If you are interested in getting Ultron in DD2, then read on as DD1 is the best way to get the gear required to meet the requirements for DD2.
Dark Dimension is a single player raid type of game mode. Enemies there have a huge ammount of health and not too high of a damage output as they do in DD2 and DD3.
DD1 requires 5 6-star characters. So we want them to be easily farm-able and to start straight away. We want them to have a ton of sustain. We also want a team that can clear debuffs on allies and place them on enemies. And, since there is no timer, damage is less important.
Team
I see AIM as a perfect candidate for this. They provide the sustain, the 3 minions are cheap to get the abilities up. They are one of the easiest teams to farm to 6 stars. If you followed the previous guides, you should be able to farm them all.
The exception here is Graviton so if you are not able to farm him due to lack of war credits or if you want to invest in other characters in war store, replace him with one of the characters you are building up for the Phoenix or Black Bolt events.
This includes Hela, Ronan, Mordo, Loki or Nobu. Hela will not be available to farm at the time you start DD1 so I will exclude her. Nobu is the worst of the lot. Loki might be a bit late of farm to consider him (started farming him on day 68).
So the choice comes down to Ronan or Mordo. Either one will do that you are able to get to 6-stars faster. Mordo is a more consistent farm than Ronan so I guess he will be the choice of the majority.
If you don’t like the AIM team or if you want to use resources on the least amount of characters then select the team you are building for Phoenix or Black Bolt, Asgardians or mystic villain controllers or a combination of both. So her is the other team I would choose for this adventure based on their availability.
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depending on the farming progress.
This means that you will be starting DD1 and thus DD2 much later than with the AIM option due to availability of Loki and Sif, randomness of Ronan and Thor and Sif. Also this team doesn’t have that much sustain and may make DD1 progress slower.
I have been farming all of the characters as soon as I could with the exception of arena where i went for the Researcher and just unlocked Heimdal and Mordo. Today, 71 days in game, I have a difference of 450 shards between the 2 teams where AIM has 1100 and 5 characters with most shards in the other team have 650. In total 2550 shards are needed so I guess with aim it will take around 5 months of the game start to get to DD1 and with the other team around 8 months. You may be a bit closer to unlocking Phoenix or Black Bolt that way but not by 3 months.
Nodes
So we have the team and now we have to clear the nodes. I will not write about it here as many have done it in great detail so i will just place a link to one such file with a kill order to help you pass this as painlessly as possible. Full credits and thanks for the file go to Kermht on reddit.
Resources
So you have cleared the content, gotten a lot of orange gear, gold and mega orbs. What to do with it? Well you won’t be taking them to the after life, that’s for sure but it is very important to know what, where and when to use it.
Mega orbs are having their content updated to contain less legacy and more premium characters. Also there are sometimes orb opening events that give rewards for opening orbs and mega orbs provide more points than most of other orbs. So postpone using these orbs until such an event comes or until its content gets updated to contain the character you really need. And you only really need a character if it will give you benefits in arena rank, in raid progress and war progress.
Gold orbs you just wont be able to save, but please use them to level up the essential characters FIRST. These characters are the ones you will be taking to gear t13 and 14 for DD2 and DD3. To name them Phoenix, Min-erva, Ebony Maw. These 3 are going to remain the top choice for this game mode due to the percentage based attacks.
Symbiote Spider-man, Hela and then Carnage come in second but there may be better characters introduced in the future so not a priority right now. Invest in them only once you are ready to start DD2 or DD3.
The only other place I would use money from the gold orbs is the arena team. Being top of the arena is very important in this game because of the cores provided.
Orange gear just like gold. Use it only on characters you plan on taking to DD2 and 3 and arena team and lastly Ultimus VII team. This is tricky as DD3 is months away and you may need the gear sooner for other things. But trust me, even though mini unique gear parts are hard to obtain, you will be constrained with catalysts and other parts as well even though you may now have a couple of hundred or thousand to spare.
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