Published On: January 6, 2021
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How to use the Artifact Optimizer!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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!)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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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.

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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!

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_MeiKo_
_MeiKo_
2 years ago

Hello, great tool, thanks for the ton of work you put into it.

I am having trouble to use it though, I get an “access denied” message when clicking on the update button. Any idea how to fix that? I have tried already some adjustment in the firewall but without success.

Cheers.

Fireliz
Fireliz
2 years ago

Windows detects a Trojan:Win32/Zpevdo.B

Phixion
Admin
Phixion
2 years ago
Reply to  Fireliz

Its a bug with how windows sees the upload of data, there is no virus :)

Phixion
Admin
Phixion
2 years ago
Reply to  Phixion

We have submitted it to microsoft to review

BigMurph
BigMurph
2 years ago

When I try to use the optimizer, it says there is an update available. When I hit “ok” to update it however, it gives me an error that says “manually update hellhades raidreader.” It did not do that last time I updated it. After the error goes away it just gives me an empty zipped folder that cannot be extracted because there’s nothing in it. Is this an error with the optimizer or is something going on with my computer? I am running plarium play, although the loading bar for the game never goes past 60% for some reason ( if anybody knows how to fix that as well that would be appreciated). I just wanted to see if the extractor could still extract the data and update my gear without the game being fully loaded, but then this update thing started bugging out.

BigMurph
BigMurph
2 years ago
Reply to  BigMurph

Edit: I opened the extractor from the shortcut and it appears to be working now. Also, I can confirm the the game has to be fully loaded in for it to work. Which is a shame because now I have to go fix that problem.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

Thank you for the great tool and wonderful support.

Q: I have more than one Raid account on Plarium Play. Is there a way to switch between them in the optimizer? It keeps showing only one of them.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Edit: Sorry, nvm. Had to run the extractor again. All good!
Cheers!

Koala7k
Koala7k
2 years ago

I am at a loss of how to get this working after an hour of trying.
It says clock the raid optimiser Beta under the membership tab but all I have is membership signup, membership FA

FreeAdSpace
FreeAdSpace
2 years ago

Is the Optimizer team working on a glyph variance toggle? I’m looking for the ability to add a ‘1-6’ speed variance (for example) when artifacts lacking glyphs are selected in the final builds. This would allow the Optimizer to show possibly better options with the understanding I just need to glyph a piece or two currently missing glyphs (The range would of course be based on the varience). This would be a great benefit to players with a full artifact storage yet not even 1/3 of the gear is glyphed.

Cortavius
Cortavius
2 years ago

Hi, why can’t I see the artifact current and potential ratings? I downloaded both setup file and archive file and clicked on both (not sure why two files). I think I have most recent version then, but I can’t tell while inside tool. Do you need to be premium to see those ratings? I see champs and artifacts and can use optimizer but don’t see the ratings on each piece. Thank you.

FreeAdSpace
FreeAdSpace
2 years ago

@Cortavius Ratings is indeed a ‘Premium’ feature. Paid subscribers will see these.

Sarevox
Sarevox
2 years ago

Thank you for all your help and information with this game we all love. Is there going to be any Doom Tower presets ? dealing with the high debuff accuracy needed and resistance also needed from floors, secret rooms, and Boss waves.

JackPotGerry
JackPotGerry
2 years ago

Do you have an ETA on the optimizer for MAC?

stupes100
stupes100
2 years ago

It was working a few days ago now when I try to ‘Upload to Website’ I get an error stating that ‘Access is Denied’.

stupes100
stupes100
2 years ago
Reply to  stupes100

Duh. Looks like I had multiple instances of plarium play running.

FreeAdSpace
FreeAdSpace
2 years ago

Seems like Auth is broken for the site and the Optimizer.

swordkard
swordkard
2 years ago

One suggestion/improvement: would love more artifact filtering options. specifically – find all artifacts of X level. alot of people level artifacts to 11 or 15 waiting for an artifact enhancement, but then lose track of the ones they are saving. would be great to find all level 15 artifacts for quick level up for points. also while you are at it, would be great to be able to filter pieces like in game. i.e. find all the pieces with crit/speed/acc. Love the optimizer, super useful.

FreeAdSpace
FreeAdSpace
2 years ago

Auth for the Optimizer appears to be working again.

birstel
birstel
2 years ago

I have a question regarding accessories. I have noticed when I optimize, that if I don’t have accessories on a champion, that it does not add them. Is there a setting I am missing?

birstel
birstel
2 years ago
Reply to  birstel

Nevermind, I realized none of my accessories for the champ were at minimum level, my bad!

cityjungle
cityjungle
2 years ago

Optimizer seems not to be working at the moment? Getting error_ The http status code of the response was not expected (500).

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

Optimizer seems not to be working at the moment? Getting error_ The http status code of the response was not expected (500) too …

Phixion
Admin
Phixion
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

We are on it :) thanks

edchaparro
edchaparro
2 years ago

Can´t see the “rate” of the artifacts anymore since the last update, am I missing something?
Thanks for the awesome tool btw!!!

Kevdada
Kevdada
2 years ago

Been working great until today. Trying to optimize a fully booked 6 star Kaiden, and it continues to show him as 4 star with no amulet or banner. I manually added a amulet and banner, They did not update either. Restarted, reloaded, no change.

SvartBlaga
SvartBlaga
2 years ago

Hi! I just downloaded but when i click the extractor, it opens to login and after 3 seconds closes by itself. Anyone knows why?

ASilva
ASilva
2 years ago
Reply to  SvartBlaga

just downloaded it too and it happen to me too, was following the video steps and then poof gone. not virus popup nothing :)