In this Lies of P Build Guide, I’m going to be covering my Lethal Gambit Build, a build that uses quick attacks with a dagger to deal huge amounts of damage in a short period of time, finishing fights quickly and with finesse.

Lethal Gambit – Lies of P Build Guide

The Lethal Gambit Lies of P Build focuses on attacking quickly and overwhelming the enemy with huge DPS, as well as unexpected staggers that are unusual coming from a dagger weapon.

Our reasoning behind the combination of the Tyrant Murderers Dagger Blade with the Wintry Rapier’s Handle is purely because of the matching attack types of stabbing, and the good moveset that the handle provides to the weapon. The main weakness of daggers is that they have an extremely short range, making the weapon type feel difficult to use and frustrating. A good example of this is the Master Chef’s Knife, a dagger where the heavy and normal attacks are of a short range and don’t move the character much closer to the target, making it easy to miss unless you are completely point blank. The Rapier Handle combats this disadvantage by offering the range that most daggers lack, making you step forward with every attack as you would expect from a Rapier weapon.

The Tyrant Murderers Dagger Blade has been chosen as the dagger blade because of its unique 30% Critical Strike property. This dagger is probably the strongest in the game simply for this attack type, so we use it alongside the Rapier Handle to make a deadly combo. 

We will be using a Fable Art very often in this build called the “Grind” Fable Art on the Tyrant Murderers Dagger Blade. This Fable Art increases our Critical Chance for 1 Fable Slot, boosting DPS to insane levels for very cheap. This allows us to build around constantly keeping this effect up by choosing specific P-Organ upgrades, while adding a Grindstone Effect to the weapon in order to further boost its damage, on top of an amulet which increases damage done for every attack you do for up to 4 attacks, overall giving explosive DPS for short periods of time which can be repeated easily thanks to the low cost of Grind.

Note that this build will have some super end-game components that will boost its damage considerably, but there are alternatives to what we use for the majority of the game that work very well regardless.

Lethal Gambit Starting Class

The best starter class for this build will be the Path of the Bastard: Dexterity, as the Wintry Rapier’s Handle favours Technique scaling, and is acquired as your starting weapon by choosing this class. However, if you choose one of the other classes, you can purchase it from a merchant. You will deal less damage if you choose the other classes, so if you want to get the absolute maximum damage output be sure to choose the Dexterity path.

Keep in mind that you CANNOT respec the starting class stats, so if you want to min-max this build, you must choose the recommended build path.

What to use before Area 6

For Areas 1 and 2, the beginner weapon will be fine as you don’t get many other options early on. Once you get into Area 3, I recommend using the Salamander Dagger if you are looking for a similar playstyle to use until you reach the Tyrants blade. You could even put the Rapier Handle on it like we do to the Tyrant blade if you want to get a feel for the moveset.

The Salamander Dagger can be found in Area 3, Workshop Union Entrance Stargazer by taking an immediate right, up to the stairs, and going into the first room on your left, which will have a trapdoor that leads to a few puppets and a safe containing the Salamander Dagger Blade and Handle.

How to Obtain the Tyrant Murderers Dagger Blade

To obtain the Tyrant Murderers Dagger, you will need to buy it from Pulcinella after acquiring the item “Incredible Venigni Collection”. This item can be located in the Opera House in Area 6. From the Estella Opera House Entrance Stargazer, run in a directly straight line through the door leading to the burning chandelier. From here, fall into the hole in the ground under the chandelier, and run through the corridor on the right. Take another right after reaching another corridor, and continue straight into a room with a legless puppet inside. In here will be a safe containing the Incredible Venigni Collection.

You can take this back to Hotel Krat and give it to Pulcinella to expand his inventory of merchandise, which will include the Tyrant Murderers Dagger that goes for 2000 Ergo.

The room where you can find the safe which has the Incredible Venigni Collection

How to Obtain the Wintry Rapier’s Handle

This weapon is easily obtained at the start of the game. You can either choose the starting class Path of the Bastard: Dexterity to get the Wintry Rapier for free, or purchase it from the Wandering Merchant you meet at the Cerasani Alley Stargazer for 300 Ergo.

Lethal Gambit Stats

As this weapon uses the Wintry Rapier’s Handle, it will be a Technique based build with scalings of D in Motivity and B in Technique. You can further enhance the damage by using a Technique Crank on the handle to put the scalings as 0 for Motivity and A for Technique, or you could change it to a balanced scaling using a Motivity Crank to make it a C scaling for both stats.

Besides Technique, you need high Vitality for survivability, and high Vigor to be able to relentlessly attack after casting Grind. Lastly, get a bit of Capacity to hold more puppet parts. However, this stat will be quite low at the endgame as we are only equipping a dagger, giving us lots of weight to spare. Advance and Motivity are not needed at all in this build.

As for the order in which you level, invest into Vitality for the first 10 levels, as extra HP allows you to make more mistakes without dying. Then for the next 20 or so levels you should focus on Technique for weapon damage and Vigor. At this point in the game, you will get puppet parts that start to weigh you down, so start leveling Capacity a tiny bit to increase the amount of weight you can hold so P stays under 80% load in his weight stat. This is important because your normal roll becomes much slower when you pass the 80% threshold, so if you want to equip those heavy puppet parts to be tanky, level Capacity once you start getting them.

From this point, you should level all of the Default Abilities equally, following these end-game stat distributions as a goal:

Level 90 Path of the Bastard: Dexterity

• Vitality: 37
• Vigor: 26
• Capacity: 18
• Motivity: 5
• Technique: 37
• Advance: 6

37 Vitality gives you about 700 Health which allows you to tank tons of hits, and 26 Vigor feels like the sweet spot for how long you can spam this weapon. 18 Capacity allows you to get the bare minimum weight to equip the heaviest puppet parts along with the rest of the build, giving you an overall of 77% capacity. 37 Technique gives tons of damage, but you could allocate points elsewhere after reaching 35 since you barely increase weapon damage after that point.

Amulets

For this build there will only be 1 Special Amulet that is extremely important to the damage of this build, so make sure you don’t spend the Boss Ergo on the weapon counterpart.

In the first Amulet Slot will be the Assassin’s Amulet. This is a super late-game Amulet found in the Arche Abbey Upper Part – Internal Bridge in the final Area. This is amazing for our overall DPS as we get to boost our Crit DMG. An earlier alternative to this amulet can be swapping between any of the three extra damage to enemy type amulets: the Carcass Butcher’s Amulet, Murderer Puppet’s Amulet or the Puppet Destroyer’s Amulet. This will give a general damage buff which is probably on par to the damage increase you would get from the Assassin’s Amulet, but only to specific enemy types.

In the second Amulet Slot, I put the Arm of God Amulet. This amulet will increase your damage every time you attack for up to 4 stacks, for 5 seconds after attacking. The Wintry Rapier’s Handle has an extremely fast moveset so you can very quickly stack this damage buff and pair it with the Grind Fable Art to deliver really good DPS.

In the third Amulet Slot, the Carriers Amulet +1. This or the normal Carriers Amulet is great for saving us some levels that we would have to spend on Capacity in order to naturally hold all of our gear and high tier puppet parts. An alternative amulet for if you wish to use a squishy build with less heavy puppet parts would be the Patience Amulet to get you back in combat quickly with enhanced stamina regeneration.

