A summary of the hero and the build:

 

This is a build focused on the Astral Legion, which is the most fun Doctor Strange build. It's a massive spam of AoE spells. The main objective is to deal as much damage as possible while also having good survivability and damage resistance. And yes, it's as strong in damage as other builds Strange can use, but it's much more reliable since it doesn't depend on just one ability to deal all its damage.

 

One very important piece of information for anyone thinking of using this build:

 

Which makes this build extremely strong, is that it has a beneficial "error" in the damage calculation of the Astral Legion in one spell they cast. We know that all spells cast by the Astral Legion only deal 25% of the damage of the original Strange's spells; this is described in the ability description in game. This means that the three projections combined will cause a total of 75% of the damage of each spell they use. However, there is one spell to which this rule does not apply: the Daggers of Daveroth. The daggers thrown by all the three astral projections are dealing double the damage of the original Strange daggers!!!, which is significant, and the best part is that this ability isn't affected by game bugs, And don't worry, this has been happening since 2017, so it's not something that's going to be fixed anytime soon. So keep in mind that daggers are mandatory for the build because this spell will account for the majority of your total damage.

 

Doctor Strange is one of the most versatile heroes in terms of ability rotation choices, so it's possible to create many types of rotations in any build. In the power rotation and action bar, I will present the best rotations for Astral Legion in each situation.

 

Before we begin the rotations, it's necessary to clarify a few things to avoid mistakes:

 

1) With the passive talent Mystic Rejuvenation activated, every incantation cast fills 1 bar of Strange's passive ability called Mysticism. Five incantations are needed to fill the entire bar, and then your sixth enchantment will deal guaranteed critical damage, immediately afterward, your bar will reset, and the cooldowns of your other incantations will also be reset, Daggers of Daveroth or incantations cast by the Astral Legion are not affected by the guaranteed critical strike of this passive.

 

2) Keep the Astral Legion permanently activated in battle, all the three astral projections will use Seven Suns of Cinnibus, Icy Tendrils of Ikthalon, Winds of Watoomb and Daggers of Daveroth at the same time as you, making Strange deal massive damage to both area and individual targets. The duration of Astral Legion is longer than its cooldown due to increased power duration from items, which is why this ability will remain permanently active in battles. 

 

3) Since Daggers of Daveroth regain 1 charge for each incantation used, always use them at the end of your rotations.

 

4) An important factor for those who have never played with Strange, the stupid bugs and glitches destroying your power mechanics: The most common "bug" will always accompany you when you play with this hero. When Strange suffers any kind of interruption during his spell cast animations, whether from knockdowns, pushes, stuns, or freezes, the spell will become bugged and will not be reset by his passive ability to reset the cooldown!!! And when this happens, you will be forced to wait for the spell's cooldown to finish normally before you can resume your power rotations. Additionally, for players experiencing connection issues or server instability, these spell recharge bugs will also occur. When experiencing significant lag, use each spell very slowly to prevent the game from simply ignoring that you used abilities. If any "bug" appears in the spell recharges, just ignore the power rotation and use the first spell that is ready to complete your mysticism anyway until it normalizes.

 

 

 

The power rotations:There are 3 action bars in total, but you can choose which one you prefer to use.

 

 

For maximum DPS possible this will be your action bar, you can change it if you want:   

But you will use the spells in the following order in combat:

 

1) Upon arriving in battle, activate    .

2) Your    will probably already have all 10 charges at this point, so throw them to deal significant damage right from the start, If you are not out of charge when starting the battle, simply initiate the rotation below.

 

3) This will be your rotation in battle, one click for each ability in this order and repeat it endlessly until the end of the battle.

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Clarification as to why Vapors of Valtorr is the spell that receives the guaranteed critical hit and not Winds of Watoomb, because we are not using the "Wind and Sky" talent, the Winds of watoomb spell will not have the double damage bonus; therefore, its standard damage will be surpassed by the DPS of the vapors of valtorr spell with guaranteed critical hits, and we can keep 3 vapors of valtorr spells active at the same time causing critical damage on all hits.

