Best Beginner Build in Black Myth: Wukong

This guide focuses on the key aspects of creating a powerful Beginner build in Black Myth: Wukong, Spells, Talents, Abilities, and Gear.

Best Beginner Build Guide

The beginner build in Black Myth Wukong uses the Smash Stance with the Immobilization spell to control enemies while maintaining high mobility. Moreover, you’ll want to obtain Cloud Step for further mobility and burst damage. This build is unique because it relies on both spells and stamina for offensive and defensive potential. Unlike end-game builds, dodging and stamina consumption are your main concerns, so using mana for control is important for success early.

The downside of the Beginner build is it won’t have access to end-game or new game+ gear and staff. Moreover, will emphasis on spells early, you’ll need to manage your cooldowns and mana to make sure you can continue casting spells. Your character gains new powers, spirits, and Qi abilities as you progress. This will round out the build and complement a defensive style at the start.

Beginner Build Pros	Beginner Build Pros
Simple	New Game+
Spells	Mana Dependent
Powerful Early	Gear

Beginner Build Features

The following list presents all the essential Beginner Build Mechanics and Features in Black Myth: Wukong:

• Spells
  • Immobilize
  • Cloud Step
  • A Pluck of Many
• Best Beginner Stance Talents: Smash
  • Force Unbound
  • Ironbound Resolve
  • Smashing Force
• Best Foundation Talents: Simian Agility, Endurance
• Spirit: Rat Governor
• Relic: Fuming Ears (Whistling Wind)
• Curios: Back Scratcher, Wind Chime
• Gourds: Trailbalzer’s Scarlet Gourd

Best Spells and Talents

Immobilize and Cloud Step are the best spells for a beginner build in Black Myth Wukong. Immobilize is your stun, locking an enemy in place, which can also work against powerful bosses. Moreover, you can extend the duration of Immobilize and increase damage against targets. Therefore, this is your primary single-target control spell and should be used against tough enemies. The best talent for Immobilze are Stagnation, Crash, and Easy Prey.

The best spell for mobility is Cloud Step, which can be used offensively or defensively. With various talents, Cloud Step can increase critical hit chance and act as a surprise attack burst spell alongside the defensive. Moreover, you’ll want to pair dodging that uses stamina with Cloud Step to avoid attacks, using it in conjunction with high mobility. Below, we explain each spell, how to use them, and recommend talents. The best talents for Cloud Step are Gallop, Converging Clouds, and Concealed Observation.

Immobilize

• Description: A control spell that, with just a gesture of the finger, can bind the enemy in place. More powerful foes may break free sooner, thus caution is advised. To ensure this spell will not be interrupted during intense combat, cast it when the opponent is exhausted, staggered, or downed.
• Spell Tree: Mysticism
• Mana Cost: 80
• Cooldown: 50 seconds
• Best Talents: Stagnation, Crash, Easy Prey

The immobilized spell acts as a crowd control spell that locks in an enemy without fear of being attacked. An important aspect of immobilization is that enemies who are exhausted, staggered, or downed have a harder time interrupting or breaking free from the spell. Therefore, don’t cast this immediately against bosses or powerful enemies, but wait until one of those conditions is present to gain the most time stunned. The downside of the spell is the high mana cost and longer duration, thus be careful when using.

You want to unlock Stagnation, Crash, and Easy Prey talents when using the Immobilzie spells. Stagnation extends the duration of the stun when using light attacks, while Crash increases damage to the target. Prey is useful because it makes your first light attack close the distance and acts as a gap closer to increase damage rather than sprinting.

