How to Get Stronger

The most straightforward way to grow. Fight enemies and your combat skills level up automatically based on your weapon and attack style. A melee fighter training Strength will hit noticeably harder over time. A ranged fighter training Ranged will land more shots and deal more damage. Switch attack styles to target the skill you want to improve. Every fight is training.

Your attack style determines which combat skills receive XP from each fight. Experiment with styles to find the right balance. Accurate for precision, Aggressive for raw damage, Defensive for survivability. Controlled styles spread XP across multiple skills at once, great for balanced growth.

Better gear is the fastest power spike you can get. Equipment drops from enemies, merchants, and crates. Pay attention to rarity. Uncommon and rare items have higher base stats and often come with bonus modifiers. Compare new drops against what you have equipped. Even a small stat difference adds up over many fights.

Eight crafting disciplines let you produce equipment, consumables, and specialty items from gathered materials. Smelting, Forging, Synthesis, Signal Etching, Gem Resonance, Pyrecraft, Cooking, and Fabrication each produce different types of gear and items. Crafted equipment can rival or exceed what you find in the wild, especially at higher crafting levels. Gather resources from deposits in the wilderness and visit Syl at The Wreck to start work orders.

Found a piece of gear you love? Take it to Enhancement to push its stats higher. Each successful enhancement increases the item's level and boosts its stats. Be warned. Enhancement can fail, and higher levels are riskier. But a +5 weapon hits noticeably harder than a +0. Enhancement compounds come from Conduit runs, Xenopedia milestones, and crafting.

Zone bosses have a chance to drop legendary equipment directly. The strongest items in the game. Collect summoning fragments from zone enemies, then visit the boss lair to fight. Legendaries come with unique passive effects you can't find anywhere else. Equip multiple pieces from the same boss to unlock set bonuses. If you're stuck on content, a legendary weapon or armor piece can be the breakthrough.

Enemies occasionally drop scrap crates. Opening one gives a random item. Most are common, but every crate has a chance to contain something rare or better. Crates are a steady source of gear upgrades as you grind through zones.

The Conduit (tower) offers escalating rewards the higher you climb. Each run grants scrap, XP, and items, with milestone floors awarding unique legendaries you can't get anywhere else. Even failed runs still reward you for the floors you cleared.

Don't overlook your consumable inventory. Shards boost your farming yields. More XP, more scrap, better drop rates. Pheromone lures increase enemy spawns for faster grinding. Predator wards suppress dangerous elite encounters. Healing tonics keep you alive between fights. Craft them from gathered materials and use them liberally.

The best approach is to work on multiple fronts. Train your combat skills through consistent fighting. Keep your gear current. buy, craft, or loot upgrades whenever you can. Enhance the pieces you plan to keep. Farm bosses for legendaries. Pop consumables before hard fights. No single upgrade makes you unstoppable, but all of them together will.