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 arduous at work on useful guides for Expedition 33. There are guides that will help you get began, train you recreation mechanics, discover invaluable 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 happen to’re the theorycrafty kind, you need to use Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner to make your personal construct, then share it on their Neighborhood Builds Part.
Getting Began
Get began on the planet of Expedition 33 with character guides, newbie assets, and Pictos guides from Maxroll. If you happen to’re in search of 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 techniques like weapons, attributes, Pictos and Luminas. Additionally take a look at IGN’s 10 Issues Expedition 33 Would not Inform You for a shorter information of some easily-missed issues you need to know.
Fight Information
Be taught extra about defeating harmful Nevrons with IGN’s Fight Information. It is a newbie’s information with some ideas and methods, together with recommendation for the right way 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 simpler 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 degree them, plus unlock particular bonuses at ranges 4, 10, and 20. Learn extra about Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades.
Pictos and Luminas
Pictos are equippable objects 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 achieve much more particular results. If you happen to’re struggling on an encounter, think about altering up your Pictos to achieve extra defenses, add injury or buff your crew with issues like Shell or Highly effective. Be taught extra about Pictos and the Lumina system, a core development characteristic in Expedition 33, and hold monitor of what you might have and the place to search out them with IGN’s Pictos guidelines.
Early Sport Pictos Guides
The Pictos system gives loads 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 throughout the early recreation. Maintain a watch out for Useless Vitality II and Vital Burn, full side-content for the “lone wolf” model 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 abilities 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 the right way to unlock areas of the map, defeat sure enemies extra simply, or which Pictos are the very best.
Tips on how to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Skills
Esquie can break by means of obstacles, swim, fly, and even dive underneath the ocean. Learn to unlock all of Esquie’s Skills as you progress by means of the sport.
Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses
Be taught 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 an alternative of damaging them!
Zone Development
If you happen to’re feeling misplaced after finishing the sport’s story, Maxroll has you coated with a Zone Development Information, which provides some suggestions on when to finish completely different elective 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
Be taught 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 all the completely different Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Expertise obtainable within the recreation. You possibly can even modify the extent on the prime 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 below 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 prime choose an elective 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 facility and scaling change however attributes should not at present factored in.
- – Choose the 6 abilities you’re utilizing on the character.
- NOTE: Gradient Expertise 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 complete crew. Choose the proper degree to show the stats added by every.
- Add Luminas right here, the purpose rely is displayed on the prime.
- Allocate attributes, possibly 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 individuals about your talent rotation or the place you discovered a number of the cool stuff you’re utilizing.
- Set your construct to public to share it with the neighborhood.
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 Workers with contributions from Tenkiei and Snail.