Your First Run
Create a champion, prepare the starter build, and complete your first automated map.
Every new champion begins on the Floating Isle with a starter weapon, a skill gem, and access to tier 1 maps. Your first objective is simple: verify the build, press Play, and watch how the champion behaves.
1. Create your champion
Choose one of the six archetypes. This choice sets starting attributes, starter equipment, a starter skill gem, and a recommended Foundation Discipline. It does not lock your future build. Every archetype can equip every compatible item and bind every Discipline.
2. Check the starter kit
Open Inventory and confirm that the starter weapon is equipped. Then open Skill Gems and confirm the starter gem occupies an automation slot.
The character AI uses every equipped skill on cooldown when it has a valid target. Empty slots are allowed, but filling them gives the AI more tools.
3. Review automation
The default rules are intended to work immediately. Before changing them, learn what the defaults do:
- collect loot allowed by the loot filter;
- drink life and mana potions below their configured thresholds;
- re-enter after death while portals remain;
- continue to another eligible map while Play remains active.
4. Press Play
The Gatekeeper opens five portals. Your champion enters one, explores the dungeon, fights every monster, seeks the boss, and picks up permitted loot.
The top status ribbon shows the map tier, monsters remaining, boss state, portal count, and materials found during the run.
5. Read the result
On success, experience and rewards are applied before the champion returns to the Isle. Carried loot is moved into the stash. If the stash has no room, newly recovered loot may be lost, so keep some space available.
On death, the used portal closes. With portals remaining, the champion can make another attempt. Losing all five portals forfeits the map.
First upgrades
Early upgrades usually come from replacing a weak equipment base, equipping another skill gem, spending Remembrance Points, or using Emeralds at the Blacksmith. Do not optimize everything at once. Change one system, run another map, and observe the result.