You can also upgrade your equipment, instead of fighting and looting for new kit, and this is where resource gathering really comes into play.įrom the press of a button you can switch between combat mode to resource gathering mode, aiming and firing at the environment to gather various types of blocks. This rank is a culmination of your characters level and the equipment they have equipped. Upgrading your loot is necessary to making progress in Trove as world gates require a Power Rank to pass through them. Trove lets you explore these worlds at your leisure, though it does encourage you to tackle the more difficult worlds where there are tougher beasts to fight and better loot to grab. There are worlds that mimic standard woodland to the more interesting stages set in Neon City and Candyland, where desserts make up the landscape. Trion Worlds really decided to have fun with these designs, and that extends to the worlds too. What I did like is the variety of enemy designs that populate the world of Trove from standard skeletons, to robots, giant parrots dressed up as pirates, gingerbread men, and even a few ice cream based creatures. The enemies early on are pretty basic in their attacks, running straight towards you and swinging at you with their melee weapons. From there, you’re quickly guided into tackling a dungeon in a low level world to get the basics of fighting.Īs a Dracolyte, I started off with a staff that sends out streams of flames as well as a small dragon that flies alongside me and can add a few fireballs of its own. I reckoned that would be quite a powerful ability to have when coming up against enemies. After flicking through the options, I settled on the Dracolyte, purely because that class has an ability to shapeshift into a dragon. As with most RPGs, the first thing you do is pick a class, which in Trove varies from a standard Knight or Gunslinger to the more unusual Dracolyte and Candy Barbarian.

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