In Chapter 10 of our step-by-step guide, our target is to effectively farm GB8 using our core units (farmable units as well). Many have asked us previously why can’t they farm Giant’s Keep with good efficiency using similar lineup, I always throw them back this question: are your stats enough to handle them? Every step in our guides plays a very crucial role in your progress and following the regimen is key. If GB8 is too hard to clear right now, we strongly suggest you to go back and farm GB7 until you achieve the required stats shown in our guide below. Please do not be too hasty in clearing higher floors because everything takes time and process.
Simultaneous to farming runes, we will clear all the Hell stages of Scenario Map. it also means that after this, we can now focus more on Dungeons and next, Trial of Ascension. As we inch closer to Veromos fusion, we will tackle the effective ways of farming essences.
Now let’s start!
Farming Giant’s Keep B8 (GB8)
GB8 is a Wind stage which means Lapis needs to be a little more tanky to handle the Boss and wave attacks. A good option is to change her build or re-rune and adapt to the situation. Instead of that Crit Damage slot 4, you can swap an HP% stat to make her a little bit tanky (SPD/HP%/ATK%). Of course, once we finish Veromos fusion we will swap her out to efficiently farm GB8 (To be discussed next chapter). Your utility units and supports also need a little more upgrade with better substats on 1/3/5 runes. Check out the comparison between GB7 and GB8 stats of the same monsters.
Lapis: Vampire / Revenge (SPD / HP% / ATK%)
- +2k~ HP
Bernard: Swift / Energy (SPD / HP% / HP%)
- +500~ HP
- +30~ DEF
Belladeon: Swift / Energy (SPD / HP% / HP%)
- +1k~ HP
- +15~ Accu%
Shannon: Swift / Focus (SPD / HP% / HP%)
- +3k~ HP
- +40~ DEF
- +10~ SPD
Darion / or any of your +1 monster: 3x Energy (HP% / HP% / HP%)
- +2k~ HP
- +40~ DEF
Like we stated last chapter, be more selective on 1/3/5 runes and have a strict requirement on your substats before you equip and upgrade them.
Utility monsters (Bernard, Shannon, Belladeon, Konamiya)
Substats preffered: HP%, SPD, Accuracy%, DEF%
Damage Mitigator (Darion)
Substats preferred: HP%, DEF%, Accuracy%, Resistance%
Damage Dealer (Lapis)
Substats preferred: CR%, ATK%, CD%, SPD, HP%
Special case for semi-tanking type: HP% and DEF%
Full Video of Auto-run:
Lapis (L), Shannon, Bernard, Belladeon, Darion
Clearing Hell Mode
Finally we will clear the last batch of Scenario Hell Mode. As a reference, this is a good way to measure the rune quality of your monsters, better quality translates to higher difficulty clearance. You can start with Aiden Forest using your core units and please take note that you may have to rotate some monsters to avoid element disadvantages. Always bring Darion and Belladeon to sustain your team.
Remember that the difficulty significantly increases as you move to the next Hell Map, making Chiruka Hell the hardest area. You may have to use the Rep monster of your friends to clear hell stages but we will also try the rotation of Lapis, Bernard, Shannon, Belladeon and Darion. Clearance reward gives you free 30 crystals for each Map location, so 4 areas give you a total of 120 crystals.
Farming Essences With Your GB7 Team
Your Giant’s core team can take you places in these 5 element halls. How far can you go with this lineup?
While you can now farm GB7 efficiently, do you know that you can also clear B7 of every element halls? sometimes even B8 but on a longer clear time. Below are the reference stats:
Let’s take a look at each and decide our strategy:
Hall of Light
The Boss has immense DEF stat so it is important to bring DEF reducing debuffs and DEF ignore skills (ex. Belladeon, Darion, Lushen, etc.). Units that can apply continuous damage also helps clearing the stage faster because the damage is definite. Most importantly, your team should have high HP because the wave crystals ignore defense on its attacks.
Lineup: Lapis (L), Shannon, Darion, Bernard, Belladeon
Video of full run:
Hall of Dark
Group healer/cleanser is advised to easily recover from continuous damage applied by the enemy. While it is also important to bring SPD debuffers, an AOE attack bar reducer plays a very important role to slow down enemy turns. Using your GB7 team would suffice and easily clear B7.
Lineup: Lapis (L), Shannon, Darion, Belladeon, Bernard
Video of full run:
Hall of Fire
In this hall, cleansers and high resistance monsters are recommended to remove bombs. You can also tank the damage if your monsters have high HP, which is usually okay if you use your GB7 core team. ATB reduction skills from Lapis is very important here to control enemies.
Lineup: Lapis (L), Darion, Belladeon, Bernard, Shannon
Video of full run:
Hall of Water
The boss from this hall has a very high HP pool. Out of all the element halls, this takes the longest to clear using your GB7 core team. You may still want to use the same lineup or switch in continuous damage dealer (Veromos, Decamaron, etc.) to boost up your clear time. The team also needs to kill the boss faster because it gains ATK the longer the battle gets.
