General Tips & Tricks

General Tips & Tricks · Codex, Basics

• Pay attention to your positioning and your enemies. Don't get surrounded!
• Try to parry enemy attacks! Parrying enemy attacks as opposed to blocking will leave nearby enemies Stunned for a moment, giving you a significant advantage.
• Watch out! An enemy off-screen indicator will appear near your character when you aren't able to see nearby enemies, it flashes red when they are about to strike.
• Evasion is important for avoiding damage, but only the first dodge is truly invulnerable!
• Try to Breach tough enemies and bosses. A Breached enemy is incapacitated for a moment, giving you unhindered time to deal damage.
• Heavy attacks increase the amount of Breach damage enemies receive for a short while.
• Enemy Weakpoints are revealed after they are Staggered or miss an attack. Strike the revealed Weakpoint to deal massive damage.
• Hitting a Weakpoint will dramatically increase the Breach damage the enemy takes. Try using this in combination with heavy attacks to rapidly incapacitate your enemies.
• Hitting the blue Weakpoints on bosses will Stagger them and interrupt their attacks. Use these openings to deal massive damage.
• If an enemy health bar is fully converted into Soulshatter Buildup, a single heavy attack or any ability that deals Soulshatter Damage will defeat them.
• Overhealth can be very useful, but don't forget that it will degenerate after a short while if not kept up.
• Enemy projectiles can be reflected with a properly timed Shield Parry. You can even reflect certain boss attacks.
• Ailment strength is based on the damage of the attack that inflicted the Ailment. Sometimes a single powerful Ailment stack can be as strong as multiple smaller ailment stacks!
• Use Shield Throws to set up ground Takedowns in order to rapidly defeat smaller enemies and control the crowd of threats.

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