So I found this game meets that certain niche type of game that I love. Mount and warbandish, tactical, deep leveling system, open world, and takes planning. I’m 40 hours in and still loving it. Since I am starting a new character, I figured I’d toss some thoughts out that I wish I’d known when starting.
Newbies Tips for Basics
Play the style you want, but I’ve found knights to be the strongest because of early chivalry, and early statue access to give extra levels. mercenary a close second because of life steal.
I like to start with the harder to get skills first because it’s pretty easy to get most of them early just by doing things that spark the skill. I always start with warrapt because it’s useful and difficult to get early. And reading as a second because I like to start studying early. If i had 2 other choices it would probably be athleticism or survival, both offer solid early game perks.
Your initial choices should be to get skills that give you XP upon use(shield bash for warrapt or knight’s challenge for chivalry for example) because if not you have to waste level up points instead of just being able to level naturally.
My first level up point always goes to level 3 warrapt to get shield bash, and my second always goes to cooking to spam cooking early which gives you easy levels, better food, and a good way to get weight off in a dungeon(cooking multiple ingredients to take off weight). I like botany after cooking to get a lot more ingredients early.
Start with a weapon in mind if its not your first play through because focusing on just leveling that weapon super high will give you a lot of early strength
For weapon choices I like daggers, axes or maces(in that order). Daggers are op, and stacking bleeds plus bonus to humans is great throughout the game. Axes put out a ton of damage and execute anyone who is low which is great for clearing rooms quickly, maces are just tons of fun to spam out cripples and stuns. 1 handed is better initially but 2 handed is better once you build it up(for any weapon)
Starting out, don’t dive straight into dungeons… Work your way around the starting town completely by going to a tile, pressing E, fully exploring/killing, picking up plants and wood. I do 2 or 3 tiles, go back to town, craft, sell, store and repeat… Once I get all the tiles around the first city explored, then I go into the first dungeon quest. It makes life so much easier starting out. If you don’t do that, you will run into a lot of save scumming which always feels bad.
Last, when you pick up quests, pay attention to time limits. I usually just pick up the bandit/gremlin quests first because they don’t have a time limit. If you don’t know what something is, don’t take the quest yet.. Once you figure out what things are, and where things are and know if you can complete the quest on time, then pick it up… Or else you are just stacking negative faction rep and shooting yourself in the foot.
That should get you started pretty well. But in the end have fun and play what you like. This game can be tough starting out so I thought I would toss out some early game tips.
Thank you. Since my character isn’t level 10, should I start with axes and work my way up from there? I’ve been crafting swords.
Make use of your preferences. I usually begin my leveling of an unarmed man right away because it takes so long. However, I’ll throw in a couple heavy weapon users for wave clearing and one or two xbows for kiting. Apart from that, I enjoy playing role-playing games with my main character. I usually stick to katanas throughout and practice sneaking and stealing early if I want an easy run.
You begin the game, I suppose, in a dungeon full of skeletons and snakes? How do you get past it, since I’ve died about 40 times from poisoning or being swarmed by about 65 skeletons when I run out of antidotes? Like, nothing makes sense, and I’m not sure how I’m going to survive.
It took me several attempts. Ultimately, I concluded that I didn’t need to clean every room. Something against the wall that resembles a ladder is what you are searching for. I must add that I’m also new:)
In the weapon you are holding, you automatically score a point. To level up some skills, click the masteries tab on the bottom left. Then, click the skills tab next to it. If you’re having trouble, start with the knight since chivalry is very powerful at an early age. After a few hours of play, the game gets considerably easier.
To begin with, you can lower the target’s damage by thirty percent by placing three points in the knights challenge (chivalry). You can also pick up “last stand” under chivalry (you can do both from level 1), which grants you a shield in case you ever run low. A shield is also nice, but good starting weapons are daggers, axes, and maces.