Horizon Zero Dawn - What are the best skills to buy? Awesome, good or rubbish? 

Call Mount + is a great way to bring a big distraction in to play at a moment's notice.

Really good advice. The only thing I disagree with is leaving tinker to the end. This is fine if you know the game, know the machines, know the weapons and and have all the strategies down ...and you are a good shot. But for a lot of people myself included - buffing the weapons early really helped. Being able to switch out mods from one elemental buff to another, or from handling priority to damage priority, or swapping a blue mod for a purple mod, or a purple mod for a better purple mod was invaluable.

This guy must have a different playstyle to me.

When I found out the spear can knock down large enemies it made my game a lot easier. The heavy attack animation is long, but the basic strat is dodge, heavy attack, crit. You'll always have time to pull this off. In groups you can light attack as you kite the dangerous machine to take out the small machines without having to take your eyes off it.

The point of Tinker is so you're not wasting your mods, so you can sell them for resources instead of having to burn or drop them. It helps significantly to get it early. Personally I prioritize the Forager skills as I am a big time resource/money guy so I can buy all the good weapons and armor sooner.

I've been mostly using spear attacks and sneak strikes and I'm level 32. The spear tree and the critical ascension branch are really good and I nearly never have to use arrows, I've got around 800 of each elemental resource. Playing on very hard, against large groups of enemies, I usually use stealth to get close and get a sneak attack, then two light attacks then one heavy and most of the time even large machines will fall down, leaving them exposed for a critical hit. Then I go hide since all machines will be on high alert and start all over again. Don't discredit the spear.

I wish I would have put points in triple arrow much sooner.

I use melee alot

WONDERFUL video, thank you so much (from a new player), you are right, as much as I love this game I thought I was crazy when I couldn’t immediately attack after my first attack with the spear until the animation was over. Thank you for confirming that it wasn’t just me. You’ve earned a new and future fan today 😊❤️😊.

You can roll when ever you want your not locked into a spear animation🤔.

Amazing!!!! in depth review and very needed for beginners who's just starting and don't know what to choose first I wish I would've seen this video before I started LoL this game is already my favorite game of all time and I'm not even level 23 yet it's just epic!!

i loved using the spear and found it my most effective and most used weapon, so I personally upgraded the spear as much as poss as soon as poss. :-)

New Players, Go Straight for: the Triple Shot, Reuse Traps, And the Herb Gathering ones to save some time. Also, Only Invest in Purple Weapons and outfits. The others are just a waste of time and money. Match up Mods with what the outfits are already naturally good at. You will always have plenty of resources from herbalist, and not be wasting traps, and triple arrows gives you a great amount of damage when needed. -------------------------------------------------------- Half way through the game, You'll want the Tinker Perk so you can swap out your mods

This is awesome. I went straight for Scavenger + and Triple Shot early on and haven't looked back. Some say to get them in exact order, I just can't. Great job man!

You should update this video, it seems like you also run the Ultra Hard walkthrough with different build order. Triple Shot is still the first priority, but second priority should be Tinker, because modifications in this game are so important. Quiet Sprint, Dodge Prowess, and Low Profile should not be priority; I personally have no difficult sneaking in this game even in Ultra Hard, why waste so many points in these skills.

knock down joined with critical attack is one of my favorite combos and helped me a lot

People seem to forget that this game is mostly about stealth approach into silent strike / R2 and silent strike OR abuse machines weakness. Thinker is not a must. If you have a powerful coil on a weapon and want to move it over (say a very rare with triple stats) it's useful later on the game if you're a completionist/perfectionist. Having higher stats on bows as you progress helps, but is not a necessity. For example, simply having the tearbast arrow (no coil in your weapon) still does his job of removing parts. Using a weak sling in order to shoot several ice bombs will still freeze the enemy. Aiming for the machine eye/horn/ weak part with precision arrow will do the job just fine and so on. My first playthrought was on normal and I unlocked Thinker towards the end.

Lol i didn’t use my skulls until I was level 15 or so, then I had 17 to spend at once xD

The skills trees have changed! Should have an updated one.

I kinda disagree with the critical hit. If you use traps at all, it’s good for helping with early game big machines. And it’s 1 point for first level. Totally worth it imo.

