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Relics form the core of every successful Hell Clock build. These powerful, customizable items can alter your playstyle, expand your skill options, and create unique interactions with other relics and abilities. Some relics switch the damage type of your skills, while others completely change how they work.
Choosing the right relics for your skills—whether you depend on quick melee attacks, summoned allies, or large area damage—can greatly boost your performance. Making smart relic choices influences how each run plays out, turning decent builds into unstoppable forces.
Hell Clock Relic Tier List
S Tier Relics
The top-tier relics are game-changers, defining powerful crowd-clearers and damage combos. They turn individual hits into devastating explosions and frequently transform your damage into deadly effects like plague or elemental energy.
- Ashes of Mourning: Converts Bombardment damage into plague and resets cooldowns on hit, ideal for rapid-fire spam builds.
- Last Prayer: Makes Repeater shots explode into plague with each kill, enhancing sustained AoE.
- Future Weapon: Fire projectiles bounce multiple times, scaling with movement and landing critical hits that produce electric waves.
Other notable S-tier relics include those that turn defensive skills into offensive tools, such as:
- Mother of Perpetual Help: Converts Slow Time into a synergy that boosts mana and slows decay.
- Poem Never Recited: Applies burning oils to enemies for massive damage.
- Tempest: Turns Double Knives into a lightning storm that scales with speed and crits.
Why they rank S:
They significantly amplify damage output, introduce unique mechanics, and often provide reliable crowd control or sustain.
A-Tier Relics
A-Tier relics support specific strategies without dominating the game. They enhance damage, provide utility, or improve sustain depending on the build.
- Ancestral Memory: Summons a spirit copying your skills for added damage.
- Barbed Wire: Always applies bleeding, especially potent with crits and lifesteal.
- Crown of Thorns: Converts Holy Rosary damage into physical damage with bleed chance.
- Garrison Supplies: Fires extra projectiles when in Prayer of Vengeance, scaling well in projectile-heavy builds.
- Molten Relic: Changes Repeater damage to fire and adds grenade explosions for burst potential.
Why they rank high:
They provide dependable boosts for focused builds, often synergizing with specific skills or blessings.
B-Tier Relics
B-Tier relics offer moderate utility or conditional bonuses. They usually require particular setups to shine and are best suited for niche or hybrid strategies:
- Arapuca: Adds bonus damage to slowed enemies.
- Bloodied Doll: Boosts spell damage per active summon.
- Blood Money: Revives the Brute with your health, riskier but potentially powerful.
- Mandacaru: Allows bleeding enemies to take bonus damage.
- Ticket: Enhances summon mobility by carrying your summons with you.
These relics often need support from other relics or specific skills and can be advantageous in tailored builds but aren’t universally effective.
C-Tier Relics
C-Tier relics tend to be situational or outperformed by other options unless carefully integrated.
- Skull of the Vulture: Converts dash into AoE bleeding damage for burst damage.
- Wheel of Death: Grants unlimited Shadow Dash mobility at a high life cost.
- Savior’s Shield: Reduces damage from ignited enemies, a niche defensive tool.
- Voice of War: Increases summon damage while taunting.
They are generally less impactful and require specific setups to be effective, often being considered last-resort options.
Summary
Higher-tier relics like Ashes of Mourning, Last Prayer, and Future Weapon shape the most potent flaming AoE builds, transforming basic hits into crowd-clearing explosions. The strongest relics often provide reliable damage boosts, crowd control, or sustain with broad applicability.
Mid-tier relics support particular styles, adding utility or niche strength — excellent for specialized or hybrid approaches. Lower-tier relics tend to be highly situational, offering minor benefits or risking more than they gain. Use them only if they fit exactly into your playstyle or build plan.