Youga Spacetime Elapse Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Youga Spacetime Elapse Leveling Guide. Embracing the Void, Youga's Spacetime Elapse Hero Trait is good for all things damage over time - aka DoT. Whether it's Frost Terra, Ignite or anything in-between, Reap deadly Afflictions from your foes!

This Hero Trait is focused on Damage over Time, a highly complex mechanic. We recommend new players read our dedicated guide to DoT and Reaping.

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 7-8 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 as a powerful defensive option.
Dawn Avenue (L27): Has nothing particularly notable for this build. You can still look for other useful uniques listed here.
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): Has nothing particularly notable for this build. You can still look for other useful uniques listed here.
Hall of Grandiosity (L54): 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 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 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

Core Skills

• Mind Control automatically links to enemies within its radius, dealing Erosion damage over time. Ensure the "Auto Guide" setting is enabled for this Skill, found under the "Battle" tab of the settings menu.
  • This Skill's high base duration makes it extremely lethal when Reaped with Reap Purification allocated.
• Blurry Steps provides a large boost to movement speed, assisting in mobility.
• Mana Boil grants a massive boost to Spell damage and has an infinite duration. Its Mana consumption helps charge your Hero Trait.
• Use Compound Source to quickly regenerate Life and Mana whenever needed. You later replace this with Forced Start when you switch to an energy shield based setup.
• Corruption is a curse that causes enemies to take increased Erosion damage and provides a substantial damage boost.

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

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

Divinity Slates

When leveling Youga Spacetime Elapse, 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. As you continue leveling Youga Spacetime Elapse 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

Reap

• Reap sources DRASTICALLY improve your damage output. The Reap duration stat doesn't matter, and Reap cooldown is very important. Look to add as many Reap sources as possible via crafted modifiers on Wands and Divinity Slates.

Affliction

• Affliction is one of the biggest damage multipliers on all DoT builds. It is important you get this from multiple sources

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 Energy Shield for additional defenses.
• Use Intelligence to scale your damage.
• Increase your skill effect duration.
• Increase your Reap Cooldown Recovery Speed.

Legendary Items

Leveling

• Ownerless is a great option for providing some damage while more importantly granting you movement speed early on.

Endgame

• Feline Steps are incredibly powerful as they grant a large amount of Reaping Cooldown Recovery Speed and provide Agility Blessing Generation.
• Twilight Vestment Allows your energy shield to constantly recover by starting the recharge upon reaping and is a powerful defensive option.
• Traceless Pain is an incredibly powerful damage option for later on in progression as it provides a significant boost to damage output and an additional source of reaping. Make sure to get one with the lowest reaping cooldown possible (1s) and the highest skill effect duration possible.

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Youga Spacetime Elapse Leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey, browse community made builds in our Builder!

Credits

Written by: Void241
Reviewed by: Tenkiei