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Guide: [Build] Workshop Crew - Two Dragon Team

Battle turns

• Mage: Contuse Monster 1
• Mage: Rally on the fighter
• Fighter: Eliminate Monster 1
• Fighter: Scratch Monster 2
• Mage: Contuse Monster 3
• Fighter: Eliminate Monster 2
• [Monster 3 hits]
• Mage: Meditate
• Fighter: Eliminate Monster 3

Fire and Nature are the best elements.


Monsters:

68 QCK 64 QCK 63 QCK 60 QCK 56 QCK 55 QCK
Haste turn: 56x2-30=82 QCK

AGI: 5-20



You need 111 STR points in order to Scratch / Contuse + Rally Eliminate the Bilworpers.

Elements resistant to the mage bosses: Fire, Water, Wind.


Monsters:

64 QCK 63 QCK 62 QCK 60 QCK 59 QCK 57 QCK 56 QCK 55 QCK
AGI: 5-20

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I hear you wanna take on the fabled realm of Mech Hell. Maybe you want the bosses. Maybe you wanna level one dragon quickly. Maybe you wanna brag that you can go indefinitely in this venue, which is a land of supposed mythic difficulty.
Whatever your reason, perhaps this is the build for you.

Here are my two weirdos, complete with Edgy Lore™.
Revenger, the mage:

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And Timberwolf, the brawler:

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The breakdown.
—— the mage

• Position.
  • The mage absolutely must be in your first trainer slot. They need to go before the brawler in order to buff them, and also dent enemies with contuse.
• Element.
  • Wind gives you an advantage over a boss (stone borer), and honestly a ton of weaknesses to mages (water, light, and shadow). However. I had to look up wind's weaknesses just now because it's never been a problem. You can kill any problems fast enough, and the real reason I use wind is for disorient. The berserk debuff is so nice for controlling mages and giving you extra turns and damage in boss fights.
• Stats.
  • INT. 122 gives you just the bare minimum to allow contuse to stand in for scratch.
  • QCK. Like the brawler, 60 is all you need.
  • VIT. "23 VIT is so low for you, King!" I can hear you saying. And it is. But something had to give, and DEF is more useful on the mage than the brawler so VIT it was.
  • DEF. 12 DEF allows you to take less damage from brawlers, which is needed.
  • AGI. Again, just where I put spare points.
• Stones.
  • Meditate. Required for massive breath gain.
  • Contuse. Allows you to both soften targets up for the brawler, as well as manage enemies' damage output. Don't sleep on that 25% damage reduction.
  • Regeneration. Do not even try to do this with aid. You need the prolonged big heals so you're not constantly healing. Believe me, the mage might look like they're around only for heals, but they do just as much offensive work as the brawler.
  • Rally. I don't think this is possible without rally. First turn every fight, you rally your brawler.
  • Disorient. This stone right here is the real reason I still use wind over the technically better nature. Envenom's poison damage is nice, but it cannot obliterate mages as a threat like disorient can. I've been saved by clutch berserk rolls many times.

The breakdown.
—— the brawler

• Position.
  • The brawler needs to move after the mage every turn to make sure they're rallied at all times and can kill things as fast as possible.
• Element.
  • Fire gives you no weaknesses to the mages that are a threat (the workshop monitor is water and the tribeam lurker is earth, but you can oneshot those), and gives you an elemental advantage to one boss (frost delver). You'll be weak to the other boss (stone borer), but the mage can handle that easily.
• Stats.
  • STR. 123 allows you to both rallied scratch and elim all enemies minus bosses, as well as straight up rallied elim the mistral minion, spellbound golem, workshop monitor, jelly drone, tribeam lurker, and tribeam hunter.
  • QCK. 60 is all you need.
  • VIT. 20 VIT lets you die less and is the most you can fit on this build.
  • DEF. 10 DEF is a nice little help when dealing with brawlers and bosses.
  • AGI. This is just where i put spare points honestly.
• Stones.
  • Scratch. Pretty standard, as builds go.
  • Eliminate. This stone does most of the legwork and you absolutely need it.
  • Blazing Slash. You won't use this other than against frost delvers. It does less than elim to that boss, but it also doesn't cost 35 breath. Use sparingly.
  • Shred. I use this far more than the slash (though still only on the bosses). Bleed damage is wonderful, and I often fish for crit bleed (if shred crits, the recurring bleed damage is doubled too). For a pretty decent chunk of damage, it's really cheap breath-wise.
  • Sap. Sap is honestly just here to fill a slot and give you options. I almost never use it because breath is too precious, but it can be nice if your brawler's just a bit below full with high breath and your mage has something better to do.

General usage tips.
Here are my general use tips for this build. This is what I've found works best for taking the least damage, so why not make notes?

Enemies.

