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How to get Rare Mods on Unique Tame - Day 2 Spirit Walker

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Summary

  • Obtaining Rare Mods: Utilize tablets that grant unique monsters an additional rare modifier to enhance your companion. The best strategy involves farming lower-tier maps (e.g., Tier 1) to safely capture monsters without risking high-tier map resources.
  • Refutation Skill: A key defensive upgrade providing permanent uptime on parry and 100% block chance without requiring the player to stand still.
  • Optimization Strategies: Maintaining a secondary “blank” companion beast for capturing purposes, prioritizing Runic Ward for stun thresholds, and scaling minion skill levels for multiplicative damage increases.
  • Gear Progress: Insights on the role of Mageblood as a long-term quality-of-life investment for movement speed and defense rather than a mandatory build requirement.

Obtaining Rare Mods on Your Tame Beast

To maximize the power of your companion, you can imbue it with rare modifiers.

  • The Method: Socket three tablets that grant “unique monsters have one additional rare modifier” into your map device.
  • Target Maps: Run maps where the monkey is the boss, such as Rupture or Riverside.
  • Optimization Tip: Map tier does not change the base stats of the monkey, so run lower-tier maps to minimize the risk of wasting tablets if you die.
  • The “Second Monkey” Technique:
    1. Keep a secondary, lower-level version of the Tame Beast on standby.
    2. If you have a high-investment 6-link companion, use the Disenchant feature to turn it into a blank Tame Beast, allowing you to re-link your best gear to the newly captured monster.
  • Ideal Mod: The best-in-slot modifier is Extra Crits, which provides 300% increased critical strike chance. Given the monkey’s base crit stats, this easily hits the critical strike cap.

Refutation: Defensive Quality of Life

Refutation is a powerful skill that drastically improves survivability and playstyle.

  • Functionality: It provides 100% block chance and automatically applies “parry” without the need to hold down the button or stand still.
  • Uptime: Because the skill duration and cooldown are synchronized, it is possible to achieve near 100% uptime.
  • Stun Management: Refutation is removed if you are “heavy-stunned.” To prevent this, aim for roughly 200 Runic Ward to build sufficient stun threshold.
    • Note: Prioritize Runic Ward on boots, gloves, and helmets; avoid placing it on your body armor to maintain optimal evasion and deflection ratings.

Scaling and Minion Mechanics

  • Reservation Space: After anointing Gigantic Following, it is recommended to limit yourself to two additional skeletons.
  • Synergy:
    • Pain Offering: Use skeletons to sacrifice for attack speed and damage multipliers.
    • Muster: Skeletons increase the total minion count, providing a significant “more damage” multiplier (7% per reviving minion).
  • Minion Level: Prioritize gear that adds to minion skill levels (e.g., helmet, amulet, scepter, Trench Timber). Every level provides a substantial “more damage” multiplier and increases base stats.
  • Recoup: Invest in Romero’s Requital (an upgraded version of Loyalty) to convert damage diverted to your bear into recoup, significantly aiding sustain.

Gear and Future Updates

  • Mageblood: While acquired for this build, it is not mandatory. It serves as a long-term goal for movement speed and defensive evasion. It is recommended only after the character is already functional, as currency might be better spent on direct damage upgrades early on.
  • Tools: Be aware that Mobalytics currently has difficulty importing gear with Runic Ward due to it being a new mechanic. Focus on the core stats of Evasion, Life, and Resistances when crafting or purchasing placeholder gear.

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