1. Choose hard difficulty for the trophy (you cant change until youve completed the main game) and Pick Varani for the Detect Hidden and Mercantile Boosts. Focus on levelling up Detect Hidden, Mercantile, and Persuasion (so that almost every check is 95%). More treasures = more gold. I suggest universalist class for the skill point buffs but sorcery only is more powerful. Around midgame the jack of all trades is significantly weaker than an all out sorcery class but the skill points and equip requirements lowered is probably worth it for a first time player (Optional) Fatewave at the very first opportunity to get your 2 points back from longsword and assassins art to spend somewhere else. If you're playing a stealth character remove it from storm bolt etc. 2 points is a very minor buff but it's a buff nonetheless and you will be fateweaving a lot later anyway 3. Never fateshift unless it's really needed. Basically save it for the most difficult of scenarios (trolls, niskaru bosses etc). Also pop an exp potion just before you hit the button prompt to end fateshift. On that note save often whether it's before a dispelled chest, or a boss room. One of the great QoL in Kingdoms of Amalur. 4. Do the alchemy shop sidequest in Gorhart for better sell prices then sell everything you won't use in the special delivery chest. Buy the Gorhart backpack as soon as possible. Junk all items you won't use going forward (even purples and yellows) and stash or carry around any socketed gear you find. Buy all shards, health/Mana Potions, lockpicks, damage potions, and exp potions from shops. You can just repair on an npc if you want but i bought all kits too. When you do get to sell all your junk you will make more gold courtesy of mercantile and detect hidden (which arent useless or optional despite what the video says). Also activate every single lorestone you can find for exp and passive buffs (plus a fun little story while you explore) 5. Start teeth of naros DLC as early as possible for a primal Staff or Chakram, 10% more damage in reckoning mode, another backpack, and litanies(portable shrine buffs as consumables). Applying primal magic gives all spells a 50% damage boost so it makes sorcery characters even more powerful. In ReReckoning the areas scale to your level so you can go back later for higher levelled primal weapons 6. Once back in the mainland unlock the house in Canneroc as soon as possible for a stash (storage) 7. Respec when you have unlocked Ysa and splurge on all the trainers you saw along the way. Do the same at Rathir, Adessa, and Mel Senshir. Make sure you buy the backpacks from all these cities too, and do their respective sidequests to get better shop prices. Don't use trainers of 4-6 and 7-9 before you've used all the 0-3 ones otherwise you'll never be able to use some of them. The only exception to this rule is the lockpicking skil because its entirely useless so missing the trainers is not an issue because lockpicking stays at 0 until you have nothing else to level up. If you're playing universalist you will have all skills maxed later anyway including lockpicking long before you reach max level. Whe doing the 4-6 and 7-9 ones just make sure you are in that level range so don't be level 7 or level 10 respectively. Basically you have to set all your skills around the same level and then fateweave again to what you really want 8. When you've maxed out Detect Hidden, Mercantile, and Persuasion, put Sagecrafting at 6 and buy any blank socketed gear in the shops or take out the ones from your stash you saved from earlier. Strengthen all shards at a sagecrafting altar until you have all pristine shards and then do utility pristine fire/pristine poison to make damage to lightly wounded targets 20%. Socket these into as many pieces as possible. Now you're mini OP until you can get the truly powerful extremely rare blacksmithing components later on. If you find better gear later on you can unbind your gems at npc which destroys the item in the process (you don't need it anyway), or just wait until sagecrafting 10 to unsocket yourself and get a bit more gold from the now useless gear. If you don't want to wait another 6 levels just respec and max out sagecrafting make your gear then put it all back to how it was before with sagecrafting at 0 9. Do the factions for twist of fates. Make sure you look up which ones you want during the final quests. Don't worry about being max level for their rewards because once you unlock sagecrafting 6 and some socketed gear their drops don't matter 10. Once you have Sagecrafting at 10 it's kinda hard between Alchemy and Dispelling because Dispelling continues to give you more loot, but alchemy gives you ability to start Crafting weaker versions of the OP potions. The downside is you need high alchemy to collect reagents otherwise you will almost always see "no reagents found" so like blacksmithing there isn't much you can do with this until you have maxed it and spent hours farming the reagents. Dispelling at 10 basically means you can force almost any dispelled chest even very hard ones. So I would do alchemy afterwards tbh. Last skill should be blacksmithing. Lockpicking can stay at 0
"then sell everything you won't use in the special delivery chest" HELL NO, the stuff from the chest now scales to your level so it is best to take it out when you have a high level. Good tips though!
