Forgotten Stories Combat Guide

Official changelog · 2026-09-10 UTC

The September 10 changelog lowers the upcasting damage increase from 30% to 20%. Read this with the older FAQ's definition of extra runes above a spell's base requirement: the old 30% damage figure is superseded. The FAQ's separate +1 buff-duration turn per extra rune was not changed in this post.

Do not apply the percentage to healing or multiply all equipment and affinity bonuses into a claimed final hit. The announcement does not establish rounding, a complete stacking formula or a new rune-slot limit. More rune slots still do not teach a spell.

Check the Book required to learn the spell →

Check affinity capacity separately from rune slots →

Official changelog · 2026-09-10 UTC

The September 10 named-move changes are Cleave base damage 14 → 15, Serrated Blade innate PEN +1, Jagged Uppercut base damage per hit 5 → 6, and Rapier Needle Barrage damage per hit 3 → 2.75. These affect move comparisons, not the listed resource cost of every weapon.

Matching identically named moves to cards is a cross-reference, not a weapon-by-weapon test. Rapier's card instead says Needle Flurry; no verified rename or total hit count is inferred from Needle Barrage. Serrated Blade gains PEN, not a stated extra damage point. Base values are not final damage against a resistant enemy.

Read Rapier's move costs and restrictions →

Compare Grim's Cleave and Speed penalty →

Review the actual weapon input before comparing damage →

Official changelog · 2026-09-10 UTC

Racco's September 10 changelog says Greataxe's QTE was made slightly easier. The official weapon FAQ, reread for this review, still instructs you to press A or D on the side without branches, climb to the top, then press A or D to finish. It describes a faster completion for Critical. Try the current timing again if an older run or guide put you off this weapon.

The announcement gives no exact time limit, input-window increase or success-rate change. It does not announce a damage buff, a new input sequence or easier QTEs for every axe. The WIP Greataxe card still lists Speed −0.70, Cleave at 4 Energy and Sharp Sweep at 6 Energy with a 3-turn cooldown. No in-game timing measurement was performed.

Check Greataxe costs alongside the new QTE note →

Review Greataxe inputs and the September 10 change →

Official changelog · 2026-09-08 UTC

Racco's September 8 announcement adds Frenzy to Dagger. Landing seven hits with the weapon grants Frenzy +1; weapon hits through skills or Counter can count. The announced effect gives +0.5 Speed and +1 PEN. The September 13 Trello check now finds Frenzy on the Dagger card and a separate status card listing the same bonuses. This is documentation catching up, not a second new passive.

Seven hits does not mean seven turns or seven button presses. The statement does not publish a stack ceiling, duration, reset rule or the exact hit count of Assault. Do not claim one Assault guarantees Frenzy, that all dagger-named off-hands gain it, or that the effect restores permanent base weapon Speed. Use your displayed Speed in the existing tool; no live stacking test was performed.

Read Dagger's Stab and Assault costs →

Check which close attacks can trigger Counter →

Check the next threshold with Frenzy actually active →

Official changelog · 2026-09-08 UTC

The September 8 official changelog restricts this Book's damage buff to weapons. Do not count it as a general spell-damage multiplier. The September 9 WIP card now agrees: each Perfection stack gives +5% weapon-attack damage, up to three stacks, with +1 Stamina regeneration while the effect is active—not +1 regeneration per stack.

The card, rather than this short announcement, describes losing all stacks after taking a hit or failing to land a Critical, plus +10% damage taken per stack on getting hit. These are documented risks, not a tested final-damage formula. Unwritten unlock: three consecutive Critical QTEs; writing costs 150 Ink Shards and signing costs 75 Ink; the written Book unlocks on spawn.

Review the Book's stack-loss conditions and costs →

Review Critical QTE conditions before choosing this Book →

Official changelog · 2026-09-10 UTC

The newer September 10 changelog raises Execution Blow base damage to 22.5, superseding September 8's 21.5 reduction from 24. Greatsword and Gruesome both list an attack with that name. Their WIP attack descriptions give 7 Energy, a four-turn cooldown and Bleed +2 on Critical; those separate fields were not changed by this announcement.

The official post names the move, not a weapon-by-weapon test. Matching the named move to these two cards is a cross-reference. The card says it hits harder as the target approaches death, but neither source gives the missing-health scaling formula. Keep 22.5 as base damage, not guaranteed damage, a Critical result or an instant-kill threshold.

Check Greatsword's Execution Blow cost and Critical effect →

Compare Gruesome's other attacks and penalties →

Review Carnage's documented Gruesome drop →

Official changelog · 2026-09-08 UTC

Racco's September 8 changelog reduces Giant Spider base Health from 30 to 20 and Clayvorant from 15 to 12. The checked Trello cards still show 30 and 15, so those two old Health fields are superseded by this dated official statement. Use 20 and 12 as the announced base values when reviewing these encounters.

