Ruin Tasks, Divine Artefacts and Museum Buffs

Dark War Survival Season 5 Origin lands introduces several new dynamics and season-related tasks. These have also carried forward to Season 6 Ragnarok. There are 8 Divine Ruins across the season map, each releasing a Ruin Task at reset. You can complete two tasks per day. You should prioritise these in the order that works best for you.

You won’t be able to get much achieved before the first conflict, so I will cover how to max out the power gains and how to speed up healing and improve incoming damage.

Ruin Tasks Explained

8 Divine ruins that cover Attack and Defence buffs for each of the three factions: Fighter, Shooter and Riders. The remaining two reduce battle damage and increase healing speeds. The last two really help mid-season onwards, but initially we want to get our main F1 powered up to help us with Mummies, Corrupted Boomers and Wandering Guards.

You should start progressing your F1 faction first

It’s also important to note that to obtain your Divine Artefact to use in the Museum to activate the associated buff, you need to hit Affinity Level 6 & 10. These release TWO Divine Artefacts, but you need THREE to max each buff. This is important to understand so you don’t waste artefacts and time chasing things you don’t or can’t use.

Event-Based Artefact Rewards

All-Seeing Eye (Complete Museum Collections -24 Pieces)

• March Speed 5%

Scale Of Judgement (Merit Event)

• Boost Normal Attack Damage 5%,10%,15%

Eternal Sundisk (Season Achievements - First Downs tally)

• Season Troops All-Damage 10%,20%, 30%

Non Ruin Artefacts

There are additional artefacts only available through Ra’s Collection (season store) during the weeks of the season, which are:

Harp of Plenty

• Increase Construction Speed +5%, +10%

Quill of Truth

• Increase Research Speed +5 %, +10 %

In the season game, be it Mahjong of S5 or Divine Envoy of S6, completing the puzzles gives our Truck Chests chests and daily Obsidian boosts. There are periodic drops of Divine Artefacts, which are:

Bell Of Mirth

Increase Gathering Speed +20%,+40%

Sacred Scarab

• Increase Troops Load +10%, +20%

PVP Utility-Based Artefacts

Temple of Sobek

• Scale Shield
• Reduces damage taken by 5%, 10%
• Boosts Affinity 15% x2

Temple of Aset

• Amulet of Life
• Hospital Capacity +500,+1000
• Healing Speed +50%, +100%
• Boost Affinity 15% x2

Faction Buff Artefacts

The faction buffs are all the same for the three factions; you should focus on your F1 faction first and later push the F2. However, the game devs have hidden in plain sight the problem of only giving 2 artefacts per temple when you need 3 for the full faction buff upgrade.

Fighter Temples & Artefacts

Temple of Set

• Sand Fang
• Season Fighter ATK +15%, +30%
• Boost Affinity 15% x2

Temple of Shu

• Vessel Of Breath
• Season Fighter DEF +15%, +30%
• Boost Affinity 15% x2

Shooter Temples & Artefacts

Temple of Nut

• Stardust Cape
• Season Shooter ATK, +15%, +30%
• Boost Affinity 15% x2

Temple of Tefnut

• Chalice of Nectar
• Season Shooter DEF, +15%,+30%
• Boost Affinity 15% x2

Rider Temples & Artefacts

Temple of Nepthys

• Beacon of Vigil
• Season Rider ATK, +15%, +30%
• Boost Affinity 15% x2

Temple of Leyland Corestone

Leyland Corestone
Season Rider DEF, +15%, +30%
Boost Affinity 15% x2

Ruins Task

F1 Faction

As we have covered, the first goal is to get your two faction temples to level 6 Affinity and gain your first season power-up buffs. Focus on S-level tasks for the quickest progress. Try to match the daily task to your Allied Duel as well as your survivor prep. Some of these tasks are time-consuming, so if you can complete other daily tasks at the same time, it’s a win-win. Getting to 6 within the first week of the season is a good goal to have.

You will have also been pushing your Ancient Relic, which I’m not covering in this post, but if you’ve been active you should now have the first two hero slots unlocked on the Ancient Relic. Stacking your Ruins and Artefact buffs with an additional Season Troop ATk & DEF buff of 80%, March speed buff of 8% and additional curse resistance of 350. I mention this as a reminder to help decide the Temple and Artefact progress. You have a big boost on F1 in the bag, so F2 would benefit from a boost too.

Sobek & Aset

Once you have the first two faction temples at Affinity Level 6, we will move to progress Sobek and Aset. Why? There are two reasons: they increase healing speed by 50% and reduce damage by 5%. The meta in the new season is prolonged battles. Faster healing really saves a lot of speedups. Additionally the effort and time to get to 6 is significantly less than getting to 10 if we continued to push up to 10. We can gain the healing and damage buffs quicker (in 5-7 days depending on your activity) so it pays off faster.

Key Note - when you get any temple to 10 Affinity - it gives you ONE artefact, and you need TWO. So don’t assume once you have done the daily grind to get there it will unlock. It wont. We have to do other temples to get their tokens to recycle.

What’s next?

We have 4 temples at Affinity 6, gained the initial buffs, so whats next? Do you want to push for a boost on your F2 faction? Focus on pushing F1 Temples to 10? This is about how you fight, event achievement expectations and what you already have. I personally get the F2 Faction temples to 6, i have the Ancient Relic buffs for my F1 so F2 Temples to 6 for their first buff. Next, I would get the F1 factions to 10. This will help both with the ever increasingly kinetic fights for territory, pyramids/temples and the big gates battles. Season 6 also sees the return of Trade Posts, always a prolonged battle for scant rewards IMHO.

I now refer back to the reference that you will need “ TWO Artefacts to complete Faction buff upgrade in the museum ”.

There is a hidden recycle feature within the Museum exhibitions. You will need to use this feature to gain max levels on the important buffs. You also need ensure you refresh adjust the Ruins Task from A (purple) to S (gold) level for the quickest progress. You will want your F1 faction ATK & DEF buffs and then healing & Damage reduction as the first priorities.

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Summary

The best plan is to focus on the quickest beneficial boosts early in the season. This is the phase your are building altars and increasing the obelisk level. You will be working to hit the biggest Wandering Guards, Mummies and Corrupted Boomers to gain as much obsidian as you can, as soon as possible.

Increasing your F1 power will help with these daily tasks and the early event to win the first temple fight.

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The next phase is working on damage reduction and healing speed. The weekly fights will soon become twice weekly. Hitting the highest levels of Wanderings Guards and Mummies is also hard on your troops and healing speeds. Thus we move from F1 faction eg Set & Shu or Nut & Tefnut to Affinity 6, to working on Sobek & Aset.

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