Welcome to the Blast Nova Bing Leveling Guide. Bing loads Projectile skills into bombs, launching the projectiles in an explosive nova! The playstyle is a bit stop and go, but it's extremely satisfying to watch the screen explode when your bombs detonate. This build scales Physical Damage, allowing you to use almost any Attack-Projectile Skill to detonate your foes!
| The Blast Nova Bing leveling guide is intended to take your character to Level 80. This is the last level with unlimited free respec points. Be sure to check the final section of the guide for recommendations on how to transition into the Endgame! |
- Many Main Skill Options
- Strong Defenses
- Bombs!
- Delayed Damage
- Can't Trigger Bombs
- Stop and Go Playstyle
Check out the Complete Story Walkthrough for tips on how to complete the Campaign.
Treasure Troves
Treasure Troves are a way to super-charge your leveling experience. They give vastly more experience than regular zones and yield exclusive Legendary items. You need to complete each of them once for a Talent Point. For an easier leveling experience, you repeat the Treasure Trove until you're 8-10 levels above the zone, then rush through the next few areas. Follow your side quest to find the Treasure Trove locations.
Keep an eye out for the following Legendary items as you clear Treasure Troves.
New Ear Hills (L7): Look out for Glorious Journey and Lonesome.
Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Wind Chasers, Boor's Iron Crown, and Lonesome.
Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Ralph's Ambition, Lonesome, Wind Chasers, and Lonesome.
Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Wind Chasers and Omniscient Prototype.
Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Marksman Bracers, Omniscient Prototype, Endless Night - Prototype, and Howling Wind.
Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Look out for Omniscient Prototype, Endless Night - Prototype, and Howling Wind.
Leveling Tips and Tricks
- Your first active skill slot (top left in the Skills menu) is your "Main Skill," this matters because many items and Hero Traits have effects that only apply to the Main Skill.
- If you're ever in doubt of where to go, click the campaign quest on the left of your screen and a golden path shows you the way.
- This guide assumes you get most of your levels through Treasure Troves and rush to the objectives in other zones for maximum efficiency.
- When allocating Pact Points, prioritize Life first, then select Damage nodes until you fill the section. If you have leftover points, put them into Drop nodes as you begin farming the Netherrealm.
- Complete all 10 Levels of the Hero Forge to unlock all of your Hero Trait abilities and gain 6 additional Talent Points.
- All support Skills become available from the Skill Shop at level 55. At this stage cross reference with the embeds to make sure you're set up for the Netherrealm.
- In Chapter 3 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, after changing your gear, be sure to go to the Energy Menu under Skills to reassign missing Energy.
Equipment & Stat Priorities
Look for these Offensive stats.
- % Increased Physical Damage
- Added Physical Damage
- Critical Strike Damage
- Jumps
- Additional Damage to Life
- Chance to deal Double Damage
Look for these Defensive stats:
- Maximum Life
- Block Ratio
- Chance to Block Attacks or Spells
- Elemental Resistance
- Erosion Resistance
- -% Additional Physical Damage taken
Core Skill
- Lightning Shot deals solid damage with excellent clear. Shadowdancer's Legendary Medium Talent removes the Lightning, leaving you with a "shot" to scale with Physical Damage. Want more single target damage? Swap in the Ice-less Ice Shot.
- Projectile Skills are packaged into Bing's bombs and explode in a nova after detonating. Jumps greatly increase clear speed, so use Jump Support until you get Jumps some other way.
- Aim grants massively increases damage output, at the cost of some movement speed.
- Blink is the best movement skill option due to having the lowest Cooldown.
- Use Compound Source to quickly regenerate Life and mana whenever needed.
- Vulnerability makes enemies... vulnerable to your Physical damage.
Leveling Progression
WARNING: The following levels are a guideline, you might complete the quest/unlock the Skill a few levels early, or a few levels later!
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Level 1: Start the game with Blazing Bullet and Compound Source.
Level 2: Support Blazing Bullet with Greater Multiple Projectiles.
Level 3: Equip; Blink
Level 7: Replace your Main Skill with Lightning Star, or Ice Shot. Support it with Jump and Attack Focus.
Level 12: Equip; Arrow Einherjar, support it with Attack Focus.
Level 20: Equip; Aim.
Level 25: Complete the Hero Trial to allocate; Doom Shot.
Level 27: Support Blink with Magic Dash, and Arrow Einherjar with Slow Projectile.
Level 34: Support your Main Skill with Slow Projectile, equip Acuteness Imbue.
