Make Dark Ritual extra efficient

Overview

So you want to know how to use Dark Ritual in the best way possible to get that DPS up, without having to wait a long time? Read this guide and you’ll become a Dark Ritual expert.

Introduction

Okay, so first of all this guide is for the players who already know what Dark Ritual does, and have stacked up a fair amount of Hero Souls. I’m not going to explain every detail about the game, so I can make this short. After all you’re here to win some time, not to fill up all the hours a Dark Ritual cooldown normally has.

What you need for this new method:

• Unlocked the skills Dark Ritual, Energize & Reload
• Have the ancient Vaagur maxed to level 15
• An impacient personality which leads you to finding & reading this (check!)

The Vaagur ancient

The Basic Method

With Vaagur, you’ll reduce the cooldown of Dark Ritual with 75% which makes it a 2 hour cooldown. Pretty nice, but still way too long. We’re going to make it less than half of that.

You’ll need to understand what the skill Energize does exactly. It doubles the next skill you use, but in what way? Time, damage, amount?

The Energize skill

First of all you’ll want to activate Dark Ritual, after using Energize. In this case this doubles the multiplier so you’re not doing 5% extra damage, but 10% extra damage.

Next you’re gonna use your Reload skill to reduce the cooldown to only one hour, now that’s getting close, but I found out about one more step to make this even faster.

The Secret Method

The cooldown of Reload is only 15 minutes, so you could think about using Reload again after 15 minutes to cooldown Dark Ritual again, but what this does is that it cools down itself. After all the last skill you used was Reload, not Dark Ritual. However, Energize also cools down in 15 minutes.

Energize has another effect on Reload. It doesn’t double Reload in a way it can reduce the cooldown by 2 hours instead of 1 hour. Instead, it makes Reload reduce the cooldown of the last 2 skills used.

This means you can reduce Dark Ritual from an 8 hour cooldown to a 15 minutes cooldown!

Short Summary

• Use Energize, then Dark Ritual, then Reload
• Wait 15 minutes, then use Energize, followed by Reload
• Use Dark Ritual again
• Optional: Wait 15 minutes to use Energize for the next Dark Ritual

Thanks for reading my very first guide. Let me know if it was helpful or if you already found this out yourself! I would love to hear from you. Until next time, fellow clicker heroes.