 

 

 

Now it's an action bar to reduce the "bugs and glitches" that plague Strange in the game: 

This action bar is simpler, easier, and more reliable to play with it, no Vapors of Valtorr due to its enormous 15-second recharge time.

 

1) The process to start battles is always the same: first activate    , then    if they are charged, and then begin the power rotation.

 

2) This will be your rotation in battle, one click for each ability in this order and repeat it endlessly until the end of the battle.

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With these spells on your action bar, your DPS will be slightly lower, but you'll spend less time waiting for your abilities to recharge if any of them glitch during combat.

 

 

 

This will be your action bar for Raids: 

The best way to play Strange in Raid is to focus on being the team's support, and nobody is better at that than him; Strange possesses the best healing in the game, the Shield of the Seraphim, remember to select the benevolent seraphim talent before starting the raid. With this spell in your rotation, you will provide 20% health regeneration per second to yourself and all nearby allied players and summons. This spell not only provides this massive HP restoration but also high damage reduction and 50% of deflect chance. And since their spells recharge after completing the mysticism, this means infinite regeneration for the team!

 

Another change that needs to be made regarding talent is to utilize Ritual Circle talent, this talent provides offensive and defensive buffs for you and all allies in your squad based on the number of players, such as 20% base damage, 10% damage reduction, 10% health, and 1% health regeneration.

 

1) The process to start battles is always the same: first activate    , then    if they are charged, and then begin the power rotation.

 

 

2) This will be your rotation in battle, one click for each ability in this order and repeat it endlessly until the end of the battle.

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One important point is that certain parts of the Raid require teleporting, for example, to dodge Skull's orbs that kills the entire squad if anyone touches them; in that case, before entering this battle replace the Daggers of Daveroth with Mystic Shift and rotate the powers using only spells as usual.

 

You can also use this Raid action bar for city patrols too if you want, making battles against groups of bosses extremely easy for everyone. You can also replace Flames of the Faltine with Images of Ikonn if you want to be a full support for your team in raids and patrols, do not underestimate the power of this spell; the Images of Ikonn will constantly provoke and distract enemies and bosses and you can keep 6 of these images at the same time, allowing you alone to defeat groups of 4, 5 or 6 cosmic bosses without any difficulty, even with a weak item build. This ability makes these battles much easier.

 

 

The build items:

The entire build concept focused on maximizing DPS without sacrificing character survivability, the main goal is to have a comfortable build to play.

 

 

Catalyst:

More important than obtaining a catalyst with 1000 defense is having one with 3 seconds of invisibility when using a med kit, this is extremely important because this build doesn't utilize dash power; this invisibility will be used to make bosses stop attacking you and instead attack your team-up, so make this your number one priority for catalyst, your second priority is to obtain a shield by using a med kit to immediately stop incoming damage to your health.

 

 

Uniques gear:

 It's the best option for slot 1 because it greatly increases the hero's base damage and critical damage, It also considerably increases the duration of the astral legion, and the main difference is the 100% damage increase for summon powers every 10 seconds. However, if you don't have that item, you can use the  temporarily.

 

 

 For slot 2 to high base damage and especially because of the power duration, it's worth remembering that this not only increases the duration of Astral Legion but also the duration of DoT spells. Another options for slot 2 is  for summon damage and critical damage,  It can also be used since it has significant fighting attributes, power duration, and revive ability.

 

 

 Strange's Slot 3 is already strong enough, offering base damage, attributes, power duration, brutal strike rate, and brutal damage. Other option for slot 3 is the  There's almost no difference compared to Strange's Slot 3, since everything one has, the other also has, but it loses out in attributes.

