Consumables & Boosts

Strategically manage combat items, grenades, utility items, and training boosts to accelerate your Hunter's progression and overcome challenges in Shadowmages Midnight Sun.

Strategically manage your combat items in Shadowmages Midnight Sun. Understand each item's role in battle, from buffs to debuffs, to exploit enemy weaknesses.

Combat Item List

Beyond your Hunter's innate abilities and equipped Blade, a variety of consumable combat items can turn the tide of battle in Shadowmages Midnight Sun. These items are crucial for managing resources, exploiting enemy weaknesses, and providing crucial buffs or debuffs. You can carry a limited number of these items into missions, so strategic selection is key.

The available combat items can be broadly categorized:

• Consumables:These are single-use items that provide immediate effects. Examples include:
  • Health Potions: Restore a portion of your Hunter's health. Essential for survivability.
  • Mana Elixirs: Replenish your Heroism points, allowing you to cast more spells or use more abilities.
  • Stamina Boosts: Temporarily increase your stamina regeneration, useful for dodging and performing rapid attacks.
• Grenades & Throwables:These items have area-of-effect capabilities.
  • Flashbangs: Temporarily blind and disorient enemies in an area.
  • Incendiary Bombs: Deal damage over time to enemies caught in the blast radius.
  • Frost Grenades: Slow down enemies, making them easier targets.
• Utility Items:These items offer strategic advantages.
  • Smoke Bombs: Create a cloud of smoke, breaking enemy line of sight and allowing for repositioning or escape.
  • Traps: Deployable devices that trigger when an enemy approaches, inflicting status effects like stun or damage.

You can acquire combat items from various sources: purchasing them from merchants in the Sanctuary hub, finding them as loot during missions, or crafting them if you have the necessary components and have unlocked the relevant crafting recipes. Always check your inventory before embarking on a mission and tailor your loadout to the expected threats. For instance, missions involving numerous agile enemies might benefit from frost grenades, while encounters with heavily armored foes could warrant incendiary bombs.

To use a combat item during a mission:

1. Access your item quick-select menu (default keybinds will vary by platform).
2. Select the desired item.
3. Aim and deploy the item as indicated on screen.

Mastering the use of your combat item inventory is vital for overcoming the darkest challenges Shadowmages Midnight Sun has to offer.

Training Boosts

Accelerate your Hunter's growth and unlock their full potential with Training Boosts in Shadowmages Midnight Sun. These temporary enhancements provide sificant advantages in accumulating experience points, resources, or even specific skill progression, allowing you to power up your character more efficiently.

Training Boosts can be acquired through several avenues:

• In-Game Purchases:Some boosts may be available for purchase using in-game currency earned through gameplay.
• Event Rewards:Special in-game events, seasonal celebrations, or promotional periods often offer unique training boosts as rewards for participation or completion of specific challenges.
• Daily Login Bonuses:Consistent players might receive training boosts as part of their daily login rewards, encouraging regular engagement with the game.
• Crafting/Consumables:In some cases, certain training boosts might be craftable items or consumable items found as rare loot, allowing for strategic activation before a particularly challenging mission or a dedicated grinding session.

The effects of Training Boosts are varied and can include:

• Experience Boosts:Increase the amount of experience points earned from defeating enemies, completing quests, and discovering new areas. These are invaluable for leveling up your Hunter and unlocking new abilities.
• Resource Boosts:Enhance the drop rate or quantity of crafting materials and other valuable resources gathered from the environment or fallen enemies.
• Reputation Boosts:Accelerate the gain of reputation with various factions within the game world, unlocking access to exclusive vendors, gear, and story content.
• Skill-Specific Boosts:Some rarer boosts might focus on a particular skill tree or weapon proficiency, increasing the rate at which you gain mastery in that area.

It is important to note that Training Boosts are typically temporary, with durations ranging from a few hours to several days. Always check the duration and specific effects of a boost before activating it. Strategically using these boosts before undertaking lengthy quest chains or engaging in high-risk, high-reward activities can sificantly shorten your progression time and allow you to tackle more demanding content sooner.

To activate a Training Boost:

1. Navigate to the "Hunter" or "Profile" section of the main menu.
2. Locate the "Boosts" or "Buffs" tab.
3. Select the desired Training Boost from your inventory.
4. Confirm activation. The boost's effects will be active for its desated duration.

Make the most of your time in Shadowmages Midnight Sun by strategically employing Training Boosts to optimize your character's development.