The sheer scope of Blox Fruits can be an intimidating venture for any new player who first sets foot upon its dock. What appears to be an innocent anime-styled pirate game, Blox Fruits is actually a multi-layered action RPG and what awaits you and other newbie players is a monstrous amount of distinct martial arts combat styles, three unique oceans, and a large abundance of exotic mythical fruits that are scattered and fought over, making it a rather simple task to find yourself completely lost-randomly wandering throughout the open seas, seeking the wrong island bosses, and wasting valuable Beli currency on fruits that damage you early game instead of aiding you in your leveling.
In order to survive the volatile waves of the First Sea, and blast through the mid-game in the fastest way possible, you’re going to need a strictly math-based and strategically thought-out blueprint. We’re going to break down the absolute best, and most efficient grinding strategies for leveling efficiently, the best stat builds to keep your character strong, and all the best fruits specifically designed for new players.
1. Level Grinding Effectively in Blox Fruits
The greatest and first error rookie players commit is running about the various islands of Blox Fruits killing every stray bandit, pirate, or random island boss that they stumble upon. You see a camp, whip out a weapon, and just go in swinging, assuming your actions are helping. This is the slowest and most unproductive grinding process there is. These stray enemies will give you a pittance of experience and Beli compared to fighting them while on an official quest, meaning you lose about 80% of your potential experience gains every single time you do not have an active quest on you.
Keep Yourself Contained on Your Current Island
In order to fix your leveling cycle, you need to impose an island-containment strategy on yourself. The absolute first thing you need to do every time you log into Blox Fruits, or ever travel to a new land mass, is head straight to the local marina and talk to the Home Point NPC. This NPC allows you to set your respawn point right at the current island’s marina.
This is essential because if you happen to fall in the ocean, get ambushed and defeated by some level 100 player, or take an L from the current island’s boss, you’ll respawn right next to the quest giver rather than being teleported back to the starting island of Blox Fruits.
Chain Your Quests with the Group Aggro Mechanic
After securing your spawn point, you can proceed to the optimized quest-chaining loop. Speak with your local quest NPC and take a quest for the highest level of mob that you can fight comfortably, then take a run toward where they spawn. Do not engage them one by one. Instead, take a lap around the entire camp, ensuring that the enemies have to run into your character one by one. Due to how their AI works, this will cluster all the enemies together in a large, aggressive pack behind you.
Once you’ve sufficiently gathered a large crowd of enemies chasing after you, whip out any of your area of effect abilities to destroy and damage them all at once, cutting your combat time significantly.
As soon as your quest logs as complete, make sure to sprint back to the exact same NPC and get another quest without even moving. Never be tempted by curiosity to switch islands before your character level meets or exceeds the minimal level for the next tier of island, as this ensures you’re pulling the absolute maximum amount of EXP modifiers possible per minute.
2. Best Fruits to Pick Early On (First Sea Tier List Breakdown)
Many new players simply jump to the first available tier list that they see and are automatically drawn to the shiny and gigantic appearance of Mythical-ranked abilities. While some Mythical-ranked fruit like the Leopard or Kitsune fruit might undoubtedly grant you a plethora of overwhelming, devastating power in later endgame PvP scenarios, it’s not what you want right now.
The problem is that all high-tier fruits require a ridiculous number of Master points just to use their basic attacks, so eating a Leopard fruit as a level 10 player would grant you the ability of a single, feeble basic attack for many hours, and this isn’t a great situation when it comes time to take on early island bosses, forcing you to get by using only a basic sword or even just your fists.
This is why you absolutely want to get an Elemental (Logia) fruit when starting. Elemental fruits have incredibly powerful passive protection attributes that make every normal attack against you bounce off without inflicting any damage at all-unless your character level is less than the enemy attacking you (if so, the attack simply registers normally). Early game grinding is perfectly safe, and infinitely easier with a protection fruit like these.
Light Fruit
Arguably the best fruit for the First Sea, the Light fruit is a complete game-changer and it’s a no-brainer that it deserves the first slot. Its biggest advantages over other early-game fruits are the sheer speed at which it allows you to travel. Using the Light ability lets you fly horizontally at an incredible pace across the vast ocean that separate islands, allowing you to arrive to a far-off location in seconds. Secondly, the Light Fruit provides you with an inherent, infinite use light sword which allows for massive amounts of damage at absolutely no energy cost to you, giving you full free range with your stamina bar for dashing and dodging.
Magma Fruit
For anyone who prioritizes absolutely annihilating enemy health bars as quickly as humanly possible, the Magma Fruit is the single highest damage-output option in the entirety of Blox Fruits. The signature highlight of this fruit’s kit is its passive puddle of molten lava ability; by attacking on the ground, you’ll create a puddle of hot magma where enemies and bosses stand that damages them, chunking their health bars in little to no time at all.
Ice Fruit
Ice is the ideal beginner fruit due to its sheer range and crowd control. Being able to completely freeze an enemy for a short time while you learn to memorize their attack pattern is invaluable. Similar to the Light Fruit, Ice gives you an inherent weapon-a frosty trident that allows for safe attacks against frozen enemies with absolutely zero chance of them attacking you back.
Buddha Fruit
While Buddha Fruit falls under the “Natural” category of fruit, it’s still a complete damage powerhouse. Turning your character into a giant Buddha statue drastically increases your melee range on both equipped swords and basic fighting styles, giving you a gigantic hit-box that allows you to combo enemies while remaining at a distance where they can’t attack you.
3. Skill point investment: Every 3 stat points awarded every time your character levels up in Blox Fruits is no joke. All 5 available stats look evenly balanced when first looking, but this is a very common pitfall that is actually going to slow your progress and make you extremely weak against all opponents mid-game. Having points invested into every 5 stats means very weak damage overall.
When building your character, you should ignore the gun stat entirely, and invest into only 3 specific stats:
Melee(Energy)- You will need points here so you do not completely drain your energy bar when you are spamming your high energy abilities and dash away quickly.
Defense(Health)- These points should go towards increasing your overall health pool so you can survive one-shotted by boss monsters and strong high-tier mobs.
Your Primary Damage Stat- this will totally depend on the fruits and equipment you are using. If you are going for a highly-damageable fruit like the light fruit or the magma fruit, all of the remaining stat points will be poured into the blox fruit stat. If you are going with an utility fruit, such as the buddha fruit, that does no damage, dump the points into the sword stat.
4. Ultimate progression checklist to being a pro at the start
Below is a progression checklist you need to remember when starting out in the game to maximize your journey through the seas as a pirate:
Levels 1-50- Just continue grinding enemies until level 50 on the starter island and the jungle island. There is absolutely no need for you to start sailing across islands at this level. While doing this, keep looking for the blox fruit gacha NPC and roll/purchase a decent fruit as soon as possible.
Beli Saving- Do not go wasting your money in the early game on low-tier swords and guns from the island merchants. Instead, save every single bit of money you get, until you finally reach 650,000 and immediately go purchase the Light Fruit from the blox fruit dealer as soon as it spawns in his inventory.
Instinct Unlocking- As soon as you are level 300, and are looking towards upper-level combat, then you must prepare for these features. On Upper Skylands, go to the Lord of Destruction’s location and pay 750,000 beli in order to unlock Instinct(Observation Haki). Instinct will show enemy HP above there heads through any object and auto-dodges attacks that you take.
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