In the last Amulet Slot, I decided on the Red Fox Amulet. This amulet will increase Technique and Motivity by +3, but unfortunately it is also in the final area of the game. The early alternative would simply be the Technique Amulet for an easy +4 Technique. The reason why the Red Fox Amulet is better than the Technique Amulet is because each point counts as a level to your character, which gives you extra resistances against physical damage, fire damage etc. The Red Fox Amulet will give a very slightly lower damage bonus but give 2 more levels of resistance, making it the better amulet.

Grindstones

In the early game I found that the Flame Grindstone was great for increasing the DPS of this build further, as targets who are overheated will take increased damage from Fire Damage. However, this is not the best grindstone to use; the best grindstone will be the Satisfaction Grindstone which will increase the Critical Rate of your weapon. Using this paired with the Grind Fable Art will give you close to 100% Critical Chance on the dagger, making it do Greatsword levels of damage in its Normal and Heavy attacks, which is ridiculous for its attack speed. Stack this with the Assassin’s Amulet, and you will be wielding the Holy Sword of the Ark shrunk to dagger form. 

P-Organs

The best P-Organ Synergy Effects for the Lethal Gambit are the following:

• Increase Pulse Cells
  • Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Link Dodge
  • Be able to dodge farther away from wide AOE attacks
• Add Amulet Slots
  • Equip more Powerful Amulets which can increase damage, improve survivability and provide special effects.
• Enhance Pulse Cell Recovery
  • Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Add Fable Slots
  • Be able to use the Grind Fable Art as often as possible
• Retain Guard Regain 1
  • Some extra survivability to add to the kit
• Perfect Guard Cause Stiffness
  • You will be Perfect Guarding in order to generate fable quickly, so this pairs well
• Increase Special Grindstone Uses
  • The Grindstone becomes a core part of the build later and is good early too, so increasing its uses will be useful.

For the individual effects you get from spending 1 Quartz:

Attack Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Enhance Charge Stagger ATK
  • Charge attack is quick and you will be able to use it a lot, but it doesn’t do much stagger as it is a dagger so this will help speed things up
• Enhance Fatal ATK
  • Do more damage with staggers
• Increase Fable Art Effect Duration
  • We will keep the Grind Fable Art up for longer, so we can maintain our big DPS boost
• Lower Weapon Durability Consumption
  • I often found myself losing durability quickly, maybe because of how many times the weapon strikes compared to other weapons.
• Enhance Stagger Attack from Behind
  • You want to get at least 1 stagger in every Boss Fight, so any extra stagger we can get is useful

Survival Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Enhance Guard Regain Recovery
  • Get more health back after damaging enemies right after blocking their attacks
• Lower Damage While Dodging
  • If you fail a dodge, you are forgiven with slight damage reduction
• Lower Guard Regain Reduction
  • Gives you more time to attack the enemy before the temporary health from blocking depletes 
• Perfect Guard Guard Regain Recovery (NOT A TYPO)
  • When you are being pushed back by relentless attacks, Perfect Guard will be able to heal any damage that you take making you less prone to burst deaths

Ability Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Lower Charge Attack Stamina Consumption
  • Lower the stamina consumption of the counterattack and the normal heavy attack
• Perfect Guard Fable Charge Enhance
  • Make the Perfect Guard from the counterattack generate Fable to use the Grind Fable Art more often
• Reduce Stamina Consumption from Dash
  • When you need to disengage from a boss, or get behind it, use less stamina so that you can fit in more attacks
• Fatal Attack Fable Charger
  • Generate Fable after staggering an enemy and Fatal Attacking so we can pop the Grind Fable Art right after
• Special Grindstone Weapon Durability Recovery
  • If you run out of durability mid combat, use the Grindstone to not only get a special effect on your weapon, but completely replenish the durability instantly

Item Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Special Grindstone Increase Effect Duration
  • The Grindstone is a core part of the build for enhanced DPS, so increasing its effect duration will be useful

Legion Arm

The Legion Arm that felt best with this build is Puppet String to close the distance between you and an enemy since your range is still a little short despite using the Wintry Rapier’s Handle. You can’t get crits from the Attack Link upgrade, but it’s nevertheless good damage and stagger.

Other Legion Arms can work, so don’t feel limited to these options and experiment with what you enjoy the most!

Puppet Parts

In this build, I always used the highest-weight puppet part I found, which made me extremely tanky by the end of the game. I kept my equipment weight down using the Carrier’s Amulet when needed and leveling capacity, allowing me to equip these heavy parts without passing the weight threshold.

Final Tips

While an aggressive playstyle is intended with this build, it’s easy to go overboard and forget about perfect parrying and dodging attacks while completely immersed in the big red crits that you deal. Make sure you balance aggression with a reasonable defence, as if you can’t make the most out of your Grind Fable Art while it’s active because you got knocked down, you will find yourself out of fable slots and thus down DPS until you charge up more Fable.

Next, try to ignore your Arm of God passive that you can see while playing. You may feel anxiety and try to get an attack in before the buff runs out, but trying to play around the 5 seconds of uptime the damage boost has will just make you misplay by attacking when you aren’t supposed to. This weapon attacks stupidly fast, so you can get all your stacks back from just 1 quick heavy attack and 1 light attack.

Lastly, don’t use the Grind Fable Art against normal enemies. The weapon already has a built in Critical Rate that will deal some extra damage, and using a Fable Slot for a bonus on trash mobs is a waste. I recommend using it constantly against minibosses and any tanky mobs that you find in the game.

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In this Lies of P Build Guide, I’m going to be covering my Stormsteel Templar Build, a build that can be almost fully completed by Area 4, and one that wields a ginormous Special Greatsword and pairs it with Electric Blitz to deliver colossal damage in only a few swings.

Stormsteel Templar – Lies of P Build Guide

The Stormsteel Templar is a heavy-hitting build that utilises the heavy stagger damage of the colossal Holy Sword of The Ark by applying Electric Shock on enemies. Applying Electric Shock will not do any damage over time, but instead increases the amount of Physical damage and Electric Blitz damage they take. It also makes enemies experience increased Stagger Damage, which makes it a fantastic pair with the Holy Sword of the Ark (HSA).

The Holy Sword of the Ark has the Fable Arts “Patient Smash” and “Alter”. Patient Smash will charge up a great overhead attack that deals good damage. Alter is more interesting as it extends the range of the Holy Sword of the Ark and decreases its stamina cost. This form is not temporary and only returns to its original shape if Alter is used again. Once used again, the sword will glow red, indicating that the next attack will be empowered.

In order to apply Electric Shock in this build, we need to have a source of Electric Blitz, of which we have a few. Our main source will be from the Legion Arm Fulminis; a Legion Arm which charges up a big electric shock that does decent damage and applies a ton of Electric Blitz. Our next source will be from the Electric Blitz Grindstone, which simply imbues Electric Blitz to the Holy Sword of the Ark. The last possible source of Electric Blitz is a consumable, the Throwing Cell. Using this consumable will throw the item, do a bit of damage, and apply Electric Blitz. This will usually apply Electric Shock within 2 uses. 

