Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

Hey everyone, just a quick video showing the best free-play to grind for the 250 freeplays, 1,000 crow kills, and a great way to farm gems in this game. It only takes about 15-20 minutes per run. Use the Mad Wizard free-play and just set your familiar to player attack, then only level you player attack. Reset once you can't one shot everything, and repeat! Hope this helps!

Building on the technique and video that Gunflame shared in their guide, the grind for free plays has been made even easier by taking advantage of the new Modron Automation, added to the Xbox version in July 2020.

Once you have unlocked at least two champions per bench slot through events, evergreen champions, and time gates, you can start the "Split the Party" quest. After completing that one-time quest, it unlocks the Modron core options for you to enable on your parties. You need to configure the Modron pipe mini-game such that it flows through the automation tube (it will make more sense once you unlock it) and then you can set the core to autoplay the free plays for you. You must have accrued enough favor within whatever campaign you're running free play on and have a minimum of two familiars unlocked as it will use one to do click damage and the other familiar to level up your click damage as you collect gold. Then you simply set it to restart once it beats level 50 (the minimum level for completing a Free Play) and rinse and repeat. Without even having to touch my console at all, it's completing one free play roughly every hour. It runs a bit slower in offline mode as it doesn't collect gold as quickly, so you can leave your Xbox on and just let it idle complete (it is an idle game after all). This way, you don't need to pop on to your Xbox to keep it cycling to the next free play run as it does it for you.

EDIT: While the Modron Automation works even if the game is offline, it appears that for Xbox to track it correctly, the game must be online with your system on. You'll still complete this faster than without Automation as this can keep launching new Free Play runs throughout the night as long as your system stays on. Also, the game doesn't care if your controller is plugged in or on once it is running; it will still make progress without logging you out.

Note: You will need to launch the game and open the Modron Core interface at least once a week to keep the automation running. They don't want players running it run forever offline. However, you likely will get your 250 Free Play runs completed within 2 weeks, if not much sooner.

This achievement can be fully afk'd with the game closed using a simple trick, this method however does require you to have progressed far enough and have enough champions to unlock the modern core for full automation. You will also need 2 familiars.

Once you have completed split the party sub quest for the micron core and unlocked it you want go to your Modron core setup screen and set up the flow to the tile that allows automation ( will make more sense when you get to the setup ).

You want to set your middle tab on the automation setup to reset at 50 and make sure its enabled ( hit RB ). Party formation doesn't matter but you need a familiar on player attack level up and the other familiar on attack. You can setup a formation by loading a level and after assigning familiars hold LT and click in your left stick to save formation.

When this is done load a freeplay and then force shut the game down ( not quick resume ). Leave it running for a maximum of 7 days ( when the Modron stops working) and load the game back up, let it finish the freeplay it is currently doing and complete the adventure, force close the game again and reload, ( not quick resume ). Start another freelance with Modron core still active and force close the game a third time. Check you achievement % after and it will have increased.

THIS IS A POSSIBLE BUG EXPLOIT, NOT A SOLUTION.

Something happened to me while playing, I went to lv 50 in free play and pressed "complete adventure"

It came up with an error message saying "failed to restart" or something similar.

After a while I would try again and get the same error message. I did this a few times and after getting the error message about 5 times I quit at the dashboard and restarted.

This time it worked and I completed it as normal. Once I checked my Achievement progress in the guide, ALL THE FAILED ATTEMPTS COUNTED AS A COMPLETE RUN! (At 15 mins a run, this possibly saves HOURS!)

So if you ever get this message I would suggest checking if it also works the same for you. Don't close the game, just keep pressing "complete adventure"

I don't know why I got the message so I can't help you get the error, but if you see it come up one day, keep this in mind!

I'm writing a guide for this trash achievement since the current guides are a combination of wrong, bad advice, and lacking details leading people to think the game has bugs

IWARNING: IF USING A SERIES X/S SYSTEM, BE AWARE OF THE QUICK RESUME FEATURE. This feature is meant to seamlessly resume the last game being played as if turning the system off and on has no effect. Quick resume has a habit of interfering with tracking/unlocking achievements. AFAIK, it is always active and cannot be deactivated. Pressing and quitting whatever game you're playing before turning your system off will disable quick resume. Keep this in mind when turning your X/S system off WHILE playing Idle Champions and you plan on playing it again the moment you turn your X/S back on. Its good to get into the habit of pressing and quitting the game before turning the system off.

