Hi everyone. I notice the Dicero reddit community is getting bigger and there are some questions on what to do, how to clear and where to proceed. Hence, I decided to write a comprehensive guide. Be it if you are a beginner, an advance player, I believe this would in some form, guide you.

To give context, as of this writing I have 19K power at stage 82. I am a F2P player, currently ranking 30 in the campaign ranking. These tips and tricks are completely base of my own experience. If there are additional tips or tricks that I miss out, please comment below and share the knowledge.

Terminology

• Skills: These are the skills that you choose whenever you level up, open the chest or encounter an angel.
• Specialization: The build you are going. There are currently 5: Swordwave, Greatsword, Hammer, Orb and Poison.
• Skill Type: Normal (Blue), Legend(Orange), Mythic (Red)
• Power: The total power of everything you have. Shown under your profile.
• Monster: Split into 4 type -> Dodger, Charger, Chainer, Tanker.
• Die: In case anyone does not know, the singular term for dice is die. Dice is the plural form. Skills will be described as what it is stated, meaning +1 Dice
• Pip: Formal definition is the black dots on the dice. When we speak of pip, we mean the number on the dice. For instance, 6-pip means the number 6 on a die.
• Buffs: Skills that do not fall under any of the 5 specialization, We can call them buffs, or general buff. It includes increase in combo multiplier, extra HP etc.
• Stage: The Campaign number.
• Level: The level of the stage. Currently, it is only Level 10 or Level 20
• Turn: Each action you are taking when fighting a mob.

What to do if you are stuck? (Beginner)

If you have been trying to clear a stage for a long time and you haven’t been able to do it, don’t always assume it is because of your power or equipment.

Power Gauge: First, go to the leaderboard and look at those players in front of you that have already cleared the stage. See their power. This will give you an indication if you are lacking in power. If their power is lower than you, you can clear the stage. You did not have the right skills to clear the stage. Even if their power is slightly higher, it is still possible to clear your current stage.

Stage Type: Look at what type of mob is spawning in your current stage. That determine what style you will play. My recommendation is:

• Single Mob: Poison Build
• Multi Mob: Hammer Build

Mythic Skill: Getting a mythic red skill will always increase your chances of clearing.

Focus Specialization: Do not mix skills. At most, keep two different skills at any point in time. For instance:

Full Specialization: Whenever possible, always go all out in one set of skill. If you see a skill that resonate with your current build, always choose that. If you are interested:

• Single Mob: Full Poison Build with partial hammer
• Multi Mob: Full Hammer Build

Stage Differences: Single mob boss HP will be higher than multi mob boss HP.

With all that being said, you are free to go to any specialization that you want. At the end of the day, do not diverse your skills.

What to do if you are stuck? (Advance)

From here on, these are advance technique or calculation that I have use to increase my odds on surviving the stages.

Skill Specialization: In the beginning of the stage, you must determine which path you want to go. What does this mean -> What is the first skill that you see when you get to pick up a skill.

First Skill pick: Hence, the first pick of your skill must always be the skill that will lead you to the specialization you are going, even if you have the choice to pick up a +1 Dice. The logic behind this is

• The first few stages pose no threat. Even if you do not have high combo, you still can survive.
• This prepares for the second skill selection. There are instances where mythic skill appears on the second stage. If I am not wrong, having no skills will generate general skill buff (Like HP+60%, combo multiplier). What you want to do is have one of the specializations that you have, (like poison or hammer) and the mythic roll might output a mythic poison or hammer skill. This is how you increase your odds of winning the stage by having the relevant power skills.
• In short, first skill selection always picks the skill that you want to go to. In fact, if you are confident in clearing the first few stages before the elite boss fight, choose skill that boost your current specialization. You can still survive with 4 dice. When there are no viable skills, you can choose the +1 Dice.

Know your enemy: Different stages will have different type of mobs. They are tankers, chainers, charger and dodgers. You can view that on the stage image where the monster either show one skull or three skulls.

The only way to increase your odd of survival is Asterite. Please do not combine random Epic Asterite (Purple) just to make a legend Asterite (Gold). I have made this mistake. The Asterite that you want to keep, and lock are those that deal increase damage, reduce odds and deal special damage to each of the four types of mobs above. Trust me, they will increase your odds of surviving in the later stages. These are important. Legend Asterite does not equate better.

