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The following guide shows you how to complete a Blighted map encounter. In blighted maps, players have 5 minutes to kill multiple waves of monsters that spawn from fixed portals. These portals appear over the course of time and players are granted power to build towers. Each construction or upgradation of a tower costs a certain amount of power. As you kill enemies, you will earn more power. In this guide you will annoint your Blighted maps with Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s, that decrease the cost of building and upgrading towers, allowing you to have far more towers.

Strategy[]

This guide uses the Scout Tower strategy, which is to place down towers that summon powerful flying minions to attack monsters, greatly reducing the amount of damage the player must do. There are various strategies and methods that can be used to successfully complete a Blight encounter and this is just one of them. This guide does not state that Scout Towers is the recommended strategy, however, it is the easiest method for beginners and learners to get started with Blighted maps.

In this strategy, you will be running around and placing Scout Towers at strategic locations and then staying in the center to kill the mini bosses that the towers cannot finish off.

You will need a high level character capable of significant damage output in order to successfully complete this type of map.

Steps[]

Step Image Mechanic
1 Blight map ring annoint First annoint your rings to grant Scout Tower minions more damage.

To do this, take your ring to Sister Cassia at your hideout, and within the Annoint Items interface, place your ring along with 2 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes...

Then press Annoint to add the annoint. Do this for both your rings. You can even annoint Unique rings.

2 Blight map preparation

Warning: A rare map with more modifiers provides more rewards, but also greatly increases the difficulty of the combat and you will need 20 million+ DPS to properly defeat it, therefore for learning just run a normal rarity map.

To prepare your blighted map, first use an Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. on it if it is not normal rarity.

After you have defeated at least one normal map, try a magic map, then rare, then finally a corrupted rare map for the maximum rewards.

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3 Blight map annointing Take your map to Cassia, and annoint it with 3 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes...

More annointing tips are given in this section.

4 Blight map device Now place your annointed Blighted map into your map device and start it.
5 Blight map portal position The first thing to do is to run to one of the edges/corners of the map and place your Portal there, so you don't accidentally click on the Portal during an intensive fight and lose the encounter.
6 Blight map scout Now scout around a map to get a feel of the map layout.
7 Blight map ichor pump Click the Ichor Pump near Sister Cassia to begin the blight encounter.

The Purification Pump is the big egg-like structure in the center, which you must defend at all costs.

8 Blight map started Now the Blight encounter has begun. You have 5 minutes to kill multiple waves of enemies and to defend the Purification Pump at all costs.
  • Countdown Timer is shown on the top
  • Monster Portals as well as the type of monsters shown on the bottom
  • Purification Pump Health Bar (durability) is shown on the bottom
  • Power Available for constructing towers is right at the bottom
9 Blight map empowering tower 1 The first thing to do is build an Empowering Tower near to the Purification Pump.

This increases your damage against monsters or mini bosses that are almost about to reach the Pump.

  1. To do this, click the Hammer icon nearest the Pump
  2. Click Buff tower icon Empowering Tower Mk 1
  3. Click the Gear icon to upgrade it multiple times
10 Blight map empowering tower 2 Click BuffPlayer tower icon Imbuing Tower for the final upgrade to the Empowering Tower which increases your damage while you stand it in.

As you can see the radius of the tower has also greatly increased.

11 Blight map first wave The first wave of monster portals has appeared.

On the map you can see:

  • Monster Portal icons indicating the spawn points
  • Purification Pump icon indicating the main element to defend
  • Stars show you where to place the Scout Towers
12 Blight map tower 1 Run to the first monster portal, and place down a Minion tower icon Summoning Tower Mk 1.
13 Blight map tower 2 Click the gear icon multiple times to upgrade it.
14 Blight map tower 3 For the final upgrade on the Summoning Tower, select FlyingMinion tower icon Scout Tower (wings icon).
15 Blight map junction tower Next run to one of the junction points where 2 lanes converge, and then place down a Scout Tower over there.
16 Blight map second wave 1 You know when new Monster Portals spawn if Cassia says:
  • "Its branching, exile!"
  • "The blight is spreading!"
  • "It's put out new mycelium!.. New roots!"

When this happens, you'll see many more Monster Portals appear and many more red dots (monsters) on your map.

The goal is to place down Scout Towers on the junction points so that they can target monsters moving along multiple lanes.

The map shows the recommended locations for Scout Towers with Stars.

17 Blight map second wave 2 As you can see, monsters on the right are moving upward, so we need to build at least 2 Scout Towers next to the lane to tackle them.

Run around the map placing towers in this way.

If the monsters are breaking through, build more towers in that region.

18 Blight map defence When Cassia says any of the following, drop whatever you're doing and immediately return to defend the Pump:
  • "Do not let them reach the purification pump!"
  • "You're making me nervous!"

You will be expected to deal a high amount of single-target damage for the mini bosses that spawn, as the towers may damage them but often fail to kill them.

Constantly return to the center and kill any monsters near the Pump.


19 Blight map complete When you have killed all the monsters, the encounter will end and the central drops will appear on the ground. These are usually of low value.
20 Blight map looting Run to the Blight Reward chests and loot them. This is where the primary profit comes from.

The remaining rewards show as icons at the bottom of the screen. Use this to track if you have forgotten to loot any chests.