This changes base HP only. It does not confirm lower attack damage, different resistances, drop rates, encounter locations or party-scaling rules. Giant Spider's Web Spit still needs its own response plan; lower Health is not proof that blocking removes every debuff. No live-game test was performed for this review.

Review Giant Spider's Web Spit and resistance record →

Check Clayvorant attacks and published material drops →

Pack recovery for conditions that lower HP does not remove →

Official changelog · 2026-09-06 UTC

The September 6 changelog removes weapon Speed gains and names Rapier, Dagger and Earthquaker Cestus as examples. Their current Trello cards, and Damned Claws, no longer list the old positive Speed line. Recheck your displayed Speed before relying on an extra turn; the official FAQ lists thresholds of 2, 3.5, 5.5 and 8.

Removal of positive weapon bonuses does not establish that negative Speed penalties vanished. Rapier's conditional Duelist Dance is a separate status: its current WIP card lists +0.4 Speed. Neither its stack cap nor duration is supplied there, so do not treat it as an always-on weapon bonus or promise a stack-based extra-turn loop.

Check extra turns using your displayed Speed →

Separate Rapier's dodge passive from base stats →

Inspect the conditional Duelist Dance status →

Official changelog · 2026-09-06 UTC

The September 6 changelog increases Meditate's Mana gain from 3 to 4. This changes recovery planning, not the number of rune slots or the requirement to learn a spell. Reflections separately lists two extra Mana from Meditation with Vulnerable +2; Strong Minded separately grants Resilient +2 when meditating without existing stacks.

The announcement does not publish a new button, energy cost, cooldown or way to exceed Max Mana. The two Books keep their own unlock conditions and drawbacks. No combined recovery, stacking interaction or risk-free Meditation rotation was tested here.

Weigh extra Mana against Vulnerable →

Check the full-Mana unlock and Resilient condition →

Match learned spells to available rune slots →

Official changelog · 2026-09-06 UTC

The September 6 changelog sets True Strength's boss-damage bonus with Cestus to +15%. The current Book card agrees and still lists +40% for Punch otherwise. Its unwritten requirements are defeating a boss with Punch and punching bosses ten times; both require having a single arm. Writing costs 200 Ink Shards and signing costs 100 Ink; the written Book unlocks on spawn.

The single-arm condition is a published unlock requirement, not advice to lose an arm. The bonus does not establish a final damage result after resistance, nor prove Cestus is the best boss weapon.

Check True Strength's full unlock and stat bonuses →

Match the bonus to the boss's published defenses →

Official changelog · 2026-09-05 UTC

Counterweight now grants one Counter after five parries instead of seven. Counter can stack to three and is consumed by landing counters, rather than decaying with turns. The counterattack's listed weapon-damage reduction is 20% for Light, 25% for Medium and 35% for Heavy. The public Counter card still restricts activation to close attacks; Counterweight's two-handed-weapon requirement is separate from that trigger.

Three is the status ceiling, not a promise that every source can generate three stacks. Parrying Dagger's card separately limits its own stack generation to one. The changelog does not state that a single hit consumes every stored stack.

Check Counterweight's write and sign requirements →

Read the close-attack restriction →

Compare Parrying Dagger's one-stack restriction →

Official FAQ clarification · 2026-08-21 UTC · edited 2026-09-02

The Game Mechanics FAQ identifies the yellow orbs above the Health display as Posture, used to block attacks. If you are checking defensive resources, read those orbs as Posture rather than an extra Health or Mana pool.

This is an older FAQ clarification collected in this review, not evidence of a newly added HUD mechanic. The answer does not publish a universal Posture cost or recovery amount for every attack.

Review the F-key block and parry input →

Use A, S, or D for the direction shown; Space is the published jump response.

Training Wheels is enabled by default and displays the expected response.

Use F when that response is shown.

The checked source does not say every attack can be blocked or parried.

Enter several prompted keys within the time frame.

No universal grapple sequence or exact duration was published.

Follow the equipped weapon family's Normal or Critical condition.

Offensive QTE rules are separate from defensive keys.

Do not count each repeated turn as a cooldown tick; count the party/enemy side switch published in the September 4 changelog.

The source defines the tick boundary, not every skill's cooldown length.

Do not assume a dodge or parry prompt will appear.

Blocking can reduce a multi-stack application by one only when it inflicts more than one stack.

Identify whether the character is downed with Deep Wounds or killed.

Wound treatment is not revival.