Wow 3 days on no AP bonus? What kind of power spend was necessary? I'm guessing a rush to run hex 4 or 6 times?

What should I have at least in order to clear HEX?
First of all, my artifacts
Leg ACB, A$B, MD, SAC, AV
It is.
Is there anything else you can refer to, such as the minimum level of Advanced or power consumption? Or some artifacts that need to be more...?

If you're willing to spend 3 IMs and spend the couple days to craft you really don't need anything else at all besides maxed AM advancement. You look like you have good enough artifacts for the 2 IM route.

https://www.warzone.com/Forum/688408-hex-routes

I think you could actually do the 1 IM route. If I remember I first did it with leg A$B and AV. You'll need leg TS if you don't want to wait for crafting, and preferably MD and M$ advancements max. Note I use SAC because my artifacts aren't good enough to start like he does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HSDDABoOg

Edited 2026-03-25 03:35:41

@ShadowHawk
Very thank you!!

15th SA. +art for 175% AP and 8 addl artis.

300 / 100 / 45 / 44 / 37 / 25 / 38 / 24 / 18 / 19
19 / 18 / 14 / 14 / 17


Not bad timing for burning all those artifacts. It sure felt slow playing through though. Hex 4x helped, but I do that frequently now. Need that IM artifact. Also feeling the loss of TW, made the wzib win significantly harder

Ins A$B leg AV SAC and epic HB IM

I have super-ascended five more times (now 135).

Total boons:
* +2800 AP at startup (+5)
* +1800% AP from levels
* +28 artifact carryover
* +7 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (5): A$B, A^B,  CB, MeD, RCB
Insane (5):  TW,  IM,  AV, SAC, MCB
Insane (4):  HB, TMB, BMB, DB^u
Legend (1): TW^s

 SC (2): legend, rare^d
 HD (2): rare^d, unco^d
 MB (2): epic^d, rare
 OV (2): unco^d, comm^d
 IV (2): lgnd^u, unco^u

Epic (2): {TS, SS}^f
Unco (3): IV, HD, ACD

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Highlights:
* chose Draft Boost as my fourteenth insane
* might add Army Camp Discount to the churn
* still taking starting AP boons

Edited 2026-03-31 22:15:37

Super Ascended for the first time!

+25% AP

Bringing with me two items being upgraded:
Insane Army Cache Boost
Legendary Alloy Value

Congrats! I think that's probably the best possible combo of artifacts for first ascend.

I guess it is time for an update.

43 +25% AP
11 +100 AP
23 + Artifact slots
0 Dig Speed.
Total of 77 Supers

Insane TW,A$B,ACB,HB,SAC,AV,CB
Legendary RB MB BMB TMB ACD IT MD DB
Plus other trash.

Really thinking about going for 10 DIGs to quickly boost those Legendary. I think Krind said HEX would do a half legendary a day @ 10.

Recent reread the first 60 pages to see what really boosted Ivan's progress. It seems it was mostly he was insane from sleep depravation. :)

Currently +100% ap plus 4 artefact slots.
Leg ACB, A$B, MD, SAC, AV
I think I'll choose +25% ap for the next SA... When and with what should I open the next artefact slot?

Another one in the books brethren. 36th super ascend! 725% AP and 9 artifacts IACB ISAC IA$B I$B ITW IAV IIM IDB and LHB!

SA 25, +12x AP +13x slots
4i AV A$B TW SAC
2l $B TMB
6e HB SC 4x fodder
next legendary: A^B now rare
can skip to hex 3 more times before I need to play (H.) trisks for extra skips

Edited 2026-04-13 09:05:22

16th SA. +ap for 200% AP and 8 addl artis.

300 / 100 / 45 / 44 / 37 / 25 / 38 / 24 / 18 / 19
19 / 18 / 14 / 14 / 17 / 16


Surprised myself with the speed since SAC was upgrading and I ran out of powers. This next run should be a record again even without TW

Ins A$B leg AV SAC and epic HB IM EC TS

I have super-ascended five more times (now 140).

Total boons:
* +2900 AP at startup (+1)
* +1900% AP from levels (+4)
* +28 artifact carryover
* +7 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (5): A$B, A^B,  CB, MeD, RCB
Insane (5):  TW,  IM,  AV, SAC, MCB
Insane (4):  HB, TMB, BMB, DB
Legend (1): TW^s

 SC (2): legend, rare
 HD (2):   rare, rare^u
 MB (2): lgnd^u, rare
 OV (2): lgnd^u, rare^u
 IV (2): legend, rare^u
ACD (1): lgnd^u, none

Rare (3): {SC, HD}^s, EC^f
Unco (1): OV^s

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Highlights:
* switched back to +25% AP boons for now
* insane DB helps the early levels a bit
* upgraded ACD more than I intended to
* will need to pick another insane soon
* probably need to do more 100c digs

who's top these days, I'm still on one waiting to finally get an insane. and don't do much apart from once a day either as getting techs on hard levels sucks

17th SA. +art for 200% AP and 9 addl artis.

300 / 100 / 45 / 44 / 37 / 25 / 38 / 24 / 18 / 19
19 / 18 / 14 / 14 / 17 / 16 / 11


Hex 4 times now puts me at more than enough ap to super, which probably means I need to stop doing it to make IM powers last longer. Starting to run low on SL powers as well, so that'll burn another IM in their place for PA. I need that IM to be insane, but I need A^B back too so I'm not as dependent on SAC arti

Ins A$B leg AV SAC IM and epic HB TW (upgrading)

Super ascend #5
+50% AP
+3 artifacts

Artifacts taken: Insane ACB ACB AV TW CB

Another one in the books brethren. 37th super ascend! 750% AP and 9 artifacts IACB ISAC IA$B I$B ITW IAV IIM IDB and LHB!

For dongpa as no one seemed to reply.

I'm surprised people haven't mentioned the usefulness of Resource Cache Boost more in combination with AV.

As you get a few SA's under your belt, it's the first 15 levels that take most of the time. Money Cache's aren't that big, but some resource caches with a LRCB (+160%) gives a big boost in money after selling those alloys, which can definitely help the speedup in earlier levels. Limits the need of a SAC taking up a slot.


Haven't updated in a while - took a long break. But I'm at about 39 SA's or so. +625% AP. 16 slots, IACB, IA$B. Leg: CB,TS,MD,MCB,RCB,SAC,IM,TW,AV. Epic TS,CB, Rare HB + others.

@dongpa
What you need in order to clear Hex depends on _how_ you want to clear Hex. If you use powers SACs, RCs and IMs, you don't really need anything and can power you way through it.

If you want to clear it with active artis IM, TS, QS, FH, whatever else your favourite artis are, and TW, you need those at a high enough level relative to the pace you want to clear it (obvious Leg or Insane is recommended); if you only have them at low level, it's still possible, you'll just have to wait between cooldowns and reuse them a # of times repeatedly

If you want to use no powers, no active artis and just play normally through it, earning everything required from the army camps, merc camps and caches on the map - this is totally possible, it's just going to take a long time (for the record, I've cleared every level using this technique just for kicks, but also have powered through using tons of powers, also powered through with strong active artis; once you be familiar with the levels [or use the shared common maps] and either know where or unlock the visibility to see the caches/hospitals/merc camps/markets, all this becomes easier)

Soooo ... how do you want to clear Hex? (: