Temporal Rift Guide for AFK Arena

Temporal Rift Guide will help you to go through this event and get as many rewards as possible in the end. Temporal Rift is a long recurring event in AFK Arena that feels like a mix for King’s tower and Arcane Labyrinth. You will have to pick heroes that you will use in the current run and fight your way through countless levels of the increasing difficulty earning Continuum Essence and Continuum Sequence.
You can access Temporal Rift after beating Campaign Chapter 19-40.

Temporal Rift Mechanics in AFK Arena

Video Guide with explanations on Temporal Rift Mechanics in AFK Arena

Temporal Rift Season lasts for 90 days, and as the time goes more and more rewards will be unlocked.

There are several buildings in Temporal rift, each of those have its own use and purpose.

Fountain of Time

Fountain of Time generates Continuum Essence and Continuum Sequence for you to increase level of your Temporal Armillary and upgrade your Temporal Beacon that will make your heroes stronger.

Amount of resources generated by Fountain of Time is based on the Temporal Armillary level. Higher Temporal Armillary level will allow you to produce more resources and grow stronger.
Maximizing this income is really important for long-term succcess.

Temporal Beacon

Temporal Beacon allows you to spend Continuum Essence and Continuum Cores to upgrade talents.

It is recommended to start with 3 Basic Class talents:

Tank’s Fortitude
Supporter’s Tenacity
Mage’s Might or Ranger’s Rage

This will allow you to spend continuum Essence most efficiently and progress much further into Temporal Rift.

Keep in mind that when leveling 5 base class talents the 3 talents with the highest levels cannot have a level difference that is higher than 3.

All other talents that require Continuum Essence are secondary and should be leveled only after your 3 core talents for your hero combat ratings are leveled.

Temporal Rift

Main Area of the event is the Temporal Rift. The battlefield where you will fight enemy teams and do most progress.

You will have 7 Battle Attempts per week, that will refresh every week. So you will have plenty of time to conquer the Temporal Rift.

After your first initial run, you will have an option to skip to the higher floor, not that far away from the maximum floor.

Moreover, you will be able to create a template of your heroes and badges to use in the future that will save time on your team building before the run.

Temporal Armillary

Temporal Armillary is basically a level of your progression in the event, the higher it is, the better the perks will be.

Those perks are very useful and critical to the success. Each level will increase AFK Continuum Essence and Continuum Sequence gain, max level of Temporal Beacon.

You will also increase Badge level on some milestone perk lvls and gain other useful benefits.

Some of those bonuses may be crucial to your progression, like badge level, since they make your heroes so much stronger.

Thats why try to do your best to push as far as possible in the Temporal Rift and don’t forget to collect your Fountain of Time rewards.

Best Teams for Temporal Rift in AFK Arena

Getting the Right team for Temporal Rift is really important, since you will not be able to change the heroes unless you end the current run.

Moreover, your heroes will not recover health between the fights just like in Labyrinth, so you will need to balance your teams with healers to have high sustain, healing and energy regen.

Ultimate Video Guide for Temporal Rift floor 1-600+

Guide for floors 1-600+ with Celerity and Mage teams, Badges, Beacons and everything else you might need.

Temporal Rift is a newer gamemode which unlocks after19-40 in the campaign, this mode plays somewhat similar to King’s Tower where you have to climb countless floors however with a wide variety of different rules and restrictions.

Rules

ALL YOUR HEROES ARE SET TO LEVEL 360 AND EQUIP T3 GEAR WITHOUT BONUSES, IF YOUR HEROES HAVE T3 EQUIPPED THEN THE BONUSES ARE APPLIED. THE BONUSES ARE EQUIPPED. ARTIFACTS DO NOT IMPACT TEMPORAL RIFT.
YOU HAVE 7 ATTEMPTS EACH WEEK TO CLIMB THE TOWER, MORE CAN BE PURCHASED WITH DIAMONDS.
BATTLES ARE ALL ON AUTO, THERE IS NO PAUSING AND RETRYING MID BATTLE, HOWEVER AFTER BATTLES ARE CONCLUDED YOU HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF RESETS.
HEROES RECEIVE “BADGES” WHICH ARE UNIQUE HERO BUFFING ATTRIBUTES THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO.

Temporal Beacon

Before diving into teams and strategies, I feel it’s important to outline the buffs and reasons you’ll use certain heroes and focus down some paths.

These are due to temporal beacons, which buff your heroes in unique ways based on elder tree branches primarily but also on faction and roster wide. These only affect Temporal Rift.

Strategy-wise the general consensus is to focus on THREE of the elder tree branches for the most effect, these are traditionally Tank + Sustenance, alongside either Mage or Celerity, both of which I’ll outline later.

I suggest getting your Supporter’s Tenacity, Tank’s Fortitude, and either Mage’s Might or Ranger’s Rage to
level 25 before considering any other investments. From there you can continue to upgrade those trees or put points into a selection of these beacons.

Top Beacons

Situational Beacons

Beacons to Avoid

You should customize your beacons to your teams and find a set that you’re comfortable with.

There is no solid absolute best set of options, so read them and pick what fits your teams the best.

Need more sustain? Renewed Hope helps, need more Anti Heal? Silent Alliance, etc.

Understanding the Floors

There are a few different types of battles, or floors, of which knowing the names of will make your run much easier.

Realm of Exploration

This is your standard, generally easiest fights. Rewards you with a badge selection.

Grievious Realm

Harder battle for a better badge reward, sometimes this fight may be easier as well.

Realm of Deiance

Same as Grevious realm except it will gift you a free badge reset if you can complete the assigned quest.

Blessed Realm

A floor that gives you the option between a free badge, a badge reset, or a cursed badge, avoid the cursed badge, no battles occurs.

Flora’s Dew

Heals all your heroes to full HP, No Battles Occur.

Phoenix’s Afterglow

Resurrects one dead hero to full HP. No Battles Occur.

Beckoning Place

Allows you to recruit a hero for this current run of Temporal Rift, when you wipe out you lose this hero, No Battles Occur, this here does come with a lower rank badge so look for upgrades.

Gladiator’s Realm

This is a miniboss which, if killed, will reduce the HP of the next boss by 10%. I suggest doing this if you have a solid bossing plan.

Vexing Realm

Avoid at all costs, Reduces your energy to 0 and health to around 10%, only useful if you’re about to wipe out and want one extra floor of progress. No Battles Occur but the next battle will be extremely difficult, and additional battles have reduced health recovery

(Shoutout to Silent Reaper for suffering on this for me)

Realm of Decimation

This is every 50 Floors, the main boss appears, you must have a boss team or a selection of heroes available to counter him. Anti Heal is extremely important as he rewinds time to
heal. I suggest Silas or Mortas for effective anti heal however many others may be applicable.

Note that Daimon should not be used on the boss even with anti heal as the blood shield returning health is amplified so you deal no damage overall.

Strategy

To start, you just want to push as far as you can. The more you push the more passive income you’ll generate. I suggest pushing twice a week, once when the event starts and then
halfway through the week. You should use teams which have sustain during fights, as such I suggest having one healer on all teams.

For one Team you can easily get by with Ainz or Grezhul based GBs, I’ll share exact teams in section 5. You want to push when you reach max level badge breakpoints or more hero slots, these can be increased based on your “Temporal Armillary,” which is basically your Temporal Rift player level.

Again more pushing means a better increase to your generation rate. You want to prioritize avoiding battles if your heroes have maxed badges, however if they do not then fight any battle you’re comfortable with so you’re prepared for power increases.

When choosing between battles you can click on the magnifying glass to see what enemy teams are on each stage, use these to see what you’re more confident in beating while taking enemy power into account.

If battles go poorly you can reset them by clicking the bottom right arrows and clicking rewind. Beyond this you’ll need to learn how your teams matchup against your enemies through trial and error.

Formations (Best Teams)

Here is a list of best Mage and Celerity Teams for Termporal Rift

Badges

Badges are a unique trait to Temporal Rift which are equipped to your heroes, as you progress these get higher levels and grant you with effective stats. Each of these also has unique effects which is what my focus is going to be on.

Typically if you have to choose between a higher leveled badge or one with a better effect, compare the power increase you’ll get to the loss of the effect and see if that’s worth it to you. Please use common sense here and recognize that damage badges are not good on supports, your main DPS probably doesn’t want to boost their healing, etc.