Lineup: Lapis (L), Belladeon, Bernard, Darion, Shannon
Video of full run:
Hall of Wind
This hall is known for its recovery crystal so monsters with unrecoverable skill are good additions (Colleen, Lushen, etc.). You may still use your GB7 lineup but it could lead to longer clear time. While there is minimal damage threat to your team unlike Fire and Dark Hall, it is advised to focus on bringing in a full damage team.
Lineup: Lapis (L), Shannon, Bernard, Belladeon, Darion
Video of full run:
Hall of Magic
Easiest of all Element Halls. With your B7 team you can clear the dungeon in less than 1 min 30 sec. Group healer is advised to keep your sustain.
Lineup: Lapis (L), Bernard, Belladeon, Darion, Shannon
Video of full run:
Getting Essence Rewards from Challenge Mission 4 – Daily Dungeon Tips
Don’t forget to clear this challenge quest to get a large amount of Mid and High essences. You need to auto 7F to claim the rewards with High grade essences.
- Essences (High) x10 for each element
- Essences (Mid) x20 for each element
- Essence of Magic (Mid) x60
Game Progression Guide
Key Monsters to Level Up:
- Monsters needed to fuse Veromos
- Prepare in advance your 5* fodders for upcoming Veromos 6* Evolution. Use Elucia and Roid as fodder.
- Argen, Akia, Mikene, Kumae should be 5* Max
Resource Management
- Keep and eye on 6* Hero and Legend runes on Magic Shop. Buy when it fits the desired stats.
- Sell 4* Rare runes if they are slots 1/3/5. Keep usable 4* Rare runes with ideal stats from slot 2/4/6. Keep 5* usable runes.
- Remember to collect guaranteed crystals from defeating your rivals every time they are up.
- Rune power-up priority: Slots 2,4 and 6. Keep 4* and 5* runes to +12. Save Mana Stones for 6* runes.
- Only power-up runes to +12 if they are at least 4* and with good stats/substats.
- Collect rewards from Events, they give plenty of resources.
- Continue upgrading your Sanctum of Energy, Mysterious Plant and Sky Tribe Totem.
Monster Leveling:
- Use your friend or mentor’s Rep Monster to gain higher Exp. Ideally paired with 1 of your specific monsters to level up.
- Higher difficulty stages (Hell mode) give more exp.
- *Note: Dungeons give less amount of experience compared to scenario stages.
Chapter 11: Fusing Veromos, Improving your GB8 runs, Trial of Ascension
What are you meaning by sell 4* rare on 1/3/5,
We don’t have rare but hero to farm gb7
And you say right after upgrade 4* if good substats on 2/4/6 I don’t get it honestly ..
This chapter and chapter 11 need to be added to the Progression Guides drop-down.
I’ve recently pulled delphoi and atenai from two Legendary scolls. I started to collect Veromos fusion mons and levelled them to 4 star(3 left) so Veromos will be available for me in a couple of weeks. Is it worth to build up delphoi and can she replace another team member? Is Atenai an option for some content?
Delphoi can be a viable +1 but Darion is more efficient. Her heal has similar contribution to Darion’s damage mitagation, but Darion has DEF + ATK break and deals more damage. Just aim to get Veromos first and 6* him. 🙂 Then follow the standard team comp.
Hi! I got veromos , how should I rune him!?
Swift/energy or swift/focus
if your accuracy is 45% without focus runes then you can go Swift/Energy, else Swift/Focus 🙂
plz show more videos and more guides of gb10
Have a question vor vero a fusion him today. Yay
My question is what I take for slot 1,3,5?
Substats of SPD and HP% 🙂
Lapis HP +2373 Atk +424 Def+82 Spd + 58 Crit 53% C.Dmg 143% Resistance 15% Acc. 9%
Shannon HP +3211 Atk +68 Def+53 Spd +39 Crit 18% C.Dmg 56% Resistance 15% Acc. 26%
Bernard HP +7077 Atk +166 Def+81 Spd +38 Crit 23% C.Dmg 55% Resistance 22% Acc. 10%
Belladeon HP +10168 Atk +99 Def+144 Spd +52 Crit 32% C.Dmg 67% Resistance 29% Acc. 17%
These are my stats. I just got my Darion recently. Its a 4 star with following stats
Daron HP 4635+6388 Atk 309+143 Def 273+170 Spd 97+5 Crit 28% C.Dmg 73% Resistance 25% Acc. 0%
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What should I do now?
Would 5 staring my Darion would be sufficient enough for clearing G8 in auto mode. And with this above team I am not able to clear G7 too. My runes are as you recommended but some of them are 4 stars.
