Temporalist Guide (e550+)

Introduction

Last updated for version 1.61

This guide is specifically for after e550 Mysteries, meaning that you have Mechanos Apexis unlocked and can use it. It changes many things significantly from the pre-e550 version.

The Good	The Bad	The Ugly
* Best time scaling in the game * Very good at gaining character levels, and autoclicks/VEs/spells cast for achievements	* Very low base power, needs longer exiles than other classes to get large profits * Doesn't have great offline scaling	* Without enough skipped time, character ability falls victim to significant +1s due to huge divisors

Legendary Temporal Stabilizer is very strongly recommended. As with the previous guide, and as mentioned in the table above, Temporalist has a large divisor in its character ability, and you need to reach a certain point of skipped time in order to make the +1 not significant, so having more skipped time is very important. Even besides that, more skipped time is a strong bonus by itself, and worth getting.

Attribute Points

Your starting attributes should be :

• Intelligence : 155
• Insight : 140 (+60 from Legacy and Netherfist, 200 total)
• Spellcraft : 250
• *Wisdom : 200*
• Dominance : 0
• Patience : 150
• Mastery : 250
• Empathy : 175 (+75 from Bite Sleeves, although if you don't have it legendary then don't bother getting to 250 until much later)

*NOTE: If moving from the pre-e550 Tempo guide, you will notice that we have 200 WIS now - when we move to MA, we lose the shard pool efficiency from Risen Giant, which makes it difficult to upkeep our spells without either this WIS or spell shard items; at the same time, we gain additional incantation efficiency scaling and a ton of spell casts due to MA casting KBB through Wormhole, powering up this perk and making it worth grabbing.

Next priorities are 250 MAS, then INT in 25-point intervals until you get 230 (+20 from Circlet Of Deep Thoughts). Then, 50 more INS (to get 250 during VM). Then, get PAT 250. If you don't have EMP 250 from Bite Sleeves, get that next.

Now, you have all relevant perks during burst. Before dumping into VERS, make sure to put points into every att besides WIS/DOM until you cannot put any more into them (250).

Once you have 250 (240 with maxed Innate Aptitude) VERS, reallocate it into DOM. The DOM150+250 perks are worth more than the VERS you're losing, unless you have Unnatural Talents (in which case it can be close and you'll have to assess for yourself). You do not need to max WIS/DOM - if you have maxed Innate Aptitude, for example, you only need 240 in those two, unlike the other 6 attributes in which you want 250 anyway.

Phase Scaling

In buildup, we only scale our spells based on log(Evo) from Wormhole. We can approximate this to be ~^0.008, although it slightly depends on how much evo eff you have (getting worse as you get more). It's also worth noting that PAP^1 -> Evo, so PAP has the same scaling here. CAP^.5 -> Evo, too, which leaves CAP at ~^0.004 for this phase. We can gain more profits by getting more Pet EXP, though - MA has incredible scaling per level. Again, approximating a log here, we get Pet EXP ~^0.10-.15 depending on pet level, which ends up leaving us with our CPE phase.

In VM, we use Void Radiance, so we have VpE ^1 and Inc Eff ^1.22 (the .02 is from Void Lure affecting INS200/250, although this is an approximation of a double log).

In Snap, we have Inc Eff^1 for StF, and Inc Eff ~^1.127 for GR (this is another log approximation).

Finally, the most important bit: burst. We have:

• Evocation, CAP, PAP, Idle, Profit ^1
• Incantation ^4

Let's begin!

The Run

Overview

We start the run by using Refined Wormhole to maximize some pet effects, as pets "keep going" during the skipped time. We do this with Greater Chimaera to max sources (which only takes a few seconds) and Pixie to generate a lot of autoclicks (usually 5-10min). We also cast Synthetic Entity for Void Entities during this time.

Then, we switch to Mechanos Apexis and begin our main buildup. We stack QI, skipped time, and Ley Overdrive/True Sorcery. We also devote a portion of our time to Conjure Primal Elemental for its large Pet EXP bonus.

Then, we begin our burst: Void Mana, then snapping StF, followed by GR, and then finally swapping to our burst bar, where we can have 6 incantations because MA casts KBB.

