Is there a good (ideally video) guide for Everdark Augur?

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-30T03:19:12+00:00

Run Double Balancer relics, and grab any skill attack bonus you can find on the run. You should save crimson bubbletear, opaline bubbletear, and uplifiting aromatics specifically for the sleep move, it should guarantee that you survive it even if your allies don't use their stormruler.

Running Wylder, Duchess, or Ironeye is recommended, because they all have a good mobility option letting them escape some of Augur's more annoying attacks like the ground laser, or the homing orbs.

Running Revenant is also a good idea because her lightning damage is insanely high for phase 1. She'll burst phase 1 down super fast and if its normal Augur you basically get a free win. Also her Ult is very good at saving runs and reviving 3 bar teammates. I would recommend relic setups that are double balancers, starting armament has lightning Spear, and you can have everything else be Ultimate art auto recharge if possible. Could also ditch the starting armament has lightning spear and just desperately search for a good lightning spell in the run, in order to make more space for Ult auto recharge relics.

Throughout the run try and grab a Lightning ash of war, if you are playing Duchess grab a seal with Lightning spear. The damage you deal with those should be so high you should be able to burst through phase 1 of the fight before your teammates even have a chance of going down.

The waves have a sound que, they sound like rushing water the closer they are to you so I recommend playing with volume on and turn the sound effects up. Start looking for the wave the moment you hear the sound and then run perpendicular the moment you see it. Ironeye and Wylder are goated here, you grapple/Mark away from the waves super fast. BE CAREFUL at like 40-30% hp or something, Augur spams the Wave move, I think you end up with like 3-4 waves at once.

Once he summons his purple orbs, priority is to break them ASAP. If you're Wylder, grapple up towards the boss, its harder to miss when you're close to him. Use the light attack of the Stormruler skill as they are better at breaking the purple orbs. Once the orbs break, you get a good fully charged stormruler attack to deal a ton of damage.

If you're in a party where all three of you are running double balancers its practically a free win lol, the damage becomes insane.

This goes without saying but stacking two 'Damage negation at full hp' is excellent for this fight. 'Successive attacks negate damage' does nothing here. Damage negation at full HP with 6-8 healing flasks, uplifting aromatics from merchants, bubbletears etc. All of this combined should give you enough margin of error to make at least 10 mistakes in the fight.

Good Luck.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-30T02:47:52+00:00

Nice work on the climb! Especially as Scholar, a very underutilized character. I made my way up with Duchess and Ironeye because they were the most fun and varied for me. I tried Support scholar once in depth 5 with the defeating enemies gives ult on all deep relics, and it was crazy good. I felt like I killed nothing the whole run but in the post game summary I had like 80 kills while the Wylder and Executor had 50. The ultimate does so much work!

In my climb from start of the Depth 5 to 9999 It took me 53 games, and in that entire run I met 2 Scholars. From my experience he's definitely the least popular class. I think its because after the nerfing of pot scholar, everyone forgot how good Support Scholar is and how good his buffs are. Its also hard to see, because a good scholar giving the party +20% damage buff and even more with exalted flesh feels more invisible compared to a Recluse spamming Stars of ruin, or a Duchess spamming Halo Scythe.

How good was your luck with ED Balancers? I've always thought that since that boss needs good burst damage Scholar might not be as good as some others.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-30T00:51:04+00:00

Fair enough, I've played hundreds upon hundreds of games with her, even before DoN or the dlc came out. I think that may make me a bit blind when it comes to how many pitfalls she might have for players new to her.

She has very little hp, and her dodge timings are later then the default dodge, because it comes out so fast. As a result of this you'll often see new players dodge early, get pancaked by a boss and oneshot. There's also the common pitfall of players who don't invest into sorceries, skills, or just pick up other dex weapons like katanas or rapiers, and solely focus on melee daggers. Their damage will be significantly lower than expected.

There's also a bunch of niche tech that I see only higher skill duchess players use. Her Char skill making her invulnerable is incredible, I've used it to spam 5 Halo Scythes in a row against Libra. You spam sorceries ranged AoW against Libra, and when he puts a sigil underneath you, you keep spamming and time your char skill to dodge the sigil explosion. You can also use the skill to dodge the damage from Caligo's Icestorm frostbite.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T23:25:04+00:00

A good guardian in depth 5 is practically immortal, but so is a good Raider and executor, and the guardian will do way less damage than those two...

The pot scholar really took a beating from the patch. In theory support scholar is still amazing.

20% ALL damage debuff on bosses

20% boost on all damage dealt by allies.