 

 

 or   For slot 4, the competition is a bit tough; to this day I'm not sure which of the two is stronger, as both have very similar DPS results and their stats are both very strong and different from each other. But Strange's slot 4 has the advantage of summoning 3 Mindless Ones, which greatly helps with survival, plus the unique one applies DoT, so I think it's the best option overall.

 

 

  For slot 5, this is the best option, considering base damage, critical/brutal hit rate, and summon damage. This can be used if you don't have the octobot unique for your build.

 

Artifacts:

  It's an absolutely essential artifact for any Intelligence-based hero, regardless of their build, as it provides a lot of base damage, attributes and a high critical/brutal hit rate. Most importantly, it grants invisibility when your health drops to 30%, saving you from death countless times.

 

 

  There's not much to say about this one; it's used in practically all builds, a lot of bonus for critical and brutal damage.

 

 

 This is one of the strongest artifacts in the game, especially for heroes with high critical hit chance, which is the case with Strange. This artifact has over 1600 brutal damage rating with all 3 stacks, combined with a large amount of critical/brutal hit rate, attributes, and base damage.

 

 

  One of the best artifacts for Strange, with high mental damage, brutal strike rating, 4 attributes for base damage, and 800 maximum health, which further aids in survivability since Strange has relatively low health compared to other heroes.

 

 

These are other artifact options that are almost as strong as Hood of the Reaper, which is the only replaceable one in the build:

                               

You can use them to temporarily replace artifacts that you don't have, they are all extremely powerful and will give you similar results.

 

The blessing used on all four artifacts will always be Hela's, as the gains in chance and brutal damage affect both Strange and the Astral Legion simultaneously.

 

For the cosmic bonuses of the artifacts, a 15% reduction in spirit cost is mandatory because this build consumes a lot of spirit due to the Astral Legion, the second cosmic bonus is +1 to all attributes, which will grant us 8% base damage, for the last two cosmic bonuses: 1500 dodge chance and 1500 deflect chance are the two best options that will most increase your resistance and effective life.

 

Legendary: 

 It's the best option for this build because it increases both the damage for Strange and also the damage for Astral Legion too, which is considered a summon, In addition, it makes enemies 10% more vulnerable to damage.

 

 

Uru-Forged:

 It's the best option for any hero because it provides a good increase in survivability; the others offer too little damage to be relevant.

The Bowazon Blessing greatly increases critical hit chance and brutal hit chance, and also increases ranged damage, which is basically all Strange attacks. There is another good blessing option for uru-forged which is Storm Giant Magi which is also extremely strong for strange.

 

 

Medallion:

 This medallion is used because of the enormous power duration bonus it provides, affecting the duration of the Astral Legion and the duration of Strange's DoT spells, base damage, spirit, and maximum health are always welcome.

 

 

Ring:

  Overall, this is the best option for increasing damage for most heroes. For this build, the bonuses I chose were increasing the Brutal Strike chance to further increase DPS consistency and +3 Intelligence, which, in addition to providing base damage, also increases critical hit chance.

 

 

Insignia:

  I always use this insignia for any hero, even if it sacrifices a small portion of my damage. The reason is that it offers the Toughness bonus, which increases damage resistance for you and allies, translating to a 2-4% increase in your damage reduction. Luckily, it also offers 1 Fight attribute and 200 summon damage, which perfectly complements the build, for the bonus affixes of the insigia it is critical damage, the second bonus can be another for resistance such as defense, dodge or deflect, but I opted for the chance of brutal strike rating to further increase the DPS consistency.

 

 

Pet:

For the uncommon bonus: 8% of maximum health is the best option to have more effective life.

For the rare bonus: 5% move speed, because we don't use dash, another viable option is 50 spirit.

For the epic bonus: 10% brutal damage is what will increase our damage the most, the other bonuses are very weak.

For the cosmic bonus: the main reason is the 15% power radius to reduce the chances of astral projections missing their attacks if they are poorly positioned in battle.

