Incarnation of the Gods Thea Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Incarnation of the Gods Thea Leveling Guide. Thea creates a Divine Realm with her Trait Skill. Within the Divine Realm Agility Blessings become Tenacity and while outside of it all Tenacity Blessings become Agility. Giving you easy access to high speed or defense with the flexibility to dance between them mid combat. As a result, positioning is key!

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. These items can drop in all troves and offer a significant boost to your levelling.
• Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Born in Fire.
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Boor's Iron Crown or Scarlet Decree.
• Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Varagon's Attack.
• Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Here you should farm to level 60 to reach your next Hero Trait before completing the campaign.

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.
• Claim your rewards from the Path of Progression to gain additional Talent Points whilst levelling.
• 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

• Berserking Blade is your starting skill and the best skill to use whilst levelling, once you reach 100% Physical Damage to Fire Damage, it benefits from any Fire Damage scaling. Focused Slash supported with Attack Focus is a good alternative if you are lacking damage.
• Use Compound Source to quickly regenerate Life and Mana whenever needed.
• The mobility skill is interchangeable depending on your current Main Hand weapon. Spiral Strike is the fastest option if you are dual-wielding Swords. Use Leap Attack if you are using Axes, Hammer or a 2 Handed Weapon.
• Use Scorch on Elites and Bosses until you unlock Terrain of Malice.
• Burst of Anger provides an additional attack speed multiplier and is refreshed on defeat.
• Bull's Rage is the highest damage empower skill; it cost's a portion of life but grants additional Melee Damage. Use this over Burst of Anger if you're comfortable with the Life cost.

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

Divinity Slates

Slate Talents are a huge source of power, also providing access to Utility Legendary Talent Nodes that your chosen Talent Tree's do not provide. Divinity Slates can be farmed from many 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 significantly improve your gear.

Transitioning to Endgame

To take this build up to Timemark 7 and beyond so you can begin farming for an endgame setup, make sure to craft gear using any Fine Embers you can find. This is an Ember that can only be used on Gear with an item level lower than 76.

Weapon

• Prefixes:
  • Gear Physical Damage
  • Physical / Fire Damage added to Attacks
  • Strength / Dexterity
• Suffixes:
  • Gear Critical Strike Chance
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Gear Attack Speed

Noble and Magnificent Supports

Noble and Magnificent Support are the reward for completely the new Frozen Canvas Seasonal Mechanic. They provide a massive amount of character power when combined with associated skills.

• Berserking Blade: Sweep (Magnificent) grants further Area of Effect scaling allowing you to clear the entire screen.
• Berserking Blade: Decimate (Noble) is very important as you are able to treat the mobs as low-life at a higher threshold. Incarnation of the Gods causes you to deal 7% additional damage to low-life enemies per Tenacity Blessing whilst in the Divine Realm.

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.
  • Scale Armor for additional defenses.
• Steep Strike Modifiers
• Increase your Melee or Physical damage.
• Critical Strike Rating, or Damage.
• Attack Speed

Legendary Items

Midgame

• Boots of Sinned Fire grants a massive additional damage multiplier against ignited enemies. Swap from Added Physical Damage to Added Fire Damage so that you can ignite enemies.
• Feline Gloves grants agility blessings on defeat as well as increased Elemental Damage per Agility Blessing.
• Chain of Resistance is a very common item that provides a large amount of Skill Radius when clearing beacons, as well 50% increased Area Damage against bosses.
• Pale Mist's Embrace causes a percentage of your bonuses to Skill Radius to also be applied to Area Damage.
• Sea Splitter grants Raging Slash allowing you to replace it on you Main Skill Slots. It also grants important Steep Strike Chance.

Endgame

• Broken Sun Ring grants a small amount of Steep Strike Chance and a massive amount of additional Steep Strike Damage.
• Magnus' Laws grant multiple strong stats for a Tenacity Stacking build.
• Highest Glance can be a strong early game weapon granting up to 120% additional Steep Strike Damage.
• Hekate's Vision is a good all purpose helmet that provides additional damage, defence and extends the duration of your curses.
• Kaleidoscope grants up to 50% additional damage that is up 66% of the time.

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Incarnation of the Gods Thea leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database!

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Written by: Milkybk_
Reviewed by: Xtra37