Addons: (neither are necessary but you have the beat The Master a max of 2 times to unlock Skeleton) All the tips here will also help you on any other races but i have it down on skeleton to a science and recommend using skeletons to learn the classes

Unlock all class/ races

mannendakes improved autorest and explore(for making autocasts wait to be ready before autoexplore)

if you dont want to use the autorest addon you will just manually have to pop bone armor when you see someone out of autoexplore.

tile size 40x40, hotbar but on bottom and stretch it so it has 2 rows, move buffs to under hp on left side

Reason skeletons are the best: Immune to SWL/Poisons/Bleed/ Best start(lucky with vaults/gold chests/sacks. Make sure you only do them after cleaing the entire dungeon. you will want bone armor at lvl 1-2 and may still die depending on what pops out for you)/ Always blood of life with racial/ Free Shielding/ Free Healing/ Best race for any class that pumps dex/uses weapons pretty good for mages but are outclassed by ghoul/yeek on some classes

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Gear to watch out for early game : All HP or DIE AT gear. ALL 10-15% Out Of Phase items. Items with 20% Silence/Confuse/Stun Res.

Escorts: Chants is always used to replace an inscription, it's a straight upgrade to a shatter. So if you plan to ever take an inscription slot on a char and you save a sun pal escort, always take chants. If you can afford to take scoundrel off a thief as a class that hits with weapons you should do so. Otherwise, heightened Senses, misdirection, lacerating strikes. Warrior always take vitality. And then str or con. Every other class you just take a plus 5 to whatever your main stat is, usually magic, str, willpower, dex

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Prodigies: If you are a class that pumps Dex or Magic you will take Etheral Form.

Mages will want cauterize(non mage classes that want caut can easily farm the 1000 spell casts by going to a cleared level putting a tp rune on auto use when avail and then just hold your rest key for like 3 mins, can farm the fire damage at the lvl locked mark of spellblaze below)

Adept for mind casters. Mystic cunning is amazing on classes with poison (skirm, rogue, archer)

2nd prod depends on class.

Flexible combat for weapon users, Adept for mages and mindcasters, Cauterize if you are a class without a trained reactions style 1 shot protection

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Goal: Two pieces of 15% OOP gear and voidstalkercloak ASAP. Unlock survival if it is locked and get device mastery to 5/5 as soon as you have the VScloak and 30% oop. Usually by lvl 18-23 depending on class.

Early game you can use a blink rune to buff your OOP with the VSC (only on classes you can take in inscrip at 10) https://youtu.be/p8ROSaEsz-c?si=ytUbOxo86t3hT8qV

Press M and find your VSC in the list and right lick it and set it to use use when enemy visible. You will want to use the cloak every single time it is ready to keep the buff. If you blink into a bad spot or something scares you reset with teleport rune

Tome Skeleton meta

put your main skill(usually the stun) on your left click and a beam or other useful skill on middle click. Turn on every sustain and set it to auto use when avail and then click it again and set it to confirm(unless it is instant 0% of a turn). Set your shielding rune to auto use when vis and adj. Once you get Bone Armor set it to auto use on enemy visible and you can run it like this til at least your first t2. I usually turn off my bone armor once i have 40% OOP depending on how strong i feel. More on that later. After killing the boss go to mark of the spellblaze to level lock it(gives easy faeros ash for alch quest and these same faeros you can use to farm fire damage on yourself safely if you plan to take cauterize after you hit 25) and then go to trollmire and leave right away. Go to Kor Pul and clear the first 2 floors only looking for escorts, if you are lucky you will get 2, do not do floor 3(save for when you are level 10.

Now go back to trollmire and Clear it fully all the way to Bill.

Go do Derth Arena Quest and rod out, go dance around in the field North of Last Hope to Trigger the Lumberjack Quest. You will hit 10 here if you are not already 10.

Now go check Shops. What you really want is a Voidstalker Cloak from either Last Hope or Elvala. Check the Boots shop in Last Hope and make note if there is a Undettered Boots for you to buy later.

