Beginners Guide

Overview

A beginners guide covering: About Elex | General Tips | Jetpack | Teleporters + Maplocations | Important Skills | How to use magic | Combat System: How to abuse it | Quests: Decisionmaking | Lockpicking | Mining | Berserkers: Join them | Berserkers: Become a Warrior | Secrets | Door Codes | Eastereggs and whatever comes to my mind when playing further through the game.

About Elex

Elex is a great game by a cool german developer team. It’s not the biggest developer team, so you have to see that they don’t have unlimited resources to do anything. They put alot of hard work into this game and you should keep that in mind, when judging about the game or you want to write a review. If you enjoy the game, spread the word and get more people to play it. I feel like piranha bytes did an amazing job, although the combat system is a bit clumsy, but you will get the hang of it in no time. The world of Elex is gigantic, there’s alot to discover and you won’t feel like walking in an empty world. There are quests with depth everywhere and sweet places to find. The graphics and views will surely make your heart beat higher! Funfact: They even added photos of their team (at least I think so) that you might discover on your journey.

Feel free to make suggestions to my guide or what I should cover next, and I will improve it. I will also update it, whenever I have time to explore Elex more by myself. I am not a native english speaker so don’t be too harsh to me, rather help me to fix misspellings.

First minutes in the game

In front of the first building you can find a path to the left that leads to the Adventurer’s Amulet, you should get that. Care for the little biter 😛

The very first building you enter in Elex has alot to pick up. Especially important is a bow you can find right at the start. Enter the building, go down the stairs and the first room to your left contains the bow (screenshot). This bow will help you alot when you need to kite in combat and it does moderate damage!

@Zosh provided the following information, special thanks to him:
When you picked up your jetpack, u should use the elevator and get back up again (you need to go to the berserker city once, to be able to use the elevator back up) to collect some more stuff in the first area. You can get on the ceiling of the first building to grab a ring that will give you some health to have an easier start.

Notice that you can even go back to the spaceship and collect more stuff, and go on the satelite and electric towers you can see. There you will find alot of rockets. It’s your choice how detailed you want to explore this area. But I highly recommend to look for the amulet and ring, since you won’t find those as easily as other equip.

General Tips

• Settings
  You should definetly adjust the brightness of the game, and put it a little bit higher than they want you to. “Your eyes” will get used to dark areas after a few seconds, but you won’t see much until then, so I recommend, making it a bit higher.

• Quick save, Quick load
  Hopefully you know there’s a quick save (F5 default), quick load (F9) function. This will save you alot of time when you die, trust me 😉

• Grab everything
  You have no limit on your inventory, make use of that.

• Sell your junk
  You will have items in your inventory that are purely made for selling, so grab that elex.

• Elex drinks
  

  Originally posted by HyrakX :

  I would also recommend not to drink the small “Elex Poitions” at the beginning. Collect them together with “pure elex” and get the “Chemestry” skill asap, with that you can craft bigger elex potions that give you 2 attribute points or 1 learning point from the bigger one.

  

• Skillpoints > Attribute Points
  Make sure you spend your skillpoints, since they will often make you much stronger than the actual attribute points.

• Use your food out-of-combat
  This is just a basic idea, so that you have the potions for combat where you will need quick healing.

• Use your food pre-combat
  If you are facing multiple enemies at once, you might want to take food preemptive, so you are regenerating automatically while fighting.

• Originally posted by SojaHeroine:

  I never go out without grenades, they are a lifesaver and plasmarifle is extremely OP, since you can just switch to explosive shots, which holds your enemy at the ground, even multiple. Kinda silly how the plasma rifle doesn’t burn trough flesh, the whole weapon is silly with it’s three firing modes.

• Originally posted by Rika-Masayume:

  don’t fear the night use it, cause most monsters sleep at night or at day.

• Originally posted by derSanitöter:

  PLS add how to make combat a LOT better by turning of autotarget and autofocus!
  Options -> Difficulty -> Aiming Help/Close Combat Focus: Off/Manual.

