The Skill Tree

Unlocking different abilities using keys obtained from leveling up/gaining tiers is one of the primary objectives and gameplay of Eldyn.io. You may be able to use a new weapon, heal much faster, create traps/banners, and more. It is recommended to distribute your keys among the four paths to be a more well-rounded player. Since the skill tree update in August 2022, advanced players have been able to skip unnecessary items, thus saving keys to unlock many powerful items and opportunities in-game. However, many have expressed confusion over the prerequisites for certain skills. This page gives a brief overview of weapons, strategies, and uses of each division. For more information, visit the exclusive pages.

**The Alchemist**

**General Description**

The Alchemist is essential to nearly every advanced player. The left side, specializing in chemical/explosion-themed primary weapons, is popular because of its balance between range and damage. The right side, specializing in insanely fast healing, is an essential for any and every occasion.

**Skills**

The Alchemist tree contains 17 abilities: Rations, Gremlock's Repast, Moonstone, Phial of Bonebile, Bottle of Leeches, Naphtha, Quicksilver, Sack of Firefog, Saltpetre, Apparition Smoke, Bingley's Tincture, Quarterstaff, Sceptre, Meditation to Awan, Bonfire, Sage's Poultice, and Blessings of Awan.

**Details**

Rations

* One of the most basic healing tools

Gremlock's Repast

* Very bad
* Only used for unlocking other, better items farther down in the alchemist path

Moonstone

* OP support weapon
* Can be combined with melee weapons such as dagger to deal insane damage

Phial of Bonebile

* Insanely good weapon
* Does a ton of damage, although at close range
* Still very good late game (Tier 30+)

Bottle of Leeches

* Good when combined with other weapons that deal a lot of damage, such as Bollock Dagger
* Does not do a lot of damage itself
* Lifesteal

Naphtha

* Good for farming NPCs
* Lasts long
* Can stop players from hunting you/stalking you

Sack of Firefog

* Good for avoiding death, when enemies surround you
* Doesn't do damage

Saltpetre

* One of the better items in the game
* Great range+damage
* A bit finicky
* Acts like a thrown grenade

Bingley's Tincture

* Good for duo farming
* Heals others pretty fast

Sage's Poultice

* Get this early game, it heals much faster than Rations
* Also heals others (so you and your partner can double heal)

Blessings of Awan

* Amazing healing
* Make sure you don't use this while other players can hit you, they do much more damage to you if you have it on

The Knight

The Knight tree usually consists mainly of high damage dealing, but relatively short-ranged weapons. Although there are some long-distance weapons farther down the tree, the Knight tree is not known for its range. However, the swords and axes available on this tree all possess pretty good damage. Be careful to watch your health when using the Knight tree, and make sure it doesn't get too low.

The Ranger

The archer tree has the highest-range weapons, most of which deal decent damage and provide various advantages which may prove crucial in advanced parts of the game. Although most involve health-draining attacks, the plium (the only side weapon in this tree) primarily slows the opponent and weakens their defense, making it ideal for either defense or close-range combat. Many players take advantage of the limited field of vision of powerful NPC's (especially bosses and fortguards), readily killing them with the longbow– known for its range and damage.

As with any tree, the archer has their weaknesses. For one, most of the weapons slow your speed, making it easier for enemies to catch up to you and attack. An effective archer must maintain a safe distance from the enemy, and shouldn't refrain from retreating when needed. Unfortunately, most of the starter weapons in this tree are mediocre, so actually experiencing the covered benefits would cost many keys. However, combining this tree's diverse weaponry with either speed-increasing attacks– or simply patience– can make an Archer tree user an effective player and a powerful opponent to face.

The Outcast

A rather peculiar tree, but with somewhat limited usefulness. The effects of this tree can make you invisible and immune to damage while doing so, but attacking causes you to lose invisibility. Although the daggers of this tree have good damage, they are all extremely short ranged and easy to avoid. Also, some of the effects, like pretending to be a friend to enemies, don't work very well at all. It's fairly easy to negate this effect because if you don't recognize the player, you can probably tell he is an enemy player. Also, this doesn't work very well on NPC's. Some moves that increase speed can be useful, however.