For the unique bonus: +3 intelligence because in addition to increasing base damage, it also slightly increases critical/brutal damage.

 

 

Relic:

 best option for Strange and also for 90% of heroes, it provides an increase of approximately 13% in critical/brutal damage, for those who don't know yet, increasing critical damage will increase brutal damage indirectly.

 

 

Team-up:

The best option is Jessica Jones as she is the best for distracting and provoking enemies and bosses, the cooldown of her taunt ability is very short, in addition she has abilities to stun, knock down and pull enemies closer to her, which will help us a lot as Strange needs to cast his spells without interruption. 

Team-up equipment: As our Team-Up's pit is just to distract and resist damage, the bonuses from your items will only be for your survival.

For Biometrics Enhancer and Portable defense screen: prioritize getting a 10% damage reduction bonus against all attacks on these gear for your Team-up to have a total of 50% damage reduction, with the portable defense screen already providing 30% as a standard bonus.

For cosmic bonus: prioritize trying to achieve invulnerability when taking damage and recovering 100% of the team up's total health when you use a med kit, the other 2 gear you can use only for these bonuses.

 

 

Infinity System: 

Around 1000 points are needed to make this build fully functional for its purpose, Remember to accumulate a minimum of 150 total points in each gem to get all the gem's secondary bonuses the gem mastery, some of them are extremely useful.

 

Mind Gem: Total of 318 points spent but this number can vary depending on your spirit consumption, a maximum of 700 to 800 spirit in total is needed for you to never run out during the battle, 30% critical damage which will also increase brutal damage indirectly, initially put only +0.6% critical chance for some unknown reason we gain more than 1% just with that, and 1 for damage proc and no more than that. Exceeding 150 total points we will gain the gem's mastery bonuses where the main one is the reduction in spirit cost.

 

Soul Gem: 154 total points spent on this gem, it is mandatory for the survival of any hero and many people underestimate its bonuses or do not know its boneficious features, to start, when you reach 50 total points you will earn the first mastery bonus, which will provide you with a second hidden med kit that will activate whenever you reach 30% health, this med kit has a 10 second cooldown and not 60 as the description says, however this med kit is not affected by the catalyst's bonuses, but is affected by the gem's healing bonus, all 150 points were spent on +15% healing received, which will affect all types of healing including med kits, health regeneration, skill healing or % health healing, on-hit healing, even passive healing is affected. All of this helps any hero to survive much easier in battle, you can use the maximum 25% if you have points left if you want the best possible survival. 1 for damage proc and no more than that.

 

Space Gem: 150 points in maximum health will be enough for good survival which will also avoid dying with 1 hit in many situations, it is worth remembering that the more maximum health you have, the more hp will be healed by items such as the med kit and skills that heal based on maximum health, another very useful bonus is that the Gem Mastery gets 10% damage reduction when using a Med Kit, which also affects the Soul Gem's secondary Med Kit. 1 for damage proc and no more than that.

 

Time Gem: Total of 204 points spent and all of them attack and movement speed, to have greater DPS, and mainly a lot of mobility to reposition ourselves more quickly in battle and mainly dodge dangerous attacks from some bosses, because again we don't use dash. 1 for damage proc and no more than that.

 

Power Gem: Total of 172 points spent on 75% brutal damage, +0.6% brutal strike chance to get more than 1% yes the same error that happens with the mind gem. 1 for damage proc and no more than that.

 

Reality Gem: 4 points > 1 damage proc, the other bonuses don't matter, maybe when you have a lot of points left, you can reduce the cooldown of Strange's ultimate, which is one of the strongest in the game and vaporizes groups of bosses in seconds.

 

After spending your points on all the bonuses mentioned above, you can spend all your extra points more freely, but I recommend taking the maximum critical and brutal chance for greater consistency in DPS, and then everything on the intelligence attribute which will increase base damage, critical damage and brutal damage.