Monsters’ Den Chronicles – Guide!

Hi, first of all, great game!
I played the previous versions too, they’re just too addictive!

This version is improved on so many levels, can’t wait to see an expansion or something!

For anyone who needs help, here’s a combo I use that’s really successful from lvl 10 and above.

My team consists of a Ranger(Warden), Warrior(Champion), Cleric(Confessor) and Rogue(Assassin).

Stats:
Ranger: 8/10 DEX || 2/10 INT
Warrior: 9/10 STR || 1/10 VIT
Rogue: 6/10 DEX || 4/10 STR (Dex first for 10 straight levels, then mix it up with STR)
Cleric: (10/10 INT)

The main strategy here is to outsustaining your enemies in fights, while systematically destroying them with debuffs and focussed fire.

I’m running Campaign 4 right now, which is the survival campaign.

Currently at wave 21, no one died(if they did, I’d have 2 resses anyway), everyone full HP and power whenever I want. I can probably extend this for another 30 waves easily.

=== Actual Guide ===

—CHAMPION(warrior)—
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First and for all, your warrior is center to your composition.

The champion warror is sort of a DPS/tank hybrid, he’s also not as support oriented as a Captain warrior.

Early on, I focus on “Campaign” set mostly. Anything with +STR and +END is great.
At about lv 15-20, I look for “Siege” pieces more, because it’s a good tank set. I get some extra Retaliation Damage items too, it works great combined with a Warden’s “Thorns”.

He fulfills his DPS role well with his stance ” Sweeping Strikes” for nearly 100% hit chance at all times, and Bloodlust+Power Attack.

Afterwards, he turns into a beast tank with Hold The Line, Shield Wall, and even a bit support with Push Harder.

For the first 10 levels, you’ll want him using a 2H sword and going all out DPS. Pick up DPS skills first. But pick up Hold The Line as early as possible, it will be key until lvl 15.

Give him a Battle standard to draw some attention to him, he’s most suitable to tank due to his skillset, his innate high HP and his plate armour.

Once you’re lvl 15, go ahead and get a good shield & 1h.
I use a Barbed Brutaliser, which always removes 1/5th of the enemy’s action bar and
a Tower Shield Of Intellect with a Spark Of Legend in it for massive armour)

—CONFESSOR(cleric)—
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If the warrior is your shield, then the cleric is your arm.
The confessor cleric is a semi-dps, but mostly support class.

His main focus stat-wise is Int, +heal, Endurance, Power and Power reg.
Get plate if you can, but your confessor will be in the back row anyway, and will have a large amount of HP. So don’t be afraid to throw in Light or Medium armour if the stats are better.

Furthermore, I’m aiming for the Moonglow Set(+Dex, +int, Medium, originally ranger set, but +max power is too good)

The 6set bonus is key, it will allow you to pump out those spells without needing to look at your power anytime soon.
3/6: +1 power reg
5/6: +6 Healing
6/6: +50 Max Power

Int is your primary stat to increase healing directly, get as much of this as you can.
+heal is your second most important stat. I have +20 on my Offhand and 20 on my hands.

My censer(clerics offhand) is what you should be aiming for:
Liturgy on the Covenant of Blood(purple)
+20 heal
+50 MaxHP
+15 Health Steal
+25% heal after battle
When using any healing spell, you heal yourself for 50 hp.
(you can heal yourself and get both the spell and the +50heal effect)
It has 1 slot in it, so I put some +Int in there.

I usually have Radiance on, because it gives me 10 evasion, and me and allies who are right next to me 11HP and 1power regen.
if I can’t afford to use Purify to remove debuffs, I’ll use Benediction and a heal.

Your key abilities are pretty much everything except “Heal”, believe it or not.
I’ll compare all priest heall abilities here.

At 110 int and with +40healing on my gear.

Heal: Full action circle. 35 Power. 120 HP.
Healing Flash: Half action circle. 20 power. 107 HP.
Heal All: Full Action circle. 60 power. 115 HP on all.
Intercession: exception*. 25 power. special**

exception* : Intercession is unique, it doesn’t take any action away from the cleric, instead, it uses your target’s action to heal proportionally to how much action has been drained.