• Bosses; Both are brawlers.
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    Frost Delver

    Familiar

    This automaton has continued to work long after its pilot ran away.

    10000
    
    

    Stone Borer

    Familiar

    The armor plating on this golem was designed to withstand a cave-in. Deflecting a claw is no challenge.

    10000
• Brawlers; Arranged in the order you should take them out, though all the actual threats are slow enough that it doesn't matter much.
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    Scrapmetal Tracker

    Familiar

    Scrapmetal Trackers are able to sense tiny bits of metal buried in the earth. They dig up these remnants and bring them to their masters.

    2900
    
    

    War Smith

    Familiar

    It must be really weird to lose an arm-wrestling contest with a moth.

    2900
    
    

    Black Iron Creeper

    Familiar

    Forged to infiltrate and dismantle coppercoil creepers. These assassins will perform their work only as long as the coal in their internal furnace burns.

    2920
    
    

    Coppercoil Creeper

    Familiar

    These golems were designed to traverse and perform maintenance on the inaccessible conduits of Tempest Spire.

    2950
    
    

    Copperplate Longmech

    Familiar

    The copper panels used in the construction of this automaton help power its frame as well as act as a conduit for the machinery around it.

    2900
    
    

    Construction Mith

    Familiar

    The power grips on this suit are capable of matching the bite force of a Snapper.

    2920
    
    

    Sentinel Mith

    Familiar

    Mecha mail makes a mild-mannered mith mighty!

    2920
    
    

    Geartoggle Smith

    Familiar

    Supplying most of the armor and weapons for the mith beastclans, these plucky smiths are often underestimated as fragile.

    2900
    
    

    Longmech

    Familiar

    The original blueprints for this golem included about ten more segments in the neck, but they were later removed because, c'mon, that's ridiculous.

    2900
    
    

    Mechanical Destroyer

    Familiar

    Let you in on a little secret: the weak spots are the twiggy legs.

    2890
    
    

    Robotic Tender

    Familiar

    Regular flamingos already looked pretty robotic, so this really wasn't that much of a stretch.

    2890
    
    

    Steelhound

    Familiar

    These golems are networked together. A pack of steelhounds can threaten smaller dragon clans.

    2920
    
    

    Monkey Wrench

    Familiar

    These small golems break everything that they attempt to repair.

    2920
• Mages; Honestly, none of these are major threats. Some can be irritating, and the swift lumens can be a pain to your mage, but unless you miss twice you should be fine.
• the golems, tribeams and jellies are fast, but you can oneshot them with a rallied elim.
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    Workshop Monitor

    Familiar

    Patrolling robots can never just be cute, can they? Do they really have to have multiple limbs and no face?

    2890
    
    

    Jelly Drone

    Familiar

    There is something disturbingly haunting about seeing the soft glow of these automatons moving from window to window, their internal lighting casting terrifyingly twisted shadows against the walls.

    2890
    
    

    Tribeam Lurker

    Familiar

    Six legs, three tails, and three lasers weren't overkill at all!

    2890
    
    

    Mistral Minion

    Familiar

    The wind spirit inhabiting this shell is delighted to have more ways to cause mischief!

    2910
    
    

    Spellbound Golem

    Familiar

    Several elemental spirits have been bound to this armor.

    2920
    
    

    Tribeam Hunter

    Familiar

    These vicious robots skitter to and from piles of electrical wiring, using the receptors in their tails to feed off the currents.

    2890
    
    

    Swift Volt

    Familiar

    These fluffy creatures give static electricity a whole new level of dread.

    2960
    
    

    Swift Lumen

    Familiar

    Lumen no longer require food, drawing all the energy they need from sunlight.

    2950
    
    

    Gearspring Pocketmouse

    Familiar

    It's rumored that if the key in its back ceases to rotate, this mouse will explode. Do you really have the heart to let that happen?

    2890
    
    

    Wind-Up Pocketmouse

    Familiar

    When they can be caught, these make a popular hatchling toy -if you can avoid losing it under the furniture.

    2890
    
    

    Chromefeather Lookout

    Familiar

    Step 1: Draft blueprint of robotic guard. Step 2: Revise until prototype is obnoxious and hilarious. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit.

    2920
    
    

    Sentry Squawker

    Familiar

    For when warning beeps, tones, alarms, whistles, horns, and blasts just aren't enough.

    2920

Turn + setup tips.

• I usually set up on any mob that has three mages and no swift lumens, but you can start on bosses if you want to.
• I start every fight with rally, then either contuse, meditate, regenerate, or disorient as needed. If the mage needs heals at the start of the fight, start with regenerate to give them an extra turn of healing before anything can move, then rally.
• As long as you don't get critted into oblivion or make multiple mistakes in a row, you can go forever. This venue takes a bit to get a feel for, but once you do it's pretty straightforward!

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