Initially the game Outriders, upon its release, allowed its players or outriders to level up their characters to Level 30. After that, they were expected to go on campaigns and grind for better gear and mods to enhance their character further. The latest DLC release of Outriders: Worldslayer implements a new ascension system that gives players something to do after leveling up their characters to Lv. 30.
Players can earn ascension points by defeating enemies, completing quests, and repeating the endgame through the Expeditions and the Trial of Tarya Gratar. Players can check their ascension progress by looking at the orange bar at the top of their screens. They can invest these ascension points in 4 ascension categories namely- Anomaly, Endurance, Brutality, and Prowess. These can be accessed the same way a player accesses a character’s skill tree and PAX system. Each of these ascension categories further has five stats which can each be leveled up to a maximum of 10. As you keep grinding and progressing through the game you will eventually earn a total of 200 such ascension points to unlock and level up all these stats to their maximum.
Ascension Stats of Each Category Explained
Anomaly
- Anomaly Power: Increases your Anomaly Power by X%.
- Resistance Pierce: Increases Resistance Piercing by X%.
- Skill Leech: Increases your Leech effect by X%.
- Status Power: Increases Status Power by X%.
- Anomaly Damage: Increases your Anomaly Damage by X%.
Endurance
- Health: Increases your Maximum Health by X%
- Armor: Increases your Armor up to X%
- Healing Received: Increases your Healing Received Bonus up to X%
- Elite Damage Mitigation: Reduces the incoming damage from Elites up to X%.
- Resistance: Increases your Resistance up to X%.
Brutality
- Armor Pierce: Increases your Armor-Piercing up to X%.
- Close Range Damage: Increases your Close-Range Weapon Damage up to X%.
- Long Range Damage: Increases your Long-Range Weapon Damage up to X%.
- Weapon Damage: Increases your Weapon Damage up to X%.
- Weapons Leech: Increases your Weapon Leech by X%.
Prowess
- Cooldown Reduction: Reduces your Skill Cooldowns by X%.
- Critical Chance: Increases your Critical Chance up to X%.
- Critical Damage: Increases your Critical Damage up to X%.
- Damage Against Elites: Increases your damage against Elites up to X%.
- Magazine Size: Increases magazine size up to X%.
These ascension stats apply to all classes and drastically change the usual gameplay, character progression, and combat possibilities in the game by allowing for much more versatile builds and making some rare builds more viable and relevant. This is because these ascension stats and bonuses automatically offer you some skills from a class’s skill tree which you now don’t have to spend skill points for.