@@DutchGuyMike if you're not going to use something then it's useless. Besides the gameworld gives way better equips than what is in those chests scaled or not so opening that chest at level 50 is ridiculously pointless. It's there to give you a small edge at the start. Those items are quickly replaced even at the start let alone being level 50 and access to all zones. The point of selling them is all the early money you get as well. If you're focusing one build and not trying to hoarde all equips then you shouldn't really have more than two weapon types anyway. As a full sorcery all you need is a chakram and a staff nothing else
This is one of the few games I feel truly deserves a sequel; it was made by a small group of passionate people at the tops of their fields and that passion really shines through. With better funding and a stipulation of minimal executive oversight, I feel like KoA could be the next big name in fantasy action/RPG's. One thing I wish they did better would be tweaking the skills to make them overall more useful. In all my playthroughs blacksmithing, sage rafting, dispelling and detect hidden all became pretty essential fairly quickly, while stealth and lockpicking we're next to worthless. I would like to see more and better high-end gear so I wouldn't feel compelled to kit myself in custom OP armor and weapons, and maybe provide more of an incentive to use stealth-based roleplay so that I couldn't cheese through my rogue playthrough by letting myself get caught and paying a trivial fine. Here's a tip: opening up the item radial directly after engaging in reckoning will pause the game, giving you enough time to select the correct button prompt and ensuring a maximum XP boost. Also, it's always helpful to carry a fire weapon in your arsenal for burning through pesky spiderwebs.
Not only that, but specing into detect hidden early allows you to see all lorestones on your map. Therefore, you get the exp and bonuses from completing the set. I've been playing this game since the demo was first released.
@@nerdofgames1608 it's essential yeah more essential than blacksmithing early on. Detect Hidden also gives more gold as you explore. Also they said mercantile was useless. Again false because it has incredible synergy with detect hidden to give you even more gold for all the stuff you will find. Dispelling is also useful to add to this for even more loot. Having over a million gold early game means you can buy whatever you want and use all the trainers you want when respeccing (which are expensive at 15k everytime if you have no gold). They're playing the game with universalist anyway (which gives you 27 free points in the end meaning you max out all skills way earlier). In the beginning blacksmithing is useless imo but at the end becomes the best skill. You can't really do anything with it even if you get 10 blacksmithing first because you still need the good components which are rare. You can however quite easily make pristine shards with sagecrafting 6 and socket them into gear instead to make more powerful gear than what you can find. Basically 20% lightly wounded x2 on everything for 140% lightly wounded
@@nerdofgames1608 good thing is once you have more gold than you can use (15 million for example) you can put mercantile back to 3/4 (where it will be if you got the trainers and skill book. I started with varani because they have detect hidden and mercantile boosts at the start. Lockpicking +2 is useless but varani get better skills distribution overall imo for starting out. At the end of the game when you don't need mercantile and lockpicking though it will be almain for the +2 blacksmithing probably.
Replaying the game, just saw this vid up on my recommended. A tip I would suggest while playing with gamepad. While ending reckoning mode, just mash all the buttons xyab etc at the same time before the prompt even comes up, that way you get a head start and then you can switch to the right button when you realize what it is. There's no penalty for hitting the wrong buttons. Hope to see you playing the next installment coming up. It might be the expansion or maybe a new game. I guess we'll find out on the 17th of september.
Absolutely underrated game. Should've done much better originally but they just didn't have enough left over for ads. Todd McFarlane the creator of the spawn comics and handpicked creators from oblivion, this game should've been a top 10 for years and nobody knew about it until it was too late. Now EA owns the rights instead of the original company.
Respec at the very start only gives you 2 more ability points if you are going all out in one tree. I'm not saying that it's not useful but it's just a minor bonus Respeccing to abuse trainers though now that's really helpful
You need high-end alchemy to be able to craft those Fate potions bc you cannot just buy them anywhere. Only 3 quest givers will give you a Fate potion. The first is obtained through High King Teterion in YSA.
Yep it's the best combo early game to go detect hidden and mercantile. These two skills have the best synergy early on. However you need points in Persuasion too unless you like reloading on 5% checks (which I don't)
Tip: Before salvaging equipment at a blacksmithing forge, save your game (for all those mastercrafters out there😉). If you do not get the items you wanted from the salvaging, simply, reload your save game and resalvage the same piece.
The sad thing is the stuff you really want to make the op gear has to be abused through a craft+salvage bug. Basically damaging rivets/bindings/grips. If you make a gear with one of these components and then salvage it you get a chance to receive two or 3 back, although it's rare because most of the time you only get one back.
@@nezkeys79 I've actually never went back and resalvaged gear I have already crafted. I usually repair it first and then sell it for gold. So, this is something I wasn't even aware of. However, another tip here is fully repaired gear sells higher than damaged gear, if no one else knew this either. Seriously, I have played this game a thousand times over and over & it never gets boring to me. Lol I have yet to play the new DLC though or the very hard mode. So, I will be getting to those soon. 😁
@@nerdofgames1608 the way it works is when you salvage a crafted piece of gear with a certain component it can dupe it. Basically if you make something with flawless damaging grip then salvage it you can get damaging bindings rivets grips back. if you salvage a grip and get a rivet back youre just trading one for the other so thats only good if you had 100 grips and 2 rivets. It takes a lot of hours reloading. Once I got 8 of each I was so bored at just reloading all the time so just made the gear
@@nerdofgames1608 "I've actually never went back and resalvaged gear I have already crafted. I usually repair it first and then sell it for gold. So, this is something I wasn't even aware of. However, another tip here is fully repaired gear sells higher than damaged gear, if no one else knew this either. Seriously, I have played this game a thousand times over and over & it never gets boring to me. Lol I have yet to play the new DLC though or the very hard mode. So, I will be getting to those soon. 😁" Awesome!
