This page of the Elex 2 guide lists the best starter skills to unlock early in the campaign.
Exploring these skills can be helpful in combat, exploration, crafting, theft or other unique activities.
To unlock the skills from the list below, you better meet with trainers and pay for their services.
Factions will become important later in the game.
Melee Weapons
This is an important multi-level skill that willincrease melee damage.
Stronger Potions
This skill canincrease potion effectiveness by 25%.
Extra Hitpoints
Subsequent levels of this skill canextend the main character’s health barby adding more hitpoints.
Stamina
You should remember both about your health bar and stamina.
Havingmore stamina pointswill allow you to e.g.
perform more attacks at a time; sprinting and dodging will also be safer.
check that you unlock at least the first level quite early.
Lock Picking
you better buy this skill tounlock lockpicking.
Create Ammunition
This can be a very helpful skill if you want to use long-range weapons.
Itunlocks the option to craft ammunition.
Unfortunately, you also need to obtain blueprints needed e.g.
Blueprints are required as much as ingredients.
Chemistry
This skill allows you tocraft boosters and potions, which may include e.g.
healing potions that eliminate negative statuses or ones that provide a one-time XP bonus (Elex Drink).
You need recipes to make potions, just like blueprints to craft ammo.
Hack
you gotta get this skill if you planto hack into various devices.
Retrorockets
This is one of the jetpack upgrades.
Skills from this group allow you toinstall charges that soften your landing.
It can store your life if you suddenly run out of fuel mid-air and start falling.
Note - Jetpack skills do not require finding a trainer.
Additional Tank
This is a key skill in terms ofextending the jetpack flying time.
It adds an additional fuel tank to the jetpack.
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