Today we want to give you a brief look into the skill tree of Fatekeeper.
We’d like to share a glimpse of both the tree itself and some of the skill nodes, as well as the ideas behind it. Our goal is to create a progression system that feels deep and flexible, and truly supports theorycrafting and creative builds.
Players can progress in vastly different directions:
From fully spellcasting-focused to devastating melee combat, to survivability-oriented and well-balanced builds, as well as more specialized paths such as builds purely focused on consumables.
Below are a few examples:
This build focuses on maximizing the use of “Shatter”, which allows you to crush frozen enemies when using blunt weapons (maces, hammers, clubs).
It utilizes several ice-oriented skill nodes to freeze enemies as efficiently as possible, sacrificing raw damage for greater shattering potential.
The next build is a full-on pyromancer. It focuses on cast speed and fire damage, while also multiplying fired projectiles and allowing them to ricochet off surfaces.
This build is focused on rapid, dagger-based combat. It transforms regular forward dashes into leaping attacks and enables a ranged dagger throw that returns to the player like a boomerang.
This powerful build aims to keep the player in a constantly buffed state through consumables. It improves alchemy results, increases consumable duration, adds a chance not to consume items on use, and scales their effects based on the number of consumables carried.
The skill tree offers many more options, and we’re excited to see what paths players will discover. We are also continuously expanding the number of nodes and paths to further improve versatility and creative freedom.
There are also many synergies between item effects and other game systems (such as crafting), which we may explore in more detail in a future post.
And since this update has mostly featured schematic visuals, we’ll close it off with some in-game shots of Haven, which we introduced in a previous post!
Thanks for following Fatekeeper’s development. See you in the next update!