Nomad Idle – Progress Guide

Progress Guide for New Players

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• Quests: They are assumed to be completed when available unless I otherwise mention them below.
• This guide is not meant to 100% min max on how to get to the end as quickly as possible, but it does do a pretty good job of being efficient if I do say so myself.
• Whenever you have to afk, try to farm bestiary- especially overnight.

Starting out as a 100% certified angus beef noobie.

Post Game

You can reach max level of 332, see how much dps you can do with different builds, or see how much exp/min you can do; or simply just play another game.

Early Game (Part 1)

Class: Adventurer

Manually left-click on enemies to defeat them with Cursor Cutter, and zoom the camera out completely. When bags or pots start to appear on the map, left-click to loot them.

1. Keep proceeding until you die, stage 5-6.
   • Stats: put 2-3 points into wisdom so you can keep left click spamming.
2. Push hard again until you almost die, stage ~13; then click on your map short cut on the left and redo from stage 1 to get 3x multiplier catch up and continue to upgrade your gear as you can; weapon first.
   • Put about 5 points into STR then the rest into AGI for movement speed.
   • This will be a recurring tactic to push as far as you can first, then start from stage 1 to get the multiplier bonus for material farming.
3. Once you are level 31, dump all your stats into 1 stat to get the quest completed.
4. Try to complete level 20, then go ahead and proceed to area 2 and push to stage 5 to unlock the quest “Faithful Companion” which unlocks your first Summon when you get 10k souls!
5. Push to area stage 10 to unlock the multiplier, then zoom back to area 1 stage 1 and prog to stage 31.
6. Go to Area 2 and push as far as you can.
   • At this point, i have 30 AGI, 5 wis, rest into str.
   • For the summon stats, I have 5 speed then the rest power.
7. Clear stage Area 2 stage 10 to unlock rats nest.
8. Get to stage 5 to unlock skills.
   • Equip Dancing Dagger/Ghost Blade and right click it on the hot bar to enable smart cast.
   • Have 28 agility and put an extra 2 points into wisdom.
   • At this point you can most likely stop manually clicking mobs for grinding unless you want to.
9. Clear to stage 11 for the multiplier.
10. Repush Area 1 and you should be able to clear all 50 stages, completing more quests along the way.
    • Go to options>gameplay> enable to 2 bottom most options for when you are defeated/stager 41-50 repeat.

There are many different options available from this point. Clicking on the bestiary (the trophy icon on the left) will show you which enemies drop specific materials and on which stages they can be found; this information is crucial for improving your gear.

I would recommend farming materials to maximize the cloth gear for the mana regeneration it provides. Continue allocating your wisdom stat into strength to ensure you consistently have a surplus of mana. The two empty skill slots are not important at the moment, but feel free to use whichever skills you prefer.

Early Game (Part 2)

1. After Area 1 stage 50, clear area 2 stage 50 for the 7x multiplier!
   • At this point I have reduced AGI to 20, and put points into DEX for the projectile speed.
   • I am 35-9-20-0-18 in stats, lvl 76. Raise summon/stat caps as resources allow.
2. Nearing stage 40 I added on the skill Great Divider, clear stage 50.
3. Clear Area 1 Gentlewood Void to unlock slime pet.
4. Clear Area 2 Overrun Village Void to unlock the Owl pet and equip it, boost Acuity and insight.
5. Clear Area 3 Rat’s Nest which should help unlock the INT stat quest if you haven’t already.
   • Int is very important as it increases your skills size.
6. Push Area 4 Peridot Coast and clear stage 20, then restart at stage 1, add on Glint of Steel smart cast.
7. Backtrack to Area 1/2 Void to finish the gear that needs T1 mats, and don’t forget that your summon upgrades also take Tier Mats.
8. This will be our first ascension!
   • I had 14 ascension points, I went with exp gain, dmg +10 starting points +5. This tree will be maxed eventually so choose what you want. As you can see there’ a new character, Cultist. So lets go ahead and choose it so we can do the first story quest on it.
9. Clear Rats Nest Void.
10. Clear Area 4 Peridot Cost Stage 30.
11. Ascend> focus exp gain>dmg nodes.

Mid Game (Part 1)

I would say Area 5: Sunken Temple marks the beginning of the mid-game, as the demo only went up to area 4, and this is also when there is a noticeable increase in difficulty. Regarding Bestiary farming, it’s made easy because we have already cleared stage 50 for the 7x multiplier!

