Shroud of the Apocrea (Mission)
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Shroud of the Apocrea is an event-exclusive prestige mission available during Shroud of the Apocrea.
Overview
Description:
Several capable knights have gone missing in a seemingly normal area of the Clockwork Tunnels. Spiral HQ suspects foul play and has assigned you to investigate the level.
Objective:
Investigate the area of the Clockworks where several knights have gone missing.
Notes
This mission was introduced with release 2013-10-23.
Apocrean Sigils obtained from activities in The Grasping Plateau can be exchanged with Lost Soul Merchant.
This mission's maximum depth is 30, making it the deepest area to date.
Strategy
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The general goal of this mission is to collect Apocrean Sigils. This is accomplished by breaking tombstones, randomly releasing purple souls, and breaking the chains off the souls. Breaking their chains by attacking them rewards sigils. Players can also earn sigils by solving puzzles. All this is done in The Grasping Plateau, with the other combat floors offering standard clockworks loot.
Puzzles in The Grasping Plateau reward Apocrean Sigils in bulk. A puzzle is "solved" or "finished" when everyone receives the puzzle's sigils.
- Sometimes a material will be rewarded (in addition to sigils in bulk) when a puzzle is solved. It appears on the ground and must be picked up. It might not appear for everyone in the party, and it may or may not be the same material for everyone in the party. If one appears, this material is always randomly one of the ones available from the Lost Soul Merchant. You do not have to be nearby for it to have a chance to drop (someone else can solve the puzzle while you are far away).
- Puzzles come in two parts! If you find one part, you can predict and mentally prepare for the other.
This event is enjoyed by the playerbase for a variety of reasons - it's something different and presents a decent challenge for many players. Not only does it provide tokens required to make Obsidian items at the Mysterious Alchemy Machine (or Obelisk of Creation), it also brings arenas that are deep enough to have a decent chance of dropping Radiant Fire Crystals from their treasure boxes. As such, there are several "goals" that players may have, so it's important to establish what everyone wants to do before starting this mission.
Successfully completing Shroud of the Apocrea solo can be difficult due to the nature of the plateau and its inhabitants.
Your party will lock after using the elevator in the Mission Lobby, so plan ahead and make sure everyone knows what to do. The Grasping Plateau does not have an arsenal station, so whatever gear you had the previous floor is the gear you will take to the plateau.
Goal:
Usually plans fall into one or a combination of the below:
- Arena Farm
- Sigil Farm
Recommended Equipment:
- moved to better name, doubt this is linked to externally.Remember, the plateau does not have an arsenal station. Gear up in the previous floor if the party plans to farm here. If in a team farming sigils:
- Plant this bomb next to a tombstone, one tombstone at a time. The detonation will break the tombstone, and whatever comes out will be trapped in the vortex and take some damage. The shock can help slow things down as well, just don't let monsters inflicted with shock wander off and break other tombstones.
- Charge up and let loose when scarabs or souls come out of a tombstone (do not attack if Freezing Bombies spawn). The freeze potential of this blade helps keep souls from wandering off, while the damage helps with all things released from the tombstone.
- Use this sprite to cloak if things get too hairy. The damage boost of the Deadly Shadow Cloak can also help free souls every once in a while.
Each person on the team should have these three tools to help farm sigils. Roles might have to change depending on how events unfold during the mission, so if everyone has these tools, everyone can be flexible. Establish who bombs, who damages, and who distracts the Apocrean Harvester. Two people can break soul chains if there are 4 in the squad, but if there's only two people, then the player with the "farmer" role must both bomb and damage while the other kites the harvester. Whomever kites the harvester should be on the other side of the plateau from the players searching for souls. Go up and down the columns, or side to side along the rows (agree on what to do as a team), popping each tombstone on the way. The process is slow but steady and reliably yields a large number of sigils in a reasonable amount of time. It is important to not deviate from the plan, as the true enemy in this mission is the persistent nagging feeling of time lost.
If your role is to bomb and/or free souls, consider wearing (chaos for the bomber):
Defenses: Shields:
- This shield will not save your skin as often as other shields, but it will significantly increase your attack speed. If you can dodge and avoid getting hit in general, this shield will certainly help you defeat monsters quickly.
- Increases sword power. This may help if you're using swords with the Chaos Set (to max out the sword damage bonus) and rely less on attack speed, plus it has more defense than Swiftstrike Buckler.
Armor and Helmets:
- Black Kat set:
Black Kat Cowl
Black Kat Raiment
- Chaos set:
- Using one of these sets, or combining one item from each of these "glass cannon" sets will let you deal a lot of damage. Chaos will help with Charge Time Reduction, so wearing it as a bomber is ideal. Black Kat will increase your movement speed, allowing you to get out of the way quickly, even without dashing. Both increase damage output significantly. Since the Black Kat items can be difficult to obtain, chaos is generally preferred for economic reasons.
Otherwise, stick with items providing Shadow and Freeze resistance as well as movement speed buffs for the plateau. It is important to consider other areas in this mission when loading out. There is a large variety of hazards. See the gate map of this mission for more details.
