Game Feedback

Rating at 1.0 release: 8/10

Current rating: 8/10

Unique Features

• The game has a ton of features that I believe are unique among ARPGs, including:

  • The ability to transfer a character between online and offline modes, or switch between cities

  • A loot filter that automatically sells any equipment and fragments that don't meet the criteria

  • An always present Battle Log that can tell you tons of information including the DPS of all equipped skills

  • A death recap with a very high level of detail

  • The ability to powerlevel your own character in couch co-op (because the other character automatically follows after a brief period of inactivity)

  • A skill system that relies on hexagonal pieces in a large grid is basically unique to the ARPG genre (though it is visually similar to Undecember's skill grid, and connecting pieces are slightly similar as well)

  • A Chaos map modifier system using cards that remembers the card choices from your previous mission, greatly reducing the amount of time you have to spend with the interface. You can also choose the type of mission in this interface.

Compliments and Complaints

Compliments

• This game is instantly fun, and even at low levels, it feels good (with good kill pacing and game feedback). It plays like any other ARPG, and doesn't require a lot of specific game knowledge to be fun or successful. The ability to change difficulties and reset your character at any time are both a huge plus.

• The skill building is essentially a miniature puzzle game, that gives an insane amount of build variety, as well as another avenue of things to continue to search for to build character power well into the late game.

• The game has a way to "customize" your drops with The Eternal's Gifts. Basically, you modify the Random Number Generators towards things that you are looking for (gear quality, item affixes, hex fragment skills or modifiers, crafting materials, etc.), and the outcome is truly wonderful. 

• There are many modern quality of life features, including:

  • An option to skip the campaign.

  • 16 difficulties, and the ability to change difficulty in the city at any time.

  • Automatic sorting or inventory and stashes (both for equipment and hex fragments).

  • The ability to mark equipment and fragments as scrap or favorites (using spacebar).

Criticisms

• Currently, a lot of the character skills have targetting issues, making them at minimum hard to use.

• Some of the skills (usually when the wyrmling element is different than that of the character skill) cause a lot of visual clutter.

• Some of the tooltips could use some changes to make them more clear or accurate.

Suggestions

• Can the Character Skill and Modifier lists at the Grand Benedictor PLEASE be organized alphabetically like the Talents at him are?

• The "Block Damage" affix should say "Blocked Damage", as it makes it sound like blocking deals damage.

• Weird inconsistency: it seems like all hunts grant their city XP bonus upon opening the Eternal Gift, except the final board fights against chapter bosses and the Trials of Will, which grant city XP upon their death. Can that be changed?

• Knight summons are inconsistent, because the soldiers from the talent "Squad Leader" are respawned when they die, but the soldiers from the character skill "Martyr for the Eternal" are not. It makes the normally relaxed summon playstyle feel a bit off when some of the soldiers don't come back on their own. Also, since they are fairly squishy, the only way to heal them is the character skill "Heaven's Hope" (which has a 25 second cooldown), and they don't scale with any player stats, it be nice if they came back on their own (please correct me if I am wrong on any of those details though).

• Suggestion for channeled skills coding based on my bug report: normally if the left click is pressed, it knows to move (and attack if necessary), and if a channeled skill on keyboard is pressed, it knows to spin in the direction of the mouse. Can you somehow tell the targeting to simply ignore the "try to move" part when a channeled skill is on the left click?

• Can the light beams from pillars for some frozen areas be made to travel through summons? Trying to rotate them when summons are everywhere is rather frustrating, and moving the character ends the ability to rotate the pillar.

• Can the order of the tabs at the top of the character window be changed to: Inventory, Ancestral Grid, Attributes, Wyrmling, Ancestors, Talents, Stats? The inventory and ancestral grid seems to be used regularly and make sense on the left, but it it would make sense to have the tabs that are used when things get leveled up, then finally the two tabs that are purely for giving information, but do not have any selections on them.

• In local co-op, when talking to a vendor (like the Dark Merchant), can the side tabs be moved to a place that isn't covered by the necessary fold out for the hex fragment window (likely to the top or bottom)?

• When looking at a wall of hex fragments, it is difficult to tell what everything is at a glance. Since all hex fragments have a greyish border, can that border instead reflect the type of skill it is? For instance, all character skills could have a magenta border to match what the skills look like in the miniature honeycomb view and in the text right below the skill name in the tooltip. Similarly, all wyrmling skills could have a teal border that matches the miniature honeycomb view and the text right below the skill name in the tooltip. Modifier skill fragments could retain the same border. It would make looking at a wall of fragments in any location visually easier to understand, and would help quickly tell the barbarian cold skills from the wyrmling cold skills.

• In the hex fragments window, it mentions being able to have up to 50 floating fragments, but it is unclear what that means (that you can simply drop them in the empty space around the grid). There currently are some red hexagons that appear around a selected hex fragment as you drag it around the area, but it doesn't even match the fact that you can literally place the fragments anywhere. I think that simply leaving a floating fragment for all new characters would be a great hint on how that area can be used.

• The skills in the wyrmling skill bar of the hex fragments window is slightly smaller than the character skill bar. At the current size, it is difficult to tell the differences between all of the wyrmling skills equipped (particularly because they already all look so similar). I am not sure if it is important that we can see those skills, but increasing the scale would make it easier. I also wonder if there is a way to show which wyrmling skills work with each skill, like maybe showing the icons above each skill on the bar they are currently linked with. Then you would get a really quick visual way of checking your connections and what might be missing.

• Can either the "Swap" label in the equipment comparison read "Swap item view" (as I thought it was another way to swap equipment), or if it isn't too challenging, can the talent listed on equipment also appear in the "Lost when equipped:" section (which would be even better)?

• The name “adaptive” damage, isn't the easiest to inherently understand, and I wonder if it is better to simply have it say “matches highest elemental damage”.

Bugs

• When in local co-op, the Loot Filter does not work for the 2nd player. More accurately, the equipment and hex fragments that should be sent to the Grand Benedictor or sold for gold, are simply left on the ground.

  • Response from Charly [Eko - Producer]: Hello, we've worked on some QoL features coming with next update, this one is part of it!

• Stats Panel:

  • Bonus armour on items is reflected in the stats panel, but not in the tooltip that lists Defence (which should probably say "armour" anyway) in the inventory.

  • In the stats panel, both the cooldown reduction and cost reduction stats take the amounts from sources and add them together, when they should multiply them together.

• Modifier cost tooltips:

  • On the "Bonus Beams", "Bonus Projectiles", and "Bonus Summons" skill modifiers, the actual increase in cost per beam/projectile/summon is 10, but the tooltips list them as 5. I read in a similar post that it is intended for all added modifiers cost to scale up with rank, but can to tooltips somehow reflect that?

  • On the "Ultimate Enhancement II" modifier, the actual increase in cost is 30/36/45/60, but the tooltip lists it as 30. I read in a similar post that it is intended for all added modifiers cost to scale up with rank, but can to tooltips somehow reflect that?

• Every time I am holding shift (while attacking) when a video starts (like when I kill a boss), upon leaving the video, the game still acts like shift is being pressed down, preventing movement. Hitting shift again immediately resets the toggle to its proper state.

• There are MANY weird situations happening with targeting:

  • On the Tracker, when you hold down shift and left click to cast "Ricochet Shot" without an enemy targeted, then move your mouse onto the target, when you let go of shift, the character takes off running instead of continuing to cast the skill at range. If your keep holding down the left click, and mouse off, then back onto the enemy again, it will start working normally.

  • On the Tracker, when you hold down a keyboard button to cast "Hunting Trap" without an enemy targeted, then move your mouse to a target, the character takes off running until it stops to cast the skill in melee range instead of continuing to cast the skill at range. With Hunting Traps bound to left click, if you hold down the skill, it simply only casts as a melee skill. If you don't hold down the button it will move into range then cast normally.

  • On the Tracker, when bound to the keyboard or right mouse button, "Executioner's Claws" never moves into range of the target. If bound to the left mouse button and cast on a ranged target, it will cast the skill in place, then move into range and attack normally.

  • On the Tracker,  when bound to the keyboard or right mouse button, "Acrobatic Strike" will continually attack while moving in the direction of the enemy until it gets to it. If bound to the left mouse button and cast on a ranged target, it attacks where the character is, then moves to the target and attacks the target.

