Youga Spacetime Illusion Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Youga Spacetime Illusion Leveling Guide. Youga never fights alone, he summons a Spacetime Illusion which copies Main Spell Skills. Unfortunately the Illusion hasn't quite figured out how to use Attacks or Channeled Skills but it is a great way to add a consistent source of damage so you can focus on dodging! Most importantly Youga does not use hair spray and reminds you of this frequently.

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 as a powerful defensive option. Grace Boots are a great early option for movement speed and consistent Focus Blessings if you can acquire them.
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Ice Pulse provides a significant boost to damage, however it makes you squishier due to the life cost of skills. It is an optional pickup depending on your preferred playstyle.
• Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Sage's Foresight is incredibly powerful as a weapon and carries you through much of your early progression, even into the early Timemarks. Run this trove a few times to find one with good modifier values.
• 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): Look out for Photophobia which provides Beacon allowing you to use Winter in Goddess of Knowledge. It is a powerful option until you can get a better amulet later in progression.
• 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 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.
• 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 Skills

• Ring of Ice unleashes a Cold AoE Nova around you, Freezing and obliterating nearby enemies. Whenever you kill an enemy with this skill, you have a chance to trigger another Ring of Ice, making this a great pack clearing tool! This needs to be in your FIRST Skill slot so your Illusion uses the skill!
• Mana Boil grants a large Additional Spell Damage multiplier whilst draining your current Mana.
• Path of Flames allows your character to automatically move to your mouse cursor. This requires you to go to your Settings > Battle > and enable the "Auto Channel" option under Path of Flames. It is utilized late in progression when you pick up I'm an Illusion as you no longer need to cast your Main Skill. Path of Flames also constantly provides you with a Barrier due to Guard.
• Frigid Transmission is a great movement skill option due to its cooldown being reset when you Freeze enemies. If you dislike Path of Flames, you can support Frigid Transmission with support skills that increase your cooldown recovery speed, such as Quick Mobility and Cooldown Reduction or support skills that grant additional charges of the skill, like Magic Dash.
• Compound Source is your main way to quickly Restore Life and Mana whenever needed.
• Biting Cold is a curse that increases the cold damage that enemies take. It provides a significant boost to your damage.

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

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

Look for the following stats on your Wands.

• Prefixes:
  • + to Spell Skill Level
  • Cold Damage, Elemental Damage or Spell Damage
  • Cold Damage added to Spells
  • Elemental Penetration
• Suffixes:
  • Intelligence
  • Spell Critical Strike Rating
  • Spell Critical Strike Damage
  • Cast Speed

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.
• Spell Burst Modifiers
• Increase your Cold or Spell damage.
• Increase your Cast Speed.
• Spell Critical Strike Rating, or Damage.

Legendary Items

Leveling

Keep an eye out for the following common items during your leveling journey:

• Grace Boots offer easy access to Movement Speed on builds which stack Focus Blessings.
• Feline Gloves offers some damage scaling based off of your Blessings.
• Photophobia provides Beacon allowing you to use Winter in Goddess of Knowledge.
• Ownerless provides an increase to damage and, more importantly, movement speed.

Endgame

The following items may be expensive but offer powerful effects;

• Vortex Heart provides a very large damage boost to your main skill. You can get this item by defeating the plane watcher of the Steel Forge.
• The Pentagram Astrolabe grants a large amount of Flat Damage to your Active Skills. Make sure it has Spell Damage rolls, as it can roll for both Spell and Attack damage to skills.

Continue the Journey

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

Credits

Written by: Void241
Reviewed by: Tenkiei, Xtra37