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 exhausting at work on useful guides for Expedition 33. There are guides that will help you get began, train you recreation mechanics, discover worthwhile loot, and hone your builds. Maxroll’s Codex has weapons, abilities, Pictos, and Lumina that will help you put together for the challenges you’ll face on the continent. If you’re the theorycrafty kind, you need to use Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner to make your individual construct, then share it on their Community Builds Section.
Getting Started
Get began on the planet of Expedition 33 with character guides, newbie sources, and Pictos guides from Maxroll. If you are in search of a step-by-step companion information to maintain up as you play, try IGN’s Expedition 33 Walkthrough.
Beginner’s Guide
Maxroll’s complete Beginner’s Guide 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. Also try IGN’s 10 Things Expedition 33 Doesn’t Tell You for a shorter information of some easily-missed issues you need to know.
Combat Guide
Learn extra about defeating harmful Nevrons with IGN’s Combat Guide. This is a newbie’s information with some suggestions and tips, together with recommendation for learn how to use Lune and Maelle.
Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades
Weapons are a core a part of constructing your group in Expedition 33. Each weapon (and character ability) offers several types of elemental injury, a few of that are more practical than others in opposition to totally different Nevrons. Each character has a wide range of totally different weapons which have elevated attribute scaling as you degree them, plus unlock particular bonuses at ranges 4, 10, and 20. Read extra about Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades.
Pictos and Luminas
Pictos are equippable gadgets that give stats and a wide range of distinctive results. Each character can equip 3 Pictos, however you need to use the Lumina system to realize much more particular results. If you’re struggling on an encounter, think about altering up your Pictos to realize extra defenses, add injury or buff your group with issues like Shell or Powerful. Learn extra about Pictos and the Lumina system, a core development characteristic in Expedition 33.
Early Game Pictos Guides
The Pictos system supplies loads of room to customise your get together 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 throughout the early recreation. Keep an eye fixed out for Dead Energy II and Critical Burn, full side-content for the “lone wolf” model Last Stand Pictos and use Recovery to show one character right into a super-tank!
Characters
Learn about every playable character in Expedition 33, their distinctive mechanics, and abilities with Maxroll’s Character Skill Guides.
More Guides
Maxroll additionally has a number of extra guides appropriate for the midgame and endgame. These go into element on learn how to unlock areas of the map, defeat sure enemies extra simply, or which Pictos are one of the best.
How to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Abilities
Esquie can break via obstacles, swim, fly, and even dive beneath the ocean. Learn learn how to unlock all of Esquie’s Abilities as you progress via the sport.
Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses
Learn concerning 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 take in, as these heal the enemy as a substitute of damaging them!
Zone Progression
If you’re feeling misplaced after finishing the sport’s story, Maxroll has you coated with a Zone Progression Guide, which provides some suggestions on when to finish totally different non-obligatory zones. IGN additionally has a listing of Expedition 33 facet quests with their rewards, so you’ll be able to decide which of them are value finishing.
Best Pictos
Learn the Best Pictos to equip in each the early recreation and the endgame. Maxroll’s information particulars Pictos that present generic energy together with those who have extra area of interest makes use of, empowering new construct archetypes.
Codex
Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Codex has info on the entire totally different Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Skills accessible within the recreation. You may even regulate the extent on the prime to see how Weapons/Pictos scale.
Planner and Community Builds
Plan out your construct utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Builder, then share it utilizing the Community Builds section ! Let’s go over a number of of the planner’s key options:
Here are the options to bear in mind when utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner.
- Select your characters and arrange the energetic get together. If you need to create totally different groups (with distinctive setups for every character) you can even achieve this right here. At the highest choose an non-obligatory tag like “Story” or “Post-Story.” You use this part to navigate between every of the characters in your group to alter their setups.
- Pick your weapon, then regulate the extent. As you do the ability and scaling change however attributes should not at the moment factored in.
- – Select the 6 abilities you’re utilizing on the character.
- NOTE: Gradient Skills are excluded right here however you’ll be able to be taught extra about them within the Codex!
- Pick your Pictos, you need to use every Pictos as soon as throughout your complete group. Select the right degree to show the stats added by every.
- Add Luminas right here, the purpose depend is displayed on the prime.
- Allocate attributes, possibly use one thing your weapon scales off of?
- Your stats are displayed right here, based mostly on Pictos, Attributes, and base weapon injury.
- Add some notes, inform folks about your ability 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 Staff with contributions from Tenkiei and Snail.