• Originally posted by plastemetz:

  You can stunlock robots with the EMP fire mode of the Plasma Rifle. Especially useful for early completion of some Ignadon/Cleric quests. But you need some patience, because your partner like Caya needs to kill the enemy for you. You can buy a Plasma Rifle in the Cleric main city (Dex + Int requirement).
  In addition the Plasma Rifle has a second fire mode Explosive Round (or so) that knocks an enemy back. Also very useful early on.
  The 1st flame thrower is also available in the Cleric main city. It has a fireball fire mode which does AOE damage with a knockback chance (Str + Dex requirement). This can also be used to keep a strong enemy away with decent damage.

• Originally posted by falcongtr :

  OP I think you should note that having PhysX newer than one comes with the game(ver. 9.14.0702) may cause slow-mo effect in fight.

Jetpack

• Location of the jetpack
  When advancing through the first minutes of the game and slaying some rats, they will send you down an elevator, right after that sequence you will find the jetpack lying in the middle of the room, it’s a force pickup so don’t worry that you might not find it!

• Basic Usage
  Double jump (space) to use your jetpack. You will boost as long as you hold the second space down.

• “Red Boost”
  When your boost reaches the red boost zone, you will need to press space once more to activate the last bit of boost.

• Floating with the jetpack
  

  Originally posted by HyrakX:

  You can fly straight forward with your jetpack and/or just hover while using a bow or rifle. Equip a bow/rifle, double jump to activate jetpack and then hold the right mouse button to aim. It feels like this last a bit longer than the upward boost. I think you can travel a bit further straight forward whit this instead of keep hitting jump button.

• Use your jetpack to stop taking fall damage
  This is a really basic usage of your jetpack that you have to make use of whenever you jump off high cliffs, buildings or towers. When you are not entirely sure if you will take falling damage, just use the jetpack to be safe. Especially in the desert are alot of moderate high cliffs that will make you take damage.Notice: It is enough to make a short press on space right before you would land! You don’t need to use more boost when you fall further.

• Use your jetpack to travel faster
  Often, it is faster to teleport up to something and get to your desired questpoint by falling and denieing the damage by tapping your boost.

• Use your jetpack in combat
  In combat you might find kiting with a bow or another rangedweapon easier, when you can make distance with your jetpack. Be aware that alot of creatures and enemies will have ranged attacks though!

• Use the jetpack to flee
  Well, it certainly helps in some situations to flee, if you can get on cliffs or sth. else.

• Use your jetpack to explore properly
  There are alot of ceilings you can jump on or towers with jump “riddles”. Pretty much everything is reachable vertically and you will almost every time find nice loot waiting for you on top of towers etc. Or you can scan the area at the very least. Just make sure you use the quick save (F5 defaultbutton), before attempting difficult jumps as you will often find yourself killed otherwise.

• Use your jetpack to locate teleporters
  The only thing that makes you travel faster are teleporters (checkout the teleporter section of this guide as well). They are often around important locations, but sometimes still a bit tricky to find. In open area you can find teleporters by getting onto high things as shown on the screenshot.

Teleporters + Maplocations

There are plenty of teleporters around to find in Elex, and they will help you alot in making progress faster. Make sure to double check spots where a teleporter might be, because you will often have the right idea of the location, but it’s a bit hidden.

E.g. do I really need to walk up all the way to Ragnar every time?
No, you don’t. There’s a teleporter right next to the building and still I walked there 5 times without noticing it.
Use your jetpack to get an overview of an area! This is covered in the section “Jetpack”.

Here’s a map of all the teleporters, you can find it here -> [link]. Thanks for the information @Dandydelta [AUT].

Important Skills

Well time to change that! Besides leveling up, you can learn skills from teachers in cities and outposts. It will take some Elex and specific requirements in your attributes to learn skills.
I found two of them especially useful at the start and I will explain you why I would picked those. This section will be surely updated further when I advance in the game, but these two feel like mustpicks. You can find the “Hit Points” & “Stamina” Skills at a survival teacher. There are two survival teachers around Goliath: Hakon & Geron.

Hit Points Upgrade
The hit points upgrade is a usefull pickup to make you not die as fast as you are used to. Since the combat system in Elex is a bit clumsy, you often find yourself dieing even against “beginners” creatures. This will definetly help you out.

