ELEX - Guide For Beginners - Melee & Range Combat, Factions & More!

Quick Guide For Beginners Short And To The Point

This is my attempt of making 'short' tips and tricks video. I did not go in depth on anything just wanted to point out somethings that are useful to know for new players. You can find more guides that I did in playlist. Also there are lots of cool guides that you can find on yt that talk more in depth on some of topics that this video has touched. Hope this helps you start you ELEX journey.

[bigmufu]

(for those watching this video for your first time) If you're looking for Elex tips for a beginner, this video is still the best one out there. I come back here every time I decide to hop back in the game. Just an awesome video ! ~Mu

[void-master]

I’m late, but I found a pair of sunglasses on top of a windmill, I forgot where it was, but now I have the ability to see items through walls, that’s honestly a must have even if you wear other armor, just pop them on and take everything real quick then switch back.

[maikhpunkt]

Finally a Video with all Infos ive surched for weeks 🙈
Thank you

[ReaZVI]

3 minutes of watching and you helped me alot already gj mate

[kyledickey]

Nice this is one of the best ones I've seen

[Dajuro]

Great video and great tips.
Just getting started and this has been very helpful.

[arkadiuszgaik]

I fucking love you man! Auto focus was fucking killing me... Didn't even think you can change such thing

[artexx]

I picked this game up when I got the steam deck, thanks for the video! :)

[bloodrunsclear]

Auto combat is a MASSIVE pain. When the cultivators were being attacked by mutants I swung my mighty axe...into the face of one of the cultivators. Oops

[feiwong]

I'm 60 hours in it and played with auto focus, I didn't even know that you can change that! I could've survived more than one fight with that, *specially* *the* *ones* *with* *multiple* *enemies*, my god.

[Milo]

I feel really stupid since no one else seems to have a problem with it, but I just can't figure out how to change weapon modes. Can anyone help me out?

[BeastBZ]

Do you recommend playing Elex vanilla, unofficial patch, or Elex Overhaul for my first playthrough? I was leaning towards the unofficial patch just for bug fixes.

[neosildrake]

seems you got cold ending. probably chugged to many Elex potions. Elexitor armor looks great, but...
Attack spells sucks in Elex. I rarely use attack spells. the support spells are solid though. I prefer the Clerics because of the support spells like one with the weapon and their armor looks the best. coupled with Redeemer or Mortal Beam for ranged and Regent Sword III with energy damage for close range combat this is really good and looks faboulous.
Outlaws use of stims makes for extremely powerfull characters. severely underrated and very powerfull.

my second playthrough I decided to try and not kill Kallax and save Ulbricht.
first had to get warm/cold meter to intuitive right before the starting the actual attacks in Ulbrichts offensive, to assign him to Nastys and Jax own group, so I can keep an eye on him. his survival does not affect the further game beyond a few nice words and congrats after your win.

for that only do the main quests and companions quests and if possible only choose the answers that lower cold. maybe do one or two additional quests, if you notice they give an option to lower cold to just get to intuitive.
then highspeed with minimum quests required (only main quest and companion quests) to the last chapter and the final fight with Kallax. sell whatever you don't need and buy Elex en mass. then make elex potions and drink as many as you can or just consume the raw Elex to get your cold level to just enter dispassionate. you will need about 300! Elex potions for that though. this will make it so Kallax is only stunned after your fight and gets up again. there is not really anything that changes in the game storywise with Kallax alive, same as with Ulbricht.
After you did all that, go back, slow down, do all the quests you put on hold, get new ones, rise up in the faction you did choose, explore... etc. you can get your cold level easily down to below neutral again to get what the game considers as best ending. At this ending every faction will like or at least tolerate you.

there is a very easy to exploit cash cheat that can be done at the vendor in Origin camp. use it to get the Elexit to buy the raw materials for Elex potions. Alternative: don't cheat, get animal trophy skill and grind away for trophies to sell. or use chemistry to make and sell those potions/consumables that sell for more than the raw ingredients cost. there should be at least one to fit that criteria... hopefully.

[Owlrider]

Outlaw is actually the worst faction from a min-max perspective as other factions can also craft their double damage drug, and most if not all others too. Meaning Outlaws don't actually have anything unique to them. The +50 melee/range alone from the Berserkers/Clerics is too strong a buff, especially when combined with the double damage drug on top of it. If you wish to min-max further go Cleric range route and Synthetic than get the skill that boosts your range damage even further when your cold level is synthetic. So to sum it up for the highest damage scaling go synthetic Cleric with the +50 range spell and synthetic skill point and have some double damage stims for when you need them. Berserker melee builds are almost as good, the other cold skill points aren't as good as synthetic. However melee lets you reach higher damage output thanks to additional skills and combos so if you're good at using those Berserker melee build can potentially output the most damage in the game, but it's way more situational than range and significantly harder to pull of consistently.

[FreeRPGer]

Great concise video. But are all these difficulty settings (for Stamina & such) on the PS4 version? I didn't find them in settings, if so. I only found settings for Game Difficulty, -- Easy, Normal, Hard, etc. I didn't see settings for Stamina or Auto/Manual. I'm wishing I could fine tune this game with all the settings you show here. Is this the PC version? I'm assuming it is, as the settings menu looks to have more than the PS4 version I have does.

[andrewguga]

Hi Mire :) ! btw I want to ask you, do you really need to join a faction at some point in time in order to get to Act II or even finish the game ?

[khatack]

Light attacks do next to no damage, they don't stagger properly and they realign some enemies to face and attack you. Only use regular attacks to chain for faster heavy attacks and to get that special attack, heavy and special attacks are the ones that actually kill your enemies.

[danielcantrell]

is there a difficulty setting on xbox?

[retypetheanswer]

Mire,

What is the best way to start a game from the start in terms of attributes and skills? Which ones do we go for immediately and in what order?

[davehoffman]

Takes you a lot of time to get words out