This game is way too confusing.

[|Revenge|]

I have no idea how to get stronger, the damage on my skills and weapons is not show properly, i don't know how much damage the enemies are taking. I have no idea how to actually hit my attacks and spells.

Did i skip the tutorial or something? this is way too confusing.

[Typical_Name]

Dunno about showing damage (I just kind of hit things, have my pet little girls hit things, and go off vibes tbh), but here's some notes on getting stronger:

Eat food. Food has stats associated with it, and you slowly grow the stats by eating the associated food. (It should show you on the food's tooltip when you mouse over it. This might be from the Gourmet feat, which I started with)
Go to trainers. They take platinum coins (which you get from doing quests) and train your skills.
Skills are slowly (very slowly) trained by doing. If you hit things with an axe hard enough, your axe skill will go up. (I cannot stress how slow this is. I've been using an axe as my main weapon for most of the game and my axe skill hasn't even reached 5 yet. I think spending platinum coins at trainers is intended to be the main way of leveling skills.)

EDIT: I was mistaken, trainers increase *potential*, not the skill itself. Maybe having higher potential makes it level up faster?

[.//slayer]

You can enable the game to show damage numbers if you go to Config -> Other and click Show experimental options. The damage numbers toggle will be there.

[Doomed]

You need to buy skills that are not in your list to even start actually training them. you need at least 1 base level so getting the skill from a god will not let you train it. Or you can hope you find a skill book.

[Suwako]

Elin and Elona both presume that they're players have general knowledge of ASCII rouge-likes. They have both attempted tutorials but they're a "you HAVE to know this so you dont take two steps and die, figure the rest out" type.

It would take forever for some one to explain how things work, so I suggest you watch some youtuber play Elin. They usually understand that randoms are just curious so they constantly explain what is going on.

A very quick synopsis:
-different types of food give different potencies and bonuses to your BASE stats. Eat food depending on what you want to boost.

-All damage works like DnD. The weapon should give you its stats;
A shortsword of putit+1 (3D4+1, 2) For example, in order means- the plus 1 is its enchantment, 3D4+1 is its damage, its 3 dice of 4+1 sides each. its basically 3D5. the two at the end is an extra hit modifier. So you have +2 to your hit chance. all this along with penetration chance, is shown in the info page.
https://prnt.sc/J-8L6CJvHygE

This rolls against the enemies evade chance (DV) to check if you hit him, then its calculated against the enemies defense (PV) All Magic attacks only check for a successful cast, if it clears, its only rolled against the enemies resistance, dodge chance does nothing, magic always hits.

-Your character only knows some skills. Get skills by spending platinum coins that you get from completion of quest board requests, or find randomly spawning skill books in dungeons and random encounters. unlike base stats, potency is only boosted through trainers.

This explains how to learn skills you want, how to eat correctly, and how to tell if gear is good or not. Everything else, I feel like, is reasonable to think you can figure out, with the help if the wiki if you're stuck. Good luck.

[Lake]

Get stronger by doing the thing you want to be better at.

"Potential" is a multiplier on XP gain. Every skill has its own potential. You can check it on your character sheet.

Some classes and races have naturally higher potential for certain skills.

You can raise potential by eating good meals (try visiting a butcher or grocer), sleeping, and spending platinum coins with a trainer.

[twitch.tv/GFYE]

What class are you? Everyone else has given you the jist of how to increase your power but the first question should be WHY are you so weak. There was someone on the forum the other day who did TOURIST and complained about grind as a character that's basically a meme challenge playthrough

[Swift-Li]

Use training dummies if you want to to see damages. Also scrum save at a well to get free early power up.

[Typical_Name]

Originally posted by Lake:

Get stronger by doing the thing you want to be better at.

"Potential" is a multiplier on XP gain. Every skill has its own potential. You can check it on your character sheet.

Some classes and races have naturally higher potential for certain skills.

You can raise potential by eating good meals (try visiting a butcher or grocer), sleeping, and spending platinum coins with a trainer.

Noob question, is there a limit to potential? I couldn't find one on the wiki or mentioned ingame, but I vaguely remember hearing about one somewhere...

[Suwako]

Originally posted by Typical_Name:

Originally posted by Lake:

Get stronger by doing the thing you want to be better at.

"Potential" is a multiplier on XP gain. Every skill has its own potential. You can check it on your character sheet.

Some classes and races have naturally higher potential for certain skills.

You can raise potential by eating good meals (try visiting a butcher or grocer), sleeping, and spending platinum coins with a trainer.

Noob question, is there a limit to potential? I couldn't find one on the wiki or mentioned ingame, but I vaguely remember hearing about one somewhere...

Generally it gets tougher to increase the higher it is. For skills you need more platinum, for base stats you need to eat more of the particular food(?). The higher your potential, the lower it goes after a level up. So as a hypothetical, if you're potency is 150, and you level up in that skill it would go to 130. If your potency is 200, it'd go down to 140 after your level up. so you dont want it too high as you 'waste' potency in a way. its functions weird, keep an eye on it and you'll know what i mean.