Step 1: Setting Up the Run

Goals:

• Max our sources with Greater Chimaera
• Build up Void Entities and autoclicks for character EXP

Before we begin our main buildup, we want to build up some character experience, because Tempo scales its profits based on character exp (and also skips more time based on level). At the very start of the exile go to Greater Chimaera to immediately max out your sources - it will take no time at all due to Refined Wormhole. After sources are maxed, swap to Pixie to get autoclicks. Use the following spell and gear sets:

Greater Chimaera pixie

#0#leveling@65,2;71,2;61,2;93,2;110,2;67,1

Items #0#max skipped time@106;104;0;23;14;35;41;60;58;85;70;1008;210;300;410;405;90;2007;3007 None of this gear (with one exception), if not used in any other phase, is worth upgrading until EVERYTHING else is done, and maybe even then, as it is *only* used here, where it barely matters. The one exception: Searing Gaze. This is actually 50% more evocation efficiency than HEP, so it is optimal in non-CPE phases, but it's such a small difference that I generally don't care enough to not just save the enchants. However, it is actually incredibly useful to use Searing Gaze in this particular phase, as it will half the duration of Synthetic Entity, allowing for 2x the casts and thus 2x the entities. Even if you don't devote a set to this gear in particular, make sure to have Searing Gaze on when casting SE.

The amount of VEs/autoclicks you're going for will depend slightly on enchants, but it doesn't really matter. Character experience from these sources are logged, so you don't want to spend more than 5-10 minutes in this phase, or maybe 20 minutes for especially long exiles. Early on, this can result in ~1e9 VEs and ~1e14 ACs, whereas by the time you're approaching ascensions it might be more like 1e10 VEs and 1e15 ACs. Don't spend too long in this phase just to reach a certain number, though.

Note: If you still don't have enough character experience to reach Refined Wormhole near-immediately, then you may want to spend a small amount of time on Chronomancer with this gear set and a similar spell set (Singularity beam + SE + Wormhole, Pixie) to get some character experience to unlock Refined Wormhole. By the time you get to this guide, though, that should be unnecessary.

Step 2: Buildup

Goals:

• Cast Quasi-incantation as MUCH as possible, as it is our best source of time scaling. This thing is insane. Just trust me.
• Increase our skipped time with Wormhole, to scale our class ability
• Have Mechanos Apexis active, since it scales on real pet time
• Split up our buildup between different spells in our flex slot (see note on Cast Ratios below).

Switch to Mechanos Apexis, and begin our main buildup. This will last for the vast majority of the exile. Temporalist enjoys longer exiles, because it has incredible time scaling, and MA's cast rate of KBB doesn't max out until 24h. However, you can still succeed with shorter runs; see what works for you. You lose nothing by bursting, besides the time spent not casting our buildup spells. For the majority of our exile, we use mostly the same spell and gear set as before, with some minor differences.

Mechanos Apexis

#2#PP/LO@65,2;57,2;61,2;93,2;110,2;67,1

PP/LO Items #2#PP/LO@113;101;6;24;14;35;41;60;57;85;77;1008;209;304;415;405;90;2007;3007 * Wormhole is log(Evo), so more Evo Eff doesn't help a ton. * Spacepants and Eerie should be enchanted to roughly 7-10 to keep up with QI/Wormhole costs. With spell memetics, you'll likely need more. Gear Replacements: Stabilizing Pauldrons and Timeshroud, are especially important to upgrade, because they increase max Time Distortion, which directly increases your time skipped, and also massively increases profits from Stabilize the Flow. Prioritize them over any other gear in this set.Temporal Stabilizer is also equally, if not more, important, if you don't already have it maxed. If you don't have Charged Fin-Wing, use Empowered Water. If you don't have Ritual Disk, you can use Zenith. Disk is far better, though - prioritize completing the Brain Fog triumph if you plan to play Temporalist in the future.

However, as noted below in the Cast Ratios section, we wear Conjure Primal Elemental for a portion of the exile, which requires slightly different gear.

Mechanos Apexis

#1#CPE@65,2;25,2;61,2;93,2;110,2;67,1

CPE Items #1#CPE@106;115;9;27;13;35;41;66;57;85;70;1008;212;304;415;405;90;2007;3008 * The same substitutions from the earlier set work the same here. * The enchants on the specific items from this set are likely not worth it - CPE is log(summon) to pet exp, which in itself is a log, so it ends up being TINY amounts of profit, even with large amounts of summon eff added. * You'll notice we have to use File:Item Hectic Lime Phylactery.pngHectic Lime Phylactery here to take advantage of CPE, which means we don't have Eerie. You'll likely need to enchant Temporal Scabbard to 12-15 or so in order to support QI/Wormhole in this phase properly, and more with spell memes. I haven't tested this, though, so I'm not sure exactly how much you need. * If you're importing all of these sets, I apologize - this phase became relevant recently, and I haven't figured out how to orient my sets yet to make it work. This gear set will overwrite the scry set in the next (half)step. For now, I recommend not having the startup set on its own set, and just manually swapping in Synthetic Entity from the LO/PP buildup set for that section, and then putting the scry set on 1.

Note: Before spending too much time on buildup, do a quick burst (Steps 3-5) in order to get more upgrades (potentially more evocation efficiency, and more experience for MA).

