Introduction to Dungeons
Initially made and edited by nonomo4 with the information provided by the ITRTG discord. This guide was built with the help of the discord community, so please feel free to add your input if there's something that isn't right. After all, this is just a community guide at the end of the day.
Introduction
Welcome. This guide is here to help you with your dungeon progression. This will hopefully help you understand what you should be doing to start progressing in dungeons for all players alike.
Guide
The New Player (non-token)
When you are just starting, you generally won't have enough pets until you reach Odin. But once you obtain your 6th pet, you are ready to begin your dungeon journey. Trust me when I say it's better than doing normal Pet Campaigns.
- Note: There's a pet called Bug that you can unlock if you press the feedback button. I'd recommend making it into a Blacksmith(BS), as a non-specialist fire BS is decent for this stage of the game if you aren't using tokens. As for the other pets, I'd still recommend the roles mentioned below. 3 BSs may feel like a lot, but you'll eventually find yourself making good use of the sheer number of BSs you have.
Depth 1
Initial Team
| Mouse | Frog | Bee | Cupid | Egg | Armadillo |
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Unless you used a token or obtained a pet via an event, these will likely be your first six pets. Your first task is to send them into the Newbie Training Grounds to get enough levels(~10) for your first elemental dungeon.
Eventually, you will send your pets to the Mountain Dungeon, which will help your pet growth and pet level.
For D1 dungeons, pet level is the main deciding factor. A team of level 50s should do well at this depth, regardless of class, gear and items. I'm not saying that you should do this, but this is something to keep in mind.
Swapping Out Pets
As you progress outside of dungeons, you gradually acquire more pets. While you can obtain pets via tokens, we are assuming you haven't spent any yet. At this point, you will likely have Bug, Squirrel, Rabbit, and God Power. Out of the three, Squirrel and Rabbit will replace Bee and Mouse respectively.
Now your team should be the following *(if frog is fishing, use mouse wildcard supporter instead):
| Cupid | Frog* | Squirrel | Rabbit | Egg | Armadillo |
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Evolving Your Pets
Bee should be your first Alchemist and Bug should be a Blacksmith. Having a Blacksmith early will help you prepare the minimal pet gear that's recommended to reach depth 2. Mouse can make a good wildcard we suggest Supporter so frog can go fish, but rogue works decently well. You will eventually unlock more Dungeon teams, so having multiple of each class is important.
For more details on the importance of Blacksmiths and Alchemists, please see Crafting.
As I said, you can depth 2 with sheer levels, but it's definitely faster to work on gears, items, and classes.
Team Setup
Your pets should be well on their way, levelling up slowly but surely. As they do this, we can begin thinking about the classes and gear of the pets.
Classes
If you still have the same team, then it is recommended you chose the following classes for your team. *(If frog is fishing, then use supporter mouse instead.)
| Cupid | Frog* | Squirrel | Rabbit | Egg | Armadillo |
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| Blacksmith* | Supporter | Rogue | Mage | Assassin |
A pet's class decides their role in a team. Defenders help protect other pets. Supporters make sure everyone stays healthy. Rogues improve the loot. Assassins and Mages provide most of the damage.
At this point, team positioning becomes more important. Each pet should have a place in either the front row or back row. You want to make sure your Cupid, Armadillo, and Egg are in front, with the other 3 in the back.
- * While Cupid's special ability only activates as an Adventurer, we will replace Cupid with Fairy in our dungeon team pretty early on. Thus, instead of an Adventurer, we will be turning Cupid into a Blacksmith for the extra crafting help in preperation of the swap, which will remove the need for an expensive class change later on.
- *This guide is mainly to give you the basic information you need to progress. Please refer to Dungeons for details about each class.
Gear
Your Bug should be hard at work crafting the gear you need at this point. *(If frog is fishing use mouse wildcard supporter instead)
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| Class | Blacksmith | Supporter | Rogue | Mage | Assassin | Defender |
| Weapon | Hammer | Fire Sword | Knives | Fire Sword, Earth Axe | Fire Sword | Iron Sword or Pot |
| Armor | Fire Armor | Wind Armor | Fire Armor | Fire Armor | Fire Armor | Neutral Armor |
| Accessory | Fire Accessory | Fire or Water Accessory | Fire Accessory | Fire or Earth Accessory | Fire Accessory | Neutral Accessory |
The gear listed above is specifically for Mountain. If you move these pets to other dungeons, the required gear may be different.
