Little Witch Academia and the Power of Imagination

Little Witch Academia is a 2013 Japanese animated film produced by Studio Trigger. It revolves around a young girl named Akko Kagari who enrolls in Luna Nova Magical Academy, a school for witches. The main idea of Little Witch Academia is that anyone, regardless of their background or abilities, can become a witch with determination and hard work. The story begins with Akko, an ordinary human girl with no magical abilities, being inspired by a famous witch named Shiny Chariot. Determined to become a witch herself, Akko enrolls in Luna Nova Magical Academy, much to the surprise of her classmates and teachers who see her as an outsider. Despite facing numerous challenges and setbacks, Akko remains determined and refuses to give up on her dream of becoming a great witch like Shiny Chariot.

• Chance to Block Spell Damage:
==> = 75%

Belt Darkness Enthroned its 50-100 increased Effect of Socketed Abyss Jewels Enables us to easily get Ailment Immune and is arguably the strongest Belt in combination with well rolled Ghastly Eye Jewels. Your Trial Key will be attuned to the next mob that you kill as long as a the Trial Key is in your inventory, b the mob you killed is on the list of mobs compatible with attunement and c you have a Data Model for the mob in your active Deep Learner.

Despite facing numerous challenges and setbacks, Akko remains determined and refuses to give up on her dream of becoming a great witch like Shiny Chariot. She forms friendships with other students at the academy, including Lotte and Sucy, who support her and help her along the way. Throughout the film, Akko struggles with her lack of magical abilities and faces criticism from her peers.

[3.22] SRS Bomber | League Start to Endgame | All Content

Hello there Exile, I finally came around to write a little Guide for my long-time (since Legion) league starter.

The Build is viable in 3.22!

Who is this build for

This Build is mainly aimed for casual players that like to stick to one Character within a league and finish the Atlas and Pinnacle encounters with it.
This Build is not meant for T16 Delirium Juicers, High Speed Farmers etc.

You can do almost anything with this build, but if you want to efficiently farm a certain content there is likely a Build that is far better suited for it. So most of the time the Answer to the Question "Can this Build farm . " will be "Yes, but there are likely Builds that are better suited for it."

3.22 Changes / Notes

Nothing Changed for the Build from 3.21 -> 3.22

The Guide is updated for 3.22

Guide Version: 3.22.0 (15.08.2023)

Changelog

- Updated Tree to 3.22
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04.04.2023
- Skill-Tree Adjustments (Adding MoM)
- Added self-crafted Gear Examples
- Added Crafting Guides for all rare Gear
08.12.2022
- Further tweaked End Game Gear
- Added Some Videos from 3.19
- Small Tree improvements
05.12.2022
- Updated Skill Trees to 3.20 (once PoB is updated)
- Added Devouring Diadem
- Added Stormshroud
- reworked Ailment Immunity approach
- Updated Gear accordingly

Build Concept:
The Build is all about exploding Raging Spirits with the Minion Instability Keystone and the Tavukai Unique Amulet. We use the Amulet and the Infernal Legion Support to make the Raging Spirits take damage until they reach low life and explode dealing damage based on their max life.
The Build can easily be played as a starter and will take you through all the content there is and will obliterate any Pinnacle Boss there is.
We are relying on a few, quite common, uniques. Therefore, the build is semi SSF viable

Table of content
1. Pros/Cons
2. Videos
3. PoB
4. Defence Layers
5. Gear
6. Gems
7. Pantheon/Bandits
8. Levelling
9. Crafting
10. FAQ

1. Pros/Cons

1.1 Pros:
++ Easy to do on a budget
++ Can do all Content
++ Can do all map mods
++ Elemental Ailment Immune
++ 75/75 Max Block (needs some investment)
++ Recover Life on Block
++ Recover ES on Block

++ Nearly all Gear craftable with decent RNG
++ HC viable
++ Easy to scale damage with Minion Damage/Life
++ Good single target damage
+ Good clear speed
+ decent life pool (~4,5k – 5k)
1.2 Neutral
- Somewhat SSF viable (not recommended as starter though)
- Not a “zoom zoom”-Build
- Needs Tavukai to really popoff
1.3 Cons:
- Can be a bit squishy until you have enough Block/Ailment Immunities
- Tavukai to not feel too clunky
- sucks for Legion encounters

