Once she has the warspirit, she is a pretty good proc-machine. However the AI a bit stupid, like casting barrage when it clearly cant reach the target. She is fairly offensive focused on physical damage. The choice of Mercenaries depends on needs and the role they have to fullfill They are able to carry you alone if needed for most of the regular content. Mercenaries are not required in the game, but are very helpful and strong. With the low base defense grisworlds armor is falling of at some point, so using one of these in a base armor with higher def increases ur surviveability until you find what you looking for. skill and - enemy ress, this is the option for casters or more offensive builds These can be used for various powerful runewords to make your early game easier. Pick them up early on so you have them once you need them. In early stages buying oils of renewall is too expensive to create item bases for runewords. The main thing you have to look for is this: In the very early stages of the game the best and really the only thing you can do is every shit you find. >Any Item + Oil of renewall = Basic white item (useful for runewords) >Item without socket + X jewels = item + X sockets -> number of sockets is capped -> tier 1 items cant have 6 sockets >Item + regular mystic orb = Item + orb bonus + 4 additional level requirement (up to 5x of the same kind) >Non-magical and runewords: Socketed item + Oil of Disjunction + perfect gem x3 → separate 'grey' item and socket fillers >Socketed item + Oil of Disjunction → separate item and socket fillers >Pick up all sets to make sigs, each sig is 1 permanent stat point, transmute set item with cataclyst of learning >Pick up all uniques to make shards no matter how bad the item is ( does not work with items from grisworld Box) >1x Arcane Crystal + Item (Tier 1-3) = Item (Tier +1) >Unique non-sacred weapon/armor + Arcane Crystal + rune → reroll as next higher tier >Any non-sacred item + Oil of Enhancement + Arcane Crystal x2 → reroll item as unique >Any unique item x1-10 + Catalyst of Disenchantment → Arcane Shards x1-10 + Catalyst of Disenchantment You cannot disenchant both unique and set items at the same time >Destroy spare unique to create Arcane Shards and combine these into Arcane Crystals, which are required for other cube recipes.

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