From Trickster to Tragedy

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Disclaimer: All classes are viable in the end game. If you like tricksters and want to use them, do not let me convince you otherwise.

This article will contain bias because I do not like tricksters, but I will try to be objective and outline their benefits as well. This article is targeted towards players who have yet to build a solid core roster and may still be struggling to build their roster or heroes.

If tricksters ever get a rebalance, please check to see if this post is up. If you can’t find it, then tricksters are no longer bad! But if you can find it after an update that balances it, either I haven’t gotten around to updating this article or they’re still bad.

From hero to zero, the trickster is one of the many that have fallen from grace. Once revered as one of the best class to have for their ability to generate loot, now but a shell of its former self. But why is that the case? Why is it that players such as myself find it very hard to recommend other people building a trickster these days? Let’s go over what the Trickster does before moving onto when they’re good and when they’re bad.

What do tricksters do?

The screenshot below is the game’s explanation:

Credits to livvi for her screenshot!

It gives you a mini-weapon skill, 100 flat HP, 3% Polonia steal chance, 2 max items stolen. A trickster is entirely outclassed by an Acrobat as far as DPS goes, so there’s no point comparing their offensive stats. (If you’re wondering why I’m bringing up Acrobats specifically, it will be explained later in the bad section.)

People get tricksters mainly for the +2 max items stolen. The 3% steal chance doesn’t matter as much, because late/end game dungeons tend to have longer fights in general so you should be generating the maximum amount of items your Polonia can generate even without this 3% steal chance.

Polonia steals are capped to T14 items at the time of writing (August 2026) while the current max tier of equipment is T16. If you have the talent – We be Lootin’ – from the quest tree, then she can potentially steal up to T15 items.

The Good

The extra loot generated by the trickster will be pretty good for any player who’s still going through any stages of the game and bringing a trickster along to the end game is viable too because as I’ve outlined earlier, every class is viable in the end game, just maybe not terror tomb.

For late-end game players, the main upside I can think of is that you’re not losing out much from getting a different class if you’ve already built your teams very well and can still clear with the trickster. It is also good to have just one trickster for extra gold/discount/dismantle fodder if you’re able to clear everything very comfortably already.

For the non-royal merchant players, the extra loot usually takes up a bigger portion of your questing income due to the fact that Polonia steals cannot be locked behind the Royal Merchant slot. If a set of good drops are locked behind the Royal Merchant slot, then Polonia steals take up a bigger portion of your questing income which makes the trickster’s loot drop slightly more valuable! (Credits to anonymous in the comments section for pointing this out!)

The Bad

The reasons I have are simple. The main reason is because for each trickster you pick up, you are only able to generate two extra loot. Just two extra loot for a single hero slot.

Not to mention, you must pair them with the champion Polonia for their entire innate to work. I could see an argument to be made for the tricksters IF they stole equipment in non-Polonia teams, especially since their steals can go up to T14 which is decent. But even then, two items for an entire hero slot just isn’t that worth it, all things considered.

The only other reason to justify getting one, which is elemental/archetype diversity does not apply here either because Dancers/Acrobats exist. Tricksters are an air elemental rogue class but so are Acrobats. Acrobats, however, have an innate ability which is helpful outside of Polonia steal teams which lets them guarantee a critical strike after dodging an enemy’s attack while also having a higher base critical damage stat.

But what about their innate ability that lets Polonia steal more often which makes it consistent to getting more/max loot from Polonia? What about the fact that extra loot is always good?

You can pair Polonia with more fighters to make the fights last longer to get her to steal 20 items consistently even without the trickster. If you don’t like the idea of running multiple fighters per team, for late/end game dungeons such as ancient jungle or meteor zone, it’s basically guaranteed that you’d have enough turns to get all 20 Polonia steals unless your heroes are glass cannons in mostly legendary gear (But if you are in this situation, do you really need those Polonia item steals?)

As for the extra loot that Polonia generates, you’re not really getting much value out of it for a hero slot that you need to dedicate. You are at most getting two extra baseline T14 equipment (without her talent) per trickster.

Each item gets you

• Around 10,500,000 gold without item mastery
• Around 13,000,000 gold with item mastery
• Around 16,250,000 gold with item mastery and starforged

So, you’re losing out on 21m gold up to 32.5m gold per run. But again, this assumes that you’re running a dungeon that allows you to get up to T14 steals and even then, she won’t always get you T14 items.

If this is an amount that makes you think it may be worth getting a trickster, that’s up to you! Tricksters are quite worse than Acrobats but if you’re willing to go through the hoops and hassle of building one, then be my guest!

However, for most players, using this hero slot for another class and using the titan soul on another class would usually be more beneficial.