Tip #2 (from me lol): In both the PS3 & PS4 versions there exist a mechanic known as LOOT Manipulation. Before entering a dungeon or a house or hidden areas, save your game...then if you didn't get what you wanted from the treasure chest or enemy drops, simply, reload your save and attempt the same area again. This can sometimes be a little taxing and aggravating, but it will be worth it to get some "epic loot". (Epic loot is usually referenced toward gear sets & purple gear). Happy treasure hunting!😉
Doing this for every dungeon is a bit over the top, even for someone replaying the game. Most dungeons probably have 20+ chests. To replay all of the dungeon progress just to reset the chests is pointless. You're right about loot manipulation but doing it like this isn't really the best way. It's better to just save in the room before a boss a series of elite enemies
@@nezkeys79 True. That's exactly why I said it can be a bit taxing. There are only a few different places, in the game, in which I will do it but that is bc I know what possible gear will actually drop in these places and they happen to be a few of my favorite kinds. But, yea, before a boss is definitely more intuitive.
Great video! I just started playing. However, my old ears have alot of trouble hearing you. Wish you could redo the audio. Sounds like you are on a speakerphone.
Thanks! Great ears! This was back in the days where I do not have a microphone and used my phone to record the audio of this video. How about using the subtitle? If it is fine with you, I will try to edit it properly. I am only using the automatic subtitle feature of youtube and never bothered checking it.
Love the tip and the video tried to get a leg plate that was on ps3 PS4 couldn’t find it really hard random loot and locking picking could help to get random loot if u earn good timing opening had a lot rare stuff wish I can show u guys ....💯💯👍👏
5:55 this is subjective Personally blacksmithing early is a waste of points. Mercantile is far more useful because gold is always useful. The combo of mercantile + detect hidden + dispelling means you are getting more loot all the timr as you progress, and then sell them for more as well, plus buy cheaper. You even said it yourself "if you have the right components". Thats the thing...getting the op components in blacksmithing is rare and whatever you make will absolutely not be better than stuff you find from quests, shops, or loot. You still need gold to buy the components or loot to break down (which detect hidden and dispelling gives more of). Lockpicking I agree is useless because of how easy the minigame is even on very hard locks with 0 lockpicking Blacksmithing IS op but only at the very end of the game when you have 10 blacksmithing, prismere/ebony drops and flawless components(which dont drop until way into the level 40s). Theye also extremely rare and the only real way to farm them is save scumming a salavging bug. This obviously requires a lot of reloads and luck. Until then sagecrafting is far better About alchemy...fate potions use essence of fate which you won't get much unless you fateshit all the time (which as you pointed out is bad because you want to save it for the encounters you can beat). potions are powerful yes but if you have enough gold you can just buy the most powerful ones from shops that you won't be able to make yet (like damage boosts magic amplification etc). A minor squabble about alchemy is that exp potions require prismere dust which you only get from the final region of the game. You also need a very high alchemy skill to stop seeing the "no reagents harvested" message. Persuasion is also useful to get certain loot or avoid difficult encounters, or save yourself an extra trip somewhere else Useful Early: Detect Hidden (more gold + more treasure = more gold) Mercantile (more gold) Persuasion (more gold) Dispelling (more gold) Stealth (if playing finesse only class or finesse hybrid) Useful Later: Sagecrafting (mid-late game, after passing mel senshir) Blacksmithing (extreme late game) Alchemy (mid-late game craft a bunch of damage potions and magic amplification potions) Useless: Lockpicking (the mini game is too easy even on very hard locks with 0 lockpicking) Stealth (if playing full might or full sorcery)
Thank you for the tips. I started playing a week ago, and they will help. I experienced a problem though on ps4. In the town of Canneroc, there is an npc named Garaner Vernt who was being attacked by spiders. He died to the last spider. I could still interact with him though, and he told me to meet with him later. However, any time I tried to interact with him after that failed. He just lays there dead. Is there any way to essentially bring him back, or is his quest chain locked to me?
Yep, I also encountered that problem. What I did is that I try to protect him during that time and not allow him to be killed by spiders. Most effective way so far for me was to use reckon mode during that time.
I've never had this glitch happen to me. Although, the PS4 version has kept some of the old glitches, from the PS3, and there are new ones as well. It's best to save your game before interacting with anyone in town or approaching a new town.