Cast Ratios: In the second spell slot, we spend ~70% of the exile on Ley Overdrive, and the remaining time on Conjure Primal Elemental. If you have low Evo Eff, meaning Primal Power increases your skipped time per wormhole by a significant (generally >30%) amount, then you should also spend some time on that. However, in this range, if you have full legendary gear, then that generally doesn't happen. If you want to see an explanation/math behind these ratios, see the [Expand] button to the right.

In this buildup, we have 4 spell slots taken all the time in order to cast Wormhole efficiently. This leaves us with technically 2 slots in order to cast 4 spells, but one of these spells is QI, which has such insane cast scaling that it's optimal to ALWAYS have it on (and in fact, when you can't cast it at full speed, sacrificing the other slot to Conjure Greater Elemental is best to keep it up, as seen in the e300 version of this guide). This means we have one slot to split 3 spells across during our exile. These 3 spells are:

• Primal Power (PP) - increases Evocation Eff, which increases the power of our wormhole and thus skipped time.
• Ley Overdrive (LO) - used in burst, and has Casts^.75 scaling.
• Conjure Primal Elemental (CPE) - increases Pet EXP while active by a large amount, and has casts^1 scaling to that effect.

The problem with calculating exact ratios is that two of these effects (Evo Eff and Pet EXP) have logarithmic scaling to profit, due to Wormhole being log(Evo) and pet EXP requirements scaling exponentially per level. However, we can use some approximations to find approximate ratios for a given pet level and evocation efficiency. Changing these starting values doesn't change the end result a TON, but it does make a small difference, which makes these cast ratios even more loose than most other classes.

What we do to approximate these logarithms is slightly different for both.

For Wormhole's log(evo), we take log(a*m)/log(a) -1, where a is the amount of evo eff you start with, and m is some arbitrary multiplier to that (I used 1.2, although changing it does not significantly change the outcome). This gives us ~0.0033, which is the power we raise additional Evo eff to for the amount of skipped time it will give us. To get the profit from an amount of evo eff, we raise that evo eff to the Wormhole exponent, and then raise that to ^3.43, which is the scaling of skipped time -> profit.

For pet level, we take the log base 1.24 of the profit gained from 1 extra pet level, which is equal to $((p+1)/p{)}^{1.25e+i}$, where p is the current pet level, e is the class's total evocation scaling (~1.01), and i is the class's total incantation scaling (~7.32). This is because MA is $p^{1.25}$ to Evo eff, and $p^1$ to Inc eff. This gives us roughly ^0.14, which we raise any potential amount of pet EXP to to get the approximate amount of profit gained from it.

Now that we have approximations of the logs, we can much more easily convert time spent on one spell to profit. I made a table where I could put in different ratios of time between the 3 spells and it would calculate the total profit, and I tried to find the best one. With my current assumptions, it lands at 0% PP, 71% LO, and 29% CPE, which I rounded to 70/30 for simplicity and because it likely undervalues CPE as it doesn't really account for the additional pet exp you'd earn as it scales up, but that shouldn't really change anything. The calculations for the 70/30 ratio were done with the assumption of ~1e130 evo and a level 325 pet, which is a bit on the high side. These calculations do account for the loss in evocation eff (and thus skipped time) by switching to the CPE gear set, and also the loss in TS casts due to wearing summon duration reduction items instead of incant duration reduction items with CPE.

It's important to note that these are still approximations, and will not be entirely accurate. If you have a lot less Evo eff than I'm assuming (meaning like e50% or lower, which isn't really even possible with MA) then it may be optimal to use PP for a nonzero amount of time.

Don't worry about being perfectly optimal to these cast ratios - just ballpark it, and especially for shorter exiles, you'll be close enough.

Step 2.5: Offline Buildup

Goals:

• Maximize buildup while offline

This section of the guide was written before Wormhole applied offline (v1.58). As of v1.61, Wormhole is, to my knowledge, still slightly bugged to not work fully while offline, but this will be fixed at some point in the future. Right now, we still need to do this offline phase to make the most of it, but at some point in the future we will not have to.

This section of the guide only applies if you go OFFLINE (e.g. closing the game). Spell effects do not happen while offline, meaning that staying in our normal buildup set will only give us TS and QI casts. In order to squeeze a bit more out of our time while offline, we're going to scry our spells!

