King Arthur: Knight's Tale - Beginner's Guide to Essences

[@csward5380]

I put the double damage ability on Mordred and I don't regret it. I view these as just for fun in normal difficulty anyway. No need to sweat a mistake.

[@Lifekid77]

I just cleared the story, do I need more than 3perception//3spellcraft in additional missions after the story? Are there any additional missions that require more than 4?

[@maxxalos1267]

There are not, 4 should spot everything.

[@SevenPatch]

The act of NOT getting the Drink 20 Potions is a challenge in and of itself. I'll have to check to see if you have a let's play Max, cause I don't get how you're playing without having to use potions. I'm on my second ironman hard playthrough and I just got the 20 potions. I just did Forbidden Keep. My availalbe missions include The Cursed Ship and side missions Treachery, Thistlewood Ruins, and Old Monastery. So I've done 6 missions (counting the opening one).

[@maxxalos1267]

I haven't done any let's plays yet, mostly just doing guides and stuff since that's kinda what most of the player base seemed to be looking for. I do plan to do one though and post it. For my first run, for whatever reason, I just did not use potions lol. Just forgot they existed most of the time haha

[@SevenPatch]

@@maxxalos1267 Your guides are really nice, I would definetly watch your let's play if you have time to post one. Since I started using potions religiously, I havent had anyone get injured which means I've held off of building the cathedral so I could work on getting the first two leadership upgrades to the round table. My first attempted playthough was a disaster. I think the biggest mistakes I made was not using potions enough and geting all the Camelot buildings. I had to get the Cathedral to remove injuries, but too many of my characters were injured or low vitality to make either the training grounds or enchanted tower worth it. By the time I got to the 5th or 6th mission, 4 of my 6 heroes had 2 injuries each, were low vitality and I couldn't aford the first round table leadership unlock so I had 1 or 2 heroes sitting in aspirant slots. Even if I had managed to make it through another mission, those two heroes would have been almost dead or dead and I would have never been able to recover. 2nd playthrough 6 missions in, 7 heroes, all healthy and I'm training the low level ones. I still haven't built the enchanted tower or cathedral. I'm debating between getting 2nd leadership at round table or enchanted tower. I wonder if you've done a teir list on camelot buildings/upgrades.

[@maxxalos1267]

@@SevenPatch Yea, it's really easy to get into a bit of a death spiral where getting injured characters leads to more injured characters. Glad you're second run is going better!

[@MrKsan05]

I know this was a year ago but maybe someone will see this and can answer. I've been sitting on my upgrades because I keep thinking I will get a character I like better later in the game but they are just wasted. Should i just use them now of wait for a better character. Thanks

[@maxxalos1267]

If you mean the essences, you don't need to sit on them. They are useful for sure, but not necessary to beat the game. Unless you're playing on Very Hard for your first run, you don't really need to min max these. Use them on who you like, you should be fine. I can make some recommendations though if you really want to save them based on what alignment you're going.

[@MrKsan05]

@@maxxalos1267 Thank you for the help.

[@MosCraciun777]

Once you unlock an essence, you can use it only once or you can use it on more characters ?

[@maxxalos1267]

They are a one time use per playthrough

[@Blank-Knight]

Excellent, thank you

[@maxxalos1267]

Happy to help

[@chrishunter2819]

Do you earn essences every playthrough or do they stay on a single character permanently?

[@maxxalos1267]

Essences and the challenges required to earn them reset with each playthrough.

[@ansa3252]

Awesome review ty!

[@Whitehead1945]

So i should not invest into bow/crossbow user chars bec they suck in lategame? Good to know

[@maxxalos1267]

Basically, if you REALLY like them, you can sorta make them work. It just takes way more effort than other classes atm.

[@Whitehead1945]

@@maxxalos1267 i like them and they feel strong atm ,i just start the game, my chars are all LV 5 . Later on i will go for black knight and merlin, so my main team is like mordred, merlin, BK and Tristan (which guide from you i just watching in this moment). Would this a good team for lategame? I hope everyone makes it till the end lol, im playing on rogue mode. Absolutely love this game and thank you alot for all of this good and informative videos, that rly helps new players alot ! Greetings from germany

[@maxxalos1267]

@@Whitehead1945 I'm glad they're helpful for you, it's why I make them! That team looks pretty solid and should be able to complete most of the content without any issue. If you find survivability becoming a problem you may wanna try swapping out one of your damage dealers (black knight or tristan) for maybe a Sage. Isolde is pretty good and a decent backup for your team comp. Just play safe and defensively early on and you should be ok.

[@perckmalice70]

Marksman are pretty good in Act 1 and maybe 3/4th of Act2. But once vanguards start to level up from 8 onwards they do much better for me than having a marksman on the team. I also use Guinevere to take out pesky enemy archers, something which my own marksman normally does but she provides so much more utility and team support.

[@maxxalos1267]

@@perckmalice70 I've been experimenting hard with Marksman on my most recent run to try and get some good results in the late game. They're better than I was expecting very narrowly and not even all of them. Probably just going to wait until the next balance patch before I try to make any serious build content out of them.

[@MattsMusicMedleys]

Essence guide :D

[@Pancajayna]

I have seen marksmen built that do massive damage...

[@maxxalos1267]

They can do decent damage but they just do not do as much as Vanguards and Champions. Marksman aren't going to be hitting 400 damage in a single hit with the same regularity or ease. On top of that they are far more gear dependent with much more specific gear requirements compared to the other options.

[@Pancajayna]

@@maxxalos1267 when it comes to raw damage, no, but geared right, they can take out more enemies than vanguards or champions... You do need the right gear for that though...

[@maxxalos1267]

@@Pancajayna Champions and Vanguards can both pull off 1 turn sweeps and kill the entire enemy team in the endgame with a proper build. Idk how you can take out more enemies than that in a given encounter, given that that is all of the enemies lol. Earlier on in the game marksman are incredibly strong and one of the strongest classes for Act 1 and part of Act 2 even imo. On lower difficulties maybe Marksman don't fall off as hard, but I'm talking strictly from a higher difficulty level, hard and mostly very hard. After that though they fall off heavily and require far more team support and much more specific gear to be competitive damage wise. In terms of kill counts I haven't seen any Marksman pull off 1 turn sweeps like Champions or Marksman, but I imagine its also far more gear dependent if possible than either of the other 2.

[@Pancajayna]

@@maxxalos1267 you should upload that because I haven't seen that with like 10-15 enemy encounters. I was thinking about hard and above (no real gamer plays easy)

[@maxxalos1267]

@@Pancajayna Most fights don't have 10-15 enemies spawned in at once once you reach the late game. I've also never personally encountered a Marksman build that can clear 10 enemies in one round on hard or higher in the endgame.

[@TheVitalij24]

naa i prefer ranged for max damage vanguard more for offtank

[@Snutze]

Oo Ranged for max damage ? I hope you dont mean marksman the worst class in the game ?

[@Whitehead1945]

First