Explaining Anomaly Power

Learn how Anomaly Power works in Outriders: Worldslayer. Discover how to increase your Anomaly Power through gear, crafting, class trees, PAX trees, and Ascension.

Anomaly Power is a core stat in Outriders: Worldslayer that significantly boosts your character's effectiveness. It directly enhances the damage of your status effects, skill damage, and melee attacks. As you level up, your Anomaly Power naturally increases, and this scaling continues into the endgame through your average item level, indicated by the yellow number on your character inventory screen.

While leveling and equipping better gear provides a baseline increase, dedicated Anomaly Power builds require acquiring more through specific methods:

• Gear Bonuses: Many pieces of gear come with Anomaly Power-related benefits, including flat Anomaly Power buffs, Status Power increases, and skill leech. You can further enhance these bonuses by visiting a crafting table and using Anomaly Power shards, which are obtained by dismantling gear with Anomaly Power attributes.
• Legendary Armor Sets: Certain legendary armor sets, like the Pyromancer's Acari set, offer substantial Anomaly Power bonuses. For example, the Acari set can grant a 25% Anomaly Power bonus for ten seconds for each enemy hit by the Heatwave skill, stacking based on the number of enemies affected.
• Class Trees: Within each class's specialization trees, you'll find talents that grant bonus Anomaly Power. Examples include the Pyromancer's Archmage talent (10% Anomaly Power) and Gifted talent (5% weapon damage and Anomaly Power).
• Mods: Some in-game mods can also provide Anomaly Power or enhance skill and status effects, offering additional boosts based on your skills or weapon usage.
• Worldslayer Additions: The Outriders: Worldslayer expansion introduces the PAX tree and Ascension class points, offering further avenues for Anomaly Power enhancement.
• Ascension Levels: Upon reaching level 30 with Worldslayer, you gain Ascension levels. Each level grants a point that can be invested in talents, with a cap of ten points per talent. One option is to increase your Anomaly Power by 10% by investing ten points. You can also increase anomaly damage, which directly affects skill damage and status effects.
• PAX Tree: The PAX trees offer new class-specific talents. For instance, the Pyromancer's Backdraft talent increases Anomaly Power by 30% for every skill on cooldown, while Carbonization boosts anomaly damage against enemies hit by immobilize skills. These talents cater to different build types, such as ash and burn or skill-focused builds.