Cloud Step

• Description: A mobility spell that leaves behind a decoy while allowing for quick dispersion into mist and escape. Useful for evading attacks or luring enemies into a trap. Upon returning from the mist state, an Unveiling Strike can be unleashed to catch opponents off guard.
• Spell Tree: Alteration
• Mana Cost: 30
• Cooldown: 35 seconds
• Best Talents: Gallop, Converging Clouds, Concealed Observation

The Could Step is your mobility tool that can be used offensively or defensively. For defense, Cloud Step acts as a huge distance spell that moves you depending on your direction. Thus, you can use it as a large dodge using mana, not stamina, to gain distance. Additionally, Cloud Steps will leave behind a decoy and oftentimes giving you a distraction from the enemy.

Offensively, Cloud Step can be used to close the gap against enemies, especially with talents. The Unveiling Strike gives you a bonus when attacking and respecting targets. Therefore, you can transform into a Cloud, and engage a target for burst.

You will want to unlock Gallop for increased movement speed and Converging Clouds talents for increased duration. For offensive players, consider Concealed Observation talent to increase the critical hit chance of Unveiling Strike.

A Pluck of Many

• Description: A duplication spell: pluck a strand, chew it, and spit it into the air to create multiple Duplicates. These agile Duplicates can fight or flee and will engage the enemy if the caster is attacked. This spell can be used to catch a breath or escape. However, the Duplicates are fragile and can be quickly destroyed if directly confronted by the enemy.
• Spell Tree: Strand
• Mana Cost: 120
• Cooldown: 120 seconds
• Best Talents: Longstrand, Synergy, Grey Hair

The Puck of Many spells acts as a decoy spell, generating duplicates. However, this spell has a massive mana cost with a long cooldown and isn’t that useful. You’ll also be stuck in a long animation while casting, leaving you vulnerable for a time. Therefore, it’s best to save your mana for Immobilzie and Cloud Step and rarely use Puck of Many. One use for the spell is before combat, when you won’t be interrupted and need a distraction to start the fights.

Look to gain Longstrand, Grey Hair, and Synergy if you use Pluck of Many frequently. Any talent to increase the duration and survivability of the duplicates helps to aid in combat.

Spirit

The best spirit is the Rat Governor for a beginner build in Black Myth Wukong. Rat Governor gives you a ranged damage attack and a passive bonus to thunder damage. What’s nice about Rat Governor is it compliments Smash Stance’s lack of range. Until you unlock Thrust Stance at level 20, this can serve as a ranged damage attack without everything you doing being 3 meters or less.

In Black Myth: Wukong, Spirits are animalistic forms that give a unique ability and stat boost to aid your combat. Spirits provide a passive bonus stat that can increase damage, survivability, or resource management. Collecting Spirits is pretty straightforward, some bosses upon vanquishing will allow you to absorb their Spirit. Simply equip the new Spirit to access its special ability and passive buff.

Qi is a unique resource needed to activate the Spirit’s special attacks. Each Spirit has its own Qi cost with some costing minimal amounts and some costing high amounts. Choosing which Spirit to use isn’t only based off how much Qi you want to use to activate its special ability but its passive bonuses. Spirits often provide a passive bonus stat that can increase your damage, survivability, or resource management. These can provide nice additional to fix weak points in your build or buff your existing strengths even more. Continue reading below for the entire list of All Spirits in Black Myth: Wukong.

Best Beginner Stance Talents

Smash is the best beginner stance in Black Myth Wukong because it gives you defensive and offensive capabilities and is unlocked at level 1. Pillar stance becomes unlocked at level 5 and Thrust Stance is unlocked at level 20. Your stance determines heavy attack charging, and with Smash, you can charge while moving. Therefore, you gain a mobility edge which is essential for survival. Below are the best talents to unlock for a Smash Stance beginner build in Black Myth Wukong:

1. Force Unbound: Enable charging the Staff while Sprinting.
2. Ironbound Resolve: Increase defense (damage reduction) upon landing a heavy attack.
3. Smashing Force (Level 2): Increases the damage caused by a charged heavy attack in Smash Stance.
4. Resolute Counterflow: Enables Resolute Strike, i.e., light + heavy attack combo, which deals a ton of damage even without a fully charged Focus bar.
5. Skyfall Strike: Pressing the heavy attack button after a Resolute Strike starts a bigger and more damaging Skyfall combo, which deals even more damage.

