Dota 2 - Siltbreaker Act 1 Basic Itemisation and Gameplay ( Drow Ranger )

With the purchase of a compendium you'll unlock a limited game mode called Siltbreaker.
Itemisation in Siltbreaker was one of the entry problems for me when first playing cause knowing what you need before you face a boss is pretty important and not having it may just block progression for you especially when playing alone.

 So here's how I build my Drow Ranger.
We'll start by thinking about the endgame first.
To defeat Rhyzik (Act 1's Final Boss),
You'll need to have a Monkey King Bar, Shadow Blade and a Satanic for survival.
That puts you at 3 confirmed slots.

If you don't have any Rhyzik Artifacts, your end game build will look something like this.

• Silver Edge
• Mjollnir
• Aghanim's Scepter
• Satanic
• Daedalus
• Monkey King Bar
• Moonshard (Eaten)

Now to Item progression and a rough strategy guide.

• Boots

You start off with boots.

Player who want to ensure their survival may grab a Healing Salve or two at the first shop they find.

• Phase Boots, Maelstrom
• Boots, Shadow Blade

Before Zone 3: Trial of Gallaron, players without Artifact Pelt of the Old Wolf may want to get a Phase Boots or Shadow Blade to supplement their movement speed.

More experienced players will want a Maelstrom for damage while less experienced ones should take a Shadow Blade which helps with survivability and removing aggro.

• Phase Boots, Mjollnir
• Boots, Shadow Blade, Aghanim

Based off your branch from the previous items you'll want to get either of these by Zone 5: Silkmire Pass

From here on out it's all DAMAGE

While you want to get a Satanic before Zone 8: Kalabor Waste to increase your survivability, there's no need to rush for it if you believe you can stay alive esp if your team has Vladmir's or Artifact Unhallowed Icon.

Be careful of Zone 8: Kalabor Waste's Centaur and Zone 9: Shatterblast Canyon's Golem's Blademail.

You will take damage hitting them unless you have both Satanic active and Artifact Carapace of Qaldin which doubles your healing.

Finally Rhyzik

His moveset is.

1. Hitting the nearest target and a tailswipe that comes in from his left (your right).
2. Digging forward towards a target if anyone is in the line above his digging path they get knocked up and damaged and it ends with him blinking towards the nearest player and hitting them (Move 1).
3. He stops moving and channels tornadoes around him and 1 from the outside which homes in on each player.
4. He stops moving and channels Shockwaves from him which if hits a player knocks up and deals damage.
5. He digs under ground with only his tail out and summons mobs. the purple ones explode when touching a player while the rest heals him if they reach him.

During move 1, Letting the tanker tank the boss and just hitting him while not getting hit by the tail is all you do.

Silver Edge/Shadow Blade is to supplement your movement speed during move 2, 3 & 4 and to hide from the homing tornadoes.
It can also help you to dodge the blink transition into the hitting phase (move 2 > 1) so that you avoid being a target at this point.
And during move 5 you just hit his tail.
Satanic will usually be enough to survive the mobs explosion but if 3 happens at the same time you might die so you might want to watch out for that.

And well... You Win?

If you manage to Kill Rhyzik he's supposed to drop an Item for sure so hopefully you get yours.
Drow can really make use of Artifact Finale Caustic as her Aghanim allows her to hit 3 targets at once and apply its debuff.
Artifact Rhyzik's Eye is useful for survivability especially if dodging isn't your specialty.
And Carapace of Qaldin is useful for hitting through Blademail.
So good luck getting them.

Another Notable Artifact is Unhallowed Icon which drops from Spider Boss Ankaboot.
It allows all players to heal each other with their damage so having one in your team might rid you of your need for a satanic at Rhyzik ( Assuming you can survive without the strength ).

I myself have only gotten up to 2 stars on Rhyzik at the moment so go ahead and experiment with things and have fun.

Here's the link to the General Information about Siltbreaker on its Wiki
http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Siltbreaker/Act_I