Community compilation of knowledge and mechanics in the game.

[Loot]

Please feel free to post about things you've discovered, while playing the game, in this thread.

- You can change your appearance by talking to Haberdasher in Redstone Keep.

- Drop chance of good items like Epic tier and Wisdom crystals from Heroic Spirits seems to be tied to level. The higher your level, the better the loot you get, so extensive farming before max level is a bit wasteful. - The Grand Mugwump

- You can get 2 Skill Points every 30 days in Zagros Mountains. There is a Library Northwest of Crowders Village, which is in the top left and one below/between Southcliff Village and Snowridge, which are near the bottom of the map. You will need to defeat a monster. You also get a random potion that increases a stat by 5 points.

- Heroic Souls can give Equipment, Jewels or 1-2 Wisdom Crystals when you defeat them. It is best to clear them out whenever they spawn. - Galvon

- There is a Purple Flame, Southwest of Cedarwood Village in Zagros Mountains & West Docana Desert, northeast edge of the map from Diresprings that allows you to enchant items, including mounts, for the price of 50 Jade. You can choose 1 of 3 enchantments. - Michiel & zAcEz

- You can recruit Dragons at a Portal, Northwest of Snowridge in Zagros Mountains, South of the Enchantment location. - Michiel

- You can get unique trinkets that provide skills from Tavern Maidens after romancing. Fadia: Phoenix Tome; summons a powerful Phoenix for 25s to assist you in battle,
Nura: Tome of the Darkclaw; Inflicts burn damage in a marked area,
Sumayah: Crown of Vines; 30% chance to Bind attacker for 5s,
Shukriya: Lilac Lightning Stone; 3 Chains of Lightning that hit enemies,
Jesseniya: Rogue Stone; Turns you invisible every 5s. - WTFUUN

- Winning a brawl in towns where a Tavern Maiden resides will lead to an improvement in relationship with the maiden. There's also a chance that she will try to stop you from starting a brawl. Not continuing the brawl will also improve your relationship with her. You can do this more often than giving gifts, buying drinks for everyone, or asking her personal questions. - loseaturn

- Hero NPCs will travel between two towns on a daily basis. So if you don't find a ruler/vassal in his own fief/land, chances are he's in the next town/village nearby. You can also ask your hero companions the locations of NPC listed in your intel. - loseaturn

- You can get 50 Jade from clearing heavily guarded Bandit Camps. They may also have chests which contain a small amount of Jade and refill over time. You'll know if they have Jade or not by the icon hovering over the chests. - Galvon

- When tracking down a hero you want to hire, open the map and check the settlements. You can see each character, if any, by hovering over the settlement. - Jeidi

- Burn and Bleed are powerful status effects that scale with Max HP. - Jeidi

- The Mount Merchant in Twinluna Valley has a rare chance to put a Phoenix Mount up for sale. Costing 24k Utar, it is one of the fastest mounts in the game. - Jeidi
You can also obtain this mount from Redstone Keep Merchant. - Snowman

- You can obtain a Leopard Mount with the same speed for 6.6k Utar. - Michiel

- Capture cities/villages instead of outposts. Owning these opens up their exclusive dungeons which give unique and powerful items. - Jeidi

- Keep working on your Brawling skills, as these will allow you to enter tournaments which will gives you rewards like gear and Wisdom Crystals. - Jeidi

- Keep increasing your prestige in settlements. There's a wandering NPC who will allow you to hire a powerful healing unit; White Rose Healers, that can only be found in Tribal Halls which require you to have high prestige in order to enter. Higher prestige also increases the quality of troops you will be able to hire when talking to the Village Elder. - Jeidi

- There’s a free expansion for the game that is not on the Steam store. It’s located in the mod section in the main menu and you have to activate it. It adds a ton of new quests, items, and a couple playable characters. - Malech

- Companions with 50-99 relationship can level up their command skill to level two, while those with 100 can increase it to level 3. Just click the Dialogue icon in your party menu and choose "About your command.." to level up the skill. - loseaturn

- Before meeting Ifirt Void Master, there is a tall Ifirt and a short Ifirt. Talk to them twice. They will request that you bring them some water. Give them some and they pay you with a Book of Fire (water can be obtained by talking to the farmer(?) in the same map). Complete searching for all pages of the Book of Fire, fight the boss, and choose not to release him, you can summon him in battle when you have the Book of Fire equipped. - Plant a Butterfly

- Fastest way to increase affection with a party member when gifts are hard to find is to dismiss them near a town, then ask what you can do for them. You can recruit them back after that and proceed to do their task. - zAcEz

- "The Legacy Companion Threnody has a skill at 20 Relationship that grants one Wisdom Chrystal every week.

