Deus Hex Machina: PoEn^Sif Muna Guide - Revision history

SleepyMeeple: /* Tomb */

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‎Tomb

SleepyMeeple: /* Diabolus Hex Machina */

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‎Diabolus Hex Machina

SleepyMeeple: /* Beyond 5 runes */

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‎Beyond 5 runes

SleepyMeeple: /* Beyond 5 runes */

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‎Beyond 5 runes

SleepyMeeple at 06:15, 12 January 2026

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SleepyMeeple: /* Skills and Leveling */

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‎Skills and Leveling

SleepyMeeple: /* Don't let them see you */

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‎Don't let them see you

SleepyMeeple: /* Stab them */

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‎Stab them

SleepyMeeple: /* Blind Them and Dash */

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‎Blind Them and Dash

SleepyMeeple: /* Put Them to Sleep and Run */

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‎Put Them to Sleep and Run

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 If you have a guile orb the whole Tomb experience becomes a lot simpler. Any time two enemies are on screen cast discord and suddenly you have one enemy to face. It's a little more complicated than that, but not by much, Just make sure not to spam out your entire mana bar and use yara's on frenzied enemies before they close into melee.
 The 3rd floor is where this will really shine. instead of walking into a lung you can sneak through the center hall until you see two or so rows of enemies and cast discord once or twice and that alone will clear around half the floor for you, as you go to one of the lungs to clear a safe upstairs.
 Thanks for reading all the way to the end. I originally intended for this guide to be half this length but kept getting inspired to add more and more until it became this behemoth. If you have any questions or want to tell me something I missed don't hesitate to reach out. I'm found on both Reddit and Discord as Sleepymeeple.
 May the odds be ever in your favor.

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 ==Diabolus Hex Machina==
-So 5 runes is not yet enough to satisfy the avarice of our poltergeist, no all 15 are necessary to complete our collection.
+So 5 runes are not yet enough to satisfy the avarice of our poltergeist; no, picking up the Orb can wait, all 15 are necessary to complete our collection.
 The above sections of guide are primarily geared towards 5 rune victories, so a few edits must be made to our toolkit to get us up to scratch to face the varied bosses present through the Hells and Pandemonium. To this end we'll use Crypt to slightly edit our kit and swap gods.

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 Once again I'll submit a piece advice of dubious value. If the stairs are far enough apart step on an alarm trap and go back to the stairs while luring everything in the lungs out. This is best done with a fully clear level above you as you don't want to go from one welcoming party to another.
-==Beyond 5 runes==
+==Diabolus Hex Machina==
-This guide is geared towards 5 rune victories, so a few edits must be made to get them up to scratch to face the varied bosses present through the Hells and Pandemonium. To this end we'll use Crypt to slightly edit our kit and swap gods.
+So 5 runes is not yet enough to satisfy the avarice of our poltergeist, no all 15 are necessary to complete our collection.
 Special thanks to Xdminsy for helping me with this section, especially the portions about throwing and evocations. I wasn't too familiar with extended starting out, and I couldn't have made this section without them. Their suggestion to use throwing items completely revolutionized the way I play both the early game and extended lategame. If you ever have the faintest excuse to use Atropa darts on an early dragon, or throwing nets on panlords go for it!

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 This guide is geared towards 5 rune victories, so a few edits must be made to get them up to scratch to face the varied bosses present through the Hells and Pandemonium. To this end we'll use Crypt to slightly edit our kit and swap gods.
-Special thanks to Xdminsy for helping me with this section. I wasn't too familiar with extended starting out, and I couldn't have made this section without them. Their suggestion to use throwing items completely revolutionized the way I play both the early game and extended lategame. If you ever have the faintest excuse to use Atropa darts on an early dragon, or throwing nets on panlords go for it!
+Special thanks to Xdminsy for helping me with this section, especially the portions about throwing and evocations. I wasn't too familiar with extended starting out, and I couldn't have made this section without them. Their suggestion to use throwing items completely revolutionized the way I play both the early game and extended lategame. If you ever have the faintest excuse to use Atropa darts on an early dragon, or throwing nets on panlords go for it!
 The previous edition of this guide considered extended too difficult and resource intensive to reliably attempt. However with a handy swap to Dithmenos and liberal use of translocations like Gell's Gavotte and Passage of Golibria getting all 15 runes becomes way less of a headache.

