Best skills to unlock in Black Myth Wukong

Black Myth Wukong has an RPG-like skill tree that enables players to specify to fine tune their fighting style. You’ll find abilities that modify attacks and weaponry, upgrade your preferred attacks, and even modify your passive stats. Here’s a closer look at the best skills to unlock in Black Myth Wukong.

Best Skills in Black Myth Wukong

For the most part, a lot of the skill tree is filler. You’ll need to progress through a lot of those points to get certain skills that are fantastic. Keep that in mind as you build your character and level up. The ones we recommend as must-haves.

Composure

Composure allows players to continue their combo light attack chain even after dodging. This is very overpowered as it allows you to dodge most boss attacks mid-combo and hit them with a finisher. The finisher is the second most powerful attack in the game outside of your heavy attack, so this is a major quality of life improvement for boss fights. Note that this won’t work against bosses that chain fast attacks. That’s why we have recommend getting the skill below to mitigate this.

Unbroken Chain

Unbroken Chain is the third skill down on the right side of the Immobilize spell tree. Like Composure, you get to cast Immobilize without interrupting your combo. This is important because you can combo attacks coming your way and freeze the enemy in place. You can continue your combo or complete a full combo during afterward. If you’re already partway through there’s potential to get two combos off depending on the situation.

Concealed Observation

If you like the Cloud Step spell, Concealed Observation is a must-have. Cloud Step has a very strong critical strike synergy because you get around 2.5% crit chance per second, stacking up to ten times. The spell typically lasts around 8-10 seconds, depending on upgrades, so you can use your stealth to get a chunky hit most of the time. It works as a keystone skill for any Cloudy Step builds, crit strike weapons, crit chance and damage spirit passives and stat upgrades.

Tyranny of Numbers

When you unlock a Pluck of Many, you’ll get the option to unlock the Tyranny of Numbers skill, which for increases the damage of your clones. Strength in numbers and all that. The damage they dish out can easily overwhelm many enemies or do some serious burst damage to bosses that don’t cleave too well. If you misuse it, you will get punished as your clones don’t have much HP. If that happens, consider unlocking HP buff skills in the Pluck of Many skill tree.

Spiritual Awakening

All builds require mana. Mana is very important for key spell builds, getting a free spell against a boss, or gear sets dedicated to lowering spell cooldowns. Most of your spells typically cost either 30 mana for the top spell, 50 mana for the immobilizing spell, and 120 for a Pluck of Many. Spiritual Awakening gives you a moderate Maximum Mana boost. You can get six upgrades from this skill node. Each upgrade awards ten mana, so that’s a full immobilize or half a Pluck of Many, for example. Combine this with mana upgrades from Celestial Medicine crafting to get even more mana. There are other ways to get mana back, such as from gear, and Immobilize skill points for mana restoration on completed stuns.

Wrathful Escalation

Wrathful Escalation is the only good skill for crit chance builds outside of Cloudy Step. You’ll need to upgrade this for crit builds, as you don’t get crit from medicines. The only other early source of crit is via a weapon upgrade on the left tree. You can also get passives from spirits that increase crit with the best delayed until Chapter 4 at the cost of huge mana reductions.

Focused Attack

Focused Attack is a tier of upgrades you can get from levelling the stance tree. These are very important as more focus slots allow you to use stronger heavy attacks. This enables your focus generation builds to scale dramatically. It’s also handy for big hits in general regardless of your play style. For Cloudy Step builds, make sure to grab the stealth crit heavy attack. You can stack your focus slots, then Cloudy Step, and build your crit chance with it. Four Focus Points spent on a crit-heavy attack will do devastating damage.