Welcome to the Erika Wind Stalker Leveling Guide. Erika is a highly mobile Hero who utilizes movement to deal damage through Multistrikes. She excels at using Attack Skills and feels great to play due to the high Movement Speed. She may feel a little inconsistent at times, because you need to move to build Stalker stacks to maximize your damage, then spend them with Multistrike.
| The 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! |
- Very fun Playstyle
- Budget Friendly
- Safe & Easy Beginner Playstyle
- Low AoE
- Squishy
- Have to manage multiple buffs
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 Pentagram Astrolabe, Lonesome and Rock Lizard's Skull.
- Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Boor's Iron Crown and Omniscient Prototype.
- Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Omniscient Prototype, Lightning Conductor Armor is a reasonable alternative.
- Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Omniscient Prototype.
- Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Chain of Resistance, Sea Splitter and Endless Night - Prototype.
- Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Here you should farm to level 60 to reach your next Hero Trait before completing the campaign. Endless Night - Prototype is a great item that enables dexterity stacking once you find swords with the "Lightning Damage per Dexterity" modifier.
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 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
Look for these Offensive stats on weapons:
- %Elemental Damage
- Lightning Damage added to Attacks
- Physical Damage added to Attacks
- Attack Speed
- Multistrike Chance
- Critical Strike Chance
- Movement Speed
Look for these Defensive stats on armor:
- Max Life
- Max Life %
- Elemental Resistances
- Erosion Resistance
Core Skill
- Thunder Slash is a Lightning Damage Steep Strike Skill that converts 100% of your skills Physical Damage to Lightning Damage.
- Electrocute is a curse skill that causes the enemies to take additional Lightning Damage. Activate it on Rare enemies and bosses, until you unlock Terrain of Malice.
- Compound Source is our main way to quickly regenerate Life and mana whenever needed.
- Burst of Anger grants a large additional additional Attack Speed buff that refreshes when you defeat an enemy.
- Leap Attack and Spiral Strike are interchangeable dependent on the weapons you find. Spiral Strike is the faster option if you are looking for more 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!
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Use the Embed to the left to follow along with Support Skill progression!
- Level 1: Support Thunder Slash with Multistrike
Equip the following as you obtain them:
- Level 3: Support Compound Potion with Residues
- Equip Spiral Strike or Leap Attack based on your weapon.
- Level 7-11: Support Thunder Slash with Raging Slash
- Level 12-16: Equip Fearless Warcry
- Level 20: You unlock access to all of your Active Skills.
- Replace Fearless Warcry with Electrocute.
- Equip Burst of Anger
- Bull's Rage is the highest damage empower skill, however it sacrifices a large portion of life. Replace Electrocute and use a potion after every Bull's Rage if you want more damage and less survivabilty.
- Level 22: Support Thunder Slash with Added Physical Damage.
- Level 26-54: Continue filling out supports on your utility skills. Now, the goal is to slowly add on Supports and Auras as you gain Energy and levels.
Level 55: At this point you have access to every skill in the game, continue to follow the embed shown as you gain more Energy.
To learn more check out the Skills and Passives Guide.
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.
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Goddess of Hunting
Begin with 20 points in Goddess of Hunting, this tree has bonuses focused on Lightning Damage, Dexterity, and Attack Speed.
Bladerunner
This tree is insane for Erika as it has many bonuses to Multistrike, get 36 points here to unlock Quick Advancement.
Ronin
Ronin gives you more flexibility with your mana costs along with providing Fervor, a powerful buff to your Critical Strike Rating. Falling Leaves is also a huge damage boost as once you convert to Dexterity stacking, your damage is not reliant on the flat damage inherent to the weapon.
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: Interest grants additional Movement Speed for every stack of Stalker you have. It also provides increased duration to Cat's Agility.
Level 75: Cat Walk prevents interruptions to your Multistrike Count while you have Cat's Agility. It also reworks Stalker to no longer expire after a Multistrike ends.
Level 90: Cat's Vision grants up to +3 maximum stacks of Stalker.
Relics and Memories
Look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Relics and Memories;
| Hero Relic | Hero Memories |
| Additional Attack Speed while performing Multistrikes | Multistrikes deal Increasing Damage |
| Multistrikes deal Increasing Damage | Chance to Multistrike |
| Multistrike Chance | % Movement Speed |
| Max Life | Attack 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
Weapon
The "Lightning Damage per x Dexterity" mod is mandatory to transition, acquire it by;
- Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifier on One Handed Swords.
- Lightning Damage added per Dexterity
- Dexterity
- Critical Strike Damage
- Gear Critical Strike Rating
- Lightning Damage added to Gear
- Increased Physical/Elemental Damage
- Multistrike Chance
- Craft the items using prototype crafting until you have the Dexterity stacking mod as well as 2 of the other modifiers listed.
- Enchant the item with a 5th modifier.
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 75% maximum.
- Reach a high amount of Dexterity. Aim for about 600 to get started.
- Have a healthy Life total of roughly 3500.
- Increase your Physical or Lightning damage
- Increase your Attack Speed
Legendary Items
Leveling
- Ralph's Engraving is a cheap method of generating Fervor, this drops from the Watcher in the Glacial Abyss.
- Endless Night - Prototype can be farmed in the final 2 Treasure Troves during the campaign. They set your Dexterity to 750, enabling the use of Dexterity stacking modifiers on weapons.
Set Items
As you complete the Netherrealm you encounter Chaos Cards that provide a Set Item. These items are very powerful at a base, and provide powerful set bonuses. Be sure to farm the following Voyager's Commemorative Set Items;
- Voyager's Commemorative Cape
- Voyager's Commemorative Strap
- Voyager's Commemorative Goggles
- Voyager's Commemorative Boots
- Voyager's Commemorative Cufflinks
- Voyager's Commemorative Pinky Ring
Endgame
- Opening Heart gives easier access to Fervor.
- Everlasting Cloud grants up to 60% increased Dexterity. This is a drop from Keegan making it quite rare.
- False God's Skin can roll a variety of powerful attribute modifiers, though finding one with dexterity boosting modifier may be difficult.
Continue the Journey
Congratulations on completing the Erika Wind Stalker leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database
Other Resources
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Credits
Written by: Milkybk_
Reviewed by: Xtra37