Not wasting resources is good to sneak up and kill machines with critical hits which I used often at the beginning

I guess he doesn't really like the spear as much, spear is easy pie for me :P

You should actually try to understand the skills yourself, try to think of whats best for your playstyle and just make your own path

I upgraded all the foraging line + concentration and double triple shot first.. the rest is kinda garbage..

You do Amazing work. Just got into the game and ur vids are helping immensely! Do u have a vid on weapons and modding them? Like what's best on average, and best to avoid on builds. or is perhaps having more then one weapon w different mods for certain fights.

I found it very useful to start by getting silent strike and the lure skill to easily survive early game, then getting all the extra resources skills from the forager tree (especially crafting more ammo), then building to the multi- shot skill, since that is really good for easily setting any enemy on fire from stealth by shooting tripple fire arrows. Getting tripple- shot made the tripcasters obsolete, since hunter bows use much cheaper ammo and deal damage just as fast when they can apply fire to enemies.

Call Mount+ and Tinker are the best skills in the game. Call Mount+ is infinite mounts and can be used as a distraction and Tinker just lets you do whatever you want with modifications. Change my mind.

"Intermediary" is a word but the word you were looking for was "intermediate" or "interstitial."

Tinker is the first skill you should try and get, after silent kill and whistle.

Heres a combo: if u have knock down hit the enemy with heavy atack so knocked down then do critical hit, and repeat that! Edit: a grammar fault

i am playing on hard.

I would do all the scrapper, scavenger skills early, otherwise thats just free resources you are just missing out on. It's like taking xp boosts early on, it just makes more sense

I leveled up completely differently prioritizing spear attacks. And the game still was fun. You can sometimes stun lock enemies by knocking them down and doing critical strikes with some practice. There are more good ways to upgrade your character. I would just go with what sounds the most fun/useful to you.

Early game on Ultra Hard difficulty (anything under Lvl 15 tbh) , Lure Call and Sneak Strike are fucking OP as shit. You just slowly instakill all the machines, and if you want you can even hack a Watcher and watch the world burn

When the game finally comes out on PC and you watch a video that highlights in the two colors you're color blind to.

I always go for the permanent Override, because I can recruit an ally before I attack to help me out. Also, you can get Double Arrow shot in the first 6 levels if you focus on that line from the start

Where the hell are your 'Traveler' skills? One categorie with two times four skills is missing. Edit: Probably a later update then.

first time playing, level 35 about right now, i did pretty much everything exact and use the same strategies. i clicked on the video thinking "his last video about machines increased my brain knowledge so this one will too" i guess im better at this game than i thought or maybe im just lucky at choosing whatever skills

Started the game on the hardest difficulty and resources are really hard to get and in most cases you want to avoid melee/ straight up fights with machines, and unless you want to grind to get good weapons and no waste a purple mod on a rare or uncommon weapon you will want tinker otherwise the best bet would be to farm until you can buy purple weapons but even if you get a purple weapon what happens when you get a better mod and want to replace the one on your weapon destroying a purple mod would suck so i would say get tinker if you are playing on the hardest difficulty if you just doing normal go for combat stuff first

As far as modifying goes. Handling is key. The speed at which you can loose your arrows when you have a bow with three handling mods is godly.

Just consider these are the skills for his playstyle and in the killing every machine where most of us would have used the spear fighting a couple watchers he jumped around and used hunter reflexes and not as many people use that playstyle so he my not think some skills are good.

I have waited all these years to open this game. You video tips are great!! Thank you!

well explained mate cheers

Dang what a helpful batch of videos. Even made a red/green light scale for the skills! You're a bada*s

really helpful and nice made, great job man!

Balanced aim is extremely situational, but most of the time useless.

my personal choice was to choose the vegan converter for the human enemies, they are spending so much time telling all the non-converted humans how wonderful it is being vegan that you can easily sneak up to them and take them down.

Get the critical hit skill, it will help you a lot as a beginner. Plus it is a required skill to complete hunting grounds and get lodge weapons.

Thank you!!!

Thansk for this even though I have completed the whole skill set. I can still use this to tell my friends

Great Video Man!. Made alot of sence

i guess i play this game different most... still like the slow burn of the Stealth Play to much. I went heavy Prowler and Gathering. I enjoy meticulously thinking about battles planning escape routes if require... That Long Dodge is awesome the Ability to be true ninja just into a bush 10 ft away if your lucky you totally jump from one bush to the next. i would say 85% of the game you can stealth... BTW only play on Ultra Hard... No Switching to get cheaper prices. Gives you something to work towards.