  • On the Tracker, when bound to the left mouse button, "Malignant Assault" casts the skill where the character is, then moves to the location of the enemy. On keyboard or right mouse button, it just never moves into range.

  • On the Tracker, when bound to the left mouse button, "Gathered Gales" cannot charge up (as with most channeled skills).

  • On the Tracker, when bound to the left mouse button, "Dance of Daggers" doesn't work properly (as with most channeled skills).

  • On the Tracker, when bound to the left mouse button, "Rapid Fire" stops attacking sometimes when the button is held down.

  • On the Tracker, when bound to the left mouse button, "Explosive Shot" stops attacking sometimes when the button is held down.

  • On the Oracle, when you hold down shift and left click to cast "Electric Wall", the character just runs and casts the skill at max distance. When you hold down left click on the enemy that is out of range (but not when in range), it will cast the skill, then continue running into the enemy.

  • On the Oracle, when bound to the left mouse button, "Lightning Beam" cannot charge up (as with most channeled skills).

  • On the Oracle, when bound to any button, casting "Electric Wave" breaks the left shift (force attack) from keeping the character in place when the left click is held.

  • On the Knight, when bound to any button, casting "Rallying Banner" breaks the left shift (force attack) from keeping the character in place when the left click is held.

  • On the Knight, if you hold shift and left click with "Rapid Strike" bound to it, upon release of left click, the character will move (even with shift still held).

  • On the Knight, when bound to the left mouse button, "Show of Strength" breaks the left shift (force attack) from keeping the character in place. Additionally, it casts the skill in place, before moving into range to hit the enemies.

  • On the Knight, if you hold shift and left click with "Magnetic Shield" bound to it, the character will stay still if you are hovering over an enemy, but move if you aren't hovering over an enemy.

  • On the Knight, when bound to the left mouse button, "Offensive Rampart" doesn't work properly (as with most channeled skills).

  • On the Knight, when bound to the left mouse button, "Flamethrower" doesn't work properly (as with most channeled skills).

  • On the Knight, when bound to the left mouse button, "Blazing Arrow" casts the skill once before moving into attack range.

  • On the Knight, when bound to any button, "Blazing Arrow" sticks to the inital target when either holding the button down, or rapidly clicking the button (even after the cursor has moved to somewhere else).

  • On the Knight, when bound to the left mouse button, "Compressed air" casts the skill once before moving into attack range.

  • On the Knight, when bound to the left mouse button, "Solar Flare" casts the skill once before moving into attack range.

• Summon targeting:

  • Summons do not attack any enemies or enemy structures that can't attack. This includes many quest objectives, and even the giant leech semi-boss. They sometimes also don't see regular enemies that haven't attacked yet.

  • Sometimes the summons attack invulnerable clones of enemies (like in the chapter 2 semi-boss fight in instead of the Temple of Pythoderkon).

• The Antivenom Viridian wyrmling skill isn't providing the listed movement speed bonus when the orb is picked up.

• Talents:

  • Soldiers from the knight's talent "Squad Leader" sometimes don't transition into new zones with the character. Unequipping, then re-equipping items with the talent causes them to reset though.

  • The talent "Accuracy" doesn't ever seem to proc.

  • The talent "Evangelist" doesn't ever seem to proc. This is a change from a month ago, when I used to see it proc and could watch soldiers switch targets, but that may have been outside the training grounds.

  • The talent "Ferocious Protection" has a block to attack bonus that doesn't affect soldier damage, but does work on Shielded Attack.

  • The talent "Armour of the Eternal" has a damage bonus that isn't applying to soldier damage. Also, the amount it is providing doesn't seem to be correct (even when account for other things being in the same damage pool). When equipping the skill with no stacks, damage my damage goes up by 1.1%. As stacks build, and I gain 400 more armour, the damage barely increases at all (around .1%).

  • The talent "Squad Leader" with the Rank 1 bonus in it gives 2 soldiers, but has one of them hits for 20% of the other. With the Rank 2 bonus, all 3 (including the ranged one) hit for the same amount. Weirdly, unequipping an item to go back down to the Rank 1 bonus keeps them hitting for the correct amounts. 

• Maps:

  • During the quest "Kill the Dragon in the egg", it often bugs out when trying to kill the 5 dragonkin nests. My report that I added to another person's post:

    • I came across this bug as well and grabbed a pair of videos of it in action. I don't think the problem is destroying an egg too soon though, as during the recording, I was getting progression simply for killing enemies, without going near some of the eggs at all (as shown in this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vil-wa8AEihUJ7Omi1kwTXKwI02h4vKZ/view?usp=sharing).
      It seems like some of the bar progression is triggered by actual egg destruction (as is the case with the southwestern most egg), but others actually trigger from killing the waves of enemies/specific enemies that spawn to protect the eggs. Here is another clip of the process failing (which I had happen something like 5 times before it succeeded): https://drive.google.com/file/d/17EqUKhBEoVZXjLYF3B3282Jr7278SN_w/view?usp=sharing.

  • When looking at the map overlay of the western island near Kryssa, it appears that if you travel along the southern shore, it connects all the way to the top, but there is a shipwreck or something similar blocking the way.

  • In Hunt Board 5, the 2nd dungeon purification (in the Underwater Temple), loot dropped below the ground and could not be picked up.

  • In Hunt Board 5, the Hunt for Portal Hydra mission contains large purple pillars and small tents (both of which are objectives) that reflect the Tracker's "Noxious Star" projectiles instead of being damaged by them.

• When on a Tracker, sometimes enemies stutter when first getting hit or joining the fight. It seems to occur regardless of mode (online or offline), type of mission (story or war table), map, or party count (solo or with others).

• Possible bug: The left node in the 10 point bonus for courage reads "Increases base skill damage", but I think it is supposed to be "Increases basic skill damage", as removing the node doesn't change the listed damage on non-basic skills.

• Unconfimed bug reported to me: Seems if you transfer from city to city, you can/will lose your Ancestor progression and some ppl also losing Wyrmling armours. Might be a bug though.

• Unconfimed bug reported to me by elrokos on Twitch: there is a bug that annoyed me a lot, the Oracle's summon often doesn't get the barrier from the barrier tribute (level 20 activation effect for Mo'riya Undes'leg).

Tips

• The first time you play the game, I recommend playing through the Prologue tutorial, because it give you a taste of all four classes, then has you choose your class and start the campaign from the very beginning. It is worth completing the entire campaign, because you not only get the story, but you also get achievements that you couldn't get otherwise. However, there is an option to skip the campaign if you choose, and I recommend using it for any additional characters you create.

• There is a rectangular chest where you can store equipment, with 3 personal tabs (shared among your characters), and 3 shared tabs (shared among your city). The amount of both tabs can be increased to 4 using a city upgrade.

• Next to that chest, there is a hexagonal shaped box where you can store your hex fragments, with 2 personal tabs (shared among your characters), and 2 shared tabs (shared among your city). The amount of both tabs can be increased to 3 using a city upgrade.

• You can mark equipment and fragments as junk by hitting spacebar, or as favorite by hitting spacebar again.

• While playing through, make sure to click on every panorama, and every relic (it shouldn't hurt to click on everything though)! This will take a bit of exploring, but the quests generally take you through the entire zone at one point or another.

• The difficulty can be changed in the city at any time. If it feels like you are obliterating enemies, turn up the difficulty. However, even with increased drop chance it seems like rare items don't drop until level 10, legendary items until 20, and mythical items until level 30.

• As soon as you unlock the war room (either by completing the campaign or simply starting a character at endgame):

  • Go to the Tributes wall and equip two tributes. You could either equip:

    • Kalaarang's poison flask with Xhantineos' thunder organ to unlock the "Isabelle Chantebraise" tribute

    • Vidskrig's heart with Saur Iknog's warhorn to unlock the "Elin Torvalddottir" tribute

  • Begin running maps from the table. Once you run the first mission on a board, multiple paths will open up. The order doesn't matter in terms of unlocking the final mission on the board, only the number of completed missions (8) does.

    • I recommend completing every single map mission on every board, as the spoils grant permanent bonuses to: stats, Tributes, Eternal's Gifts, and chaos hunt rules.

  • As you complete the maps:

    • Check back at the Tribute wall to make any changes you would like in order to unlock different Ancestors (provided you have the correct combinations).

