Ascended Tower of Trials Alt. Method/Tips

[Seibei4211]

First of all, check out mvpeast's guide for the tower if you haven't already, cause I definitely learned a lot there. https://www.reddit.com/r/PlayGodfall/comments/jxq6f0/godfall_ascended_tower_of_trials_guide_for_ps5pc/

 

 

I just want to add onto that with my alternative method and extra info about the ascended tower I didn't know before playing it. This isn't going to be helpful for everyone. Some people have no troubles with the tower and don't need this, some people might have troubles, so any extra info/ideas to help them out won't hurt. If you don't care about this next bit and just want to see what the general info is, that's at the bottom.

 

I was attempting to follow that guide, but I never ever in all my time got the Surety augment. I never got a good, consistent way to open up weakpoints like that. Also, that time bubble hammer's been nerfed as you probably know. What I found instead was a hammer that became the basis of the method I ran with. I ended up doing this in 2 1/2 hours. First off, here was my whole loadout:

 

Silvermane valorplate - I know, I didn't go with Hinterclaw, I'll explain later

Drazkul's Legacy - blessings of luck and infusion
Maul of the Obsidian Pack - Overhealth on weapon technique kill, no overhealth drain. The Vasara hammer has the same effect without the blessing of infusion effect
Mark of the Duelist - health on crit. Totally understandable to go with Amulet of the Betrayer which prevents a death with a 10 minute cooldown.
Lion Talisman - weapon technique charge on crit
Incarnate Soul Ring - ignite chance with southern technique
Dawn Lord's Signet - takedown bleed chance
Archon's Tear - crit chance
Mesa's Banderole - crit chance

Focus - overhealth for crits
Resilience - overhealth for soulshattering
Paradise - weapon technique speed for crit
Twilight Bloom - huge weapon technique damage boost
Evisceration - blessing of power on crit
Nightshade - blind enemies when overhealth is lowered
Divine Conduit - huge boost to archon fury charge rate when hit
Rift - boosted damage for enemies with ailments
Karmic Soul - free lifestone when placing banner. Honestly probably could've used something else, but didn't have any clear winners for this blue slot. Evervation maybe.

 

Focused on crit chance, weapon technique damage, crit damage, air resistance, and all resistance. Ultimately had 30% crit, 300% crit damage, and like 200+ weapon technique damage.

 

For skills, I mostly followed mvpeast's skill tree, but I took 4 from Archon Fury and put them into Takedown and took one from Resistance and put it into Weapon Timing.

 

The weapon timing is because the longsword southern technique's timing attack can knock down enemies for an extended period including most shielded enemies. So that's a free easy way to kill shielded enemies for a while. The 5th tier takedown skill is because I'm mainly focused on killing with weapon techniques, so might as well get the free takedowns from it. Not only that, but it's a huge time saver to teleport across the map to the next enemy. That teleport goes much further than it seems, even if the button prompt isn't there. The final reason for all the takedowns is the 50% chance of bleed I had on that ring, so that's going to boost damage if anyone happens to bleed from it.

 

So here is the main thing I was doing the entire time: weapon technique kills with the hammer, almost always southern technique. If I killed with it, that was about 330 overhealth, and if they were soulshattered, it was closer to 480 overhealth, plus if it happened to crit, now we're talking over 500 overhealth for one kill. And it won't deplete. If someone does happen to hit you, they get blinded which 9/10 times opens their weakpoint, which is usually a free kill, so you get some overhealth back and the cooldown for the blind is only 20 seconds. So because of the overhealth, I usually had 7,000 hp.

 

In every game ever, I always go for crit builds like anyone else, so I was sure I'd go for Hinterclaw, but here's why I went with Silvermane. First thing, he gets two more augment slots. I already had to make some tough cuts, I couldn't make more. More importantly, it's possible for Silvermane to have 100% crit chance, but it's not possible for anyone else to have 300% weapon technique charge speed. Plus 30% damage boost for each enemy killed with no cap? If you're up against a boss and you happen to be able to use your lifestone plus the banner, that's +55-65% crit chance and +200% crit damage. Even if you can't use the lifestone cause you have too much overhealth, you're still easily able to spam that southern technique like 7+ times. Even if you just cough weird, your weapon technique gauge instantly gets maxed out and you just keep spamming. I would also frequently use Archon Fury (no banner) against a 4 key time trial and obliterate people to max out the overhealth again, too. So that's why I picked Silvermane, all the additional, mega powerful technique uses.

 

Here are some general bits of tips/info that I think is useful for getting through the 50 floors:

- As of version 2.1.17, the game still hitches and can be unstable, so I suggest closing the game fully before beginning your run so it's less likely to crash.

- Always go for green doors, if possible. They're usually going to have the weakest enemies, but occasionally there's still a boss in there unexpectedly.

- As of version 2.1.17, the game still hitches (for me, at least) when picking up loot. Because of that, I advise opening as few chests as possible, especially on higher floors. You don't want to have your game crash on floor 40 cause of some pointless free chest with a green item. I was skipping every chest at a certain point.

- ONE EXCEPTION to the chest thing is that the chests that drop health/archon fury orbs are fine. I would get those for some free archon fury charge.

- Unlike the normal tower of trials, boons are pretty rare in the ascended tower.

- If you ever see the Stash door, go for it. It's one of the only ways to get boons after a while. If you're skipping chests like I was, you'll always have enough keys for the boons. I once got 3 boons from one door, which cost 25 keys. You could also get 0 boons.

- Enemies don't seem to stop powering up just at trial 5 or level 60 or whatever. I definitely noticed some drastically increased health on higher floors. Specifically, I noticed a boost around trial 25 and again at trial 40. If you're struggling to kill enemies before 25, it won't get better. No joke, some of the bosses later on had to have like over 500k hp. Close to 1 million maybe. You're going to need to get some op boons or have some other op DPS method. Or just be really really good at staying alive for a long time.

- Every piece of equipment, when enchanted/upgraded fully, gets an extra trait (which you can sorta choose) and this includes augments. Most of my augments gave me weapon technique damage as an option. This was significant, because I more than doubled my base technique damage because of that.

[BrasilKilla]

Holy crap i reached level 50 and tried the ascended tower and this is BRUTAL!!! Can it be done on easy difficulty? 

[Seibei4211]

On 12/17/2020 at 4:42 PM, BrasilKilla said:

Holy crap i reached level 50 and tried the ascended tower and this is BRUTAL!!! Can it be done on easy difficulty? 

Apparently there's a set difficulty on the ascended tower, so it doesn't matter what difficulty you pick.

 

And like I mention in the post, the enemies seem to get significantly more health in higher floors, so if the lower floors give you trouble, you'll need to put some time in to upgrade your build.

[TacoGaryy]

where do you get the lion talisman ive been trying for weeks to farm it with no luck have they removed it from the game do you know ?

[TehTeribad]

On 11/01/2021 at 10:10 PM, gazzat91 said:

where do you get the lion talisman ive been trying for weeks to farm it with no luck have they removed it from the game do you know ?

It can drop as a reward if the text of the dreamstone mission is - Epic Critical Hit Item. I had 2 dropping like that last 2 days. Lunara exalted was where I had most luck with that particular reward.

[stitchesnscars]

On 1/12/2021 at 5:16 PM, TehTeribad said:

It can drop as a reward if the text of the dreamstone mission is - Epic Critical Hit Item. I had 2 dropping like that last 2 days. Lunara exalted was where I had most luck with that particular reward.

Thanks i will try to look out for that as well. Is there a list somewhere that spells out what each of those categories mean. Like others i have been looking for Surety and Lions Charm for days and knowing what the descriptors are would help.