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Clicker Heroes

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Make Dark Ritual extra efficient
By Tom
So you want to know how to use Dark Ritual in the best way possible to get that DPS up, without having to wait a long time? Read this guide and you'll become a Dark Ritual expert.
   
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Introduction
Okay, so first of all this guide is for the players who already know what Dark Ritual does, and have stacked up a fair amount of Hero Souls. I'm not going to explain every detail about the game, so I can make this short. After all you're here to win some time, not to fill up all the hours a Dark Ritual cooldown normally has.


What you need for this new method:

  • Unlocked the skills Dark Ritual, Energize & Reload
  • Have the ancient Vaagur maxed to level 15
  • An impacient personality which leads you to finding & reading this (check!)

The Vaagur ancient
The Basic Method
With Vaagur, you'll reduce the cooldown of Dark Ritual with 75% which makes it a 2 hour cooldown. Pretty nice, but still way too long. We're going to make it less than half of that.

You'll need to understand what the skill Energize does exactly. It doubles the next skill you use, but in what way? Time, damage, amount?

The Energize skill

First of all you'll want to activate Dark Ritual, after using Energize. In this case this doubles the multiplier so you're not doing 5% extra damage, but 10% extra damage.

Next you're gonna use your Reload skill to reduce the cooldown to only one hour, now that's getting close, but I found out about one more step to make this even faster.
The Secret Method
The cooldown of Reload is only 15 minutes, so you could think about using Reload again after 15 minutes to cooldown Dark Ritual again, but what this does is that it cools down itself. After all the last skill you used was Reload, not Dark Ritual. However, Energize also cools down in 15 minutes.

Energize has another effect on Reload. It doesn't double Reload in a way it can reduce the cooldown by 2 hours instead of 1 hour. Instead, it makes Reload reduce the cooldown of the last 2 skills used.

This means you can reduce Dark Ritual from an 8 hour cooldown to a 15 minutes cooldown!
Short Summary
  • Use Energize, then Dark Ritual, then Reload
  • Wait 15 minutes, then use Energize, followed by Reload
  • Use Dark Ritual again

  • Optional: Wait 15 minutes to use Energize for the next Dark Ritual

Thanks for reading my very first guide. Let me know if it was helpful or if you already found this out yourself! I would love to hear from you. Until next time, fellow clicker heroes.
68 Comments
kickedmixus 10 Apr, 2024 @ 9:48pm 
yo solve me easy math problent enet?? 23−(14÷(√4 - ("σαράντα" - ( "이십" × "ሁለት አስር"))):GDDemon:
-=RelakS=- 30 Dec, 2023 @ 1:34pm 
@Zorux
I use it for a couple of years now.

Energize - Dark Ritual - Reload : 10% Dark ritual, and it's cooldown is reduced to 1 hour.
Wait 15 minutes for Energize and Reload to cool down:
Energize - Reload : The Dark Ritual is now available, but do not use it!
Wait 15 minutes for Energize and Reload to cool down:
Do the above again.

As the guide mentions, Vaagur must be maxed out. At this moment mine is at Lvl1440. (Level 15 max were in a very old version of the game) Keep in mind that you can use Dark Ritual only 20 times, after that it won't do anything until you ascend.
Zorux 16 Jun, 2023 @ 12:51pm 
The ''secret method'' does not work.
rex 5 Aug, 2022 @ 4:31pm 
nice
YourPan 3 May, 2022 @ 2:11pm 
it does work, you just have to read properly
RacingDog 2 May, 2022 @ 5:14pm 
oops i did it wrong
RacingDog 2 May, 2022 @ 5:09pm 
2022
still no update from corby, im takin over
KG/MOLLY | PRIME 25 Nov, 2021 @ 2:38am 
Guide is useless, since dark ritual is pretty much nothing in endgame.
GovernorBroadside 20 Nov, 2021 @ 8:41am 
This guide is outdated, the method no longer works.
TITOMOSQUITO187 26 May, 2021 @ 7:59pm 
Also, it finishes merc quests unless you are on 24 hours, or 2 days. So if you focus on trying for rubies the cost is negligible to skip 8 hours several times and recoup as many rubies from the quests as possible. Always Take 8 hour quests for rubies if you can. Likely only get a couple, but 8 hours should get you half back most of the time.

I use it more to Energize all the skills when I start before getting to the point you have to get off idle and auto-click. Then leave Clickstorm for when you are ready for auto-clickers so you can double that up too and get 2 clickers instead of 1.