    • Check The Eternal's Gifts altar to customize your equipment, hex fragment, and ingredient drops.

  • After completing the maps, begin running the chaos missions. Technically you could run the chaos missions without completing maps, but you will be missing chaos rule options (which isn't optimal).

• When viewing character skill hex fragments, you can see the bonuses for all 4 ranks of the skill, UNLESS you have the Text Size set to "Large" in the UI settings.

• When you unlock a branch with attribute points, you still have to choose which bonus from that tier you want.

• In the Stats tab, along the right side of every stat is an eye that can be clicked to pin that stat to the top left corner of the screen.

• A complete list of equipment affixes can be found in game by looking through the "Stat" tab of the equipment loot filter.

• A complete list of fragments can be found in game by looking through the "Skill" and "Modifier" tabs on the hex fragments loot filter.

• Sometimes, you might notice a red dot on the ground. It is actually the indicator for a talent on an item label.

• Sometimes you might notice a pink hexagon on the ground. It is actually the indicator for an inscribed skill on an item label.

• While on a controller, there is no button to hold to give more information like CTRL can do when using the keyboard. However, if a controller is being used, holding CTRL still will work to reveal more information (including when the controller is the second player in local coop).

Reference

• As you go through the campaign, you will see required yellow ! quests, and optional white ! quests.

• Transmogs:

• In order to learn a regular transmog, you must sell the item with that transmog to the Dark Merchant (though you can buy the item back right afterwards). There are 5 color variations to learn for every item transmog.

• Premium transmogs are from DLC packs for the game. Originally, Founder Packs 1-4 were free to players if you downloaded them at certain intervals of the beta, but if you missed them, you were out of luck. Now they can be all be purchased individually (along with the Lord Pack), or as part of the Blood Scales Edition of the game (which also includes the Lord Pack).

Achievements

• To earn the "Welcome to the Squad" achievement, you need to play through the Campaign from the VERY beginning (though you might be able to skip the Prologue tutorial) until you reach the city, get the accolades from the council, then go to the jailer, claim your wyrmling, and talk to the Grand Tracker (at which point the achievement should trigger).

• To earn the "Unwavering Will" achievement, you need to complete trial 20 in a Test of Will (which means 200 waves). This can be done on any difficulty though, so if you only care about completing it as fast and easily as possible, do it on easy difficulty. It took me just under an hour on easy difficulty with my Knight's soldiers doing almost all of the work.

• To earn the "Symbiotic Taming" achievement, you need to to equip 5 different character skills with 15 total effective power at the same time.

• To earn the "Elite Hunter" achievement, you need to simply need to earn all other achievements (not unlock all of the trophies on the tribute wall). This is verified in the official Dragonkin Discord by Charly [Eko - Producer].

Multiplayer

• Characters must be in a city. You can either create your own city, or join someone else's city (which requires being invited through the Steam Overlay).

  • Up to 50 players can inhabit a city at a time, and three different roles (Owner, Officer, Hunter) can be assigned to members that give them access to a variety of controls (like adding or removing members, changing a group, or upgrading the city).

    • Players in the same city can share equipment and fragments by placing them in the respective shared storage chests.

  • Only 16 players can be online in the city at once.

  • There can be 8 groups (each of which can be set to story mode or endgame), but only 4 players can be logged into a group at once. The difficulty for each groups can be changed in town at any time (as along as all of the group members are in town).

    • The monster level in groups is set to match the highest level player in the party.

    • Additional players increases the amount of HP monsters have (+1 player grants 10% more enemy HP).

    • You can teleport to another player in your group using the player management menu.

    • Dead players (with 0 HP) can be revived by party members. You can resurrect them by left clicking on them (or hitting the bottom controller button ["A" on Xbox, or "X" on Playstation]).

• You can join with two characters from the same computer on either offline or online in a mode called local co-op. Local co-op still uses multiplayer rules, except they have to share the same screen (both with windows, and with the maximum distance a player can travel).

  • If you view a piece of equipment, you will see the equipped window covered by the one you are viewing. To view the other window, use the "Tab" button (as the "Swap" listed means swap item view).

• To play in local co-op, open up the game menu, and click on the second option "Add A Local Player", then select which character you want to add from the popup menu in the bottom right corner using the other controller (or keyboard if you are already on a controller).

  • When playing in co-op, you can tell which player "The Eternal's Gift" belongs to by the icon color on the left (which matches the character aura).

  • If your partner in local co-op dies, you will not be able to move past the edge of the screen until you resurrect them. You can resurrect them by left clicking on them (or hitting the bottom controller button ["A" on Xbox, or "X" on Playstation]).

  • If the other player doesn't move, they will automatically start following you after 10 seconds. When following, the other character stays about one step behind yours.

    • This process can be beaten though: if you move around a large obstacle before the follow engages, the follow won't be able to get to the character and will instead stand still. Moving back into range will cause it to reengage, so the process isn't actually broken.

• You can transfer characters between online and offline mode, and between cities at any time from the main menu by:

  • 1. Clicking on “Select Your Character”.

  • 2. Clicking on the mode (Offline or Online).

  • 3. Clicking on the character.

  • 4. Clicking the “Transfer” button in the bottom right side.

  • 5. In the new window, clicking on the tab for the mode (Offline or Online) you want to move them to.

  • 6. Click on the city you want to move them to.

  • 7. If you would like to take your gold, primordial dust, and resources to the new city, click the slider.* All equipment and hex fragments on the character (including in the inventory) transfer automatically. Anything in the storage chests will not be transferred.

  • 8. Finally, click the "Transfer" button, then you will have to click and hold the next button to approve it.

  • *Note: Since gold, dust, and materials are shared across all characters in that city, it is only recommended using this option if you are leaving the city entirely (or you simply need the materials to craft something somewhere else, and then come back with materials). If you leave a city without transferring materials, then rejoin the city, the materials are actually still there in case you want to get them at some point.

Recommendations

• At the Grand Benedictor, equipment can be broken down to progress the bar to learn a talent. However, this is only possible when the equipment has a talent on it for the benedictor to learn (which is usually legendary rarity or higher, but some rare items can have them). All lower rarity equipment can be sold to the Dark Merchant, as well as any equipment that carry a talent point that is already learned.

  • This means that when setting up your equipment loot filter, you should turn on the "Convert to potential for the Grand Benedictor" slider, and the "Convert to Gold" for any equipment you do not want (as the convert to gold applies to items of lower rarity).

• At the Grand Benedictor, hex fragments can be broken down to increase the progress bar to learn a skill, but once the skill is learned, the excess fragments should be sold.

• • • This means that when setting up your hex fragments loot filter, you should turn on the "Convert to potential for the Grand Benedictor" slider, but the "Convert to Gold" slider isn't necessary (since all fragments can be broken down). I think the "Convert to Gold" slider is meant to be used INSTEAD of the other slider if you don't want to train the skills or are simply low on gold.

My Loot Filter process for equipment:

1. Start with no loot filter

2. Once you have a full set of Common equipment, use the loot filter to hide Common rarity

3. Once you have a full set of Uncommon equipment, use the loot filter to hide Uncommon rarity and disable applying it to divine equipment

4. Once you have a full set of Rare equipment, use the loot filter to hide Rare rarity and disable applying it to divine equipment (likely not until after level 10)

5. Once you have a full set of Legendary equipment, use the loot filter to hide Legendary rarity and disable applying it to divine equipment (likely not until after level 20)

6. Once you have a full set of Mythical equipment, use the loot filter to hide talents that are useless to your build

7. Once you have a full set of Mythical equipment with useful talents, use the loot filter to hide all non-divine Mythical equipment

8. The eventual goal is to get a full set of Mythical equipment with divine affixes, useful primary and hidden talents, and 5 useful affixes (though 1 can be enchanted).

NOTES:

• A divine affix (25% increase) on any rarity is almost always lower than the minimum roll on the rarity above it. This means that divine affixes are only worth keeping if they are Mythical rarity (or at least the highest rarity item that you have found so far).

  • For example: a divine "Bonus gold gains" affix is 83% on legendary equipment, but the roll range is 108-130% on Mythical equipment.

• I don't think that there is a good way to use the filter to hide a Stat, since a single useless affix is fine, but really what you want are to hide items with multiple useless affixes (which I don't think is possible).

