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Afterimagehas many ways to improve your Stats and overall combat prowess, enabling you to become nearly unstoppable in battle while playing to your strengths and general playstyle. While getting everything you want or need will take some time, your sheer number of options will keep you steadily growing stronger throughout your adventure.
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The world of Engardin is packed full of secrets and formidable foes, making exploration rewarding and exhilarating. No matter your playstyle, yourHP and MPare crucial to your survival, soincreasing their Maximum Capacitywill help you tremendously. Luckily, there are several ways for you to do just that.
How To Increase Max HP
Managing your HPis one of the most crucial aspects of any game, especially Metroidvanias, and Afterimage is no different. The fortunate news is that you canraise your Max HPin many ways, enabling you to stay in battle even longer than ever before.
Almost everything you may take advantage of to increase your Max HP will affect it drastically, taking it upfive to even 16 Points and beyond.You can findall four ways to raise your Max HPin the sections below!
Shard Of Divine Leaf
Finding three Shards of Divine Leaveswillsubstantially increase your Max HP,proving to be one of the best methods to gain large chunks of Health in Afterimage.
Unfortunately, finding a Shard of Divine Leaf can prove challenging, as they aretypically well hidden or are dropped by defeating bosses.However, youcan also purchase them from some Shopkeepersfor a hefty price.
While theseprovide the most HP gain,they alsotake time to find and gather.This isn’t the best method if you’re looking for a more immediate way to obtain more Health. Luckily there are more options for you out there!
Where To Find
Equipment
YourHelmet, Armor, and Bootsmay provide Physical and Magical Resistance, but did you know almost every piece of Equipment willraise your Max HPif you equip it? If not, you should sift through what you’ve collected and see if you have anything better you’re able to throw on.
WhileAccessories can affect HP,their main focus will be increasing other Stats,sodon’t worry about them when it comes to raising your Max HPas much.
Equipmentcan be found in Chests and is also purchasable from Shopkeeperslike Blacksmiths or Merchants, so keep an eye out for NPCs who are adventuring the world of Engardin much like yourself!
Talent Points
TheTalent Treeis a crucial aspect of Afterimage, as it enables you to unlock Talents (Skills) that enhance Renee’s combat and exploration abilities. In the Talent Tree, you can unlock severalWisp of Vigor TalentswithTalent Points,which willdrastically raise your Max HP.
Alongside finding Shards of Divine Leaves, unlockingthese Talents will be the best way to gain large amounts of additional HP.You canobtain Talent Points in various ways,which we will have listed below!
Recipes
Recipesare the final way toincrease your Max HP,but theycannot be done until you complete the “Delicacy” Quest for Alice,which involves finding ingredients for her Mushroom Family Recipe.Upon completion of this quest, you willgain access to all her Recipes.
There aremany Recipes,all offering unique Permanent Buffs,witha few raising your Max HP.While you’re able to make these Recipes several times, you will only get the Permanent Buffs after consuming them the first time.
Here are all the Recipes that Permanently increase your Max HP:
Your Max HP is raised by four points.
How To Increase Max MP
Increasing your Max MP is substantially more challenging than its HP counterpartdespitesharing many of the same methods.As you may have noticed, when your Max HP is raised, it’s almost always by +3, +5, or even +16 and beyond.
However, when it comes toincreasing your Max MP,you willalmost alwayssee+1 to +3.This is likely to keep your power in check,as having a large pool of Mana would make you unstoppable. Still, there aremany ways to raise your Max MP,so let’s get into it!
Shard Of Divine Flower
Like the Max HP situation,increasing your Max MPalso has aShard of Divine Flower,which willraise your MP after you find three of them.These areacquired through the same meansas well, so just be on the lookout forhidden areas or hard-to-reach spots.
Finding these Shards, alongside your Talent Tree, will bethe best way to jack up your MP.But, as you know, they areincredibly rare and hard to come by,so don’t expect to be rolling around in them anytime soon.
Accessories
Unlike the Max HP, however,raising your Max MPwillalmost never be done via Helmets, Armor, or Boots,making yourAccessory Slots the key focus for doing this.However, as you can see in the image above, it’susually not by much.
Nonetheless,any little bit helps,and you canincrease your Max MP by equipping specific Bracelets, Rings, Necklaces, and more,so be sure to observe your inventory whenever you pick something new up!
Spending your Talent Points on specific Talentsalsosubstantially increases your Max MPand isthe best method for doing sooutside of finding three Shards of Divine Flowers.
You will findseveral Wisp of Wisdom Talentsin the Talent Tree, which willraise your Max MP by five.While this may not seem like a lot, it willhelp you tremendously.Mana allows you to attack from range and cast Spells on your opponent, and being able to cast even one or two more times is a game-changer.
Like the Max HP’s entry, you willearn Talent Points the same way,which we will list below!
Lastly, we haveRecipesmaking their return, this time with the focus being onraising your Max MP.Like before, you may find thecomplete list of Recipes that permanently increase your Max MPin the table below.
Don’t forget that you mustcompletethe “Delicacy"QuestforAlicebefore gaining access to these Recipes.While they will only raise your Max MP by one or two points total, that will make an enormous difference when added together!
Here are all the Recipes that Permanently increase your Max MP:
