The Legion
40min-4hours depending on how badly you screw up
Note: Before beginning this challenge, spend at least 1-2 hours on Temporalist stacking True Sorcery. High JMS persistent and Rules of Nature persistent also helps.
Note: Remove timestamps as they're no longer accurate.
Strategy
Attributes {800 AP} (THIS IS A RECOMMENDATION AT e300, if you want to do it faster or with fully optimized gear sets. I recommend ~e360 instead of e300)
INT 50
INS 75
SPC 75
WIS 100
PAT 150
MAS 200
EMP 150
After getting these points you want to get any sort of profit perk.
NOTE: ALL PHASES that do not explicitly tell you that you should only buy specific sources allow you to buy Enchanted Trees, Nexus, Rifts, or Fountains. For efficiency, DO NOT buy any other sources over their requirements. HOWEVER, some buying of other sources may help if stuck.
Apprentice Phase
Get Magic Missile, Empower, Ritual Of Power, and Spell Focus on spellbar. Buy only Mana Gems.
Pet(s): Golem (Use to maximize profit alongside Voidfiend, once you reach ~400-500 mana gems go and use Homunculus)
Need to reach 900 mana gems, stop buying this source after this phase.
Druid Phase
Cast Conjure Manabeast, Summon Guardian Of The Canopies, Summon Evergrowing Forest, Summon Woodland Creatures, Conjure Primal Elemental, Spell Focus (Switch to Conjure Greater Elemental after filling summon spell slots).
Use Pixie (level up with Rules of Nature to 60, 80, or 100)
Demonologist Phase
Cast Hellstorm, Unclean Knowledge, Spell Focus, Hellrage
Use Interrogator
Necromancer Phase
Buildup: Use Voidterror (use Hellstorm, Unclean Knowledge, Rules of Nature, to level)
VM: Cast Spell Focus, Hellrage
Burst: Use Pit Lord (use Hellstorm, Unclean Knowledge, Rules of Nature, to level)
Burst: Cast Spell Focus (change for Ritual Of Power), Summon Evergrowing Forest, Dreaded Script Of Harvest, Magical Weapon, Summon Deepwood Stalker, Summon Guardian Of The Canopies
You might need to rinse and repeat this phase multiple times.
This is the easiest phase to get stuck in. If you get stuck at around 3000 Tomes, the best idea is to just swap to Simulacrum and let it auto-buy the last hundred.
Do NOT buy grimoires after this phase, prior to beating the Alchemist Phase
Arcanist Phase
Cast Magic Missile, JMS, Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus.
Prodigy Phase
Put True Sorcery on the bar. If not instantly finished, buy some more Enchanted Trees, Nexus, Rifts, or Fountains.
Voidmancer Phase
Cast some Void Syphon using Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus
Use Voidterror (Level with Hellstorm, Unclean Knowledge, Primal Power, JMS, Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus setup)
Cast Spell Focus, Lightning Bolt, JMS, Hellrage, Void Lure, Void Prison
Exorcist Phase
Cast Spell Focus, Lightning Bolt, Holy Fervor, Divine Ally, Spirit Of Valor, Conjure Manabeast
And you can now use items!
You may also use Spellstaff Of Chamaon in place of Spell Focus to generate shards from autoclicks.
Chronomancer Phase
Items
It may be best to slot in Hungerer and use this opportunity to get rid of all your Mana Gems and Grimoires, which makes it less bad to use Simulacrum to fill up on sources. Use Time Distortion in order to maximize the speed at which Hungerer eats, and Hellstorm, Unclean Knowledge, and Primal Power to maximize the level of Hungerer so it eats more sources per second.
Put True Sorcery on the bar. If not instantly finished, buy some more Enchanted Trees, Nexus, Rifts, or Fountains. If not finished yet, put on your character experience items. If still not finished, stack some autoclicks with Pixie and some void entities by setting Singularity Beam-Wormhole loop and setting Synthetic Entity to reckless. Also, stack True Sorcery. As the last resort (if after a few minutes you still are 3+ levels short of 175) use Simulacrum.
Umbramancer Phase
Items
Note: Weapon is only needed at legendary quality due to enchant, skip otherwise.
Note: Offhand is if you do The Legion after e300 and not on it.
Get 1e6 Liquid Shadows using Day Into Night, Spell Focus, Lightning Bolt, Onyx Hound, Condensing Shadows, True Sorcery.
Change into Seethe In Shadows, Flash Fire, Eclipse, Onyx Hound, Condensing Shadows, Umbral Rage to spend
Alchemist Phase
First use all Alchemist source reduction spells, except Transmute.
Items
Use Hungerer, level with Evocation Elixir. Spells: Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus, JMS, Hellstorm, Unclean Knowledge, Shattering Strike. Can switch JMS to Primal Power later on to get some more levels. Now, wait.
Ironsoul Phase
Cast Superposition, True Sorcery, Ritual Of Power, JMS, Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus. Use Shadow-Scryer's Crystal Ball weapon. Buy all the sources you can. Use defense stance.
Abolisher Phase
Doppelganger buildup: JMS, Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus, Materialise Doppelganger, Unclean Knowledge, Hellstorm. Level to 80
Silence Buildup: Silence, JMS, Lightning Bolt, Spell Focus, Materialise Doppelganger, Spellstaff Of Chamaon.
Finish Challenge: Silence, Arcane Infusion, Spellstaff Of Chamaon, Conjure Manabeast, Summon Evergrowing Forest, Materialise Doppelganger