Hi guys, Today I am going to show you Wartales Beginners Guide and I hope this Wartales Beginners Guide will help you to improve your game. Wartales is an open-world role-playing game in which you lead a band of mercenaries on a quest for riches throughout a vast medieval realm. You can explore the universe, find partners, gather bounties, and decipher the mysteries of the ancient tombs.
Wartales Classes Guide & Weapon
There are six possible starting classes in Wartales, each with its unique specialization and duty. It’s worth noting that each character starts with a random class skill (there are three in total), which varies depending on the recruit. Later in the game, you’ll come across someone selling skill books that teach these basic abilities, spoiler:
Swordsman
Main Damage stat: Strength
Potential initial class skill: Wrath, Taunt or First Aid.
Load-out: 1H Sword, 1H Sword & Shield or 2H Sword.
Potential Role: Damage dealer or Tank.
Specializations:
- Protector: Tank | 1H Sword & Shield | Heavy armor.
- Fighter: Damage dealer / Trickster | 1H Sword, 1H Sword & Shield or 2H Sword | Heavy armor.
- Swordmaster: Damage dealer / AOE Damage | 2H Sword | Medium Armor.
Warrior
Main Damage stat: Strength
Potential initial class skill: Wrath, Taunt or First Aid.
Load-out: 1H Axe, 1H Axe & Shield or 2H Axe.
Role: Damage dealer or Tank.
Specializations:
- Berserker: Damage dealer | 1H Axe, 1H Axe & Shield or 2H Axe | Medium Armor
- Executioner: Damage dealer | 2H Axe | Medium Armor
- Sentinel: Tank / Support | 1H Axe, 1H Axe & Shield | Heavy Armor
Spearman
Main Damage stat: Strength
Potential initial class skill: Run, Wrath or First Aid.
Load-out: Polearm.
Role: Support.
Specializations:
- Harpooner: Damage dealer / Support | Polearm | Medium Armor.
- Herald: Damage dealer / Support | Polearm | Medium Armor.
- Pikeman: Crowd Control / Support | Polearm | Medium Armor.
Brute
Main Damage stat: Strength
Potential initial class skill: Wrath, Taunt or First Aid.
Load-out: 1H Sword, 1H Sword & Shield or 2H Sword.
Role: Damage dealer or Tank.
Specializations:
- Vanguard: Damage dealer / Crowd Control | 1H Mace, 1H Mace & Shield | Medium Armor.
- Smasher: Damage dealer / AOE Damage | 2H Mace | Medium Armor.
- Destroyer: Tank | 1H Mace & Shield | Heavy Armor.
Ranger
Main Damage stat: Dexterity
Potential initial class skill: Run, Wrath or First Aid.
Load-out: Dagger | Light Armor.
Role: Damage dealer.
Specializations:
- Cutthroat: Damage dealer / Back-stabber | Dagger | Light Armor.
- Strategist: Damage dealer / Support | Dagger | Light Armor.
- Poisoner: Damage dealer / AOE Damage | Dagger | Light Armor.
Archer
Main Damage stat: Dexterity
Potential initial class skill: Aim, Sprint or First Aid.
Load-out: Bows
Role: Ranged damage dealer.
Specializations:
- Hunter: Damage dealer / Trickster | Bows| Light Armor.
- Beastmaster: Damage dealer / Support | Bows| Light Armor.
- Infantryman: Damage dealer / AOE Damage | Bows| Light Armor.
Wartales Beginners Guide
- When starting a new game, be sure to check out all of your companions and see if they have good starting skills and traits. These are randomly generated so everytime you start a new game, you have new dudes with different skills and traits. For instance, if you have a Swordsman who you want to be a tank, make sure he has the taunt skill so he can actually act like a tank.
- Don’t forget about profession bonuses. Initially you start with only the tinkerer profession which every dude in your company can learn and earn a +2% crit chance. Later you will find more professions, each with their own bonus and you can always swap out professions but do mind that when unlearning an profession, you will lose all it’s progress.
- Only spend valour points on difficult battles so for instance, when fighting a boss or big group of enemies. You can gain valour points by resting or when a Merc is level 2, you can choose a Valour-generating skill.
- When entering a local area, like a house or cave, press Alt to highlight any cases of interest like chests of people to talk with.
- Keep you folks happy and well fed. Always have some beer and food in your inventory so you won’t have angry people in your company who could actually leave if they are unhappy for too long.
- Use your workbench in your camp! You can craft all kinds of stuff with it which can improve camping life or craft lockpicks which you can use to rob this whole world blind.
- Valour point may be gain in temporary fashion with early perk for each class. Keeping in mind which character got which valour gain may give you TONS of disposable points to diminish armor loss. Plus the captain may give a single low-to-high valour gain once per battle. Free of charge. These are to be used as much as possible. [Credit: RahKiel]
- Smithing is key or really strong at worst. Loot is scarce, and not often very balanced (never looted a good dagger so far). It’ll need knowledge point, but as long as you success the minigame, you can craft good quality gears. [Credit: RahKiel]
- A good tip is, when going to big towns always buy the trade goods from the market and sell them at the first wandering merchant you can so you can make a quick buck, I haven”t tested whether you get more for selling in different provinces though. [Credit: Chiken]
- Be sure to learn knowledge skill ‘Run’ as soon as possible. This is quite a life saver and allows you to move faster from place to place.
- Check your camp occasionally, you can assign party members to various structures for extra bonuses like when assigning a cook to a cooking pot, you will consume less food each time you rest.
- Don’t forget to make use of Pitons. They can come in very handy and you could use them to make huge shortcuts! You can craft them yourself (tinkerer) by using some iron and ropes (which you can buy from the local jailer):
So guys, that’s it for this Wartales Beginners Guide – Tips & Tricks.