example build is aim to make blazing dress but most throw build are not interest in tree of life. They will take time to build and most likely be late a bit to arrive at the tree. Sissela is still the same. Adriana probably don't have the damage to burst you down. Zahir also don't have enough damage yet. So you can burst them all down.

The rest

I've not seen much other people other than fiora. Xiukai sometimes come here too with knife build. The knife are quite hard to make so they won't get other item done and probably be weaker than other people at the tree. Spear users often not finish their weapon hoping to use tree of life to make one so they are not all that strong yet.
Game play
More recent game play video. It feels a bit annoying with ping spike. I still lack practice and miss most of my skill shot.


This one is a route that I've been testing. The route is a bit scary until you get to School and complete Stairway to heaven.


This is a bit old already. This route is a lot harder to run now but it's still fine if temple are free.
4 Comments
pruprukru  [author] 1 Feb, 2021 @ 8:48pm 
Thank you
small loan of a million dollars 25 Jan, 2021 @ 4:43am 
just wanted to drop by and say that I really enjoyed reading the guide. underrated. great job.
pruprukru  [author] 15 Jan, 2021 @ 6:49pm 
No problem
Geep 15 Jan, 2021 @ 10:27am 
Thanks for the guide man, helped a lot