Also note that there are some cursed badges you can come across that have a strong upside but also harsh downside, take these at your own risk if you feel they’re useful enough, I avoided these on my runs.

Badges which apply CC are not very effective the further you climb as enemies grow in tenacity.

Badges which require you to kill multiple enemies are typically weak as by then you’ve mostly won the battle.

Heroes who rely on CC such as Zaphrael or Awakened Ezizh may want insight on their badges, or a way to
Reduce tenacity.

Grezhul specifically ’ve found that Master of All underperforms on him, I suggest Protecting Light and then use Master of All on Hodgkin.

Temporal Rift Tips and Tricks

Enemies grow in signature items, furniture, and engravings over time, eventually gaining extremely high levels of tenacity which makes your CC incredibly unreliable. As such wide AOE CC is very unreliable although some heroes ignore the tenacity like Oden or
Grezhul.
If you aren’t confident in your pushing abilities beyond a boss, if you stop 4 levels in front of the boss and exit your run you’ll start at a Flora’s Dew, which with the “Energy Well” Beacon will give you max energy going into the boss and save you from investing in the “Steady Preparations” Beacon unless you wipe later on.
Being tenacious and learning how your teams matchup into others is the most important part of
pushing, you always want to be as safe as possible as one hero dying can destroy your run.
Be careful around Nara, Athalia, Zolrath, Morrow, Thoran, Lyca + Mishka, and any other troublemakers who can give you a rough time. These types of heroes are how you’ll lose a battle or a few heroes without paying attention.
When attempting to rewind on a stage which you’ve completed all battles on, do NOT claim the badge and instead tap away from them, otherwise you’ll be forced to go onto the next floor without any way to rewind.

by Arty and Alpattex

Video Guide for Temporal Rift Best Teams in AFK Arena

Early Game Team Formations:

Made by InSeason from AFK Analytica

~~ Under-Construction ~~

Some Teams, Substitutes, and Options. This isn’t a definitive list – far from it – but it will give you some nice ideas when you are starting out. I will optimize and improve this list going forward.

Ainz & Albedo [Sorcery]

Merlin
Arthur
Mortas
Baba Yaga [Sorcery]
LdV [Sorcery]

Grez

Oden [Sorcery]
Ferael [Celerity]
Mishka
Daimon
Silas
Desira
Mortas

Lucretia [Celerity]

Ezizh
Twins
Rowan
Haelus

Ezio [Celerity]

Athalia [Celerity]
Skreg
Merlin
Albedo

Alternatives [Sustenance]:

Raine
Tasi
Numisu
Talene
Astar
Leofric
Peggy

Alternatives [Fortitude]:

Hodgkin
Orthros
A-Talene
Mezoth
Anoki
Torne
Gorvo

Floor 1-100 Temporal Rift Formations:

The Grand Hunt Guide

The Grand Hunt in Temporal Rift is a Continuum Stalker boss fight in AFK Arena. It have several stages, and as the event time goes by you will have to use more and more teams to fight the boss. This AFK Arena Grand Hunt Guide will help you to get most of the rewards and reach top damage.

The Grand Hunt (Continuum Stalker) Stage 1

In this stage of The Grand Hunt you will have to use one team to do most damage to the Continuum Stalker. You can always use the leaderboard to look for the top teams, but it can be hard to find the one that will suit f2p players.

This video for The Grand Hunt (Continuum Stalker) Stage 1 with will cover the main strategy and some additional tips and tricks:

Alternatevily you can use the visual guide for The Grand Hunt (Continuum Stalker) Stage 1 Boss fight by afk_inside from the Reddit

You might want to try switching the heroes a little bit or replaying it few times to get the highest score. Also currently Celerity team is yielding top damage, so it makes sense to reset the Temporal Beacon Mage branch and switch it to Celerity for the boss fight. After you will get desired score you can switch back.

Conclusion

Temporal Rift is a game mode that requires patience and tactics, I hope this Guide helped you to clear some things about mechanics, best teams, badges, beacons, talents, and boss fights. Claiming all the rewards might be problematics, but getting even some of them will definitely help your account progression in AFK Arena quite a lot.

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