The basic rotation of this Builds playstyle is to enter the battle with Alter activated, apply Electric Shock with any of the previous sources, slash away with that extra damage buff until the enemy is staggered, then after using a Fatal Attack alter back to normal in order to execute a charged heavy attack that will be empowered from Alter, and deal extra physical damage from Electric Shock. Then, repeat from the start whenever Electric Shock is not on the enemy.

Stormsteel Templar Starting Class

The best class to start for this build will be the Path of the Sweeper: Strength as the Holy Sword of the Ark is a Greatsword with B Motivity Scaling and C Technique Scaling. Using a Motivity Crank can increase this to an A in Motivity and a C in technique, giving a slight damage boost. If you chose Path of the Bastard: Dexterity, then it may be better to stick to the Technique scaling by using a Technique Crank to make the weapon have a B Scaling, though you wont get as much damage as if you were to use Motivity and have an A Scaling on the weapon.

Keep in mind that you CANNOT respec the starting class stats, so if you want to min-max this build, you must choose the recommended build path.

What to use before Area 4

For Areas 1 and 2, the beginner weapon will be fine as you don’t get many other options early on. For Area 3 and its Boss, as well as a chunk of Area 4, the easiest weapons to pick up are the Booster Glaive Blade and the Electric Coil Stick Handle (Does not scale great with motivity, but shouldn’t matter in the early game and it gives a good moveset.). 

The Booster Glaive can be found in Area 3, Workshop Union Entrance Stargazer by taking an immediate left and going down the ladder towards the Puppet of the Future, and then going to the opposite end, where there will be a chest with the Booster Glaive Blade and Booster Glaive Handle. 

The Electric Coil Stick can be found in area 2, Inside the House on Elysion Boulevard Stargazer where there is a merchant located in the same house as the Stargazer. This Merchant will sell the Electric Coil Stick for 1200 Ergo.

How to Obtain the Holy Sword of the Ark

The Holy Sword of the Ark is a Special Weapon, which means it can only be obtained by purchasing it from Alidoro for a specific Boss Ergo. Luckily, the boss you need to defeat for this weapon is in Area 3; King’s Flame, Fuoco. This means as soon as you meet Alidoro in Area 4, you can purchase the Holy Sword of the Ark.

Stormsteel Templar Stats

This build will only be building Motivity as the main weapon damage stat. Leveling Advance secondarily could work as we do rely on Electric Shock a lot, which scales with Advance, but the Fulminis has the same scaling on Motivity and Advance, so it will be more efficient to just level Motivity.

For the rest of the stats, you want high Vitality to survive tanking a lot of hits and high Vigor to be able to use multiple charged attacks. High Capacity is necessary in order to equip this very heavy weapon with any special amulets and heavy duty puppet parts, and we will not  be leveling Technique or Advance.

As for the order in which you level, invest into Vitality for the first 10 levels, as that extra HP makes the game much more forgiving of your mistakes. Then the next 20 or so levels should be focused on Motivity for weapon damage and Vigor. After this point in the game, you will get puppet parts that start to weigh you down as well as your Holy Sword of the Ark, so start pumping Capacity to increase the amount of weight you can hold. It is necessary to keep under 80% load in your weight stat as the normal roll becomes much slower when you pass the 80% threshold.

From this point, you should level all of the Default Abilities equally, following these end-game stat distributions as a goal:

Level 90 Path of the Sweeper: Strength

• Vitality: 36
• Vigor: 25
• Capacity: 22
• Motivity: 35
• Technique: 5
• Advance: 6

Amulets

There are only 1 or 2 Special Amulets recommended for this build, which can be acquired from trading the Boss Soul of the Area 1 boss and the Area 2 Boss, so make sure you don’t use this ergo beforehand.

In the first Amulet Slot, I recommend switching between the three extra damage to enemy type amulets; these would be the Carcass Butcher’s Amulet, the Murderer Puppet’s Amulet and the Puppet Destroyer’s Amulet. Switch the amulet based on the type of boss or enemy you are predominantly fighting in your area for a very noticeable extra damage buff.

In the second Amulet Slot, the Patience Amulet is good for getting back your stamina after using it all up on charged attacks. An alternative Special Amulet that can also work is the Dancing One’s Amulet, which will let you roll without having any stamina. This means you can fully commit to charged attacks, spending your whole stamina bar, and still get out of danger safely. The only downside is the weight of this amulet, which is almost as high as the main weapon of the build.

In the third Amulet Slot, the Carrier’s Amulet will increase the weight threshold so that you can equip heavy parts and amulets without having to spend levels into capacity that could be spent on Motivity. Alternatively, if you don’t use heavy puppet parts, you can use the Strength Amulet to get a slight edge in damage.

In the last Amulet Slot, the Extreme Modification Amulet is a good fit for this build. As the main Fable Art used in this build is Alter, which only takes 1 Fable Slot, you will often have 3 Fable Slots to spare. This amulet will increase basic weapon damage depending on how many Fable Slots are charged, providing an easy damage boost to the build.

P-Organ

The best P-Organ Synergy Effects for this build are the following:

• Increase Pulse Cells
  • Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Link Dodge
  • Be able to dodge farther away from wide AOE attacks
• Add Amulet Slots
  • Equip more Powerful Amulets which can increase damage, improve survivability and provide special effects.
• Enhance Pulse Cell Recovery
  • Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Increase Staggerable Window 1
  • Increase the stagger time to pull of the full combo against bosses who have a very short Stagger time
• Add Fable Slots
  • Use Alter more often
• Increase Special Grindstone Uses
  • Use Electric Blitz more often
• Perfect Guard Cause Stiffness
  • Break the stance of minibosses to buy time in order to do a heavy attack

For the individual effects you get from spending 1 Quartz:

Attack Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Enhance Charge Stagger ATK
  • Get more stagger damage to use your Fable Art more frequently
• Enhance Fatal ATK
  • We stagger a lot with this build, so boost the damage of the Fatal Attack that comes with it
• Enhance Ambus Stagger ATK
  • Dash attacking is quick with this weapon, so increasing the stagger for dodge and dash attacks is great.