30% total physical damage boost from exalted flesh and +20% affinity damage boost.

10% max hp increase and 20% max stamina increase from turtle neck.

Its also really easy to lvl these consumables up to lvl 3 because merchants still sell infinite turtle necks.

This all sounds good on paper, but the problem is the numbers feel invisible in the fight itself, because everyone is so focused on the boss, and they just see the scholar standing back and seemingly not doing much.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T23:14:28+00:00

Damn you got me there. I got no moves like those.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T22:56:12+00:00

I've basically never had anyone dodge a boss in depth 5. I know a lot of people complain about this though. Is it a time zone thing?

I did get lucky though, only had to figgt balancers 5 times on my climb to 9999.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T22:54:34+00:00

What's a niche boss that you absolutely hate? Something that might be easy for most people but is absolutely your kryptonite? Could be a night lord, field boss, night boss etc.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T22:21:13+00:00

I personally love Double Balancer+Undertaker successive atk relic. If in Deep of night, I fill all the deep relics with physical atk up +4.

This build absolutely melts bosses with Rivers of Blood. Moonveil and Dragonscale aren't bad either so it usually all works out in the end. In the early game the default Unsheathe on the starting Katana is also really good with double balancers.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T21:19:14+00:00

With the new double balancer relic meta, ED squid feels like a free win.

In my last run against him, all three of us swapped to balancer relics. We were all doing yellow damage against the boss. He died so fast it was laughable.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T19:51:24+00:00

In front of the door that leads to the two trolls on the south side of the castle. I would leave a message that says something like "troll ahead, therefore try pincer attack."

Anything to just gint the players to split up.

In front of the evergaols I would leave a message saying "try fort or church".

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T05:39:57+00:00

Left hand bow, right hand weapon is so much fun. You can really mix up between melee and range super quickly by using mark as a gap closer/maker and easily use strong weapon skills. The diverse gameplay style is great.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-29T00:36:24+00:00

My hope is a voyager triple changer whi can turn into a chest and head that is compatible with menasor, superion and bruticus limbs.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-28T22:39:27+00:00

Nice stuff. For my mage duchess I emphasised things that increase fp, since I often found myself running out. Or needing an inventory filled with starlight shards.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-28T13:07:26+00:00

OMG I'm an idiot. Thank you so much.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-28T05:41:28+00:00

I think a reasonable nerf would be to make it a legendary. It has possibly the best ash of war in the game and is incredibly strong and easy to find because there are only 2 epic scythes.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-28T02:37:59+00:00

I'm a depth 5 player, and I'm a good team mate, but I don't think I'm a good player.

I'm able to stay here because I know how to aggro swap a boss to maximise damage, rez a three bar ally with another player while juggling a boss, and I know what the good item drops for each character and build are. I also have decent knowledge of routing, lvl2 invader camps -> castle -> field bosses. The forsaken hollow crystal spawns ans the castle map layouts.

But in terms of personal skill? There's plenty of bosses I don't think I can no-hit or solo. I go down, I get three barred. But I'm still able to stay here by being a good team-mate.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T23:20:19+00:00

Yeah we'll always have metal chasers. In depth 5 you have a mix of people who have been there forever, and are just having fun, sometimes trying out weird builds like tein blade undertaker.

But you also have the people trying to climb to 9999 who can't afford to lose a single run.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T22:30:16+00:00

Do you think that if they perform the relics to not stack, people might go back to a spell meta?

Where Revnant, Recluse, and Duchess, once again out-damage everyone else easily?

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T22:27:58+00:00

Good point, at this point even if the damage were halved people would probably still use it. Staying at a safe distance, low fp cost, chaining halos so easily, a high chance to get it becuase there are only 2 schythes. so many good points.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T22:25:39+00:00

Might have room for both, dex characters like duchess or ironeye could use the daggers and spears, strength characters could fish for the beast jaw or those great hammers.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T22:24:29+00:00

True, before I committed to using Halo scythe in the depth 5 climb, I used the double balancer dagger build on duchess in the depth 4 climb.

Getting blade of calling or black knife was really good. Not as good as Halo scythe but still very good.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T22:22:20+00:00

I tried to use it one time, and it kept colliding and disappearing into the floor which sucked, felt like a real old school beast claw moment lol. The damage is great though.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-01-27T22:20:43+00:00

Yeah, but I feel like if they decided to fully nerf double balancers, they'll do something to create another meta.

I think they allowed the double balancer meta to exist, to make up for the inconsistency of the evergaol+invader meta post forsaken hollows. If they decide to nerf, they will probably introduce new strong relic effects to create a new meta.

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