Souls and Leveling Up

Maintaining a full Health Meter will only get you so far. In order to survive a hunt for the Deadly Sins, Fury needs to gain levels and earn Attribute Points. Attribute Points can be allocated to three categories: Health, Strength, and Arcane.

Fury can earn Attribute Points in two ways: 1) Locating the rare Luminous Visages scattered throughout Earth, and 2) By feeding Souls to Vulgrim. Vulgrim charges an increasing quantity of Souls for each level gained. The Soul requirements for the first 60 levels are shown in the following table.

Souls Required per Level

Souls are acquired by defeating enemies and absorbing the Soul Lurchers that flee their corpses and also by collecting Lurcher Crystals. Lurcher Crystals come in a variety of sizes and contain between 25 and 10,000 Souls each. Lurcher Crystals, represented by a small yellow flame, are occasionally dropped by enemies, found in the open, or obtained after smashing various objects in the environment.

Lurcher Crystals must be shattered before the Souls can be spent. Since Fury drops any Souls she’s carrying upon death, it’s wise to not shatter the Lurcher Crystals until you’ve reached a Serpent Hole and intend to spend them. Lurcher Crystals become ever more valuable as the game advances. The largest ones are obtained by defeating the Deadly Sins and by exploring the hard-to-find areas that require Hollows to reach.

Lurcher Crystals by Size

Luminous Visages

Assigning Attribute Points

Fury earns one Attribute Point per level gained. These points can be permanently assigned to three traits that, together, serve to make her a more capable combatant. These are Health, Strength, and Arcane.

How you assign these Attribute Points should be a function of how comfortable you are with the game and what difficulty you are playing on. In general, the easier the difficulty setting, the more you should initially prioritize Strength and Arcane over Health. Conversely, those playing on Hard or Apocalyptic should assign early points to Health and Arcane.

When just getting started with the game, consider spending your initial Attribute Points on Health and Strength, as you’re likely to be less skilled at dodging and won’t have the Hollows yet. As your skill at dodging grows—and you find yourself taking less damage—shift your focus to Arcane and Strength. By the time you’ve slain a few Deadly Sins and have earned the Flame and Storm Hollows, aim to balance your attribute levels across all three traits. The impact each Attribute Point has ultimately tapers off as Fury reaches level 40 and above.

Health

Upgrading the Health attribute increases the size of the Health Meter. The increase starts at +20 per level early on, but the gains eventually diminish as you gain levels, dropping to +16 and lower. Fortunately, the Fortifier enhancement can be upgraded to gain an eventual +50% Health bonus, making even lesser Health increases still worthwhile. Rescuing 15 Humans earns an additional +30% upgrade to Health.

Strength

Pumping Attribute Points into the Strength trait grants Bonus Physical Damage to standard attacks, regardless of weapon used (Wrath, Arcane, Havoc, and Charge attacks don’t apply). The bulk of the attacking you’ll do will be standard, physical attacks, which would benefit from a higher Strength rating. The Fortifier enhancement’s Demonic track also yields increased weapon damage (max +15%). As with the Health upgrades, these bonuses also diminish as Fury reaches higher levels. Initial increases yield a +5% bonus, but this drops to a +4% increase after level 10.

Arcane

Points awarded to Arcane increase the amount of Arcane damage Fury deals. This type of damage is dealt during Evade Counters, Charge Attacks, Wrath Attacks, and while in Havoc Form. Though it may not seem as though Arcane attacks occur too regularly early on, save for Evade Counters, the frequency with which you’ll perform Wrath and Havoc Form attacks goes up significantly later in the game. The Fortifier enhancement increases the amount of Arcane damage dealt even further. As with the other upgrades, the incremental increases decrease as Fury gains levels. Initial bumps of +7 percent decrease to +6 percent after level 10.