Survival Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Enhance Guard Regain Recovery
  • You are more likely to block than dodge with this build, so enhancing Guard Regain Recovery will help you get back the HP you lose from blocking
• Lowers Damage of Charge Attack / Fable Arts
  • If you mistime a perfect parry, you wont take as much damage from the Red Attacks.
• Perfect Guard Guard Regain Recovery (NOT A TYPO)
  • When you are being pushed back by relentless attacks, Perfect Guard will be able to heal any damage that you take making you less prone to burst deaths

Ability Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Lower Charge Attack Stamina Consumption
  • Lower the stamina consumption so it can be used more often and thus stagger more often
• Reduce Stamina Consumption from Dash
  • When you need to disengage from a boss, or get behind it, use less stamina so that you can fit in more attacks
• Fatal Attack Fable Charger
  • Get more Fable Generation to increase our weapon damage through the Extreme Modification Amulet
• Special Grindstone Weapon Durability Recovery
  • The Special Grindstone will be used often to generate Electric Shock, this upgrade will make it even more useful.
• Auto Charge Legion
  • Auto Charge so that we don’t need to expend Legion Magazines as often, which would leave us vulnerable
• Perfect Guard Fable Charge Enhance
  • Make Perfect Guards charge Fable Slots faster and increase our weapon damage through the Extreme Modification Amulet

Item Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Legion Magazine Effect Enhance
  • Fulminis is a big source of Electric Shock, so we will be using Legion Magazines to make sure we always have charge
• Special Grindstone Increase Effect Duration
  • The Special Grindstone will be used often to generate Electric Shock, increasing the duration will let us apply it for longer
• Charge Fable upon Pulse Cell Use
  • Increase weapon damage with Pulse Cells through the Extreme Modification Amulet

Legion Arm

The only Legion Arm which can generate Electric Blitz which leads to Electric Shock is the Fulminis, which is unlocked in Area 2. Once the Fulminis is fully upgraded, it will deal devastating damage and stagger after its 3 charge ups, and will apply a good amount of Electric Blitz to apply Electric Shock.

To use this Legion Arm without getting hit, you need to find downtime between enemy attacks where they stay still and allow you to charge the Fulminis. This is ideally the first thing you do in a boss fight as Electric Shock lasts a long time and will get the best value if applied as early as possible. If you ever run out of charge, feel free to use Legion Magazines to recharge it, as these are very easily acquired from Polendina for very cheap.

Special Grindstone

The Electric Blitz Grindstone is fantastic for generating Electric Shock onto enemies, and will also give the Holy Sword of the Ark a damage boost against any enemies who are afflicted with Electric Shock. If you want, you can try using the Destruction Grindstone as an alternative in the late game to get more Stagger Damage, but with the Electric Blitz Grindstone you can get extra damage on top of Stagger Damage, so it may not be as good.

Puppet Parts

In this build, I always used the highest-weight puppet part I found, which made me extremely tanky by the end of the game. I kept my equipment weight down using the Carrier’s Amulet when needed and leveling Capacity, allowing me to equip these heavy parts without passing the weight threshold.

Final Tips

When using this build outside of Boss Fights, don’t always use Alter; The form has its downsides as well as its upsides. In small corridors, the weapon is basically unusable as the length and the moveset of the sword will cause the sword to constantly bounce off the wall. Alter is great otherwise with its large AOE slash attacks and reduced stamina costs, but this one disadvantage can easily get you killed, so be sure to remember this!

Next, don’t forget to use the Throwing Cell against bosses for an easy Electric Blitz build up. These are especially helpful when you have to play safe but need to apply Electric Shock, as this is the only way to apply the effect from a range. Be careful on how many you use however, as these items are not easily acquired like Legion Magazines or Fable Catalysts.

Lastly, there is difficulty to pull off massive damage boost to this build using the Fable Art, Patient Smash. As aforementioned, after we Fatal Attack the enemy, we can unalter our weapon to make our next attack deal extra damage. Usually, you won’t have enough Fable Slots to use Patient Smash, but in the endgame when you have 5 Fable Slots and get extra Fable charge from many sources, you can start using Patient Smash instead of a normal Heavy Attack for absolutely colossal damage against bosses.

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In this Lies of P Build Guide, I’m going to be covering my Dragonblade Dancer Build, which is a build that uses and exceptionally dextrous mid-game Special Weapon. 

Weapon: Two Dragons Sword, a Special Weapon bought from Alidoro. Available after defeating the Area 8 boss.

Lies of P Build Guide – Dragonblade Dancer

The Dragonblade Dancer Lies of P Build focuses on attacking quickly while elegantly dodging and parrying enemy attacks at the same time, which is done by correctly utilizing the different attack movesets of the Two Dragons Sword.

This Sword has a very mobile and unique play style thanks to the special basic attacks. Your Light Attack without directional input will stab and slash your enemy as expected, but moving left or right while attacking will rotate you around your target, allowing you to dodge some attacks and even get behind enemies while still dealing damage.

The Two Dragons Sword also has a special Heavy Attack. When tapped, you will gracefully slash at your enemy while dodging backwards, and away from their possible attack. Tapping again will lunge you back at the enemy, slashing them again. When you hold down the Heavy Attack, P spins the blade around him before a flicker animation appears. When released, it delivers a heavy downwards slice. Holding Heavy Attack again will charge another powerful attack slashing the enemy twice. 

For Fable Arts, the Handle has Wind of Swords: a ranged AOE blue wave of damage, and the Blade has Link Emergency Dodge: a 3 step Fable Art starting with a dash, followed by a lunging stab, and ending with a powerful slash.

What many people will miss about this weapon is its hidden mechanic; the flash you see when charging the Heavy Attack is actually the timing for a perfect parry! When correctly timed, you will break the enemy’s stance and deliver a powerful counterattack. This will be one of the core aspects of the Dragonblade Dancer Build.

When you meld all of these different movesets together and learn how to execute them without getting hit, this Lies of P Build will look flashy, stylish and elegant, like a dancer. 

Dragonblade Dancer Starting Class

The best starter class for this Lies of P Build will be the Path of the Bastard: Dexterity, as the Two Dragons Sword is one of the only weapons that has an A scaling in Technique, which can go up to S after using a Crank. Of course, you can still use this Lies of P Build if you chose a different starter Class, but you will miss out on a bit of damage, especially if you go Path of the Sweeper: Strength as with the Crank this weapon will have 0 Motivity scaling, making those 11 points useless.

Keep in mind that you CANNOT respec the starting class stats, so if you want to min-max this build, you must choose the recommended build path.

What to use Before the Two Dragons Sword

For Areas 1 and 2, the beginner weapon will be fine as you don’t get many other options early on. Once you get into Area 3, you will have 2 options between the Salamander Dagger or the Booster Glaive.

The Salamander Dagger can be found in Area 3, Workshop Union Entrance Stargazer by taking an immediate right, up to the stairs, and going into the first room on your left, which will have a trapdoor that leads to a few puppets and a safe containing the Salamander Dagger Blade and Handle.

The Booster Glaive can be found in Area 3, Workshop Union Entrance Stargazer by taking an immediate left and going down the ladder towards the Puppet of the Future, and then going to the opposite end, where there will be a chest with the Booster Glaive Blade and Booster Glaive Handle. 

Once you get to Area 6, another solid weapon to use is the Dancers Curved Sword. This weapon can be found from the Rosa Isabelle Street Entrance. Go down the street and take the first right, over a bridge into a building. From there, go down the ladder and fight your way through the Musketeer Puppets and the Bomb puppets on the street until you reach a chest, which will contain the Dancers Curved Sword Blade and Handle.

How to Obtain the Two Dragons Sword

The Two Dragons Sword is a Special Weapon that can only be obtained from Alidoro once you have a specific Boss Ergo. For this weapon, you will need to defeat the Green Monster of the Swamp in Area 8. After defeating this Boss, you will acquire the Puppet-Devouring Green Hunter’s Ergo which you can use to buy the weapon in Hotel Krat from Alidoro.

Dragonblade Dancer Stats

The Two Dragons Sword is a very rare weapon in that it has a scaling of A on Technique. Using a crank pushes this to S, meaning this weapon will scale fantastically for the rest of the game as you level up. 

