God of War Ragnarok: How to Get the Best Skills & Upgrade Early

There are a lot of skills in God of War Ragnarok. There are fire Skills, Frost Skills, and even skills mods which are new in God of War Ragnarok. To unlock and upgrade these skills you need to invest resources.

In this guide, we will discuss how to get the best skills and upgrade early in the God of War Ragnarok. So don’t waste your XP and resources on a skill that you rarely use.

How to Unlock Best Skills in GoW Ragnarok

First, we will start off with how to unlock skills, especially the ones later in the skill tree. Skills unlocked the same way as in God of War 2018. Some of the skills are also the same.

In order to get the higher-level skills you need to upgrade your weapon at the dwarf’s shop with either the frozen flame or the chaos flame. These will increase the weapon stats and its damage but it will also unlock the next part of the skill tree.

So you can continue progressing and unlocking some of the higher-level skills. You can also disable the skills by holding the triangle to turn it off.

10 Best Skills to Get Early in God of War Ragnarok

The main thing that you should focus on is the weapon status effect and how to apply them more quickly as well as more efficiently. Also following up on that Elemental damage by using the combo and the other status effect. So, In God of War Ragnarok Frost and Fire’s damage effect on enemies is significantly expanded. You can apply this effect pretty rapidly with some skills and then switch to the Blade of Chaos if you have applied frost. It will deal extra damage.

Two skills that you wanna first pick up and then we will expand from there.

  • The first one is in the Leviathan Axe (Extinguish Flames). Now what this skill does, will increase the Leviathan Axe’s damage to the burning enemies.
  • Then the next one you will choose the Vaporise Frost skill for the Blade of Chaos. You can basically get them at the start of the game. It will just massively improve the damage overall.

Initially, at the beginning of the game, you are going to apply those status effects on enemies with that triangle skill the Frost awakening, and the Whiplash with the Blade of Chaos, But your runic attacks will allow you to apply those effects easier.

Just between the weapons during the fight, will help you a lot and also allows you to use the special ability on both of the weapons.

4 Leviathan Axe Skills Upgrade in God of War Ragnarok

These are some skills that you can pick up early in the game.

  1. Frozen Ascent
  2. Glacial Rake
  3. Serpent’s Snare
  4. Vengeful Sickle 1
4 Leviathan Axe Skills Upgrade in God of War Ragnarok

5 Blade of Chaos Skills Upgrade in God of War Ragnarok

  1. Scorched Earth 1
  2. Vaporise Frost
  3. Immolation
  4. Blazing Surge
  5. Hyperion Grapple 1
5 Blade of Chaos Skills Upgrade in God of War Ragnarok

Skill Mods upgrade in God of War Ragnarok

Let’s talk about those skills mod. For all your skills or most of your skills, you will see the usage of the specific skill (Which indicates how many times you have used the skill) in skilled labor.

There are skill mod tiers when you fulfill the usage demand and reach the Gold Tier it will unlock the next kill mod. It will also unlock an extra effect. Unlocking the mod will take some time because you have to use the attacks on enemies.  

Skill Mods upgrade in God of War Ragnarok

This is how you can get early access to the skills and mods. We hope this guide will help you.