• Buy a fishing pole and fish all the time. Deeper levels offer greater rewards.
  
• Save inventory space by combining scrolls with their books. Drag a town portal scroll over a book of town portals to add an extra use to the book and consume the scroll. Each book can hold 20 scrolls. Also don't have more than one of each book at a time. It's a waste of space.
  
• Don't go straight for the stairs. Clear out the whole level first. Send your pet to town to sell crappy items you find by using the button with the arrows on it in the top left. Do this often.
  
• Identify items before you sell them.
  
• Gamble. A lot.

It's safe to say that most people who've played FATE have experienced a sudden jump in difficulty that felt a little something like this:

I believe that it's because the first few levels of the game train you to think that it's okay to just sit still while you attack an enemy as long as you keep guzzling health potions. Of course, that's only partially true. That's because this game gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fast, and it's especially tough on those of us who have played since we were wee little infants who only played the default character (tHe hair is so col!!1!!) and cheated their way to retirement. Old habits die harder than a legendary armored sharphorn. That was possibly one of the stupider things I've said in a while.

Anyway, eventually you reach a point where you can't sit still anymore. Since you're playing FATE in the first place, I bet you forgot your healing charms. Oh bother. So naturally, you run away. Might as well explore more of the level anyway, right? Wrong. The more you run away, the bigger the horde of monsters chasing you gets. This ♥♥♥♥ always happens.

Once you figure out running away is a bad idea, you start playing the game a bit more conscientiously. Instead of staying still when you're winning and running when you're losing, you try to dodge attacks by running backwards, maybe landing a quick sucker punch whenever you get the opportunity. However, by the time you've run far enough for it to be safe to turn around and fight back, you've traveled really far. The "horde of monsters" problem from the last paragraph comes into effect. Besides, most monsters are bigger than you in FATE. As soon as you've finished your "sucker punch," the monster hits you before you can get out of their huge range. When I was 9 or 10, my solution was simple: increase your movement speed so running away is easier. Honestly, this just makes the game harder to control. At age 12-13, I realized that running away wasn't the solution. Rather, it was the problem. So I created a build with as many health stolen per hit bonuses as possible so that I wouldn't have to run away. This failed miserably. Find yourself a man that can do both: A build that lets you jump back when you need to and hold your ground when you want to.

THE ANSWER IS...

Increase your attack speed an ungodly amount using jades.
The benefits:

• Your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane attack speed means that clicking on an enemy damages them instantly. If you're fast enough, you can barely see the animation. You have plenty of time to get out of the way of their attack afterwards.
  
• If you don't even need to run away, you will tear whatever you're fighting to absolute shreds.

Here's how to pull it off:

Just do it. I'll explain later.

First of all, shields are for d1nguses, yo. Dual wield. The defense you lose by not having a shield is completely negligible when you have a character that's this fast. Also dual wielding looks sick. If you're smart, you'll go with swords because they're the fastest class in the game. However, I deliberately built an axe character instead because why not. Axes look nice. Honestly, once your attack speed gets so high it doesn't matter what you're using anymore. Maybe you could put one spear in each hand just because it looks so hilarious. Hammers are counterproductive but also hysterical. just do whatever you want as long as you can dual wield. Clubs and maces are gross though. Ew.

When you can literally attack hundreds of times per minute, why wouldn't you dump some points into this? Hearing that metallic SHING sound multiple times a second is insanely satisfying.

Your chance of hitting an enemy is already very high simply because you're so fast. But why not play your strengths and make almost all of your strikes count by treating yourself to some sweet dexterity? Make them count even more by upgrading your strength and increasing your damage. Remember, increasing your attack speed increases almost all of your weapon related bonuses. Damage, elemental damage, mana/health stolen... you name it.

Small amounts of it are fine if you simply must use an item that has it, but avoid it in large amounts and do not seek it out. If you knock your enemy away from you, every strike in your little bladestorm will be wasted, save for the first.

I'm joking.

Robin's boon is a unique version of the archer's cap. It increases your bow and crossbow skill by a good deal, but the standout bonus is a 30% boost to your attack speed. It doesn't take too much dexterity to use, and the bonus is huge.


The best spell in the game. Almost anyone can use it. It decreases your target's speed (including attack speed) by 40%, making your attack speed huge in comparison


Increases your attack speed by 80%. Have fun.


makes you run fast, but also gives you a modest attack speed boost.

It's terrible because it doesn't feature the Celtic works of Turlough O'Carolan.

Oh yeah, hope the guide helped, have fun with the FATE thing or whatever. ok bye.

2022 update: If you've made it this far, thank you for reading my guide. I've enjoyed learning more about the game by answering everyone's questions over the years. I hope this helps you beat the game!