Obviously, the main stat of this build will be Technique, but you will also want high Vitality for basic survivability, and high Vigor to be able to attack ceaselessly, as this weapon adopts an extremely aggressive playstyle. Lastly, Capacity is also necessary for survivability in order to hold more puppet parts. Advance and Motivity are not needed at all in this build.

As for the order in which you level, invest into Vitality for the first 10 levels, as that extra HP makes the game much more forgiving of your mistakes. Then the next 20 or so levels should be focused on Technique for weapon damage and Vigor. After this point in the game, you will get puppet parts that start to weigh you down, so start pumping Capacity, to increase the amount of weight you can hold in order to keep P under 80% load in his weight stat. This is important because your normal roll becomes much slower when you pass the 80% threshold, so if you want to equip those heavy puppet parts to be tanky, level Capacity once you start getting them.

From this point, you should level all of the Default Abilities equally, following these end-game stat distributions as a goal:

Level 90 Path of the Bastard: Dexterity

• Vitality: 35
• Vigor: 26
• Capacity: 22
• Motivity: 5
• Technique: 35
• Advance: 6

35 Vitality gives you about 650 Health which allows you to tank a lot of hits from Bosses, and 26 Vigor feels like enough for this weapon. 22 Capacity allows you to get the bare minimum weight to equip the heaviest puppet parts along with the rest of the build, giving you an overall of 79% load. 35 Technique is a good place to stop levelling because from there on, you start only getting +2 to weapon damage per level which is not a great investment.

Dragonblade Dancer Build – Amulets

The Amulets for this build are quite important and require 2 Special Amulets, so make sure you don’t spend Boss Ergo on Weapons, other than the Two Dragons Sword.

In the first Amulet Slot, I would usually put one of the three extra damage to enemy-type amulets, but this is not the case for the Dragonblade Dancer. When using the Two Dragons Sword, you already deal insane amounts of damage, but what you lack is sustained fights with Stamina. You are constantly spinning around and spamming movesets which deplete Stamina very quickly, so instead of a damage amulet I decided to put the Patience Amulet in this slot to mitigate this issue by making Stamina regenerate quickly.

Arm of God Amulet

In the second Amulet Slot, I put the Arm of God Amulet. This amulet will increase your damage every time you attack for up to 4 stacks, for 5 seconds after attacking. As this weapon shines with an aggressive playstyle, and has a relatively fast attack speed, so it makes sense to equip this amulet to further increase your damage while you relentlessly attack.

In the third Amulet Slot, the Conquering Amulet is equipped. This Amulet will increase the damage of your next attack after triggering a Perfect Parry. This works well because the Heavy Attack parry mentioned earlier actually works with this amulet, and the counterattack gets a big damage boost. It feels like this amulet was made for this weapon, but don’t forget that you will only fully see the potential of this combo once you master the Perfect Parry with the Two Dragons Sword’s Heavy Attack.

In the last Amulet Slot, the Carriers Amulet +1. This or the normal Carrier’s Amulet are absolutely necessary if we want to equip 2 Special Amulets on top of high-tier puppet parts. But if you want to go for a squishy glass cannon build, you can put one of the three extra damage to enemy-type amulets which are the Carcass Butcher’s Amulet, Murderer Puppet’s Amulet and Puppet Destroyer’s Amulet. If you do this, you will likely have to downgrade your Puppet Frame to the Workshop Union Strengthening Frame, and decrease the weight on your other puppet parts too.

Dragonblade Dancer Build – P-Organs

The best P-Organ Synergy Effects for the Dragonblade Dancer are the following:

• Increase Pulse Cells – Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Link Dodge – Be able to dodge farther away from wide AOE attacks
• Add Amulet Slots – Equip more Powerful Amulets which can increase damage, improve survivability and provide special effects.
• Enhance Pulse Cell Recovery – Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Add Fable Slots
• Perfect Guard Cause Stiffness – Useful for the heavy attack parry counterattack as well as any other perfect parries you do
• Increase Special Grindstone Uses – Light your blade on fire more often not only for extra damage, but style points

For the individual effects you get from spending 1 Quartz:

Attack Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Enhance Charge Stagger ATK – Get at least 1 or 2 staggers in per boss fight as this weapons stagger damage is low
• Enhance Fatal ATK – Do more damage with staggers
• Enhance Fable Arts ATK – Increase the burst damage of Link Emergency Dodge and Wind of Swords
• Increase Staggered Duration – Hit enemies with Fable Arts or Heavy Attacks while they are down before Fatal Attacking them
• Lower Weapon Durability Consumption – Against enemies that are more rocky in physique, the Two Dragons Sword loses durability too fast
• Enhance Stagger Attack from Behind – With all the dodging and mobility, it’s easy to get behind enemies and bosses so this will allow you to make the most of that

Survival Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Lower Damage While Dodging – If you fail a dodge, you are forgiven with a slight damage reduction
• Lower Guard Regain Reduction – Gives you more time to attack the enemy before the temporary health from blocking depletes 
• Perfect Guard Guard Regain Recovery (NOT A TYPO) – When you are being pushed back by relentless attacks, Perfect Guard will be able to heal any damage that you take making you less prone to burst deaths

Ability Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Lower Charge Attack Stamina Consumption – Lower the stamina consumption of the counterattack and the normal heavy attack
• Perfect Guard Fable Charge Enhance – Make the Perfect Guard from the counterattack generate Fable on top of damage which also gives Fable
• Reduce Stamina Consumption from Dash – When you need to disengage from a boss, or get behind it, use less stamina so that you can fit in more attacks
• Charge Fable when Reviving – Whenever you respawn from dying to a boss, you have Fable to use Furious Slash
• Fatal Attack Fable Charger – Generate Fable after staggering an enemy and Fatal Attacking to dodge away with Link Emergency Dodge
• Special Grindstone Weapon Durability Recovery – If you run out of durability mid-combat, use the Grindstone to not only get a special effect on your weapon, but completely replenish the durability instantly
• Auto Charge Legion – Auto Charge so that we don’t need to expend Legion Magazines as often, which would leave us vulnerable

Item Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Charge Fable upon Pulse Cell Use – Use Link Emergency Dodge and Wind of Swords more often

You can feel free to swap out the Grindstone Effect with one of the other Synergy Effects, as some players may prefer to make improvements to their Legion Arms or Wishstones instead, but the Grindstone gives a lot of aesthetic and style to the build on top of some good damage.

Dragonblade Dancer Build – Legion Arm

The Legion Arm that felt best with this build is Falcon-Eyes, as it has an A in scaling with Technique, and it allows you to damage the enemy from far away when you are backed off regenerating stamina. Other Legion Arms can work, so don’t feel limited to this option and experiment with what you enjoy the most!

Falcon-Eyes

Dragonblade Dancer Build – Puppet Parts

In this Lies of P Build, I always used the highest-weight puppet part I found, which made me extremely tanky by the end of the game. I kept my equipment weight down using the Carrier’s Amulet when needed and leveling Capacity, allowing me to equip these heavy parts without passing the weight threshold of 80%.

