9 TO DIEIT Build
What is the IT build?
Start on Forced Reboot, then aim for Patch Day, Two-Factor and Shadow IT from the IT pool. Add Balls in the Air and Sticky Notes from the shared skills. Put most talent points into SysAdmin, and the rest into Security. IT has 100 health and ranks B tier on our arithmetic.
IT opens with Forced Reboot, which sends everything in its cone back where it came from, and has the most evolving skills in its own pool, so a run gets stronger late. Have you tried staying alive and then trying again?
Which skills and passives?
These six skills fill your six slots, and the six passives fill theirs. Passives that evolve one of your skills come first, since a skill evolves only at rank 5 with its partner owned. The remaining passive slots go to damage and cooldown, then whatever else is open.
| Skill | Source | Final dmg/s | Evolves with | Becomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forced Reboot (start) | IT | 113.8 | Admin Rights | Remote Wipe |
| Patch Day | IT | 473.6 | None | None |
| Two-Factor | IT | 392 | The Phone | Enter the Code |
| Shadow IT | IT | 139.5 | Dual Monitors | Business-Critical |
| Balls in the Air | Shared | 1421.8 | Coffee | Juggling |
| Sticky Notes | Shared | 444.4 | None | None |
| Passive | Each rank | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Admin Rights | Damage +10% | Evolves Forced Reboot |
| The Phone | Cooldown -6% | Evolves Two-Factor |
| Dual Monitors | Extra shots +1 | Evolves Shadow IT |
| Coffee | Skill speed +8% | Evolves Balls in the Air |
| Headphones | Area +8% | General strength |
| The Red Pen | Crit chance +4% | General strength |
How should I spend 51 talent points?
This plan puts points into SysAdmin first, because it holds the most damage and cooldown talents of the three tracks. What is left goes into Security, reaching its first milestone. It is a legal spend under the game's own unlock rules, and respecs are free, so nothing here is a commitment.
Your career path has been mapped. It is a circle.
SysAdmin: 35 points
| Talent | Points | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Elevated | 5 | Damage +4% per point. Run as administrator. |
| Uptime | 5 | Duration +6% per point. 847 days. Do not reboot it. |
| Cluster (milestone at 10) | 1 | Summons double. Three nodes, one is lying. |
| Subnet | 5 | Area +4% per point. Bigger than it needs to be. |
| Firewall Rule | 3 | Armour +1% per point. Any, any, deny. |
| Root | 5 | Pierce +1 per point. Through everything, no questions. |
| Load Balancer (milestone at 20) | 1 | Orbiting things double. Round robin. |
| Cron Job | 4 | Damage +4% per point. Runs every minute. Nobody remembers why. |
| Scripted | 5 | Cooldown -3% per point. Automated in 2016. Still running. |
| Domain Admin (milestone at 30) | 1 | Everything pierces. You should not have this. |
Security: 16 points
| Talent | Points | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Least Privilege | 5 | Armour +1% per point. You cannot open that. Good. |
| Zero Day | 5 | Crit chance +2% per point. Nobody saw it coming. Nobody patched it. |
| Account Locked (milestone at 10) | 1 | The first hit on anything stuns it. Contact your administrator. |
| Phishing Test | 5 | Crit damage +10% per point. Sent from the CEO. Not the CEO. |
Which gear sets?
IT has five sets, one per rarity from Approved up, and Admin Console is the first you can realistically finish. Wear four pieces for the stat bonus and eight for the change to how things play. Stars add 20 percent of a piece's stats each, so keep them for pieces you will wear for a while.
| Set | Rarity | 4 pieces | 8 pieces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin Console | Approved | Damage +10% | Everything pierces. Policy. |
| Shadow IT | Expensed | Cooldown -10% | Summons double. Matrixed. |
| Remote Warrior | Executive | Move speed +10% | Pickups come to you. Nobody cancels in time. |
| Service Desk | Grandfathered | Cooldown -10% | Hits chain to a neighbour. Eventually consistent. |
| Compliance Champion | Legacy | Duration +15% | The first hit on anything stuns it. Eye contact. |