ASDD is as important as “Straight in the Bin!”

Tell them to stop charging silver to equip and unequip gear.

I would argue this is probably one of the best videos on Raid out there... This video was so needed and well explained.

Great work, HH! This game is a true grind. Being relatively new (45 days in), it’s hard to focus on where to grind between leveling champs & making food, while attempting to get decent gear from Dragon’s. All the while, torn on when to push Spider to get jewelry. And don’t forget the Arena to chip away at the Great Hall! And, oh yeah, doing it all with a limited roster of “do everything” champs. Easy to get paralyzed on where to spend that precious energy.

Finally a great vid that explains proper gearing. Thank you HH!

I'm entering end-game; I just finished my Arbiter missions this week, I'm nearly one-keying NM CB, and I still watched this all the way through. You never know where you will pick up on a useful tip. I tried to bring my Arminger into Ice Golem and he got pulverized right away even though Mausoleum Mage is negative affinity, so now I'm looking over his gear again thinking how I can get him to survive to make his block revive useful for the boss.

Hey Hell Hades, another great vid. I'm new to the game, about 30 days in, and your videos have been great for answering questions on how to min/max. I just wanted to mention that abilities coming from gear, like a Stun Set, don't require ACC from what I've read. I'm sure you're aware of this but many newer players may not be. If a gear set has an 18% chance to do something... if it procs, it lands 100% of the time since there's no Accuracy vs Resist check. Thanks and keep up the great work.

I swear; without your videos I'd have no idea how to play this game :) Great video, and I will definitely have to regear several champs tonight.

Absolutely fantastic explanation! I’ve been looking for this EXACT information

2 years later and I'm still learning. Great vid, Cheers

A HUGE THANK YOU!!! 1ST time I have had it broken down in a way so easy to understand and apply.. I appreciate this video!!!!

I wish I'd happened upon this video earlier on, but glad I found it today. My lightbulb just exploded. No ASDD means a SADD loss. Thanks HH!

I have over 400 champions, 50 legendaries. Been playing for awhile and realized most are geared wrong. Fixing them now or trying to. Thanks for the videos.

ASDD yep it's is such a complex game when it comes to gearing. I just beat ice and dragons 20 4 months into the game low spender no Legos and the deciding factor was changing kael into an hp chest. Thanks HH couldn't of done it without you 🍻 Cheers mate

"embrace the damage" "punish the enemy"... These gems have to be on HH merch in the future.. Absolute gold like this is the icing on a cake of unprecedented knowledge crafted by Grand Maestro Hades; each perfectly portioned serving bearing that unmistakable taste of hard earned, battle tested experience; given selflessly, cotidio, to the ground down, frustrated masses. It's a thing of immense proportions what you do for this community sir. Just want to extend my thanks. I haven't gamed in almost 2 decades, and somehow Raid snuck into my life, and before I knew it my girlfriend is convinced I need an addiction specialist. I told her I've already got the best one there is. You make this so much more fun most times. Infinite Thanks, see you on all the platforms. Hell Hades forever

Omg I wish I would have seen this video 2 months ago when I FIRST started fiddling around with Raid!!! Just in the last 3 wks I’ve been really trying to LEARN the techniques and how to REALLY PLAY. I’ve wasted a lot of silver and never knew to do the daily’s etc. I started watching your channel (Sub) ever since 3wks AGo which is WHY I became so active in my gameplay.. cause I’m learning from you mate! :-) I FINALLY JUST Got Valerie yesterday and I’ve been looking for a GOOD video on how to build & gear her... and I just saw your video. TREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL MATE! BRIlLANT! I do well with lil cheats ie: ASDD! I Need a account take over!! So many ignorant mistakes!! Thanks you, CHEERS 🍻 Mate

Thank you for providing the best information and delivering it so well. You're an excellent teacher. Your content is canon!

Thank you for the video. Definitely has given me a better understanding of the game and will help me from making mistakes

Thanks HH. This is so important

Shared in my discord much needed thank you I do takeovers and sharing this to my guys is gonna help alot

"Coldheart.....wait a sec that's a really bad example". LOL....You know there are a ton of us out here that would kill for that Coldheart. Very helpful vid once again.

Always informative with your vids mate...I especially appreciate the number crunching you do on our account. I raise & toast my cup of java to Hadeski!

OK! I want to be honest here. The content is so useful for the focus on what gear to put on an exact champion. The gear is something else as let me explain. The game makes you pay fortune of silver when have a drop of gears to switch to your champions. and not to forget that you have to spend hours to have great drops of gears to be like equipped in your champions. It is a struggle as well for the force to sell a lot of 4* or 5* gears to be able to save the 6* that drop. 1300 gears while have like over than 7 section of gears type. It is tiny as should be like a way to max the slots like champ or vault slot to give us some life time peace. Game is way over loaded and although gems is easily earned in every month for f2p but gears is another q as you have to do a lot of time consuming on game to get the gears you need to. I had to stop the farm as need to save the energy to be couple of thousands so can do the dungeons dragon or spider farm. The gap is huge and any early game player will be so lost especially when know nothing about the sets is not that essentially at early game and more essential is the stats that each champion need and equip the gear that make the stats look fit for what target you want the champion to play. Struggle to early game is a huge thing and a lot started to quit for the silver lack and the energy with the switch gears millions cost. It is a way worse features that need to be edited and lower the cost. Sorry but had to say this as It is a real suffer.