Mechanos Apexis

#0#scry@61,2;57,2;25,2;93,2;65,2;67,2

Scry Items #0#scry@113;101;0;23;14;39;41;66;50;88;77;1023;212;304;415;414;90;2007;3008 Gear Replacements/Notes: If you don't have Ritual Disk, Rubedo is a replacement (although still significantly worse). Warp Basilisk can be a replacement of Rubedo, too, although it doesn't affect CPE. Magnifier is here to multiply TS active casts by 2. Using Timeshroud could theoretically improve cast rates because of the increased max of time distortion, but in testing I didn't notice any difference, so go with Magnifier. Stabilizing Pauldrons is in a similar vein to Timeshroud, except there's nothing else in the slot that matters. You should have these maxed anyways, but you can drop them for seemingly minimal effect. Spacepants is here to increase QI casts/s. Nothing else matters in their slot. Eerie can be used in place of File:Item Hectic Lime Phylactery.pngLime if you can't sustain QI without it, but ideally you use Lime. Charged Fin-Wing is just here for the increased god EXP. If you don't have it, you can leave the slot empty. If a slot is empty, the items in it don't matter. Additionally, anything beyond this point can be ignored if you don't have it; they don't actively do anything to increase casts or benefit buildup. Light Of Eighth Star and Beholding Eye are just here for increased jar caps, because this is an offline set. Similarly, Spell Shards Fractalization is just here for shard gain because scrying can often be shard-intensive. This is especially helpful post-spell memes - you might even want to add in a couple other shard items in free slots, like Easymind Hat. These shard items are also the only reason is here.

It's not worth stacking Superposition very much, but we don't cast it anywhere else, so it may be worth swapping out CPE for some time (i.e. like 10 minutes total in a days-long exile. Seriously, not much).

This setup is simply maximizing offline profits. This is still significantly worse than being online, and if you're playing Tempo, you should be trying to keep the game open as much as possible.

Step 3: Void Mana Phase

Goals:

• Gain as much Void Mana as possible!

We use Void Radiance because we can't swap off of MA without losing a ton of bonuses from time. This phase should last anywhere from 1-5 minutes, and not more than that.

Mechanos Apexis

#3#vm@30,2;34,2;65,1;67,1;3,0;61,0

Items #3#vm@113;111;5;25;15;30;49;68;55;89;78;1005;202;309;412;407;99;2010;3006 * If you don't have Crystallized Echo, you can use Ritual Disk. Nothing else will help here. * I put KBB and TS on the bar here as reckless autocasting. After reaching spell memes, this isn't really sustainable without shard gear, so you can just make them not cast. The only point of KBB is to quickly stack up Reality Prism to max (which will happen anyways, and is only actually needed for the first burst), and TS is only here for its passive to boost your phylactery.

Step 4: Snap Phase

Goals:

• Snap Stabilize the Flow and Gem Resonance.

Temporalist has 2 different spells it can snap: StF and GR. In this game, "snap" means that a spell will "snapshot" the incantation efficiency you had when you cast the spell, and retain that for its entire duration. You can utilize this by equipping as much inc eff as possible, casting these spells, and then swapping to burst gear. StF and GR require slightly different sets to snap, because StF also snaps how much time distortion it consumes. We first snap StF, as it has a longer duration:

Mechanos Apexis

#4#snap@73,2;57,2;61,2;17,2;69,0;4,0

StF snap GR snap #4#snap time@113;100;7;23;18;32;41;68;56;85;72;1005;209;301;411;409;91;2007;3001 #5#snap gem@113;100;7;23;18;32;40;68;56;84;72;1005;209;301;411;409;91;2007;3001 You may have noticed, if you were copying my spell and gear sets, that buildup is on 3, VM is on 4, and these are on 5 and 6. This is why! Here's the process for snapping: P5 to swap to StF gear. Wait for 30x TD while on VM spell set. This step is important: if you just Q5 to StF gear + snap set, you won't be utilizing the TD max from Stabilizing Pauldrons and Timeshroud. Z5, 5 to swap to the snap spellset and cast StF. P6, 6 to swap to GR set and cast GR. P7, Z6 to swap to burst gear and spell set. I also personally have a spellset with Revert (and StF and GR on the same slots as they are here) on 7, so step 4 becomes Q7 Z6, refreshing the duration on StF and GR before moving to burst. It doesn't have to be on 5 and 6; you can put StF and GR in the 3rd and 4th, or 4th and 5th, or whatever slots you want. This is simply how my spell slots worked out, and I find it easier to have StF and GR be in the same slots as their gear.

Gear Replacements:

• At enchant 34+5, Anointed Ashes is better than Heart of the Storm.
• Empowering Chestguard and Chronoboost Ring do not need enchants.

This seems complicated, but I promise it isn't actually that hard! You will have to get used to doing this, though.

Step 5: Burst Phase

Goals:

• Maximize profit!
• MA will cast KBB, so we can have 6 incants on the bar!

