See below for a break out of time stamps, an explanation of the skills I picked, and a break down of how the unique Cold attribute works in this game.
Time Stamps:
(00:00:55) Adventures Amulet
(00:04:20) How to dupe money
(00:07:22) Amulet of Protection
(00:08:30) The Phantom String
(00:09:35) Energy Shield / Plasma Rifle
(00:10:10) Thief’s Amulet
(00:13:22) Ring of Protection
(00:20:40) How to enter the Ice Palace
(00:23:32) Commander’s Armor and Helmet
(00:27:57) Ring of Power
(00:28:57) Crafting Trainer Skills
(00:31:29) Battleaxe level 2
(00:32:00) Combat Trainer Skills
(00:33:10) Survival Trainer Skills
(00:34:55) Energy Regent Sword level 1
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** Remember, we’re only level 3 currently, so these weapons we grabbed maybe aren’t “end game material”, but they will certainly help you get there quickly as you’ll be levelling up consistently as you play. Tons of points will become available for spending to let you spec into whatever you want. No need to go over kill on Elex potions, with the ones we’ve taken there’s still plenty of time to to lower your cold stat down and become more human by the end (if that’s what you want to do).**
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skill points explained!!
Chemistry: This is required in order to craft chems and potions like the Elex drinks (Crafting trainer)
Extra Hitpoints: flat increase of +10 health when you buy it, and then an additional +5 health for every character level up. THIS IS A MUST GET, and DO IT EARLY! It’s free permanent health every time your character naturally levels up (Survival trainer)
Stamina: flat increase of +20 stamina per skill level (Survival trainer)
Armor: flat increase of +5 armor per skill level (Survival trainer)
Melee Weapons: increase dmg by 10% per skill level (Combat trainer)
Attack Strength: flat increase of +10 per skill level to stagger power for melee weapons only (Combat trainer)
Parry Strength: flat increase of +10 knock-back reduction, this reduces the stagger/knock-back on yourself when fighting and even works when you’re not blocking, it also lets you block for less stamina (Combat trainer)
Ranged Weapons: increase dmg by 10% per skill level (Combat trainer)
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Cold Level explained!!
You can view your cold level at the bottom right of the stats screen, it won’t show an exact number, it just says your current personality. So use the chart below to help determine what you’re at (Probably Neutral if you’ve followed my guide)
Cold Level--Personality---Ability Influence
0 Pure Emotion Emotional
1 - 10 Expressive Emotional
11 - 20 Irrational Emotional
21 - 30 Spontaneous N/A
31 - 40 Intuitive N/A
41 - 59 Neutral Balanced
60 - 69 Dispassionate N/A
70 - 79 Mellow N/A
80 - 89 Logical Synthetic
90 - 99 Ice Cold Synthetic
100 + Synthetic Synthetic
*Emotional Influence = Bonus to magic, PSI and Stim duration
*Balanced Influence = A 20% bonus to melee damage
*Synthetic Influence = A 20% bonus to ranged damage
-Your characters cold level will start at 50 which keeps you in the “Neutral” category. Neutral is between a cold value of 41 to 59. While you’re within neutral your character gains the Ability Influence “Balanced” for a 20% bonus to melee damage (really good!)
-Increasing or decreasing your cold stat happens from the dialog choices you make while playing, or eating certain items
-The only way to decrease it is by choosing the most “human” dialog choice
-Increasing is from choosing the most “logical” choice, or by consuming Elex potion drinks / natural Elex
-Elex drinks / natural Elex will raise your cold stat by 0.1. So this means from a brand new fresh game we can technically consume 90 items worth and still be just within the “Neutral” category
-If you’re going for a low cold to neutral play through, I would only recommend consuming the 90ish potions once, and then spend the rest of the game lowering it by choosing the most human response
-If you want to play as an emotionless cold hearted person (aka the Jason Statham style), then drink as many Elex potions as you wish
Thanks again everyone, I hope this was helpful