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, educate you recreation mechanics, discover invaluable loot, and hone your builds. Maxroll’s Codex has weapons, expertise, Pictos, and Lumina that will help you put together for the challenges you’ll face on the continent. In the event you’re the theorycrafty kind, you should utilize Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner to make your individual 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. In the event you’re in search of a step-by-step companion information to maintain up as you play, try 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 try IGN’s 10 Issues Expedition 33 Would not Inform You for a shorter information of some easily-missed issues it is best 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 tips, together with recommendation for the 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 ability) offers various kinds of elemental injury, a few of that are simpler than others in opposition to completely different Nevrons. Every character has quite a lot 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 objects that give stats and quite a lot of distinctive results. Every character can equip 3 Pictos, however you should utilize the Lumina system to realize much more particular results. In the event you’re struggling on an encounter, contemplate altering up your Pictos to realize 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 function in Expedition 33, and preserve observe of what you have got and the place to seek out them with IGN’s Pictos guidelines.
Early Recreation Pictos Guides
The Pictos system offers plenty of room to customise your occasion and construct every character the way in which that you really want, however there are a couple of Pictos which stand out as particularly highly effective throughout the early recreation. Maintain an eye fixed out for Lifeless Vitality II and Essential Burn, full side-content for the “lone wolf” fashion Final Stand Pictos and use Restoration to show one character right into a super-tank!
Characters
Study every playable character in Expedition 33, their distinctive mechanics, and expertise with Maxroll’s Character Ability Guides.
Extra Guides
Maxroll additionally has a couple of extra guides appropriate for the midgame and endgame. These go into element on the way to unlock areas of the map, defeat sure enemies extra simply, or which Pictos are the perfect.
The way to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Skills
Esquie can break via obstacles, swim, fly, and even dive below the ocean. Discover ways to unlock all of Esquie’s Skills as you progress via the sport.
Although not associated to Esquie, do you know you possibly can break these black rocks with blue cracks in them?
Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses
Be taught 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 parts they take up, as these heal the enemy as a substitute of damaging them!
Zone Development
In the event you’re feeling misplaced after finishing the sport’s story, Maxroll has you lined with a Zone Development Information, which provides some suggestions on when to finish completely different elective zones. IGN additionally has a listing of Expedition 33 aspect quests with their rewards, so you possibly can decide which of them are value 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 those who have extra area of interest makes use of, empowering new construct archetypes.
Codex
Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Codex has data on the entire completely different Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Expertise accessible within the recreation. You’ll be able to 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 couple of of the planner’s key options:
Listed below are the options to remember when utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner.
Choose your characters and arrange the lively occasion. If you wish to create completely different groups (with distinctive setups for every character) you can too accomplish that right here. On the prime choose an elective tag like “Story” or “Put up-Story.” You utilize this part to navigate between every of the characters in your crew to vary their setups.Choose your weapon, then modify the extent. As you do the facility and scaling change however attributes aren’t presently factored in.- Choose the 6 expertise you’re utilizing on the character. NOTE: Gradient Expertise are excluded right here however you possibly can be taught extra about them within the Codex! Choose your Pictos, you should utilize every Pictos as soon as throughout your whole crew. Choose the proper stage 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, primarily based on Pictos, Attributes, and base weapon injury.Add some notes, inform folks about your ability 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 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.