This leaves your target with an empty action circle, but a potentially 50-90% of maxHP heal!
The best part is that since you emptied your targets action, you still have all yours left!

So provided you have enough power, you can follow up with a Healing Flash afterwards to maximise your healing output.

exception** : Healing is appropriate to how much action you drained from your target. The more action you drain, the more you will heal. The heal is proportional to your maxHP too, so using it on your 300HP tank will heal more than your 180hp rogue.

Smite is a useful spell to finish of hard-to-hit enemies in the back line.
It ALWAYS hits, which is awesome.

Holy Light is a brutal debuff, -30 accuracy is nuts.
-3 quicken and -10% dmg output if they’re undead too.

Use this in tougher fights to give you the edge.

Anoint is sometimes very useful, and can be used instead of a much needed heal.

A good tactic is to use “Hide” on your Assassin, then “Anoint” on your Assassin. Finish it off with a “Sneak Assault” to devestate the back line, or a “Pierce Defenses” to really lay down the hurt on a single target.

Purify removes ALL NEGATIVE Poison, Curse, Mental and holy conditions, and gives you 25% overal resist for 3 seconds.

Basically, this removes everything but magical debuffs like ignite and wound debuffs.
It’s only half an action circle and 15 power, so if there’s some big debuffs on your team, throw this out.

Resurrect is self-explanatory. In some cases, you might prefer “Resurrect” over a Warden’s
“Second Wind”.

Simply because “Resurrect” heals you instantly after the res.
Where “Second Wind” resurrects you with less initial HP, it applies a crazy good HoT over 3 seconds.

Overview:
110 int confessor : 115 HP after res. 75 Power.
58 int warden : 67 HP after res. 39 HP regen over 3 sec. 100% poison resist. 70 Power.

—WARDEN(Ranger)—
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Focus on int for the first 5-10 levels, you won’t be dealing that much damage without a good weapon anyway. This way, you can pump out powerful HoTs and still be useful.

Use “Healing Lore” stance whenever healing, it reduces the cost of Nature’s Balm by 15, down to a low 20. Also, it will affect your Herbal Remedy and Second Wind too, but not your Nature’s Balm’s healing.

Whenever DPSing, use Force of nature, if you’re below 75% hit chance, use Marksman instead.

Warden’s heals with 58 int:
Nature’s Balm: 35 Power(20 with Healing Lore), Full Action Circle, +39 HP reg over 3 sec, 100% poison resist)

Herbal Remedy: 35 Power, Full Action Circle, 47 HP instant and removes wounds. (83 with “Healing Lore” stance on).

Second Wind: Full action Circle, 67 HP(103 with Healing Lore) instantly, and a non-stacking Nature’s Balm after resurrect.

Thorns will be the barbs on your Champion. It costs half a circle, 20 power and adds +35 retaliation damage (dmg is based on lvl only)

Swiftness is your main support spell. For half a circle, you can give any ally +15 quickness for 6 seconds. Slap this on yourself and then slap it on your party members in record speed.

Envenomed Arrow costs a full circle, 30 power, and deals 129 dmg+26dmg/sec with a 51 dmg bow.

Pin is your main damaging skill, full circle, 40 power.

This stuns your enemies, which means their action circle will turn white, and all the action they had will count down instead of count up, untill it reaches zero, at which point they just regain action normally. Stun resist reduces the time it takes to hit zero.

Use the stun to set up Coup de Grâce for your assassin, which will guarantee a 1shot kill on most mobs.

Pin can also be used defensively to slow down enemies.
Use this on the most threathening enemy, or on the enemy with the highest action to buy yourself lots of time.

Snare is useful for when your Champion is using Shield Wall.
This spell will buff 2 allies next to eachother horizontally with a buff that gives enemies 50% chance to stun themselves if they attack you(it doesn’t even need to hit).

This potentially means your Assassin has a lot of targets to choose for Coup de Grâce.