1. Choose to lock the stage progressions on bestiary.
   • Click the lock icon near the stage number at the top and toggle it on, then teleport to area 1 Gentlewood and get 100%. When you look at the bestiary entries you can sometimes notice that certain mobs overlap on stages, so you could micro manage this and manually go up one stage to get both mob kills instead of just 1 stage at a time.
   • While doing Bestiary grinding, it might be a good idea to cycle your pets around to start gaining levels on them since they are not useful right now; just be sure to always keep on Amulet of Aggression, aka AoA
   • You can also remove all of your str and boost DEX/wis to help the projectiles move faster which means faster killing.
2. Once Area 1 is done, ascend if you still need more T1 nodes.
   • Use mats for gear and summon upgrades.
3. Area 3 Rat’s Nest 100% Bestiary.
   • Use mats for gear and summon upgrades.
4. Clear Sunken Temple stage 10 to unlock a new character! (be sure to turn bestiary off).
   • Keep pushing to clear stage 20.
   • Use mats for gear and summon upgrades.
5. Area 2 Overrun Village 100% Bestiary.
   • Use mats for gear and summon upgrades if needed.
   • Ascend, choose any her you want, but ill go Ratfolk for something new at this point in the guide.
6. Clear Area 4: Peridot Coast Stage 50 non bestiary.
7. Clear Area 5: Sunken Temple Stage 30.
8. Area 4 Peridot Coast 100% Bestiary.
   • Ascend.

Progress Checklist:

• 3 characters with 1/3 story mode quests completed.
• 100% bestiary Area 1/2/3/4.
• All T1/T2 gear is maxed.
• All summons are ~lvl 10 each.
• Summon upgrades cost 151m/ea or more.
• Summons are done with T1/2/3 upgrades.
• Player stats cost 151m/ea or more.
• Only quest available is for Sunken Temple Stage 40.

Mid Game (Part 2)

1. Clear Area 4: Peridot Coast Void.
2. Clear Area 5: Sunken Temple Stage 40, then restart from stage 1 for x6 mat multiplier.
   • Remove AoA if you need to.
3. Clear Area 5: Sunken Temple Stage 50.
   • If you have max mana, you can boost Final Spark up to max lvl in the skills menu and it can normally burst an entire stage down, then it will scale back down to lvl 1 with smart cast still enabled
4. Clear Area 6: The Soul Furnace Stage 10 unlocks the new class “Crusader”.
5. Clear Area 6: The Soul Furnace Stage 20 to unlock your first of 2 skill evolutions! Requires lvl 100 to choose, you’ll unlock evolution B later.
6. 100% Bestiary on Area 5: Sunken Temple.
   • Dancing Dagger has fallen off pretty hard at this point, you can remove it.
   • I am running waterspout/final spark/ghost blade/lightning bolt. Not sure how these perform after the balance patch so might as well use some skills and see if they pan out. Everything on smart cast.
     • Continue to cycle through which pet is active to level them up.
     • Level up the max cap on summons/player as gold allows.
7. Clear Area 5: Sunken Temple Void Stage 10 to unlock the new pet, Twig Sprite and equip it.
8. Clear Area 6: The Soul Furnace Stage 30.
   • Ascend.
9. You can choose to stick with any character you choose, but I will choose Crusader because we need to do story 1 of 3 with it.
10. Complete Crusader story 1 event.
    • Ascend, and choose your hero- i went back to ratfolk.
11. Clear Area 7: Winter Skyscape stage 10 to unluck T1 equipment +
12. Refarm Areas 1-4 Void and upgrade all T1 equipment to +29 + ascension.
13. Push area 6 as high as you can, then do Bestiary as high as you can, this will get us ascended points and perm stats.
14. Clear Area 6 Soul Furnace stage 40.
15. Clear Area 7: Winter Skyscrape Stage 20 – New character The Divine Unlocks + new section to the ascension tree.
    • Ascend.

Mid Game (Part 3)

1. Choose The Divine and complete story 1 of 3.
2. Clear Area 6: Soul Furnace Stage 50.
3. Clear Area 6: Soul Furnace Void stage 10 – unlocks imp pet, i was manually clicking for my left click skill to clear this.
4. Clear Area7: Winter Skyscrape Stage 20.
5. Refarm for T1/T2 points to max ascension.
   • Ascend, I went back to ratfolk.
6. Area 5 Sunken Temple Void farm until you have all the T3 ascension points you need- great overnight afk activity.
7. 100% Bestiary for Area 6: Soul Furnace.
8. Clear Area 7: Winter Skyscrape Stage 30 or as high as you can. I used Imp pet for lvling, + hinterland heart trinket.
9. Clear Area 8: The Descent Stage 10 to unlock T2 equip +29.
10. You guessed it- go refarm T2 mats to max out the gear.
11. Clear Area 7: Winter Skyscrape Stage 50, then do 100% Bestiary.
12. Clear Area 7: Winder Skyscrape Void.