At level 20, consider unlocking the Thrust Stance, which can help gain charge for heavy attacks within a range. You can also swap stances, thus giving you another ranged damage tool, though you will sacrifice mobility while charging heavy attacks.

Best Foundation Talents

Simian Agility, Endurance, and Everlasting Vigor are the best foundation skill talents for a beginner build in Black Myth Wukong. Your foundation talents center around survivability, with stamina being the primary means to avoid attacks with dodge and sprinting. Simian Agility reduces stamina cost of dodge and should be your number one upgrade, while Endurance reduces stamina cost of sprinting. These two combined help maintain stamina to avoid attacks, while Everlasting Vigor increases your stamina recovery.

Below are the best talents for a beginner build in Black Myth Wukong:

1. Simian Agility: Reduces Stamina cost upon dodging, allowing more dodges at base Stamina.
2. Endurance: Reduces Stamina cost of Sprinting. This talent is helpful because sprinting is the only other option to avoid getting hit apart from dodging.
3. Everlasting Vigor: Increases Stamina Recovery Rate. Your base stamina recovery rate is low, hence using this Skill is paramount to make sure you don’t run out of Stamina in between combos or dodges.
4. Swift Engage: Increases the engage distance of light attack combos. Acts as a preliminary gap-closer, helpful against some of the earlier bosses, who tend to run away after finishing their attacks.
5. Robust Constitution: Flat increase to base HP. More HP equals increased survivability and more chances to recover after missing a dodge or getting hit.
6. Rampant Vigor: Flat increase to base Stamina. (More Stamina equal more attacks in a single combo, also, it helps dodge attacks more efficiently.

Level Progression

The most important skill talent trees for a beginner build and leveling progression are Foundation Stamina, Foundation Survival, Smash Stance, and Spell Mysticism. Your goal should be to increase stamina, stamina recovery, reduce dodge cost, and increase focus point points. In Black Myth Wukong, you have many talent and skill trees to focus on and choose from. This section of our build guide gives you the focus of talents you should aim to unlock and why.

In Black Myth Wukong, progression is primarily done via leveling and collection of Sparks. Sparks are obtained via leveling, meditation spots, or through Willpower. When you defeat an enemy, you will be granted Willpower. Then, after your Willpower bar fills up, you will get a Spark Point. Finally, you can respec your Spark Points anytime during the game. This freedom will facilitate combat strategy and allow you to modify your build to exploit the boss’s weaknesses or combat style.

Levels 1-20

From levels 1 to 20, focus on unlocking basic talents for survivability and stamina. Below are our recommendations for the best Beginner build in Black Myth: Wukong:

• Foundation Stamina: Simian Agility, Endurance
• Foundation Survival: Robust Constitution, Rampant Vigor
• Smash Stance: Force Unbound, Resolute Counterflow
• Focus: Exhilaration

Levels 21 to 40

During levels 21 to 40, you should now have access to the other stances, and we recommend taking at least one point into Thrust Stance. Your primary objective at these levels is to continue to increase Force Points, gaining at least Force Attack III and possibly Force Attack IV. Next, build advanced skills like Smashing Force, Invigoration, and Peacer from Peril into Smash Stance.

Depending on the frequency of your spell usage, spend talents into Immobilize, as it’s helpful in every fight in the game. Continue heavily investing talents into Survival and Stamina, taking anything that aids in dodging, stamina, or perfect dodge.

Levels 40+

At later stages of the game, you should invest in damage-specific talents and skills. At levels 45 and 60, you will have access to more advantaged skills in survival that dramatically increase survivability and damage. While these talents are flashy, they passively boost your character and build power, requiring nothing but sparks. Therefore, look to increase passives and save sparks for Smash Stance and one or more spells you frequently use.

