Blademaster And Pirate Queen Arena Cheese Guide For Heroes vs Hordes

The Pirate Queen Cheese

First off, I'll run you through the Pirate Queen cheese because this one is better for people getting adjusted to the taste.

This strategy is best used in the early game before you have legendary gear. The build revolves around maximizing the instant kill chance built into the Pirate Queen's kit.

She's the only hero to have instant kill built into her kit. With instant kill enabled in the Arena, you want to maximize her projectiles for more chances to single-shot horde.

You're going to want her ultimate and, ideally, her level 120 global. Unfortunately, with the new change to hero levels, getting that 120 global for instant kill is going to be hard. So if you don't have it, work with what you've got.

No matter the levels, you use the same setup going into the Arena.

Pirate Queen Cheese Weapons

For gear, you want to maximize projectiles for instant kill and starting upgrades for boomerang.

That means a noble helm with a wizard chest, ranger boots, ranger gloves, ranger necklace, and ranger ring.

All that ranger gear increases projectiles. The noble helm and wizard chest give you additional starting upgrades.

The pirate queen arena cheese weapons focus on boomerang and movements to home in order to evolve it into heroang.

You follow that up with Ice Wand. And round it out with bombs, chain lightneing, or crossbow.

Again, the idea here is to freeze and slow as many horde as you can and allow your instant kill a chance to give you a chance.

All of these give a lot of projectiles for a chance at more instant kills.

The pirate queen also has a stun built into her skill kit, and so that will help you that will help you stun some of the horde again, giving them more chances to be hit by instant kill.

Pirate Queen Jewels

On the jewel side, you're running ultimate charge and ultimate duration falls up with vulnerability, and then you're going to take your highest level ass sashion jewel and stick that in before following up with cool down and projectile p projectile speed, and area.

Early in the game, you might not have enough cool down to fill up all your slots, and so fill up any additional ones with Projectile P and projectile speed.

Kiting With The Pirate Queen

You're going to want to try to maximize your kiting within the small area in the arena. For that, you kind of stand in the middle and then run from corner to corner as you clear out some of the hoard in between, which gives you the best chance and the most space to keep on living.

Although there's no real trick to it with her, you're just going to want to try and kite as best you can. Sometimes, wait for Ice Wand orbs to hit, then wait for it to freeze the horde, and then run right past them. Then slow the horde as they follow them behind you.

Pirate Queen Cheese Summary

And that's pretty much the pirate queen cheese.

You're going to try to get lucky. Pop as many horde as you can with instant kill before the Arena difficulty catches up to you.

You won't be able to clear the arena with this build, but you should be able to get further than you could with any other hero.

Expect to get stuck around stages 16 or 17 in legendary gear, and maybe even earlier before that. That's the point at which it's best to switch to the Blademaster cheese.

Blademaster Cheese

The Blademaster cheese is my preferred flavor. With the blademaster cheese, the blademaster gains in invulnerability during his ultimate, and so your goal is to proc that as much as you can in between kiting the horde.

You're going to have to pay a ton of attention to the timer on his ultimate, because what you want to do is make it go off, have horde stay in the ultimate as long as you can. Then run to the other corner of the map right before it wears off, at which point you need to turn around and try and prock it again before the horde gets to you.

You rinse and repeat this until you clear the stage, and it all comes down to being able to proc your ultimate before those pesky horde get at you.

With that in mind, let's go over the gear for this build.

Blademaster Cheese Gear

The Blademaster runs similar, but slightly different gear. You're running the noble helm and the wizard chest again for the starting upgrades, followed up with ranger boots, rogue gloves, rogue necklace, and rogue ring.

If you have the ascended wizard necklace, swap that for the rogue necklace because you'll take the additional starting upgrades.

The key to this whole build is nailing the evolved boomerang in your first roll-down. The slow from the evolved boomerang will give you enough time to proc your ultimate in-between charge-ups.

You're still going to need a whole bunch of crit and cool down.

So we'll get to that in the jewels.

Blademaster Cheese Jewels

For your jewels, you want ultimate charge and ultimate duration, followed by vulnerability, and then as much cool down as you have. Early in the game, don't merge cooldown jewels and use as many as you can. If you can't fill all the slots, fill in the rest with critical strike chance.

Your goal here is to get your ultimate up as often as you can. So let's go over the weapons to do that.

Blademaster Cheese Weapons

For weapons, I mentioned it already: you're going to want to evolve your boomerang as the first priority.

The slow from Herrowang is the key to kiting horde in the small space of the Arena. Incidentally, it's why the Clockwork Mage does so well in the Arena.

After that, you want to focus on amplifiers to your main weapon. That needs to critically strike on horde for your ultimate to charge.

But that means taking Cooldown instead of Critical Strike tome. The additional cooldown increases your swings more than the increase to critical strike improves any one chance.

After that, it's area and duplicator time. I know Critical Strike feels like you would be taken earlier, but again, those other tomes actually give you more chances to charge your ultimate.

So your priorities should be Boomerang and then Movement Tome, followed by Cool Down Tome, and then Ice Wand, before Cooldown, Area, and Duplicator Tome.

Obviously, this is very defensive, and the idea is that you'll get enough damage eventually to clear out the elites, which you just want to survive until then. And you even pick divine aura in a pinch just to keep horde away.

Your whole goal here is to get your ultimate up and then start kiting.

Blademaster Arena Kiting

Kiting in the Arena is going to be hard. You're using legendary gear when you should be using ascended gear, or you're using epic gear when you should be using legendary.

You're doing content you're not supposed to be doing, which is the whole idea of the cheese.

And so you're going to have to get comfortable with watching your ultimate countdown and then kite from corner to corner in the Arena right before it hits 0. Hopefully, your evolved boomerang slows the horde as you get to the other side.

It's going to take practice.

You're trying to beat content that Freywood, Tommy, and Survivor One don't want you to be beating.

But that's the fun part of a single-player game: there's no harm in a little cheese now and then, as long as it tastes good.

Both heroes use the same pets for the Arena.

You want to run, you typically want to run your highest rarity pet as your main pet in the early game, which might mean Pyrokraken and your Emberpaw.

If you're lucky enough to get a Hydrobasilisk or Strom Gryphon, put them in as your main and then you want your passive pets to be Embewpaw and Pyrokraken.

If you don't have an epic pet, then you can do something like Emberpaw or your other rare pet plus an elemental striker as your passive pets. Elemental strikers will add slow to the passive pet's main attack, which can help you slightly at the beginning of a run and is better than it is better than anything else that you can grab.

Lake game, you're going to want to have Crystalsaurs as your main pet. If you got them with Hydrobasilisk, it is something like Emberpaw or Pyrokraken, and it knows your passive pets.

But, Crystalsaurs is a fantastically awesome pet. If you're lucky enough to have one.

And that's it. Those are the two cheese builds for clearing the arena earlier than you should be able to.

I was never a fan of the Pirate Queen, but many players like to watch her make it rain while she struts her stuff.

I'm more of a Blademaster guy who likes to spin to win, if you know what I mean.

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