My Loot Filter process for hex fragments:

1. Start with no loot filter

2. Once you starting getting Uncommon modifier fragments, use the loot filter to hide Common rarity (which hides them if they ONLY have Common rarity)

3. Once you starting getting Rare modifier fragments, use the loot filter to hide Uncommon rarity (which hides them if they ONLY have Uncommon rarity or lower)

4. Once you starting getting Legendary modifier fragments, use the loot filter to hide Rare rarity (which hides them if they ONLY have Rare rarity or lower)

5. Once you starting getting Mythical modifier fragments, use the loot filter to hide Legendary rarity (which hides them if they ONLY have Legendary rarity or lower)

6. The eventual goal for modifier fragments is for all pieces to have only Mythical rarity, but still have useful modifiers.

7. As you test out different character skills, any that you don't plan to use should be added to a loot filter that hides those skills selected from the list.

   • At some point, you will probably also want to restrict these fragments by size. The main skill you are using is most effective as a 5-piece fragment, because it maximizes the amount of border units to attach modifiers to (for more information see the Optimizing Skills section). You will also want to keep 2-piece fragments, which can be used to inscribe modifiers onto gear.

   • The eventual goal for character skill fragments is to have the skill(s) you want to use with a 5-piece of only Mythical rarity, and useful modifiers, plus several 2-piece fragments with a single useful modifier of Mythical rarity.

8. When you determine which wyrmling element you are going to use, you CAN add a loot filter to hide all of the wyrmling skills for other wyrmling elements, but you might want to keep those for other characters. You also CAN hide any of the wyrmlings skills for that element that you don't plan to use.

   • The eventual goal for wyrmling skill fragments is to have up to 5 different skills you want to use with only Mythical rarity, and useful modifiers (ideally useful for the main skill AND the wyrmling skill).

NOTES:

• A divine affix (+2 power) effectively moves that affix up 2 rarities, so they are worth keeping if that rarity is worth keeping.

• I don't think that there is a way to hide fragments that have a mix of rarities that you don't want, if one of the rarities is what you do want.

Campaign

• Chapter 1 ("Hunt in Ja'Ksara") quests reside on the starting landmass in the south part of the world map, and are indicated by a green dragon head on the right side of the quest name.

  • There is a point near the end of chapter 1 where you can already start chapter 2 (without having finished chapter 1).

• Chapter 2 ("Hunt in the Old World Archipelago") quests reside on the islands in the west part of the world map, and are indicated by a blue dragon head on the right side of the quest name.

  • There is a point near the end of chapter 2 where you can already start chapter 3 (without having finished chapter 2).

  • There is a point near the end of chapter 2 where it asks you to choose between two options: talk to Astrea (for the "Mentor" quest), or talk to Alaric (for the "Clear Crystal Waters" quest). The choice doesn't matter, because you end up doing both quests.

  • While working on "The Enchanted Gate" quest in chapter 2, you will come across several purple walls that can't be crossed without first completing the puzzle to turn all of the symbols the same as what is on the nearby rock (mine was blue).

• Chapter 3 ("Hunt in Nurõrgartt") quests reside on the landmass in the northeast part of the world map, and are indicated by a white dragon head on the right side of the quest name.

  • In the quest "Toriel's Light and the Bridge of the Fallen", you will find several stone pillars with exclamation points over them. This is actually a small puzzle that is solved when the light beam strikes the ice wall. First, start with the pillar with the ! over it on the minimap. If you click on the pillar it will rotate one direction, and if you click on it again, it will rotate the other direction.

  • In the quest "Paradise Lost", you will find several stone pillars with exclamation points over them. This is actually a small puzzle that is solved when both light beam strikes the ice wall. First, start with the pillars with the ! over it on the minimap. If you click on the pillar it will rotate one direction, and if you click on it again, it will rotate the other direction.

  • In the quest "The First Dragon-Blood", you will find several stone pillars with exclamation points over them. This is actually a small puzzle that is solved when both light beam strikes the ice wall. First, start with one of the outside pillars, then you can either move to the inside one, then onto the other side, or simply do both outside pillars, then both inside pillars. The problem with this encounter are the enemy that endlessly spawn, AND block the light beam.

    • If you are doing this in multiplayer, the waves will spawn more frequently, and include an elite "Heir of Fafnir" enemy. Have one person kill the adds, while the other person adjusts the pillars.

  • There is a point near the end of chapter 3 where you can already start chapter 4 (right around the quest "Voices of the Past").

• Chapter 4

  • During one of the first quests, you are asked to destroy 5 Dragonkin nests, but the counter doesn't always count the kills.

  • During the quest "Koleos Summit", you will come across a purple barrier that is protected by endless spawns of enemies. You will need to click on the light to progress the bar to remove the barrier and end the spawns.

    • If you are doing this in multiplayer, the waves will spawn more frequently. Have one person kill the adds, while the other person takes down the barrier.

• Chapter 5

  • During the quest "Celestial Prison", there is a seal on the right has glowing orbs that knock you back and down the hill. This is very likely impossible with a character on follow.

Endgame

• Hunt Boards

  • Hunt boards should be completed first after finishing the story. Each map gives a reward that either results in some form of character power, or results in the ability to manipulate the drop rate for certain items (which also results in character power).

  • On a hunt board, there are several different map activities to complete while moving through the missions:

    • Test of Will - Fight against waves of enemies. Every 10 waves equals 1 trial, after which the enemies stop, and a choice is given between 2 portals that provide bonuses and hazards. After 3-5 trails, each trail completed will also offer you the ability to end the test and receive the rewards.

    • Dungeon Purification - Kill enemies until a portal spawns, which leads you to a draconic breach encounter.

    • Hunt Maps - Complete random objectives across the usual world maps, after which a portal spawns that takes you to a boss fight (the target of the hunt).

    • Each hunt involves completing objectives across one zone, then killing a semi-boss, except for the specials missions (that unlock the next board and require 8 hunts on that board), which instead require completing objectives across 3 zones from one chapter, then have the corresponding chapter boss fight.

    • In order to start the final mission on a hunt board, a certain number of prerequisite maps must be completed. During the final hunt mission, you will complete a series of 4 hunts, then fight with a dragon lord (one of the chapter bosses). Each board number (1-5) will have you face the dragon lord from the chapter of the same number (1-5).

• In hunting board 5: Dungeon Purification, you actually have to do a series of 4 dungeon purifications (Sanctuary of Perdition, Underwater Temple, Frozen Cave, Catacombs of Fire) in a row to unlock the final map.

• Chaos Maps:

  • Chaos Maps are the same as hunt board maps: Test of Will, Dungeon Purification, Hunt, or Chaos Dragon Lord Hunt (which is the same as the final mission of a board).

    • Note: Chaos Dragon Lord's Hunts randomly picks 1 of the 5 map chains. If you want a different chain, abandon the mission, then start it again to get a random new hunt.

  • There is no progression system with it, as it is instead purely a form or choosing your endgame activities.

  • There are 14 Draconic Fate cards that you can add to change the difficulty of the map. Each card always has the same bonus and hazards associated with it, which scale with the difficulty setting (from one hazard on easy up to 3 hazards on apocalypse).

    • There are 10 fate cards clumped on the left, and as many of these fate cards as you want can be applied to the mission (including all of them).

    • There are 4 fate cards clumped on the right, but only 1 of those cards can be chosen per mission. The bonuses correspond to each of the four elements, so usually you would choose the element (or one of the two elements) that matches your character's build to maximize your damage.

  • Each fate card added also grants a loot quality bonus between 4% and 20%. These bonuses are additive with the loot quality from the difficulty, and the amount is shown in the top left corner of the interface.

  • The best thing about this card system is that after each mission, it remembers your card choices from the previous mission, greatly reducing the amount of time you have to spend with the interface.

City Progression

When you first create a character in the game, you will be asked to create a city, whether in offline or online mode. You also have the option of joining someone else's city. You can have or belong to multiple cities in either mode (though in offline mode, the only reason to have multiple cities is if you exceed the character limit of 8).

The city is a single unified location with quest NPCs, vendors, crafting, storage, and training grounds. At first glance, it may look like everything is rather spread out, but there is a fast travel option that allows you simply click on any location or place of interest and immediately appear there. It even opens the interface with the NPC there upon arrival!