Burst time! If desired, you can use Revert to refresh StF and GR to burst for a longer period of time (replacing any of the first 4 spells in this spell set will work just fine)

Mechanos Apexis

#5#burst@73,2;57,2;61,2;17,2;69,2;4,2

Enchant 0 Enchant 6+5 Enchant 11+5 #6#burst@113;100;6;24;17;38;46;67;59;83;76;1005;207;300;417;408;92;2003;3005 #6#burst@113;104;6;28;11;34;46;67;59;83;76;1005;207;300;417;408;92;2003;3005 #6#burst@113;104;6;29;11;34;48;67;59;83;76;1005;207;300;417;408;92;2003;3005 * Lucky Amulet is often better than Miniaturized Accelerator unless you are doing longer realms and have a lot of catalysts. You should look for yourself. If you don't have Rubedo, you can use Zenith. If you don't have Anointed Ashes, use Arcane Engine. When prioritizing what to upgrade, focus on high-enchant gear. Enchant 22 isn't that high, and there's often only a very minor loss when you're at "too low" of an enchant level. Absolutely do not upgrade things that are below the 11+5 or even 15+5 mark, is my recommendation. Enchant 15+5 Enchant 22+5 Enchant 34+5 #6#burst@113;104;1;29;11;34;48;67;59;83;76;1005;207;300;417;408;92;2003;3005 #6#burst@113;104;1;29;14;36;48;67;59;83;76;1005;207;300;417;408;92;2003;3005 #6#burst@113;104;1;29;14;36;48;67;59;84;76;1005;207;300;417;408;92;2003;3005

Pantheon

With only the primary abilities unlocked (and so Chaos is also locked):

Altermutus >> Procreogenus = Ardourium = Tempoaeverum (Veritallos and Animataelia's primary abilities are worthless for Temporalist)

After unlocking everything:

Cerebros > Altermutus >> Procreogenus > Chaos >> Ardourium = Tempoaeverum >>> Animataelia >> Veritallos

> Means the gods should be kept somewhat close in level, with preference to the one on the left

>> Means the one on the left should be kept fairly higher than the one on the right

= Means the god effect is essentially equal. There is some *small* preference to Ardourium over Tempoaeverum due to the small benefit to buildup, but no more than 1 level worth over Tempoaeverum

Animataelia and Veritallos have such small effects on Temporalist that they are hardly worth levelling at all (Animataelia is slightly worthwhile for a couple levels, the shard efficieny on Veritallos is an incredibly small scaling that only impacts the Wisdom profit perks).

Source Memetics

To clarify, 'gild' stands for the profit source memetic which levels whenever you craft memetic ingots. Memetics should be placed as:

Gild on Mana Gems

Nothing on Grimoires

Incantation Efficiency on Spell Fountains

Character Experience on Enchanted Trees

Evocation Efficiency on Alchemy Desks

Character Ability Power on Circles of Power

Pet Ability Power on Dimensional Shards

Autoclick Profit on Ley Temporal Singletons

Putting Autoclick profit on LTS means you end up with slightly more of them, increasing the effect of Ley Overdrive and Temporal Stabilizer, as well as some of the extra "profit based on nexi" upgrades Tempo gets.

Spell Memetics

For use specifically with Merp's spell meme spreadsheet. Find it in the Discord, and bug me to add it here later but the captcha hates me rn. If "Other" says "Cast rate", then check the "Cast rate matters?" box for that spell, and similarly for "Autoclick" -> "Autoclick profit?"

Efficiency is the increase in profit per level. To do this manually, simply compare the values of ${\text{Eff}}^{(1/\text{Cost})}$ - whichever is highest is the best. Accounting for casts scaling is a bit more involved, and probably shouldn't be done manually, but casts scaling is the power you raise the increase in casts to.

Spell	Efficiency	Casts scaling	Autoclick amt scaling	Other
Kelphior's Black Beam	1.5	1	0	Cast rate
Converge Timelines	1.2	0	0
Void Radiance	1.244	0	0
True Sorcery	1.2	0.85	0	Cast amt
Ley Overdrive	1.2	0.75	0	Cast amt
Quasi-incantation	1	11.1	0	Cast amt and cast rate
Stabilize the Flow	1.2	0	0
Superposition	1.2	0	0
Gem Resonance	1.154	0	0
Refined Wormhole	1.0098	3.43	0	Cast rate
Void Lure	1.0115	0	0
Conjure Primal Elemental	1.0013	0	0

Always make sure you level your shard pool enough! This just requires testing - after leveling some memes a bit, try your buildup phase and see if they're casting properly.

