Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Beginner's Guide | Tips & Tricks

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is an open-world RPG where you explore the map, interact with NPCs, and find materials to upgrade weapons and gear. The early hours may feel like a letdown, and understanding the mechanics can be challenging. Here are essential tips and tricks to help newcomers navigate, survive, loot, kill mobs, and understand the dos and don'ts in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon.

Looting, Crafting, and Using Consumables 

At the game's start, the best advice is to pick up everything. Even seemingly useless items are valuable for selling later for gold. Early-game merchants offer little, but prices rise, making money essential. Luckily, towns have storage stashes for rare gear or crafting items in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. 

Sell excess junk in towns and store valuable materials or unused weapons. This manages limited inventory space and prevents being overburdened at critical moments.

Cooking and brewing in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon is vital for survival, but not all recipes hold equal value. Focus on higher-tier recipes in your food crafting menu. Don't waste ingredients on low-tier foods with minimal benefits, as ingredients become significantly more valuable in mid- to end-game alchemy and advanced cooking.

You'll also come across alchemy tables—use them frequently. You'll burn through health potions quickly; having a decent stock is essential. Always be on the lookout for Sage, a purple-leaved plant that's the main ingredient in health potion recipes.

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon allows two hotkeyed consumables. It's easy to overlook this initially, but setting it up before combat is crucial. Keeping healing potions and throwables ready can be the difference between life and death.

And talking about throwables, throwing knives in this game is very strong. Better-quality ones will do much damage and grant you a ranged attack, especially early on. These are basically a must if you're creating a stealth or range-special character.

Mastering Combat

Fighting in Tainted Grail requires patience, timing, and smart builds. As a melee player, mastering the parry system is essential. Invest points in the Parry King perk to extend your parry window—it's a top early-game skill that helps you manage multiple enemies easily. 

Alternatively, summon magic if melee isn't your thing or you struggle with enemy groups. Skeletons are effective; they collapse into a pile when killed, but powerful enemies can one-hit them. Summons act as great distractions. A hybrid build—some summoning and melee or ranged—can be effective in early and mid-game content.

Dialogues, Open World and XP

While you may be tempted to rush through the dialogues in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, it's recommended that you don't. Certain questlines unlock only through optional branching dialogue. Your decisions greatly influence your gameplay, and Exploration is valued not just in the Open World but also within the conversations you encounter.

When meeting a friendly NPC, engage in conversation. They often offer quests or reveal hidden storylines you might overlook. Tainted Grail has lots of side content, experience points, and rewards, so rushing through conversations may cause you to miss valuable high-level items or key plot developments, especially if you're interested in the story of Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. 

Nighttime exploring in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon offers greater rewards but increased risks. Wyrd creatures and Outlaws are stronger at night, providing significant XP if defeated. You can choose to fight for XP or set up camp until morning, making it an effective way to level up your character. 

Also, run away whenever you see the Wyrd Knight unless you're vastly over-leveled and well-armed. He'll kill you very quickly if your character is lower-leveled. Do not attempt to tank him early on.

When facing Flame Gobblers, conserve ammo and spells. Use them as bombs against other foes for massive splash damage, making fights easier to win. 

To better survive in the open world, have plenty of Wyrd Candle Essence that you can loot from enemies, particularly spirits. Burn it in bonfires to identify items with question marks in your inventory. They can be rare items or relics.

Movement is very important in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon; jumping and dashing—these boost your evasion, athleticism, and agility over time.

Rather than fast-traveling everywhere, try to explore areas that look interesting or dive into pools. You'll find a lot of chests containing valuable items or relics. 

If you notice a statue with a plaque, do visit it. The statutes give you free stat points for a particular skill tree, which is handy in the early game. 

Alchemy Spells and Summons

In Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, you'll encounter mobs like the Skulls that can be pretty annoying and do a lot of damage. They're frustrating to hit in close combat, but quick spells like the Blood Transfusion, which tracks enemies, are a good choice when dealing with these types of enemies. Just run up to them with an appropriate spell to kill them immediately.

Use Alchemy more often. You'll burn many health potions during crucial fights, so keep your stock up. Watch for Sage, a vital ingredient for crafting health potions in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon.

Summoning in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon is vital to distract your enemies during a fight. Skeletons can be a good choice since they are complicated to hit and will turn into a pile of bones once killed. Summoning is a potent tool during the early games, but remember that higher-level enemies can one-shot your summons. So, use your summons wisely. If you are struggling in combat, you can also choose to make a summon build, a parry build, or a combination of both, according to your playstyle. 

If your Summons get stuck out of sight, placing a bonfire and resting will despawn them. 

Important Items

Have a torch in one weapon slot. It helps you see in the dark, causes minor fire damage, and can ignite some enemies. Remember, it's for light, not fighting. 

Always carry a shovel with you. Treasure is all over Avalon; you'll miss out on valuable loot without a shovel. Shovels aren't heavy to carry, so ensure you have reserved space.

There is a recipe for a knight's armor in the crypts around Huardok's graveyard.

A level 3 health potion recipe is available near Dress the Druid on the beach. 

Additionally, you'll get a free horse named Spheara very early on in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. The horse will be under a bridge. After you have mounted it, you can summon it anytime. 

Throughout the game, you'll find weapons and items with unique perks. Keep them even if they are low-level. Stash them in your town storage—they can be upgraded at the blacksmith table later.

Save your Game

Always remember to Quick Save your game in Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon whenever possible. Developing this habit is crucial; otherwise, you risk replaying sections and losing progress.

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