Dwarven Realms – Progression Guide

Progression Guide for Rupture 80+ with Stat Priority

By Zeith.

Welcome to the Glass Cannon meta. You will get one-shot while pushing.

Stat priority is offhand%, 100% crit, STR, crit dmg, elemental dmg, and luck in that order. Your goal is to keep the multipliers even. Offhand% and elemental% are not in the combat rating calculation, so it may go down, but your DPS will go up.

Stance damage is useless in the current meta; offhand is the way to go. Any mod that says something like “magery dmg%” should be avoided as it doesn’t work on offhands. However, magery crit/crit dmg do work but will have lower rolls than plain crit/crit dmg.

The reason for this is that stance dmg is calculated with your (damage) x (crit), whereas offhand is (dmg) x (crit) x (ele x offhand x boss dmg).

Level up stat distribution: Put it all in STR, nothing else.

Card priority: (damage+10, strength 15%) and (experience+25%, strength 15%) are mandatory. After that, dmg% with flat STR or luck, or flat STR or luck with crit dmg% are good. If you are having energy problems, the energy card is fine.

Skill tree: Put an image of what a basic one looks like and adjust for your two elementals.

If you are stuck grinding in a lower rupture, it’s a good way to go. If you can speed farm 80, do it. If not, I would do 30 because it has a higher chance of dragons and shadow chests.

Shadow chests give a handful of bones, which make the grave digger key. This gives 15% dmg, boss dmg, exp bonus, armor, and will soft cap your attack speed after a few runs. It also has two imbued dwarven runes inside: one by the guy you click and a second in a northeastern cave.

Elysia gives two great dragon buffs: aura and dmg per inventory. The aura is the number one, then dmg per inventory. After that, it’s two meh buffs, then 5% ele dmg per run.

Another way to gain power is Catacomb 1, which is a level 15 dungeon in the top left of the world map. It is always 15 ruptures higher than your current max, so you can find some amazing gear. There are four secret rooms.

The final goal is to kill Archeon in the Cathedral of Fire, which is recommended to at least do a Rupture 150 first.

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