Quasi-incantation and Refined Wormhole are weird - QI has incredibly strong casts scaling, so it can be worth it to level it (with multiples of 2 or 3 only) to almost the same level as some of your burst spells, and RWH is also decently strong. However, you need to make sure that you can sustain it at the max cast rate, whatever that is for you, which relies entirely on the enchants of Eerie Turquoise Phylactery and Temporal Scabbard. It's worth noting that for QI specifically, it's also an option to down-level it during the exile, and then level it back up during VM/snap/burst because the increased cast amount every 3 levels is retroactive, although this won't affect the cast rate, which is also relevant.

Leave the summon table in the top right empty.

Enchant Priority

How to read this: -0 is your highest bonus(es). Whatever enchant level you get those item(s) to, all other tiers are based on that. For example, if Reality Prism is enchant level 20+5, then The Rubedo Engine should be 16+5. The number in the parentheses next to each item is their exact profit bonus per enchant.

The first column is only including BiS items at highest enchants. None of the items below 15+5 are included, and the ones in between that and the highest are in the Conditional column, with a note as to when they are in that priority tier.

If you want more exact assignments, that can account for only being able to level up some of the items, then use this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rN-1hM4csPTn9KcIcIPmHsEDNR-552syJroEFleJd-U/edit?usp=sharing

Priority	Items	Conditional items
-0	Reality Prism (42.92%)
-1	The Clockcarers (30%), Chronoboost Ring (30%)	Anointed Ashes (30.92%) - only if used in Snap phase (34+5 enchants and higher).
-2	Tranquil Spaulders (25%), Bite Sleeves (20%), Destabilized Evocations (20%), Collar Of Obedience (20%), Circlet Of Deep Thoughts (25%), Seclusion Shell (25%), Folds of Magma (20%), Boots Of Concentration (25%), Flaming Cape (20%), Murmuring Spellbook (20%), Necrotic Powerstone (20%), Lucky Amulet (25%)/Miniaturized Accelerator (20%), Pitch-black Cage (20%), Void Sampling (20%), Anomalous Essence (20%), Insidious Lure (22.5%)	Gemshoes (20%)/Fiery Grips (20%)/Arcane Engine (20%) if using, The Amplifier (28.38%) if it's used in burst (34+5 or higher)
-3	Nethershackles (15%), Sash of Luxury (17.58%), The Bright Beacon (15%), Nethershell (15%), Nether Barrier (15%), Chaos Mantle (15%), Netherfist (15%), Nether Chain (15%), Netherloop (15%)
-4	The Rubedo Engine (12.5%), Robust Tangerine Phylactery (10%), Ebon Mantle (10%), Devious Violet Phylactery (10%), Legacy (10%), Rich Bands (8.67%), Incantations Restructuring (8.67%), Spellweaving Kilt (8.67%), Empowering Handguards (8.67%), Habitstone (8.67%), Anima Core (8.67%), Heart of the Storm (8.67%), Torc Of Privilege (8.67%), Fiery Ring (8.67%)
-5	Empowering Headguard (6.47%)
-6	Artificer's Shoulderpads (4.49%), Intricate Crimson Phylactery (4.29%), Ritual Disk (4.29%), Crystallized Echo (5%)	The Amplifier (5.62%) - if not used in burst (below 34+5 enchants).

Also, 30% evocation items in buildup should be about -13, while 15% or 20% evocation items should be about -14. This is approximate, and changes depending on the exact amount of evocation efficiency you have, but around -14 is good enough and costs you almost nothing.

Temporal Scabbard and Eerie Turquoise Phylactery should be enchanted to ~7-10+5 before spell memes. Scabbard should be higher than Eerie by a decent bit, because you can't use Eerie during our CPE buildup and it will need to sustain QI/wormhole on its own then.

Temporalist Demiurge Guide

Only very minor changes needed from Base Tempo. We gain a new spell to stack during buildup Forge Empyreal Vassal and we lose Converge Timelines from our burst set and replace it with Conjure Void Elemental. The use of Conjure Void Elemental does mean it's worth losing a bit of Mechanos Apexis time to use Voidterror to boost our maximum Void Mana early in the exile.

Build Up

You want to do the same thing as the regular Tempo Buildup, but we also have to stack Forge Empyreal Vassal and Conjure Void Elemental. The optimal ratio is ~47% FEV, ~27% LO, and ~26% CVE, or you can round to 50/25/25.

Remember to cast Synthetic Entity to gather entities at the beginning of an exile, with Searing Gaze!

Optional Hyperoptimization: As a small optimization, you can use CPE for a tiny portion of the exile and offload pet EXP gear to it for a bit of extra profit. If you choose to do that, I have included gearsets. This is only ~10-15% extra profit, so you definitely don't need to worry about it if you'd like to simplify your life. The exact time you use CPE for shouldn't be long; the exact proportion is somewhere around 0.0001% of the exile. This would be just about 1 minute in a 7 day exile, although you shouldn't be worried about it being too long if you're still under a minute or two, since that barely makes a difference.

