Newcomers Guide

If your screen is gray then the next down will kill you!
This is known as a 'Wound' an can be cleared by the following:

• Heal a teammate with a 'First Aid Kit' to clear their AND your 'Wound'
  
• Using ANY Heroes third lv5 Talent to clear the 'Wounds' of the entire party by healing yourself next to them
  
• Consuming a 'Healing Draught' or using a 'First Aid Kit' on yourself

Downs befor you are 'Wounded' sorted by difficulty 4/2/1/1 (Recruit - Legend) Every Hero has two weapons and is able to use almost every career weapon bound to that hero unless it is locked to a specific career.
For example:

• Kerillian's 'Volley Crossbow' only usable by the 'Shade' career
  
• Kerillian's 'Deepwood Staff' only usable by the 'Sister of the Thorn' DLC career

There is also the case of careers being locked to 'Meele' weapons only.
For example:

• Slayer which can have throwing axes HOWEVER you need the Winds of Magic DLC!
  
• 'Warrior Priest of Sigmar' DLC career
  
• 'Grail Knight' DLC career

Weapons that have a Special attack when pressing the Special Attack button will mention this in their item description (Example: Saltzpyre Rapier Off-Hand Shot which costs zero ammo) Just hover over the number when editing your loadout and the game will tell you what it does!
If you want to know the maximum 'Hero Power' you can get.
It is 650 summed up by your Hero level + Equipment power.

• Blacksmith locked to Hero Power 5 and has no properties
  
• White has no properties and a random Hero Power
  
• Green has one random property and a random Hero Power
  
• Blue has two random properties and a random Hero Power
  
• Exotic has two random properties, a Trait and a random Hero Power
  
• Veteran has two maxed out properties, a Trait and a max Hero Power of 300

There is one more rarity which is only usable in the 'Weave' gamemode that you get with the 'Winds of Magic' DLC that I do not own it since I am not a masochist and very few people play it.

The 'Properties' can be rerolled by using one Green + Blue Dust.
The 'Traits' can be rerolled by using one Exotic Dust.
Getting what you want can only be achieved by praying to RNGesus.
[Keep in mind that some 'Properties' can not be combined together as they would increase the damage against some enemies by 20% if they were possible]

Press 'I' which opens the equipment tab.
Here you want to equip the gear you would like to upgrade.
Now press on the little 'Cog' next to it.
This will open a page with more detailed information about the weapon aswell as the properties, traits and weapon 'Illusion' which can be changed from here.

Don't use the 'Crafting' Tab unless you are 'Salvaging', crafting a new weapon or are downgrading 'Dust' for more rerolls Good luck!

M1 does a light attack and depending on your weapon you can do different combos

Holding M1 does a 'Charge attack' which does more damage.
Depending on the weapon the charge does NOT need to be held until the animation ends to do more damage.

Blocking by holding M2 and then holding M1 to do a 'Push Attack'.

Using Victor Saltzpyre at lv35 (max level) as the 'Zealot' with a 'Power 5' Blacksmith weapon with no talents selected as example with only meele headshots and weapons that do the same damage no matter what combo you do:

(The Paired Skull-Splitters can crit individually of each other so you might not do the summed up damage of both critting + they do a 3-heavy combo move which does the most damage on the second combo and the least on the third combo) While we are at the topic, every character has a base 5% crit chance!
This can be increased through different means:

• Choose a Career like 'Shade' or 'Witch Hunter Captain' which has an unlisted +5% crit chance
  
• 'Pyromancer' Career Passive that grants up to +30% crit chance
  
• Rolling crit chance on your equipped 'Trinket' and 'Weapon' for up to +5% crit chance each
  
• Choosing a 'Talent' that increases your crit chance

On top of that the weapon you are using might have different attacks with higher chances of critting. Full list made by OrangeChris on Reddit under 'Base Crit Chance' (CTRL+F after clicking 'Read more'). I will however list the weapons that have a higher crit chance on 'Push Attacks':

• +10% Elven Axe
  
• +10% Dual Swords
  
• +10% Dual Daggers
  
• +10% Sword & Dagger
  
• +10% Axe (Bardin, Saltzpyre)
  
• +20% Axe & Falchion
  
• +25% Elven Greatsword

C - Open chests
M - Mission select
H - Change Hero
I - Equipment page
O - Challenge's Book
P - Shop
Hold Z - Third Person

2024-08-17 Creation of the guide and dealing with Steams error page which doesn't tell me why it gives me an error. It was because the Guide picture wasn't 195x195 Pixels which I edited with paint!

This is a guide to refresh my memory when picking up the game again after a break and helping my friend understand it better. I will add more information when I feel like it but don't expect anything related to 'Winds of Magic' as mentioned in the guide I ain't into that. I could buy it purely for the one weapon each class gets and the final mission but that is about it.
+ I might add pictures in the future when I feel like taking screenshots and editing those