Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms – Tips for Beating Tough Variants

Specifically talking the non-patron, achievement ones.

How to Beat Tough Variants

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The only thing that’ll beat some of those is time.

1. Farm divine favour (b on the keyboard), not only get the divine favour up but get those perks, some of which make a large difference. That generally requires multiple deep runs and some effort to peak gold find towards the end of the runs.
2. Patron perks. Not as much gain, but some.
3. Modron core. My main party typically uses the fast core – which ATM does around e12 extra damage. My best core does e18 extra damage, so run to the wall at speed, then swap cores.
4. Scales. I’ve rated that quite low, it is very important but the others also matter and are less obvious.
5. Potions potions potions.
6. When you get baulked but MAYBE could get extra levels. Back off some, maybe 10 areas or so and get the BUD back up. Restart the game to deal with some potential bugs. That won’t help if you are 100 areas short, 5 or 10 it can pull you over the line
7. Timing of ultimates, some are surprisingly deadly. (Sisapia for example) and provided you can tank the damage long enough for the spore count to build she can one-shot a lot of difficult bosses.
8. Achievements. Depending on 1-5% damage boost. Doesn’t sound like much but there are over 500 of them, I don’t know how many are worth 5%, probably 20 or so, so around 600% there as well.
9. Feats, generally unlocked with gems. Needs real insight there but some do increase killing power by surprising amounts.
10. Swapping champions at critical moments.

There are also damage glitches, if you can find one of those and exploit it reliably, that may also help.

Note: The achievements are copied from the in-game ones in this case. After months of play I have around half of them and as I said, they do slowly jack your damage up anyway. Which is why I said “Time” above.

Equipment level (ilvels) because that slowly increases damage as well. As does advancing towards epic gear.

I guess you could also spend $1000’s on upgrades to speed matters, personally I don’t see the point but whatever rocks your boat.