Note: Scrying for a short part of the exile is technically a gain but due to the lost QI casts from using Rubedo instead of Ritual disk it's an incredibly minor gain (~1.18x profits if done optimally) and is easy to lose profits if you do it incorrectly so it's not worth doing.

FEV/LO (47%/26% respectively)

Mechanos Apexis	#2#FEV(50%)/LO(25%)@65,2;119,2;61,2;93,2;110,2;67,1
FEV/LO without CPE FEV/LO with CPE #2#FEV/LO@106;101;9;27;13;35;41;66;57;85;77;1008;209;304;415;405;90;2007;3007 #2#MTR/LO@113;101;6;24;14;35;41;60;57;85;77;1008;209;304;415;405;90;2007;3007 If you choose to use the CPE optimization, then use the second item set while casting FEV or LO. If not, then use the first item set.

CVE (25%)

Mechanos Apexis	#1#CVE (25%)@65,2;85,2;61,2;93,2;110,2;67,1
CVE without CPE CVE with CPE #1#CVE no CPE@106;115;9;27;13;35;41;66;57;85;70;1008;212;304;415;405;90;2007;3008 #1#CPE w/ CPE@113;115;6;24;12;35;41;60;57;85;77;1008;212;304;415;405;90;2007;3008 If you choose to use the CPE optimization, then when using CPE, use the same set as "CVE without CPE", but replace CVE with CPE on the spell bar. Then, when using CVE, use the other set ("CVE with CPE").

The differences in gear are simply due to CVE being a summon, not an incantation, so you need different duration reduction.

Void Mana Maximizing

NOTE: This is of questionable benefit due to the extra edust required and you already getting high VM from Mechanos Apexis boosting Void Radiance. This should theoretically be beneficial on long runs where you've had a decent amount of time to stack FEV but you can ignore this phase on short runs.

Due to the use of Conjure Void Elemental it's worth losing a bit of Mechanos Apexis time to use Voidterror to boost our maximum Void Mana early in the exile. We want to wait long enough in build up to have some Forge Empyreal Vassal casts to boost Voidterror but not too long that we lose too much pet time on Mechanos Apexis. The optimal time is around 6.5% of the way through the exile however the gains increase very rapidly at the start before leveling off so you don't need to be too precise with the ratio, just wait a little bit and do it some time within the first 10% of your exile.

Once done swap back to Mechanos Apexis and stay on it for the rest of the exile while resuming Build Up where you left off.

Item Options:

Warp Basilisk vs Crystallized Echo - While Basilisk is technically stronger per enchant level we don't actually use it in our regular Void Mana set so we should make use of the higher enchant level on Echo.

Burst

Do the standard Void Mana -> StF Snap -> GR Snap from Base Tempo before swapping to this Burst. Use Revert as usual to maintain snapped spells.

Not much to say here for spells just swap Converge Timelines for Conjure Void Elemental. Gear needs adjusting as we lose some incant scaling and gain some PAP scaling. None of our stat scalings are great in burst and you should have decent enchant levels by this point so raw profit enchants start winning.

Mechanos Apexis

#6#Burst@85,2;61,2;57,2;17,2;69,2;4,2

Below Enchant 39+5 Enchant 34+5 Enchant 36+5 #6#burst@113;104;1;29;14;36;48;67;54;83;76;1005;207;300;405;415;92;2003;3005 #6#burst@113;104;1;29;14;36;48;67;54;83;76;1005;207;300;414;415;92;2003;3005 #6#burst@113;104;1;29;14;36;41;67;54;85;76;1005;207;300;414;415;92;2003;3005 * Whether Miniaturized Accelerator or Lucky Amulet is better will depend on your Catalyst Shards. Accelerator is likely to be winning in this range but you should check yourself. *Charged Fin-Wing, Beholding Eye, and Abnormal Voidmass are all equal profits, so when the burst set changes to include Beholding Eye, you could also use Abnormal Voidmass if you so desired.

Source Memes

Same as Base Tempo but with Summoning now on Grimoires due to the scaling from Conjure Void Elemental

Gild on Mana Gems

Summoning Efficiency on Grimoires

Incantation Efficiency on Spell Fountains

Character Experience on Enchanted Trees

Evocation Efficiency on Alchemy Desks

Character Ability Power on Circles of Power

Pet Ability Power on Dimensional Shards

Autoclick Profit on Ley Temporal Singletons

Spell Memes

Conjure Void Elemental replaces Converge Timelines, having an efficiency of 1.186 instead of 1.2. If using Merp's sheet, check "Autoclick profit?". For the most part, you can just keep the same level from CT and put it on CVE, for simplicity's sake.