If you like playing good story driven games and good action rpg, this game, and do not mind the graphics, it might worth your time. The graphics is quite outdated.
If you turn on the supersampling to max, there are visible graphic changes. The game looks refined and sharper. But of course, I am assuming this is on PC. I don’t know how consoles work. But my GPU was definitely stretched. From 48 C without SS to 66 C with SS. Huge impact
YES. Ignore the guy saying to turn super sampling to max. Most cards can't handle that. Also the benefit is NEGLIGIBLE at best. I'm running a 4k system that can handle it and let me tell you, don't do it youre throwing away massive fps for nothing. Bad advice. Playing at 1440 to 4k is good enough, ignore the super sampling as it affects SOME things in the distance that's not noticeable. But the games worth it and there is a visual difference in the remaster from the og and ignore anyone telling you otherwise. Also the new camera, fov and proper gear scaling is reason enough to buy it. They fixed a ton of bugs, and no it isn't more buggy than the original that's enough ridiculous comment I hear. It's not perfect but it's a WORLD of alot better.
@@MrSilverio13 I would recommend you this build: ruclips.net/video/h9v2NDeDLsk/видео.html it is a shadowcaster build. Just be patient with this video because I was not able to show the allocation of the build. I was able to mention it but I was not able show it. Sorry for that... this is one of my first video. I was learning still the ropes of how to create build guides.
Don't need anymore gold I have 10mil. Thinking about starting over again taking my time with it. After over 250hrs though and being level 50 finally I'm hesitant lol.
@@sanjindelibasic6467 follow the main quest you once you get to the web-something place there's a quest there where you get one for free and can upgrade it
There is a quest in Canneroc, Adessa, The House of Valor (Previously a DLC add-on for PS3 but now offered for free on PS4, The Caled Coast (Seawatch, which is a castle). There is also another house located in the area below the Red Marshes known as Aron's Excuvation Office. Once you beat the main quest you will also get a room in the Orbocant in Rathir.
Healing/Mana Potions are useful, you just don't need alchemy for it as you can just buy them all from shops if you have enough gold. To get high gold you need detect hidden and mercantile Depends how much your health regenerates I guess with crafted gear. Trolls/Niskaru can one shot mages so health regeneration is pointless. If you have might gear that's already tanky and can regen off their hits then obviously yes
@@nezkeys79 yeah, I'm 100% might level 40 and 4 times 2% of regeneration a second, I'm practically Invincible 😅. But this week I died for the first time to my surprise, killed by the King of the stone giants in the Naratos dlc.
@@nezkeys79 no, +2 life +2 mana on each. Prismer from head to toes and I mostly only use both size of self made Prismer swords with primal and fire. I thought that My swords were really powerful 😅, but I seen a video of a guy one shot a rough golem 😳.
I really don't recommend blacksmithing and sagecrafting if you want any sense of challenge or loot joy in this game, they are horribly overpowered and ruined my experience with this game back in the day
Hopefully you're joking and the point of this comment was to make fun of sexist gamers! Although, God forbid we find misogyny in the gaming community...what a shock! It is sad though.
@@theoptimisticskeptic stop preaching and throwing around "misogyny" and insulting the entire gamin community. Let him have his opinions while you have yours
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1. Choose hard difficulty for the trophy (you cant change until youve completed the main game) and Pick Varani for the Detect Hidden and Mercantile Boosts. Focus on levelling up Detect Hidden, Mercantile, and Persuasion (so that almost every check is 95%). More treasures = more gold. I suggest universalist class for the skill point buffs but sorcery only is more powerful. Around midgame the jack of all trades is significantly weaker than an all out sorcery class but the skill points and equip requirements lowered is probably worth it for a first time player
(Optional) Fatewave at the very first opportunity to get your 2 points back from longsword and assassins art to spend somewhere else. If you're playing a stealth character remove it from storm bolt etc. 2 points is a very minor buff but it's a buff nonetheless and you will be fateweaving a lot later anyway
3. Never fateshift unless it's really needed. Basically save it for the most difficult of scenarios (trolls, niskaru bosses etc). Also pop an exp potion just before you hit the button prompt to end fateshift. On that note save often whether it's before a dispelled chest, or a boss room. One of the great QoL in Kingdoms of Amalur.
