English Newbie Guide – Part 1

[Darth Shugar]

As of now, I assumed the game development is still progressing and updating. Its not a completed version. Thus, using Fist or Sword is still the best for the current version. After grinding and testing for more than 200 hours, these are my two cents.

Go for Hell mode. It’s not that difficult. It’s more fun. Plus, you get to have max 4 talents. At first, you can only choose max 3 and be able to lock 1 as you are rolling for it. But as you play the game, and more achievement made, you will unlock max 4 talents, and able to lock 2. Plus, you will unlock Yellow Grade talent as well. I managed to unlock:
自愈体质 – Self Healing Physique: Double the restoring effect from skills. (Forgot which achievement to unlock this)
圣贤传人 – Sage Successor: All your 6 Values (Benevolence, Righteousness, Wisdom, Courage, Loyalty, Credit) will be 100 from the start. (Unlock this talent when your previous game all these Values reached 100)
财大气粗 – Rich Power: Every g1000 you have, you dealt 1 extra damage. Up to 250. (Unlock this talent when your previous game collected total of g100,000)

And as you achieve more achievement, you get more attribute points to allocate.

I start of with these:
Attributes:
Strength: 6 (I go for 6 because you will gain 3 points extra by lumbering, mining, and fishing respectively, when you reach a certain level of these skills. And it’s achievable in early game as well). Now the total is 9. Then when you travel to ChuXiang City, and as you reach the wine tavern, a scenario will pop up. Either choosing to treat the guy with the specific wine (which you can buy it in LinAn City wine tavern for g1000) and receive a +10 Fist attribute item (only able to use when you reach 100 Fist) OR choose to pay for drinks together for g1000 (to get +1 Strength pill. I go for the pill, so my Strength is 10 and able to get the bonus stats.

Stamina: 10 (I go for 10 because all this while, there seems to be no other way for me to get Stamina points in the game).

Agility: 1 (I go for 1 because as you are running in the game, you will gain points. I managed to gain 3 points so far, so wonder it may up to 10 as I keeps on running while playing the game). Plus, there are talents and skill tree that can substitute my low Agility.

Intelligent: 10 (You will be able to learn martial arts way faster. And it affects your teammates too). If you go for Sword, and wanted to join the 琅琊剑阁 Langya Sword Pavilion sect, then you need high intelligent, because one of your seniors will only pass his Purple Grade sword art to you if your intelligent is more than 6 or 9, I forgot. The only downside of having Intelligent 10 I came across so far is that you’re not able to get the Yellow Grade Ultimate skill art from the Stone Pillar, in your starting newbie forest hunting ground, where the red boar is guarding. But you will be compensated with a Yellow Grade experience scroll. If you prefer to have this Ultimate skill, your Intelligent point set at 1. Other numbers I did not try, but Intelligent 1, you’ll be able to get this Ultimate skill just by touching the Stone Pillar.

Luck: 1 (Doesn’t need to add anything on this, you will be able to get it up to 10 easily in the game). Go to ChuXiang City and touch the Hero statue. First, is the kowtow scenario, make sure your stamina is 100, and your health is about 250. After nonstop kowtow for 100 times, you will get a Purple Grade sword. Then the second scenario is to pray at the statue, again make sure your stamina is 100 – 130 (finish 100, eat some fish for another 30), you will up your Luck attributes to 10.

Talents:
These are the talents I always roll for it. It’s useful.
Yellow Grade:
万里独行 – Lone Travel for Thousand Miles: every battle you’ll get extra +25 qi energy, with every member in the team will reduce -5. (This will make your actions faster; you’ll be able to hit enemies first and few more times)
天煞孤星 – Lone Star: Combat experience gained x 3 and your damage is doubled. (You can level up damn fast. You need it, because the higher level you are, the easier as you progress)
神行无忌 – Bravery: You gained +2 extra squares to move in battle. (Which is good where you can move farther) If you not yet unlock 自愈体质 – Self Healing Physique, I recommend getting this instead.

If you only can max 3 talents at the moment, then the last one I recommend getting this Purple talent instead. The best so far for me.
身如鬼魅 – Ghostly Body: +20 qi energy at all times. (You’ll be damn fast now together with your Lone Star).

