HentaiVerse Advice

This page is for general HentaiVerse advice.

Pre-Level 50

Mage weapon should be "of Focus". Melee weapon should be "of Balance".

Keep stats balanced, do not invest in a build unless you are certain. Determine which play style you think best suits you.

Picking Your Role

(See Fighting Styles)

Mage

• Use cloth armor and staffs only.
• Can use every damage type except Void.
• Can fully AoE.
• Can take advantage of elemental explosions.
• Are most vulnerable to attacks.
• Do not have to deal with interference, as well as very little burden.

Melee

1H

• Can use shields for extra defense but have to deal with more burden and interference.
• Can further boost block chance via Shield armor.

2H

• Can partially AoE.

DW

• Great vs. single targets.
• Can take advantage of 2 procs (e.g. bleed and stun).

Niten

• For advanced players only.

Best Use of Stamina

Great: Arena, Ring of Blood

Good: Grindfest, Item World

Regardless of Build

The following are universal regardless of whether you choose a melee or a mage build.

Abilities

• Top priority towards all HP tanks followed by Item and Aura Slots.
• Invest in EXP or MP tanks after a fair amount of Adept Learner training.
• Invest into SP tanks and overcharge boosts only if you're melee or level 200+.
• Elemental resistances should have the lowest priority.

Spells

• Cure, Weaken, Haste, Shadow Veil, Regen, Spark of Life, Spirit Shield

Mage Builds

• EDB or Destruction staff. High MDB or EDB for the elements you use.
  • MDB > EDB > Prof = INT. Proc chance and duration should be at least 30-40%, 2-3 turns.
• Phase gear "of Fox" or element you use.

Mage Stats

Stat	Equal to	Priority
STR	Level * ~0.8	2nd lowest
DEX	Level * ~0.8	Lowest
AGI	Level	Mid
END	Level	Mid
INT	Level + all available	Highest
WIS	Level + a bit	2nd highest

Mage Spells

• Poison, at least 2 kinds of elemental AoEs, Arcane Focus
• Past level 100 start getting Holy/Dark spells, Soul is not a priority

Mage Auras

Violet -> Indigo -> Blue -> Green -> Yellow -> Red / Orange

Melee Builds

• 2-Handed mace "of Slaughter" or "of Balance". High ADB and stun chance.
• Shade or Kevlar gear.

Melee Stats

Stat	Equal to	Priority
STR	Level + all available	Highest
DEX	Level + a bit	3rd Highest
AGI	Level	Mid
END	Level + a bit	2nd Highest
INT	Level * ~0.7	Lowest
WIS	Level * ~0.9	2nd lowest

Melee Spells

• Poison (x1), Protection, Silence, Heartseeker

Melee Auras

Red -> Orange -> Green / Yellow -> Blue -> Violet -> Indigo

Equipment

Principles for worthy equipments, in order of importance:

1. Suitability to the playing style. (Refer to Equipment Ranges for max/min base values)
   • High weapon damage (of slaughter) for main-hand one-handed weapons (club, axe) and two-handed weapons
   • High parry chance for off-hand weapons (rapier, dagger, wakizashi)
   • High chance/duration/damage for procs (bleeding, stun, penetrated armor, ether theft)
   • High MDB/EDB for staffs (ebony, katalox)
   • High EDB for phases
   • High evade/ADB for shade, high crit rate for of shadowdancer suffix
   • High mitigation (of protection) for kevlar, plate, shield, and power armor
   • High block rate for shields and shield armor
   • High ADB for power armor of slaughter
2. Ethereal weapons
   • Rare and worth more than normal equips because of void damage
3. Rarity
   • Rare equips: scythe, wakizashi, katana, ebony staff, katalox staff, phase, shade, power
   • Common equips: axe, club, rapier, mace, estoc, oak, willow, gossamer, kevlar, shield
   • Very common equips: dagger, shortsword, longsword, redwood, cotton, leather, plate
4. Prefix
   • Better prefix produces better equips

Items

• Save all Tokens of Blood after clearing each round of Ring of Blood once. After that use them exclusively to fight FSM.

Monster Lab

• Make 1-2 monsters and get them to a fair PL (100+) before making any others.
• Do not increase the INT of any non-Elemental monsters unless it is to inflate their PL.
  • Likewise with the DEX of Elemental monsters.

Hath Perks

When picking auras: Black -> Rainbow -> White

Innate Arcana

• 1st: Haste
• 2nd: SV

Remember that putting SoL and SS on IA has risks since they can dissipate if you fall below 10% mana. SoL will not be recast if you are below 25% and it is triggered.

God Strategies

• Universal: Poison, Slow, Imperil. Keep Spark (or SS with over 50% health) and Haste up at all times. Use infusions when all [de]buffs are up and spam away.
• Mages: Silence / Weaken. Strongest Holy for FSM, Dark for IPU, Soul for RL.
• Melee: Silence. Void weapon. For Dual Wield a club for Main Hand and a dagger as Off-hand.

Grinding Proficiencies

Only really needed if they are below 50-75% of your level.

• Weapons - Go into a high difficulty crude equipment's Item World and go for as long as you can.
  • Flee if you are about to complete it so that it can be re-entered freely.
• Armors, Elemental - Same as above but on Easy difficulty.
  • Remember that you still gain armor proficiency when you evade so there's no harm in using Shadow Veil, etc.
• Curative - Spam Cure I.
• Supportive - Spam Spike spells.
• Deprecating - Spam Weaken / Imperil.
  • Remember that you still gain deprecating proficiency when you fail to curse weave.
• Divine, Forbidden, Spiritual - Spam Purge and Pestilence (alternating each turn).

Trophies

• You can choose to hand in low-tier ones immediately, since they rarely result in anything worthwhile.
• Save any God-tier trophies until level 200-250+. You may also save Platinum Tickets and one-time trophies (such as from holidays) should you get any.

Training

• Train Adept Leaner to ~100-150.
• Train Ability Boost to ~50.
• Fully train Refined Aura by level 90.
• Fully train Rat Pack as your item consumption dictates.
• Do not train Assimilator until level 150+.
• Keep Scavenger higher than Archaeologist, LotD, and Quartermaster.
• Misc Posting, Karma Amplifier, and Power Tank do (almost) nothing for you in HV.
• Spelunker and Set Collector aren't useful until much later on.

See also

• HentaiVerse FAQ
• User_talk:Varst - Temporary home for other advice.
• Ask the Experts! forum thread