4. Do the alchemy shop sidequest in Gorhart for better sell prices then sell everything you won't use in the special delivery chest. Buy the Gorhart backpack as soon as possible. Junk all items you won't use going forward (even purples and yellows) and stash or carry around any socketed gear you find. Buy all shards, health/Mana Potions, lockpicks, damage potions, and exp potions from shops. You can just repair on an npc if you want but i bought all kits too. When you do get to sell all your junk you will make more gold courtesy of mercantile and detect hidden (which arent useless or optional despite what the video says). Also activate every single lorestone you can find for exp and passive buffs (plus a fun little story while you explore)
5. Start teeth of naros DLC as early as possible for a primal Staff or Chakram, 10% more damage in reckoning mode, another backpack, and litanies(portable shrine buffs as consumables). Applying primal magic gives all spells a 50% damage boost so it makes sorcery characters even more powerful. In ReReckoning the areas scale to your level so you can go back later for higher levelled primal weapons
6. Once back in the mainland unlock the house in Canneroc as soon as possible for a stash (storage)
7. Respec when you have unlocked Ysa and splurge on all the trainers you saw along the way. Do the same at Rathir, Adessa, and Mel Senshir. Make sure you buy the backpacks from all these cities too, and do their respective sidequests to get better shop prices. Don't use trainers of 4-6 and 7-9 before you've used all the 0-3 ones otherwise you'll never be able to use some of them. The only exception to this rule is the lockpicking skil because its entirely useless so missing the trainers is not an issue because lockpicking stays at 0 until you have nothing else to level up. If you're playing universalist you will have all skills maxed later anyway including lockpicking long before you reach max level. Whe doing the 4-6 and 7-9 ones just make sure you are in that level range so don't be level 7 or level 10 respectively. Basically you have to set all your skills around the same level and then fateweave again to what you really want
8. When you've maxed out Detect Hidden, Mercantile, and Persuasion, put Sagecrafting at 6 and buy any blank socketed gear in the shops or take out the ones from your stash you saved from earlier. Strengthen all shards at a sagecrafting altar until you have all pristine shards and then do utility pristine fire/pristine poison to make damage to lightly wounded targets 20%. Socket these into as many pieces as possible. Now you're mini OP until you can get the truly powerful extremely rare blacksmithing components later on. If you find better gear later on you can unbind your gems at npc which destroys the item in the process (you don't need it anyway), or just wait until sagecrafting 10 to unsocket yourself and get a bit more gold from the now useless gear. If you don't want to wait another 6 levels just respec and max out sagecrafting make your gear then put it all back to how it was before with sagecrafting at 0
9. Do the factions for twist of fates. Make sure you look up which ones you want during the final quests. Don't worry about being max level for their rewards because once you unlock sagecrafting 6 and some socketed gear their drops don't matter
10. Once you have Sagecrafting at 10 it's kinda hard between Alchemy and Dispelling because Dispelling continues to give you more loot, but alchemy gives you ability to start Crafting weaker versions of the OP potions. The downside is you need high alchemy to collect reagents otherwise you will almost always see "no reagents found" so like blacksmithing there isn't much you can do with this until you have maxed it and spent hours farming the reagents. Dispelling at 10 basically means you can force almost any dispelled chest even very hard ones. So I would do alchemy afterwards tbh. Last skill should be blacksmithing. Lockpicking can stay at 0
Yeah, totally agree!
"then sell everything you won't use in the special delivery chest" HELL NO, the stuff from the chest now scales to your level so it is best to take it out when you have a high level. Good tips though!
@@DutchGuyMike if you're not going to use something then it's useless. Besides the gameworld gives way better equips than what is in those chests scaled or not so opening that chest at level 50 is ridiculously pointless. It's there to give you a small edge at the start. Those items are quickly replaced even at the start let alone being level 50 and access to all zones. The point of selling them is all the early money you get as well. If you're focusing one build and not trying to hoarde all equips then you shouldn't really have more than two weapon types anyway. As a full sorcery all you need is a chakram and a staff nothing else
This is one of the few games I feel truly deserves a sequel; it was made by a small group of passionate people at the tops of their fields and that passion really shines through. With better funding and a stipulation of minimal executive oversight, I feel like KoA could be the next big name in fantasy action/RPG's.
One thing I wish they did better would be tweaking the skills to make them overall more useful. In all my playthroughs blacksmithing, sage rafting, dispelling and detect hidden all became pretty essential fairly quickly, while stealth and lockpicking we're next to worthless. I would like to see more and better high-end gear so I wouldn't feel compelled to kit myself in custom OP armor and weapons, and maybe provide more of an incentive to use stealth-based roleplay so that I couldn't cheese through my rogue playthrough by letting myself get caught and paying a trivial fine.
Here's a tip: opening up the item radial directly after engaging in reckoning will pause the game, giving you enough time to select the correct button prompt and ensuring a maximum XP boost. Also, it's always helpful to carry a fire weapon in your arsenal for burning through pesky spiderwebs.
I would argue detect hidden is pretty essential rather than optional as it's the only way you can access hidden door areas
Point taken. It is essential for those who wants to play and access all hidden things in the game.
Not only that, but specing into detect hidden early allows you to see all lorestones on your map. Therefore, you get the exp and bonuses from completing the set. I've been playing this game since the demo was first released.
