Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, offers a unique mix of deep narrative and complex gameplay. Maxroll provides detailed guides to navigate this adventure, covering beginner tips, game mechanics, loot locations, and build optimization. Their Codex includes weapons, skills, Pictos, and Luminas to prepare for continental challenges. Theorycrafters can use Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner to create and share builds in the Community Builds Section.

Getting Started

Begin your Expedition 33 journey with Maxroll’s character guides, beginner resources, and Pictos tutorials. For a detailed companion, explore IGN’s Expedition 33 Walkthrough to progress seamlessly.

Beginner’s Guide

Maxroll’s in-depth Beginner’s Guide for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 explains core mechanics, including world exploration, combat against Nevrons, character-specific abilities, and progression systems like weapons, attributes, Pictos, and Luminas. For quick tips, IGN’s 10 Things Expedition 33 Doesn’t Tell You highlights easily overlooked details.

Combat Guide

Master combat against Nevrons with IGN’s Combat Guide, offering beginner-friendly tips and strategies, including how to effectively use Lune and Maelle.

Weapons, Attributes and Upgrades

Weapons are central to team-building in Expedition 33. Each weapon and character skill delivers unique elemental damage, with varying effectiveness against Nevrons. Characters unlock enhanced attribute scaling and special bonuses at weapon levels 4, 10, and 20. Discover more about Weapons, Attributes, and Upgrades.

Pictos and Luminas

Pictos are equippable items granting stats and unique effects, with each character able to equip three. The Lumina system adds further customization. Adjust Pictos to boost defenses, increase damage, or enhance team abilities like Shell or Powerful for tough encounters. Explore Pictos and the Lumina system, key to progression in Expedition 33.

Early Game Pictos Guides

The Pictos system allows extensive party customization, with certain early-game Pictos proving especially potent. Seek out Dead Energy II and Critical Burn, pursue side content for Last Stand Pictos suited for a “lone wolf” style, or use Recovery to create a durable tank character.

Characters

Discover each playable character in Expedition 33, their unique mechanics, and skills through Maxroll’s Character Skill Guides.

Gustave Lune Maelle Sciel VersoMonoco

More Guides

Maxroll offers additional guides for midgame and endgame, detailing map area unlocks, enemy strategies, and top Pictos recommendations.

How to Unlock all of Esquie’s Traversal Abilities

Esquie can smash obstacles, swim, fly, and dive underwater. Learn how to unlock all of Esquie’s Abilities as you advance through the game.

Unrelated to Esquie, you can destroy black rocks with blue cracks.

Enemy Strengths and Weaknesses

Understand enemy Strengths and Weaknesses across the Continent. Exploit weaknesses for 50% bonus damage and avoid elements enemies absorb, which heal them instead.

Zone Progression

Feeling lost post-story? Maxroll’s Zone Progression Guide suggests when to tackle optional zones. IGN’s list of Expedition 33 side quests details rewards to help prioritize.

Best Pictos

Find the Best Pictos for early and endgame scenarios. Maxroll’s guide covers versatile power options and niche Pictos that enable unique build strategies.

Codex

Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Codex details all Weapons, Pictos, Luminas, and Skills. Adjust levels at the top to view scaling for Weapons and Pictos.

Planner and Community Builds

Design your build with Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Builder and share it in the Community Builds section. Key features include:

Maxroll’s Expedition 33 Planner offers these tools:

Select characters and configure your active party, creating unique setups for multiple teams. Add optional tags like “Story” or “Post-Story.” Navigate between characters to tweak their setups.Choose a weapon and set its level, adjusting power and scaling (attributes not included).Select six skills per character, excluding Gradient Skills (detailed in the Codex).Equip Pictos, usable once per team, and set their level for accurate stats.Add Luminas, with point counts shown at the top.Allocate attributes based on weapon scaling.View stats reflecting Pictos, Attributes, and base weapon damage.Add notes to share skill rotations or item sources.Make your build public to share with the community.

Tomorrow Comes

Explore Maxroll’s guides for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and start crafting your build with the planner today.