Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a brand new RPG and debut title from the French studio, Sandfall Interactive. With a mix of immersive storytelling and difficult gameplay, there’s nothing else fairly prefer it. Maxroll has been onerous at work on useful guides for Expedition 33. There are guides that can assist you get began, educate you recreation mechanics, discover invaluable loot, and hone your builds. Maxroll’s Codex has weapons, expertise, Pictos, and Lumina that can assist you put together for the challenges you’ll face on the continent. In case you’re the theorycrafty kind, you need to use Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner to make your individual construct, then share it on their Neighborhood Builds Part.
Getting Began
Get began on this planet of Expedition 33 with character guides, newbie assets, and Pictos guides from Maxroll. In case you’re on the lookout for a step-by-step companion information to maintain up as you play, take a look at IGN’s Expedition 33 Walkthrough.
Newbie’s Information
Maxroll’s complete Newbie’s Information for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 introduces the sport’s core mechanics like exploring the world, doing battle in opposition to Nevrons, every of the playable characters and their distinctive mechanics, plus introduces the sport’s development programs like weapons, attributes, Pictos and Luminas. Additionally take a look at IGN’s 10 Issues Expedition 33 Does not Inform You for a shorter information of some easily-missed issues it is best to know.
Fight Information
Study extra about defeating harmful Nevrons with IGN’s Fight Information. It is a newbie’s information with some suggestions and tips, together with recommendation for easy methods to use Lune and Maelle.
Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades
Weapons are a core a part of constructing your crew in Expedition 33. Every weapon (and character talent) offers various kinds of elemental injury, a few of that are more practical than others in opposition to completely different Nevrons. Every character has a wide range of completely different weapons which have elevated attribute scaling as you stage them, plus unlock particular bonuses at ranges 4, 10, and 20. Learn extra about Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades.
Pictos and Luminas
Pictos are equippable gadgets that give stats and a wide range of distinctive results. Every character can equip 3 Pictos, however you need to use the Lumina system to realize much more particular results. In case you’re struggling on an encounter, think about altering up your Pictos to realize extra defenses, add injury or buff your crew with issues like Shell or Highly effective. Study extra about Pictos and the Lumina system, a core development characteristic in Expedition 33, and hold monitor of what you’ve and the place to search out them with IGN’s Pictos guidelines.
Early Sport Pictos Guides
The Pictos system offers a whole lot of room to customise your celebration and construct every character the way in which that you really want, however there are a number of Pictos which stand out as particularly highly effective through the early recreation. Maintain an eye fixed out for Lifeless Vitality II and Crucial Burn, full side-content for the “lone wolf” type Final Stand Pictos and use Restoration to show one character right into a super-tank!
Characters
Find out about every playable character in Expedition 33, their distinctive mechanics, and expertise with Maxroll’s Character Ability Guides.
Extra Guides
Maxroll additionally has a number of extra guides appropriate for the midgame and endgame. These go into element on easy methods to unlock areas of the map, defeat sure enemies extra simply, or which Pictos are the perfect.
Tips on how to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Talents
Esquie can break by obstacles, swim, fly, and even dive underneath the ocean. Learn to unlock all of Esquie’s Talents as you progress by the sport.
Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses
Study in regards to the Strengths and Weaknesses for the enemies you encounter throughout the Continent. Abuse enemy weaknesses to deal 50% extra injury, and keep away from utilizing components they soak up, as these heal the enemy as an alternative of damaging them!
Zone Development
In case you’re feeling misplaced after finishing the sport’s story, Maxroll has you coated with a Zone Development Information, which supplies some suggestions on when to finish completely different non-compulsory zones. IGN additionally has an inventory of Expedition 33 facet quests with their rewards, so you’ll be able to decide which of them are price finishing.
Greatest Pictos
Study the Greatest Pictos to equip in each the early recreation and the endgame. Maxroll’s information particulars Pictos that present generic energy together with people who have extra area of interest makes use of, empowering new construct archetypes.
Codex
Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Codex has info on the entire completely different Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Abilities obtainable within the recreation. You possibly can even modify the extent on the high to see how Weapons/Pictos scale.
Planner and Neighborhood Builds
Plan out your construct utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Builder, then share it utilizing the Neighborhood Builds part ! Let’s go over a number of of the planner’s key options:
Listed here are the options to bear in mind when utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner.
- Choose your characters and arrange the energetic celebration. If you wish to create completely different groups (with distinctive setups for every character) you too can accomplish that right here. On the high choose an non-compulsory tag like “Story” or “Publish-Story.” You employ this part to navigate between every of the characters in your crew to alter their setups.
- Decide your weapon, then modify the extent. As you do the ability and scaling change however attributes aren’t at the moment factored in.
- – Choose the 6 expertise you’re utilizing on the character.
- NOTE: Gradient Abilities are excluded right here however you’ll be able to be taught extra about them within the Codex!
- Decide your Pictos, you need to use every Pictos as soon as throughout your whole crew. Choose the right stage to show the stats added by every.
- Add Luminas right here, the purpose depend is displayed on the high.
- Allocate attributes, perhaps use one thing your weapon scales off of?
- Your stats are displayed right here, primarily based on Pictos, Attributes, and base weapon injury.
- Add some notes, inform folks about your talent rotation or the place you discovered a few of the cool stuff you’re utilizing.
- Set your construct to public to share it with the group.
Tomorrow Comes
That’s it for Maxroll’s new guides for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Why not head over to the construct planner and begin theorycrafting?
Written by IGN Employees with contributions from Tenkiei and Snail.