Items:
You can select up to 3 items to start with. Select gifts instead on pills. You doesn’t need pills at all from the start. I recommend:
粗茶 – Rough Tea
大海碗 – Ocean Bowl
绮红小史 – Red Novel
Why? Because The Rough Tea is to gain favorability with the doctor to get Healing attribute. Choosing option 1 when you talk to the doctor will gain Healing attribute +5. If you choose option 2, you will only get a sickle. Up the favorability to 50 with the Rough Tea. Progress his scenario first, until you give him the Yellow Grade mushroom that you found in the forest, and subsequently he will join your team. Get him on board, so you can get his internal martial art, 调息法: Internal Healing. This internal martial art is damn useful for you from starting to mid game. Every battle action will regain internal energy up to 35. You will never run out of internal energy.

Then, you need the Ocean Bowl to increase favourability with the Hunter that you met in the forest to get the taming skill and the story line that leads to Yang family hero character. And you will need the Yellow Grade mushroom you found from the forest to heal his sickness as well. So, remember not to use that item on yourself. No worries, you can find 2 Yellow Grade mushroom in the forest. Since, you met him in the forest earlier, so give him all the Ocean Bowl to up favourability to 50 and get a quest to fix his bow. When you go to the village, visit the Blacksmith for this quest. You need to buy a dog meat from the Butcher guy for the Blacksmith to fix the bow. After fixing his bow, will lead to another scenario where he needs the Yellow Grade mushroom for his sickness. Your teammate with the doctor, will proceed on healing him. No need to recruit him, he already passes you his Blue Grade spear martial art. I haven’t come across future scenario that required him.

After this, he will have another scenario where he needs to have a Ground Wine to drink. Can buy it from SiLiang in the Tavern. This will lead to his Yang family line story telling. (Yang Hero is in the Granary Camp, ChuXiang City). You can proceed with this quest later, no need to buy the Ground Wine as of now. If you got the money, then go ahead. And you can leave your doctor teammate as well.

Now the Red Novel is for the Story Telling guy that stand in front of the Tavern. Give him all the Novel you had and proceed to his quest of getting SiLiang’s handkerchief. Buy 10 make ups item from the seller that carrying two buckets. Then proceed to the Tavern to meet SiLiang. But before that, make sure you have g500 on you to tigger a scenario at 12pm – 4pm as you enter the Tavern.

Note: You must be wondering where to get so much money? Sell your stuffs. You don’t need at all at this stage. Sell your meats to the Butcher, animal skins to the Hunter. When you have your tools and able to farm, then sell your tree branches to the Lumberjack, herbs and worms to the Doctor, and save last to sell your ores to the Blacksmith. Keep on selling your loots. You don’t need those loots at this stage.

So back to the g500 to enter the Tavern at 12pm – 4pm. You will trigger a scenario with the Ye family daughter. Treat her meals g500, and she will pass you a Purple Grade item. Which only can be identified as your Identification level is higher or from a certain NPC. Then proceed to SiLiang, up favourability to 50, and get her handkerchief. Pass to the Story Telling guy to complete the quest and can add him to teammate to get his Blue Grade Fist martial art. Leave him as of now and try to up the favourability until you get his Talking skill. This Talking skill is useful as not to insult the Prince in ChuXiang City when you first saw the Hero Statue.

You can proceed to trigger the World Event quest before you progress with the 3 days’ time limit quest in the Temple. About 8am – 4pm, on the map you can proceed to Northwest from the village. To open up an area and trigger a scenario with the Ye family daughter again and the World Event story telling guy. After the fight together with Ye family daughter, take the Northeast road, that leads to an R&R station that sells food and some wines. Here you will meet a mysterious guy, and you need to buy Wines to up his favorability.

After you complete your 3 days’ time limit quest from the Temple, come back here to up the favorability to 100. It will trigger a fight with a lot of enemies surrounding you and the mysterious guy. Do not let him die. After the battle is won, he will give you 3 maps. Each map is a location for treasure in 3 cities. Each treasure will have g10,000 + other goodies. So you will have lots of monies to move around.

If you wield sword, you can proceed to the village and complete the Blacksmith quest to bring him to Langya Sword Pavilion. And you will join the sect automatically. If you’re Fist, then you can proceed to ChuXiang city to trigger the tavern scenario as stated above. It will leads to scenario in LinAn city, and DaLiang city, and then you will be accepted into the 道玄踪 : Dao Temple. But first you must up your Benevolence Value to 80. You can gain it by getting more teammates favourability up or NPC favourability up in those cities. No worries, by the time you did that and reach DaLiang, you most probably already 80 in Benevolence.