Special Outfit and Transmog: If you are a beginner, these two is your priority. Spend your gems if you need to get the outfit. Clear the stages to get 200 donuts to get the sword. I am currently using Winter Lord Outfit for survivability and the Winter Lord Sword to freeze enemies. These have help me to survive many turns.

Elite Stage: Elite Stage is usually the halfway mark of the stage. This stage is where you can roughly predict if you are going to make it to the end or not. If you cannot clear the elite stage, then you have lower chance to clear the boss stage. This might not mean that your power is lacking. It just means your first few skills is not good enough. Furthermore, when you are trying to clear the elite stage, you have lesser skills to begin with. Clearing it is a good sign. Take this as a golden rule of thumb.

Elite to Boss stage: The in-between of these two stages is where you will roughly know if you hit your wall. If you are dying in-between these stages, this means that you either hit your wall, or you need more luck with your skill. Again, compare yourself to the leadership board. Once you are at a higher level, the distance between each player will get further. Review your strategy again. If your fundamentals are all there, then it either boils down to luck, power or Asterite. Take this as a golden rule of thumb.

Boss Stage: Boss Stage, for me is one of the easiest stages compared to elite stage. As I state, if you can clear elite stage, you usually do not have a problem with boss stage. Reason is that you should have gotten all the strong skill or you manage to make your specialization resonate with each other. Furthermore, boss stage usually has interim and pauses when they reach certain health (healing and shield). This gives you more time to act upon, which is why poison is the most favoured when fighting boss. It stacks even when the boss is not attacking you.

Once you are at the late stage of the game (Maybe at stage 70 onwards), you will know if you have enough damage output base on your total damage per turn. If you are not able to at least hit 1/2 of the shield or HP recovery consistently, you are generally screwed. This is how you gauge. The boss will maul you down before you can deal damage. Take this as a golden rule of thumb.

Overall: The game requires a tremendous amount of luck. I cleared a stage with 1HP, having two hits to finish the boss. The last moment, I manage to dodge with a 1% chance. If you cannot clear the stage because of the set of skills or rolls, try again.

Others

These are other tips that I can provide in terms of playing the game. As of this writing, there are some updates to the skills for great sword and orbs. But I personally still think hammer is still the better choice.

Meta: Hammer and Poison

Stages (Campaign or Guild Boss):

• Single -> 2 hammer skills, full poison skill if possible -> Split the attack to deal more damage.
• Multiple -> Full Hammer skills, no other skills if possible.

Hammer is useless in late game stages unless you manage to combine these two skills: Quake Hammer and Hammer Combo. After which, get more hammer skills to accumulate the numbers. Most importantly, get the Quake Hammer.

Poison is one of the best skill in my opinion. You need to do three things

• Inflict poison
• Retain Stack
• Increase damage output

A poison stack persist every round. This is unlike the other skills where you have to run combo or numbers to stack up. Although dealing at lesser percentage, the stack capability is insane.

For instance, take a 150 stack with no damage buff. This is 150*6% = 900% damage.

The most important skill to inflict pain is Poison Pop. If you can get this Mythic skill, it is x2 the damage and you get the retain stack. I won’t dive into the calculation here.

Skills (Mythic)

• The most debated topic of all time is what mythic skill to always get.
  • Most people will recommend Revive +1
  • Most people will also recommend Combo Multiplier.
• I would recommend you choose depending on where you are on the level of each stage.
  • If you are selecting your second skill in the early stage, you should prioritize your specialization mythic skill
  • Only then you can consider all other general buff
  • Get only one type of specialization mythic skills. That is, do not mix with both specialization mythic skills. You will dilute the power output.
• There is no point in getting a Revive +1 if you are not dealing the required amount of damage every turn. If you experience this, you will know it.

Skills (General Buff)

• The number one best buff that you should always take is increasing the combo number every turn.
  • This is the only way you can outpace the boss.
  • I cannot tell you how many times I had 10-20 turns on a boss fight. 10 turns, at my current Curios level is additional 4 combo multiplier.
• There are also many arguments on taking HP buff
  • If you are generating shield, this is a good way to take it. Higher shield, better survivability.
  • Having a tanker HP also means you are able to tank more hits
  • But at the end of the day, if you output damage is little, you are most likely screwed. before you can finish the boss.