Note: While fire gear may add increased damage in mountain, many players advise wind armor instead to increase survivability.
Before upgrading any gear, you will want to craft at least something to fill the slots. After all, something is better than nothing. Only when your team is properly geared and the starting rank is good enough that you begin upgrading pieces of gear.
Do note that you want to upgrade your Mage's gear above the rest, as they are your primary damage dealer. After all, a good offence can power your way through.
Players should look at Equip to understand the value of the stats on each piece of gear. Knowing what each stat is for is essential for maximizing your pets' potential, as the combination gear stats can determine a party's success or failure.
Now you have learned a bit about pet gear, you may be wondering how you get the material for these? You will have the material for wind gear because you've been working on Mountain, but fire and earth material will be in shorter supply. As a result, you'll need to send a team to the respective dungeons for resources.
Items
You may want to start using party items as well. For Mountain, you can bring flying boots to mitigate damage and prevent your pets from being stalled in the dungeon. You can bring healing potions so that pets are less likely to die. Feathers from the pet trader can be used to revive your pets if they die, saving your resources. For those with tons of Pet Stones (likely not the new player), there are talismans that give exp and drop boosts.
Items are valuable, as they make dungeons easier and more valuable. D1 dungeons will not require items, but they will matter more as you reach more depth.
Two More Dungeons
At a certain point, you probably should have 2 dungeons teams unlocked. However, it's possible that this isn't the case. This next section will be split into two to cover both dungeons.
Second Dungeon Team Locked
Your biggest roadblock would likely be not having the second team slot. That, or you don't have 12 pets. This means that you'll be sending your Mountain team straight into Volcano and Forest for gear materials. As I mentioned earlier, depth 1 is all about levels. If your team is levelled enough, you can power through anything.
Make sure to adjust the difficulty, as your team isn't normally meant for these two dungeons and thus will have a harder time doing them. If you have extra pets, you will want to adjust the team to better fight the dungeon. For Volcano, you want 3 fire element pets. For Forest, you want pet food in your items to gain growth (the growth depends on the food used). Paying close attention to these requirements will help you get extra value from the dungeons.
Unlocking More Dungeon Teams
There are a few ways to obtain extra team slots. If you are a new player, then the easiest is to do daily Challenge Dungeons. Challenge Dungeons give gems, which can be traded in for a second team slot.
The other option is to spend 300k Pet Stones to unlock it. This can be obtained over time through various methods, but the easiest way to obtain this amount is just by buying it directly or getting lucky with your Lucky Draws.
The last option is to spend 1k Challenge Points to obtain it. If you're a veteran player, this should be relatively easy. For most people, this is likely their 4th ChP purchase, right after UB damage reduction, Exp Overflow, and Auto Half Stat.
Regardless of which method you pick, the second main requirement for a second dungeon team is to have enough pets.
Newer players will have to make a choice. Either divert pets away from their Growth Campaign, or not use a 2nd dungeon team. Growth is important, so not using a second team isn't a bad choice if your growth campaign is developing.
Fielding your second team with random pets can be acceptable. The main goal is to have this team obtain resources to help grow your first team. Even if they are farming the first difficulty of a dungeon, that is still growth.
Of course, eventually, you should have a proper second team, but that's later down the line for a new player.
Depth 2
If you've been following this guide, you should be ready for D2 dungeons. This section will go over a list of things that you either should be working towards or have done to beat depth 2. While you don't need to do everything listed, having them done would make your first D2 easier.
Preperation
- Your pets should be working on reaching levels 35-45. At level 35 and with proper class evolutions, they could potentially beat D2 with a lot of gear and items. However, reaching higher levels significantly reduces the gear, item and class requirements. At 45 and above, you should be able to brute force it with minimal gear and barely any class levels.
- Pet Gear should still be T1's around this point. This is because most of your resources should go towards making a good hammer. Getting a T2 SSS+20 hammer is much better than spending resources on other things. Of course, it isn't expected for you to have the hammer at this point, but this is what you should focus on. For the exact gear you should have, everyone except your defender should have elemental matching weapons, fire swords, or knives depending on what gear you can/have available. Defenders should have a pot or knives. Your armor and accessories for your damage dealer should match the pet element. Your armor and accessories for your non-damage dealers should match the dungeon element.