I am confussed in following
1. Should I prioritize leveling up or rune farming? Because Energy is an important and scarce resource.
2. Not all my monsters are fully skilled up. Should i farm for skill up monsters too before I can farm G7?
3. Should I use Devilmons on Lapis or wait like you said till I have veromos?
4. Does the amount of essence required for awakening change if I level up my monster from 3 to 4 and 4 to 5 star? My Darion is not yet awakened.
5. Can Konamiya be replacement for Darion?
Pay attention to runes 2/4/6 with %, would be good to substitute for 5 stars, but only if you haven’t 12+ yours yet. If you can’t do G7, it’s a good idea to put Darion 5*
1- If you can’t farm good runes, then you must priorize levelling up. Once you are able to clear the state/scenario you need, start farming it. Level up while farming the runes you need on scenario.
2- These mobs are easy to come in unknown scrolls, so keep on eye for that. Don’t farm SD for skills up if you can’t complete all the stages. Also they show up once in a while at the shop, if you have mana enough you could buy them.
3 – No, don’t use devilmons on Lapis. Their priority is for Veromos and after you max skilled him, save all of them for a better monster
(Nat 5 preferable, or other nat 5 fusion like sigmarus)
4 – No. But is good to awaken your best mobs
5 – Konamiya is a great mob, many people use it until end game. If yours is leveled up and skilled up, its good to keep around and you can try to replace it, you can even use it as a replacement for lapis when you’ll do GB10 and don’t have veromos
Thanx Jessica
I have got my Darion 5* and now its an easy job farming GB7. GB8 is still a tough call. I am close to Veromose Fusion. All the monsters are evolved up to the required star rating. Awakening and max leveling some of them is left.
Right now focussing on Fodder Farming for Veromose and farming the essences.
+1. I agree with you 🙂
Hi DK, I’ve been following your guides since day 1 of my game. Thanks for your hard work.
I have all the safe team (Vero, Bella, Bernard, Shannon and Darrion) and can auto GB10 with 90% success. I have Mav, Julien, Galleon, Megan and Lupinus in my storage. Who should i build and replace in order to make my GB10 runs faster and safer?
Thanks gain btw. Hope that you will keep update your guides til Necro
I will keep updating so don’t worry about it 🙂 I suggest you build Sigmarus and replace Darion. Put him as Lead and you will have a faster run time 🙂
Thanks a lot for this guide. I finally managed to fuse Veromos and 6 star him. However I can only auto gb7 because of shannon squishiness. I will upgrade her rune this FRR.
What should be the requirement for Shannon in GB10 and how should I rune her since I see that she is the weakest mons in the team and easily die?
I suggest go for swift runes if its hard to keep up with the stat requirements with at least 15k HP. 🙂
Hi DK
Thank you for your tutorials, they have helped make this game fun again. I have your standard team currently auto GB7 can clear G8 with rep. I do not have a Veromos yet (half way :P) and I just pulled a Lushen. Was wondering who lushen would replace on the team. the clear answer is Lapis until Veromos is ready but once I get Veromos what should my team look like?
Thanks!!
Lushen (L), Veromos, Bernard, Shannon, Belladeon 🙂 Gz on Lushen, OP monster!!
Hi, a bit ahead of the guide but
is it worth to fully skillup Veromos a soon as you get him ? i got Wind fairy king from scroll and was wondering if those first devilmons would be better on veromos or ganymede ?
For GB10 exclusively, I’d max Veromos 1st skill then proceed to Ganymede 🙂 You need those DOTs through boss to be efficient.
Are you going to keep the Energy runes on them or going back to Focus later?
Also what runes are you going for on Vero?
My guess is Swift Focus will be their ideal recommendation for Vero. Spd, Hp, HP or Spd, HP, Acc.
That’s a good initial build for Veromos for B8+
Why does everyone point to Necro for vampire runes and never to Mt. Runar? Because of efficiency?
Depends on the player actually. If you can maintain the accuracy with Energy runes, no need to go back to Focus set 🙂
If our Lapis stats aren’t comparable to the ones you have listed I would assume that is because we got crappy substat rolls on upgrades. Since her runes came from a quest reward where would we be able to farm replacements?
Vampire runes are dropped in Necro, so they aren’t easy to replace.
Revenge drops in Dragons, but will take TIME to replace due to farming being dictated by RNG.
Give her another HP main stat to compensate from being squishy, although I won’t highly recommend to do that if you use her as Fodder farmer. Anyway, if you are close to fusing Veromos I would suggest to continue farming GB7 at the moment. For sure we can clear GB8 soon using Veromos (L), Bernard, Shannon, Bella, Darion with high reliability 🙂
Who counts as a +1 instead of Darion? Chasun?
Yes Chasun is a viable monster as +1. Slightly slower in runtime but more reliable.