Forge Empyreal Vassal has 1 efficiency and 1.255 cast scaling, and you need to check "Cast amt matters?" in the sheet.

Void Radiance goes up to 1.36 efficiency, and Void Lure goes up to 1.017 efficiency, due to CVE increasing your scale from VM.

Temporalist Dread Guide

Dread is very similar to base Tempo! You do essentially the same thing, except you have an extra (insanely powerful) spell, MTR and a second pet (which should always be RG).

Short version: use RG as your second pet, and wear idle bonus gear (like the pre-e550 Tempo guide) during burst. Because of MTR having such good cast scaling, we use that for most of our buildup. The ratio ends up somewhere around 70-80% MTR and 20-30% LO. For a tiny optimization, you can use CPE for ~1% of the exile, offloading all pet EXP items to it. MTR would also replace CPE in the offline scry set.

Buildup Changes

Because CPE is no longer worth it in any significant capacity due to us having a much better scaling spell in MTR, we have to use pet exp gear for all of buildup again, like pre-1.55 Tempo did. Also, because of Risen Giant giving us shard pool efficiency, we almost certainly don't need Spell Shards Fractalization during buildup anymore.

Remember to cast Synthetic Entity to gather entities at the beginning of an exile, with Searing Gaze!

Optional Hyperoptimization: As a small optimization, you can use CPE for a tiny portion of the exile and offload pet EXP gear to it for a bit of extra profit. If you choose to do that, I have included gearsets. This is only ~10-15% extra profit, so you definitely don't need to worry about it if you'd like to simplify your life. The exact time you use CPE for shouldn't be long; the exact proportion is somewhere around 0.0001% of the exile. This would be just about 1 minute in a 7 day exile, although you shouldn't be worried about it being too long if you're still under a minute or two, since that barely makes a difference.

Mechanos Apexis Risen Giant

#2#MTR(80%)/LO(20%)@65,2;120,2;61,2;93,2;110,2;67,1

MTR/LO without using CPE MTR/LO if using CPE CPE phase (OPTIONAL) #2#MTR/LO@106;101;9;27;13;35;41;66;57;85;77;1008;209;300;415;405;90;2007;3007 #2#MTR/LO@113;101;6;24;14;35;41;60;57;85;77;1008;209;300;415;405;90;2007;3007 #1#CPE@106;115;9;27;13;35;41;66;57;85;70;1008;212;304;415;405;90;2007;3008 If you are not choosing to use the CPE hyperoptimization, then you only need to worry about the first item tab ("MTR/LO without using CPE"). If you do choose to use it, then you should instead use the second during MTR/LO, and then use the third item set while casting CPE.

Cast Ratios: The cast ratios for Dread follow similar reasoning to base Tempo. You'll want ~80% MTR, and ~20% LO (and again, optionally like ~0.0001% of the exile for CPE, if you so desire) in the second slot in this spell set.

Note: On long (2w+) exiles, Corruptions start to give enough flat character EXP that True Sorcery no longer gives a significant amount of EXP. This means that you can start to treat it as simply a regular spell, and thus you have 2 slots. I will eventually do the math on how this works and how to ratio spells at that point, but it's unlikely CPE will be worth putting anywhere so you might just want to leave it anyways (it still has casts^.85, which is better than LO!).

Void Mana Changes

This section is incredibly short - simply use Shard Of A Lost Dimension during VM. Make sure to activate it! You don't need to enchant it at all.

Burst Changes

Our burst spell set doesn't change at all! We still snap StF->GR the same way base Tempo does, and we don't have any better profit spells from Dread. Our items do change because of Risen Giant, though. Here's our sets:

Mechanos Apexis Risen Giant	#5#burst@73,2;57,2;61,2;17,2;69,2;4,2
Below Enchant 29+5 Enchant 29+5 Enchant 46+5 #6#burst@113;104;6;20;14;33;47;67;54;83;76;1005;207;306;415;404;94;2005;3004 #6#burst@113;104;1;20;14;33;47;67;54;83;76;1005;207;306;415;404;94;2005;3004 #6#burst@113;104;1;20;14;33;47;67;50;83;76;1005;207;306;415;404;94;2005;3004 I did not include any distinctions below enchant 29+5, because you should have around 30 by now anyways.

Memetics Changes

Source memes don't change at all. As for spell memes:

• MTR: you'll want to level it by 2s for the cast rate bonus, but it should stay decently far behind everything else. It has a cast scaling of 3.01, efficiency of 1, and you need to check "Cast rate matters?" in the sheet if you're using it. Basically just use leftover ink and maybe a bit extra for it.
• RWH: cast scaling goes up to 3.93 instead of 3.43