TIP: here's a site that keeps track of daily locked chest codes https://incendar.com/idlechampions_codes.php You can get 2-6 electrum chests a day. This will help out a lot if just starting the Idle Champions.

TIP2: You want to keep this achievement for last. The more favor you've earned and perks bought with favor will guarantee you can automate 50 sword coast areas with no problem.

This achievement can be automated. As in completely AFK with the system turned off. Here is a step-by-step.

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GOAL 1: ITEMS NEEDED FOR MODRON AUTOMATION

1 modron core - I don't remember where or when, but you should be given one within the first few 'A Grand Tour of the Sword Coast' adventures. You need this first.

place the modron core - On the screen where your team is forever marching right, above the character portraits at the bottom are a series of blue boxes with symbols in them. Go to the one that says 'parties' and press . Highlight the box that comes up titled 'Adventure Party 1'. Pressing should highlight the smaller inset box on the left. This is where the modron core goes. You want to do this as SOON AS YOU GET THE MODRON CORE The core will begin earning XP the moment you do this and will start giving you modron chests every time it levels. It only gains 1 xp for every screen cleared, so it doesn't level fast.

Automation component must be active - once placed, highlight the box with the modron in it and press . A grid should come up that looks a lot like Lucas Arts' Pipe Dream (that reference might be too dated) the hacking minigame from Bioshock. Dead center of the grid is basically the power source. The pipe 3 tiles to the right is labeled 'automation component'. You need to connect these two with pipes in order to automate You will gain pipes from modron chests.

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GOAL 2: EARN PARTY/FAMILIARS

Characters: NO additonal characters are required. You DO NOT need to complete the 'Split the Party' quest. YOU ONLY NEED 1 CHARACTER TO AUTOMATE FREE QUEST RUNS.

Familiars: You can't do this without familiars and you'll get at least 1 for free. You will be able to purchase more from the shop with gems (do not spend real $) as you play (if you can call it that) this game to earn all the other achievements.
BARE minimum: 3
recommended: 6
most efficient (if watching the game play itself): 7

the breakdown goes like this:
1 to level a character
1 to level up player attack
1/4/5 to do click damage. (4 = auto collect gold, 5 = auto collects gold + gems)

considering this will likely be your last achievement, there's a pretty good chance you'll have close to 6 from having to play the game (if you can call it that) for the other achievements.

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HOW TO SET UP AUTOMATION:

Idle Champions on console made this as confusing and unintuitive as possible. Here's a step by step:

step 1:
- begin an easy ''a grand tour of the sword coast' quest that displays 'free quest' (free quests are quests that you've already completed and can play again)

step 2:
-On the battle screen (where the characters marching right) - blue boxes above the character portraits: press on 'familiars'
-set 1 familiar to 'player attack'
-set 1 familiar to 'level bruenor' (or anyone else if you prefer)
-set remaining famliars to 'player attack'

step 3:
-On the battle screen -while holding press in
-press to save your formation

step 4:
-on battle screen - blue boxes, press on parties.
-inside the 'adventure party 1' box, you want to mess around with the d-pad until you get the smaller inset box on the right highlighted and press . Its labeled 'current modron automation setup'.
- highlight box labeled 'set formation'. Press to activate it. Press and select 'a grand tour of the sword coast'. Press , select the saved party you want to use and press again.
- highlight the box labeled 'set area goal'. Press to activate it. Press on 50 (why 50? its the minimum # of areas needed for a free run to count)
(opitional - would recommend if watching the game play itself. don't know if it counts off-line)
- highlight 'set buffs' box and press . brings up your potions. Add your speed potions (all of them). Press and you need to set each potion to activate on area 1. You do that by pressing and entering 1.

I'm not sure its possible to set what quest the automation plays. I'm certain its limited to whatever quest is currently being played.
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once you've done all these steps, Idle Champions should now start automating runs.

again, achievement progress IS NOT BUGGED. You WILL gain progress with your system off and you'll see it in the achievement tracker when restarting the game. If progress wasn't added, quick resume probably screwed you over.

modron automation will disable after 7 days if you don't sign into the game, so keep that in mind.