There are five sections to the city:

• The Order's Garrison

• Marketplace

• Old Town

• Slums

• Qhongirati Camp

In the City Appearance window, each of the five locations listed above allows for customizations to the: Statue, Pennants, Roofs, and Wall Hangings (except for Qhongirati's Camp). There are six options for every location, generally sticking to a theme:

1. Montescail - Plain

2. Banished celebration - Holy, with lots of white

3. Day of the Dead Dragon - Bone, with lots of black

4. Springtime Alliance - Plants, with lots of green

5. Homage to the Old World - Ocean, with lots of blue

6. Draconic Dominions - Scales, with different colors for each city location

In the City Upgrades window, you can spend your city upgrade points. There are 50 total points, and 50 places to spend points, so you will always get all upgrades by maximum city level (thus you are only choosing your upgrade order). Leveling up the city requires the listed XP, and unlocks the following benefits:

1. 0 XP - Jailer (to choose or swap wyrmlings, or craft wyrmling armour) and Storage (of equipment and hex fragments)

2. ? XP - Dark Merchant (to sell equipment and hex fragments to) and Master of Fragments (to buy hex fragments from)

3. ? XP - Jeweller (to craft rings) and 1 upgrade point

4. ? XP - Enchanter (to change affixes [called Elements] on equipment) and Apothecary (to create potions)

5. ? XP - Arsenal (to save builds) and 1 upgrade point

6. ? XP - Grand Benedictor (to unlock talents and further skills) and 1 upgrade point

7. ? XP - Draconic Atlas (tracks kills of various enemies in each zone and rewards bonus damage for completion tiers) and 1 upgrade point

8. ? XP - Memorialist (to inscribe runes onto equipment) and 1 upgrade point

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Recommended City Upgrade Order

1. Level 3 upgrade point: Training Grounds (unlocks at level 2 on the 1st tab) - Unlocks the Training Grounds (which allows you to test out character and wyrmling skills), and increases experience by 5%

2. Level 5 upgrade point: Master of Fragments (unlocks at level 5 on the 4th tab) - Unlocks the ability to buy any wyrmling skill (for an immediate power boost)

3. Level 6 upgrade point: Divine Familiar (unlocks at level 6 on the 4th tab) - an ally that picks up gold and ingredients for you (which moves VERY fast and saves lots of time)

4. Level 7 upgrade point: Training Grounds (unlocks at level 6 on the 1st tab) - Increases experience by 10%

5. Level 8 upgrade point: Arsenal (unlocks at level 8 on the 5th tab) - Adds an additional tab to the fragments storage chest (likely needed by this point)

6. Level 9 upgrade point: Jailer (unlocks at level 6 on the 1st tab) - Increases wyrmling experience by 25%

7. Level 10 upgrade point: Qhongirati Camp (unlocks at level 10 on the 5th tab) - Displays relics and panoramas on the world map so you don't miss them (easier city leveling)

8. Level 10 upgrade point: Training Grounds (unlocks at level 10 on the 1st tab) - Increases experience by 25%

9. Level 11 upgrade point: Lift (unlocks at level 11 on the 4th tab) - Increases movement speed by 50

10. Level 13 upgrade point: Draconic Atlas (unlocks at level 12 on the 3rd tab) - Adds champions to the bestiary (the sooner they unlock, the sooner you can work on getting progress for more damage)

11. Level 14 upgrade point: Jailer (unlocks at level 9 on the 1st tab) - Increases wyrmling experience by 75%

12. Level 15 upgrade point: Pythia (unlocks at level 3 on the 3rd tab) - Increases the size of the Ancestral Grid by 2 (removes some of the blocked areas on the hex grid)

13. Level 15 upgrade point: Pythia (unlocks at level 8 on the 3rd tab) - Increases the size of the Ancestral Grid by 4 (removes the rest of the blocked areas on the hex grid)

14. Level 17 upgrade point: Wyrmling Armour (unlocks at level 4 on the 1st tab) - unlocks the ability to craft and improve wyrmling armour

15. Level 18 upgrade point: Draconic Atlas (unlocks at level 18 on the 3rd tab) - boosts loot quality by 10%

16. Level 19 upgrade point: Enchanter (unlocks at level 6 on the 2nd tab) - unlocks the ability to enchant an item over and over, with a cumulative cost

17. Level 20 upgrade point: Enchanter (unlocks at level 8 on the 2nd tab) - enchantments provide 20% better equipment stats, and 20% rarer hex fragments modifiers

18. Level 20 upgrade point: Enchanter (unlocks at level 10 on the 2nd tab) - 30% chance not to consume any ingredients while enchanting

19. Level 21 upgrade point: Grand Benedictor (unlocks at level 12 on the 1st tab) - unlocks the ability to benefit from an additional skill bonus

20. Level 22 upgrade point: Grand Benedictor (unlocks at level 12 on the 1st tab) - unlocks the ability to benefit from an additional skill bonus

21. Level 23 upgrade point: Memorialist (unlocks at level 15 on the 2nd tab) - 50% chance not to destroy inscribed fragments

22. Level 24 upgrade point: Artificer (unlocks at level 17 on the 2nd tab) - unlocks the ability to transfer an item's Draconic corruption over and over

23. Level 25 upgrade point: Ornamentalist (unlocks at level 20 on the 2nd tab) - unlocks all ornaments to put into mythical equipment

24. Level 25 upgrade point: Artisan's Guild (unlocks at level 7 on the 3rd tab) - more stat options when crafting rings

25. Level 26 upgrade point: Artisan's Guild (unlocks at level 11 on the 3rd tab) - even more stat options when crafting rings

26. Level 27 upgrade point: Jeweller (unlocks at level 6 on the 3rd tab) - unlocks the option for rare rings

27. Level 28 upgrade point: Jeweller (unlocks at level 10 on the 3rd tab) - unlocks the option for legendary rings

28. Level 29 upgrade point: Jeweller (unlocks at level 14 on the 3rd tab) - unlocks the option for mythical rings

29. Level 30 upgrade point: Jeweller (unlocks at level 18 on the 3rd tab) - chance to create divine rings, and double the chance for mythical rings

30. Level 30 upgrade point: Stable (unlocks at level 8 on the 5th tab) - more effect options when crafting potions

31. Level 31 upgrade point: Stable (unlocks at level 12 on the 5th tab) - even more effect options when crafting potions

32. Level 32 upgrade point: Apothecary (unlocks at level 7 on the 5th tab) - unlocks the option for rare potions

33. Level 33 upgrade point: Apothecary (unlocks at level 11 on the 5th tab) - unlocks the option for legendary potions

34. Level 34 upgrade point: Apothecary (unlocks at level 15 on the 5th tab) - unlocks the option for mythical potions

35. Level 35 upgrade point: Apothecary (unlocks at level 19 on the 5th tab) - chance to create divine potions, and double the chance for mythical potions

36. Level 36 upgrade point: Qhongirati Camp (unlocks at level 16 on the 5th tab) - +20 attribute points

37. Level 37 upgrade point: Jailer (unlocks at level 14 on the 1st tab) - +20 wyrmling attribute points

38. Level 38 upgrade point: Master of Fragments (unlocks at level 8 on the 4th tab) - +2 to all attributes

39. Level 39 upgrade point: Master of Fragments (unlocks at level 12 on the 4th tab) - +3 to all attributes

40. Level 40 upgrade point: City Gates (unlocks at level 14 on the 4th tab) - +5% maximum HP

41. Level 41 upgrade point: Statue of Toriel (unlocks at level 17 on the 4th tab) - +3% damage reduction

42. Level 42 upgrade point: Training Grounds (unlocks at level 20 on the 3rd tab) - +3% Knight damage

43. Level 43 upgrade point: Pythia (unlocks at level 20 on the 3rd tab) - +3% Oracle damage

44. Level 44 upgrade point: Master of Fragments (unlocks at level 20 on the 4th tab) - +3% Barbarian damage

45. Level 45 upgrade point: Qhongirati Camp (unlocks at level 20 on the 5th tab) - +3% Tracker damage

46. Level 46 upgrade point: Arsenal (unlocks at level 11 on the 5th tab) - Adds an additional tab to the equipment storage chest (likely needed by this point)

47. Level 47 upgrade point: Treasure Hunter (unlocks at level 3 on the 4th tab) - +10% gold

48. Level 48 upgrade point: Treasure Hunter (unlocks at level 10 on the 4th tab) - +40% gold

49. Level 49 upgrade point: Dark Merchant (unlocks at level 8 on the 4th tab) - +50% Gold earned from sales to the Dark Merchant

50. Level 50 upgrade point: Wyrmling Armour (unlocks at level 10 on the 1st tab) - 20% reduced crafting gold and materials for Wyrmling armour

Classes

There are four classes in the game: Knight, Oracle, Barbarian, and Tracker. Each class has their own weapons, skills, a few exclusive talents, and a mechanic that is unique to the class.