Final Tips

Spend a bit of time learning the moveset and combos of this high-skill-ceiling weapon against the Training Dummies that you can find in Hotel Krat. It’s not as easy as it looks to control, and you will often find yourself making mistakes and learning through combat. Additionally, you can learn the timing for the Heavy Attack parry against the boxing Training Dummy so you don’t end up dying to a trash mob practicing. 

Remember that you don’t need to use the Heavy Attack parry against everything. It is a high-risk high reward type of ability which will reduce in risk the more confident you are, but don’t feel pressured to constantly use it. Your normal and charged attacks can deal tons of damage on their own, they just lack the stagger damage which the counterattack provides.

Lastly, I found that Link Emergency Dodge was best used to dodge powerful red attacks of enemies, and then continue the Fable Art by lunging back into them and delivering the full combo. Wind of Swords feels great to use against groups of enemies in areas, but also deals good enough damage to be useful against bosses when you aren’t close enough to do melee attacks.

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In this Lies of P Build Guide, I’m going to be covering my Sawblade Slicer Build, which is a build that boasts huge range with a good attack speed while maintaining the massive damage that you can get from greatswords. 

Lies of P Build Guide – Sawblade Slicer

The Sawblade Slicer focuses on dealing steady stagger damage by charging a Heavy Attack from far away, and leaping towards the enemy to deal full stagger damage without the risk of getting hit during the charge up. Naturally, the charge attack itself does big damage and can be effectively used against normal enemies, and the Bone-Cutting Sawblade’s normal attack has a wide range that will kill normal enemies within your level in 2-3 hits.

The main source of damage for this build will come from the Fable Art, which the build gets its name from, Furious Slash. This Fable Art will rapidly slash and slice all enemies in an AOE in front of you 8 times, then deal a strong finishing blow that deals extra damage and stagger. This attack has massive potential damage, but it can be easily interrupted, leaving you with less Fable and not much damage dealt to the enemy. Thus, this Lies of P Build focuses on staggering the enemy and then instead of using a Fatal Attack, using this Fable Art to its maximum potential.

Sawblade Slicer Starting Class

The easiest Class to start this build with is the Path of the Cricket: Balance, as this is a balanced build. However, if you want to use the quick and agile Technique weapons or the strong and heavy Motivity weapons in the early game before you get this weapon, feel free to do so as you can put a Technique/Motivity Crank on the handle to skew it in favour of whatever you are building. You get very slight, inconsequential extra damage by sticking to one stat and using a crank rather than going balanced.

Keep in mind that you CANNOT respec the starting class stats, so if you want to min-max this build, make sure to stick with your decision.

What to use Before the Bone-Cutting Sawblade

The Booster Glaive is similar to the Sawblade in that it is a large greatsword, albeit with less range. Using this and combining it with the Puppet’s Saber Handle will make a similar, though weaker, weapon. If you didn’t choose the Balanced class, I suggest using the handle you got from your starter class instead of the Puppet’s Saber handle.

The Booster Glaive can be found in Area 3 by heading to the Workshop Union Entrance Stargazer and taking an immediate left and going down the ladder towards the Puppet of the Future, and then going to the opposite end, where there will be a chest with the Booster Glaive Blade and Booster Glaive Handle. 

How to Obtain the Bone-Cutting Sawblade

You can get the Bone-Cutting Sawblade and Handle from Area 5 of the game, in the Malum District. From this Stargazer go to the staircase leading to an alleyway. Follow the natural path until you reach a Plaza with a bonfire in the center with the Black Rabbit Brotherhood Logo.

Go straight down the path on the right, and climb the ladder to reach the rooftops. From the ladder, take the left path towards the chest which contains the Sawblade.

In the image above, the Sawblade can be found in the chest on the very right, next to the burning barrel.

How to Obtain the Bramble Curved Sword Handle

You can also get the Bramble Curved Sword Handle in the same Area, in the Malum District. However, if you have not defeated the Area 5 boss before this, you must go to the Path of the Pilgrim Stargazer first in order to acquire the Smiling Bunny Mark.

From behind the Path of the Pilgrim Stargazer, there will be a few graves and a statue that will have this key item. Go there and investigate the second grave to acquire the Smiling Bunny Mark.

After you acquire this item, go back to the Malum District waypoint and enter the Red Lobster (you will need the shortcut unlocked). From the doorway, you will see an easy-to-miss ladder on your right which will lead to a Merchant.

This Merchant will only sell items to you if you have the mark or defeated the boss in this area. Once you can buy items from him, you will be able to purchase both the Bramble Curved Sword Handle for 2000 Ergo.

Sawblade Slicer Build – Stats

As with all weapons, the handle determines the scaling of the weapon. In this case the handle is that of a Sword, so it will be balanced with Scaling: Technique: C & Motivity: C. This means that it is best to level both Motivity and Technique simultaneously, unless you choose to put a Handle Crank to make it a Motivity weapon or a Technique weapon.

For other stats, you want high Vitality to stay healthy even when you are punished for mistiming attacks, a decent amount of Vigor and Capacity, and the rest spent on the offensive stat of your choice. Put no points into Advance, as it cannot work with this build.

As for the order in which you level, invest into Vitality for the first 10 levels, as the extra HP makes the game much more forgiving, and you will make mistakes while you learn the game.

Then the next 10 or so levels focused on increasing weapon damage, which will either be Motivity or Technique or both.

For the next 10 levels, level Vigor to get extra Stamina that is necessary for this Stamina hungry build.

At point in the game, you will get puppet parts that start to really weigh you down, so start pumping Capacity, to increase the amount of weight you can hold in order to keep P under 80% load in his weight stat. This is important because your normal roll becomes much slower when you pass the 80% threshold, so if you want to equip those heavy puppet parts to be tanky, level Capacity as necessary throughout your playthrough; when you can’t use the heaviest puppet parts.

From this point, you should level all of the Default Abilities equally, following these end-game stat distributions as a goal:

Sawblade Slicer – Amulets

For Amulets, I will first go over the basic amulets that don’t require Rare Ergo to purchase, and then get into the recommended Rare Ergo Amulets.

Basic Amulets

In the first Amulet Slot, I recommend switching between the three extra damage to enemy type amulets; these would be the Carcass Butcher’s Amulet, the Murderer Puppet’s Amulet and the Puppet Destroyer’s Amulet. Switch the amulet based on the type of boss or enemy you are predominantly fighting in your area for a very noticeable extra damage buff.

In the second Amulet Slot, a boost to your primary stat is good. So either the Strength Amulet for the Motivity Build, Technique Amulet for the Technique Build, or the Red Fox’s Amulet for the Balanced Build.

In the third Amulet Slot, the Patience Amulet is very nice, increasing Stamina Recovery speed. It allows you to engage the enemy more often as you will spend less time waiting for your Stamina to recharge, which is especially noticeable with this stamina-hungry weapon. Alternatively, later in the game I swapped this Amulet out with the Blue Guardianship Amulet.

In the last Amulet Slot, the Iron Wall amulet increases your tankiness by increasing Physical Resistance, thus making your life easier should you make mistakes. Alternatively, the Life Amulet is also OK at increasing the survivability of this build.