This is bad advice honestly. Using the spear early game is one of the most efficient things you can do.

Any new videos for Forbidden West?

I disagree with some but its a good video

one of the few things I strongly disagree with is leaving the right path of 'Brave' until last, i think the 'Knock down' skill might just be one of the best skills there is early game when paired with crit hit+, the combo of dodge and knock over carried me through the majority of my early game fights because early on your bow can do really low damage and firing loads of weak arrows can get expensive when you can just spam crit hits for free, i do feel like my opinion is slightly swayed though as in every game I play im that guy that loves to melee and avoids ranged combat, so from the very beginning i was investing into melee as much as I can, only quite late in the game did my bows actually start to keep up with and overtake my crit spam in efficiency

Horrible. Opposite Day!!!

I would have to disagree heavily on no spear skills or the ones for multiple arrow shots - reason being, I more often than not find it is MUCH easier to snipe out the aggressive types from a distance and try to one-shot them if you can using precision arrows (x3 is all the better) and that usually leaves few enemies to worry about on the battlefield by the time that initial sniper style attack is over - I hit them from FAR away and only move in when I've taken out the aggressive types, and with the spear skills when you DO move in on a lone, tougher target once clearing out stragglers from afar, it's much easier to knock it down after dodging the initial attack they try to swing your way. I've been hunting for shell walker hearts by simply running up to the thing while firing a few shock arrows, dodging the first hit and knocking it down then using a critical once down. It's great. No fuss, no muss. But then I'm a much more direct type of person - I'd rather charge in and just go at it once I've cleared out potential annoyances that might interfere than sit around all day trying to pick off the bigger thing with arrows - kill the weak, take the strong head-on. That's the way I like it. I got through about 30 levels like that and it was just fine.

Is there anyway to reset your skill points and rearrange them?

First skills to get, gatherer stuff and the frozen wilds gatherer stuff, hands down best leveling experience going that way.

The best skills is using trainer 🥺

That is what im looking for! Played 4-5h and its easy on normal... not i go on hard and start again ;) I like pure level paths.

Gatherer scavenger in my opinion are the first two skills any players should get and as far as you talking about silent strike its useless unless you're playing a stealth build besides critical hit and critical hit plus does more damage than silent strike and gives you more experience

You say lure is gold but rocks are easy to find and work just as good if not better cause you can get the machine to go where you want instead of just bringing it to you. You can make good or bad reasons for a lot of skills. The tight rope skill is good when you going through bandit camps where I tend to take the high ground same with death from above. It’s not as good for machine but are great for bandit camps which you don’t say much about when you do it a lot in the game along with fighting machines.

So another person that doesn't appreciate stealth and the spear. Go figure. Typical amateur player. And yeah, you should not be leaving Tinker til the end. You should be making a beeline for it as soon as possible in fact.

Idk why but I wanted to complete them 1 by 1 on each section and only got 2 Forager skills left and got them on my second playthrough, herbalist (healer skill) can only be useful if you dont have any healing pots while fighting thunderjaws.

I have to say that to avoid that spear till late game .... Like really the better damage and crit plus ambush all critical I play on ultra hard and that's major use for me

This is exactly the video I wanted!!

While I have to agree that strike from below and tightrope firing are not skills to rush for, they are not entirely useless: both seem to be most applicable against humans. The tightrope skill seems to work well in many bandit camps as humans tend to not look up until things are falling on their heads (and if your aim is good, it's too late). Strike from below of course is human-only, and I have been able to use it once or twice so far. The trick is knowing how because the game does not give you opportunities on a platter: you have to make them. Although you can't use your focus while hanging from a ledge, you very much can whistle. The rest is left as an exercise to the player ;) Also, I watched your play-through and noticed you're not so keen on strike from above. This skill has gotten me out of trouble many times... in ultra-hard (I used it maybe once through my two normal play-throughs). Any time you can get 1-2m above your opponent but still close enough (eg, steep hill, boulders, etc), you will get the opportunity. It is fantastic against scrappers and other small machines. Also, at least against smaller machines from a reasonable height, the attack will break your fall (eg, dropping onto a watcher in a cauldron core). Dropping onto a sawtooth from the top of the red rocks near where you meet Varl before heading to the Ring of Metal is not so good for your health (fumbled a multi-notch and SFAed instead of notched). Still, great advice. Unfortunately, Frozen wilds messes it up slightly because I so very much like gathering while mounted. Machine repair is meh, but hoarder helps later in the game.

