Youga Spacetime Illusion Leveling Guide

Massively Buffed ✔
High Damage throughout the Game ✔

❌ Low Survivability
❌ Low Mobility

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.
• Stay on level with the Zone as much as possible! You receive reduced experience for being too under or over leveled so ensure you kill enough monsters to remain as close to the zone level as possible.
• 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 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 4 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, this can make it difficult to determine whether or not an item is an upgrade. In general if you don't get enough Energy to add a Support slot pick upgrades based on their stats. 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 us and your Illusion, 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! You need to have this as your first selection in your Skill Pannel, since you want your Illusion to cast it as well.
• Flame Pillar places a Fire Sentry that periodically releases a fire nova around it. This skill is used as an extra damage tool against bosses, as well as your best skill to apply the Mark debuff with.
• Spiral Strike makes you dash forward and is our Movement Skill of choice. The only downside is that you need to use a Sacrificial Blade. Since the skill is so much better than our other options, the sacrifice of damage is well worth it!
• Compound Potion is our main way to regenerate Life whenever needed. It's basically a Life Flask, complicated stuff.
• Summon Thunder Spirit passively grants us increased Attack and Cast Speed.
• Magical Source passively grants us much needed Mana Regeneration. This skill has increased Mana Reservation per Level, so only level it as high as needed!
• Elemental Amplification passively grants us more Elemental Spell Damage.

Leveling Progression

Talents

Traits, Relics and Memories

Hero Traits

Pacts

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

• +1-2 to level of Cold or Spell Skills
• Additional Damage for Skills Cast by Spell Burst

• After that look for the following:
  • Cold Damage, Elemental Damage or Spell Damage
  • Spell Critical Strike Rating
  • Spell Critical Strike Damage
  • Cold Damage added to Spells
  • Elemental Penetration
  • Cast Speed
  • Cooldown Recovery Speed
• Craft your weapon using prototype crafting until you hit several useful modifiers.
• Use Targeted Processing to add more modifiers from the above list until the item has 5 modifiers.
• Enchant your item with a 6th modifier.

Remaining Gear

• Cap all of your Resistances at the 75% maximum.
• Have a healthy Life pool.
  • Begin scaling Energy Shield for when you go Low Life.
• Spell Burst Modifiers
• Increase your Cold or Spell damage.
• Increase your Cast Speed.
• Spell Critical Strike Rating, or Damage.

Legendary Items

Leveling

• Spring Resurrection is great for damage while giving you much needed recovery. You'll often find these while leveling but if you don't have one by level 60 be sure to pick it up at the Trade House.
• Elemental Whisper Belt is another common Legendary, and a good way to get damage early on.
• Grace Boots offer easy access to Movement Speed on builds which stack Focus Blessings.
• Chain of Resistance a great early game item offering much needed single target damage early on.

Endgame

• Sky Devourer - Insight Armor is a good entry level endgame item offering defenses, area, and damage.
• Surging Inspiration provides a massive bonus to your Spell Burst in exchange for you losing Mana when you Spell Burst.
  • Only use this when you have enough Mana recovery.
• Hunting the Eye of the Kraken adds an explosion effect to your build allowing you to clear more quickly.
  • If you want to fight Bosses, instead consider Hekate's Vision or a Crafted item.

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