How to Play

The best way to play the beginner build in Black Myth Wukong is defensively optimizing your dodge cost reduction, stamina regeneration, and Smash Stance talents. You want to increase Focus Points using the Smash Stance to charge heavy attacks while moving, then unload on an unsuspecting target. Moreover, Immobilize can be used to control the target, allowing free damage without retaliation. Below are some general tips and tricks for playing the beginner build in Black Myth Wukong:

• Heavy Attacks: take the Force Unbound passive in Smash stance and charge heavy attack using stamina while sprinting. This is your primary way to avoid damage, and increase your damage before launching into the heavy attack animation.
• Damage: your damage comes from light attacks, heavy attacks, and combos. As you progress, you are rewarded for using focus points and building to optimize focus production and four focus points. Therefore, your primary goal is to build focus and charge heavy attacks for burst damage.
• Range: Use either the Thrust Stance or your Spirit if you need ranged damage.
• Survival: your survivability comes from dodging, sprinting, and cloud step to create distance.
• Mobility: Cloud Step in conjunction with Dodging allows you to use both mana and stamina to create space.
• Healing: use your Gourd for healing and look to boost the Soaks and progress.
• Dodge: don’t spam dodge, learn the enemies mechanics and time properly for a perfect dodge.

Curios

The best Curios for a beginner build in Black Myth Wukong is Back Scratcher and Wind Chime. Wind Chime slightly increases movement speed, while Back Scratcher increases max stamina. These two help in survivability by using dodge and sprinting to avoid attacks. While Chapter 1 may seem easy, the difficulty dramatically increases, and survivability is your main concern. As you progress, swap to more damage-producing Curios; those two are recommended at the start.

Best Beginner Curios:

• Back Scratcher: considerably increases maximum stamina.
• WInd Chim: slightly increases movement speed.

Relic

Fuming Ears Relic with Whistling Wind passive is the best combination for a beginner build in Black Myth Wukong. The Whistling Wind bonus gives you an increase of 20% damage after performing a perfect dodge. Dodging is the most important mechanic in the game, and this gives you an offensive bonus when avoiding attacks. Moreover, the relic can be obtained early and is helpful throughout the game.

Gear, Weapons, Armor

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Staff	Cloud-Patterned Stone Staff	Attack 60, Defense 30
Vessel	Fireproof Mantle	Grants burn immunity
Headgear	Pilgrim’s Headband	Gourd while Sprinting
Body	Serpentscale Battlerobe	Restores health
Arms	Pilgrim’s Wristwraps	Defense
Legs	Pilgrim’s Legwraps	Defense

Below is a list of the best staff weapon armor and mantle for the Beginner Build in Black Myth Wukong:

• Cloud-Patterned Stone Staff: Increase your attack and defense.
• Fireproof Mantle: grants burn immunity and gradually increases focus.
• Pilgrim’s Headband: Crafted early in the game, this headpiece allows the use of a gourd while sprinting. Moreover, the two and four-piece set bonuses aid in sprinting, which is helpful for mobility and survival. Alternative Folk Opera Mask from collectors bonus.
• Serpentscale Battlerobe: When health is low, a small amount of health slowly recovers; if in water, the effect is enhanced. Alternative Pilgram’s Garb to complete four piece or Folk Opera Almsgiving armor.
• Pilgrim’s Wristwraps: Increases defense, should be used to complete four piece or two piece set bonus.
• Pilgrim’s Legwraps: decreases sprinting cost. Alternative Folk Opera Buskins.

Gourds

The best gourd is Trailblzer’s Scarlet for a beginner build. The first sip is replenished to full health, and you can upgrade the Gourd by adding soaks (passive bonuses. Below are the recommended passive bonuses for a beginner build:

• Steel Ginseng: Upon using the gourd, instantly gains a moderate amount of focus.
• Purple-Veined Peach Pit: massively increases health recovery from using the gourd when at critical health

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