The Pikeman

Well-balanced, and a safe choice for beginners. The Pikeman tree comfortably blends elements of both the Archer Tree and the Knight Tree. The weapons in the Pike tree offer great knockback, great range, and moderate damage. It's good for killing NPC's and farming for XP. However, one of its main drawbacks is that you have to chase down enemies to kill them with the pike, because its knockback is just TOO good. Some of the other weapons on the pike tree however can drag enemies in to kill them off, like the Halberd. The Lance is also somewhat tricky to use. It is best for single enemies or enemies on low health that you can kill on one strike, because although it deals enormous damage and makes you lunge forward, it greatly increases the damage you take in return after you use it. This can be fatal if you use it against a swarm of enemies, as a badly-timed lunge will bring you into the middle of them, where you will be taken down swiftly because of the increased damage you get.

The Banner-bearer

Useful for experienced players. Banners can provide you with a wide variety of useful effects, from healing faster, to increasing defense, and aiding other players. Banners also hold any fort that they were placed in. A banner placed in a fort must be destroyed before the fort can be taken. However, some of the banner upgrades require gold obtained from killing dungeon bosses. Luckily, the gold you pay is a one-time use. All banners that you can build require wood, however. Most banners cost 10-15 wood to place. Wood can be obtained from Manaw, Charnwood, Dal Riata, and Pellinor Fields. Wood is renewable and plentiful, and fairly easy to get.

The Sage

A tree for those who want to heal faster or leech health. Overall, this is a very useful tree. Sage's Poultice allows you to heal much faster than the rations you start out with. Using it also provides an area effect allowing you to heal other players or NPC's friendly to you. The Bonfire is also a great tool, as it can rapidly heal players in the area for the cheap cost of 3 wood.

The Guard

Better shields mean better defence. It's good to get at least a kite shield from the guard tree, as reducing damage is an invaluable trait. Some of the shields can provide defence to those around you, or push people back. Useful tree. The only drawback? The better defence a shield has, the slower you become in return.

The Duellist

A tricky tree for pros to use. The Duellist tree is good from increasing damage and speed, and allows you to get behind or dash at your opponent. It can be used to stun opponents, run much faster than usual, and much more. However, these upgrades usually come at a cost, which is reduced defence. If you can't time the attacks correctly, then this tree isn't for you. Most of the attacks are better for more experienced players. None of the attacks deal damage directly, but they increase the damage of your other attacks.

The Trapper

Useful for barricading forts. Although some of the upgrades are useless or of limited usefulness, like the Tar Bucket, other traps are pretty good. The very first upgrade in the Trapper Tree, the foothold trap, does the damage of a Lance (pike tree) and deals a lot of damage instantly in a small area, while slowing the enemy down. It's a bit obvious though, so against players you want to place a wall of these. It costs 15 wood to place. Another good trap it has is a hidden tripwire that poisons the enemy that walks over it. It does fairly good damage, and it is almost completely invisible.

The Drillmaster

This class allows you to summon NPC'S, but at a high cost. All the NPC's you summon cost gold, and the only way you can get gold in Eldyn (So far) is by killing bosses. Each boss gives you 100 gold if you kill them by yourself. The gold is split up evenly between the players that helped kill it. (Note that the gold you get from bosses was nerfed, and is now less. I don't know the exact value). The NPC's you summon can be pretty OP, but using Drillmaster means you will run out of gold fast, and you won't have any left for certain upgrades that require it, like the Bannerbearer.

Recommended Items:

Note that these items are just what everyone should have. These items are useful in any situation!

Get Saltpeter on the Alchemist's Tree. It's a powerful attack and works as a grenade. Good for clearing out swarms of enemies

Get Sage's Poultice on the Sage Tree. Rations suck, as they heal slow as heck and slow you so you can barely crawl. Sage's Poultice also allows you to heal NPC's in the forts you own. Getting Sceptre is optional.

Get a melee weapon. This can be anything, as long as you feel it's strong. Pikeman, Outcast, and Knight all offer good options. Bonebile counts as a melee weapon too.

Get a ranged weapon. This can be anything. Archer and Alchemist provide good options.

Get a secondary weapon <link>. Secondary weapons can be used at the same time your main weapon is used. Examples include Firefog <link>, Scepter <link>, and Pilum <link>. You can use two secondary weapons at the same time. You want to be able to use three weapons at once: two secondaries, and one primary.

Trivia

* The exact date of the skill tree update <link> is August 10, 2022. This date is widely known as National Lazy Day.
* The previous skill tree used to be linear.
* Respec used to cost 25 silver sovereigns<link>, it was reduced by 5 and is currently 20.