Lets start with the upgrade setup. This are all the skills that you will ever need for it:


Now lets talk about the priority if you are missing some gold, as well as the reasoning behind the picks:

Priority number one:

• HP Regen - so you can heal the dmg up and not die, always max it out
  
• SP Regen - we are going to be playing as a Knight, and we need his ability up as much as possible, always max it out
  
• EXP Bonus - faster leveling is OP, always max it out
  
• Defense - its hella expensive, so you can go with just 4-5 levels of it, more is better if you have extra cash
  
• Pickup range - I would suggest to get at least a couple of levels since you wont be able to move and some enemies will die at some range from you

Priority number Two:

• Cooldown - nice to have since we will be using Ascension
  
• Duration - same as the cooldown
  
• Max HP - lets you be more relaxed while you get EXP to stabilize

Priority number Three:

• Skill size - nice to have so it will fit more enemies into your AOE
  
• Retaliation - some early dps and nice animation I guess :P

BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE DMG????
You dont need it, DMG is fake, your enemies will die out of respect to your tankiness. I will explain killing later on

I tested all the pets (most with only first row upgraded) and they all work.

Easiest one to use is for sure the Hedgehog for the defense and HP buff, as well as nice retaliation dmg (we are playing knight, so enemies will hug us and our pet)

Second in line (first with second evasion buff maxed) has to be the Fox for the huge evasion buff. With Fox you can get to 100% evasion when her buff is on, or to a 80% when it is not, and that is huge! While you are getting hit by everyone she will give you free SP and will actually deal decent amount of extra dps, since her attacks get cooldown reduced when you evade, so she will just machine gun everyone.

Honorable mention goes to the Raccoon, with the pet movement changes he will actually bring you things even at -100% Player Speed, so grab him if you dont feel like you need defensive stats (you do want defensive stats tho)

Pick these up to get to the 40,50 Gemstone multiplier on The Dry Marsh (level 1). Once you get good amount skills and good amount of pet levels you can do The Ruined Dungeon(level 3) instead, and it will give you 121,57 Gemstone multiplier with the same modifiers


Some reasoning behind the picks and potential changes:

• Enemy HP - always at max, you will 1 shot them anyways, so who cares.
  
• Enemy Damage - you will die waaaaaaaaay too fast early if you will increase this. With max upgrades you can probably go higher, especially if you dont lower your HP, but i just think that its a pain in the ass and i dont like restarting my runs
  
• Enemy Speed - the faster they hug you the faster they die. Just like people in my life. Max it out.
  
• Player HP - feel free to move it around. I found 50% the most consistent to run, but you can go lower if you dont mind doing a couple of restarts if luck wont go your way early. You can just keep it at 0 too if you are low on upgrades or want to feel safer.
  
• Player Damage - as i said earlier, enemies will die just by looking at you funny, your base dmg doesnt matter, always drop it to -90 (I would go -99 if i could).
  
• Player Speed - we are here for the maximum lazy guide, so why bother moving? Enemies come to you and you kill them, easy as that. No need to move around to collect exp either, since it will mostly be right next to you. If you want to collect chests you can go for -99% as well, you will be able to move a bit to pick chests up, but you only need them for the +10 re-rolls so just be lazy and sit at one spot.
  
• Enemy Projectiles - if you are low on upgrades you might want to turn it off, otherwise you really wont know the difference (well besides the extra orbs flying in to hug you)
  
• Enhanced Bosses - you cannot die, so it is just extra gems
  
• Enhanced Events - same as Enhanced Bosses

For the character you always go Knight. His ability is crazy, his damage is insane, and he was build to stand in one spot and do nothing all day long. Go for the Nomad Heritage since you need all the re-rolls that you can get.

Go to the Lv. 1 (The Dry Marsh) Normal Mode and pick 100% speed since otherwise it takes too long and you dont care about what happens on the screen.
If you want to get even more Gemstones and have most of the upgrades then pick Lv. 3 (The Ruined Dungeon) instead. There are some extra notes later in the guide for that.

