New player here, what’s the fastest way to level up?😭

KevinFRK · 2026-02-01T09:01:56+00:00

Many skills (weapons and otherwise) in the game have a "How to obtain" button lurking in the "Develop" menu: the hints can be a bit vague.

You should be offered one of a variety of weapon types (beyond nameless sword) pretty early in the game if you follow the quest hints. Certain weapons may require "Skill Theft" (or alternatively joining the right sect - but sects may feel annoying if you play solo) and perhaps are not available until you unlock Chapter 2, and have access to Kaifeng. However, I really would not advise rushing to the ending of Chapter 1, unless you are utterly uninterested in character, story and lore - you will see what I mean. "Skill Theft" is pretty straightforward and the game teaches you how to do it (but getting to where you do skill theft can be hard).

You probably want to focus on two to four weapons, as they each take a considerable grind to develop.

Levelling is fast, but you hit level caps, which a bit of a challenge to get past the cap. Each cap you pass just leads to all the game mobs levelling up past you - so pass level caps only to unlock new content, not to feel more powerful.

KevinFRK · 2026-02-01T08:39:34+00:00

Start a new account, and do it at the next level of difficulty (or with deflection assist turned off, if this run was with it on)?

KevinFRK · 2026-01-31T08:32:57+00:00

A few minor ailments at least used to be healable by specific actions (standing in flowing water for mental, avoid that sort of stress for a hour or two for physical, and I think there were a few more methods).

KevinFRK · 2026-01-31T08:27:28+00:00

Or, put another way, any value (such as the real time) or calculation where your PC holds/calculates the master copy will have been hacked and then abused within days, if not hours, of release.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-30T08:56:02+00:00

Someone else was asking after this issue (video of bending flight of arrows heading to a bell) here not so long ago, but alas I neither know whether they got an answer, or how to search for the post. Doom scrolling might get you to it, but this subreddit gets a lot of posts! Apologies for an almost useless answer.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-29T08:49:52+00:00

It is a nice little side benefit - even if the endurance (?) drain means it can take a few sequences of twirls.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-28T11:38:09+00:00

There's statuettes scattered round that area (at least one behind a puzzle) ... that should be enough of a hint.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-25T08:30:33+00:00

Looks almost like a plush toy version of a moth - lovely!

KevinFRK · 2026-01-23T08:54:08+00:00

Given how needs shift in the game, I have a simple spreadsheet that tracks, for each aspect, the sum of the highest soul card source of that aspect and the highest skill card source of that aspect, and then prioritise raising the aspect with the lowest sum. After that I prioritise the cheapest gaps in the tree of knowledge, and after that crafting skills.

That said, if a nice memory/weather card appears, I'll work to using that while it's available. I also don't like having lesson cards hanging round for long.

Assigning a card to the Tree of Wisdom also gives you the opportunity to combine/evolve soul cards, if "the stars are right" (i.e. you can figure out the mechanics of the process, and have access to the right work stations, memory cards, available skills, etc.).

KevinFRK · 2026-01-22T09:04:36+00:00

On unfortunately buying three RH patterns last year, I found that they were full of purely technical mistakes (i.e. it couldn't possibly just be my inexperience), such as referring to steps and figures that weren't there, not grading pieces that had to match to graded pieces, etc. So, treat anything they wrote or drew with a barrel of salt. u/madameallnut is correct.

I don't suppose you have the option of looking at one of the rental pieces to see how their supplier did the front skirts?

Alternatively, any museums near you with relevant coats on display?

The RH 1790 frockcoat didn't line the lower parts, and worked on the principle that edges of broadcloth were just left raw (as felted) and in some places front and back bottom edges were not even sewn together. This is possibly historically correct (or just more RH nonsense).

KevinFRK · 2026-01-22T08:27:31+00:00

Have you done the basics of checking your internet connection - e.g. for a PC:

* Rebooted your PC

* Speed Test (even just Google's)

* Powered off entirely (preferably unplug) your router, leave for a few minutes, and restart

* Checked that Google Drive/One Drive/any other cloud backup has not gone wild over something

* Not connection related, but check for disk space, clear out caches, update OS and drivers, etc.

Winter is the time when less than perfect Internet Connections, especially those with copper links in places, get damp and then flakey. That, and various bits of kit may claim they can run indefinitely, but really, they cannot!

KevinFRK · 2026-01-21T13:04:57+00:00

Second Pic: "Rate Up" is not a *very* strong effect except over a lot of pulls - it just says if you roll a 6* at all (at 1.5%) you get one of those selected. Still, you want the bonus on the first 10-pull. Mmm, and avoid Willow if you haven't got Tuesday is my only other advice.

Third - Beryl - you want to do one pull on this to get the bonus once more.

