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)

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.

Criticisms

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

Suggestions

• 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

• 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 on 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 you have "Executioner's Claws" bound to the keyboard or right mouse button, it 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 you have "Acrobatic Strike" bound to the keyboard or right mouse button, it 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 on 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 on the left mouse button, "Gathered Gales" cannot charge up (as with most channeled skills).

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

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

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

  • On the Oracle, no matter where it is bound, casting "Electric Wave" breaks the left shift (force attack) from keeping the character in place when the left click is held.

  • On the Knight, no matter where it is bound, 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 on 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 on the left mouse button, "Offensive Rampart" doesn't work properly (as with most channeled skills).

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

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

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

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

• There are a couple of problems with 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 knight's soldiers summons from "Squad Leader" sometimes don't come into new zones with the character. Unequipping, then re-equipping items with the talent cause them to reset though.

• 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.

• 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.

Tips

• 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.

• You can transfer characters between online and offline mode, and between cities at any time from the main menu by clicking on “Select Your Character”, clicking on the mode (Offline or Online), clicking on the character, clicking the “Transfer” button on the right side, and then in the new window, clicking on the mode (Offline or Online) you want to move them to, and the city.

  • When transferring a character between cities, all equipment and hex fragments on the character transfer automatically, but the materials and gold only transfer if you use the slider during the transfer process. Anything in the storage chests will not be transferred.

  • To transfer gold, dust, and materials between cities, there is a slider on the first first transfer window a little more than half way down. 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.

• You can join with two characters from the same computer on either offline or online. Simply 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

• 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%.

• 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).

• You can tell which players "The Eternal's Gift" belongs to by the icon color on the left (which matches the character aura).

• When playing in co-op, players can be resurrected after death by left clicking on them (or hitting the bottom controller button ["A" on Xbox, or "X" on Playstation]).

• There is an option to skip the campaign.

• The difficulty can be changed in the city at any time.

• There is a chest where you can store equipment, with 3 personal tabs (shared among your characters), and 3 shared tabs (shared among your city).

• Next to the chest, there is a hexagonal shaped box where you can store your hex fragments, with 3 personal tabs (shared among your characters), and 3 shared tabs (shared among your city).

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

• In the loot filter, there are tabs at the top: one for equipment, and one for hex fragments.

• There is a loot filter that can show or hide equipment (as with most filters), but there are also two sliders at the bottom that can convert hidden equipment into gold and potential for the Grand Benedictor (which I recommend using).

• When in local coop, 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).

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

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

• What to do with equipment:

• Offering equipment to the Grand Benedictor is only possible when the equipment is legendary quality or higher (and thus the talent on the equipment can apply to the bonus). That means that all lower quality 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 the optimal settings for your loot filter are to sell all equipment lower than legendary quality for gold, but hold onto legendaries and above to offer at the Grand Benedictor. Thus, level the slider for offerings off, and turn the gold slider on.

• Hex fragments can be sold to increase the bar to learn a skill, but once the skill is learned, the excess fragments are simply sold.

  • This means that the optimal settings for your hex fragments loot filter is to turn the "Convert to potential for the Grand Benedictor" on, but the "Convert to Gold" slider off (which seems to take precedence when both are on).

Walkthrough

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

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

• Hunts

  • 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 hunting board 3: Hunt for Rangdang, you might get a bug where the quest chain tells you to go to a village, join officers, the protect the officers, but then gives no indication of where to go, nor a countdown timer to signal that you are in the correct place. It turns out that you need to heard northeast, just west of the entrance to the town.

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)

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6. ? XP - Grand Benedictor (to unlock talents and further skills) 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, Barbarian, Tracker, and Oracle.

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)

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 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). I also added information about each skill's mechanics, as well as notes for some of the skills.

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. 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

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.

• 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. Per 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 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

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).

