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Idle Iktah Second Legacy: Perk Order & Skill Acceleration

Player question: What perks, skill acceleration allocations, and progression routes should you prioritize on your Second Legacy in Idle Iktah?

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Recommendation For your Second Legacy, your primary progression objective shifts from survival to speed. With Inheritance already unlocked, community consensus favors picking either Electricity (for passive automation across secondary crafting loops) or Arithmometer (for calculation boosts and efficiency). Furthermore, players recommend shifting the 50% skill acceleration points away from Woodcutting into slower, more tedious late-game bottlenecks—specifically Combat or Gathering—to cut down run 2 completion time.

How the Second Legacy Changes the Game

Community Knowledge During your first playthrough, the primary goal was simply reaching level 99 across all skills and unlocking Inheritance. In the Second Legacy, players already have 3 powerful item stacks from run 1 and are looking to compress their total reset cycle from months down to weeks or days[1].

Perk Prioritization After Inheritance

The Legacy menu documents several powerful upgrades that unlock sequentially:

Perk NameCore FunctionalityWhen to Select on Second Legacy
ElectricityAutomates continuous workshop operations and machinery.Top recommendation: Frees up active attention and speeds up production loops.
ArithmometerCalculates yield optimizations and enhances experience math.Strong alternative for math-focused active players.
SteamboatsAccelerates maritime trading routes and ocean exploration.Valuable if prioritizing rapid island colonization and pearl harvesting.
Gold Rush / SawmillBoosts raw resource extraction rates in mines and forests.Secondary tier; usually deferred to third or fourth legacy.

Redistributing the 50% Acceleration Points

Observed Game Fact Players receive five 10% acceleration points upon triggering Legacy, totaling a 50% boost that can be placed into a single discipline or split across several.

Recommendation In your first run, putting 50% into Woodcutting helped build cedar structures quickly. On your second run, with strong axes and tools carried over, Woodcutting levels rapidly on its own. Reallocating the full 50% into Combat or Gathering prevents late-run stalls.

Tackling the Combat Leveling Wall

Community Knowledge Combat leveling is frequently cited as the single most agonizing bottleneck for second-run players aiming to re-achieve the 99 milestone[2]. Understanding mentor dynamics and bonus calculations is crucial; players note that mentor bonuses do not double raw skill experience blindly[3], so pairing combat acceleration points with inherited weapons is the most reliable remedy.

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Sources & claim classes

  1. Second legacy? （将打开 Reddit） — Community strategies and perk priorities for players executing their second Legacy reset.
  2. Combat leveling feels like a huge bottleneck. What am I missing? （将打开 Reddit） — Analysis of combat progression friction and recommended acceleration methods.
  3. Question: why is my Mentor XP not doubling as skill XP? （将打开 Reddit） — Mechanics breakdown of mentor experience interactions and bonus stacking rules.

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