Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a brand new RPG and debut title from the French studio, Sandfall Interactive. With a mix of immersive storytelling and difficult gameplay, there’s nothing else fairly prefer it. Maxroll has been exhausting at work on useful guides for Expedition 33. There are guides that can assist you get began, train you sport mechanics, discover invaluable loot, and hone your builds. Maxroll’s Codex has weapons, expertise, Pictos, and Lumina that can assist you put together for the challenges you’ll face on the continent. In the event you’re the theorycrafty kind, you should utilize Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner to make your personal construct, then share it on their Neighborhood Builds Part.
Getting Began
Get began on the planet of Expedition 33 with character guides, newbie sources, and Pictos guides from Maxroll. In the event you’re in search of a step-by-step companion information to maintain up as you play, take a look at IGN’s Expedition 33 Walkthrough.
Newbie’s Information
Maxroll’s complete Newbie’s Information for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 introduces the sport’s core mechanics like exploring the world, doing battle in opposition to Nevrons, every of the playable characters and their distinctive mechanics, plus introduces the sport’s development programs like weapons, attributes, Pictos and Luminas. Additionally take a look at IGN’s 10 Issues Expedition 33 Would not Inform You for a shorter information of some easily-missed issues you must know.
Fight Information
Study extra about defeating harmful Nevrons with IGN’s Fight Information. This can be a newbie’s information with some ideas and tips, together with recommendation for how one can use Lune and Maelle.
Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades

Weapons are a core a part of constructing your group in Expedition 33. Every weapon (and character ability) offers various kinds of elemental injury, a few of that are more practical than others in opposition to totally different Nevrons. Every character has quite a lot of totally different weapons which have elevated attribute scaling as you stage them, plus unlock particular bonuses at ranges 4, 10, and 20. Learn extra about Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades.
Pictos and Luminas

Pictos are equippable gadgets that give stats and quite a lot of distinctive results. Every character can equip 3 Pictos, however you should utilize the Lumina system to achieve much more particular results. In the event you’re struggling on an encounter, contemplate altering up your Pictos to achieve extra defenses, add injury or buff your group with issues like Shell or Highly effective. Study extra about Pictos and the Lumina system, a core development function in Expedition 33, and maintain monitor of what you’ve gotten and the place to seek out them with IGN’s Pictos guidelines.
Early Sport Pictos Guides

The Pictos system gives a whole lot of room to customise your get together and construct every character the way in which that you really want, however there are just a few Pictos which stand out as particularly highly effective through the early sport. Maintain a watch out for Lifeless Vitality II and Vital Burn, full side-content for the “lone wolf” model Final Stand Pictos and use Restoration to show one character right into a super-tank!
Characters
Find out about every playable character in Expedition 33, their distinctive mechanics, and expertise with Maxroll’s Character Talent Guides.
Extra Guides

Maxroll additionally has just a few extra guides appropriate for the midgame and endgame. These go into element on how one can unlock areas of the map, defeat sure enemies extra simply, or which Pictos are the very best.
Methods to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Skills
Esquie can break via obstacles, swim, fly, and even dive beneath the ocean. Learn to unlock all of Esquie’s Skills as you progress via the sport.
Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses
Study concerning the Strengths and Weaknesses for the enemies you encounter throughout the Continent. Abuse enemy weaknesses to deal 50% extra injury, and keep away from utilizing components they take up, as these heal the enemy as an alternative of damaging them!
Zone Development
In the event you’re feeling misplaced after finishing the sport’s story, Maxroll has you coated with a Zone Development Information, which supplies some suggestions on when to finish totally different optionally available zones. IGN additionally has an inventory of Expedition 33 aspect quests with their rewards, so you may decide which of them are price finishing.
Greatest Pictos
Study the Greatest Pictos to equip in each the early sport and the endgame. Maxroll’s information particulars Pictos that present generic energy together with people who have extra area of interest makes use of, empowering new construct archetypes.
Codex

Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Codex has data on all the totally different Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Expertise out there within the sport. You’ll be able to even regulate the extent on the high to see how Weapons/Pictos scale.
Planner and Neighborhood Builds

Plan out your construct utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Builder, then share it utilizing the Neighborhood Builds part ! Let’s go over just a few of the planner’s key options:

Listed here are the options to bear in mind when utilizing Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner.
- Choose your characters and arrange the lively get together. If you wish to create totally different groups (with distinctive setups for every character) you can too accomplish that right here. On the high choose an optionally available tag like “Story” or “Submit-Story.” You utilize this part to navigate between every of the characters in your group to vary their setups.
- Choose your weapon, then regulate the extent. As you do the facility and scaling change however attributes will not be at present factored in.
- – Choose the 6 expertise you’re utilizing on the character.
- NOTE: Gradient Expertise are excluded right here however you may study extra about them within the Codex!
- Choose your Pictos, you should utilize every Pictos as soon as throughout your total group. Choose the proper stage to show the stats added by every.
- Add Luminas right here, the purpose rely is displayed on the high.
- Allocate attributes, possibly use one thing your weapon scales off of?
- Your stats are displayed right here, based mostly on Pictos, Attributes, and base weapon injury.
- Add some notes, inform folks about your ability rotation or the place you discovered a few of the cool stuff you’re utilizing.
- Set your construct to public to share it with the neighborhood.
Tomorrow Comes
That’s it for Maxroll’s new guides for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Why not head over to the construct planner and begin theorycrafting?
Written by IGN Workers with contributions from Tenkiei and Snail.