Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Master alchemy with this Shaman build guide for skilling and damage. This Mage subclass is critical to your account progression with their World 2 town skill specialty of alchemy which has damage, efficiency, skilling and utility boosts to all characters.
The talent templates below include detailed information of how to use each talent for maximum effect and should be combined with our base mage build.
Table of Contents:
– Damage Build
– Alchemy Build
Damage Build
The Shaman scales with World 2 alchemy vial progression and can reset their cooldowns with Tenteyecle for active fighting activities. Given the important role that alchemy has in your Idleon progression I recommend investing in key alchemy boosting talents on a combat preset to ensure they are always active with this priority order:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Auspicious Aura |
Casts an aura that heals you and damages monsters | A useful attack skill that lays an aura at your feet for damage while healing the Shaman. This is useful for bossing, clearing the colosseum and Cranium Cooking while also boosting your AFK gains as an attack talent.
I recommend 50 talent points initially for these purposes before maxing this after players obtain the other priority talents below. |
 Sizzling Skull |
Fire a skull which bounces around dealing damage to multiple monsters | A second useful attack talent that summons a skull to bounce between enemies and I also recommend 50 talent points at first before maxing this talent later to boost the number of bounces. This grows in power significantly with the Arcane Cultist advancement as the mechanics change slightly so that it moves back and forth repeatedly instead. |
 Crazy Concoctions |
Throws potions with different effects | This talent is not automatically cast but adds damage and healing when used.
I recommend a single point is invested here to unlock an extra attack talent when actively playing Idleon and max last. |
 Cranium Cooking |
Killing a monster gives alchemy progression | A critical alchemy talent this has a ~22hr cooldown and should be used daily to boost alchemy progression. The colosseum can be a good location to do this initially as a Shaman with talents unlocked later in progression that combined with Tenteyecle means this can be used repeatedly (known as Cranium Cooking farming). |
 Virile Vials |
+% Damage dealt for every alchemy vial upgraded to green (level 4) | The primary damage source for the Shaman based on level 4 vials which requires 3,600 cumulative resources. Given this is relatively easy for most vials this is an important initial goal to maximise damage potential. |
 Busy Brewin’ |
Boosts brew speed by +% for this character | While this is a Shaman damage build the importance of alchemy to overall Idleon account progression means that having this maxed always is important.
With extra brew speed players can improve the individual coloured cauldrons speed, cost, luck and 2x extra significantly faster (100% at level 100). Once all your coloured cauldrons boosts are at max level (170) this talent is no longer required. |
 Sharing Some Smarts |
All characters in the same cauldron as this one gain +% experience (including the Shaman) | Similar to Busy Brewin’ above the extra experience gain for alchemy is important to Idleon progression even though it doesn’t provide damage.
Alchemy levels are required to unlock new liquid types (up to level 120) and after reaching this point on at least one character you can deprioritise this talent on your damage build. |
 Bubble Breakthrough |
+% Alchemy experience and +% odds of a new bubble when brewing on this character | Similar to Sharing Some Smarts above this is solely about maximising alchemy experience even when in combat. As this talent has the same per level scaling (1% EXP per level) but only applies the experience gain to the Shaman it is a second priority to Sharing Some Smarts as that talent affects more than one character. |
 Tenteyecle |
Killing a monster has a chance to reduce attack cooldowns | This talent significantly grows in power when players advance to a Bubonic Conjuror as it boosts the active playstyle that the class specialises in by refreshing cooldowns rapidly when a monster is killed. |
 WIS Wumbo |
+ Max talent level for Book of the Wise | Wisdom provides a damage source that can be used after players have obtained the critical alchemy talents above. Any extra talent points beyond this point can be spent on Occult Obols and Fantasia Flasks although the damage impact from them is small. |
Alchemy Build
This alchemy build for your Shaman should be combined with your Mage chopping preset and will maximise World 2 alchemy skill gains. I recommend the following talent priority order:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bubble Breakthrough |
+% Alchemy experience and +% odds of a new bubble when brewing on this character | The most important alchemy talent to obtain initially as it significantly increases the chances of unlocking a new bubble. Switching to this preset before unlocking new bubbles will dramatically improve your progression if not already on your combat build for the experience gain. |
| Busy Brewin’ |
Boosts brew speed by +% for this character | When using your skilling preset to farm logs this ensures players maintain maximum brew speed for their alchemy progress. |
| Sharing Some Smarts |
All characters in the same cauldron as this one gain +% experience (including the Shaman) | Similar to above this ensures maximum alchemy experience is gained when using your Shaman skilling preset. |
 Stupendous Statues |
EXP, Lumberbob and Cauldron statues give +% larger bonus | Boosts chopping and alchemy gains the boost to statues provides a notable boost. |
| Wis Wumbo |
+ Max talent level for Book of the Wise | The extra Wisdom available from Book of the Wise through this talent can provide a small boost to chopping output. |
 Earlier Education |
+ Talent points for the Mage talent tab | With a lack of other talents to boost chopping or alchemy add points here given the abundance of Mage chopping related talents that require significant talent points to max. |
