Cateye Erika Wind Stalker Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Erika Wind Stalker Leveling Guide. Erika is a highly mobile Hero who utilizes movement to deal damage through Multistrikes. She may feel a little inconsistent at times, because you need to move to build Stalker stacks to maximize your damage, then attack with Multistrike.

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 Rock Lizard's Skull, it has a large amount of maximum life and generates tenacity blessings. It is a good unique early on to bolster your defenses.
• Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Born in Fire and Desire of Survival as powerful defensive options.
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Boor's Iron Crown as it provides a large, albeit conditional benefit to your damage.
• Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Has nothing particularly notable for this build. You can still look for other useful uniques listed here.
• Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Steel's Lament as a decent defensive option.
• Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Look out for Sea Splitter as an incredibly powerful offensive option that you can use for a large portion of early progression. Here you should farm to level 60 to reach your next Hero Trait before completing the campaign.
• Lonesome, Pentagram Astrolabe and Omniscient Prototype are all incredibly powerful items that can be found during leveling, but they are rare. If you find one of them, be certain to equip them. Omniscient Prototype is available after act 2, and the others can be found in every trove.

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 Elemental Resistance 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.
• All support gems 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

Core Skill

• Focused Slash is a Physical Damage Steep Strike Skill that gains additional damage based on your Fervor rating.
• Vulnerability is a curse skill that causes the enemies to take additional Physical Damage. Activate it on Rare enemies and bosses.
• Compound Source is your main way to quickly regenerate Life and mana whenever needed.
• Burst of Anger grants an additional Damage buff and an increased attack speed buff that refreshes when you defeat an enemy.
• Leap Attack is a high speed mobility skill that scales its speed with your attack speed.

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!

Talents

WARNING: The following levels are a guideline, you might complete the quest/unlock the Skill a few levels early, or a few levels later.

Traits and Memories

Hero Traits

Hero Memories

Hero Memories are required to activate your Hero Traits. Look for the following modifiers on your Hero Memories:

Divinity Slates

After defeating the Steel Forge Timemark 3 Watcher and completing the Netherrealm quest you unlock the Divinity Slate Talents. These can be farmed from different forms of content, but primarily drop from the Cube of Rapacity. Look to brand Divinity Slates with the following nodes;

Pacts

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 Crafting to greatly increase the power of gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Sand and Fine Embers to craft basic gear.

Transitioning to Endgame

Weapon

• Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifier on Two Handed Swords.
  • Dexterity
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Gear Critical Strike Rating
  • Lightning Damage added to Gear
  • Increased Physical/Elemental Damage
  • Multistrike Chance
• Craft the items till you have a few of the modifiers listed above, or all of them if you are creating an endgame weapon.

Remaining Gear

Focus on crafting the remainder of your Armor and Jewelry with the following goals in mind;

• Cap all of your Resistances at the 60% maximum.
• Reach a high amount of Dexterity.
• Have a healthy Life total.
• Increase your Physical damage
• Increase your Attack Speed

Legendary Items

Endgame

• False God's Skin can roll a variety of powerful attribute modifiers, though finding one with multiple dexterity boosting modifiers may be difficult.
• Circular Clearing is a great endgame weapon that provides a lot of damage and -% additional damage taken, which helps you be less squishy.

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Erika Wind Stalker leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database

Credits

Written by: Void241
Reviewed by: Tenkiei