@@nerdofgames1608 it's essential yeah more essential than blacksmithing early on. Detect Hidden also gives more gold as you explore. Also they said mercantile was useless. Again false because it has incredible synergy with detect hidden to give you even more gold for all the stuff you will find. Dispelling is also useful to add to this for even more loot. Having over a million gold early game means you can buy whatever you want and use all the trainers you want when respeccing (which are expensive at 15k everytime if you have no gold). They're playing the game with universalist anyway (which gives you 27 free points in the end meaning you max out all skills way earlier). In the beginning blacksmithing is useless imo but at the end becomes the best skill. You can't really do anything with it even if you get 10 blacksmithing first because you still need the good components which are rare. You can however quite easily make pristine shards with sagecrafting 6 and socket them into gear instead to make more powerful gear than what you can find. Basically 20% lightly wounded x2 on everything for 140% lightly wounded
@@nezkeys79 Yea, I completely agree. Plus, if you work the skills properly, you can effectively max all of them out & get the trophy for doing so. 😉
@@nerdofgames1608 good thing is once you have more gold than you can use (15 million for example) you can put mercantile back to 3/4 (where it will be if you got the trainers and skill book. I started with varani because they have detect hidden and mercantile boosts at the start. Lockpicking +2 is useless but varani get better skills distribution overall imo for starting out. At the end of the game when you don't need mercantile and lockpicking though it will be almain for the +2 blacksmithing probably.
Replaying the game, just saw this vid up on my recommended. A tip I would suggest while playing with gamepad. While ending reckoning mode, just mash all the buttons xyab etc at the same time before the prompt even comes up, that way you get a head start and then you can switch to the right button when you realize what it is. There's no penalty for hitting the wrong buttons.
Hope to see you playing the next installment coming up. It might be the expansion or maybe a new game. I guess we'll find out on the 17th of september.
Wish these guides existed when the game first came out. Very good guide!
Thanks!!!
Absolutely underrated game. Should've done much better originally but they just didn't have enough left over for ads. Todd McFarlane the creator of the spawn comics and handpicked creators from oblivion, this game should've been a top 10 for years and nobody knew about it until it was too late. Now EA owns the rights instead of the original company.
I love it that you are using a controller, gonna give that a try in my new re-run, thank you!
You're welcome!!!
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Respec at the very start only gives you 2 more ability points if you are going all out in one tree. I'm not saying that it's not useful but it's just a minor bonus
Respeccing to abuse trainers though now that's really helpful
I like high detect hidden & mercantile. Make so much gold you don’t need alchemy & the sell on destroying junk is really handy!
You need high-end alchemy to be able to craft those Fate potions bc you cannot just buy them anywhere. Only 3 quest givers will give you a Fate potion. The first is obtained through High King Teterion in YSA.
Yep it's the best combo early game to go detect hidden and mercantile. These two skills have the best synergy early on. However you need points in Persuasion too unless you like reloading on 5% checks (which I don't)
Sorry to say Mercantile skills is a must for me because gold is very important in this game for buying item such as lock pick and repair kits
Correct yes. Especially when paired with detect hidden. They said detect hidden was optional and mercantile was useless. They couldn't be more wrong
Tip: Before salvaging equipment at a blacksmithing forge, save your game (for all those mastercrafters out there😉). If you do not get the items you wanted from the salvaging, simply, reload your save game and resalvage the same piece.
The sad thing is the stuff you really want to make the op gear has to be abused through a craft+salvage bug. Basically damaging rivets/bindings/grips. If you make a gear with one of these components and then salvage it you get a chance to receive two or 3 back, although it's rare because most of the time you only get one back.
@@nezkeys79 I've actually never went back and resalvaged gear I have already crafted. I usually repair it first and then sell it for gold. So, this is something I wasn't even aware of. However, another tip here is fully repaired gear sells higher than damaged gear, if no one else knew this either. Seriously, I have played this game a thousand times over and over & it never gets boring to me. Lol I have yet to play the new DLC though or the very hard mode. So, I will be getting to those soon. 😁
@@nerdofgames1608 the way it works is when you salvage a crafted piece of gear with a certain component it can dupe it. Basically if you make something with flawless damaging grip then salvage it you can get damaging bindings rivets grips back. if you salvage a grip and get a rivet back youre just trading one for the other so thats only good if you had 100 grips and 2 rivets. It takes a lot of hours reloading. Once I got 8 of each I was so bored at just reloading all the time so just made the gear
@@nerdofgames1608 "I've actually never went back and resalvaged gear I have already crafted. I usually repair it first and then sell it for gold. So, this is something I wasn't even aware of. However, another tip here is fully repaired gear sells higher than damaged gear, if no one else knew this either. Seriously, I have played this game a thousand times over and over & it never gets boring to me. Lol I have yet to play the new DLC though or the very hard mode. So, I will be getting to those soon. 😁" Awesome!
@@nezkeys79 That is not a bug (changing the type of item component).
Thank you so much for the guide 🙏
Glad that you like it!
