Maxroll's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Guides, Codex, Planner

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an innovative RPG and the debut title from the French studio, Sandfall Interactive. Combining immersive storytelling with challenging gameplay, it offers a unique gaming experience. Maxroll has developed comprehensive guides to enhance your journey through Expedition 33, covering everything from getting started to mastering advanced game mechanics. These guides include resources on game mechanics, valuable loot locations, and tips for optimizing your builds. Maxroll's Codex is a treasure trove of information on weapons, skills, Pictos, and Luminas, equipping you for the challenges ahead on the continent. For those who love to delve deep into game mechanics, Maxroll's Expedition 33 Planner allows you to craft and share your own builds in their Community Builds Section.

Getting Started

Dive into the world of Expedition 33 with Maxroll's character guides, beginner resources, and Pictos guides. For a step-by-step walkthrough to accompany your gameplay, check out IGN's Expedition 33 Walkthrough.

Beginner’s Guide

Maxroll's comprehensive Beginner’s Guide for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 delves into the game’s core mechanics, from exploring the world to battling Nevrons. It covers each of the playable characters and their unique mechanics, as well as the game’s progression systems such as weapons, attributes, Pictos, and Luminas. For a quick overview of crucial tips, don't miss IGN's 10 Things Expedition 33 Doesn't Tell You.

Combat Guide

Master the art of defeating formidable Nevrons with IGN's Combat Guide. This guide offers beginner-friendly tips and tricks, including strategic advice on using characters like Lune and Maelle effectively.

Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades

Weapons are fundamental to building your team in Expedition 33. Each weapon and character skill delivers different types of elemental damage, with varying effectiveness against different Nevrons. Characters can unlock a variety of weapons, each with increased attribute scaling as you level them and special bonuses at levels 4, 10, and 20. Dive deeper into Weapons, Attributes, and Upgrades to optimize your strategy.

Pictos and Luminas

Pictos are versatile equippable items that provide stats and unique effects. Each character can equip up to three Pictos, and you can enhance your setup further with the Lumina system for additional special effects. If you're struggling with a particular encounter, consider adjusting your Pictos to boost defenses, increase damage, or buff your team with effects like Shell or Powerful. Explore more about Pictos and the Lumina system, a crucial progression feature in Expedition 33.

Early Game Pictos Guides

The Pictos system allows extensive customization of your party and character builds. Early in the game, keep an eye out for powerful Pictos like Dead Energy II and Critical Burn. Engage with side-content to acquire "lone wolf" style Last Stand Pictos and use Recovery to transform one character into a super-tank!

Characters

Discover the intricacies of each playable character in Expedition 33, their unique mechanics, and skills with Maxroll's Character Skill Guides.

More Guides

Maxroll provides additional guides for midgame and endgame, detailing how to unlock areas of the map, strategies to defeat specific enemies, and recommendations for the best Pictos to use.

How to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Abilities

Unlock Esquie's full range of traversal abilities, including breaking through obstacles, swimming, flying, and diving under the ocean, as you progress through the game. Interestingly, you can also break those black rocks with blue cracks in them, which is not related to Esquie’s abilities.

Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses

Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the enemies you face across the continent is crucial. Exploit enemy weaknesses to deal 50% more damage, and avoid using elements they absorb, as these will heal them instead of causing harm!

Zone Progression

If you're unsure about what to do after completing the main story, Maxroll's Zone Progression Guide offers recommendations on when to tackle different optional zones. Additionally, IGN provides a list of Expedition 33 side quests and their rewards, helping you decide which ones are worth your time.

Best Pictos

Maxroll's guide on the Best Pictos covers essential picks for both early and endgame scenarios. Learn about Pictos that offer general power boosts as well as those with specialized effects that can inspire new build archetypes.

Codex

Maxroll's Expedition 33 Codex is an exhaustive resource detailing all available Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Skills in the game. You can adjust the level settings to see how these items scale with progression.

Planner and Community Builds

Craft your perfect build with Maxroll's Expedition 33 Planner and share it in the Community Builds section. Key features of the planner include:

• Selecting your characters and setting up the active party.
• Creating different teams with unique setups for each character.
• Choosing optional tags like "Story" or "Post-Story" to customize your builds.
• Adjusting weapon levels to see changes in power and scaling.
• Selecting and customizing six skills per character, excluding Gradient Skills which are detailed in the Codex.
• Equipping Pictos, ensuring each is used only once across your entire team.
• Adding Luminas and tracking their point count.
• Allocating attributes to enhance your weapon's scaling.
• Viewing stats influenced by Pictos, Attributes, and base weapon damage.
• Adding notes to share your skill rotation or item sources.
• Setting your build to public for community sharing.

Tomorrow Comes

That concludes Maxroll's comprehensive guides for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Why not explore the build planner and start crafting your own unique strategies?