Level 42:
- Replace Arrow Einherjar with Vulnerability, Terrain of Malice, and Abysmal Hatred.
- Support Blink with Periodic Burst.
- Support Aim with Mania and Extended Duration.
Level 45: Complete the Hero Trial to allocate; Dangerous Runaway.
Level 55: Support Compound Source with Emergency restoration, and Acuteness Imbue with Imbue Buff.
Level 60: Complete the Hero Trial to allocate; Aggregation Load.
Level 75: Complete the Hero Trial to allocate; Tactical Detonation.
To learn more check out the Skills and Passives Guide.
Talents
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God of War
Nodes within this Talent Tree each have incredibly high value, though are otherwise quite bland. Instant Smash is especially impactful once in the Netherrealm.
Shadowdancer
Is the core of this build, Versatile guarantees a Critical Hit after using Blink, while Legendary Medium Talent allows Pure-Physical scaling for any Attack-Projectile Skill.
Ronin
Forms a Shield-shaped wall around you, with some offense sprinkled in for good measure. Falling Leaves' insane non-weapon-local damage boosting more than makes up for Defensiveness' penalty.
There are tons of different Talent Trees to explore, if you want to learn more about this robust system check out our Talent Tree Guide.
Traits, Relics and Memories
Hero Traits
Level 45: Dangerous Runaway grants additional movement speed and damage. This changes the play style of Bing to encourage rapid repositioning.
Level 75: Tactical Detonation massively increases damage in exchange for slightly delaying damage against Rare monsters and Bosses.
Level 90: Frenzy Hound provides massively increased damage at the cost of slightly delaying damage. Swap to Radiation Effect when clearing easier content.
Relics and Memories
When leveling Bing Blast Nova, look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Relics and Memories;
| Hero Relic | Hero Memories |
| Projectile Jumps | Projectile Jumps |
| Conditional Additional Damage Increases | Conditional Additional Damage Increases |
| Max Life | |
| Cooldown Recovery Speed | |
To learn more, check out our Hero Relic and Hero Memory Guide.
Pacts
To learn more, check out our Pacts and Pets Guide.
The Netherrealm
Racing through your Netherrealm quests as quickly as possible results in you becoming under leveled for the required zones to progress further, stay within 3 levels of the zones you're completing to avoid a harsh experience penalty. Check out our How to Progress the Netherrealm if you're unsure of anything.
Here's a list of things to do while progressing the early stages of the Netherrealm;
- Level 60, The Trade House is unlocked. Be sure to read and understand our Trade House for Beginners Guide before making any big purchases.
- Higher item levels of gear come with higher quantities of Energy. Look to improve your current gear with items that have increased Energy so that you can use more Support Skills.
- Utilize Prototype Crafting and Enchanting to greatly increase the power of non-legendary gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Dust and Flame Sand to lock 1 good affix in place and reroll up to 4 new modifiers.
Transitioning to Endgame
Increasing Damage Output
As Shadowdancer's Legendary Medium Talent prevents Physical Damage from converting into other Damage types, avoid modifiers that specifically target any other Damage type. Also avoid sources of "Damage added to Main-Hand Weapon", because of Falling Leaves.
In your efforts to maximize Attack Speed for Doom Shot, try to prioritize this Shield mod which allows your defences to doubly serve as offense.
Legendary Items
Leveling
- Silent Sentry Shield provides some great early offensive incentives to getting your defences online.
Voyager's Journey
By My Side - Blast Nova's 6-piece-set-bonus grants an additional bomb per throw. That may not seem like much, but that's equivalent to 100% Increased Attack Speed from other modifiers.
Aim for the following Voyager's Journey set items.
- Voyager's Commemorative Cufflinks
- Voyager's Commemorative Boots
- Voyager's Commemorative Brooch
- Voyager's Commemorative Strap
- Voyager's Commemorative Pinky Ring twice.
Endgame
- Blind Vision and Howling Wind pair together to allow specialization into Projectile Speed scaling.
- Hero's Gaze, or its Dream Interpretation mod for Crafted Rings massively increases damage output as you block damage.
- Darkchaser synergizes with Dangerous Runaway to further increase damage output.
- Double your bombs. Get Ultimate Demolition Plan - Prototype. Maybe get more bombs from Detonation Dare for good measure.
Continue the Journey
Congratulations on completing the Blast Nova Bing guide! To continue your Endgame journey, browse community made builds in our Builder!
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Credits
Written by: Milkybk_
Reviewed by: Xtra37