• • Knight (Lothair of Montdragon) -

    • Melee, Defensive, Balanced, Fire

    • Certain skills require Fuel instead of energy. The fuel gauge is restored gradually over time.

    • The Knight has an extra resource called Fuel. Some skills require fuel instead of energy to cast. Fuel isn't affected by cost reduction (which is only for energy), but there is a "Fuel Cost" modifier fragment, plus the "Power Supply" modifier fragment which generates fuel based on the energy consumed. This is particularly helpful because the Ultimate Enhancement 2 skill, and all of the "Bonus X" skills increase the energy cost, but work with fuel skills.

  • Oracle (Eletrane) -

    • Distance, Control, Area, Electric

    • Using a skill increases the Vision gauge. [Innate skill button]: Consumes 50 Vision points to boost the next skill and reduce its energy costs.

    • The Oracle has an extra resource called Vision. 40 Vision points can be consumed by a skill using the "Foresight" modifier fragment to cast an upgraded version of the skill (which can be found on the skill tooltip or in this Hex Fragment Sheet). The "Enhanced Vision" modifier fragment generates Vision points when damage is dealt.

  • Barbarian (Rurik Haraldson) -

    • Melee, Aggressive, Multi-hit, Ice

    • Any damage dealt or taken enables Rage generation. Once the gauge is full, damage dealt will increase, while energy costs are reduced temporarily.

    • The Barbarian has an extra resource called Rage.

  • Tracker (Qara-Tani) -

    • Distance, Mobility, Projectile, Toxic

    • Marks enemies with Skills.[Innate skill button]: Removes the marks from enemies with piercing damage. Restores energy for each enemy hit and executes weaker enemies.

    • The Tracker has a extra mechanic called Targeting. Certain skills have a chance to mark enemies. Those marks can then be consumed by a thrown knife to deal damage. To throw a knife, you can either hit the Targeting button (Innate Skill button in the Controls) which removes all marks with a knife at each target, or if you have the talent "Projectile Flurry", hit an enemy with a projectile skill. The random chance to proc from "Projectile Flurry" is based on the rank of the talent, and is able to throw more than 1 knife at once. Supposedly, there is an internal cooldown on the targeting knives (which is reduced by the talent "Critical Surge"), but they seem to be flying out so often, I doubt it exists.

Skills

Each of the four classes has 17 unique character skills, and the skills fall into 3 categories:

• Basic - 3 skills which have no cost or cooldown

• Core - 9 skills which have a cost, but no cooldown

• Utility - 5 skills which have no cost, but a cooldown

Skills on classes always start with one of two elements:

• Knight - physical and Fire

• Barbarian - physical and Ice

• Tracker - physical and Poison

• Oracle - physical and Electric

Additionally, there are four wyrmlings, each of which has 15 skills based on a different element:

• Crimson (Fire)

• Pale (Ice)

• Viridian (Poison)

• Cobalt (Electric)

You can have up to 5 character skills at a time, as well as 5 wyrmling skills at a time.

A complete list of skills can be found in game by looking through the "Skill" and "Modifier" tabs on the hex fragments loot filter. You can also find all of the character skills and wyrmling skills in the Codex (found in the Game Guide via the pause screen), or at the Master of Fragments (provided he and the wyrmling skills are unlocked in they city you are in).

I also created and embedded a Google Sheet below, which lists all of the skills and modifiers in the game. It includes information about skill mechanics, bugs, and additional notes from me. It should be easier to search than the list in game, particularly by using the CTRL + F function to easily search all skills at once for a specific detail (keyword, cost, et cetera).

When a skill gains power, the damage, damage range (for charge up skills), or damage per second (for channeled skills) increases, and if it has a cost, than the cost or cost per second (for channeled skills) increases as well. In order for a skill to gain power, it has to have modifier fragments or wyrmling fragments "connected" to it on the Ancestral Grid. Connected can either mean:

• Attached to the character skill fragment, so when you pick up the fragment, those pieces come as well. They cannot be removed, nor can other pieces be added, but one of the fragments can be enchanted into something different.

• Physically touching the character skill fragment (including the attached pieces), while it is placed on the hex grid. 

The amount of power gained is based on the power of the fragments that are "connected". Modifier hex fragments contribute power based on their rarity. The rarity is indicated by the color found on the bottom portion of the background of each modifier fragment. The amount of power for each rarity is:

• Common - 1

• Uncommon - 2

• Rare - 3

• Legendary - 4

• Mythical - 5

Additional color meanings:

• Divine (indicated by a light yellow inner hex ring) - the normal color amount +2 (limit 1 per hex fragment)

Optimizing Skills

It is important to note that despite the obvious electric/fire/ice/toxic pairings, any class can use any wyrmling, because the game has a feature where upon reaching rank IV (max rank), the skill gains Symbiosis, and becomes synergized to the wyrmling to gain that electric/fire/ice/toxic skill keyword. Additionally, Symbiosis always targets the enemy's weakest resistance, and makes use of the highest damage multiplier (per the Game Guide in game). Similarly, many skills do "adaptive damage", which uses the type of damage with the highest elemental bonus (thus making all pairings viable). That means your wyrmling choice comes down to whichever wyrmling skills (out of the 60) actually pair best with your build. It also means that you can effectively use two or more skills from the same class that don't have the same base element (as they will both still end up as the same element).

As you progress through the game, you will start to see hex fragments of varying sizes (with up to 5 pieces connected together). Hex fragments with more pieces attached are almost always better, because the additional pieces contribute more effective power (which increases the skill's damage). Additionally, they provide you with a greater amount places for wyrmling or modifier hex fragments to connect to (and thus more modifiers can be attached). For example:

By late game, you will likely only be keeping fragments of 4 or 5 pieces, and likely only of rarity Legendary, Mythical, or Divine (though the line and curved line 3 piece fragments might be needed, because they can connect without taking up multiple border places). I recommend also keeping the 2 hexagon pieces if one of the boxes is a character skill you are using, and the other is a useful modifier for that skill of Legendary, Mythical, or Divine rarity (as you can inscribe them onto equipment at the Memorialist).

Skill Mechanics

• The hex fragment skills you buy at the Master of Fragments vendor are FREE, but also do not sell for money, nor can they be given to the Grand Benedictor. You also cannot buy a second copy of the same skill fragment if it is in your inventory.

• You cannot mark hex fragments as junk if they are equipped on your hex grid or as floating fragments. When you move a hex fragment marked as junk to the hex grid or floating fragments area, the junk mark is automatically removed.

• Almost no channeled skills work when on left click, if the "Move and Attack" option is selected (and if it is off, good luck moving).

• A basic skill normally cannot be combined with "Ultimate Enhancement" (1 or 2), because it is missing the necessary "core" tag, but if you also add the "Basic Skill Enhancement" modifier, it becomes possible.

Mechanics

• The potion cooldown is 10 seconds.

  • The increased duration for potions does NOT yield additional healing, and instead +100% duration makes the 60% heal over 3 seconds become 60% heal over 6 seconds.

    • This means that the actual benefit of this option is for extending the duration of buffs also applied by the potion.

• The dodge cooldown is 6 seconds.

• Barrier starts refilling after 5 seconds of not taking damage.

• The amounts for Energy Regen affixes listed on items round to the nearest whole number, but go to at least the hundredths place in the stats panel. Also, you get double the amount of energy regen listed.

  • I assume it is because in the stats panel, there is both a "Bonus energy regen" in the regular stats and an "Energy gain" in the advanced stats. I suspect that the game is adding these numbers together to get the final amount (though it could simply be that the "Bonus energy regen" is coded to have the 100% be on top of the base amount, but that doesn't seem to match how the other bonus stats are coded).