[K.T.]

GOOD JOB

[Darth Shugar]

Originally posted by K.T.:

GOOD JOB

Thank you. Hope it helps.

[Leon]

You can raise constitution by eating blue grade food or higher. (Blue grade gives 1 point, purple gives 3 points).

[Nhà Thám Hiểm Tài Ba]

After you complete your 3 days’ time limit quest from the Temple, come back here to up the favorability to 100. It will trigger a fight with a lot of enemies surrounding you and the mysterious guy. Do not let him die. After the battle is won, he will give you 3 maps. Each map is a location for treasure in 3 cities. Each treasure will have g10,000 + other goodies. So you will have lots of monies to move around.
i don't understand about this, so I choose to protect the investigation man and he/she stand there wait for my decision ?

[zombieminer1914]

I dont know if this is a stupid question or not but what does meditation do

[jackwong1978]

You use it to past time mainly, so you can trigger timed events. You lose a bit of stamina, gain a bit of exp, hp and mp.

[DawnCry]

I kinda disagree with the guide, first of all strength is a stat that I totally ignore in character creation, it's one of the easiest ones to max, second only to luck, also contrary to this guide I never max intelligence, since you can get 1 point for free if you go to shifa temple with high benevolence but only if you have less than 10 intelligence,

Related to the easiest progression I would say to start with blade and:

1º Join CIB, obtain blade skills and a purple blade book, also you can buy a purple blade weapon.

2º Join the faction near lin'an, the water bandits, completing their storyline will give some good internal and legendary blade skills, also there is a way to obtain a legendary blade weapon, it only requires doing 15 commissions before leaving.

3º Defeat 4 times the guy on Lin'an city then defeat him in his challenge. You will obtain another legendary skill and another good weapon.

With these you already have 2 legendary blade skills and 1 purple one plus multiple purple blade weapons and 1 legendary blade. Also you will get a legendary internal which is always nice to have.

This is the easiest way to start in my book and with a decent progression.

[Avenging Angel]

You do realize this guide was published several months ago when the game was still in early access and there have been plenty of content & balance changes? So obviously the guide will be outdated.

Originally posted by DawnCry:

I kinda disagree with the guide, first of all strength is a stat that I totally ignore in character creation, it's one of the easiest ones to max, second only to luck, also contrary to this guide I never max intelligence, since you can get 1 point for free if you go to shifa temple with high benevolence but only if you have less than 10 intelligence,

Related to the easiest progression I would say to start with blade and:

1º Join CIB, obtain blade skills and a purple blade book, also you can buy a purple blade weapon.

2º Join the faction near lin'an, the water bandits, completing their storyline will give some good internal and legendary blade skills, also there is a way to obtain a legendary blade weapon, it only requires doing 15 commissions before leaving.

3º Defeat 4 times the guy on Lin'an city then defeat him in his challenge. You will obtain another legendary skill and another good weapon.

With these you already have 2 legendary blade skills and 1 purple one plus multiple purple blade weapons and 1 legendary blade. Also you will get a legendary internal which is always nice to have.

This is the easiest way to start in my book and with a decent progression.

[DawnCry]

Originally posted by Avenging Angel:

You do realize this guide was published several months ago when the game was still in early access and there have been plenty of content & balance changes? So obviously the guide will be outdated.

Obviously I didn't realize it because it had very recent posts and it suddenly appeared in first page of the forum, so yeah, didn't notice the first post was quite old.

[ChangoFeroz]

Part 2
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1948980/discussions/0/3820784984086230192/?ctp=2

[Zephyr]

Wow, this is a very outdated guide and full of advice I consider absolutely terrible for new players. I don't get why it's bumped, especially now.