Hi, thanks for the great guide as always. I have a small question. Could I possibly have a team consisting of Orochi(L), Bernard, Louise, Shannon, Bella to go from GB8 on to GB10? Or is Veromos crucial to the lineup that I should try and focus on getting him?
That lineup should also work. However Veromos is good to have in transitioning mid GB10 to DB10. Only Bella is usable in DB10 based from that lineup. If you plan to farm GB10 extensively (1 month+) then you may delay fusing of Veromos.
If I were to add Vero to that lineup, who should I replace?
Replace Lapis. Vero on Swift/Energy or Focus (SPD/HP%/HP%) 🙂
Hello, great guides, they were very useful for me to understand the game as a new comer player.
I have a couple of questions to improve my progress:
My current GB10 team is: 6*: Vero, Lapis, Bernard, Bella. 5* Shannon.
My actual average time is 3 mins.
I have Wind BK, Water Kung Fu Girl, and Fire Rakhasa, who should I 6* and awaken first to get better times in my runs?
Thanks in advance. Keep up the good work.
Build Wind BK to replace Bernard and Shannon. (6* him)
Next, build Water KFG for faster GB10, start of DB10 and raids.
Lineup: Vero (L), Hraesvelg, Bella, Water KFG, +1 Damage Dealer. Can you share your monster box to see which monsters are good options? I see 2min or 2.5min runtime using this lineup (using standard runes)
So far I replaced Shannon for Hraesvelg (his runes suck hard tho) and my time improved from 3:20 (100%) to 2:20 (90%). I’m ok with the success rate drop because in the long run it’s better (33:20 vs 25:40 for 10 cleared runs).
Currently leveling Xiao Ling, but need to get her acceptable runes too.
Monster box:
https://swarfarm.com/profile/Woodynator/
Here are the stats for my team:
Vero (Violent): HP +11441, Def +1119, Sp +97, Acc 45
Lapis (Fatal): HP +7349, Att +1238, Def +194, Sp +29, CR% 60, CRD 143 (Aiming to Despair + Energy)
Bernard (Swift): HP +14014, Def +307, Sp +121, Acc 45
Belladeon (Swift): HP +10776, Def +205, Sp: +96
Hraesvelg (Fatal): HP +8743, Att +1143, Sp +22, CR% 100, CRD 102 (ATT/CR%/HP)
Turn order: Bernard, Bella, Veromos, Hraesvelg, Lapis.
I only have 2 questions about runes, I want my Hraesvelg on Fatal/Blade with ATT/CRD/HP, is that ok?
How should I rune Xiao Ling? I want to Vampire/Revenge but I didn’t do a single Dragon’s run.
Should I go Fatal/Energy with ATT/CRD/ATT ?
Thanks a lot dude, so far not only you helped me through pre-GB10, you also just lowered 1 min in my runs.
Sry if my english is not good, not a native speaker.
Hi Woody!
Hraesvelg on Atk CD HP is good too. However he still needs to be speedy (just like Shannon) So I think SPD/ATK%/HP% should result to faster runs.
Xiao Lin on Fatal/Blade is good to begin with. Also a good replacement to Lapis on GB10.
Turn order for GB10 should be Bernard > Hraesvelg > Bella/Veromos/Lapis or Xiao Lin. Should be close to 2 min runs 🙂
Hi,
I’m always excited when another Chapter comes out! I was the guy who asked u previously if i could swap shannon for Emma…
Now that u mentioned farming giants B8, can i use Geoffrey instead of Lapis? I tried a couple runs with that team comp and it went perfectly fine.
Also, one last thing, recently i just got an Imesety. Can i use him in the GB10 team?
Actually Lapis is a liability in GB8, we just made use of her Lead skill and built her to tank and survive the waves. Geoffrey is nice to have against GB8, just don’t 6* him.
Imesety is for PvP and does not provide useful debuffs aside from ATB reductions, therefore he isn’t recommended for GB10.
“Now that u mentioned farming giants B8, can i use Geoffrey instead of Lapis? I tried a couple runs with that team comp and it went perfectly fine.” — If it went fine, it means you can, no?
“Also, one last thing, recently i just got an Imesety. ” —- In my opinion, it could eventually replace shannon, but shannon, due to the glancing debuff on top of the slow, is safer for starting GB10. If you want to build your Imesety instead of shanon, feel free to do so, but do have in mind that you might need higher defensive stats on your other monsters to achieve a similar success rate in the runs.
Okay so I tried a couple runs with the basic recommended team without any changes using my vero friends…since Emma isn’t runed perfectly yet.
I have achieved a 45% success rate with only Bella six starred and one problem I faced is the crystals which kill Shannon fast.
In the end, can my team for GB10 be
Vero(L) Emma Bella Malaka Bernard so that Malaka can clear the crystals fast with his aoe dmg?
Wait not Malaka… I meant Reno