As you start out, you will be given a choice of Three Gods. Light, Evil and Void or at least thats how I call them ^^.

You could potentially pick whichever you choose but the most effective one to choose is Void, because of the Seekers spell and Frost Bolt. Seekers are really effective at what they do, which is dealing damage, and once you upgrade them sufficiently, you will feel a relief when they come off cooldown during a boss fight. They deal enough damage for you to run around an Ogre and spam them if your gear is broken or else, but with the strategy I will explain to you, there will be a much faster way of getting rid of those pesky bosses.

Step 1 : Start the fight with seekers, shortly after use Frost bolt and charge at the boss, following with 2 (OR 1 if the boss was quite far from you once you launched the frost bolt and charged) strong attacks. Quickly dodge away afterwards.

Step 2 : Rinse and repeat until the boss this dead. While this might take you some time with bad gear, it is the way to go, you could try to sneak in a normal attack after a strong one if you do not feel comfortable with dealing another strong attack but this takes practice.

TIP : Use a controller, it is far simpler to do crazy maneuvers with a gamepad. This obviously might be a problem to people without one, but I'm sure you can get used to keyboard aswell.

As you may have noticed people whine about not having enough souls and being stuck on bosses, and then thats what makes the game pay 2 win. I believe otherwise.
Here is a few tips :

1. Do not repair you gear early on.
This is because you will find plenthora of gear if you enter every single dungeon possible.

2. Do not upgrade your gear early on.
As above, you will quickly find upgrades to your current gear. What I suggest doing is..

3. Use Magic attack enhancing runes.
And any other runes but this is the most important, allowing you to "dance around the boss" with minimal health and finish him off using the Seekers.

4. Upgrade your spells.
Seekers that is, if you were following the guide. The costs of upgrading the spells early is a steal, a damage increase (first tier) will cost you about 30 souls.

5. Later in the game, try and use gear with open rune slots.
This is because you can unbelieveably outrun your current level gear with runs that provide even the slight 3% damage increase. Also do not get fooled by gear that "is better" than your current, but has a runeslot with a rune in it. Wait for something Actually better.

6. The second time you Ascend is the time the game lets you.
Whenever you have the possibility to Ascend, do so. This is because you can get powerful runes and ascending in tougher areas causes the monsters to decrease in level as well. This makes your "Pig sticker" turn into a weapon of mass destruction.

7. When you Ascend...
Pick the God of Light until you get Lighting Shield spell, this is after the first Apex fight, Or until Chain lightning but thats optional. This is because Lighting Shield is an Amazing spell and will let you do those Rambo charges more effectively (By stunning the Boss for a short while) and by giving you a boost to Armor and Movement Speed, and Chain Lighting is just a good spell to use whenever you have lots of enemies in the room. After you get those spells change to the Evil God on your next Ascending so you can get Meteor Shower, which is just a really powerful AoE spell.

In the first "Act" there isn't much of danger to you per say, there is just alot of learning, of how the mobs and bosses work. In Act 2 (Forest Areas) you will be forced to face a mini-boss, just like the smaller Ogres, the ones without On-Screen healthbars.



Thorn-Bear Mini-Boss

Intro : This is a mini-boss, a bear with thorns, here are some steps to defeating him :

Warning : Usually has mobs guarding it

1. Use Seekers, dash to him, then do a strong attack, and dash away. This is done if you are engaging him.

2. If you are currently in combat with it, do a normal attack, dash away and use Seekers. Repeat this until the bear stands up (Charges a strong attack). Warning : there are 3 strong attacks that follow.

3. Use Frost Bolt, charge to it, do a strong attack once or twice and dash away.

4. If you have Lightning armor, before executing step 3 use it, if you do not, then keep on doing steps 2 and 3



Hagaz the Killer

Warning : Always has mobs guarding it + Has a special fiery Javelin which is more dangerous than normal (Not mentioned in the guide, simple dodging required)

Tip : Try utilizing cover if possible.

Intro : This is a boss, A giant ogre with Javelins on his back, it is a stronger version of the Ogre boss you've met previously, and is much more dangerous and cannot be zerg rushed. :(

1. Use Seekers, charge him and strong attack once then dash away.

2. Dodge any incoming javelins

3. Use Frost Bolt, charge, strong attack once and dash away. (Utilize Lightning if you have it)

4. Dodge any incoming javelins

5. Rinse and repeat until Frenzy. Frenzy is initiated with Hagaz performing an underground burrow, and then coming back with 4 Witch Doctors

6. Lure away the Witch Doctors and fight them 1 by 1 far away from Hagaz and other WD's

7. Dodge any incoming javelins

8. Keep on doing steps 1 and 3 but take notice that Hagaz will now do a special attack of 3 javelins 1 by 1 in a quick succesion, this however tires him and he cannot fight for a few seconds.
Use this time window to do 2 (3-4 If any sort of stun possible (Lightning armor)) strong attacks.

9. Dodge any incoming javelins

10. His Underground burrow will repeat twice unless you kill him quickly enough, follow step 6

I will improve the guide but the basics should be there. If you need any more help message me on steam or just use the comments and if you see a mistake (Most likely there is lots) or you have a suggestion on how to improve the guide, fire on.

May the loot drops be with you and your finishers feel great. Have fun :)


Guide Updates

In a few day's time Im going to update the guide again, making it more readable and with more sense. There will be mixed sections on
-Starting / Gear Tips / Ascending / And anything else I can fit in here
-Boss Tactics / MAYBE a breakdown of each mob with pictures and such if I got time
-Transcending / Endless Dungeon / PVP / Co-Op

so basically the first part will be the first guidelines to becoming better, then a bestiary of mobs and last but not least end game experience. Hope you like where I'm heading with this if not / or you have suggestions, plop 'em down in comments