How to use the Artifact Optimizer!
Introduction
The optimizer looks into your inventory, finds your artifacts, and then helps you build champions by stat requirements defined by you!
The logic behind it is based on looking for items that meet the needs of your builds and pulling them together to hit all the stats you want!
If you were just looking for 2 items. The tool will find more options and faster because every time you add another slot the tool is having to multiply in LOADS more options.
i.e. If you are looking for the best 6 items per slot for two items the tool is working based on 6^6^ = 36. If you want to find the best 6 items on all 9 slots it is working on 6^6^6^6^6^6^6^6^6 = 10,077,696!
Now imagine instead of the best 6 items per slot you want the best 20! You can see how quickly it scales in complexity!
A top tip whilst we are refining the tool is to pre-equip Jewelry you want to keep – Ring, Amulet, and Banner and turn that off I the search (SLOTS).
Logging into the app!
To login to the Artifact Optimizer, you will need to be a premium member of the HellHades.com website, packages can be found here.
You will click on Raid Optimiser Beta in the Premium Membership drop-down on the navigation bar at the top of the website.
This will open a new page which will take you to the login for the actual app. Enter the same HellHades.com login username and password here and provided you are an Uncommon or higher rank member you will get access to download the Artifact Optimiser extraction tool.
Downloading the extractor!
Once you have logged into the app you need to press the Blue Artifact extractor text which will download a zip file. You need to ‘extract all’ the file into a new folder on your PC. The Extractor application is the top icon with the HellHades logo.
Extracting your Raid Artefacts and Champions
Firstly ensure you are running Raid Shadow Legends through their windows client of Plarium Play. Once your game is running double-click the extractor tool application.
This will bring up a protection box that you can click and hit ‘Run Anyway’. *Some anti-virus settings may kick in depending on your software. You need to ensure you put this folder as an exception through your software.
A HellHades – Raid Optimiser tool window will pop up.
You will need to put your HellHades.com username and password into this tool and hit Login.
Once logged in the visual changes to this and you need to press upload to the website.
Filtering and Locking your Champions
You can sort your champions by name, Faction, Affinity, Role & Rarity. You can also lock a champion by pressing the padlock icon to ensure their artefacts are not available for another champion to take.
The main reason you would want to do this would be to lock the artefacts on a set team such as your Arena or Clan Boss team.
If you press the Status bonus you can sort by just locked champions and remove the lock on several at the same time.
Champions will stay locked when you load back into the tool on another visit unless you have ascended them to a new ascension level since you last upload!
Filtering your Artefacts
You can sort your Artifacts by equipped, Stats, Slots, and rank by Stat highest to lowest.
This can be done if you are looking for a particular set and wanted to understand your highest rolls.
Gearing a champion
On your Heroes page left click on any champion, you want to change. From the subsequent screen click Optimise Artefacts and you can begin to adjust the tool to gear them as you want!
Basic Pre-Sets
We have provided you with a number of basic presets to help you gear your champions! These will continue to grow as we gain more ideas from the community. Once you select a preset you click apply and it will set stats and sets to pre-determined values. From this point, you can then adjust those to meet the needs of your builds.
An example may be that you are using a preset Arena control champion. You should adjust the required speed to what you need your control champion to be. You may need to use the Zombielord Calculator for this.
Advanced Pre-Sets
We have provided you with a number of advanced presets to help you gear your champions! These will continue to grow as we gain more ideas from the community. Once you select a preset you click apply and it will set stats and sets to pre-determined values. From this point, you can then adjust those to meet the needs of your builds.
An example may be that you are using a preset for an Unkillable Clan Boss setup. You should adjust the required speed to what you need your champion to be and depending on the quality of gear you own you may decide to push the sliders higher on crit rate and crit damage to gain more damage.
Using the Sliders to get the right gear choices
The ‘importance’ sliders are the most challenging part of the tool and it is something we are working hard on to make as user-friendly as possible over time!
Think of the slider as an indication to look for gear with these stats as sub rolls. If you put importance as 16 it will look for godlike rolls in that stat! If you put 3 bars on 16 it is looking for crazy amounts of god rolls which isn’t likely. This is an example of where I put the slider bars for an Arena Nuker! Very surprising versus what you would likely expect!