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 Train skills in this order: Stealth 6.0 -> Hexes 6.0 -> Spellcasting 2.5 -> Fighting 2.0 -> Dodging 5.0 -> Short Blades 4.0 -> Ice magic 2.0 -> Hexes 10.0.
-Should you find this skill order maddening or be annoyed by the skills menu popping up I would highly increase the SpEn guide from the learndb and then reading the below once you hit 12 dodging.
+Should you find this skill order maddening or be annoyed by the skills menu popping up I would highly recommend using the SpEn guide from the learndb and then reading the below once you hit 12 dodging.
 After this the door is more open as you have access to more varied equipment and spells that an early skill tree can't account for so I'll give examples of early skill that will prove useful should you have the items to utilize them:

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 Evil Hexer:
-.......		.......		.......		.......
+ .......		.......		.......		.......
   ....@..		....@..		.....@.		.......
   .......		.....A.		.......		.....@.
   .......		.......		.....A.		.....A.
   .....E.		.....E.		.....E.		.....E.
- Now as the situation demands you can either step in and begin attacking, or instead of closing in should they prove too dangerous retreat instead and let the summon cover your retreat. Early on you will often wish to retreat from enemies with any of the aforementioned spells but this knowledge remains useful the entire game
+Now as the situation demands you can either step in and begin attacking, or instead of closing in should they prove too dangerous retreat instead and let the summon cover your retreat. Early on you will often wish to retreat from enemies with any of the aforementioned spells but this knowledge remains useful the entire game
 Strictly speaking blocking hexes and spells with allies may fall outside of tactics specifically for this build and be better included in general advice. However given how often this build dabbles with allies I felt it best to include nonetheless.

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   ......x		.....@x		......x		......x		......x		.......
   ......@		......x		......x		......x		......x		.......
- In this example this sleeping foe has only 2 chances to notice you, first when you step into their sightline, and last when you step in to deliver the final blow. If you want a good visual for their line of sight use the exclude feature (X, hover, e) and that will show all the tiles they can see. This handy tool can make planning your advance much simpler.
+In this example this sleeping foe has only 2 chances to notice you, first when you step into their sightline, and last when you step in to deliver the final blow. If you want a good visual for their line of sight use the exclude feature (X, hover, e) and that will show all the tiles they can see. This handy tool can make planning your advance much simpler.
 ======Disarm Them======

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      #.EEE.	   #.E..	   #E....	   #.....
      ##....	   ##....	   ##....	   ##....
- Now you either go up the stair and deal with the one attacker on their own, or fight in the narrow corridor depending on how much mana you have. Don't bother casting dazzling flash multiple times, you just want a couple of the enemies near you to be blinded so you eat fewer opportunity attacks, not negate them entirely, that's a way to lose your entire mana bar for little to no gain.
+Now you either go up the stair and deal with the one attacker on their own, or fight in the narrow corridor depending on how much mana you have. Don't bother casting dazzling flash multiple times, you just want a couple of the enemies near you to be blinded so you eat fewer opportunity attacks, not negate them entirely, that's a way to lose your entire mana bar for little to no gain.
 ======Set Them Up to Fall======

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   EEEE@..		EEEZ@..		EEEZ.@.		EEEE..@
   #######		#######		#######		#######
- Similarly confusing touch also works to block others from advancing, however hibernation is a guaranteed 2 turn gap in any type of opening, while confusion lasts longer, but requires a hallway of a few tiles long for full effectiveness.
+Similarly confusing touch also works to block others from advancing, however hibernation is a guaranteed 2 turn gap in any type of opening, while confusion lasts longer, but requires a hallway of a few tiles long for full effectiveness.
 ======Blind Them and Dash======