A guide for the Ancient Beasts DLC.
 
 

How To Start Expeditions

Go to the Strange Portal located on the Eastern side of Tinka's Domain
Talk to professor Bramley and start his quest chain.
Next you have to do a Dungeon Anomaly on Mythic 3.
Now you can start doing Expeditions by talking to Bramley and selecting Expedition Tree
Now pick the starter node for one of the Expedition paths:


The Expeditions increase in difficulty as you progress, from Mythic III to Mythic XIII; if your character is capable of XV or Tiers, it will be a joke to complete them.
If progressing on a new character, I suggest rotating between all 4 paths before moving up difficulties. Otherwise, just smash out a single line entirely and max out a single beast first.

Expedition Passive Skills

As you progress through Expeditions, you will unlock passive skills.
The passive skills cost crystals to invest in them, and new Golden Crystals at certain breakpoints.
Golden Crystals come from completing Endless Dungeon Anomalies. Yes, that means you have to kill bosses and not just do randoms.


The cost of the nodes rises with each point invested. 
Expect to spend about 6 billion crystals and around 500 Golden Crystals to max out all the nodes important to your build; much more if you want to max everything in the tree.
The formula for Golden Crystals is floor( tier / 22 + 2). IE on T400, you'd get 20. 

How To Acquire Mythical Weapons

Greater Boss Anomalies were added and they drop all the materials you need to upgrade a set weapon to Mythical.


Greater Boss Anomalies range from Mythic VII to Mythic XV. 
You need 10 of each of the 5 boss materials plus 2 rare parts to craft your Mythical weapon.
Drop rates are in flux atm, so will update with them later. In general, though, higher mythic = higher chances.
To forge the weapon, enter the portal in the corner to the right of Bramley; you will have to be far enough in Jones' quest chain for it to be there.
Then you walk up to the forge and use it:


The recipe is a set weapon for your class, 10 of each Greater Boss material, and one of each rare weapon part specific to your class. Here's templar's as an example:


When you click Transmute! you get a little cutscene showing it off


The Mythical weapon will have better stats, an extra rune slot, 3 suffixes, and 3 prefixes. Note that the weapon will be completely rerolled; current enchants, gems, runes, and prismatic slot will be lost.

How To Acquire And Use Your Beasts

There are four lines of beasts, one for each section of the expedition tree.
You start with an egg.
The egg is obatined from the 5th expedition in each section of the tree.
Once you have the egg, you can collect materials to hatch it into a beast by using the incubator:


You can swap between beasts at the incubator:


The beast materials are most easily farmed in expeditions, but you can get them elsewhere as well.
Materials 1 and 2 are mob drops; you get them from killing the associated enemies. IE Skeletons for Undead Bones and Gargoyles for Gargoyle Gravel.
Material 3 comes from breakable objects scattered around the zones. Get your first beast hatched asap and equip the Magnetic Device and Havoc artifacts to greatly speed up gathering the materials.
The table below contains the number of each material required for each beast stage:
 
Stage
 
Material 1
 
Material 2
 
Material 3
 
Egg -> Hatchling 
 
100 
 
300 
 
500 
 
Hatchling -> Lesser 
 
300 
 
500 
 
800 
 
Lesser -> Greater 
 
500 
 
1000 
 
2000 
The materials for each beast are in the table below:
 
Beast
 
Mats
 
Bark (West) 
 
 


 
 
Flame (South) 
 


 
 
Frost (North) 
 


 
 
Rune (East): 
 


 



Materials 1 and 2 are mob drops; you get them from killing the associated enemies. IE Skeletons for Undead Bones and Gargoyles for Gargoyle Gravel.
Material 3 comes from breakable objects scattered around the zones. Get your first beast hatched asap and equip the Magnetic Device and Havoc artifacts to greatly speed up gathering the materials.
 
Stage
 
Material 1
 
Material 2
 
Material 3
 
Egg -> Hatchling 
 
100 
 
300 
 
500 
 
Hatchling -> Lesser 
 
300 
 
500 
 
800 
 
Lesser -> Greater 
 
500 
 
1000 
 
2000 
 
Beast
 
Mats
 
Bark (West) 
 
 


 
 
Flame (South) 
 


 
 
Frost (North) 
 


 
 
Rune (East): 
 


 
 

How To Acquire And Use Artifacts

Artifacts are crafted at Jones in Tinka's Domain. 


You Craft them in the Forge accessed through her dialogue:


Each Artifact costs Artifact Fragments to craft; they are obtained from expeditions upon first completion.


There are 3 types of Artifacts: Triangle, Rhombus, and Star.
Artifacts are equipped on your Ancient Beast. 
Hatchlings get 2 Triangle slots
Lessers get 2 Triangle slots and 2 Rhombus slots.
Greaters get 2 Triangle slots, 2 Rhombus slots, and 2 Star slots.


