Growing Breeze Iris Leveling Guide

Growing Breeze Identity

Welcome to the Iris leveling guide. She is a Summoner Hero that specializes in Empowering Spirit Magi. By placing a Spirit Magus Skill in an Active Skill Slot you can activate it every few seconds to grant your Spirit Magi Nourishment stacks which increase their damage significantly. Hero Traits such as Amazing Friends allow you to unlock the full potential of Spirit Magi by unlocking their Ultimate ability at the cost of -1 Maximum Spirit Magi Quantity and Socialite lets you build a larger army by increasing that number by 1 instead.

Treasure Troves

Treasure Troves are a way to super-charge your leveling experience. They give vastly more experience than regular zones and yield exclusive Legendary items. You need to complete each of them once for a Talent Point. For an easier leveling experience, you repeat the Treasure Trove until you're 8-10 levels above the zone, then rush through the next few areas. Follow your side quest to find the Treasure Trove locations.

Keep an eye out for the following Legendary items as you clear Treasure Troves.

• New Ear Hills (L7): Look out for Desire of Survival and Rock Lizard's Skull.
• Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Dragon Scale Shoes.
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Chain of Resistance and Ice Pulse.
• Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Interlocking Soul.
• Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Omniscient Prototype and Lonesome.
• Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Look out for Omniscient Prototype and Lonesome.

Every Treasure Trove has a small chance to drop Lonesome which boosts you damage significantly if you equip only 1 ring and Omniscient Prototype which provides around 120 Energy allowing you to equip additional Support Skills.

Leveling Tips and Tricks

• Your first active skill slot (top left in the Skills menu) is your "Main Skill," this matters because many items and Hero Traits have effects that only apply to the Main Skill.
• If you're ever in doubt of where to go, click the campaign quest on the left of your screen and a golden path shows you the way.
• This guide assumes you get most of your levels through Treasure Troves and rush to the objectives in other zones for maximum efficiency.
• When allocating Pact Points, prioritize Resistances first, then select Damage nodes until you fill the section. If you have leftover points, put them into Drop nodes as you begin farming the Netherrealm.
• Complete all 10 Levels of the Hero Forge to unlock all of your Hero Trait abilities and gain 6 additional Talent Points.
• All support gems become available from the Skill Shop at level 50. At this stage cross reference with the embeds to make sure you're set up for the Netherrealm.
• In Chapter 3 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, after changing your gear, be sure to go to the Energy Menu under Skills to reassign missing Energy.

Equipment & Stat Priorities

Core Skill

• Use Summon Thunder Spirit to deal damage. Activate it on Cooldown to grant your Spirit Magi Nourishment stacks that increase their damage.
• With Blink and Leap Attack you move faster through the zones.
  • Support it with Quick Mobility for even faster movement.
• Use Dazzling Bloom to teleport your Minions to your target location and to buff their damage for a short duration.
• Nourishment of Life grants your Spirit Magi stacks of Growth.
  • For every 100 stacks of Growth your Spirit Magi have, they reach a higher Stage which empowers their abilities.

Leveling Progression

WARNING: The following levels are a guideline, you might complete the quest/unlock the Skill a few levels early, or a few levels later!

Talents

Traits, Relics and Memories

Hero Traits

Relics and Memories

Look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Relics and Memories;

Divinity Slates

When leveling Growing Breeze Iris, look for any Divinity Slates containing these talents;

Pacts

The Netherrealm

Racing through your Netherrealm quests as quickly as possible results in you becoming under leveled for the required zones to progress further, stay within 3 levels of the zones you're completing to avoid a harsh experience penalty. Check out our How to Progress the Netherrealm if you're unsure of anything.

Here's a list of things to do while progressing the early stages of the Netherrealm;

• Level 60, The Trade House is unlocked. Be sure to read and understand our Trade House for Beginners Guide before making any big purchases.
• Higher item levels of gear come with higher quantities of Energy. Look to improve your current gear with items that have increased Energy so that you can use more Support Skills.
• Utilize Prototype Crafting and Enchanting to greatly increase the power of gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Sand to lock 1 good affix in place and reroll up to 4 new modifiers. Legendary Gear with Legendary Aptitude allows you to roll mods and craft on those items well.

Transitioning to Endgame

Weapon

• Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifier on Wands, Staffs or Two-Handed Hammers
  • Lightning/Spell/Minion Skill Level
  • Minion Damage
  • Minion Critical Strike Damage
  • Minion Critical Strike Chance
  • Chance for Minions to Deal Double Damage
  • Cooldown Recovery Speed
  • Aura Effect
  • Spirit Magi's Enhanced Skills +% additional damage
    
• Craft the items using prototype crafting until you have at least 1 Lightning, Spell or Minion Skill Level modifier and any combination of other modifiers listed above.
• Enchant the item to finish it.

Remaining Gear

Focus on crafting the remainder of your Armor and Jewelry with the following goals in mind;

• Cap all of your Resistances at the 60% maximum.
• Have a healthy Life pool.
• Increase Minion Damage.
• Increase Skill Level of Spirit Magi.
• Increase the amount of Growth your Spirit Magi have.
• Increase Aura Effectiveness.
• Reduce Sealed Mana.

Legendary Items

Leveling

• Interlocking Soul provides a good amount of Minion damage at the cost of draining your Life any time you use a Summon Skill.
• Lonesome Provides good amount damage early on before you find proper crafted or set rings.
• Wear Horn Ring to increase the damage of your Minions as well as Critical Strike Damage when you use anEmpower Skill.

Set Items

As you complete the Netherrealm be sure to farm the following Voyager's Commemorative Set items.

• Voyager's Commemorative Cape
• Voyager's Commemorative Strap
• Voyager's Commemorative Goggles
• Voyager's Commemorative Boots
• Voyager's Commemorative Cufflinks
• Voyager's Commemorative Brooch
• Voyager's Commemorative Pinky Ring x2

Endgame

• Winter of Origin Provides 3-4 stacks of Focus Blessing and changes its effect to +6% additional Minion Damage.
• Fiend Crown provides good amount of Minion Critical Strike Damage and and grants Lucky on Critical Strike.

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Iris leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database!

Credits

Written by: Zen_M
Reviewed by: Tenkiei