• Cost:

  • The modifiers that add energy cost ("Bonus Beams", "Bonus Projectiles", "Bonus Summons", "Basic Skill Enhancement", and "Ultimate Enhancement II", plus possibly "Overpowered"), have added costs that go above the listed amounts. This is verified in the official Dragonkin Discord by jonaZu [Eko - Lead GameDesigner] [EO], these increases are intended to scale the cost up with skill ranks.

    • I have requested that the tooltips reflect this design.

  • I still need to double check the math for the "Overpowered" modifier.

• Cost reduction:

  • Multiple sources of cost reduction are multiplicative with each other, but the stats panel adds them together (so don't trust it).

  • The percentages of cost reduction shown on equipment and in the stats panel are rounded to the nearest whole number, while the actual cost reduction goes to at least the tenth place.

• Cooldown reduction:

  • Multiple sources of cooldown reduction are multiplicative with each other, but the stats panel adds them together (so don't trust it).

  • The percentages of cooldown reduction shown on equipment and in the stats panel are rounded to the nearest whole number, while the actual cooldown reduction goes to at least the tenth place.

• Movement speed buffs show as an icon with a boot, that reads as "haste" upon hover. There is both a square, and a hexagonal icon for these buffs, but weirdly no matter which way the buff triggers, it simply alternates which icon it uses.

• When in co-op, if one person triggers a scene change, it applies to both players.

• Adding a player in local coop increases the enemy health by 10%.

• In local co-op, loot filters only apply to the character that they are applied to, not both (unless they both have the same filter).

• You can have up to 8 characters in the same city.

• The game doesn't automatically log you out after a certain period of time, even when playing online.

• Your materials tab is shared across your characters in the same city.

• Enemies scale to your level when you enter a zone.

• Leaving a zone or a dungeon causes it to reset.

• The soldier hits from the talent "Squad Leader" do not count as character hits when the passive skill Precise Aim is filling (but the soldier hits from the skill "Martyr for the Eternal" do).

• Once you activate a summon, it doesn't despawn if you unequip the skill.

• According to the tooltips, both weapons contribute to skill damage, regardless of their melee or ranged status. This means that the weapon will immediately give you a large boost in damage.

• When you login, you will always be in the city, even if you logged out elsewhere.

• If you have two characters in local co-op, they will progress through quests together.

• Can you continue your story if you transfer from one city to another? Not really: Campaign progress isn't actually tied to any character, but instead to a "group" in the city. Not completing it in the group you started in doesn't prevent you from anything, but it does mean you can't pick up where you left off (unless the group you join just so happens to be in the same place or close to it).

• When you unveil parts of the map by exploring, that progress will actually disappear when you leave the zone, UNLESS you use the panorama locations (which will keep the map explored).

• If you die and choose to resurrect in the same location, you suffer a 1% reduction to your maximum life, which stacks up to 5 times (after which you are forced to return to the city).

• If you die and choose to respawn in the city, all of the equipment on the ground seem to be converted with the loot filter as if they had been hidden (so they are not wasted, but you can't get them back either).

• Each character needs to complete all of their own war room maps and missions (though being present in local coop counts).

• Summons can critically hit.

• Passive Skill Points:

  • The passive skill "Spoils of the Hunt" in the Tracker's Courage attribute tree heals 0.5% max HP (though it lists a flat amount).

  • The passive skill "Elementalism" in the Oracle's Intellect attribute tree only gives one stack for casting a skill, even if that skill has two elements listed on the keywords.

  • The passive skill "Brick Wall" in the Courage attribute tree gives 2 block per level, plus 10% block.

  • The passive skill "The Vengeful Spirit" in the Resilience attribute tree gives 2 damage reduction per level.

  • The passive skill "Gruelling Strike" in the wyrmlings Ferocity attribute tree gives the damage bonus to all skills, but only boosts the cost for core skills.

  • The passive skill "Swift Manipulator" in the wyrmling Malice attribute tree is providing much less benefit than the 1 second indicated (even if the application was only once per cast). 18 casts lowered the cooldown from 15 seconds to about 9 seconds (and I was hitting 5 dummies with about 6 projectiles every cast), but 6 casts lowered it to 11 seconds. My guess is that one of 2 things is happening: either there is an internal cooldown on the ability, or Crowd Controls placed on enemies have a hidden duration and new applications don't give the bonus until the duration has ended (which is functionally the same thing).

• Talents:

  • The Talent "Accuracy" doesn't ever seem to proc.

  • The healing orbs from Talent "Healing" that are generated on kill will automatically go off and heal the area if they aren't touched for 10 seconds. They also pulse once per second to give an indication of time passing.

  • The bonus duration from the Talent "Exploration" does not increase the duration of the Tracker skill "Noxious Star".

  • The Tracker Talent "Merciless Reflexes" seems to work as described, but the amount provided doesn't match the description. I am seeing something like 4 times the benefit that is listed for the rank 1 amount (5%), but am unsure if there are other multipliers affecting the amount. This increased bonus does not happen at the same proportion for the rank 3 amount (20%).

  • The Knight Talent "Evangelist" doesn't ever seem to proc.

  • The Knight Talent "Ferocious Protection" has a block to attack bonus that doesn't affect soldier damage, but does work on Shielded Attack.

  • The Knight Talent "Armour of the Eternal" has a damage bonus that isn't applying to soldier damage. Also, the amount it is providing doesn't seem to be correct (even when account for other things being in the same damage pool). When equipping the skill with no stacks, damage my damage goes up by 1.1%. As stacks build, and I gain 400 more armour, the damage barely increases at all (around .1%).

  • The Knight Talent "Squad Leader" has soldiers that wear green tabards, while the Martyr for the Eternal soldiers wear blue tabards.

  • The Knight Talent "Squad Leader" with the Rank 1 bonus in it gives 2 soldiers, but has one of them hits for 20% of the other. With the Rank 2 bonus, all 3 (including the ranged one) hit for the same amount. Weirdly, unequipping an item to go back down to the Rank 1 bonus keeps them hitting for the correct amounts.

  • The Oracle Talent "Marching Spirit" states that it gives you an entity, and that after reaching maximum stacks, you get another entity when next summoned, but this isn't quite accurate. After reaching maximum stacks, your next summon skill summons an addition summon.

• Affixes:

  • The "Bonus armour" affix on items is a multiplier on your total armour amount (as indicated in the stats panel), not just the armour amount on that item.

• Enchanting:

  • You cannot enchant affixes on Amulets, Rings, or Potions.

  • If you enchant a divine affix on equipment, the newly chosen affix remains divine.

  • On hex fragments, when you reroll a modifier, it usually stays the same rarity, but there is a chance to increase rarity.

  • On a character skill, you cannot add an electric/fire/ice/toxic damage modifier to a skill unless it already contains that elemental keyword.

Rings, potions, and wyrmling armour do not drop in the game, and instead have to be crafted.

Equipment can also drop with inscribed skills on them (like what happens at the Memorialist, but random).

A perfect piece of equipment that the game drops:

• is mythical

• has a divine affix

• has 4-5 optimal affixes (as you can reroll one affix, but it is best to reroll the divine affix)

• has an optimal talent

• has 3 useful hidden talents that can be upgraded at the ornamentalist

Frat's Stuff

Builds

• Oracle

  • Character skill:

    • Explosive Eruption - amazing at area of effect, but mediocre at killing bosses

  • Wyrmling skills (in order of priority):

    • *Call of Encouragement ~10% attack speed, and ~20% energy regen per hit (30% total)

    • *Electric Reinforcement ~30% movement speed per activation (damage doesn't reach enemies) (30% total)

    • Electrifying Charge ~.6% damage/second per hit (only hits enemies near the target, but not the target) (20% total)

    • Thunderous Ricochet ~10.4% damage per control (6% total)

    • Lightning Storm ~.3% area damage per hit (3.6% total)

    • *Frosted Ground ~50% movement per activation (50% total)

    • *Frozen Armour ~14.3% defense per activation (14.3% total)

    • Blizzard ~1% area damage per hit (4.2% total)

    • Cruel Siphon ~1% area damage per control (2.3% total)

    • Power of Ice ~1% damage per kill (3.1% total)

    • *Dark Affliction ~20% damage taken by controlled enemies (24.1% total)