Check the runes shops and buy any good runes you see (10-15 cd Teleport Rune, any 300 Shielding runes, Any 12-15 CD Shatters regardless of the shield it gives, lower is better for Shatter and TP runes.

After you check LH and Elf go to Angowlen and check the rune shop there and the ring shop. Buy any Grounding necklaces if you dont have one and rings of perserverance or Of life.

You also should check every single little wizard and inspect them and look at thier gear and see if they have an Artifact Robe on and if they do body swap them over and over until you are out of sight of other wizards and kill them and take your Spyder or Robe of force from thier corpse.

Then go finish Kor Pul 3.

Use your teleport rune if you are ever scared for your life. Clear KP 3 and then go do Rhaloren Camp.

Go buy your voidstalker cloak as soon as you have the money if you were lucky and one is in the shops followed by Undeterred boots. Then go finish Scint caves, Norgos, and HOTG in that order.

The next goal is to hit 20 and check all the shops again for things you didnt have at 10 (undet/voidcloak) also check Derths gem shop for Quartz and go to Angowlen to craft the rings. Use or buy a gold ring(or steel if they have no gold) and craft a your 30% Stun Rings.

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T2s SWL(eat heart right away for points to spend)/maze/daikara/Old forest/Lake of nur/ Tempest Peak/ Halfling Ruins/ Conclave if you get it. you can clear the level locked mark of spellblaze anytime after 20-25. Do not do the 2nd level GC will kills your ass. You can also go cause Hidden Tunnel to proc up north any time after 25. Side with Ass Lord for Fonting if you have Forbidden Cults DLC You can use the rune of dissipation from killing urkis on both the weirdling beast and the master if you can fit the rune into your rotation currently or at level 34.

Once you have your first prodigy you can go through lake of nur to kill the weirdling beast, you can not use blinking or your void cloak to gap close in here, I often start by just waiting on the stores with a shield on for him to approach and then I go up to reset the fight and come back ready to fight him as he is closer. Once you kill him insert the rod in the orb and then ask the ghost "what else can this place do?" Once the numbers appear above the orb open your inventory and transmog gems until you reach 10 energy and then talk to The Ghost and choose can you improve my cloak, finally put on your cloak of deception one last time and then you can put your voidcloak back on for the rest of the game.

Dreadfell and then reknor. If you want you can do ruined dungeon anytime after 25 but i usually skip it.

Vor A/ Briaghs lair

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Back up Guards

Check Derth shop for Bloodstones(60% STUN RES) if they have some craft it on a voratun ring, you might be able to buy one in Angolwen ring shop.

Go to Strange portal and use Ass Lord code(to easily find press escape, choose show known lore, type ASS in the bar to pick the msg with the code) to font items (https://te4.org/wiki/Ego)

for weapons you want cripple/ruin/evis/balanced/truestriking

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SWL 1/ Scint 3/ Forest 3 /Maze 2/ Kor pul 3 are all safe to do. You can do Trollmire 2 if careful. DF and Daikara are certainly dangerous so feel free to skip if you dont know what you are doing.

Go back to reknor and go back east

You can do Limmirs amulet quest if you found his book. I like to make Lifebinding emerald(derth alch reward) and Goedalth Rock Amulets or Petrified wood if Lifebinding was not possible to get this run and i dont want to use Vox or Pendant of Sun and Moons or a blind immune amulet OR any super nice randart amulet ive found to this point.

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Prides

Grush/Rakshor/Gorbat/Charred scar run( you can totally skip charred scar, you just have to fight a "new" boss at the final portal on floor 10(when you beat them you have a choice to spare or kill them, always spare them.)

Go craft bloodstones/ font. Clear Vor and either go font one last time or go to slime tunnels, clear that and then font one last time. Then go to High Peak. Shop for a blink rune before entering high peak, you will want to equip it over your teleport rune at the portal to the final fight on floor 10 My Winners Tablehttps://te4.org/user/212909/wins

(will edit to answer questions or fix mistakes)
https://www.youtube.com/@suchastateofsmash

my youtube if you wanna creep some mid-end game plays