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Strategic Advantage

Atlas keystone · Expedition subtree

Strategic Advantage

Type: Atlas Keystone

Tree: Expedition subtree

Cost: 2 Atlas points from the Expedition start

Improve Explosives used within Expeditions and Grand Expeditions

Strategic Advantage

Choose one

Allocating Strategic Advantage lets you pick one of these 2 effects.

Strategic Advantage: Impact

Runic Monsters spawn with an additional 20% of Life missing

Strategic Advantage: Speed

Explosives only wait for 50% of Monsters to be slain before continuing

Getting there

The shortest chain of nodes you allocate from the Expedition subtree's start, which is why Strategic Advantage costs 2 points. The start node itself is free.

  1. 1.Logbook Chance
  2. 2.Strategic Advantage

League mechanic

Strategic Advantage sits on the Expedition Atlas subtree — the passives that shape how Expedition encounters play out across your maps.

Expedition mechanic guide →

Connected on the tree

The nearest notables and keystones you route through to and from Strategic Advantage.

More Expedition Atlas passives

Calculated Investment

Select an additional bonus for Runic Modifiers

Cultivate the Sea

Ocean and Island Areas are also considered to be another Biome

Double or Nothing

Adjust how Verisium Remnants within Expeditions and Grand Expeditions add Runic Modifiers …

Calculated Investment: Experience

5% increased Experience from Monsters per Runic Modifier

Calculated Investment: Power

25% chance Verisium Remnants count as affected by a Power Rune

Calculated Investment: Quantity

1% increased Quantity of Items dropped by Monsters per Runic Modifier

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