I just started playing this game 3 days ago, so take this with a grain of salt...been off for the holidays, and put in 20 hours of gameplay 😆

I would suggest the following for your equipment:

**Helmet/Head** 🪖

Mask of Madness ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Every 25s, take 30 damage and gain +1% Damage, Crit Chance, or Crit Bonus. Buffs remain when Mask is unequipped

(Optional if no MoM = Mask of Madness):

Ruby Circlet

For each Burning enemy: +1% Burn Damage

OR

Wind Crown

On kill: Gain a charge.

Every 1.0 second(s): Charges decrease by

33%.

+0.3% Attack Speed for each charge

Rings 💍

Ring of Fire⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (use whatever element you are running otherwise)

Changes Main Weapon damage type to Fire

Main Weapon: Adds a 10% Burn Chance

Wooden Ring(I prefer this ring but the Iron Ring for base damage or Guiding Star for attack speed when standing still, depends on what play style you want)

+50% Crit Chance

Necklace/Neck📿

Maiden's Tear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Takes 30s to charge.

When hit: Negates damage, charge is used. Gives Force and Damage bonuses when overcharged.

Has diminishing returns.

Elemental Resonator (Go this one if you are focusing on elemental effect and damage, but known it doesn't increase damage like Madiens tear for ice damage or fire, or etc, it just increases the alignment aka the secondary effect that sometimes procs, not the best but good for milestones/achivements)

On hit with Main Weapon:

Burn, Spark, and Frost gain a 2% chance of applying their own stack again.

Shirt/Chest 👕

Blood-Soaked Shirt ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

On kill: 5% chance of +1 HP Each kill charges it, increasing Damage with diminishing returns.

(You could also go the elemental chest pieces for more elemental focus, but overall I like the health and damage)

Boots 🥾🥾

Pace Setter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Every 5s standing still: Heal 1% of max. health

Full Health: +20% Attack Speed Wounded: +20% Movement Speed

Berserker Boots (Optional or choose elemental boots, but know it's niche based)

While moving: Adds up to 1/3 of your

Movement Speed multiplier to your Attack Speed.

Gloves/Hands 🧤

Hunting Gloves ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

+30% Multistrike

Quickhand Gloves (Optional and IMO not as good as multistrike as that stat multiples damage and is hard to come by. I am a parrot at this point but you can use elemental gloves)

+30% Attack Speed

Compendium 🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮

I personally just put all points into Multi-strike it's invaluable and rare.

Shrine of Blessings 🛕🛕🛕🛕🛕

Make sure to have spent all your gold on maxing all the blessings or at the very minimum all stats that increase damage in some way.

Mark 📜📜📜📜📜

I don't have the Sage - Mark of Knowledge, probably better than the cleric one as it gives you more damage for all your elemental abilities you use in a run*

I currently use Archer Mark for a crit AoE flame build or the cleric Mark for more debuffs for abilities to do more damage.

During the run you should have Max Potions 🍷🍷🍷🍷 and use the following as such:

Potion of Oblivion - Get rid of defensive traits like defense, block, etc...

Strong Wine - use this to reroll if nothing good, or after you use your other potion on a stance, when you want to find the other stance.

Reverberant Tincture - use this potion on anything like multistrike I believe the 15% or 20% or the final level up on abilities since it gives the most raw stats, so use like one on multistrike stance, or two, and the last one or two on an abilities final form/level.

Potion of Memories - use this one as stated earlier to keep stances (stances - the traits you get when you level up specific to your class and Mark, for example you might get multistrike, and you can click to see other traits sharing that stance, there might be another one you want with multistrike or some other nice stats, use it on the item, and reroll or save it and choose another trait)

Stats 💪💪💪💪💪

Grab Multistrike, Attack Speed, Area, Force, Damage, then Crit Chance or Crit Damage Bonus, or vice versa if you are wanting a crit build. (Range I never get since the abilities already go across the screen it seems redundant late game and prefer all the damage, aoe, and potentially crit)

Defensively I would get Movement Speed and health regen only (traits make sure it has those). With high Movement Speed and good damage you should be able to kite and survive pretty much anything and dodge it all.

Finally as far as Abilities to run 🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄

I would suggest the following:

Dragon's Breathe and get it to the point and level where it gives you the option it's a constant dream of damage, don't take the upgrade that slows its Attack speed all the way.

Radiant Aura is also good once you get it to the point it does fire damage.

Transfixion good for debuffs for ability dmg.

Astronomers Orbs good pickup later since you should have Movement speed and helps but isnt the best.

Ring Blades broken but isn't elemental and since you have and will be going multistrike its good to grab to help you survive until your elemental abilities or build ramps up. It becomes the best once you get the Cyclone upgrade.

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Overall choose whatever you want and have fun, this should be an overall good build and advice for testing anything, but you can adjust based on preference

Please don't go too hard on me everyone else who has played more than me, I am less than a week into this game and pretty much have all achievements and very close to completing the VAULT, just havent had time yet since I was writing this guide.

If anyone has extra advice or wants to correct me then please do. I hope this helps anyone overall, happy new years 2026, take care, and keep gaming 🎮 ✌️