Growing Breeze Iris Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Iris leveling guide. She is a Summoner Hero that specializes in Empowering Spirit Magi. By placing a Spirit Magus Skill in an Active Skill Slot you can activate it every few seconds to grant your Spirit Magi Nourishment stacks which increase their damage significantly. Hero Traits such as Amazing Friends allow you to unlock the full potential of Spirit Magi by unlocking their Ultimate ability at the cost of -1 Maximum Spirit Magi Quantity and Socialite lets you build a larger army by increasing that number by 1 instead. If you are new to Minions playstyle check out our Minions Mechanics Guide.

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 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.
• Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Desire of Survival(embed).
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Omniscient Prototype and Lonesome.
• Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Interlocking Soul.
• Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Omniscient Prototype and Lonesome.
• Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Look out for Call of Souls, Omniscient Prototype and Lonesome.

Every Treasure Trove has a small chance to drop Lonesome which boosts you damage significantly if you equip only 1 ring and Omniscient Prototype which provides around 120 Energy allowing you to equip additional Support Skills.

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 Resistances 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 Path of Progression to unlock 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

Core Skill

• Use Summon Thunder Spirit to deal damage. Activate it on Cooldown to grant your Spirit Magi Nourishment stacks that increase their damage.
• Use Compound Source to heal yourself.
• With Blink you move faster through the zones.
  • Support it with Quick Mobility for even faster movement.
• Use Dazzling Bloom to teleport your Minions to your target location and to buff their damage for a short duration.
• Elemental Shock increases elemental damage dealt by your Minions.
• Nourishment of Life grants your Spirit Magi stacks of Growth.
  • For every 100 stacks of Growth your Spirit Magi have, they reach a higher Stage which empowers their abilities.
• If you avoid most of the enemies attacks and don't mind dying from time to time replace Compound Source with Nourishment of Life for more damage or Leap Attack for more speed while using Interlocking Soul.

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

Traits and Memories

Hero Traits

Hero Memories

Look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Memories;

Divinity Slates

When leveling Growing Breeze Iris, look for any Divinity Slates containing these talents;

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 through 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 add few useful low tier affixes onto an item.

Transitioning to Endgame

Weapon

• Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifier on Rods:
  • Minion Skill Level
  • Minion Damage
  • Adds x Lightning Damage to Minions
  • Dexterity/Intelligence
  • Minion Critical Strike Damage
  • Minion Critical Strike Rating
  • Chance for Minions to Deal Double Damage
  • Minion Movement Speed, Attack Speed, and Cast Speed
  • Spirit Magi's Enhanced Skills +% additional damage
  • Spirit Magi % chance to use an Enhanced Skill

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.
• Have a healthy Life pool.
• Increase Minions Damage, Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage.
• Increase Skill Level of Spirit Magi.
• Increase your Dexterity and Intelligence.
• Increase the amount of Growth your Spirit Magi have.

Legendary Items

Leveling

• Interlocking Soul provides a good amount of Minion damage at the cost of draining your Life any time you use a Summon Skill.
• Lonesome Provides good amount damage early on before you find proper crafted or set rings.
• Wear Call of Souls to increase the amount of Growth stacks your Spirit Magi have.

Endgame

• Wear Horn Ring to increase the damage of your Minions as well as Critical Strike Damage when you use an Empower Skill.
• Mind Infusion Provides +1-2 Minion Skill Level and automatically casts Dark Gate.
• Fiend Crown provides good amount of Minion Critical Strike Damage and and grants Lucky on Critical Strike.

Continue the Journey

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

Credits

Written by: Zen_M
Reviewed by: Tenkiei