Stamina Upgrade
The stamina upgrade is really nice and even more important. It won’t only help you run longer and make more actions in combat. You will make more damage as well. Hows that? Well, since your damage is increased per successful hit, and you will be making at least two more attacks before you run out of stamina, you will dish out tons of damage, without needing to skill strength or anything. And let’s be honest: You can make only three hits at the start of the game, before running out of stamina and then you have none left for parrieing incoming attacks., that sucks!

Depending on the attributes you skill, you should think about putting some points into Intelligence to learn “Modify Weapons” and “Chemestry”, you will need a crafting trainer, e.g. Alrik.

Modify Weapons
Will allow you to upgrade your weapons at a workbench (e.g. one is right next to the blacksmith in Edan). This will boost your weapon greatly. But keep in mind that the attributes for using that weapon will increase also! For example: If you have a weapon that uses around 30 strength, you can upgrade it and it might need 40. This is especially useful when you have already a weapon around 50 strength, but need something in between.

Chemestry
Chemestry will make your life alot easier when it comes down to crafting useful potions.

Quests: Decisionmaking

• Cold
  Cold describes your emotional status. If you choose the answers that make you look more “non-human, emotionless”, then your cold will increase and you are becoming more machine-like. Notice that Elex consumers have lack of emotions, and your emotions are coming back to life, since you are not an alb anymore.

• Joining factions
  If you want to join a faction, you will need to make alot of quests for the members, so that they will give their word for you to their leader. In Edan for example, you can pretty much choose on every quest, if you want to earn a higher reward or the reputation. Make sure you know which faction you want to join, so you can make the best of it.

• Sequence of quests
  It is often important to make quests in a specific order. It’s not necassary, though optional. But in Edan you will have the choice e.g. to steal Ragnars sword and either stick with it, give it back or give it someone else for money. The choice is yours really, but you won’t be able to make all three possibilities. So, if you gave the sword back, you obviously can’t use it and you can’t steal it again or make the other quest anymore. A good way of working around that “problem” is, collecting alot of quests before solving them.

• Fighting NPCs
  You will often have the chance to solve a quest by killing someone. This is possible, but especially hard to pull off at the start. Alot of NPCs will kill you with a few hits and have mighty ranged weapons to chase you off. Killing special NPCs will obviously restrict you in some quests, or quests they had for you, so make a clever choice. If you still want to kill a NPC, make sure that you have some levels and probably alot of arrows. I found it usefull to kite the NPC, even if they have a ranged weapon and get in cover to heal myself and then start harassing them again.

Combat System: How to abuse it

So this is obviously a lame way of fighting, but it still might be helpful in some situations. If you don’t like that kind of stuff, simply don’t use it and don’t hate me for giving the information about it.

How to use magic

A few things you might want to know:

• You need to equip the fist in order to use the spells in it
  
• You can switch the spells shown in the bottom left via F key (default)
  

Lockpicking

Mining

For mining the elexit lodes (iron, etc.) you need a jackhammer. You can find one in the pit in Goliath, simply drop down with your jetpack, so you don’t need to get around the guard. Thanks @Zosh for reminding me to add this into the guide <3

Modifieing Weapons, Brewing & Recipes

Modifieing Weapons

1. you’ll need the skill modify weapons (“Important Skills” section)
2. you can learn it by a crafting teacher
3. go to a workbench (e.g. next to the blacksmith in goliath)
4. select the weapon you want to enchant
5. if you have the ingredients, craft!

Brewing

1. you’ll need the skill chemestry (“Important Skills” section)
2. you can learn it by a crafting teacher
3. go to a workbench (e.g. next to the blacksmith in goliath
4. select the brewing tab
5. select the potion you want to craft
6. if you have the ingredients, craft!

Recipes
to be continued…

Berserkers: Join them

First of all you need to make your way to Edan and talk with Ragnar. He will give you some quests that you definetly should do. He will give you a special task that you will need to complete for being able to join the beserker. He will also keep track of how “well” you solved the quests or if you even completed them at all. You can always go to him when you want to know the status of your doing.

The cleric. He will ask you to give him the cleric weapons you found. Don’t give them to him, since Ragnas wife will be asking for them as well, and you want her on your side.

There are alot of people that have quests for you in Edan, and you should talk to pretty much everyone who you can talk with. Notice here that people only give a good word to Ragnar, if they are satisfied with your work. Sometimes you need to resist the higher reward you would get, for making a good result in terms of joining the beserkers.

