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Apr 29, 2024

Forspoken purple magic — best skills and spells to unlock

Filed under: Here’s how to max out Frey’s magic Forspoken doesn’t care about subtlety. Defeating bosses in Square Enix’s open-world action game expands the categories of elemental magic you can use.

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Here’s how to max out Frey’s magic

Forspoken doesn’t care about subtlety. Defeating bosses in Square Enix’s open-world action game expands the categories of elemental magic you can use. These varieties are conveniently color-coded in obvious ways — red for fire spells, blue for water spells, and so on. But the first type of magic you start with is purple magic, for, uh... rock spells. (Rocks in Athia, Forspoken’s mystical setting, are brown.)

Purple magic is also referred to in menus as “Frey’s magic,” and is about, as Frey so eloquently phrases it in an early cutscene, “[moving] shit with my freakin’ mind.” You start with three projectile attack spells — the fully automatic Scattershot, the shotgun-like Shield Shot, and the precision-based Burst Shot — and a support spell.

As you play Forspoken, you’ll earn mana, both through leveling up and through natural exploration. You can use mana to power-up your attack spells. But you’re better off unlocking support spells. You can ultimately unlock eight support spells per element; the more support magic you have, the better situated you’ll be for Forspoken’s more chaotic fights. Plus, some of them are extremely overpowered.

Here are the four purple magic support spells you should unlock first:

If you unlock a spell you don’t end up liking, Forspoken allows you to undo your choices. In the Magic menu, hover over the spell you want to refund and hold the Triangle button (on PlayStation 5). It’ll refund the mana you spent.

At Pilgrim’s Refuges — the rest spots strewn around Athia — you can access the spellcraft library. Spellcraft libraries allow you take on challenges affiliated with a certain spell; usually, these involves killing a certain number of enemies in a certain way with that particular spell. Once you complete a challenge, you’ll be able to increase the spell’s power from the Magic menu.

In general, Forspoken’s flying enemies take extra damage from purple magic. Disperse is particularly effective here; in fact, the spellcraft challenge for Disperse requires you to use the spell to defeat flying enemies. Poison enemies also tend to be weak to purple magic.

At any time, you can press up on the directional pad to scan nearby enemies. Pressing up again while looking an enemy will pause time and display a list of their vulnerabilities.

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