- Base stats such as HP, DEF, ATK rarely need more than +2-6 unless you are pushing very high numbers.
- Speed 100-200 will need approx 1-6, 200-300 7-12, 300+. Think of 1-6 as saying I want speed on my items, 7-12 I want those speed stats to have 1 or 2 rolls in speed, and 12+ I want a minimum of 2 rolls in speed!
- Crit Chance will rarely need more than a slider of 4-8 to hit 100%, most builds will be looking for 2-6 if crit is important.
- Crit Damage will also rarely need more than a slider at a value of 8!
- Accuracy and Resistance will need a slider at 4-8 to hit 200 accuracy. Only use 16 if you want to maximize these skills in an Arena build.
Selecting Specific Sets
The Optimiser tool will allow you just to search for specific sets for example you may want to build someone in lifesteal gear for your Clan Boss team in Raid.
Currently, the tool does not recognize you only want 4 pieces of this set. To effectively gear a 4 piece set you can do 2 things. (I go into more detail on this in the longer video at the end of the page!)
- Select the build you want just finding lifesteal pieces and equip 4 of them. Then go into slots and untick all slots except the two pieces you need to find items for and rerun the activating sets you want to use. It will find two filler pieces that are not lifesteal.
- Equip 2 strong items in 2 slots such as boots and a weapon. Deselect those two slots from your build and run the requirements. Lifesteal items will be found for the remaining slots.
Filter artifacts & Optimise buttons
The default is to include equipped artifacts. This means the tool will look for gear already on your champions. This will only exclude champions that you have locked on the Heroes tab.
The item level number is on default of 8. This means anything you have rolled up to level 8 will be included in the searches.
In the future, we will offer an ability to tell the tool to assume that items not rolled up will be rolled up on their main stats but not guess on the sub stats.
Optimize
When you hit Optimise you can change the slider to give you the ‘best number of items per slot’. I would recommend you start at 6 and see what results you get. The more items per slot, the longer it will take but the deeper the tool will search. You will get a very optimized view in most builds at 6/7 per slot.
We hope you have great fun and find great results using the Artifact Optimizer tool!
Please leave a comment here with any big gains you have found and with any additional feedback on how to improve it in the future!
HH I have a question regarding ur dmg efficiency tool. Is the tool assuming you have 100% crit? Or is it still going to help you maximize dmg efficiency even if you don’t have 100% crit rate? Just wanted to double check
Hi HH! First of all: GG and thank you for the tool you guys are offering to us!
I have a little trouble in finding the right pieces for some of my champs: Cardinal for example: I wanted to find my best tanky Immunity gear pieces with speed over 250. I have already a good set on her but i’m looking for improvements.. the problem is i only find builds worst than the one she is wearing, and that one isn’t even show between the possibilities. I set Speed to minimum 250 (current is 278) and importance 2 or 3, defense minimum 4000 (current is “4150sh”), importance 6, health minimum 40000 (current is around 47k) importance 5, Sets: Immunity and Any… but it doesn’t find anything. Am i doing mistakes or it’s a “beta problem”? Also, a tanky arena preset would be great :D
I hit refresh but it sill shows the old stats on my guys. how do i fix
hit upload to website again
Ty, btw, ty for creating an awesome tool.
Maybe I’m blind, but I can’t see where it gives you the option to upload to website again?
its on the tool you download
Looks like a great tool, finally got around to attempting to try this out last night but got the following error ‘Raid has been updated and needs a newer version of RaidExtractor’. Just checking if this is because of yesterdays update (assume so) or is an issue on my end? Very keen to try this out, subscribed a few weeks ago and have just finished upgrading hardware on my old ‘puter to handle the RAID requirements!
delete your current copy, refresh the page and redownload
Legend, thanks HH! Great job btw mate
I’ve been playing with the Optimizer several hours. I watched all tutorials. And still think the slide bars are an issue.