You must craft all the Triangle Artifacts before Rhombus Artifacts become available; likewise, craft all the Rhombus Artifacts to open the ability to craft the Star Artifacts.





Hatchlings get 2 Triangle slots
Lessers get 2 Triangle slots and 2 Rhombus slots.
Greaters get 2 Triangle slots, 2 Rhombus slots, and 2 Star slots.

Triangle Artifacts

 
Name
 
Effect
 
Finder's Keep 
 
All chests and secrets are now marked and revealed on the map when entering any zone. 
 
Magnetic Device 
 
+50% Pickup Radius. 
 
Havoc 
 
Continuously break all breakable objects within 10 meters. 
 
Gladiator's Allure 
 
Experience gained from killstreaks is increased by 50%. 
 
Battle Lust 
 
Killstreaks last 30% longer. 
 
The Twins 
 
Health and Mana pickups always drop in pairs. 
 
Imbiber's Stone 
 
Health Potions and Mana Potions have a 15% chance to critically hit, restoring double the amount. 

Rhombus Artifacts

 
Name
 
Effect
 
Element of Surprise 
 
Companions gain the Invisibility affix, and have their damage stat increased by 200% on any attacks made from Invisibility. 
 
Death's Decay 
 
All enemies within 5 meters are slowed by 50%. 
 
Battle Glory 
 
Killstreak bonus attacks now match the player's strongest Damage Element and are improved in every aspect. 
 
Focused Knowledge 
 
The base passive node in each skill tree is now 3x as strong. Does not affect Mastery base nodes. 
 
Battle Haze 
 
-25% Attack Speed, +25% Movement Speed, +10% Evasion. 
 
Force of Will 
 
+50% Physical Damage. 
 
Attrition's Yield 
 
+50% Poison Damage and Frost Damage. 
 
Conviction's Balance 
 
+50% Holy Damage and Shadow Damage. 
 
Nature's Decree 
 
+50% Fire Damage and Lightning Damage. 
 
Astral Power 
 
+100% Satellite Damage. 
 
Ancient Focus 
 
Indirect Damage Enchants are 100% stronger. 
 
Companion's Favor 
 
(Warden only) +50% Companion Passive and Use Effect. 
 
Companion's Calling 
 
(Warden only) +1 rank to all Companion skills. 
 
Symbol of Hope 
 
(Templar only) +1 rank to all Aura skills. 
 
Shield Adornment 
 
(Templar only) +5% to the maximum cap of Block Chance and Damage Blocked. 
 
Essence of Burning Rage 
 
(Berserker only) +15 Maximum Rage and Minimum Rage 
 
Ancient Bead 
 
(Berserker only) +1 rank to all Heritage Skills 
 
Soul Gem 
 
(Warlock only) +1 Maximum Souls. 
 
Ritual Stone 
 
(Warlock only) +1 rank to all Ritual skills. 

Star Artifacts

 
Name
 
Effect
 
Time Unwound 
 
Damage over time effects deal 15% increased damage, but have 30% less duration. 
 
Blessed Health 
 
Become immune to all negative effects(debuffs), except cooldown-related effects. 
 
Grip of Death 
 
Adds a 25% chance on hit to pull the foe towards the player. Foes pulled are Weakened, suffering 40% increased damage take for 7 seconds. 
 
Rahlence's Resurrection 
 
On-kill enchants and power have a 7% chance to be triggered on hit. Does not affect any passive skills, or any effects using a foe's health as damage. 
 
Life Bond 
 
Player Maximum Health is added to Companion base health. 
 
Tales of Victory 
 
Crowned foes count as 3 foes for Killstreaks. 
 
Megan's Spark 
 
For each unspent skillpoint, all Minor stats are increased by 1%. 
 
Eternal Servitude 
 
When a companion dies, their Use effect cooldown is reset and no long requires any Mana or other resources to be cast for the next 5 seconds. 
 
Ancient Retort 
 
When hurt, Weaken the attacking foe, increased the damage it suffers by 20%. Stacks infinitely. 
 
Crystalized Life 
 
+6000 Health. 
 
Crystalized Mana 
 
+3000 Mana. 
 
Rose Eternal 
 
+10000 Thorns. 
 
Elementalist's Boon 
 
Adds 300% of Damage Vs. Elemental stat to all Damage Element stat, but no longer deal bonus damage to Elemental foes. 
 
Entity's Inclination 
 
Satellites apply a Weaken effect to foes hit, increasing the damage they take by 7%. This effect stacks infinitely. 
 
Aphrodite's Cue 
 
The delay between staggered damage ticks is increased by 50% of the Willpower stat. Meaning the damage is dealt at slower intervals and held onto longer.
 
Myggen's Fang 
 
+100% increased Health on Hit and Mana on Hit. Restore twice as much when landing a Critical Hit. 

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