XiuKai/Playstyle Tips

In-Game Tips

 * XiuKai's Cooking ability lets him create extra Stamina items, letting him recover often to keep searching without Resting.
 * It also can create extra HP items, giving him the advantage to out-heal enemies and win fights.

[Note: XiuKai's Cooking skill was changed to Gourmand. This tip no longer applies to the current patch.]

General
Xiu Kai is a very reliable character. He can get a damage boost from his self-buffing field skill that scales with his HP while his passive skill allows him to sustain even further due to the increased value from consuming healing items, both stamina and HP. This makes him decent and solid as long as he can get food and stamina items to stay alive.

While he may seem straightforward, he suffers from average stat ceiling early-mid game and a low stamina pool. You need to grab armor fast and hoard healing items to compensate this weakness.

Abilities
Feeling Hot is a field skill that consumes 16% of his current HP and grants a damage buff for that amount for 30 seconds. This skill is simple to use and needs thinking when to use or not because the cooldown is long. Ideally, you use this skill when contesting noisy areas, getting animals, or 1v1.

Gourmand is a passive skill that increases the amount of healing Xiukai gets from foods by 15%. It works just how it says and it's nice to have. It can be convenient because with this he can heal up more than the fixed amount the food provides. It makes him able to tank more hits even by using healing items of medium value.