Thank you for your guide, you make to love the game. I have been trying to gear my champions to their very best. This video helps.

This is super helpful! I love these guides!

I need to clean up my flat stats on my champions. Thank you helping with my game in Raid

Any 1 else notice those flat stats gloves on warmaiden?!? 😛

@Steven: Exactly!! Wonderful presentation. Love it!

Thanks this video really helped me wrap my head around this game.

Wicked content Hades!

ASD square, got it😁 you are so awesome!

Excellent video with great information, even for a late gamer. I would like to ask though if you have a hard rule for how much crit rate % you are comfortable with to use crit damage gloves. Obviously you want 100% CR, but at what point from substats are you comfortable enough?

As a new player this was super informative!

Was literally thinking I need to watch a video on proper gear yesterday. Quit reading my mind Hades!

I am even more lost on what to do. I like the game but I am so lost. Good video.

Excellent video. :) It is perhaps worth mentioning that for a free to play or low spender player, it might be worth keeping gloves, chests and boots with flat stats - IF they have good accuracy and/or speed substats. While principle of flat stats being worse than % stats for ATK/DEF/HP still applies it takes so much longer to achieve the optimal gearing because you have access to less resources. Especially for the more hard-to-get sets, a FTP or low spender player should probably roll flat stat ATK/DEF/HP gloves/chest/boots - with accuracy and speed substats, up to 8, before they decide if they should vendor them or not. I would recommend not rolling those gear pieces up to more than 12, and to replace them with %-stat pieces as soon as possible, but something to keep in mind. :)

Good Job mate! Very helpful!

How I gear personally: Check the recommended gear and I gear around that. I don't need to match the gear, just what it recommends stats.

This is some really great info regarding gear stats. However, for me anyhow, I find the struggle is more in acquiring the actual gear in the first place. Do you have any suggestions on effectively farming gear? Additionally, some confusion about when to prioritize using lower rarity gear or lower rank gear over higher simply because of stats. Also, do stats take priority over sets? Thanks so much for all of your incredible videos!

Thank you for this! Such great information.

Awesome guide Thanks HH🐕

Quality quality quality👍👏👏👏

Other times you might not use speed boots: bomb placing champions, or strategies involving Cardinal in the arena where she is going to revive everyone with full TM.

"Read their skills" - Hell Hades 2020

Regarding speed and the clan boss: I would take that advice with a grain of salt. If you are speed tuning, you may want to run certain champs at a slower speed than the boss to take your turn at a certain time, because the turn meter works on ticks and you are unlikely to be lapped unless you are much slower. :)

Thank you, helps a lot.

I'll take look tomorrow to dum at the moment cheers bud.

I run dragon 25 for 2 months with 130 runs per day. I got a couple decent gears but the rolls a solutely sucked. Really frustrating.

Thanks for the explanation

1 Question: Do passive skills like Punishing Defenses from Bulwark need accuracy? Thx for an answer. Keep up the great work.

Great info man!

BEST VIDEO I SEEN ON ARTIFACT, THNKS HH

Is this still relevant 3 years later? If not, it would be cool to get an updated guide!

Awesome guide!

I wake up at three at the morning, first thought: Straight in the Bin! :)

Great video but you need to pair this up with a guide for early game based on your Affinity Cup experience. Doing step 1: accuracy is impossible until you can do Stage 8 Spider consistently for the banners (not easy if you have no accuracy) and have invested a few accuracy levels in your Great Hall (not easy as arena for early game is impossible with all the inactive accounts as you yourself have noticed). You need to link this guide for new players on how to gear for Spider 8+ to farm the banners and how to build an early game Arena team (High Khatun, Spirithost, Warmaiden, Starter) which isn't ASDD: it's Speed set gear with Speed substats and farm Level 6 on Campaign. I don't think enough people know your trick you discovered of not farming 12-3 Brutal but farming earlier stages for the gear and for the champions instead.

This is so reliant on the kit available to you. I can guarantee that if you are a F2P player (unless you have had lucky drops and rolls) this is going to be hard to achieve. It would be very nice to have your kit choices and champions available but that is not how the game is designed. It is designed to make money for Plarium and the rng of this game can be so poor especially when leveling your kit that it leads to players paying. I choose to play this game and it's my decision not to pay for it so I have to go with rolls and kit I get. Not having a dig HH, just pointing out a simple fact. Would be nice if leveling was not so expensive. HH please keep up the good work, sorry for the rant.

Quality Content again sir!!

Very helpful video thanks

Great Video. Learnt a lot!

You guys did it during the podcast, but can you go over all the gear ( or point me to a video) that you should only have one set of, get rid of completely, save only one or two pieces of, etc?

Wow.now I understand it.nice couching.