Late Game (Part 1)

Area 8 is another very noticeable increase in difficulty.

1. Push as far as you can in Area 8: The Descent- I was able to clear stage 30.
   • Summoner also unlocks, but we wont ascend yet.
2. Farm the proper stages to max out the current unlocked T4 equipment.
3. Ascend.
   • I have 125 T4 points on this ascension.
4. Choose summoner so we, again, can complete the story 1 of 3 quest.
   • The summoner can have up to 5 summons equip so be sure to do that.
   • Then ascend to gain the new int stat bonus.
5. Complete Area 7: Winter Skyscape stage 50 on every character with 200 or less stat points to complete the 2 of 3 storyline quests.
   • Ascend once you are done, i went back to ratfolk.
6. Clear Area 8: The Descent Stage 50.
   • Evolution B unlocked via quest- this does NOT MEAN that evo B is better than A for every class.

Progression Check:

• All pets should be upgraded fully to where T5 mats are the next resource.
• All gear upgraded.
• Player/summon cap stats should cost 132b or more.
• Summons should be lvl 30.
• Ascension T1/2/3 should be maxed on 3 of the sections.
• Story completion on every character unlocked is 2 of 3.

Late Game (Part 2)

1. Clear Area 9: Valley of Shadows stage 20.
   • Knight Class unlocked.
   • Last ascension tree section unlocked.
   • T3 Equipment +29 unlocked, you know what to do.
2. 100% bestiary completion for Area 8: The Descent.
   • This is a great opportunity to farm T4 ascension points as well.
   • Get enough T1/2/3 ascension points to max out the last section.
   • You can also convert your higher tier points into lower tier, use the 1:1 ratio if you want.
3. Ascend> Choose knight and clear the 2 story quests.
   • Ascend if you want, i went back to ratfolk – evolution B.
4. Clear Area 8: The Descent Void – unlocks the pet Homunculus.
5. Clear Area 9: Valley of Shadows Stage 30.
6. Clear Area 10: the Voidkeep Stage.
7. Farm Bestiary in Area 9 until stage 30.
   • When your 5x drops then try to push to stage 40, and farm more bestiary to stage 40.
   • Do the same thing for Stage 50 + bestiary.
   • You should be getting about 60-70% crit rate from gear alone, so don’t overdo the agi stat.
8. Clear Area 10: The Voidkeep Stage 20 for T4 equip unlocks.
9. Max out T4 gear.
10. Clear Area 9: Valley of Shadows Stage 50.
    • Ascend if you need to more for T4 nodes.
11. Clear Area 9: Valley of Shadows Void.
    • GB was falling off now when trying to prog, it can be removed for buffeting gale; but its still great for farming.
12. 100% bestiary for Area9: Valley of Shadows.
13. Clear Area 10: The Voidkeep Stage 30.
    • I used Key of the Keeper (trinket) for pushing.
14. Bestiary grind to stage 30 or until your new T5 gear is maxed, then push to stage 50.
    • Since I was rat, All material drops are now 2x.
    • This stage needs cleared on every character to complete the 3rd story quest- which we will get too soon.
15. Clear Area 9: Valley of Shadows Void to unlock the useless pet, the wolf.

Progress Check:

• All summons lvl 30 except wolf.
• Summon/Player stats should cost 25.1T +
• All pets upgraded.
• All gear upgraded.

Late Game (Part 3)

We are now on the final stretch of the grind.

1. 100% Bestiary grind Area 10: The Voidkeep – Congrats, we are officially done with bestiary grinding!
   • Again Spark/GB are incredible for farming.
   • Ascend
2. We are now going to take each character and beat Area 10: The Voidgate stage 50.
3. My order was Rat>Cultist>Adventurer>The Divine.
   • I couldn’t clear with the other hero’s, so I farmed the T1/2 weapon levels to 99.
   • Then I cleared with Crusader>Summoner – I used wolf pet instead of slime.>Knight.
4. Now that all equipment is able to get to 99, you know what to do; it might take a few hours which is perfectly normal. Rat/divine are really good for farming mats with KotK trinket.
   • Gale/GB/Spark/Dancing Dagger for farming mats since these don’t require enemy proximity.
5. Time to clear Area 10: The Voidgate Void stage 10 on every character.

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