    • Toxic Spray ~2.2% per activation (1.9% total)

    • Insect Ally ~.4% damage per hit (.7% total)

    • Voices of the Swarm ~1% path damage per hit (.6% total)

    • Pillar of Lava ~13.3% area damage per control activation (since only 1 pillar can be active at a time) (6.8% total)

    • Avenging Catapult ~.8% area damage per hit (2.2% total)

    • Spontaneous Combustion ~.8% damage per hit over 3 seconds (2.2% total)

    • Fireball ~1.5% area damage per activation (.3% total)

    • Explosive Death ~.6% damage per kill

  • Modifiers (in order of priority):

    • Bonus Projectiles

    • Reduced Cost

    • Ultimate Enhancement II

    • Foresight

    • Shockwave

    • Physical Damage

    • Electric Damage

    • Enhanced Vision

  • Talents:

    • Wyrmling Armour: Dragon Wisdom (perfect for providing an extra projectile, and restoring energy)

    • Arcane Instability

    • Speed

    • Resonance

    • Antagonistic Energy

    • Control

    • Energy

    • Mental Superiority

• Tracker

  • Character skills:

    • Noxious Star (good at area of effect, and at killing bosses)

    • Explosive Shot (amazing at area of effect, but mediocre at killing bosses)

  • Wyrmling skills:

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  • Talents:

    • Projectile Flurry - adds projectiles, and automatically triggers targeting knives

    • Critical Surge - ~30% damage increase, plus it triggers more targeting knives (which deal more damage)

    • Speed - 15% attack speed, plus ~15% movement speed

    • Lethal Toxins - adds the possibility of damage over time, and an AoE explosion on death

    • Energy - adds a bit of energy regen

    • Currently Can't Drop: Dragon Wisdom - adds a projectile, and if the bonus duration applies to the Noxious Stars

  • Gear affixes:

    • Helm

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

      • Block damage

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance

      • Maximum HP

      • ?

    • Chest

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

      • Block damage

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance

      • Maximum HP

      • ?

    • Gloves

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

      • Block damage

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance

      • Maximum HP

      • ?

    • Boots

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

      • Bonus movement speed

      • Block damage

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance or Maximum HP

      • ?

    • Claws

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

      • Critical chance

      • Toxic damage

      • 2nd Element damage (if using one)

      • Attack bonus

      • Critical damage

      • Elite damage

      • Cost reduction / Energy regen

    • Bow

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

      • Critical chance

      • Toxic damage

      • 2nd Element damage (if using one)

      • Attack bonus

      • Critical damage

      • Elite damage

      • Cost reduction / Energy regen

    • Amulet

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

    • Ring

      • Talent: Projectile Flurry / Critical Surge / Speed / Lethal Toxins

    • Potion

• Barbarian

  • Character skills:

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  • Wyrmling skills:

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  • Talents:

    • 
      

• Knight

  • Character skills:

    • Martyr for the Eternal (great at bosses, medicore area of effect, but horrendous at draconic breaches)

      • Modifiers (in order of priority):

        • Bonus Summons

        • Ultimate Enhancement 1

        • Shockwave

        • Overpowered

        • Focus

        • Physical Damage

        • Electric/Fire/Ice/Toxic Damage

        • Defensive Stance

        • Reduced Cooldown

    • Shielded Attack (Basic)

    • Blazing Arrow (Fuel)

    • Compressed air (Fuel)

    • Solar Flare (Fuel)

  • Wyrmling skills:

    • Insect Ally (best summon option: summons for 8 seconds on hit, so it works on bosses)

    • Voices of the Swarm (damage on hit)

    • Antivenom (heal on kill, if the heal affects summons)

    • Dark Affliction (only with Deadly Aspirations or with the ancestors effect from Elin Torvalddottir)

      • Viridian Dragon's Aura (a reflex buff on activation [it might snapshot])

    • Redemption of the Damned (summons with unlimited duration on kill, but it doesn't hit very hard)

    • Avenging Catapult (damage on hit)

    • Spontaneous Combustion (damage on hit)

    • Carbonisation (armour reduction to enemies on hit)

    • Explosive Death (damage on kill)

    • Shroud of Flames (damage trail on hit, which is probably useless)

      • Crimson Dragon's Aura (a blocked health buff on activation [it might snapshot])

    • Not Pale Wyrmling

    • Not Cobalt Wyrmling

  • Talents:

    • Squad Leader - ~20% damage

    • Evangelist - ~17% damage, if both bugs with it get fixed

    • Armour of the Eternal  - ~15% damage and 5% defense, if the damage gets fixed to work on summons

    • Ferocious Protection - ~8% defense, since the block to attack doesn't affect soldier damage, and adds less damage than it should

    • Chaos - ~8% total, mostly utility

    • Vitality - ~5% defense

    • Speed - ~6% utility

  • Put Block damage on helmet, chest, gloves, and shield, plus:

    • Courage: Brick Wall, Unwavering Hope, and Vanquisher's Spirit

    • Agility: Quick on the Draw

  • Get as much barrier as possible

  • Gear affixes:

    • Helm

      • Talent: Squad Leader/Ferocious Protection/Chaos

      • Block damage

      • Barrier

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance

      • Maximum HP

    • Chest

      • Talent: Squad Leader/Ferocious Protection/Chaos

      • Block damage

      • Barrier

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance

      • Maximum HP

    • Gloves

      • Talent: Squad Leader/Ferocious Protection/Chaos

      • Block damage

      • Barrier

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance

      • Maximum HP

    • Boots

      • Talent: Squad Leader/Ferocious Protection/Chaos

      • Bonus movement speed

      • Block damage

      • Barrier

      • Bonus armour

      • Elite resistance or Maximum HP

    • Spear

    • Shield

    • Amulet

    • Ring

    • Potion

Controls (Key Bindings)

Control Scheme - Mouse

Move to Target - Enabled

Combine Move and Attack - Enabled

Move and Attack - Left Mouse Button

Force Attack - Left Shift

Dodge - Middle Mouse Button

Potion - C

Innate  Skill - G

Return to City - Back Side Mouse Button

Fast travel in the city - Front Side Mouse Button

City upgrades - Y

City appearance - T

Skill 2 - Right Mouse Button

Skill 3 - A

Skill 4 - S

Skill 5 - D

Display loot - Space

Fold/Unfold Battle Log -

Map Overlay - Tab

Map Overlay: Zoom In - Page Up

Map Overlay: Zoom Out - Page Down

Transparency map: Up - Up

Transparency map: Down - Down

Transparency map: Left - Left

Transparency map: Right - Right

Pause - Escape

Inventory - B

Ancestral Grid - K

Area Map - ,

World Map - M

Quest Log - L

Stats - N

Talents - J

Wyrmling - O

Ancestors - I

Attributes - H

Loot filter - U

To do list:

• I am on step #28 for my city upgrades

• Hex fragments to keep:

• 2 piece fragments for select character skills (to inscribe onto gear)

• 3-5 piece fragments for select character skills

• 3-5 piece fragments for wyrmling skills

• 3-5 piece fragments for modifiers with an average of 4 points per hex

• Update my skill list:

  • Get screenshots of each hex fragment icon (using the loot filter) and add the pictures to a column of the spreadsheet

  • Rank talents for each character in terms of overall benefit

  • Make a skill picker, where you select a class, then a character skill, and it lists all of the normal skill information, then all of the modifiers and wyrmling skills you can have based on the keywords.

    • =IF(A2="Barbarian", FILTER('Character Skills'!A2:A69, C2:C69="Barbarian"))

• In the hunt boards where it grants a resistance, it seems to be:

  • 10% Physical

  • 3% Electric

  • 4% Toxic

• Bunzine's cost calculator (Naamloze): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Kg0-IEan_fGQo6EtysJC3teDPZsSQ9aPHqSHu-OI6E/edit?gid=1336197838#gid=1336197838

• Get a screenshot of the completion of the last Hunt Board final mission, when I complete it on my Barbarian.

• Update the class section on the Barbarian about Rage.

• Go through this website, this website, and this website to see if there is any information I want to add to my guide

• Add any helpful details from the City tab of the Game Guide in game to this guide.

• Work on the "city" section of the guide

  • include a list of all of the NPCs, what city rank they unlock at, and what each of them can do