Tbh, since there's absolutely no way an early gamer can achieve all that, so I just go for simple things. For debuffers/poisoners (Warmaiden or Frozen Banshee) I push for (accuracy + speed) + (defense chest + speed boots). I can't give these characters damage at this point. The main problem is when it comes to way too many things. Kael, for example. Mid/late game he could be used mostly as a poisoner with high speed, accuracy and survivability (no need for attack at all), but early to mid game he is normally your main nuker and poisoner, meaning he will need accuracy, crit rate, crit damage, defense, decent attack and then speed. With 4~5 star gear it is very difficult to achieve all that, so you gotta be creative and choose what's best since you are not getting all of that. There are a few cases where it's very easy to gear up, but others require a lot of stuff to work properly, especially when your champion is not 6* yet (accuracy banner goes a long way).

179 speed is actually the next tick rate, and is what I would consider to be the bare minimum requirement for dungeons, this of course doesn't matter if you're running someone with turn-meter buff. Something to keep in mind.

I just wish, when he does his champions spotlights, he would go thru every piece of gear on the champs and show what stats and rolls he has on them. I've got champs with almost all 6s gear, perfect main stats and substats all with acc/crit/spd/% and I don't come anywhere close to having the same total stats as he gets.

Great video!

I think it is not that critical to being always faster than the clan boss, it is important to be in the 10-speed bracket for your synergistic team. If you let's say in [180-190] bracket for the UNM clan boss, this is not a big issue

Great video!! 😊😊😊

Great video.... Thank you very much!!!

this is so helpful. Never got the difference b/w HP in dungeons vs. Def for CB. Which goes further (i.e. is more important) in Arena in general: HP or DF?

I'd like to see if you believe this is still currently applicable or if the game changed enough to warrant any changes to the priorities?

Great video

Excellent vid thx H2

Nice one !

I have to collect gear apl over again i wasnt sure if i should build up rare gear so i got rid of alot and i realized alot of gear i had was bad because it didnt have asdd on them i try to get aleast 2 of them on my gear now man im so frustrated i feel like im never going to get it right

Found it … just asked about this on another post lol

ASDD!!! That was me!

Gearing a champion is not hard. Its actually getting gear. I rarely even get gear when im farming. Then you can never upgrade stuff when yiu finally get good gear because you never have enough silver because its costs so much silver to just equip and unequip stuff.

Yay!! I'm a pro now!!

Ok iam a bit confused. I have 260 ACC on my Occult Brawler in LifeSteal gear. And he lands his A1 poison like 2 out of 5 times... Iam currently 1 keying Brutal and Hard. Why i have more ACC than needed and still i kinda dont land that poison at all?

This video needs a counter for how many times he said SPEED !!!

Great vid.

Very good vid

when I try to do accuracy then defense and speed go down, if I try and raise speed then defense and accuracy goes down. How can you get them all leveled at the same time ??.. normally I see speed 2 or 3.. lucky if I get speed at 4. how do you get them highter??

Do you have any excel links for what gear sets to put on the different heroes?

So critical damage is more important than attack

So nice vid as usual. An you do account takeovers through patreon or twitch giveaways?

How much money you spent on this game? Thousands? Enough to downpay for a car or feed the family for a year?

Is there an updated Important stats page because at these acc levels my champs fail all the time. It has to be higher than this.

What do you mean by an account takeover? Like someone giving you their information for you to log in and help them out? For what a fee or something?

Embrace the damage!

Very informative video, how would you build for a newer player where getting 100% crit is possible but you end up getting a lot less crit damage. Which one should I be putting more of my focus on? Mainly looking at making my campaign farmer stronger so that I can level up champions to 60 faster. Thanks!

Is crit the only thing to build in damage or anything that increases damage is okay?

What is the farming priority for someone who has a few good Champs, next to no good gear, and next to no masteries?

Ta for all of that

14:40 soulbond has 1738 defense 👍🏻

hi hades sorry i dont understand and im trying to watch all your videos to get better , if a champ as 100 per cent of landing the like poison buff why do i need accuracy ? is the poison going to be harder or its just going to be the some like , less accuracy poison hits 10000 with more accuracy poison hits 20000. like bad al kazar he always put poison , why does he needs accuracy . im trying to understand , if you have time explain please.

Hello Hades, I have a Question, (first and formost sorry for my bad Englich) So To my Question. I curently want to make a Clan Boss team, Without Using any sort of Poison. (cuze i dont like the Poison Mecanic.) So I curently can 2key Brutal with around 10milion a key. My main Damage Dealer is Turvolt. Raglin is in the mix for the revives. My Stagknight is the Att and deff down guy. My "tank" if you want to call it like this is Wurlim (for his ability to Keep the team with the Strengthen and Inc Deff Alive also his Crit Dmg up is nice for turvold aswell. So no ty my Problem...i dont know which champion i should use for the 5th spot in the team... My first idea was Skullcrusher for his counteratack. The Next chemp that is sitting Bookt out in my vault for a long time would be Longbeard. He gives me the Option to build more dmg on my turvold (cause curently he has alot of acc to hit his Weaken) and has this Nice allie att skill I curently move in circles... Plz give me some advise >.>

from 3 months i farm spider 20 can't get accuracy for coldhart drop system is rigged

I gotta get the gear first lmao!