For Defences we have a couple of Layers which make us quite tanky
• Chance to Block Attack Damage:
==> = 75%

• Chance to Block Spell Damage:
==> = 75%

• Elemental Ailment Immunity
--> Ghastly Eye jewel with 46%+ “Chance to avoid being shock”, socketed into Darkness Enthroned
=> 80%+ “Chance to avoid being shocked”
--> 20% From Searing Exarch Boots Implicit
==> 100% “Chance avoid being shocked”
-> Stormshroud
==> “Chance to Avoid being Shocked applies to all Elemental Ailments“
==> = 100% All Elemental Ailments
Note: Alternatively you can, if you can’t get your Hands on the Jewel you can still get ailment Immune using the Craft on your Body Armour, Shield, Shaper/Loathing Essence on Boots and/or Anoint Arcane Sanctuary (25%) and drop one of the affixes from Gear.
• Mind over Matter
-> Since Eldritch Battery works with MoM, we can reserve 98% of Mana and still use MoM

This section is meant to give you a short overview of how the progression of the different Gear slots could go. For further Details of the Gear checkout section 5.2 and 5.3
For Crafting guides for all Slots checkout section 9.

Most of our Gear slots have a straightforward gear progression: “Get incrementally better Stats on them”.
But A Few slots influence our Gem-Setups. Namely our Chest and Helmet.
Our Shield also decides what Anoint we can take for our Amulet

The straightforward ones:

Amulet: Tavukai look for High Minion Life and Minion Damage rolls. Look for a low Chaos Resistance roll (-17 would be best for us. The lower the Resistances, the faster our SRS explode)

Belt: Darkness Enthroned its “50-100% increased Effect of Socketed Abyss Jewels” Enables us to easily get Ailment Immune and is arguably the strongest Belt (in combination with well rolled Ghastly Eye Jewels).
Alternatively go for a Stygian Vise with Life, Resistances, Minion Life

Wand: Any combination of (the more the better): Minion Life, Minion Damage, +1 all Skill Gems, +1 Minion Skill Gems

Shield: Recover Life on Block, +1 to all Minion Skill Gems, Minion Life, Minion Damage, Max Life, Block Chance, Resistances

Gloves: Life, Block, Resistances, Minion Life

Helmet: Devouring Diadem it enables “Eldritch Battery” which lets us sustain our Mana/ES to spam SRS, go for the Strength+Dex” Unveil to solve some Stat requirements. The “Socketed Gems have 25% increased Reservation Efficiency“ enables us to run Skitter Bots, Tempest Shield, Determination and Defiance Banner. With Eldritch Battery we can even use Mind over Matter

The not so straightforward:
Body Armour:
We want a 6-Link Chest for our SRS setup.
You are mainly looking for two Stat (besides the obligatory max Life and Resistances) on the Chest:
You can apply an additional Curse
#% increased Effect of Offerings
Having an additional Curse, gives you a nice damage boost and having increased Offering effects saves you 5 points on the Tree (you don’t need to take one of the block wheels to reach max Block).
Both Stats are Hunter-Mods, therefore you will need a hunter influenced Chest.
Your typical progress would likely be:
Generic max Life/Resistances Chest (5 or 6 Links) -> Hunter Chest with “#% increased Effect of Offerings” (6-Links) -> Hunter Chest with both “You can apply an additional Curse” and “#% increased effect of Offerings”

When you get a Chest with an additional Curse you will want to adjust your Ring or curse Gem Setup.
In general, you do have two options to apply the additional curse:
1. Adding it to your Ball Lightning-Hextouch Setup
2. Rings with “Curse on Hit”

Rings:
We are using the Rings to get a bunch of Resistances, Stats (Mainly Dexterity) and Curses on Hit.
As long as you don’t have your additional Curse Chest, you only need one Ring with Curse on Hit (either Flammability or Elemental Weakness). You can either get the Curse on Hit from Influences:
Flammability = Warlord
Elemental Weakness = Hunter
Or you can find the Flammability one in Delve from Notes that say:
Contains fire items
Best Base Option for your Rings are Bone Rings, which can roll Minion Mods like Minion Life and Minion Damage.
Note: Since 3.19 you can craft “increased Minion Life” on Rings.

