To succeed as the Destined One in Black Myth: Wukong, you’ll need to choose perks that amplify your strengths and bolster your weaknesses.
By investing Sparks in the Self-Advance menu, you’ll gain access to a vast array of skill trees and new abilities that cover every aspect of gameplay.
As you progress through the game, you’ll unlock even more powers and Skill Trees, allowing you to further customize your character and dominate the challenges ahead.
Here’s a comprehensive guide to talent trees and skills in Black Myth: Wukong, along with a list of the best skills to invest in.
1. Black Myth: Wukong – A Guide to Talent Trees
The most impactful skills in Black Myth: Wukong are those that supercharge your existing abilities, such as basic attacks and powerful spells, to unlock their full potential.
The four talent trees in Black Myth: Wukong are –
- Foundation: Focuses on attributes, health, mana, and stamina, providing a solid base for your character.
- Staff Stances: Relates to combat styles, with three stances.
- Magic: Covers spellcasting abilities, divided into three categories: Mysticism, Alteration, and Strand.
- Transformation: Allows your character to shapeshift into powerful bosses, granting new abilities and enhancements, with nodes that improve defense, cooldowns, and attack power.
Each talent tree offers unique benefits and playstyles, allowing players to customize their characters to suit their preferences. Let’s take a look at all four of them.
1. Foundation Talent Tree
The Foundation talent tree is divided into three sub-categories: Stamina, Martial Arts, and Survival. To optimize your character’s abilities, focus on the following skills:
- In the Stamina column, prioritize perks from Simian Agility to Vengeful Mirage, which enhance dodging and sprinting capabilities.
- In Martial Arts, unlock Mobile Spin early on to deflect projectiles and close the distance to ranged attackers.
- In Survival, start with Rampant Vigor to increase maximum stamina. As you level up, invest in Surging Momentum to boost attack attributes and Rough Skin to enhance defense.
These skills are essential in Black Myth: Wukong, as they improve your character’s dodging, movement, and combat capabilities, allowing you to navigate challenges more effectively.
2. Staff Stances Talent Tree
The Staff Stances talent tree in Black Myth: Wukong offers three distinct playstyles, namely smash stance, pillar stance, and thrust stance.
- Smash Stance: Emphasizes aggressive combat with rapid, successive attacks. Unlock Force Unbound, Resolute Counterflow, Winding Wind, and Skyfall Strike for enhanced aggressive capabilities.
- Pillar Stance: Enables evasive maneuvers by hopping on the staff to dodge ground-based attacks. Select Pillar Stance and Sweeping Gale for improved evasive and defensive techniques.
- Thrust Stance: Focuses on defensive and counterattacking strategies. Max out all available perks as you level up to capitalize on its versatile defensive and counterattacking potential.
Thrust Stance excels due to its adaptability, allowing for tactical retreats, heavy blows, and rapid stabs after light attacks.
Additional Perks:
To access additional perks, activate nodes in the upper rows, increasing Focus Points for charged and heavy attacks. Recommended perks include:
- Exhilaration: Health recovery upon Focus Point consumption
- Versatility: Increased damage from varied combos
- Quick Hand: Faster stance charging
- Secondary Damage: Heavy attacks deal more damage based on enemy health
- Endeavor: Reduced damage from varied combos without Focus Points
3. Magic Talent Tree
Magic abilities in the game consume mana and are categorized into three separate talent trees: Mysticism, Alteration, and Strand.
- Mysticism – Includes Immobilize and Ring of Fire spells.
- Unlock all perks for this spell, which freezes enemies and allows for devastating combos.
- Combine with Envious Tongue relic and “Spread the Word” perk for increased effectiveness.
- Alteration – Includes Cloud Step and Rock-Solid spells.
- Activate Rapid Return, Rock Mastery, Iron Clad, and Upper Hand perks to improve this parry mechanic.
- Stagger enemies with precise timing and gain an advantage in combat.
- Strand – Includes A Pluck of Many spell.
- Select all perks to enhance this spell, which summons multiple duplicates of the Destined One.
- Increase clone health, damage, and duration, and unlock Volition for random spell casting by clones.
These perks were found to be highly effective in our playthrough, but feel free to experiment with different combinations to suit your personal playstyle.
4. Transformation Talent Tree
The Transformation panel allows your character to shapeshift into powerful bosses, unlocking new abilities and enhancements.
The large nodes, activated by defeating major deities, remain effective even when not transformed.
- Steadfast – Azure Dust: Gradually increases defense with each point invested
- Cold Edge – Ebon Flow: Reduces the cooldown of all Alteration spells, allowing for more frequent use
- Red Eyes – Umbral Abyss: Temporarily increases attack power after defeating an enemy, stacking up to 30 times for enhanced combat effectiveness
The smaller nodes at the bottom of the panel grant additional benefits when transformed, such as:
- Increased health
- Enhanced attack capabilities
- Boosted might (resource for transformation)
2. Skill Points “Sparks”
In Black Myth: Wukong, skills are upgraded using Sparks, which are obtained through leveling up or discovering Meditation Spots.
Allocate Sparks in the Self-Advance menu to unlock new abilities. Note that some perks have multiple levels, offering enhanced effects.
If you want to reassess your skill choices, simply visit a Shrine Checkpoint and select “Reignite the Sparks” to freely respec your skills without penalties.
Alternatively, refund individual skill points by pressing ‘R’ or hold ‘F’ to refund all points, allowing you to adapt your build as needed, such as adding defense or resistances to tackle challenging enemies.
3. Black Myth: Wukong – Best Skills to Unlock
Recommended skills for new players to prioritize:
- Composure (Foundation): Dodge during light attack combos without interruption.
- Punishing Downpour (Foundation): Extra splash damage for landing enough hits in light attack combos.
- Exhilaration (Staff Stances): Health regen when consuming Focus points.
- Force Unbound (Staff Stances): Charge Smash while sprinting for a strong opening attack.
- Deadly Dance (Thrust Stance): Heavy attack immediately after rolling or perfect dodging.
- Spirit Shards (Mysticism): Mana costs refund for the Immobilize spell if the enemy is defeated.
- Rock Solid Spell (Alteration): Max out this parry spell and its tree for exceptional battle utility.
These skills enhance gameplay, provide utility, and offer significant benefits for new players to focus on.
With these skills and tips, you’ll be well on your way to mastering Black Myth: Wukong and unleashing your full potential. May your sparks ignite the path to victory!
4. About Black Myth: Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong is an action role-playing game set in a fantasy version of ancient China. The game is based on the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West” and follows the story of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Players control Wukong as he battles against various enemies and gods from Chinese mythology, using his magical abilities and combat skills. The game features a unique blend of Chinese folklore and dark fantasy elements, with a focus on fast-paced combat and exploration.
Black Myth: Wukong” is developed by Game Science, a Chinese indie studio. The game launches on August 20 for PC (Steam) and later for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Pre-order now for $59.99 and receive in-game resources as a bonus!
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