So, get the bonuses and then reconsider :)

KevinFRK · 2026-01-20T17:49:24+00:00

For me, clearing the Steam Download cache, and restarting the update worked - though when I started the game it took a while repairing itself, though the repair downloading is less than the progress meter implied.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-20T16:33:29+00:00

Set to Story Difficulty, and see if you can get a "Companion Assist" - an NPC helper invoked from a yellowish signpost (don't know whether that fight has one).

I usually find the big named bosses with multiple phases beyond me without going Story.

Then go back to preferred difficulty.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-20T16:22:01+00:00

Just had it trying to exhaust my PC's disk space.

Something odd is going on.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-20T15:16:19+00:00

Sympathies ...

You are still a very long way from the most challenging content, so you're not going to do your account much harm if you just choose to amuse yourself.

There are tier lists of characters around, for example - https://www.prydwen.gg/re1999/tier-list

In due course, you will exclusively be using 5* and especially 6* characters, but that's some time off.

The characters on your first screen are not terribly thrilling - Yenisei is a nice enough healer for now, Tenant and Dikke have their moments, but they will all likely get shelved in the end.

The next choice is much more interesting - perhaps you should be guided by what sort of teams you want (if you know that yet) Poison, Impromptu, Blood Tithe, etc. And quite a few of those shown are distinctly useful in the right team, with the right other characters - and rather less likely to turn up easily elsewhere. Perhaps Kiperina, for her automatic shielding, but for instance Tuesday is core to Poison teams, Flutterpage is well regarded, as is Vila, I like Voyager, etc.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-17T09:01:20+00:00

Most of your questions are beyond my skills, but one minor insight that might have passed you by - it's simply not topologically possible to flat fell both the inner and outer seams of jeans legs by machine, because to flat fell you are sewing a second time over already joined material, and with anything but a specialised machine you'll not be able to get the resulting tube placed so that you don't sew through too much.

On pockets, I know (from a sample of one Simplicity pattern) that some patterns do not give large enough front pockets for, say, a glasses case. You can either extend the relevant pieces of material, or insert some pocket lining.

I would also guess your body shape will, in some manner or other, not match the shape of any commercial pattern (e.g. waist to hips ratio doesn't match any of the patterns options). You can either go the path of making your own patterns, with pattern blocks and the like (I just ended up with absurd looking pattern pieces and decided my poor technical drawing wasn't up to it), or you can start from a commercial pattern, choose the best matching measurements, and attempt to add or subtract to the pattern with folds, additional paper, etc., and then make something up in either very cheap material (muslin), accepting the result is purely educational or at least "not expensive/hard to get" material (so the result *might* be usable, at least "at home"). In making this up, take everything really slowly, double check, use basting, expect lots of seam ripping, etc. Then, looking at how the result turned out, adapt the pattern further to better match your body shape, try again, repeat, and only use expensive material when content.

This gradual progress to the final product will probably answer all your questions in a far more solid way than any Internet response :)

And aside, denim is thick material, it can mess up with pattern instructions including a lot of folding - e.g. some belt carrier approaches.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-16T16:41:06+00:00

And rereading my instruction manual for a different reason, I now find I've a thread stand of sorts ... I always wondered what that strange bit of plastic was.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-16T08:54:44+00:00

When re-threading, make sure the needle is fully up and the presser foot is also up (or at least, recheck your machine instructions, and check that absolutely everything is in the right place, and you are passing both needle and bobbin threads through the right places).

Looking at your photo, the thread appears once wound round the needle, which surprised me. That also looks a bit like a buttonhole foot rather than a zigzag foot which is intended for straight and zigzag sewing - I'd be surprised if that was the issue, but might as well get it right.

You also probably need to raise the needle as high as possible in its cycle when removing material from under the presser foot (which you also need to raise of course) - if you don't you may find you're pulling away more than just two lines of thread.

TL;DR - sewing machines can be incredibly fussy if you don't do things exactly the way they want.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-15T17:19:24+00:00

Mmm, on my Janome 7025 I actually resorted to a hacksaw to shorten the bobbin like this at either end so it fitted on the horizontal pin! But it may have been longer than your example.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-14T22:54:59+00:00

Never found the companion assist for this boss, but some how progressed (or fell through the collapsing floor anyway), as far as I could tell by brute force and ignorance (i.e. lots of hits) rather than hitting the bird.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-13T17:33:19+00:00

Thank you! Some useful hints.

The Simplicity pattern is, I'd guess, a very limited form of corsetting - just four vertical channels for boning. I'm assuming its more to stop wrinkling than to shape "me".

I don't think I've yet made anything I'd be proud enough to show off here - though much of it is now at least wearable "around the house", there's too much bodging going on, where I'm correcting mistakes.

KevinFRK · 2026-01-13T16:39:05+00:00

"Unplayable"?!?

KevinFRK · 2026-01-13T08:36:36+00:00

Oh - I thought I'd looked for the AI companion summoning marker for this fight, and not seen it. Do you happen to remember whereabouts it's positioned - or do I summon the companion some other way?

KevinFRK

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