I dabbled with the game on a normal difficulty but eventually stopped playing, just recently started playing again so I started a new game on ultra hard and I gotta say, I am completely prioritising different skills then what you are recommending and I am doing just fine. I am only level 13 at the moment though, so we will see how my play style works out later in the game. I have the traveler skill tree as well and I focused on getting up to hoarder. Increasing the chance of getting the required crafting materials sooner has been an immense help early on. A larger pool of ammunition and traps as well as inventory size keeps me focused less on inventory management and more on story, combat and exploration. Anyways thanks for the video, didn’t agree with all of it but we all have different styles of play and I still appreciate your effort into making this video. Keep it up and I’m sure the quality of your videos is bound to get better.

I just recently started playing this game and this video will help alot. Keep up the good work 👏

Really good stuff! For people who aren't beginners but aren't advanced, somewhere in the middle. Thanks

You babble way too much.

Whoever came up with Balanced Aim should be fired. What a waste of time and effort. 😜

This guy is bugging.

I first got all the skills that give extra resources which was really good for the grind

Yep.. good advice.

i don't agree

Spear is very effective

The benefit of the overide skills for me is a distraction. If your ravager ally is distracting the enemies you can pretty much take out all the enemies that can be one shot by stealth skills. Then if there are enemies that won’t be one shot by you set up some traps stealth strike them lure them into the shock trip wires and shock traps crit hit them then the ally machine will often knock them down allowing for another critical hit taking them out. Them having more health so that they can reliably keep a thunderjaw off you while you stealth kill and hack all the other enemies is very helpful. Also critical hit is very powerful against human enemies as a follow up to a blast sling shot. A single blast bomb can knock down a group of enemies which then you can finish off each with a crit or just heavy attack then crit can be good if are discovered by a single human enemy while stealth killing all of them. So if you are having trouble against a human encounter it can be worth it to pick up.

Heavy melle is good for sawtooth and ravager also I love one shot wacther by jumping higher than them and high ground kill however if your very use to heavy meele you could die so start to practice

Write out and rehearse what you're gonna say before you make your videos. Atleast 5 minutes of your video is listening to you say, ah... like... well... and... mmm...

This aint it I like close up destruction and mayhem

Забавно. Первое видео, которое соответствует тому, как я прокачиваю. Возможно, не один в один, но очень близко. У него показ идёт не по порядку, перескакивает местами, не совсем понятна последовательность, но плюс/минус также. Причём к этому пониманию я пришел не сразу. И удивлялся, что многие блогеры советуют не правильно. У него почти на 100% как нужно. Исключая +15% урона. Его я прокачиваю чуть позже. Оно тоже не особо важно. По сути все самое важное прокачивается к 33-35 уровню. Все остальное малоэффективно или не особо нужно, не особо много полезного добавляя. На ультра сложности важно добивание и свист сразу. И 3 стрелы к 11-12 уровню. Раньше делал это к 20-25 уровню и понял, что ошибался, сам пришел к тому, что надо 3 стрелы сделать максимально быстро. Сразу же, как будут прокачаны все нужные первые умения.

Critical Hit should be learned early.

What do I do if I don’t have a barge pole?

The spear knockdowns became so important to me once I got it... In fact it was so cheezy it made things easy later on. So disagree

How effective is silent sprint? Right now I can't decide whether to get silent sprint or triple shot

I found critical hit very useful

Couldn't disagree more 😄

I think knockdown ia really good

30fps :(

Love you from Pakistan

I play on ultra hard and use the spear so much

It sucks to be colorblind

I tried but I couldn't take another erm ahhh 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ just a note write a script before hand

Would have been really helpful if youd numbered them in order of which ones to get as a whole .

Tinker was the first skill I saved up for. We definitely have different playstyles. Thanks for the video!

Why does my game have traveler skill tree and other people do not?

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