The chiefs of the two clans have also some special tasks for you. You should go through each dialogue with them. Angrim is a strict guy. He will ask you to obeye the law at all cost, keep that in mind when making his quest, since he might want to test you out, if you stick with the rules. Cormag has a more “relaxed” opinion on Elex weapons and technology, you don’t need to worry here.

One, somewhat “hidden” quest, is the one you can complete, when you have stolen Ragnars sword. It’s located nearby the throne. When you are standing in front of it, go slightly to the right and straight forward. There’s a little room, where you can find the sword of Eisenfaust at the wall. There are sometimes guards around it, so don’t get caught. Then head back to Ragnar and tell him you found his sword.

When Ragnar is satisfied with your work, he will give you a nice reward and another mission to check the status of the outposts. Notice here: After finishing this new quest, you still won’t be able to join the berserkers, unless you finished the special task, he gave to you right from the start to scout the other cities.

After you have done that, you will be finally able to join the beserkers. You will get nice rewards and are able to choose your magic hand. Head to “How to use magic”, if you are not sure how to switch the spells.

Berserkers: Become a Warrior

• By becoming a cultivator, you have access to more weapons and armor. Head to the Blacksmith and grab the cultivator armor, if this one is better than yours. Ragnar already gave you the main piece, so you don’t need to buy that one.
• You now can learn berserker specific skills as well.
• You also got to choose the magic hand you’d like to use in combat. If you are not sure how to use it, head to my section “How to use magic”.
• Now you have the possibility to rank up further to Warrior!

Ranking up to warrior
For ranking up you will need to do specific quests and meet some requirements.

• Earn the pledges
  Ragnar, Cormag and Angrim will have new quests for you that you need to fulfill, if you want to become a warrior. Be sure to complete them as best as you can, for them to give you the pledge. E.g. make the boring plant quest, instead of argueing to much about it.
• Become level 15
  This is simply a requirement, nothing to do about it.

Berserkers: Skills

• Requirements
  Obviously, you need to become a beserker before being able to pick up berserker specific skills.
• Where to learn them?
  As for the other skills, there is a specific berserker skill trainer, although it’s not so clear who that is. I first thought you could learn them from a warchief or ragnar, but the teacher is Caldrim. Caldrim is the guy usually standing around at the mana fountain, although he might go elsewhere depending on the quests you made. If he’s not at the mana shrine go to the cultivators, he might be speaking to Born.

Secrets

check out this link as well legendary items [guides.gamepressure.com], I will add those items later on in the guide as well.

Adventurer’s Amulet

Originally posted by Castile(11thMS):

At the start before you go into the first building go left up the hill,climb the walls, theres an area up there with a biter and also the Adventurer’s Amulet(+1lockpicking,+5armour) great early game item.

Thanks for improving my guide!

Gaia’s Wrath
Damage: 39
Type: One Handed
Requirements:

I’m not sure, if this one counts in the secret weapons, but at least the game played some glorious music, when I found it. It’s located southwest from Goliath and lies in a ruin in a closet and has two slots, it’s great for people who went for a constitution build.

Ignis Artifex
Damage: 53
Type: Two Handed, Fire
Requirements:

This is a sweet lil’ sword that you might have missed at the start. One “boring” quest by Born, I think, will get you to this place to pick up some leafs. Right in the middle of the island is a fountain where you can find Ignis Artifex pinned in a stone like Excalibur itself. Be careful though, because there’s a strong creature around that loves to kill you.

Sword of Advent
Damage: 50
Type: One Handed, Lightning
Requirements:

This sword isn’t as easy to find, but does some insane damage for being one handed. You need to go to the city of dome and head to the castle. Find your way up the wall and follow it until you reach the room with a lot of red flags and symbols in it, you will recognize it. Then you need to turn around to see a ladder that brings you to this wonderful weapon!

Door Codes

• Originally posted by Blutsturm:

  I know. One Code (South Converter) is 1438 . I’ve found this in a german quide für the quest elex supplies (In german *Elexnachschub*).

  
  

Eastereggs

• Originally posted by SojaHeroine:

  ah, and i found a funny easter egg, north east of adessa, where the broken bridge is, with the river, below is a skeletton in a really funny pose, you should check that out.

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