Whip it Good! Breaking Down Weapons Included in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Complete Edition

Wo Long Fallen Dynasty Complete Edition is obtainable for obtain on February 6, transporting players right into a darkish Three Kingdoms world infested with demons. The Complete Edition comes full of all the new weapon varieties, divine beasts, bosses, story chapters, and finish recreation content material included in the three DLC packs plus the collaboration DLCs.

However, it’s the three new weapon varieties – cestus, lengthy sword, and whip – that actually flex the sport’s muscular tissues, providing distinct new methods to play the sport as you combat for each final breath.

Here’s a breakdown of the right way to use every new weapon kind…

Cestus

Time to beat down demons along with your naked palms! Aggressive assaults allow you to rapidly combo punches and kicks whereas additionally getting ready to deflect at any second as a result of pace of animations. Watch out, although, the shortage of vary could be a downside towards sure enemies, so staff cestus with Wizardry Spells like fireballs in order to have the very best of each worlds.

While cestus is provided, you possibly can truly improve your Spirit by as much as three ranges, with every degree granting sure optimistic results:

• Level 1: Increases assault injury dealt to enemies
• Level 2: Reduces Martial Arts and Wizardry Spell Spirit consumption
• Level 3: Decreases the injury taken from enemy assaults

To high it off, if you find yourself preventing in High Spirits, utilizing Martial Arts, Spirit assaults, or Fatal Strikes will truly grant you a optimistic impact that will increase the quantity of Spirit you acquire. When you carry out a Spirit assault, the excess Spirit out of your present degree shall be consumed. You may also lose any Spirit gained from Level 3 if you happen to change to a weapon aside from cestuses.

Master’s Tip: Learn to benefit from the completely different ranges of Spirit when preventing with cestus. Depending on the enemy, use the completely different optimistic results throughout battle appropriately.

Long Sword

The lengthy sword is a superb weapon because of its potential to cost earlier than strikes. That’s proper, utilizing this prolonged blade lets you truly cost and accumulate vitality as you maintain down both X or Y to carry out regular assaults or Spirit Attacks. The longer you maintain the button, the extra highly effective the charged assault will change into, with every button unleashing two phases of strikes. With an extended accumulation interval enabling a extra highly effective assault with completely different animations and sound cues to assist clue you in as to whether you’re utilizing a part 1 or part 2 assault.

Building up energy straight after Spirit assaults, Martial Arts, or profitable deflects will shorten the time it takes to build up energy. In reality, transferring whereas accumulating vitality may also permit you to rapidly dodge in that route. It is even potential to deflect enemy assaults firstly of the dodge sequence and doing so efficiently will immediately increase your vitality degree to the utmost degree. This lets you launch a strong counter assault whereas breaking the enemy’s stance.

Master’s Tip: Learn when to cost your sword along with your Spirit assault (Y button) – even throughout a mid-combo string – so as to both land a robust blow or transfer away mid cost to deflect and immediately cost your ultimate assault.

Whip

When first making an attempt out the whip, simply know, this weapon has the largest danger/reward issue of any merchandise in Wo Long. You’ll wish to first construct up your Spirit Meter as a lot as you possibly can earlier than taking over the deadlier demons, however when you’re able to rumble, activate Frenzy mode by urgent Y whereas guarding. Here’s the reward, as your whip assaults in Frenzy mode, mix the whip with Martial Arts and Wizardry Spells to overwhelm opponents with a collection of strikes. This mixture of assaults makes the whip among the finest (and most enjoyable) long-range weapons in the sport to take out hordes of monsters.  You will even deal injury to surrounding enemies upon efficiently deflecting an assault.

But right here comes the danger. In Frenzy mode, your assaults shall be extra highly effective, however you won’t be able to get well Spirit, and every of your assaults may also eat Spirit. Additionally, Frenzy mode shall be routinely deactivated if you find yourself staggered, reminiscent of if you find yourself inflicted with a standing impact or Spirit Disruption, leaving you open to taking over enormous injury, or presumably even resulting in your demise.

Master’s Tip: When utilizing Frenzy mode, as Spirit will get low, change over to a unique weapon utilizing deflect counterattack (RB + B). This will easily transition you to your secondary weapon whereas additionally deflecting. And whereas this can take you out of Frenzy mode, because you are actually utilizing one other weapon, it may also provide the alternative to construct up Spirit rapidly once more earlier than switching again to the whip to as soon as once more end up in a Frenzy.

Think you’ve got what it takes to defeat the demons of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Complete Edition? Download the sport when it launches on February 6.