—ASSASSIN(Rogue)—
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Focus on dex for the first 15 levels at least, then start focussing a bit more on str. I use roughly 4/10th str and 6/10th dex. Slowly forgetting all about dex and maxing str until I notice I have less than 75% hit on any enemy without debuffs on me.

I use Elusive when resting for power, Poisoncraft when harassing enemies and Deadly when hititng mobs that I can’t poison.

I used a parrying dagger for the first 20 lvls, but afterwards I got a “Goblin’s Lucky Buckler(purple)”
Which at lvl 13 gives 240 armor, 3 evasion, 3% crit(!!!), 3% chance free skill. And 33% to give yourself +15 evasion if you get hit.

The crit and added survivability is why you want this. Your tank won’t be able to grab all aggro.

My dagger is a “Venom’s Kiss(purple, but made into orange with a Spark of Legend)
It’s 67 Weapon dmg, 14dex and 2 quickness, as well as 100% chance to also deal -5 power and 43 dmg/s for 3ish secs.

Sneak Attack costs a full circle, 30 power (15 with Elusive) and is essentially a melee attack at range. It’s still considered melee even if you hit enemies in the back with it.
Use this to harass squishies or out of reach enemies.

Flash powder: Full circle, 40 power. -50 accuracy for 3 secs and 25% chance to stun. Always hits

This is great to use on heavy-hitting opponents. Also note, this can be used on a single surviving enemy to make him nearly useless, allowing you to quickly rest your party members to regain HP/power.

Coup de Grâce is your finishing skill. It can only be used on a stunned enemy, and will instakill the enemy. Some enemies are immune to this instantkill effect, but you probably won’t be able to stun them anyway.

Cripple literally cripples the enemy, deals half your weapon damage, and applies -30 quickness and -30 stun recovery on an enemy.
Their action circle will be crawling by now.

Pierce defense ignores up to 50 dmg protection, great on tough mobs that you can’t poison.

Hide makes you untargetable and gives you +100%dmg on your next attack. Couple this with a Cleric’s Anoint, and lay down the hurt.

Insidious Poison is a decent melee nuke that deals 58 dmg after 3 seconds (weapondmg and int) and reduces poison resist by 25%. Great coupled with a poison dagger & poisoncraft.

Sap strength destroys 75 of your target’s power as well as doing weapon damage.
I never use this tbh, most mobs worth Sapping have 200 power anyway, I can figure out a better way to spend 3 attacks on my rgoue.

Sneak Assault deals roughly *2 weapon dmg on the enemy’s back line. Couple it with a Sneak and an anoint to pretty much wipe the back line. Great combo, but costs 90 power.

That’s basically all there is to know about your class.

Some overal strategy:
A Champion’s Hold The Line coupled with a warden’s Nature’s Balm can keep him alive pretty effectively. Follow it up with a Healing Flash if you have to.

Use your warden’s Pin and your Assassins’s Coup de Grâce to instakill annoying or tough mobs.

If the enemy’s back row consists of squishy caster like mobs, use Hide+Anoint+Sneak assault to 1shot them, use it with poisoncraft if you can’t 1shot them.

Swiftness your Assassin, warden and confessor. They all benefit greatly from it.

When using Shield Wall, try slapping a Snare or your champion right before he uses it.
The more quickness you have, the faster your Shield Wall will run out. Best not to use swiftness on the champion.

Use Thorns early, it lasts for 12 seconds, as soon as your Champion uses Shield Wall, you should immediately switch to Healing Lore and slap a Nature’s Balm on the tank.

Follow up with Healing Flash if needed. Maybe use Hold The Line after the Shield Wall to add some extended defence.

Your confessor has amazing sustainability with Radiance and your offhand that heals yourself for 50 everytime you heal anyone.

In the same way, Healing lore gives insane HP reg to your warden. 30 on my lv 27 ranger who has 189 HP.

Keep a last surviving enemy down with Flash Powder and/or Cripple, then use Swiftness on your warden and confessor to spam rest for your Power.

Top of your allies with heals, throw Swiftness on everyone but your champion, throw thorns on, get max power again, then finish the last mob and start the new wave with full HP & power.

If you read it all the way to here, thank you for taking interest in my guide. :P

I hope it helps you!