HentaiVerse Advice

This page is for general HentaiVerse advice.

Pre-Level 50

Mage weapon should be ebony/redwood staff of Focus. Armor choice should be "of elementalist"

Melee weapon should be "of balance" if you have problem with accuracy. You can use "of slaughter" weapon on mainhand if you're using dual-wield/one-handed.

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 need to deal with interference.

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. stun and penetrated armor).

Niten

• For advanced players only.

Best Use of Stamina

Leveling: Random Encounter, CrysFest, Arena, Ring of Blood

Credits: Grindfest, CrysFest, Arena

Items/Equips:Grindfest, Item World, Arena, Ring of Blood

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 a few scroll slots and one infusion slot if you need them in regular strategy.
• 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

Important Spells:

• Supportive: Haste, Shadow Veil, Spark of Life, Spirit Shield
• Curative: Cure, Regen, Regen 2
• Deprecating: Weaken, Imperil, Silence
• Mages: Arcane focus
• Melees: Heartseeker

Optional Spells:

• Slow: lv.100+ and with sufficient deprecating prof.
• Poison: Substitute for silence before lv.110
• Blind: Against gods only
• X-nerf: For high difficulty arenas or random encounter
• Magnet: Substitute for slow at lv.250

Mage Builds

• EDB or Destruction staff. High MDB or EDB for the elements you use.
  • MDB > EDB > Prof = INT. Proc chance and duration preferably be 30-40%, 2-3 effective 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

• Get at least 2 kinds of elemental AoEs before level 100
• Start getting Holy/Dark spells past level 100, Soul is not a priority

Mage Auras

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

Melee Builds

• 2-Handed mace/estoc "of Slaughter". High ADB and proc chance/duration.
• Ethereal mace at high level.
• For DW, club on mainhand and rapier on offhand. Preferably with high weapon damage for mainhand weapon and high parry chance/accuracy for offhand weapon.
• Shade or Kevlar "of protection" gear for light melee.
• Plate, shield and power armor for heavy melee. Preferably with "of protection", "of barrier", "of balance" or "of slaughter" suffix.

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 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.
• Shouldn't spend too many credits on crystals at lower level.

Hath Perks

Aura Perks

Black -> Rainbow -> White

Crystal Perks

Plausible if you play tons of rounds.

Innate Arcana

Common selection:

• 1st: Haste
• 2nd: Shadow Veil

Shadow Veil can be substituted with SoL or SS when you're playing on high difficulty. However, 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: Weaken, Slow, Imperil, Silence. If you don't have silence, keep Spark (or Spirit Shield with over 50% health) and Haste up at all times. Shadow veil is also good, but is not a must.
• Check if you have sufficient deprecating proficiency to keep all the debuffs on.
• Mages:
  • Armor: Use those which boosts your damage in specific element. Heaven-sent/heimdall for FSM, demon-fiend/fenrir for IPU. Fox (soul spells) or elementalist (magic missile) for RL.
  • Weapon: Preferably a destruction staff with high magical damage bonus. EDB/prof staff is acceptable. High ether theft duration/chance is always a plus.
  • Strategy: Use the strongest AOE spell. Banish for FSM, pestilence or Ragnarok for IPU, soul harvest/magic missile for RL. You can also use infusions to raise the spell's power.
• Melee:
  • Armor: Preferably mitigation armor with high mitigation bonus. Usual armor is also okay, but you'll receive more damage.
  • Weapon(s): Void weapon is recommended (either ethereal weapon or use voidseeker shard). For Dual Wield a club for Main Hand and a rapier as Off-hand. For two-handed, either a mace or estoc. Use the weapon with highest weapon damage.
  • Strategy: Just beware of the health left. Always keep silence on.

Grinding Proficiencies

Only 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

• The choice depends on your leveling pace. If you are power-leveling, it will be better to save those trophies till you stop leveling.
• 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 Learner to ~100-150.
• Train Ability Boost to ~50.
• Fully train Refined Aura by level 150.
• Fully train Rat Pack as your item consumption dictates.
• Train 2-3 ranks of Assimilator when you are power-leveling.
• Keep Scavenger higher than Archaeologist, LotD, and Quartermaster until ~150-200. Then keep them balanced.
• 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