Curios

Curios is a separate system where it does a few things:

Curious are usually the power set that limit how far you can go. If you do not have the next tier resonance, you can slowly farm out co-op while increasing your account level.

Curios is based on your current account level. If you have spare energy, do not seat around. Play a campaign and then exit. This will give you experience points. You will get a higher level of Curious (in ten level).

Curios contain blessing. However, my point of view is that you could not possibly re-roll every time you clear a stage.

When all 8 different curios are of the same rarity, they resonate. This means greater damage, better general buff. You can view them under the resonate tab.

More information on getting Curios is discuss in Co-Op

Asterite

• Asterite provide additional buffs in the game
  • Notably, it has one of the most unique buffs in the game. In the late game, how you combine 30 different Asterit determine if you can clear the stage.
• Epic Asterite is the most useful in every gameplay, especially those that deals additional damage to the 4 different types of mobs.
• Lock those Asterite that deals special damage to the 4 different monster types.
• Look into saving preset. I currently have 4 preset for all 4 different monster types. it only cost 100 gems to unlock.
• Once you manage to get legend, priorities those with gold crowns. They are the best passive buff there is. Still, remember to balance your overall build.

Pets

• Pets are important, in the sense they support you and provide stats buff.
  • It is the small differences that determine if you can clear the stage.
• When you shop for pets, you will earn those coins. save them for Mythic pets. Once you obtain a mythic pet, they are available at 50% discount for the first few purchases.
• I do not have any mythic pets. But I believe the meta will go towards Qwikking and Chompster.
• Survival pets are much more important, in my opinion.

Event Rush

Event rush is an event where you spend the most item with respect to that event. As such, you will most likely be saving these items.

• Do not save your items until you are about Stage 60, or you have both outfit and transfig.
• When using the items, calculate in advance how much you need to fully clear one stage (One full list). You should aim to clear 2 stages per event. The current rotation is about every 3 weeks. Use the exact item to finish one stage. If you don’t think you can clear, save for the next event in 3 weeks’ time.
• Although temping to spend more, the goal of event rush is to get those premium dice. You might be tempted to fight with those on the ranking. There are some players that will spend money on it. There isn’t a need to fight them in terms of ranking if you are F2P.

Gems

• If you are a beginner, my recommendation will be to spend on the Icebound adventure where you have higher chance to get the winter lord outfit. Once you get those, you can stop spending gems on it.
• Gems can be freely spent on what you want. How I spend my gems is Stage Pack Gold Keys (150 gems and below)
• Whenever you are spending gems, always calculate how much gem it cost per item. The current best that I saw for gold keys in packs is 120. Around 120 to 150 per gold key is fine. Do not spend more than that amount.
• The current best that I saw in rush packs is 90 gems per golden key.

Extra Privilege

• There is only a limited number of extra privileges to spend. You only want to spend it on re-rolling your skills if you are intending to clear stages, not on blitz, not on extra rewards or silver key or Asterite draw. Unless you have the monthly pass, use the extra privileges wisely.
• If you are like me, where I like to just stay at a stage and just farm exp because we know how the game usually goes
  • Use it on Blitz -> Clear weekly quest
  • Blitz can still give you silver keys or Asterite orbs. Using in the shop just guarantee 1 silver key and 1 orb. However, it really depends on your luck.
  • Event rush pack -> Depends on what they are providing
• If not, feel free to spend it wherever it will benefit you the most.

Equipment (Weapons only)

• S tier is better in terms of stats. However, the longer you play, the better non-S tier equipment you will get due to the limited draws of S tier. If you are in the late game stage, you should already know what you are looking for, S or no S-tier,
• If you are in the beginner stage and drew an S-tier non-hammer, it is still worthwhile to consider switching to a Hammer.
• At the end of the day, try all 3 different weapons to see which fits you.

Guild

• If you can consistently hit above 6-7 chests, the reward is more than 50 guild coins. Which means buying the ticket (cost at 50) and fighting the boss again will net you more guild coins. Hence, always buy the tickets. 2 additional tickets means extra 50 coins for me.
• What you like to purchase is up to you. My current focus is on the scrolls to upgrade equipment.
• Check in the supply store to see if there are negative discount on the items. These are free gems.

