Before entering
- Choose a class whose attack pattern you want to learn.
- Start on Normal while learning level-up choices and inventory space.
- Open your class guide and choose one evolution to work toward.
During the run
- Move so that your damage can keep working while you leave room to escape.
- Take ranks for your main skill and its catalyst without filling every passive slot prematurely.
- Use the act timeline to anticipate rings, swarms and named encounters.
- Compare a new item’s class restriction, base effects and character-sheet result before keeping it.
When an evolution is ready
Check skill rank, catalyst and hero level, then open a chest. The recipe list in Skill evolutions is complete for the captured definitions.
After a run
Review what stopped progress. The next purchase or skill choice should address that failure: survivability, coverage, an unavailable catalyst, or insufficient choice control. See Camp upgrades & progression.
Pick a class guide
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