Greetings Puzzle Questers.
I’ve been playing this game since the beginning of early access along with many of my friends in the Throne of Odin kingdom. There have been lots of changes and updates leading up to the launch of the game. There are the tips and tricks that have helped us the most along the way (we’ll continue to update this after launch so check back!)
Overall Gameplay
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The typical player is going to pick a class, attempt to play the storyline through to Chapter 15, and do other stuff along the way (e.g. PvP, Events, farming, etc.). However, the game is currently optimized to play all 5, or at least some, of the classes up to about 20 to 25 which will increase the levels of important resource followers like Eveline, Northelm, Brie, and Adhakus. This approach also benefits you in the Events system, one of the best sources of daily rewards, since your Event Tier is based on your highest hero level. By not levelling one hero too fast, you can benefit from the rewards of the Event system more easily.
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Refer to this chart when trying to determine where to find each follower’s Evolution Crystals. Remember, to maximize your followers potential, you will have to do all 5 class playthroughs. Although you can find Crystals randomly through other means (e.g. Daily Challenges, Shop Deals, very rare Chest drops, etc.), the primary means to level followers is from Crystals earned through Follower Sidequests:
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If you play several hours daily early on, then get comfortable with salvaging chests. Don’t worry, there’s always more chests and at higher levels they have even better value
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Skirmishes have an improved chance of dropping shards relative to the other game play modes. This matters because you need many, many, many shards
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Do the Open PVP daily, it’s worth the extra Honor earned as a currency resource. Do the Restricted PVP just enough to get the weekly rewards (it’s painfully slow until you get better gear in each color alignment)
Gear and Spells
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Dungeon 1 (Dragonguard Depths) and Dungeon 2 (Ruins of Morsauloth) have some of the best gear early on for benefitting from the gear set bonuses (particularly 4-piece Royal Set bonus). It’s worth spending some time doing some early dungeon farming to get useful gear and gear set bonuses early.
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Make regular use of Eveline’s exchange and create relic abilities (especially the Tier I create as soon as it is available). This is an awesome way to target specific gear for valuable evolves and to help with difficulty progression
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Spells (beyond the starting 4 spells for each class) can be found either from Gold, Ruby or Diamond Chests or from the crafter Xione (Chapter 9)
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If you are attempting to farm a particular class spell from a dungeon, you don’t have to run the dungeon with that class, but you do need to open the chest with that class. Use your vault to save the chest and then open the chest with the preferred class. Here is a helpful chart on which spells can be found from which Dungeons:
Resources & Economy
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When you first start, be aggressive in spending gems in the Daily offers and Bundles to get shards for levelling gear. You have the potential to earn approximately 40,000 gems from all 5 class playthroughs and the various Goals and Achievements. The prices for Minor, Lesser, and Greater Shards are pretty affordable and are critical to levelling your gear to keep up with the difficulty of the storyline progression.
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Purchase the daily Key and Shard Bundles for Gold as often as possible, as gold is easily earned from regular game play and early on is subject to a very low cap
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Join a kingdom - although kingdom benefits are a bit sparse currently (a dozen keys a week, access to Kingdom bazaar for purchasing Shards, etc.), the key rewards are easy to obtain in an active guild. Don’t miss out!
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Another good source of Wooden and Iron keys for starting players is using Honor gained in PvP in the Rewards section of the Shop tab. 60 Honor buys 2x Wooden Keys, a key type that new players will be desperate to find (in Early Access low quality keys were abundant but that is no longer the case). This deal is better than the Kingdom Honor Deal, where Wooden Keys are more expensive.
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General Salvage Advice: Once you start having excess minor and lesser shards, use them to advance the level of Rare+ gear to 5 or even 7 and then salvage yielding you a greater return of Greater Shards, which are the most needed shard overall
More tips and tricks to come from your friends at Throne of Odin kingdom! If you are looking for a place to start your PQ3 adventure, come check us out here:
https://community.puzzlequest3.com/t/throne-of-odin-is-recruiting-come-get-your-tacos/1922/2?u=sibelios