Absorption

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This is an active challenge, and should take around half an hour if done correctly.


The ultimate goal of this challenge is to reach a high enough level to cast Spell Silence.pngSilence (150-155, depending on your level reduction). However, doing that is a race against time and spells, as with each spell cast you get closer to the Doppelganger hitting level 200 (every 5 spellcasts = +1 level), and with each level, the penalties it applies become stronger.

It's not completely hopeless though. Your one saving grace is the challenge-enhanced Spell Karnaphen's Spellshroud.pngKarnaphen's Spellshroud, which (on top of its profit bonus) increases your experience gained from Clicks/Autoclicks/Void Entities with each cast. While a 10% bonus per cast may look small, it will quickly snowball to giving enough experience and levels to reach the ultimate goal.

There are three Attributes to prioritize in this challenge:

  • Mastery: 175. Maximize character EXP.
  • Wisdom: 100 minimum, higher is acceptable. Maximize spell shard income, and reduce casting costs.
  • Intelligence: 75, for the level reduction trait
  • Empathy: 0. Doppelganger abilities will actively harm you in this challenge, and you do not want to increase its (already high) starting level.

After those are covered,

  • Patience: 75, for the autoclick passive. Also a good place to dump excess points.

If you still have extra Attributes, Spellcraft is an acceptable second dump. Spellcraft may look useful to max, but it won't do as much as you'd expect because most likely you will only cast one Evocation spell in the entire run.

The Run

There are three spells you will need to cast, and only three spells: Spell Karnaphen's Spellshroud.pngKarnaphen's Spellshroud, Spell Conjure Manabeast.pngConjure Manabeast, and Spell Void Lure.pngVoid Lure. Cast Manabeast once, leave Spellshroud on Reckless, cast Void Lure once, and manually click void entities like your run depends on it (because it does). Buy All Sources constantly; the Doppelganger will be continuously eating them (thus causing you to lose experience and levels). You will need to watch this all happening, because if the Doppelganger passes level 180 this challenge starts to quickly get a lot more difficult (and if it passes 190, it becomes nearly impossible).

Once you get within one or two levels of unlocking Silence, prepare to do a burst. Prep Spell Counterspell.pngCounterspell and any Incantations you have space for, and then fire all of them once and Buy All Sources, to get the extra burst of Mana and Sources EXP to push yourself up to unlock Spell Silence.pngSilence. Once you have Silence unlocked, stop casting all other spells, leave Silence on autocast, and the challenge will succeed once Silence drives the Doppelganger level below your level.

To accelerate this final phase, it can be useful to manually cast Spell Syphon Power.pngSyphon Power once whenever Silence runs out of charges. While each cast will push Doppelganger experience up, every Siphon Power will give you another 4 Silences (and thus -3.8 pet levels). Continue Buying All Sources to keep your wizard level up (or throw in one or two more Spellshrouds if you're starting to bleed levels too hard); but once you have Silence rolling the challenge is in the bag.