Special Amulets

Now, the special Amulets that work best with this build are: the Arm of God Amulet, Awakened Gods Amulet, and the Extreme Modification Amulet.

Arm of God will increase weapon damage after landing any successful hit, which pairs fantastically with the rapidly slashing Furious Slash.

The Awakened God’s Amulet is quite late into the game, but also increases damage a lot by improving the damage of Fable Arts while an enemy is staggered. The whole strategy of this build is to stagger and use Furious Slash, so this pairs perfectly.

Lastly, the Extreme Modification Amulet will increase your damage based on how many Fable Slots you have charged. This is useful as you wont really be using your Furious Slash until you stagger, so you can put that unused Fable Charge to use with this amulet.

Keep in mind that if you equip the heaviest puppet parts in the game, you will need to use the Carriers Amulet which increases weight in order to use any of the special amulets without moving into the heavy status which will make your rolls very slow.

P-Organs

The best P-Organ Synergy Effects for this build are the following:

• Increase Pulse Cells – Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Link Dodge – Be able to dodge farther away from wide AOE attacks
• Add Amulet Slots – Equip more Powerful Amulets which can increase damage, improve survivability and provide special effects.
• Enhance Pulse Cell Recovery – Survivability and sustain against Bosses/Areas
• Increase Staggerable Window – Increase the stagger time to pull of the full Furious Slash combo against bosses who have a very short Stagger time
• Add Fable Slots – Use Furious Slash more often

For the individual effects you get from spending 1 Quartz:

Attack Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Enhance Charge Stagger ATK – Get more stagger damage to use your Fable Art more frequently
• Enhance Fable Arts ATK – Make Furious Slash deal even more damage

Survival Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Lower Damage While Dodging – If you fail a dodge, you are forgiven with slight damage reduction
• Perfect Guard Guard Regain Recovery (NOT A TYPO) – When you are being pushed back by relentless attacks, Perfect Guard will be able to heal any damage that you take making you less prone to burst deaths

Ability Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Lower Charge Attack Stamina Consumption – Lower the stamina consumption so it can be used more often and thus stagger more often
• Perfect Guard Fable Charge Enhance – Make Perfect Guards charge Furious Slash faster so that we are more likely to have it up when we stagger
• Reduce Stamina Consumption from Dash – When you need to disengage from a boss, or get behind it, use less stamina so that you can fit in more attacks
• Charge Fable when Reviving – Whenever you respawn from dying to a boss, you have Fable to use Furious Slash
• Auto Charge Legion – Auto Charge so that we don’t need to expend Legion Magazines as often, which would leave us vulnerable
• Special Grindstone Weapon Durability Recovery – If you run out of durability mid-combat, use the Grindstone to not only get a special effect on your weapon, but completely replenish the durability instantly

Item Type

• Any of the Synergy Effects
• Charge Fable upon Pulse Cell Use – Use Furious Slash more often

You will have extra Quartz even after getting all of this, but I don’t feel as if any of the other synergy effects will be as impactful. As such, I suggest getting the Synergy Effects that best fit your playstyle, such as whether you use consumables on your belt a lot or rely on your Wishstone, in which case you would get the corresponding P-Organ upgrades. I personally went for the upgrade Special Grindstone Uses.

Sawblade Slicer Build – Legion Arm

Legion Arms that I found work best with this build are the max-upgraded Puppet String to get a free charged attack and stagger and Falcon-Eyes to get damage while you back off and regenerate Stamina.

Other Legion Arms can work, so don’t feel limited to these options and experiment with what you enjoy the most!

Sawblade Slicer Build – Puppet Parts

In this build, I always used the highest-weight puppet part I found, which made me extremely tanky by the end of the game. I kept my equipment weight down using the Carrier’s Amulet when needed and leveling Capacity, allowing me to equip these heavy parts without passing the weight threshold.

Final Tips

The Special Grindstone felt amazing to use in this build, dealing great damage when I used the Flame Grindstone to add Fire Damage to my attacks. Later on, when you can get the Destruction Grindstone, it really helps against Bosses by speeding up the Stagger Damage. Whenever I was in a tough spot against a Miniboss, the Special Grindstone always helped me out tons!

Sometimes, there will actually be opportunities for you to use Furious Slash without having to stagger the Boss. It’s hard to notice these moments, and they are a gamble, but when you do succeed you usually stagger the boss with the stagger damage from the final attack of the combo, meaning you get a free Fatal Attack on top of the damage already inflicted from Furious Slash.

Lastly, if you use Specters, I recommend prioritising Wishstones that extend its life rather than damage so that you have more opportunities to use Furious Slash and charge attack stagger the Boss while it targets the Spectre instead of you.

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In this Lies of P Beginner Guide, we will be sharing with you our best tips and tricks to start your journey against the crazed puppets of Krat. Be assured that anything that you may miss out on will be included in this guide, so read on!

Class selection

At the start of the game you will be asked to choose between 3 different classes called “Combat Memories”, and this will determine your initial Default Abilities (Stats). Don’t feel threatened by this choice, as this is not the end-all of your build, however keep in mind you will not be able to respec your default class stats. The three selections you get are the Path of the Cricket: Balance, Path of the Bastard: Dexterity, and Path of the Sweeper: Strength. 

If you want to wield regular Swords and some relatively large Weapons, the Balanced path is the way for you. If you are looking to use Daggers, Spears or fancy Rapiers then you will want to go for the Dexterity path. Lastly, if you prefer to attack with massive weapons such as Cleavers, Hacksaws or Hammers, the Strength path will be your best choice. If you are new to Souls-Like games, I would just recommend going for the Balanced Path and using regular swords to learn the game. Once you feel comfortable, you can experiment in the practice area of the game to find what really suits you.

Leveling Up

Let’s begin this section by highlighting that there is a respec system and it can be found about halfway through the game. Respec allows you to reallocate Levels, P-Organs and Legion Arms, so don’t feel too pressured about these early game decisions. Be mindful respec does not allow you to change your original class stats.

Your Default Abilities can be leveled up by spending Ergo that you can gain from killing Enemies, or picking up fragments of it on the ground. As you level up, the cost of Ergo will exponentially increase and make leveling feel slow, so the first 50 levels will be important.

For point allocation, my recommendation would be to invest into Vitality for the first 5-10 levels, as that extra HP makes the game much more forgiving of your mistakes. I then spent my next 5 or so levels focused on the stat which increases my weapon damage the most, which will either be Motivity or Technique depending on what type of weapon you want to use. If you are running the Balanced build, then I would recommend leveling these two simultaneously.

For the next 10 levels I pumped Vigor a lot to get extra stamina which is incredibly helpful against bosses and large groups of enemies. At this point, I started to get a lot of Capacity, which increases the amount of weight P can hold. I leveled this in order to start equipping high level Puppet Parts that would reduce damage taken drastically, while keeping P under 80% load in his weight stat. This is important because his normal roll becomes much slower when you pass the 80% threshold, so if you want to equip those heavy puppet parts to be tanky, make sure you invest in Capacity. 