Tip #2 (from me lol): In both the PS3 & PS4 versions there exist a mechanic known as LOOT Manipulation. Before entering a dungeon or a house or hidden areas, save your game...then if you didn't get what you wanted from the treasure chest or enemy drops, simply, reload your save and attempt the same area again. This can sometimes be a little taxing and aggravating, but it will be worth it to get some "epic loot". (Epic loot is usually referenced toward gear sets & purple gear). Happy treasure hunting!😉
Doing this for every dungeon is a bit over the top, even for someone replaying the game. Most dungeons probably have 20+ chests. To replay all of the dungeon progress just to reset the chests is pointless.
You're right about loot manipulation but doing it like this isn't really the best way. It's better to just save in the room before a boss a series of elite enemies
@@nezkeys79 True. That's exactly why I said it can be a bit taxing. There are only a few different places, in the game, in which I will do it but that is bc I know what possible gear will actually drop in these places and they happen to be a few of my favorite kinds. But, yea, before a boss is definitely more intuitive.
Thanks for the tips!
You're welcome!!!
Great video! I just started playing. However, my old ears have alot of trouble hearing you. Wish you could redo the audio. Sounds like you are on a speakerphone.
Thanks!
Great ears! This was back in the days where I do not have a microphone and used my phone to record the audio of this video.
How about using the subtitle? If it is fine with you, I will try to edit it properly. I am only using the automatic subtitle feature of youtube and never bothered checking it.
Love the tip and the video tried to get a leg plate that was on ps3 PS4 couldn’t find it really hard random loot and locking picking could help to get random loot if u earn good timing opening had a lot rare stuff wish I can show u guys ....💯💯👍👏
Great info and tips, thank you.
You're welcome!!! Hope you enjoy the game!
Very nice, keep them coming!
Thanks!
5:55 this is subjective
Personally blacksmithing early is a waste of points. Mercantile is far more useful because gold is always useful. The combo of mercantile + detect hidden + dispelling means you are getting more loot all the timr as you progress, and then sell them for more as well, plus buy cheaper. You even said it yourself "if you have the right components". Thats the thing...getting the op components in blacksmithing is rare and whatever you make will absolutely not be better than stuff you find from quests, shops, or loot. You still need gold to buy the components or loot to break down (which detect hidden and dispelling gives more of). Lockpicking I agree is useless because of how easy the minigame is even on very hard locks with 0 lockpicking
Blacksmithing IS op but only at the very end of the game when you have 10 blacksmithing, prismere/ebony drops and flawless components(which dont drop until way into the level 40s). Theye also extremely rare and the only real way to farm them is save scumming a salavging bug. This obviously requires a lot of reloads and luck. Until then sagecrafting is far better
About alchemy...fate potions use essence of fate which you won't get much unless you fateshit all the time (which as you pointed out is bad because you want to save it for the encounters you can beat). potions are powerful yes but if you have enough gold you can just buy the most powerful ones from shops that you won't be able to make yet (like damage boosts magic amplification etc). A minor squabble about alchemy is that exp potions require prismere dust which you only get from the final region of the game. You also need a very high alchemy skill to stop seeing the "no reagents harvested" message.
Persuasion is also useful to get certain loot or avoid difficult encounters, or save yourself an extra trip somewhere else
Useful Early:
Detect Hidden (more gold + more treasure = more gold)
Mercantile (more gold)
Persuasion (more gold)
Dispelling (more gold)
Stealth (if playing finesse only class or finesse hybrid)
Useful Later:
Sagecrafting (mid-late game, after passing mel senshir)
Blacksmithing (extreme late game)
Alchemy (mid-late game craft a bunch of damage potions and magic amplification potions)
Useless:
Lockpicking (the mini game is too easy even on very hard locks with 0 lockpicking)
Stealth (if playing full might or full sorcery)
What is the name of the spiked armor and where can i get it?
Thank you for the tips. I started playing a week ago, and they will help. I experienced a problem though on ps4. In the town of Canneroc, there is an npc named Garaner Vernt who was being attacked by spiders. He died to the last spider. I could still interact with him though, and he told me to meet with him later. However, any time I tried to interact with him after that failed. He just lays there dead. Is there any way to essentially bring him back, or is his quest chain locked to me?
Yep, I also encountered that problem. What I did is that I try to protect him during that time and not allow him to be killed by spiders. Most effective way so far for me was to use reckon mode during that time.
Also make sure to save before that so you can re do it easy
@@GENeUINERPGgaming I think it looks nice. 😊
I've never had this glitch happen to me. Although, the PS4 version has kept some of the old glitches, from the PS3, and there are new ones as well. It's best to save your game before interacting with anyone in town or approaching a new town.
@@GENeUINERPGgaming I really find this is one of the oversights that the remaster should have fixed..
I am considering playing it this year and I would like to know if it is worth nowadays
If you like playing good story driven games and good action rpg, this game, and do not mind the graphics, it might worth your time. The graphics is quite outdated.