Gearing for depth 2
Note: Defenders always use neutral gear in every slot no matter the dungeon; the rest of this section is only for non-defender jobs.
Weapons:
Assassins, rogues, and blacksmiths (if you're using one for whatever reason) should use knives; the defense reduction is important, especially as your knives get higher tier.
Supporters should either use fire swords (if you need more healing) or knives (if you don't).
Mages should use fire swords, since they're heavy hitters in terms of DPS.
This means that the water spear, earth axe, and wind bow are generally not used for this tier, though they can be used on mages if they need extra survivability.
Armor:
Matching the dungeon's element provides the best defense option; for scrapyard, match your pet's elemental weakness (since neutral monsters attack using your pet's weakest element). Fire armor provides more attack, though on mages using armor that matches their element may be better.
Accessories:
Fire gloves provide the best offense but at a heavy penalty to defense. Wood/water accessories are generally useful. For mages, matching their element may provide better results than fire gloves. Additionally, if you have an alchemist's cape, it's a very good piece of defensive gear that goes well on mages.
Gems
In the long run, you want to use level 10 gems; however, starting out with level 5 gems lets you apply them to more pieces of your gear (since there are 32 level 5 gems to a single level 10). Both approaches are fine.
Using level 10 gems strikes a balance between the stat boost and the amount of time it takes to make them. Note that removing a gem from a piece of gear decreases it by one tier (unless you have the relevant upgrade).
In general, gem recommendations are given as weapon/body/accessory; keeping the same element on the same slot means you can swap gear around.
Defenders use water/water/water (or earth/water/water to save on water gems), since defenders need survivability more than anything else and their gear doesn't decrease any elements (making neutral gems not necessary).
All other pets will use fire/water/neutral, though wind can also be viable on knives in some situations.
Gear Progression
Creating the next tier of equipment (e.g. making a flame sword out of a fire sword) halves the upgrade stats (so +7 would go to +3) and rerolls its quality, with a higher input quality leading to higher output quality. This means that it's not worth it upgrading gear past the requirement to create the next tier. As a result, tier 1 (T1) gear should stop at B+5, T2 gear should stop at S+10, and T3 gear goes all the way to SSS+20. Depth 2 will see you converting your T1 gear into T2 and starting to get into T3s as well. T4 gear is beyond the scope of this guide.
The use of seeding to ensure that your T3 gear crafts have high stats saves immense amounts of time and materials when crafting T3 gear, is accepted in the community, and is not considered cheating or hacking by the developer.
Gems are not lost when upgrading, so it's okay to gem T2 gear; gemming T1 gear is not a waste of the gem, but the time it takes is better spent on other things.
Enchanting (which decreases the element penalty) is not worth it until T3.
Blacksmith hammers are the exception to this; you should take one T2 hammer to SSS+20. This is because the benefits of having a high-stat blacksmith hammer are much larger than a single piece of high-stat dungeon gear, and a T2 SSS+20 hammer is about as good as a T3 S+10, which would take a lot of time and materials to make. The rest of your hammers should follow the same pattern as your other gear: T1 B+5 -> T2 S+10 -> T3 SSS+20.
The Veteran/Token Player
Even veterans and token players will start with Scrapyard and move into Mountain. However, they likely have more pets or have the ability to gain pets faster. As a result, this next section will be targeted at the veteran players who have a decent number of pets and are looking to get into dungeons with a better team.
Depth 3
Building Your Team
The key to building this team is to understand what you need for D2 and D3 Mountain. For example, you will need 2 defenders once you get into Mountain D2 and above. You will also want 2 wind pets to take advantage of the Mountain D1 growth event, and/or 2 neutral pets for the Mountain D3 growth event. With this in mind, you can look through your pets and determine which fits these criteria the best.
For example, Armadillo and Valkyrie are often cited as two solid defenders you can bring. Armadillo is easy to evolve, meaning that you will have one defender within D1. Valkyrie will take more time to evolve due to her evolution requirements.
Looking ahead to D3, satisfying all the events requires a well-selected party. Valkyrie fulfils one of the two defenders for the D2 event, as well as one of the two wind pets for the D1 growth event. Dog is a great choice for the second defender, as it also satisfies one of the neutral pets needed for the D3 growth event.
If you find yourself swapping pets as you progress. This is perfectly normal. Replacing Armadillo with Dog is just one example, and remember that this will free up Armadillo to serve elsewhere (perhaps Forest, Scrapyard or RTI).