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Realm of Ink’sroguelike gameplay can get hectic quickly once you leave the tutorial.
Thankfully, once you get over the initial learning hurdles, the game becomes much more intuitive.
It’s a lot to keep track of and this guide aims to streamline the basics.
Realm of Ink is currently available in Early Access and so some content may be subject to change.
We’ll update this guide as needed in the future.
Your Elemental Pets Can Become Powerhouses
Your pet can grow shockingly powerful if fed the right inks.
Your pet’s special skill requires both gems to have an average rarity of epic.
If youprioritise upgrading one of your gems, you could more easilyswap out the other as needed.
Upgrading both evenly will often mean needing to weaken your pet if you make any changes to your build.
Each pair of elements gives your pet a different form, including two of the same element.
Training yourself toignore the visual effects tied to your own attacksmakes it easier to avoid those of your enemies.
Some builds rely on you seeing your own effects, such as magic circles.
Ink Gems are the more flexible upgrade in that you canswap them out as better ones appear.
If you’re given a choice of rooms to progress through,perk rooms are often a good choice.
Burning Ink is great for any build that focuses on damage over time effects.
Its passive lets you stack up burning effects but its active skill removes all stacks of the effect.
The same extends to the basic abilities of some unlockable skins.
Keep Ranged Attackers In Sight
Ranged attacks aredodgeable only when you’re able to see them coming.
This is harder to achieve with some boss fights, like the Emperor Puppet and Peony Demon.
This is animportant part of Red’s toolkitin the early stages of the game.
On some skins, this can lead to interesting results.
Selling maximum HP is harder to justify, butcan pay off with the right build.
This means there israrely a cause for avoiding the challengesunless they pose a serious risk of killing you.
A’kuan’s Staff
Lets you poke at a greater distance and damage enemies with your dodges.