If you turn on the supersampling to max, there are visible graphic changes. The game looks refined and sharper. But of course, I am assuming this is on PC. I don’t know how consoles work. But my GPU was definitely stretched. From 48 C without SS to 66 C with SS. Huge impact
YES. Ignore the guy saying to turn super sampling to max. Most cards can't handle that. Also the benefit is NEGLIGIBLE at best. I'm running a 4k system that can handle it and let me tell you, don't do it youre throwing away massive fps for nothing. Bad advice. Playing at 1440 to 4k is good enough, ignore the super sampling as it affects SOME things in the distance that's not noticeable. But the games worth it and there is a visual difference in the remaster from the og and ignore anyone telling you otherwise. Also the new camera, fov and proper gear scaling is reason enough to buy it. They fixed a ton of bugs, and no it isn't more buggy than the original that's enough ridiculous comment I hear. It's not perfect but it's a WORLD of alot better.
It's awesome
It's a poor Mans witcher or dragon age but it's not Bad. Really fun when You start to become stronger.
Hello. Do you recommend any specific buiild?
What kind of playstyle are planning?
@@GENeUINERPGgaming anything unrelated to pure melee, warrior, barbarian and the like. Something that's not just face tanking
@@MrSilverio13 I would recommend you this build: ruclips.net/video/h9v2NDeDLsk/видео.html
it is a shadowcaster build. Just be patient with this video because I was not able to show the allocation of the build. I was able to mention it but I was not able show it. Sorry for that... this is one of my first video. I was learning still the ropes of how to create build guides.
@@GENeUINERPGgaming lol, it's okay. The beginnings are always special. Thanks for answering in a 2 year old video
@@MrSilverio13 you're welcome! Hope you enjoy the game! =)
Basic advice, but reasonable.
You can cancel combo attacks just use magic it cancels it straight away
Timestamps and a mini definition would help a lot in your details
Don't need anymore gold I have 10mil. Thinking about starting over again taking my time with it. After over 250hrs though and being level 50 finally I'm hesitant lol.
Good game this is. Nice review
Thanks!
Can someone tell me where can i find stash to leave stuff i cant carry?
You will gain houses in the game by completing quests... you can put some of your items there.
@@GENeUINERPGgaming oh...ok thanks
@@sanjindelibasic6467 follow the main quest you once you get to the web-something place there's a quest there where you get one for free and can upgrade it
There is a quest in Canneroc, Adessa, The House of Valor (Previously a DLC add-on for PS3 but now offered for free on PS4, The Caled Coast (Seawatch, which is a castle). There is also another house located in the area below the Red Marshes known as Aron's Excuvation Office. Once you beat the main quest you will also get a room in the Orbocant in Rathir.
I never used any potion even once. Just put some Mana and Health regeneration into your armor pieces and weapons.
That's my strategy aswell
Healing/Mana Potions are useful, you just don't need alchemy for it as you can just buy them all from shops if you have enough gold. To get high gold you need detect hidden and mercantile
Depends how much your health regenerates I guess with crafted gear. Trolls/Niskaru can one shot mages so health regeneration is pointless. If you have might gear that's already tanky and can regen off their hits then obviously yes
@@nezkeys79 yeah, I'm 100% might level 40 and 4 times 2% of regeneration a second, I'm practically Invincible 😅. But this week I died for the first time to my surprise, killed by the King of the stone giants in the Naratos dlc.
@@GOGOAKUMAN how much ho regeneration do you have on each piece of gear? +3 per second on everything?
@@nezkeys79 no, +2 life +2 mana on each.
Prismer from head to toes and I mostly only use both size of self made Prismer swords with primal and fire.
I thought that My swords were really powerful 😅, but I seen a video of a guy one shot a rough golem 😳.
RJ? Is that you ❤️
noypi ka po ba?
300 hours? So.. You like this game?
Pretty much loved this game!
300 hours? Damn i only went that hard on metal gear 5 lol
they need to make a sequel or put back the removed questlines
I haven't noticed any quests removed. Which are you talking about?
Not to mention, for Re-reckoning, they gave everyone The House of Valor, Dead Kel, and Teeth of Naros dlcs.
Carrying way to much
I really don't recommend blacksmithing and sagecrafting if you want any sense of challenge or loot joy in this game, they are horribly overpowered and ruined my experience with this game back in the day
don't craft weapons and armors it will make the game way too easy
Year old comment but, even at the highest difficulty crafting blows thru the game?
@@PythonDelta yep....never use crafted armors and weapons just use rare set....crafted armors and weps are way too OP
Taking game advice from a female.! No, But thank's....
Yeah females do exist one day maybe you'll meet some, on a side note you should probably not post comments imo.
Hopefully you're joking and the point of this comment was to make fun of sexist gamers! Although, God forbid we find misogyny in the gaming community...what a shock! It is sad though.
@@theoptimisticskeptic stop preaching and throwing around "misogyny" and insulting the entire gamin community. Let him have his opinions while you have yours
@@sylvaindorion5235 take a joke