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In Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, character progression is driven by a structured levelling system that combines traditional XP gain with bonfire-based stat allocation. Unlike systems where attributes level up through repeated use, this game emphasises deliberate choices and rest-based upgrades. This guide covers how experience and levelling work, the role of attributes, how to rest, and essential tips to build your character effectively.

Tainted Grail: Levelling and XP Explaining

You gain experience (XP) in Tainted Grail by defeating enemies, completing quests, and discovering new locations. Once your XP bar is full, your character is eligible for a level-up, but you won’t gain any new stats or abilities until you rest.

Resting at a bonfire is the only way to unlock the level-up menu. After resting, you’ll receive one attribute point and one skill point, which can be assigned immediately. This system ensures you have full control over your build at each level milestone without unexpected stat increases.

Resting in Tainted Grail

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Resting is mandatory to spend your earned XP. You’ll find bonfires throughout the world, which serve as both level-up stations and utility hubs for crafting, fast travel, and healing.

To use a bonfire, you don’t need any resources for levelling up, but Ethereal Cobwebs are required for accessing additional features like fast travel or crafting. Even without cobwebs, resting still unlocks the level-up interface, allowing you to distribute your stat and skill points.

Tainted Grail: Attributes

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Attributes are the primary way to shape your character’s strengths and weaknesses. Each point you assign at level-up directly improves a specific area of performance, from melee combat to magic casting and crafting.

Choosing where to assign points can greatly influence how your playstyle evolves. Whether you favour raw strength, stealth, spellcasting, or utility-based exploration, attributes give you the flexibility to specialise or build a hybrid setup.

Tainted Grail: Skills

Skills in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon expand your character’s capabilities through passive bonuses and conditional effects. You earn one skill point every time you level up, and these can be assigned within the skill trees tied to each attribute. Every tree has three tiers, with higher tiers unlocking once enough points have been invested in the attribute or lower-tier skills.

Each attribute comes with its own unique skill set, allowing for vastly different builds—from tanky warriors to sneaky archers or powerful mages. Here’s a full breakdown of all current skill trees by attribute:

Skill selection allows you to further define your role beyond attribute allocation. Each tree supports multiple viable builds—for example, Strength can become a heavy-hitting bruiser or a parry-focused counterfighter, while Dexterity enables agile ranged play or high-damage stealth builds.

The skill system also rewards consistency. Focused investment into a single tree unlocks the strongest abilities, so spreading your points too thin may limit your effectiveness. Choose the skills that support your preferred playstyle and combine them with complementary attribute choices for maximum efficiency.

Tainted Grail: Levelling Tips

Don’t forget to rest. Your XP bar might be full, but you won’t get any stronger until you stop at a bonfire. Many players miss this early on.

Plan your character build early. You only get one attribute and one skill point per level, so knowing your direction helps avoid weak hybrids.

You can reset your build using the Origin Potion, located near the first dungeon exit. It resets all attributes and skill points while preserving passive gains.

While some equipment-based traits (like armour proficiency) level through use, the overall character level is tied strictly to XP. Kill enemies, finish quests, rest, and assign—this is your core progression loop.