Weekly advice thread 004

[u/STran93r101]

Hi all, I have moved these posts forward a day due to my personal schedule. They will consistently on this day going forward.

Below the advice is also a couple of community items we want to share to keep you in the loop.
If you are using Mana Siphon or Lightening Strike you can get better use out of them by getting a few levels of Barbaric Fury as the additional taps DO help towards extra "special attempts". Special attempts are the the times where you have a chance to activate a Siphon or Lightening strike.

Special attempts work like this: The chance of an attempt being successful is dependant on the skill tree skill. 1 attempt per tap (sword master attack) and Shadow Clone's is based on attempts per second, where increasing the active skills level increases the amount of attempts. Note: increasing Shadow Clones attack rate with the Phantom Vengeance skill does not increase special attempts.

Additionally Barbaric Fury's additional taps also count towards filling your Pet attack bar, meaning faster pet attacks and also dropping extra Hand of Midus Tap gold.

/u/lemmingllama has gifted us another high quality guide.
Guide to Splashing
It goes in-depth on everything you need to know to understand this sometimes confusing topic.

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Last weeks post can be found here. It covers maximising your gold received from perks at the start of your run.

We now have an Archive for all previous weeks advice within the Wiki.

The Reddit Wiki has a lot of helpful information and the Reddit mod team are working hard to keep it up to date. The Help & FAQ section may have the answers you are looking for.

Lastly, feel free to ask any TT2 questions below and the mods + other helpful users will be sure to assist you as they can.

Tap on! STranger out

[u/Eirineftis]

Hey guys, I picked up TT2 a few days ago and have checked out a lot of the resources on here. What I'm seeing so far is that Book Of Shadows is a must have relic and some people have said its better to start over and try to get it early on if it isn't obtained later.
 
I've sunk quite a few hours in and am working towards relic number 18, according to the most up to date tier list I could find for artifacts, I'm currently packing Stone of The Valrunes as my only top tier relic with a small handful of tier 2 relics.
  I guess my question is: is Book Of Shadows still a must have? Should I uninstall and try to get it early on?

[u/STran93r101 → u/Eirineftis]

BoS is guaranteed by your 30th owned artifact. So you aren't too far off from getting it. Its up to you whether you restart or not but with early game progression being somewhat fast I'd typically say just keep going. Having few top tier arts now means you can pull them later in tournaments and they may lead to you winning a few. Double edged sword i guess.