After level 30, I suggest you try to meet these goals in whatever order you please: Vitality – 30, Vigor – 20, Capacity – 20, Motivity/Technique – 30, Advance – Minimum Possible. If you are using a Balanced build, 20 and 20 for Motivity and Technique. Note that if you feel as if you don’t need the extra tankiness from puppet parts, you won’t need to level capacity much.

At this point you may be wondering about the Advance Default Ability. This stat is very rarely used, and is only effective on some specific weapons and legion arms. I recommend avoiding this entirely unless you have a specific weapon in mind that uses it.

DON’T USE BOSS ERGO:

An important thing when leveling up is to not be tempted to use Boss Ergo. If you read the description of any Rare Ergo you get from defeating bosses, it mentions that “A treasure hunter may want this rare Ergo”. This Treasure Hunter will exchange powerful items in exchange for your Rare Ergo, but you won’t meet him for some time, so until then hang onto them and don’t use them for leveling up. It will be worth it.

Discharging Pulse Cells

A small but important tip going forward is understanding what the Discharged status means. When you use up all of your Pulse Cells (the game’s healing flask), you enter the Discharged state which allows you to regenerate 1 Pulse Cell by damaging enemies. When you do enough damage, you will regenerate the Pulse Cell and can use it normally. You will enter the Discharged state again after using it. So, whenever you use up all of your Pulse Cells against a Boss, it may be better to start getting more offensive than defensive so that you can regenerate that Pulse Cell and keep healing. There are also upgrades you can make to your P-Organs which will make you stronger in the Discharged state.

P-Organ Upgrades

As with Leveling, don’t feel too pressured by the choices in P-Organ as you will be able to respec it later.

You will be able to upgrade P using Quartz that you find throughout the game. You can acquire Quartz from not just Bosses, but chests and minibosses as well, so keep on the lookout for those.

In the P-Organ menu, you will see large nodes and small nodes next to them. The large nodes all have an upgrade effect that can only be activated by filling all of the small nodes next to it using Quartz. In those small nodes, you can select a small upgrade for P. There are 5 different types of small upgrades; Attack, Survival, Ability and Item types. You may only select 1 type per large node. For example, you can only have 1 Attack Upgrade in a large node, and then you need to choose from the 3 other types to fill in the other small nodes.

Now, what P-Organ upgrades are good? To start, I suggest going for as many Pulse Cell upgrades as possible. So the Large node, “Increase Pulse Cells” and the Survival Upgrade “Increase Pulse Cells”. Any Pulse Cell upgrade you find will be useful, as they are a core element of your gameplay.

Large nodes that will be very helpful are Link Dodge, Add Amulet Slots, Add Fable Slots and Retain Guard Regain. You will get large node upgrades later on for other combat systems; I recommend just going for upgrades on things that you find yourself using often.

For the small node upgrades, you want any Pulse Cell, Guard Regain and Fable Art nodes. Besides those upgrades, anything Stagger-related should be good, especially on heavy weapons that inflict lots of stagger damage. Paired with that, Fatal Attack damage will give you good damage from staggering. Any stamina-reducing upgrade is great too, for your dashes, dodges and attacks. 

Weapon Upgrades

As with most souls-likes, you can upgrade your weapon using Moonstones that you can find from Enemies, on the ground, in shops, or in questlines. Using Moonstones and Ergo will allow you to upgrade the blade of any weapon you find, except Special Weapons which require Full Moonstone of the Covenant. Moonstones of the Covenant are limited in the world, but every normal Moonstone besides Full Moonstones will be infinitely purchasable, so you don’t need to worry about spending them to upgrade the weapons you are currently using.

Handle Altering Materials

You will get Cranks in the game which can change the scaling of handles so it can better suit your build. There are 4 types: Motivity, Technique, Advance and Balance. These are limited, so don’t use these on just any weapon. They allow great flexibility in builds by making some scalings skew from technique-supported to Motivity supported. 

How to make your own Weapon

When making your own Weapon, it’s really easy to get lost and sink a couple hours into messing with all of the possible combinations. The best way to make a weapon you will like is by trying out all of the initial weapons, finding which blade you like the most and then finding which handle has your favourite attack pattern.

When I made my weapon, I wanted something with range, while still keeping good attack speed. I started by finding my favourite blade, the Bone-Cutting Sawblade which had great physical damage and huge range, then tried to find the handle. Handles that came from heavy weapons usually had very slow attack patterns, so instead I went with a balanced Sword handle, the Bramble Curved Sword Handle which gave me good attack speed as well as a very powerful fable art.

When you make your own weapon, try to start by finding a weapon you really like, then experiment by using the handle of that weapon with different blades, or the blade of that weapon with a different handle. It’s a fun process that allows you to make your weapon work well for your playstyle!

Wishstones & Specters:

Specters are AI allies that join you in combat. When you get your Wishstone, you will be able to empower your Spectre. In my experience, the Specter was best used as a distraction rather than a source of damage, so I like to use the Friendship Wishstone and the Indomitable Wishstone to keep it alive for longer.

To summon a Specter, you will need a consumable called Star Fragment. This item is easily purchased later on and is a common drop from enemies so don’t worry if you use them all up. If you find yourself struggling on a boss a lot even with a specter and you don’t have a lot of this material, then I suggest farming some Ergo and leveling up before you use it all so that you don’t have to do a boss solo if you don’t want to.

Consumable Tips

When you play, you may worry that your Consumables may be valuable or have other purposes for later. Fortunately, Legion Magazines and Fable Catalysts are very common in the game, as well as Attribute Purification Ampoules, Attribute Resistance Ampoules and Sawtoothed Wheels. All other consumables that you get have at most 20 copies, with some only appearing 4 times such as Cat Dust. As such, I suggest using the rarer consumables against Minibosses and Bosses.

Status Effects:

There are 4 Attribute Status Ailments in the game and 3 Special Status Ailments. The ailments that might catch you off guard are Decay, Break and Disruption. Decay will slowly reduce your weapon durability, so don’t be in the middle of a fight while afflicted with this. Break will heavily reduce the HP you regain from using Pulse Cells, so make sure to wait it out before healing. Lastly, Disruption will instantly kill you if the bar fills, so be very careful with how much Disruption damage you take. Break and Disruption can be cured with the “Special Purification Ampoule” consumable and mitigated with “Special Resistance Ampoule“. Decay can be cured with the “Attribute Purification Ampoule” and mitigated with “Attribute Resistance Ampoule”. All of these can be found in the world as treasure or purchased from Polendina in Hotel Krat.

Exploration & NPCs

Exploration is an important part of Lies of P and checking around nooks and corners can yield valuable Quartz, Weapons and questline objectives. It’s worth looking around carefully and paying attention to the text items you pick up to get context on what is going on.

Additionally, you should make sure you talk to NPCs often. They have new dialogue frequently, usually after you complete an area, and may give you important exposition or items. Always thoroughly explore areas to find NPCs that appear outside of Hotel Krat in order for them to provide you with their services.

That wraps up our Lies of P Beginner Tips & Tricks Guide. There’s a lot more to the game than what I mentioned here, you can find a lot of more in-depth information by visiting our Lies of P Wiki. If you have your own tips to share, please do so in the comments below!

If you want to know what we thought of the game check out our Lies of P Review.

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