Empyria Nightmare Molten Ruins

This is a guide for the Nightmare Molten Ruins build for Plumes. General information is more detailed or only visible on the first page

Note: This build requires Empyria!

How it works:
You use Combo rate and the speed of a plume to rapidly activate Empyrias mixed damage deploy. You fill up with lots and lots of Counter DMG, as if using a normal Warbringer build so that the mixed damage from Empyria is primarily Counter DMG
The reason this works is because the boss has negative Counter DMG Res

Gear

Combo / Crit is the only option here

Skills

Alternatives - x
Details

Pals

This is the ideal set up, if you miss event pals see the alternatives
You cannot swap out Treasure Dragon or x

Alternatives - These are all DPS alternatives (Somewhat in order)
The Boss DMG ones lose value the higher your Boss DMG is (200%+)

Alternatives - These are only options if you miss the Rates

Relic

The relics you use may change depending where you’re at
These are the standard ones

Alternatives - Beasthide Book
Early on this will be better until you have around 200% Boss DMG

Alternatives - Stellar Statue
If using Worldly Snare + Hundred Slashes this may perform better

Alternatives - Potent Spore
If you aren’t surviving the duration there is no good in extending the duration

Awakening

ATK >> Crit DMG >>> Counter DMG

Runes

You want the Warbringer PVE arrangement here:

Sets: 4x Crit DMG set and x2 Counter DMG

Secondary: Top Right = Counter DMG | Bottom Right = Crit DMG

Affixes: Pink Global Counter on all Runes

Avians

For this you need to use a Warbringer PVE avian

Avian: Firefly is a good option but others can work

Affixes: Rage Slash, Against the Strong, Reflect Counter and Rage Bonus

Souls

Combo DMG > Counter DMG ≈ Crit DMG ≈ ATK

Items: Artifacts

Frost Mirage

Fate

Alternatives:
Gambling is good to get extra damage hits for Empyria

Other options are also great

Items: Mounts

This is the only way to make it work

Empyria

Items: Backs

Frost Mirage is the best way to stay alive here

Guardians

Zephyr Spirit / Valkyrie are very strong here

Alternatives

Tide Spirit / Hercules work as alternatives

Star Hero

The Passive array seems to be the best option
Here are the choices in order:
Genie and Dawnweaver are about equal dependant on their levels

Main: Genie of Wishes, Dreamweaver, Biosphere

Support → Demiurge, Faithful Guardian

Treasure Skill

This is such a strong skill for crit users

Class Ascension

Below is the setup I would use with some adjustments you can make

The Martial Sage Fusion should be great for us here as it increases Base Counter DMG

The Brand Ultimate skill is the main one I see, though Rupture is just about as good

Ignores none of these are exactly needed for the build

Alternatives - Rupture Ultimate
Reducing 6% DMG Res can be relatively the same as gaining 6% ATK so I would test between these too

Talent Tree Demonstration

These are examples of what you want. If you have less stats just get the important stuff first
For me I would always leave base stats if it means getting useful stats

For these examples I have just selected the stats we are interested in to make it clear, you still need the ones inbetween at a minimum. You can click on the images to enlarge

Fury

Talent Tree

With Talent Tree there is two main parts, End Nodes and the Stats. Below are the ones you want:

End Nodes: Yellow Archery, Yellow Sorcery, Yellow Fury, Blue Fury

Stats (Not inc base):
Counter DMG + Crit DMG + ATK SPD + Energy Regen SPD

Archery

Sorcery

Tamer

Note
Start with Counter DMG, Crit DMG, ATK SPD, Energy Regen SPD

Then go for 40/40 ATK

Then start pushing HP up - this helps keep Hundred Slashes up