Hey Dragon hunters! Welcome to our second Community Spotlight!
It’s been a little over a month since we released our first major update, and we really enjoy seeing how you receive these changes, especially regarding the progression, combat feel, and the new City features.
The new skills sparked a lot of interest, so we thought this would be a great time to highlight some of the builds that are making use of them, along with a few creative ones.
Dragonkin: The Banished data collection sheet (by Mumpitz)
Before we get into some of our favorite builds from the community, we want to give a quick shoutout to Mumpitz, one of the most active members on our Discord, who’s been putting together a data sheet for Dragonkin: The Banished to help the community.
Check it out: Dragonkin: The Banished date collection sheet
Now, let’s take a look at your builds!
Community Builds
We love seeing how players approach the Ancestral Grid in different ways, especially when new skills shake things up. So, here are a few community builds that caught our attention this patch.
Ice Cyclone – A Starter-Friendly Oracle Build (from Mumpitz)
Once again, Mumpitz delivers a very detailed build!
This time sharing us a Starter-friendly Ice Cyclone build for the Oracle using Psychokinesis and Writhing Cyclone to deal massive amounts of damage.
Here their reasoning behind the build:
“My goal was to make use of new skill Psychokinesis as well as the new wyrmling skill Frigid Wind that supports damage over time skills, which fits to Writhing Cyclone. So the target skills were selected. Anything else just evolved naturally on the journey.”
If you’re interested, we highly recommend checking the full guide on Discord.
You’ll find gear tips, stat priorities, and more.
Toxic Whirlwind - A Gold Farming Barbarian Build (from hr31)
Barbarian Whirlwind certainly is one, if not, the most popular build for the Barbarian. That said, hr31 slightly revisits the classic Whirlwind Barbarian.
One of the key additions is the use of the Ancestral Totem introduced in the last update.
Its area-of-effect damage and reliable attack bonus naturally complement the build.
A few words from hr31 on their approach:
“After trying out three classes, I concluded that Whirlwind offers the fastest movement, including when defeating monsters. I hadn't been using the Toxic Wyrmling before, but after the patch update, I started utilizing it. Moving forward, I plan to make use of lightning.”
It’s worth noting that while Electric Wyrmling skills offer higher raw damage, the Toxic Wyrmling provides better sustain and energy regeneration, giving the Barbarian more resilience.
The intent with that build is pretty clear: complete quests and activities such as Dungeon Purification as efficiently as possible. With an itemization focused on +1,871% bonus gold gain, this build wants to get golds!
Electric Axe of Toriel + Meteoric Projection Barbarian Build (by Bunzine)
Bunzine proves there's still plenty of room to explore with the Barbarian.
This build centers around Axes of Toriel as the main skill, and uses Meteoric Projection to deal massive damage by stacking projectile modifiers.
In their own words:
“This build focuses on using Axes of Toriel and Ultimate Meteoric Projection to quickly clear dungeons and defeat bosses. Axes of Toriel are thrown forward and return like boomerangs, dealing damage twice — once on the way out and once on the way back. Meteoric Projection is your ultimate skill, dealing high AoE damage.
In principle, this can be done with any wyrmling. However, you will need to adjust everything to match that wyrmling’s damage (including gear) and use different Wyrmling skills and attributes. The most important requirement is that you have the Dragon Wisdom (6) talent."
Electric Scarlet Thrust – A Wyrmling Focused Knight Build
(by MorkeX)
MorkeX surprised us with a clever Knight build that relies on Wyrmling skills to deal damage instead of character skills.
Here’s the core concept explained by MorkeX:
“No energy or fuel consumption, one-button gameplay, excellent tankiness, high armor stats, medium clear speed, prone to missing mobs, RNG-dependent damage (since it relies on chance-based triggers) – perfect for fun-seeking players! It can breeze through all in-game content with ease.
In this build, Wyrmling skills trigger randomly, so maximizing their proc rate was crucial (they’re the main damage source). Trigger chance directly dictates one dimension of attack frequency, which in turn relies on basic attack speed. These two factors form the final damage frequency. Projectile Tag Synergy: Dragon skills carry the "projectile" tag, so boosting projectile count not only amps up damage but also improves AOE coverage. then squeezed out damage potential through gear, talents, and Ancestral Fragments."
The approach leans into synergy between basic attacks and projectile-triggered effects, making it both sustainable and surprisingly strong.
For talents, MorkeX prioritized defense and survivability by maxing out Armor of the Eternal and Divine Avatar as early as possible, making the build extremely tanky while still dealing solid damage.
Community Events
As you probably already know, we love running community events on our Discord and sharing sneak peeks behind the scenes.
Recently, we hosted Choose the Next Sneak Peek! – Founder Pack 3, and with your votes, we revealed the Dracomondus Priestess armor for the Oracle.
Since you seemed to enjoy that event, we’d like to do it again, this time, for the Tracker!
Event Duration:
From NOW until Tuesday, July 1, 2025
What’s this about?
We’ve got 3 unique Tracker customization options, and we want you to decide which one we reveal next week on our Discord server. Cast your vote for option 1, 2, or 3!
To help you decide, here’s a little flavor behind each look:
“An outfit made from Dragonkin that lets you move among them without raising suspicion.”
“Armor worn by the ultimate defenders of the lost civilization deep in the jungles of Ja’Ksara.”
“Legends say stray spirits from the Mangerika Springs seek new hosts...”
The customization with the most votes will be featured in our upcoming sneak peek.
Votes started already!
What’s To Come
We're still continuing our work on bug fixing the issues you have brought to us. We are also listening to your feedback so far and will be implementing some changes!
We know many of you are wondering which areas we’re focusing on for the next update, and we want to let you know that a Dev Blog is planned in the coming weeks to go over the major points we are working on and address.
We ask for a bit of patience as it takes time to wrap it all up properly, but in the meantime, here’s a quick look at a few key things we’d like to talk about:
Prologue & Onboarding
Overall progression (loot adjustment)
Getting one-shot out of nowhere & Death penalty
And more...
That's it for today
Feel free to share more of your builds, which might be featured in a future community spotlight! And as always, if you encounter any bugs, join our Discord server to report them.
See you soon!
