Ranger Path

Learn the essential controls, tips, and strategies for mastering the Ranger Path in Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel. Optimize your gameplay and conquer the hordes.

This guide provides essential information for playing Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel, focusing on basic gameplay mechanics, controls, and helpful tips.

Basic Gameplay

In Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel, players control a hero on a raid to complete objectives within a time limit. These objectives include surviving environmental challenges or defeating specific enemies. Once objectives are met, the boss is summoned and must be defeated. The game features an overhead view with constant enemy waves. Heroes start with a basic attack and a weapon skill. Collecting XP crystals from defeated enemies allows the hero to level up and choose new skills offered by gods or from the hero's own potential skillset. Autocast skills and attacks trigger automatically, with player input primarily focused on movement, weapon skills, and dashes. Passive skills offer bonuses or have a chance to trigger under certain conditions, such as when the hero takes damage.

Controls

The default controls for the game are as follows:

* The attack mode is set to Smart by default. The attack button is only needed when attack mode is set to Manual.
† Aiming is set to automatic by default. Aiming controls are only used in manual aiming mode.

Tips and Tricks

• During raids, players can earn gold and soulstones to purchase new weapons or activate virtues from the main menu. Virtues offer various bonuses and beneficial effects. Virtues from gods affect all heroes, while hero-specific virtues only benefit that particular hero.
• At the end of a raid, an information screen displays the DPS of attacks and autocast skills. It is recommended to focus on acquiring three high DPS skills. Skills like Thunderstorm and Sentinel, offered by Thor, are high DPS because they auto-target multiple enemies and deal full damage when triggered, provided enough enemies are in range.
• Do not solely focus on high DPS skills. Autocast skills that clear the area around the hero or temporarily prevent enemies from advancing are also valuable. Freya's Divine Wave is a good example, with its circular waves and a weak knockback effect that momentarily stops most enemies.