Accelerating Your Hope, Gear, and Estate Scores
In Nightingale, while Hope and Estate scores may not seem critical as they primarily reflect your quest progression and base development, they don't enhance your overall gaming experience. However, it's the Gear score that directly influences your progress, especially when accessing mini-dungeons and facing bosses.
Gear Score: Your Path to Progress
The Gear score is pivotal, dictating your progression through the game. Access to mini-dungeons, guarded by bosses holding key realm cards, requires meeting specific gear score thresholds (20, 30, 40 etc). Though you can sometimes bypass these with clever building strategies, ultimately, confronting the dungeon boss is unavoidable.
Crafting Higher-Level Items
To improve your item level, focus on using the highest quality materials available. The game currently allows crafting up to level 135 'white' common items. The best materials often drop from rare creatures and are marked with the 'fable' designation. Bosses like the Sun Giant and Carmut are also excellent sources for high-level resources. Additionally, the Trickster Minor card can be a game-changer, enabling access to Tier 2 materials like wood, fibers, and hides right from the start in your level 10 Abeyance Forest!
Upgrade Bench: A Game Changer
One of your primary goals should be to progress in your questlines to unlock the Upgrade Bench as soon as possible. This bench is a crucial tool that allows you to add an extra 25-50 levels to each craftable item simply by incorporating T1 Essence.
Boosting Your Scores
By focusing on these strategies, you can quickly reach a Gear score of 230+, which will invariably lead to increases in both your Hope and Estate scores. This is because enhancing your gear often involves developing a well-equipped workshop, which contributes to your overall base development and quest completion.
