Madalea guide: skills, build and team roles
Overview
Madalea is an Epic Fire Ranged Attacker from the Nocturna Faction in Invokers: Titan Legacy. She burns a target and keeps everything on it alive for longer. Scour the Manipulator casts Burn that spreads to neighbors, Expose the Deceiver casts DEF Down, Condemn the Damned extends the debuffs, and Break the Haunter hits harder against a debuffed target.
Her Burn ticks for a percentage of MAX HP, capped by her ATK, so ATK and Accuracy are the stats that matter. Fully Awakened and before Gear, Madalea has 1,071 ATK, 690 DEF and 6,044 HP, with 23 Accuracy and 37 Mana Gen. Her HP is typical for a Ranged Attacker, so she needs a Tank in front of her.
Burn also damages the target's allies within 6m for half as much, so a Burn on a clumped group spreads damage across all of them. DEF Down helps every teammate hit harder, so she supports the team's damage as well as her own.
Burn is her main source of damage, so Bosses that are immune to it or take less from it make her a poor pick. She has no healing, Shields or crowd control.
Skills To Prioritize
Scour the Manipulator hits one enemy and casts Burn that also damages the target's allies within 6m. The Burn is 1% of MAX HP per tick at Level 1, 1.5% at Level 8 and 1.75% at Max Level, lasting four seconds at Level 1, six at Level 6, seven at Level 10 and eight at Max Level. The cap on each tick rises from 200% ATK to 350% at Level 9 and 400% at Max Level. The cooldown falls from 27 seconds to 23 at Level 10 and 21 at Max Level. It needs Accuracy for the Burn.
Expose the Deceiver hits one enemy and casts DEF Down: 23% for ten seconds at Level 1, 28% for 12 seconds at Level 10 and 30% for 14 seconds at Max Level. The cooldown falls from 30 seconds to 26 at Level 10 and 24 at Max Level. It needs Accuracy.
Condemn the Damned, her Ultimate, hits one enemy three times and extends debuffs on it with each hit: one debuff by two seconds at Level 1, two by 3.5 seconds at Level 7, two by four seconds at Level 10, and three by four seconds at Max Level. Its cost falls from 1,100 Mana to 1,075 at Level 5, 1,050 at Level 8 and 1,000 at Max Level.
Break the Haunter hits one enemy and deals more damage if it has debuffs: 10% at Level 1, 19% at Level 7, 25% at Level 10 and 30% at Max Level, on a ten-second cooldown.
If you want Madalea to burn groups, upgrade Scour the Manipulator first, as Level 8 reaches 1.5% per tick and Max Level 1.75% for eight seconds. If you want her to lift your team's damage, upgrade Expose the Deceiver first, as Level 10 reaches 28% DEF Down for 12 seconds. If you want her to hit as hard as possible, upgrade Condemn the Damned first, as Level 7 extends two debuffs and Max Level three.
Build And Team Support
Build ATK and Accuracy to the maximum. She relies on Burn, so don't build Crit Rate or Crit DMG, as those rolls do nothing for the part of her damage that matters. Put Accuracy on your Chestplate and Flask and keep stacking it. Mana Gen on your Talisman gets her to Condemn the Damned sooner, and Skill RECOV on another piece brings back Scour the Manipulator.
For Relic Sets, Attack Relics raise the ATK her Burn cap scales from, and Accuracy Relics help her Burn and DEF Down land. Spark Relics add Skill SPD, which makes Burn tick more often, Mana Relics help her reach her Ultimate, and Fury Relics bring back Scour the Manipulator sooner. Her native Blight and Mana Shock Tolerances already match Koltmos's Corruptions, so you don't need Tolerance sets there.
Pair her with a Tank and a healer, and with Invokers who cast other debuffs, since Break the Haunter and Condemn the Damned both reward a debuffed target.
Arena, Bosses And Spires
In Arena, Scour the Manipulator burns a clumped team and Expose the Deceiver opens up its tankiest member. Protect her from burst, and be wary of enemy Invokers with Immunity or debuff cleansing, as they can wipe out her Burn.
Against Koltmos, Madalea is an excellent pick. Ranged Attackers are the key to that fight, and her native Blight and Mana Shock Tolerances match both of his Corruptions. Against Ulgorim, her native Blight Tolerance covers one of his Corruptions and DEF Down raises your team's damage. Against Sakiel, her native Mana Shock Tolerance covers one of his Corruptions.
Several Bosses punish Burn. Fire Omnissi is immune to it and Sakiel takes half damage from it. Against Hyxxis, each Burn cast on her shortens Ensacment's cooldown by one second, so be careful with how often you cast Scour the Manipulator.
Against Sedula, Expose the Deceiver casts up to 30% DEF Down on her, which raises your team's damage once she surfaces, and her Combo Attack hits up to nine enemies within 3.5m, which helps clear her Tentacles. She takes 70% less damage from Burn, so treat Madalea's Burn as a bonus there. Sedula changes Element every day, and Madalea has Elemental Advantage on the days she is Earth.
In the Fire Spire, Madalea burns waves from range. Pair her with Invokers of a similar Rarity: Furnos the Iron Wall, a Legendary Fire Tank, casts Taunt and Weaken, Lazenne, an Epic Fire Tank, casts Shields and Heal Reduction, and Custodian Plumia, an Epic Fire Support, heals and casts Immunity.
Awaken
Awakening boosts an Invoker's stats significantly. Bonuses from Relics, Accessories, the Trophy Room, Tactics and Titan leader bonuses apply to base stats and Awakening stats alike, so unlocking the Awakening nodes is critical to maximise Madalea's potential.
Unlocking each Titan node at Star 2, 4 and 6 adds a second to Titan Invokation, taking the total from 12 seconds to 15.
Review the Awakening guide for more detail.