That's the extra Skill Point item. Super valuable!

You have to unlock her in Crystal Springs the first time, I don't know if you can do it in subsequent playthroughs though, I haven't tried. Though you can take her as a starting companion in the Legacy Shop after unlocking her." - 2chuu4u

Relationships: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandsOfSalzaar/comments/s6euap/mostly_complete_relationship_spreadsheet/ - Link posted by Nauntingraund

[Nauntingraund]

if you are short on gifts ritual dungeon in zagros, and mirage forest in umbra hills are dungeons that are easy to run that give gifts at the end most of the time.

a good way of dealing with factions if you are planning on taking over their towns is to get the rep of their commanders to 50 and then run around wining over all the commanders so they have less people to defend against you.

if you plan on doing any gear farming from secret realms but want to have alliances with other factions, take over every town that has a witch in it before trying to form an alliance with x faction(ex. take snowridge, frost valley and qebui keep before allying with the dhib).

[andy]

Publicado originalmente por Nauntingraund:

if you are short on gifts ritual dungeon in zagros, and mirage forest in umbra hills are dungeons that are easy to run that give gifts at the end most of the time.

I think most (or all?) dungeons have guaranteed gifts. Gift list depends on dungeon. For example, abandoned redstone mine is a good place to get music, toys and gear type gifts.

[Nauntingraund]

Publicado originalmente por andy:

Publicado originalmente por Nauntingraund:

if you are short on gifts ritual dungeon in zagros, and mirage forest in umbra hills are dungeons that are easy to run that give gifts at the end most of the time.

I think most (or all?) dungeons have guaranteed gifts. Gift list depends on dungeon. For example, abandoned redstone mine is a good place to get music, toys and gear type gifts.

all dungeons might i just dont know for sure so i like to ere on the side of caution, recommending those was more that those 2 dungeons are 5 floors, and have pretty short prep times. 6 and 12 hours. so they are faster to knock out then some of the others, def worth adding abandoned mine to that list i kind of forgot about it.

[Michiel]

And don't forget Pottery Workshop, quickest way to get a ton of money early game IMHO.
5 floors, 1 trash mob, and no walking area to the boss.

[Nauntingraund]

Publicado originalmente por Loot Repeat:

-in Redstone Keep. You can also trade without paying a fee at this location.

this is only true if you take the caravan to redstone, it gives you a trade permit for the closest major city to where it drops you off in any of the zones.

[Alby]

sometimes it happens that an accompanying hero suddenly is missing, sometimes two or three. this happens cause their friendliness declined due to an event in your faction regarding their loved ones.

for example, your faction leader chooses in an event to "punish some troops" and two heroes in his retinue think this is rly bad and they change to "are now enemies"-status, this might cause your heroes to leave the party if they are close to those afffected heroes.

usually they can be found in the next tavern with the same gear and friendliness

[Michiel]

Yea it's a true balancing act ! Reminds me a lot of Mount and Blade lol
I seem to have found a party that works tho, just respond Kind, Honest and Calm and for me they balance eachother out to keep them above 50 rep.

[leader cocaine]

some companions have rare likings like a city (for example petra lies redstone keep iirc)
Astrid for some reason likes the Nasir but i most often find her as a member of the Thur
so if you have her in your army and your relations worsen for Nasir like go to war with them she might rebell

[andy]

Publicado originalmente por Michiel:

I seem to have found a party that works tho, just respond Kind, Honest and Calm and for me they balance eachother out to keep them above 50 rep.

Riq, Lotus, Threnody, Najima, Bellen. Who are other 4?

[Michiel]

You have 9 heroes ? How did you do that ? I can have only 7.

Anyway, here's my current harem party :

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2699740513

Honest replies give a buff to all, Kind and Weak are for Riq, Lotus and Threnody and Tough buffs Astrid, Galo and Tasha. Calm gives a buff to most of them as well.

[andy]

2 base, 4 from talents, 3 from legacy.

Are you sure Astrid and Galo are fine with such options? Both left my party after some time.

[Michiel]

Yea they haven't left mine ever so far (day 672), I added the replies you can give to their periodic chats above. Astrid and Galo also give frequent +1 stamina chats.

[Michiel]

I first had Amira Zahra as well and if you haven't done her quest yet her rep won't change at all.

[andy]

How to unlock Amira's quest? Also, perhaps Takiyah should be fine with kind options.

[Michiel]

You have to max her rep. I did this by giving her 6 towns because her gifts are incredibly rare for some reason. I haven't tried Takiyah yet :)