Resources

Resources, known in game as ingredients (according to the tooltips) or materials (according to the inventory tab) are used along with gold to craft:

• rings

• potions

• wyrmling armour

• enchantments

• ornaments

Eralden [Eko - CM] created A basic guide for resources and how to Farm them

Frat's Stuff

Builds

• Oracle

  • Character skills:

    • Chain Lightning

    • Explosive Eruption

  • Wyrmling skills:

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  • Talents:

    • Arcane Instability

    • Accuracy

    • Antagonistic Energy

    • Chaos

    • Control

    • Draconic Protector

    • Dragon Wisdom

    • Elemental Discharge

    • Energy

    • Fervour

    • Heroism

    • Marching Spirit

    • Mental Superiority

    • Quick Response

    • Resilience

    • Resonance

    • Shield of the Oracle

    • Speed

    • Vitality

• Tracker

  • Character skills:

    • Explosive Shot

    • Noxious Star

    • Rapid Fire

    • Ricochet Shot

  • Wyrmling skills:

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  • Talents:

    • Projectile Flurry

    • Critical Surge

    • 
      

• Barbarian

  • Character skills:

    • 
      

  • Wyrmling skills:

    • 
      

  • Talents:

    • 
      

• Knight

  • Character skills:

    • Martyr for the Eternal

      • Modifiers (in order of priority):

        • Bonus Summons

        • Ultimate Enhancement

        • Shockwave

        • Overpowered

        • Focus

        • Physical Damage

        • Electric/Fire/Ice/Toxic Damage

        • Defensive Stance

        • Reduced Cooldown

        • maybe Practice Makes Perfect

    • Blazing Arrow (Fuel)

    • Compressed air (Fuel)

    • Rapid Strike (Basic)

    • Scarlet Thrust (Basic)

    • Shielded Attack (Basic)

    • Show of Strength (Energy)

    • Solar Flare (Fuel)

  • Wyrmling skills:

    • Insect Ally / Frost Army / Redemption of the Damned / Winged Invocation

    • ?

  • Talents:

    • Squad Leader

    • Evangelist

    • Armour of the Eternal

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

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

    • Agility: Quick on the Draw

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 #22 for my city upgrades

• There are different ranks of Draconics (at least 4)

• What is the red dot that I can pick up off the ground sometimes? divine items have the red dot on their ground item label

• Make a loot filter to hide all fragments of size 1 or 2, then fix the one that hides all the skills I don't like to instead be one that shows all the skills I do like (so that combined it shows the size 2 pieces that I do like for the Memorialist's inscribing)

• Describe the combat display (pop-out on the left)

• Create better loot filters for fragments that:

  • remove all undesired character skill fragments

  • remove all 1 piece fragments

  • remove all 2 piece modifier only fragments

    • but keep 2 piece character skill fragments of desired skills, and 2 piece wyrmling skills

  • remove all 2-3 piece fragments without legendary or higher fragments

• Go through the entire game guide and add any helpful details into my guide. DONE: Character, Action, Stats, Wyrmling, Codex (pages 2-9), 

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

• 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

  • 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"))

• Rank talents for each character in terms of overall benefit

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

  • 10% Physical

  • 3% Electric

  • 4% Toxic

• Almost every single divine affix on a certain rarity is lower than the minimum range on the rarity above it. For instance: a divine "Bonus gold gains" affix is 83% on legendary equipment, but the roll range is 108-130% on a mythical equipment.

  • This makes divine affixes only worth keeping if they are in the highest rarity that you have been collecting so far.

• 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

• Classes and their unique benefits (including different types of secondary resources)

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

• I'd like to see something in the guide about how ranks work on skills. Apparently it has something to do with placement and connections but the grid is small and im not sure what to connect where etc

• Make a complete list of transmogs (especially death effects which can't easily be viewed in game).

• Transfer process:

  • As far as I know, if you want to be in your own city, then you have to start over. You can join someone else's online city though, and can play with your friend in any online city, as long as you both are invited to it.

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  • To transfer a character:

  • 1. From the main menu, click on "select a character", then find the character you wish to transfer and left click on it.

  • 2. In the bottom right of the screen, there is a "Transfer" button and when you click on that, it will ask you which city you want to transfer it to (a list will appear for offline and online in separate tabs).

  • 3. If you would like to take your gold, primordial dust, and resources to the new city, click the slider.

  • 4. Finally, click the transfer button, then you will have to hold the next button to approve it.

• Check if:

  • I am double-checking now, but I believe you cannot add an ice damage modifier to a skill without an ice keyword, UNLESS the skill drops with the ice modifier already attached to it (in which case the skill will gain the ice tag).

  • My understanding is that the skills will convert their damage to whichever element has the highest bonus in a process called "adaptive damage", but I don't know if that changes the skill tags. Something for me to test!

  • Tiky: The skill will gain a new tag by reaching symbiosis (rank 4). Then you can link the wyrmling type of dmg to it. The game will still take the higher % of dmg in your sheet. So if you have 120% Toxic dmg and 122% ice dmg, it will use the ice dmg %.