The best in slot Gem - Base requirement

The best Build in the Game

How it works, if u didn't watch the Videos

Essence of Predation: By far the most broken item in the entire game.

The "WILD" Lucid Dream turns every enemy into a Hunter, or they are a Boss.
Therefore, after each kill we do with anything (Auto attacks, Memories or Gem effects), we receive permanently and without any limit, either 1 AP or AD.
Additionally, the high % damage increase to Hunters and Bosses, which is now everything in the Game.
Even without the AD and AP scaling, just the % increase of damage against Bosses, would still make it one of the best

0. The Final Build

Just one of the many hours long runs i usually do, other than doing carry runs with random public lobbies.
This is what your Build should aim to be, Mass Cleanse or Blizzard are valid options for the last Mass Protection.

1. Offensive

While it might not look fancy at first, it becomes by far the strongest Gem, next to Predation.

- Multiple Screen wide AoE potential, Spawnkill anything before it even moves
- Short and superfast Animation as a shockwave
- No scaling limit or cap, to infinity and beyond
- No internal cooldown, delay or travel time, its instant
- High damage scaling, no need for any other damage source

2. Cooldowns

Unless you have lots of Memory Haste (200-300+), you'll require a Gem to shorten the Cooldown enough, to reach a spamable and reliable state.

Both are amazing, but i highly recommend Essence of Efficiency, as it doesn't have a condition, in order to function, Essence of Metal usually goes onto Ice Shield once i find it.
(Any other Cooldown Gems are either not as good or require too specific conditions)

3. Defensives and Trigger

Main Trigger for Essence of Freezing & High Burst Barrier

- Short Cast Animation and no delay,
- Good Cooldown Scaling with Upgrades,
- Highest amount of burst Barrier in the game.
- Spam and stackable to further increase the values

Become Immortal ~ Barrier, Barrier and even more Barriers

- Appealing aspect of this Memory is, that it's Barrier value lasts for 3 seconds, which offers an additional layer of protection, which makes us as close to being immortal as possible

If everything else fails - known as: "Oh ♥♥♥♥" Gems

- Must have! Never done a single run, where i don't have at least Blood Drops - never.
- Soul Prison and the buyable additional second lives are a must get, if the opportunity presents itself.

4. Sustain - Lifesteal

The best of them all. No Conditions, does what it needs to do.


My favourite pick for runs with other people, works well on Nachia's Pets too. The reduction of Damage can be noticeable early, but gets better after a few maps with Predation.


Life per hit and huge % based boost to AD, easy to obtain and works really well, strong early but the healing tends to fall off later.


Great option, can be used to heal on Immortal Units, like Vendors, Special Spawns and during phase shifts in Bosse fights.


Time gated, which makes it less optimal. It is easier to obtain, which makes it quite decent.

5. Chaos Bonuses - Glowing Ball things

Reach a high enough Memory Haste to spam our Trigger and therefore Essence of Freezing.
Enough to not get oneshot randomly, especially from environmental damage.
Level Up the main Essence's first, Freezing > Predation > Efficiency > Stat yielding ones > QoL

What usually works decent enough in my experience is, pick most of the +x levels and/or % quality increases, then a mix between Memory Haste and Health Points.

Ask yourself this, and pick accordingly:
- Not enough CDR, not spammy enough? Memory Haste
- Not enough Hp, scared to die? Health Points
- Not enough Damage? Either kill more to gain more raw stats with Predation or upgrade things like described at the top of this section

Just be aware, that it also heavily depends on your Play style, available items and Area/Map you are in.

6. Strongest passive scaling possible

Essence of Adventure is the star of this section.
The passive Gold income and Quality upgrades really add up in a run, don't underestimate them.
This is also what i mainly hunt for, besides the other key components of the Build

7. Quality of Life & worthy additions

If these items are available, be sure to get them.

Usually my replacement for Essence of Efficiency, once my Memory Haste is high enough, 300++.


Nice to have on environmental heavy areas and/or with other people. A good additional offensive and defensive option for Boss battles, too.


Can remove the curses, that you and your party receives, which makes it a must get.


Combine it with Essence of Metal and have unlimited uses of that Memory.


The best source of Movement speed, huge time saver as it makes 5-7 min Loops possible. At level ~ 20 it'll offer enough Movement speed, that you can unlock Bismuth.

8. Skill tree - Perfection

Some adjustments could be made to suit your taste, but this is pretty much min-maxed, as good as it gets. Can be used as a baseline for other Classes too, my other Characters have a similar Skill tree.

The order should be: Percent based and/or scaling related, Quality of Life, Skill specific.

9. Bismuth, the strongest and easiest Character

Account Level 1500 and Character Mastery of 1079, by far my most played Character, but why?
- Auto Aims, Autocasts Memories and Autoattacks during combat
- Signature skills attack while moving
- Best base skills of all chars
- Easy access to Movement speed and Haste
- The Best Dodge Buffs (Huge % of MS and ATK Speed)
- Infinite Scaling of Attack Speed by just Dismantling
- Flat Stats upon defeating any kind of Bosses
- Fastest Character to do a Loop with ~ 5-8 Minutes
- Unique Essence further increases scaling ability (30% AD and AP, all Buffs from her Dodge are increased by 50%, +37.5% Movementspeed and +50% ATK Speed)

Pick which character you like and enjoy, but know that Bismuth is leagues better. It's the most played Character in the game for a reason.
Personally, i love Movementspeed, any other just feels slow and clunky to play with.

If you know me from Code Vein, Aura Kingdom and so forth, where i have reached more the 20k Hours, you know what i've always enjoyed doing in games. Min-maxing, which often leads to either game breaking Builds or interaction.
Trying to truly 100% whatever the game has to offer, doing anything and everything possible.

This is one of them, countless hours went into this, it's been quite fun.
Unless something major changes, this will remain peak - Perhaps the upcoming updates?

Side note:
- I highly recommend enabling "Night light" on Windows and be sure to take breaks in-between as well.
- Lowering the In game setting to their lowest, especially effects of other players.
- It will certainly ruin the fun for others in Public lobbies, so don't be that person, and at least warn them.

Fun Facts:
- After about an hour, my toaster provided enough heat for 10 other apartments, and made noises like a Rocket would do during takeoff. I might need a new one
- Party members having 1 fps after about an hour witnessing this Build, some even crash
- The game itself having a hard time keeping up with the build, and frequently slowdown in busy areas
- Being able to face tank pretty much anything
- Upgrading Essence of Love for the party, makes then rival Sonic in terms of Speed