I found it really difficult to reach AT LEAST the same level of stats I currently have on my champions. Not that I’m a genious who found by myself the best gears. But because of the impact of slide bars. You can switrch from “0 answer” to “a better build” by just a small change on a slide bar. This is not intuitive.
Not for critizicing of course. Just to help improve.
Another comment for Mac users: If you manage to find a windows licence, use Boot camp to create a partition on your hard disk with windows on it. It works fine. But it requires you take several hours to install, update, solve issues that windows always create and that we (mac users) are not used to.
A third comment if you don’t mind: At several occasion, the optimizer could not find a better solution than the one I already have.
A simple example: I want to optimize my Arbiter to be as fast as she can. Before the optimizer: she is at 300
The best option from the optimizer is 290.
Why can’t the optimizer suggest the actual gearing of my champion (i.e. the best one)?
(I used the preset: just the speed slider is turned at max. No other change).
Looking for multiple RAID account support, or do I need to create multiple Optimizer accounts?
Nope :)
Hey there, can you explain soft-cap option please ? i cant figure how to use it, thx :)
A Soft-Cap is like a “Maximum” but you don’t mind it being a bit over to make sure you get the best build.
So for example – if you put the crit softcap at 100 – you might get a build with 105% crit rate but way more crit dmg or att because of the sub stats on items.
If you just hardcap will exclude items that may take you 1-10% over but overall provide a better build.
ok got it, thx ;)
Sorry to bother you, but i was wondering how does one update the gear optimizer? I have read other comments, and they all say hit upload on the tool, but every time I do, with my updated raid app pulled up, it still tells me i need to update it. How do i fix this?
Just download the new one on the site and delete the old one :)
Love the tool – great to see all the numbers and optimiser got me from Spider17 to Spider20
Feature request: Would be great to have the option to export the champion list to a csv file for use in Sheets, Excel, etc.
Hey Hell, Thank you for doing this and putting in all the time!! Wish it swapped the artifacts automatically.. (I know Plarium would never go for that LOL) Awesome stuff man! Thanks again!!
yeah sadly not something that will happen until they open an API and even then Im not sure it would work
This tool is a game changer for sure! I have one question is there a way to lock artifacts in storage just like you can lock a champion? I only ask because for example my one Maneater uses two different sets of gloves for NM and UNM, so being able to lock the un-equipped ones would be sweet. I’ve already had the example gloves recommended for other champion builds but then have to go about it a different way.
A little hack would be to go into the optimiser find the gloves and equip them to a champion you are not trying to gear and then lock that champion (all in the optimiser not in game) that way when u search it wont look for them. Its something we are working on though
That is what I currently am doing. I’m just thinking in the long run of saving silver.
Seem to get an error sometimes when I launch the optimizer and get some kind of error message…i have to try like 10-15 times and have no idea how to fix it or stop it from happening. I’m running Raid through Plarium Play and have the optimizer website open and it still doesnt work
This is the error message
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
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File name: ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’
at RaidExtractor.LoginClient..ctor(HttpClient httpClient)
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i think this may be your virus checker blocking the file. Can you set the folder as an exception to that file?
Hello, will there be an update for the patch 3.3? I got an error right now
its already live. Just need to download the new version
Where is the artifact rating?
NVM, had to close and reopen from pc side
Sorry if this has been asked before, the tool is telling me it needs to be updated. how do we do that?
you need to download the latest one from the site
HI! There is something i dont understand.
i set a soft cap crit rate at 90%, it answers with results ranging from 64 to 86 (with some other criteria valued).
Then, I set a minimum at 80, cuz i dont want to go lower. and all i got are crit % above 95 screwing others criterias.
Am i doing something wrong ?
thx for helping
do you have the gear to achieve what you are trying to do? we have a section on discord where you can share your screenshots and people will help
Hi guys,
first of all, the optimizer is amazing, great job on that.
I really love the newest features with the gear rating and max. potential. Here are some questions/feedback:
– Would it be possible to add the information what a specific item needs to roll to reach the max. potential (so I mean which substat needs to be hit to get the maximum )?
– a filter wich only shows the items with a specific rating in max. potential (like “very strong”) so it would be possible to search for that kind of items and clean the inventory