You sort of level way too slowly

[QuestionCat]

I can't be the only one that is thinking this lol, I've been cooking everything I find non stop all game for like 10 hours and it's only at level 4. The hell lol

[Nokturnal]

I found Gardening and Fishing to level insanely quickly compared to everything else. (Especially with the fishing mini-game turned off by default)

The combat Talents on the other hand take way too long to level. The way they currently have it set up is that only attack speed matters at speeding up how quick you level your combat skills, which seems like a bad idea as it promotes only using fast weapons and not slow + strong weapons.

[Niwoh]

Cooking is quick to level. You can just make a huge farm, plant all your seeds (using sprinklers makes it a lot faster since you don't have to water the crops) and then just come back and harvest/replant/cook everything.
Can't do it right from the get-go since you need to accumulate some seeds first but once you have them it's maxed in no time and with little effort.

[Diarmuhnd]

Are you cooking with 10 Cook Pots, 100 at a time?

[Senjai]

I mean the talents have very little impact on the game, so it's probably fine.

[Bobucles]

Originally posted by Nokturnal:

The combat Talents on the other hand take way too long to level. The way they currently have it set up is that only attack speed matters at speeding up how quick you level your combat skills, which seems like a bad idea as it promotes only using fast weapons and not slow + strong weapons.

wait is that what's going on? No wonder I'm at melee 40 with lvl 80 vitality. The big axe is such a comfy weapon.

[Riketta]

Weapon attack speed needs to be normalized so that slow weapons can trigger effects proportionally more often and will give more experience.
WoW Classic tech btw (2003).

[Casual Amateur]

Hmm..... Cook will be easy for me that is. All thank to my giant plant farm that i working on. The more seed I gather from monster and loot from wild plants. It build up over times like crazy and I pretty much max out on planting stuff. I can spend some time on fishing as I wait for the plant grow again.

I didn't think of level cooking yet though. I should start by cooking a lot of heart berry, glow tulip, mushroom and bomb pepper. Maybe do some fish cooking too.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by QuestionCat:

I can't be the only one that is thinking this lol, I've been cooking everything I find non stop all game for like 10 hours and it's only at level 4. The hell lol

The problem is that you have not yet set up a farm to grow your crops in bulk. That is what the Cooking Skill is balanced to support. It'd take forever to level Cooking if you're just gathering random stuff and throwing it in a pot. :)

Seeds for starting area plants are plentiful. And, food buffs are of upmost importance in Core Keeper. (They're tooooo OP and "important" IMO. This game should be called "The Iron Chef"...)

Grow plants, cook them with other plants you've grown. Get buffs, be stronk, kill teh boss, get phat lewtz... in that order.

[Arson]

Originally posted by Senjai:

I mean the talents have very little impact on the game, so it's probably fine.

lmao no? they affect gameplay a TON

[rodelis]

Btw, found this a couple days ago for anyone that wants to powerlevel melee and ranged. Works with magic too. As for summoner, I would recommend waiting till you have tome of the deep or the bat minions might accidentally kill the boss for this, skels can't cross the setup so they're useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzaAUtxVSIs

[Pezzo]

Yeah, basing combat experience gain entirely off of damage instances and not something like enemies having specific experience payouts or total damage done is a glaringly "newbie" way to handle player progression in what otherwise seems to be a very competently made game.

The weird thing is that pets do gain XP based on total damage, so they're demonstrably perfectly capable of something at least marginally more complex than what we have now.

[Aeon42]

Originally posted by rodelis:

Btw, found this a couple days ago for anyone that wants to powerlevel melee and ranged. Works with magic too. As for summoner, I would recommend waiting till you have tome of the deep or the bat minions might accidentally kill the boss for this, skels can't cross the setup so they're useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzaAUtxVSIs

i have better way. did this with melee then realized how dumb it is for ranged/magic/minions. And then i figured better, faster and safer way.

[Kent]

My friends and I are at Galaxite and Solarite now... I haven't been hard-focusing necessarily? But I think I only just got 2 skill points worth of Magic levels, so like, level 12 or something? You need 20 skill points (depending on the path you take) just to reach the end of a skill tree. That's 100 levels. We're gonna beat the dang game before I get to level 30.

You shouldn't "need" to power level it, it should just level at a decent pace through normal gameplay.

(With the Sorcerer Set and the Scholar Staff I'm doing like 750-1300 (including crits) damage to anything per shot)

[ElysiumNight]

magic and summoning level WAY TO DAMN SLOW

[ElysiumNight]

Originally posted by Aeon42:

Originally posted by rodelis:

Btw, found this a couple days ago for anyone that wants to powerlevel melee and ranged. Works with magic too. As for summoner, I would recommend waiting till you have tome of the deep or the bat minions might accidentally kill the boss for this, skels can't cross the setup so they're useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzaAUtxVSIs

i have better way. did this with melee then realized how dumb it is for ranged/magic/minions. And then i figured better, faster and safer way.

ima try this