In-Game Tips

63 tips

• Remember to use flasks (1-2 on the keyboard).
• Boss Checkpoints and Waypoints will refill your flasks as well as replenishing your life, energy shield, and mana.
• Dying in an area will send you back to your most recent checkpoint, respawning all enemies.
• Flask Charges are recovered in combat by slaying Enemies. Magic, Rare and Unique enemies grant progressively more Charges.
• Instances reset after being empty for 8-15 minutes, destroying any connected Portals.
• The more modifiers an item has, the more Gold it will sell for.
• Players in the same party will join the same areas.
• Press Spacebar to Dodge Roll.
• You can assign your skills to a specific weapon set in the Skills Panel (G).
• Hold Shift to attack from your current location.
• Waypoints can be used to travel quickly between some areas.
• Flasks on your belt refill when you kill Monsters, refilling more from more powerful Monsters.
• To use a scroll or orb, right click it then left click the target item.
• Hold Shift and click a stack of items to unstack them.
• Never tell anyone your password.
• Skill Gems can be leveled up with the use of an Uncut Skill Gem.
• Remember to return to a Well to refill your flasks and replenish your Life and Mana.
• Partying with other players makes enemies harder and gives more rewards.
• You can change your key bindings in the Options menu.
• You can move the overlay map around using the arrow keys.
• Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
• The Hooded One can help you by identifying your items.
• Monsters that deal cold damage can freeze you.
• Lightning damage can shock you, increasing damage taken.
• Fire damage can ignite targets, causing them to burn for extra damage.
• Holding your highlight key (default: Alt) will show items on the ground, and pressing Z will toggle always displaying items.
• Activating a new Waypoint is a way of saving your exploration through Wraeclast.
• Track your current quests in the world map by pressing U.
• Hold Alt while viewing items in your inventory to compare them with their equipped counterpart.
• Hold Ctrl and click area transitions and waypoint icons to forcibly create new instances of areas.
• Dodge Rolling can be done during almost any other action.
• After being Stunned or Frozen, both you and enemies are more resistant to being Stunned or Frozen again.
• Some items can grant you specific skills when wielded.
• Repeatedly damaging enemies can cause them to be Stunned.
• Culling strike will instantly kill Normal, Magic, Rare and Unique enemies below 35%, 20%, 10% and 5% Maximum Life respectively.
• Vendors will have new items when you gain a level, be sure to check them.
• Many Unique bosses can grant permanent buffs for defeating them.
• Larger enemies can push you around if you get in their way.
• Once you have set up an Item Filter, you can press Z to view all items.
• Many melee attacks will gap-close to nearby enemies if you're not quite close enough.
• Energy Shield will begin recharging after 4 seconds without taking damage.
• Herald skills are a kind of Spirit reservation that grant various bonuses to Attack skills.
• Right-click a Skill Gem to open the Skill Gems panel.
• Uncut Skill Gems can be used to either upgrade existing socketed Skill Gems or create new ones.
• Attribute Requirements for your Support Gems are separate from those of your Skill Gems and Equipment.
• Items can be Disenchanted at some Vendors in Town, granting Currency Shards in return.
• You can customise key bindings via the Input tab in the options menu.
• Gold is useful in shops and also to respec your character.
• Right-click an Uncut Skill Gem to craft it in a Skill Gems panel.
• Spend your skill points in the Passive Skill Tree to improve your character's chance of survival.
• You can allocate Spirit reserves via the Skills menu to activate Auras and spawn Minions.
• Spirit reserves can be allocated per weapon set via the Advanced Info panel for an equipped skillgem.
• Assign your purchased skill cosmetics from your Skills menu using Ctrl + Shift Left-click on an assign skill.
• Hold Spacebar after Dodge Rolling to go into a Sprint!
• Only one copy of any given Skill Gem can be socketed at a time.
• Desecrated items can be Revealed at the Well of Souls in Act Two.
• Rogue Exiles defeated near an Abyss will be revived with powerful modifiers!
• Right click on the weapon set numerals to use the same weapon in both weapon sets.
• Elemental Resistances are vital to your survival. Don't neglect them!
• Each animal form provides passive benefits, detailed in their keywords.
• Characters wanting to mix Attacks and Spells will benefit greatly from Weapon Set Passive Skill Points.
• Shapeshifting into an animal form requires a Talisman, but can be done on any character class.
• Cutting a level 3 or higher Skill Gem will unlock the ability to shapeshift into a Wyvern using a Talisman.