Guide Banish the Beyond guide

Welcome to the guide on how to suck all the fun out of a minigame by distilling it into an exact science-I mean you can get win more games for the mythic trinket. Why do we do this to ourselves.

Spirits
Spirit selections:
A game starts with selecting spirit. All these new cool abilities diligently coded by wynncraft's dev team, surely you're so happy to try them all. Use the crossbow, that's the only spirit I personally still find useful when people know its abilities.

Spirit strategy: Find the three closest wells and patrol between them. As survivors need to power 5 wells to banish you, with a total of 7, you just need to stop 3 wells. If you see a spirit well powered partially with no survivors near, immediately check any lockers nearby, then sabotage the well. Always remember to stop and check for veil of deception unless you're chasing someone.

Wells: Memorize the percentage of power every well has. A survivor powers a well at 0.8% (assuming they don't have perks) per second, so if you check back on a well and see it's been powered faster than that, more than 1 survivor was here. Check the wells upstairs as survivors often frequent them believing in safety.

Chasing: Learn to predict people's movements when chasing them instead of running after them mindlessly. Always try to cut corners when chasing because the hypotenuse of a triangle is always shorter than the sum of the base and perpendicular. Stay in school kids it makes you better at Minecraft.

Being evil: Make sure to make the most out of the survivors. Down them all 3 times to maximize points, which also means that if you have 3 downed and killing the last guy ends the game, might wanna make the last guy revive his teammates so you can kill them again.

How to play my favorite, Taken: When using Taken, cloak and teleport to the lockers near wells. While still inside the locker, switch to your knife and aim at the survivors to shoot a projectile that oneshots them.
How to play my second favorite, Vermin: Don't put your burrows anywhere people can see, hide them around corners near beacons. Remember you only need to patrol 3. When someone tries to break your burrow, place another one where you're standing and leap to the burrow being broken to give the vandal a nasty surprise.

Settings: Max out sounds and particles. Turn graphic to fancy to get transparent leaves.

Survivors:
1) Perk selection: Perks that provide speed such as blood rush, parkour and broken ankles which should be prioritized, which you should take if you have problems avoiding the spirit. If you don't, take points of failure and Narnia. Don't bother with support perks unless you can already take care of yourself, or if the other perk choices are hot garbage or unusable to you.

2) To counter the spirit strategy from above, find and power the wells closest to eachother. This can be more easily discovered if you have the points of failure perk.

3) Lockers: Don't even bother hiding inside lockers unless you have Narnia, you're just making yourself more vulnerable to the spirit. You can get in and instantly get out to ankle break the spirit, or using the locker as a short teleport to dodge the spirit's attack.

4: Counters to spirits
Wanderer : Watch out for black particles regardless of heartbeat. Turn your sound to maximum, coming out of vanish makes a massive distinct noise, which if you hear, run.
Vermin: Break their burrows. They don't get it back.

Taken: Trust your heartbeat and not your eyes. Stay away from Lockers, and stay away from anywhere that has a line of sight with lockers as their new ability can 1shot you if they can see you from a locker.

Terror: Watch the ground carefully for snares. Don't climb ladders as they could rig the top of these ladders with snares. If you feel like being a hero, willingly step on these snares when you know others are being chased.

Hollowed: Act like this is Covid and demand people to stay 4 blocks apart until they clear themselves by saying "A" before approaching you in survivor chat. If they don't, they're imposter.

Stunning: Drop the barricade when spirits are within 2 blocks, which is surprisingly far. I recommend not going for stuns when you are injured. It's harder to focus, and you could still die even if your stun is successful due to ping.

Dodging: Instead of running in a straight line, make unpredictable movements. Turn around and run through the spirit or something. They have superior walk speed to you, so you can't escape by running away normally.

Survivor chat: This new feature allows you to communicate only between survivors. You can access it by typing in chat normally. PLEASE USE THIS I SWEAR TO GOD WHY DO I HEAR DEAD SILENT LOBBIES COMMUNICATION IS KEY PEOPLE.



Feel free to bully me if any of these pieces of advice are bad, or if I'm missing something. Also if you run into me ingame and I am horrible at it, blame ping or smth.
Also share any funny stories you have of games.

 

I just played some more, vermin and taken are goated.

 

I don't know if I've ever won as the Keeper. Hollowed is loads of fun, you get to be the best of the Wanderer and the Stalker. The new(?) Tripwire ability for Executioner also seems pretty good, but I haven't played it yet.

Vermin is surprising, I always feel like I'm losing burrows left and right, though I haven't played it this year (it also took me SOOO long to figure out how to use the burrows)

Do you have tips for fighting stalker? It's the hardest one for me to deal with usually

Additionally, you can use survivor chat to figure out who's real and fake. Ghosts who announce whenever the spirit shifts are helpful.

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That's actually really smart

 

I'm surprisingly good at playing against stalker, always have your back against a corner where you have the most visibility, and keep your eyes peeled for any movement. Easier done than said as human eyes evolved to track these sorts of movements. If the spirit is coming at you in hunt, keep staring at it while backing away to assert dominance. Haven't played Crossbow or scythe guy as I have burning hatreds for them ever since last year that I only remembered after touching them again...

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