Beginners Tips and Tricks
Tip 1: Auto Attack & Auto Skill
Just double click or double tap the skill button!
- Once you get enough energy you can spam stance (weapon) skills endlessly.
- Press a different skill or click once to deactivate.
- Can dodge with most but not all skills on autospam. Test each as you go!
Tip 2: Main Stats & Passive Tree Nodes for Leveling
- Strength: Flat Damage
- Endurance: Energy Regen (enough to spam a Stance skill)
Warstrike (Damage) > Infinite Wind (Energy) > Colossal Force (Strength aka Damage)
- These are blessings, they activate on hit.
This combo gets you cooking in the early game!
Tip 3: Gearing and Crafting While Leveling
While leveling DO utilize crafting – a small handful of crafts will make a huge difference – BUT don’t go overboard. Recognize that most things will be replaced after a few more rupture levels.
- Raw +Damage
- Strength
- Energy Regen (till you can sustain your preferred skill)
- Crit chance + Crit Damage
- One life regen modifier can work wonders early game
Focus on revealing all 4 modifiers on an item, and check each mod to see if you can switch to the priority stats. Only bother upgrading raw damage and perhaps an energy regen if needed.
If you get stuck on a boss or level THEN upgrade all your unfinished items for a big power boost and crush em.
Tip 4: Trying Different Weapons / Stances
“Stance” refers to weapon type. Don’t be afraid to try the different stances – they are all viable and used on ladder. It’s mostly about finding one you find fun or comfortable with some consideration as to range and how you activate your offhand skills. Finding a stance and skill you enjoy using is the most important thing and only you can figure that one out.
Don’t fret about releveling a stance’s mastery tree – it’s very quick to catch up and unlock things.
- Stance mastery levels are based on KILLS not XP, each kill has a chance to give a level. It can feel a bit random because it is.
- If you really want to level a new stance quickly head to a lower level rupture where you can kill quickly.
Tip 5: Easily Collect All the Offhands You Need!
Mousing over the main continent levels shows their rewards – you can EASILY go and get any offhand skill you need by doing the rupture that lists that skill. Wanna try a new skill, go get the whole set in a rupture!
Since level doesn’t affect offhand gear this even works at endgame.
Tip 6: Offhand Skill Scaling is Powerful! (Why Not to Scale Weapon Damage)
Weapon hit damage does work in the early game but quickly drops off compared to the massive damage scaling you can achieve with offhands. The idea is to use your weapon stance attack skill to activate and scale your offhand skills.
Offhands are Triggered on Hit
- Make sure you’re hitting often enough to trigger on cooldown.
Offhands Stack
- Not only will they increase damage but each item with the same skill lowers their cooldown. You can mix it up a bit early on, but raw power currently favors stacking the same skill to beenfit from scaling.
- The dev has mentioned they plan on changing this up a bit in the future with modifiers and skill effects that encourage using mixed powers.
Purple (Legendary) Offhands Gain an Enchantment
- Easy to craft any offhand up to purple and select 1 of 2 enchantments.
- They generally stack as well so get them all enchanted.
- These enchantment powers often scale the power level dramatically.
- Ferocity of Wolves for example has a power “Wolves Gain damage for Each Leap” and “Wolves jump Three more times” – you can stack the leap count!
Crit and Crit Damage Applies
- Even stance specific crit/critdmg!
Weapon Stance Skill Damage Multiplier Scales Off hand Skills Created by the Hit
- “280% Normal Attack Damage Bonus” applies to skills created from that hit.
Weapon Stance Damage on Gear Does Not Apply
- “Increased damage with one handed” does not apply to secondary.
Tip 7: What to Do if Stuck
If you get stuck on a boss or rupture level then try the following:
- Finish crafting your current gear
- Grab any missing rupture cards and use the research table for free levels
- Try a new offhand skill
- Grab a couple levels and upgrades in the rupture before you got stuck.
- You are never really stuck as even failed attempts give XP, gems and resources to upgrade.