-Starting with Hell: Extremely bad tip to give to new players.
-Stats build, bad build with tanked dex meaning you will struggle like hell to get a turn for a good part of the game. While strength and luck are easy to raise, and con also to some extent, dex is limited by how much you can get in a day. This means before you get to your 10 cap, you will be sluggish for a long long time and the NPCs are going to do all the fighting for you. On Hell, that's extremely punishing as the early game NPCs are at a serious disadvantage compared to enemies. Worse, in Hell, you have the heavy wounded and near death status active. Early on you have no source of medicine to heal that. Your NPCs are going to die, and then they are very weak for 2 days. 3 days if at near death status, and if they reach that state, they have a chance to perma-die if killed.
-Guide is all over the place in explaining how to proceed with the early stages of the game in a way a new player can't properly follow. It skips over important things and foundations, money routing to not struggle(like how to find the treasure), give terrible advice like selling the meat(DON'T sell boar meat on the first run when you get the boar roast recipe, when you get good enough at cooking to cook it, it will be a very good stamina source. You may be able to sell snake meat on the first run because you won't get that recipe until your second run, the two recipes are mutually exclusive), and tell the player to go at many different places they have now idea where to find wasting precious time traveling and achieving nothing.

There is a lot of optimisation to be done to the early game and routing, and while it's not strictly necessary, it can put a new player in a way better situation if explained what he can do early on, as he can get some good amount of money, an extra free stat point, party members early and 2 precious accessories which boost the amount of skill xp you get in fishing and lumberjacking, as well as a pet.

[Sigvuld]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

There is a lot of optimisation to be done to the early game and routing, and while it's not strictly necessary, it can put a new player in a way better situation if explained what he can do early on, as he can get some good amount of money, an extra free stat point, party members early and 2 precious accessories which boost the amount of skill xp you get in fishing and lumberjacking, as well as a pet.

Do you have the time to explain any of those? Not challenging you to prove it, asking out of genuine curiosity since I've just gotta into Hero's! That and I'm a fiend for heavily replayable games with starts where you can make things go more smoothly via the right knowledge

[DawnCry]

Originally posted by Sigvuld:

Originally posted by Zephyr:

There is a lot of optimisation to be done to the early game and routing, and while it's not strictly necessary, it can put a new player in a way better situation if explained what he can do early on, as he can get some good amount of money, an extra free stat point, party members early and 2 precious accessories which boost the amount of skill xp you get in fishing and lumberjacking, as well as a pet.

Do you have the time to explain any of those? Not challenging you to prove it, asking out of genuine curiosity since I've just gotta into Hero's! That and I'm a fiend for heavily replayable games with starts where you can make things go more smoothly via the right knowledge

While I'm not the person you asked I will try to answer:

For example you can get 1 stat point based on choice when you visit the outskirts in the morning (hidden zone near the nameless village, you need to manually discover it by travelling to the place). There is also a hidden treasure map in the village, next to the village elder house you can destroy an object that is a bunch of trees and in the back you will find a box that contains said map, it's an easy way to obtain 1500 coins at the start with low effort.

Related to items it's a bit more complicated, I believe it was the goose the one that gave the fishing item but you can't interact with the goose unless you max out beast training.

[Sigvuld]

Originally posted by DawnCry:

Originally posted by Sigvuld:

Do you have the time to explain any of those? Not challenging you to prove it, asking out of genuine curiosity since I've just gotta into Hero's! That and I'm a fiend for heavily replayable games with starts where you can make things go more smoothly via the right knowledge

While I'm not the person you asked I will try to answer:

For example you can get 1 stat point based on choice when you visit the outskirts in the morning (hidden zone near the nameless village, you need to manually discover it by travelling to the place). There is also a hidden treasure map in the village, next to the village elder house you can destroy an object that is a bunch of trees and in the back you will find a box that contains said map, it's an easy way to obtain 1500 coins at the start with low effort.

Related to items it's a bit more complicated, I believe it was the goose the one that gave the fishing item but you can't interact with the goose unless you max out beast training.

Oooh, thank you very much for taking the time to tell me about these! Much appreciated, friend!

[Nether]

Originally posted by DawnCry:

Related to items it's a bit more complicated, I believe it was the goose the one that gave the fishing item but you can't interact with the goose unless you max out beast training.

The other item (forging I think) comes from paying off the blacksmith's debt instead of talking to him with the innkeeper in party to get it forgiven.

Of course, since we're talking of first playthroughs you might want to save that money for other stuff - but the option is there.

Speaking of 'early playthrough boosts', you can also punch the tree next to the well for a piece of Thunderstruck Wood, which sells well on auction and is also needed for a later recruitment quest.