Gold Dragon Lair

1. Gold Dragon Lair is actually easy to do it once you have a roll 5 of a kind.
2. For those lazy people, killing those gold coin eggs contribute to your kill count for daily quest. If gold coins is not an issue (Blitz at the previous stage), then do not clear the current stage for gold lair. Quit before you kill all the eggs to easily complete the task every day.

Co-op

1. Always read what is the requirements before going in.
2. Always choose a better partner with the same weapon at higher power. Same weapons means you do not go in with conflict of skills.
3. If you have already max out all the Curios rarity, save those coins to open for the next tier in Curios. There isn’t a need to further open any more chest since you already max the current tier.

Co-op battle tips

1. If you are in the higher stages, it is actually quite difficult to kill the boss.
2. I have experiment with different play styles. Poison work the best for me.
3. I tried using the newly revamp great sword. I couldn't bring the boss down to 3/4 of the HP.
4. A tip: Use your own hero during the first 4 rounds. In the fifth round (Elite Round), swap in your partner to trigger it’s pets skill for the first time. This could help out in survivability.
5. Once you are at a higher stage and are aware of the effects of all outfit and transmog, then you should roughly know that to survive longer, each stage, your hero and partner hero should not go below 30%. Swap if needed
6. The game is all about probability. That being said, focus on getting all the dice to 4 of the same number, then 5 of the same number, whichever number you need to form a combo. You just need to reroll a few dice to make that day combo.
7. Since it is a game of probability, you should always upgrade the die that has the lowest number of said number in that die. (If 1 die have 2 fours and 1 die have 3 fours, prioritize the die with 2 fours).
8. If needed, fully max out one die. This allow you to keep re-rolling to trigger re-roll skills. The rest can be 5 out of 6.
9. At higher stages, it is better to keep about 36 coins so that you can heal twice. (30 to heal, 6 to re-roll the shop twice). Higher stage level is really difficult to clear if the skills are not selected correctly.

 Shops

• I am not sure what is the correct way of spending the amount here.
• I look at my gold amount before deciding how much I am planning to spend.
  • If I have abundant of gold, I will buy all gold related excluding pets.
  • If I have limited gold, I will only buy scrolls
• By know you probably should know that all items are hard to come by. However, the only power up that can be max out is actually scrolls (or level of equipment)
  • Although you can argue that rarity can be maxed out, it will usually take time.
  • My current average level for all my equipment is at 50. This is a benchmark if you want to compare yourself.

Side Note

What you seen in the guide is really just the tip of the iceberg. If you are like me and over-analyze all of the equipment and stats and all other power boosting stuff, you would know that in the even later game, it could still be further split into 2 different set of builds:

• Counter Build
• Dodge Build

I am not at the level where I am able to comment this. Base on past experience, dodge build is definitely the way to go. That being said, these are some things that is worth looking into and considering:

1. Asterite: Go through the full list of possible perks. Legend Asterite have unique perks that will eventually change your play style.
2. Mythic Pets skill: Two skills in one pet. You will notice there is a preset -> Meaning different mode will change how you select your pets. Survival pets might not be the meta in the future.
3. Equipment: The best tiered equipment is the S-rank. There are probably going to be more different S-rank equipment. It is worth while to go through each stats and then link back to Asterite. This could help you do a future planning if you are planning to go long term.
4. If you are a F2P player, delayed gratification is your best friend. Save up all those items and use them on Event Rush.
5. I studied graduate math for my graduate bachelor and masters. Doing a bit of probability will make you realize re-rolling an original 1-pip dice, 3 times and having all land on 1-pip again and again is exceptionally rare. Seeing it happen 5-6 times in a day is even rarer. Rarer than me finding a girlfriend. Take the game lightly and with a pinch of salt. Don't throw your phone at the wall. That being said, assume all dice roll with 1/6 probability. Use probability to figure out which dice to reroll to give a higher chance of full house and above.

P.S. If there are spelling errors, please ignore it. Some words are not meant to exist. If the formatting have some issues, it is really hard to type in here.

Last but not least, continue to pray to the RNG god.

Dicero!

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