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A game filled with mystery and world-building tends to stand out, so you may find yourself interested inThe Thaumaturge. As you see the world through Wictor’s eyes while he seeks to strengthen himself by finding more Salutors, you’ll discover more about the strange world. Doing so will require you to explore the regions while fighting off anyone that stands in your way.
Doing so can be challenging, since you’ll need to search the world and figure out the best approaches for different situations. Your decisions can also impact how characters perceive you, which can be intimidating as you look through the different options.
Spam Your Perception Skill
You’ll quickly unlock the Perception ability, which lets you detect an area around you to make discoveries. Doing so will help youfind important objects and discover a pathto reach your next objective.
Your Perception ability doesn’t cost anything, letting you spam it.You can use the skill every few seconds, move to another spot, and keep searching until you discover something.
If you seered petals, that means you’re near a point of interest.
As you use your Perception skill,explore every inch of the area. You’ll eventually encounter multiple clues which can point you in the right direction regarding your current objective.
Once you level up, you can spend a point to unlock more combat abilities. While you may want to focus on the most powerful skills, you should know thatThaumaturge Points impact your investigation abilities.
Items will sometimes have symbols next to them, corresponding to the four Dimension Forces: Heart, Mind, Deed, and Word. If you aren’t at a high enough level in any of those categories,it will appear as a mystery mark while saying how many more points you needto view the information. This should inform you as to where you should invest your points.
This makes it crucial tobalance the skills you want to gain without getting too far behindregarding your Dimension Forces. If you want to balance them, try this early level-up path.
Fortune
You have a 50% chance of interrupting the opponent’s attack.
It’s agreat way to avoid damageif you equip it to your Quick Attack.
Lucky Chance
You have a60% chance to slow an enemy’s action.
Not as good as Fortune, but it’s still a great passive.
An excellent choice if you’rerunning low on Health.
Pay Attention To Traces
As you analyze the different clues, you’ll sometimessee a Trace, which comes in three forms.
As you find Traces, you’ll seehow close you are to learning somethingnew. If you find something Unknown, keep looking in the area.
Once you encounter a Certain Trace, you’ll knowwhat you must track down.
Swap Your Quest Focus
Many times,your quests will split into multiple sections. One of them will be highlighted, and if you press the corresponding button on the screen, you may swap your focus.
Since you’ll need to travel between areas, ensure youswap your quest focus before you gosomewhere else. Doing so will help you avoid backtracking.
This can also help you if you feel stumped. At times, you may not have access to certain areas, so you’ll need totackle different parts of the quest before you can continuethrough the quest.
Some quests will have a bullet-point list of tasks.Always focus on these subparts, since they’ll give you clues to finish the more important points.
Save Before You Talk With People
The Thaumaturge allows you tosave during most moments, with your interactions leading to different results.
For instance, early in the game, you’re able to give away a woman who was storing bullets or have police officers take away a leader, which can impact the game and how characters perceive you. The same applies to whether youpush your prideful answers or try to hide informationfrom people.
If you want to see how different situations play out, you shouldsave right before you talk with people to see what you can getfrom multiple answers. You can then stick with the choice you like the most.
You can’t pause and save once you start a conversation.
Swap Your Salutors In Combat
Once you complete the prologue and gain your second Salutor, you can switch between them in combat.Switching them doesn’t change turn orderor commit you to a specific Salutor, so see what they can do and pick the best one for the situation.
For instance, Upyr is great for dealing damage to enemies at full health while providing support through Focus reduction and healing. On the other hand,Bukavac is great for dealing damage to multiple enemies, thanks to its use of the Suffering ailment.
You canuse Salutors to weaken more powerful enemies. Learn each Salutor’s corresponding Dimension Force, so you’ll know which one will get rid of powerful buffs your opponents may have.
Adjust Your Combat Skills Before Each Fight
Speaking of combat, you havecombat passives and skills you may change based on the upcoming fight. For example, if you’re fighting two weaker enemies and another who has tons of health, adding Brutality to a move can help you take out the strongest enemy to minimize damage.
You canhover enemies before a fight startsand press the corresponding button prompt to adjust your skills. In essence, passives can only be equipped to one ability at a time, meaning you’ll unlikely use the same setup during each fight.
Although passives can be changed at any time,the same doesn’t apply to Thaumaturge pointsyou spend on Dimension Forces.
Balance Breaking Focus And Dealing Damage
During combat, you have two main stats that will impact gameplay: Focus and Health. While Health is obvious, when an opponent’s Focus runs out, you canperform a powerful attackon them.
You mustfind the balance between breaking Focusand dealing damage by comparing the two.
If the enemy only has a few points of Focus,performing a Focus break could be the better optionsince you’ll deal more damage in the long run. On the other hand, if they have multiple Focus points, it might be better to use your Strong Attacks without worrying about Focus.
If you have trouble finding this balance, do some quick math to see if it will take more turns to defeat them or break their Focus. As a general rule,Focus breaking is better for weaker enemieswhile Health damage is better for bosses.