5.2 What to look for on your Gear:

5.2.1 Damage:
All our damage comes from exploding Raging Spirits, dealing part of their max life as fire damage. To scale the explosions, we need Minion Life and Minion Damage . So wherever possible we want one (or even both) of these stats on our gear. Both Stats scale our damage by the same amount.
The only other stats that scales our Damage is gem Level. We can get that on our Wand and Shield.
Using Essence of Fear to craft our Boots, Gloves, Belt and Chest we can get up to “30% increased maximum Minion Life” on these Slots.
Stats like “#% increased Spell Damage”, “#% increased fire Damage, “adds xx Damage to Spells” etc. do nothing for us.
We want “Minions deal # to # additional Fire Damage” on at least one of our Gear pieces (most likely on one of the jewels) to enable the combustion Support on Spectres that don’t deal fire Damage.

5.2.2 Defences:
We want to reach Res cap, max Block, Life on Block, Energy Shield on Block and Elemental Ailment Immunity. Combined with Bone Armour (self-casted – left click), we can get quite tanky.
For Ailment Immunity we will either need to craft on some of the items or get a Stormshoud Jewel, Darkness Enthroned (with 75%+) and a Ghastly Eye Jewel with atleast 46% Chance to avoid being shocked.
For block we just need the “increased effect of Offerings” on our Chest and a Rumi’s Concoction
Besides that, we need life and resistances.

5.2.3 Stats:
You will need some Dex, at least 68 total, for Skitter Bots. With a Devouring Diadem with Strength/Dex unveil, you should be fine.
In general: Get the Dex you can and adjust the Gemlevels accordingly. Level your Gems that need Dex only as far as 68 Dex.

5.2.4 Aspect of the Spider
You want an open Suffix on any of your Rare Gear pieces to craft Aspect of the Spider. Which is an aura that debuffs our Enemies and both helps our Damage (“5% increased Damage taken”) and our Defences (“30% reduced Movement Speed”).

5.3 Gear overview from past Leagues (Legacy)

Shield: Recover Life on Block, +1 to all Minion Skill Gems, Minion Life, Minion Damage, Max Life, Block Chance, Resistances

However, she discovers that her unique perspective and unwavering determination can be just as valuable as traditional magical skills. One of the film's main highlights is the breathtaking animation, which brings the magical world of Luna Nova to life. The animation is colorful, vibrant, and filled with detail, immersing the viewer in a world of magic and wonder. Little Witch Academia also explores themes of friendship, perseverance, and the importance of staying true to oneself. Akko's journey is not just about becoming a witch but also about learning to believe in herself and overcoming her own insecurities. The film delivers a powerful message that anyone can achieve their dreams if they work hard and stay true to themselves. Overall, Little Witch Academia is a heartwarming and inspiring film that reminds us to never give up on our dreams. It teaches us that with determination and perseverance, we can overcome obstacles and achieve greatness. The film's main idea is that anyone can become a witch, or achieve any goal they set their mind to, as long as they believe in themselves and never give up..

Reviews for "The Legacy of Little Witch Academia"

1. James - 2/5 - I found "Little Witch Academia" to be quite underwhelming. The story was predictable and lacked depth, making it difficult for me to become invested in the characters or their journey. The animation style was also not to my taste, as I prefer more detailed and intricate artwork. Overall, I was disappointed with this anime and would not recommend it to others who are looking for a deeper and more compelling magical fantasy series.

2. Emily - 3/5 - While "Little Witch Academia" had its charming moments, I couldn't help but feel like something was missing. The characters were likeable enough, but their development felt rushed, and many of the plot points seemed quite convenient and contrived. Additionally, I found the humor to be hit or miss, with some jokes falling flat. Overall, this anime had potential, but it fell short of my expectations, leaving me feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

3. Michael - 2/5 - I tried watching "Little Witch Academia" hoping for a captivating magical adventure, but I was thoroughly disappointed. The pacing of the story was off, with moments that seemed dragged out and others that felt rushed. The lack of character development also hindered my enjoyment, as I found it difficult to connect with or care about the protagonists. The animation style was bright and colorful, but it couldn't make up for the lackluster plot and execution. Unfortunately, this anime just didn't live up to the hype for me.

Magical Lessons: Educational Themes in Little Witch Academia