Now grab all the modifiers that we talked about earlier and hit play.

Your main priority early on is to become an unkillable tank with infinite dmg capabilities.

Your first priority is to get tank stats, since we can sorta kill enemies:

• Ascension lvl 1 and 2. The value that it gives in just 2 levels is crazy, and should not be underestimated. For a period of time you will get 5 defense, 10 HP per second and 0,3 SP per second. Yeah its not a 100% uptime yet, but that 5 defense and 10 HP/Sec is amazing and gives you a lot of survivability
  
• Miniaturize - 6% chance to not take DMG, what else do you need from life? Might not seem like a big deal, but it is. You want 4-5 levels of it before you fight the first boss at 7 minute
  
• Spirit of Life - you get hit a lot even with the evasion, so any HP regen is good. Your ascension is not 100% uptime until later into the game, so couple of levels (3-5) is good to get before the first boss arrives.
  
• Stamina potion - get one level of it, its good value, nice to have, and will give you some survivability and dps
  
• Study - always good to have, if you are not at low HP and no other passives that i talked about before are there - pick it up. After you are stable grab it when you see it.
  
• Defence - only good if you dont have your Defence upgraded in the shop, otherwise only pick if there is nothing else and you are out of re-rolls
  
• Vitality - this is your PANIC button, only pick it up if you are below 20-10% HP
  

Now about that DMG...
Knights ability scales crazy well, so you will be able to kill everything (just not fast) despite the 500% HP and -90% DMG that we picked for the level modifiers, but we will buff the DMG anyways, just to kill faster and get EXP. You will need just 2 things for it.

• Spectral Sword - gotta say, i was sleeping on how strong this is (huge thanks for Yaridovich for telling me about it). Grab a level early and max it out later for insane dmg. You can kill level 3 last boss in under 15 seconds with it.
  
• Colorless Glyph - you only need 1 level of it for the entire run. It will kill everything close enough for you to get the EXP, you will only need 1 supporting passive for it
  
• Death Sting - your main DPS for trash mobs, before first boss you can just grab 1 lvl of it to help you out, since you need to focus on defense. Once boss is dead pick it up every time. Your Glyph, as well as your Knights basic ability and retaliation dmg will kill everything that gets too close.
  

You will get way more exp here, but the enemies/bosses will hit harder. Feel free to pick up more Study passives earlier on to get even more exp, you will be leveling fast enough to pick up defensive passives as well. You might want to grab some more Defence too, bosses and some other enemies can hit like a truck.

Once you are stable, just keep upgrading the defensive passives that you have, as well as the Death sting and Spectral Sword. Here are some nice extra things to pick up along the way:

• Hourglass - lets you keep your ascension up 100% of the time
  
• Psychokinesis - QOL in case that EXP drops too far
  
• Purifying Circle - once your duration is high it becomes a constant AOE and it will proc your Death Sting
  

So this section is mainly for the third map, since you can get way higher of a level there, and will usually end at 120+

• Defence - actually a solid thing to max out if you are doing level 3. I started using cat as my main pet for the 100% evasion, so no extra hedgehog defense, and thing here hit you hard. Plus with the skill changes it gives huge +5 defense on max level, to a total of 14, so it is way nicer now. You will get enough levels to get everything here maxed anyways
  
• Spectral Sword - max it out, it gives crazy dmg and will help you to obliterate everything, bosses included
  
• Bullseye - max it out for sure, dps increasi is huge for your Spectral Sword in later stages
  
• Primal Might - same thing here, especially with the 10th level giving you extra 70% on top
  
• Enchantment - I usually grab it last, but mainly because crit numbers just look pretty and i want to max them first. Strong nonetheless
  

Other than that feel free to pick anything that you might like. Just dont go for the Immaterial Cloak, as funny as it is, it is counterproductive.

While making this build I did a bunch of runs killing the first boss to test pets and things like that out, and I didnt have to restart the run because of early death even once, so I feel like the build works well, and I hope that it will help you to get them gems too.

Thank you for reading, enjoy your easy gems :)